skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drones don't use 50cal machine guns. What they use is missiles and bombs, and they've been guided for decades.
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When you start you tend to take a (reasonable) free domain name. Later (when successful & have money) tend to get/buy a better one

It is portrayed wrongly in the movie "The Social Network":
"drop the "the""
Tell this to people in jail. Anyone can change rather fast. You don't need government or political authority to change. The only thing a society has to change together is to realize that (quote from Leo Tolstoy): "without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions... it [anarchy] will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power."
Before everyone gets up in arms about Mozilla not working on this: As I wrote the last time this came up, deterministic builds are a nice thing, but they're only a small piece of the puzzle of protecting users from the state-