skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that was the intent they would be putting rules in place to prevent people from getting hurt not outright banning them which is what their doing now.

This looks more like a move to kill an industry before it takes off if you pardon my pun.

Not to mention there's nothing to regulate at the moment no people have been hurt by drones and there's very few companies actually looking into them.

So the next logical question is who would loose money if commercial drone delivery services become the norm?
I find it easier to just download the Linux tarball instead of installing the platform and plugins from aptitude.
To me it reads more like they are building their own global satellite network backbones. This will allow them to have a faster (and cheaper once they cover costs) internet access.
Reading your post it almost seems like Berne is an US city.

The Berne Convention was developed at the instigation of Victor Hugo of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale. Thus it was influenced by the French "right of the author" (droit d'auteur) (...) Before the Berne Convention, national copyright laws usually only applied for works created within each country. So for example a work published in United Kingdom by a British national would be covered by copyright there, but could be copied and sold by anyone in France. (...) The Berne Convention followed in the footsteps of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883, which in the same way had created a framework for international integration of the other types of intellectual property: patents, trademarks and industrial designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
What would you suggest as a sane upper bound?
Flappy Van Persie
You know when you read someone's comment and then your immediate thought is "I'm way too old to appreciate this"? I read your comment and thought the exact reverse. I'm way too young to appreciate this.

Thanks for the insight!
>still profits from ads

I must have missed something. How do they profit from ads?
It was an egregious lapse in judgment. I am shutting down my computer now, and will schedule an appointment with my therapist later today.
Crushing Code
Nice, got it!
Which option has the most valuable result to the customer? Regardless of payment, I think delivering something that is going to really blow them away upfront is going to be the best thing... And you have alot of amazing work to do that :)
The most basic approach is to have the post go to the load balancer endpoint, and have a cluster of identical servers run the python script. You could also have the post add the job to a queue (e.g. Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, etc). Then your cluster of servers can pluck items off the queue as needed.
It's really a framework masquerading as a library.
The vast majority of people who share passwords between sites experience no repercussions from their choice.

More accurately, they have no awareness of the reprecussions from their choice. Yet endlessly on HN we hear stories of mysterious iTunes access, Steam takeovers, even Amazon AWS account compromises. It is no big mystery when this happens given this common, grossly insecure behavior.

But ultimately they are still going to weigh their perception of the risk and benefits to make their own decision.

I absolutely agree, absolutely and completely, but think that the risk portion is hugely underestimated. Among people who should know better there is a tendency to under-estimate what is an enormous, worst-possible-exploit problem. No one ever talks about education. No one wastes time trying to help users enjoy better behavior.

Instead we argue about whether some site operated by an unknown number of people of unknown trustworthiness, on a platform that might have been exploited and owned by hacker groups for years, properly hashed our password after we passed the keys to all services through plaintext. It is insanity.
Whose economy?
I can't wait for neovim. The promise of a better scripting language, better remote editing experience, better native GUI support on non-linux platforms, and better IDE integration has me itching to try it out.
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Yeah, all this design talk is grossly underwhelming.
This is a disingenuous analogy - the reason people keep eating rotting meat is because there isn't a usable alternative for the vast majority. Fridges are unknown, to hopelessly overload the metaphor, to the masses and those that are aware of them are reluctant to shell out for the cost.

The problem needs to be solved at a more fundamental level - people should not have to be forced to perform a function that they are demonstrably bad at. Mitigation strategies like having randomised passwords and storing them in a shared authentication platform are only masking the reality that passwords are a bad way of performing authentication.

Not that I'm clever enough to come up with an alternative mind you, and not to suggest that I don't agree with your premise that using a password in multiple places is a bad idea.
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d3 is very powerful, has an amazing api, and it's incredible library. but my processor goes insane running trivial d3 animations (macbook pro core-2-duo 2009). with css 3d, webgl, I don't have processor issues, but god-damn the d3 api is one of the best I've ever used for animations
The article makes no mention of TLS anywhere, and the example endpoints are all HTTP. So, this is a thoroughly insecure implementation, relying on very weak security mechanisms, prone to straightforward interception and tampering, replay etc.
And if someone hacks the system administrator's account, they may find everyone's passwords (for systems where the admin sets the pw and emails it).
"To deliver the highest write performance, Couchbase Server writes to an integrated, in-memory cache first. Then, it synchronizes the cache with the storage device for durability."

Comparing the write speed of non-durable writes against the write speed of durable writes is the same bullshit tactic that MongoDB first utilized a few years ago. Why don't we just add /dev/null in there too?

We're also apparently using 2 replicas however is the write being confirmed prior to the replica? From Couchbase documentation: "When a client application writes data to a node, that data will be placed in a replication queue and then a copy will be sent to another node. The replicated data will be available in RAM on the second node and will be placed in a disk write queue to be stored on disk at the second node."

So a write in Couchbase only guarantees it has been written to RAM on the 1st node. There's no fsync nor replica-writes occurring at the time of write_success=true
He's referring to the practice of Florida law enforcement claiming that the basis for a warrant came from "a confidential source" (which, in the context of warrants, appears to mean "an actual person"), when in reality they were using information captured via IMSI capturers ("stingrays") -- devices which MITM cell phone connections to surveil users of the cell network.

In short, he was saying that we can reliably expect many warrants to have been obtained by law enforcement lying to judges. Based on the information (lies) presented to the judges, they're going to approve the warrant, because they operate on the premise that law enforcement wouldn't lie to them.
Not necessarily. Let's say a company has some computer vision problem that it needs to be solved with 99.5% accuracy. Let's say today's computers can solve it with 85% accuracy.

The computers can't solve the business need, but they are certainly right often enough to get some spam comments posted (because their cost of being wrong is zero.)
Absolutely. That was incredibly bad! Myself and a lot of people in the audience had this split-second "Oh my god..." where we thought Google was about to show off a device that had something 3D and then....oh, it is just the style? You could feel the collective let down.
Competition is healthy and users are the biggest winner :)
I believe Java will behave sanely with regard to source directories. If you have a file Foo.java declaring itself as "package x.y.z", then it can happily live as "src/Foo.java".

It's only when you try to run the thing that the JVM will complain (with the rather unhelpful error message "wrong name: x/y/z/Foo"). So if your build process builds the correct folders and stores the .class files there, it's going to work. (Not that it's very useful; after all, your build system would have to know where to put everything.)
Like I said - I agree with you that Google has crossed the line on more than one occasion but I still think some of your examples don't carry enough weight to warrant saying that Google is a lost cause with regard to privacy:

1. This one is pretty bad but my gut feeling is that it wasn't a high-level nefarious decision but a mid-level manager or engineer who went too far.
2. Devices needs to store the wifi keys in the clear, device settings are backed-up in the cloud. Storing them encrypted would require an extra password. There's probably a solution to this but are you suggesting Google has a plan to illegally login to private Wifi networks? That would be a criminal offence and definitely in tinfoil hat territory.
3. Yeah - I think that was a dickish comment and I wonder if he regretted it the minute it was out.
4. What did you expect them to say?
5. Dumb move but more a part of their desperate need to defend against Facebook. It's hard to see this as anything other an incompetent attempt to grow Buzz quickly.

Interestingly you missed out one of the stronger cases you could have made - the nymwars - which I think were an attempt to push the public/private boundary in their favour.
It's great design, but I got really excited for a new screen technology.
This is the first version that's made me reconsider iOS's dominance when it comes to design and usability. Wow.
from the drops[1]

[1] http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.4-2...
Generally in vim, if you're pressing a key over and over, that's a smell that there's room for improvement there.

In addition to counting motions, other great options for getting around include:

% jump to the matching brace/bracket/paren
( jump back a "sentence"
) jump forward a "sentence"
{ jump back a "paragraph"
} jump forward a "paragraph"

Also, getting around by searching can be hugely worthwhile.
Thanks, I used your number, too. :)
Google just launched its new Material Design UI paradigm as Polymer elements, making it available for both open web and Android native apps.
"At Google we say, focus on the user and all else will follow."

Presumably they are talking about cameras.
That's a pretty technical explanation. I think something like this would suffice:

> If the website can pull out your password to show it to you, an attacker can pull out the password to steal it.

As ever, the issue is explaining hashing.
I have. Please take a look at another comment that explains the issues with it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943695
If Aereo were ruled legal today, the cable companies would figure out tomorrow how to duplicate Aereo's position and avoid paying the broadcasters any fees.
This is a very cool idea. Execution is good as well.
I can't get past that particular camera angle in the video where they catch the heads of people walking out.

I understand there are thousands of people there but that particular camera makes it look like a bunch of people are leaving as the speaker speaks.
Impressive. How long did it take you
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Three lettered domain name is really cool. Great product. Congratulations!
It seems like those could even be two different views into the same material, potentially.
Have you considered installing a screen inversion program on Windows and then stripping out all the wasted space from the Eclipse UI?

That way you'll have your total dark Eclipse (not just themable parts) of the fun.

I don't grok themes, in my Eclipse there's not a pixel of wasted space (short of toggling the main menu which I haven't figured out yet). How Eclipse looks is moot when it looks like VIM ;-)
I think the big difference is that they come with the OSes that those types of people are likely to use. And being stores, they provide software that package managers are unlikely to provide.

I think package managers becomes less useful to average users when you can't expect all of your software to be there.
But isn't that because C++ itself evolved from C? The original "C With Classes" wasn't much more than a convenient syntactic sugar for using structs and function pointers as a poor man's object system, something that was and is common in large, abstract C programs (e.g. Linux's VFS layer, Gtk+).

I think you may be confusing is with ought here. Everybody sane knows C++ has flaws; I think Meyers even feels this way in his presentation. C++ is popular because it evolved and thus contains a lot of compromises. To draw an analogy, the Mormon Church is immensely popular in the US for similar reason--they basically said, "Hey the New and Old Testaments you spent your formative years learning are all good, but we've got some swell new stuff here too!" I'm sure Zen Buddhism is more theologically pure, but people like what's familiar to them.

Programming languages are a network effect problem first and foremost. Just like it's hard to unseat Craigslist despite its crappy UI, it's difficult to get users for a new language that may be only marginally better in terms of features, productivity, safety or convenience. Even if it's a significant improvement existing code bases, library availability, programmer availability with domain knowledge and so on matter much more for serious projects. There's a reason why Facebook took the time to write a PHP VM instead of rewriting their code.
We changed the title to say "V8".
The Copyright Act is a federal statute that protects any public performance of a copyrighted work from infringing uses.

Aereo took what were undisputedly public performances of works from broadcasters to the public, intercepted them, and by a feat of what amounted to technological legerdemain turned them into what it argued were no longer public performances but, instead, individualized transmissions from its service to each of its end users as an audience of one.

In this case, the Supreme Court rejected that argument, relying heavily on the idea that it was merely interpreting a statute (the Copyright Act) that had been amended by Congress in 1976 in part to overturn a couple of Supreme Court cases that had interpreted the prior Act to permit cable-TV style transmissions of copyrighted material free of copyright restrictions. The Court held that, in doing so, Congress intended to bring cable-like services such as Aereo into the Act's sweep regardless of the particular technological ways in which it handled the copyrighted material as it re-transmitted it to its users. Treating such technology, in effect, like a black box, the Court emphasized that, regardless of its innards, this service appeared to all concerned - to broadcasters, to viewers, etc. - to be functioning just like a cable service and therefore fell squarely within the Act's coverage as Congress had intended to modify it in making the 1976 amendments.

The most fascinating part of the decision, in my view, was how the Court arrived at this result while simultaneously trying to narrow its impact so that modern technological innovations would not be hit by its shrapnel. The Court not only did so but did so emphatically. Indeed, it devoted an entire section IV (pages 15-17) of its opinion to that issue. "We agree", said the Court, "that Congress, while intending the Transmit Clause to apply broadly to cable companies and their equivalents [i.e., Aereo], did not intend to discourage or control the emergence or use of different kinds of technologies." The Court then goes on to suggest (without deciding) a number of potentially key distinctions by which things such as, e.g., cloud music services might not in any way be infringing, including the prospect of fair use or the fact that the user receiving a transmission from the service may already own the copyrighted works being transmitted. I believe this is a strong signal from the Court that lower courts are not to ham-handedly interpret copyright law to stifle innovation but are to apply it carefully to prevent its abuse.

All in all, this decision represents a guarded upholding of traditional IP protections that prevents the use of technology to enable free-wheeling use of broadcasted materials while at the same time limiting its holding to that narrow sphere. Given the technical wording of the Act, it could just as easily have gone the other way and upheld the Aereo service as nothing more than something that facilitates individual, "private" performances via a streaming technology. But that would certainly have glorified form over substance and, I think, the Court got it right in the end.
Material design with Polymer
OlegDB 0.1.2: Cursor Iteration, Prefix Matching and more
I don't have a problem with charging for support either, but Couchbase (for us) is just a memcache replacement, so that price is too high to justify.

Without support the "debugging process" consists of blindly trying random things to fix the problem before giving up and moving on to something else.
"If every quarter this year was the same as this one, it would be a 2.9% decline for the year."

sp332 uses the ~= symbols for approximately equal because technically you can't just divide the percentage by four like that. 2.9%/4 = .725% (exactly), but technically four quarters at .725% shrink each would produce 100%-((100%-.725%)^4) for the year, which is a 2.869...% decrease, not exactly 2.9%. But for small percents being compounded a small number of times it is a decent approximation, in this case thoroughly dominated by measurement inaccuracies and noise levels; the small percentage and the small number of compoundings work together to keep the error very small.
A lot of these design cues are already present in iOS, especially the importance of depth on emphasizing content and interactive elements
The article is from the Washington Post so you can probably assume it's the US economy.
Rebroadcast.
I hope people are making it to Alito's partial concurring opinion at the bottom. He goes into more detail about the history of searches and draws a different conclusion about their rightful purpose than the "trilogy" referenced by the majority opinion. He also points out that the ruling actually puts cell phone data in a favored position compared to physical effects, and concludes that while a broad and easy to apply rule is the right decision for the court, a more nuanced set of rules enacted by legislators may be warranted.

Both opinions are great and illuminating reads!
Oddly, their live streaming does not work without Adobe Flash. It absolutely refuses to load anything in Chromium, even though it supports every single HTML5 format that YouTube offers. I would have expected better from Google in 2014.
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Added. Thanks :)
We would love to hear your feedback. This project is very MVP and definitely has some issues that we will be iterating on over the next week.

Any features you would like to see, let us know. We plan on adding a much nicer view for all the libraries with more information. The ability to the community to add tags to existing libraries, and more.

Hope you guys enjoy!
few interesting facts : from july data

22 % rides are less than 1 mile long

85 % rides are with 1 passenger

and more at : http://www.twikstik.com/blog/2
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907535.
Is it me, or the new design looks like Windows Metro?
If only they could describe their simple intuitive design goals, in simple intuitive language

> A material metaphor is the unifying theory of a rationalized space and a system of motion.
I know very little (read: nothing) about any relevant laws, but I'm still struck by your answer.

You say two things:
(1) the Court is hung up on how Aereo uses technology to circumvent the intent of the law.
(2) The ruling is basically saying, "Don't bother trying to follow the law as it's written if you threaten the status quo".

Aren't those two very different statements?
I'm not sure if you're trying to imply that (1) leads to them saying (2), or whether (1) and (2) are two different things that both happen to be true.

I'm not trying to nit pick.
(1) seems like a good thing: There is intent behind law, and I see it as an important, worthwhile, and even critical part of the judicial system to treat laws as more than hardcoded rules -- intent (i.e. the difference between following "the letter" vs abiding by "the spirit" of a law) and similar contextual aspects of law seem like essential things to take into account when applying old laws to new, previously unforseen situations (which most commonly occur as a result of technological and social changes).
This is certainly a very debatable and controversial question, and I'm not qualified to argue for either side, but as far as I can tell this is a controversial and fundamental issue that divides people, including experts (judges, lawyers, scholars of law).

(2), on the other hand, sounds like something you'd expect to hear from a group of people who are some combination of stupid, xenophobic, very conservative (as in "hate progress", not just the "old-fashioned/traditional" sense) and/or have vested interests in embellishing the status quo.
In other words, not something you ever want to see from a supreme court, though clearly (a) it may actually be true and (b) these traits aren't necessarily negative in trace amounts, especially for an institution as powerful as the supreme court.

Basically, my question is:
(1) suggests something I find arguably good, but certainly worthy of debate.
(2) reeks of dangerous bigotry.

Are you saying that (1) and (2) are both true based on this ruling?
Do you agree that (1) and (2) are entirely separate questions, or do you think I am wrong in drawing that distinction?
It's not true. IP law existed before the American revolution, and the US in fact initially refused to sign the major worldwide convention on IP law (Berne).
Can the U.S. Customs and Border Protection search them? I got my cell phone, tablet and laptop searched taken to a private room for almost an hour at the Boston Logan International Airport.
One of the features Apple added later-on to iOS7 was "reduce animation" after user feedback. Much of Google's keynote thus-far has focused on adding animations everywhere possible. It'll be interesting to see if they receive a different reception.
If I am not mistaken, Apple has been awarded patents in the area of localized haptics using tiny actuators. It may be that no rival solution has emerged. I was also quite upset when the announcement dissolved into a UI metaphor.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/02/19/apple-awarded-pate...
Meaning that if the rate of decline experienced in Q1 continued throughout the year, then the annual shrinkage would be about 3%. 1.0074^4 is about 1.03, so the actual shrinkage for the quarter in question was 0.74%.
Also "the ecosystem is boring in a good way" doesnt fly when... well... strings.
Aereo makes new users sign up with a credit card linked to a zip code within the OTA broadcast range of the metros that they operate in. The users then get the channels that are available in that area. See https://www.aereo.com/channels

Theoretically Aereo makes it more expensive to watch these channels(but easier and more reliable) than a one time purchase of your own antenna.
There is a differences(sometimes vast) between what is "true" and what is "right". As much as it pains me, the US Government does not consult me on matters of ethics. What it does do is still true. Regardless of whether you, I, or anyone else believe it to be wrong.

btw "(according to US Government)" should have made it clear that it was a reported fact and not a value judgement by the author, me.
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Pretty sure it's a bug; I submitted an issue on github.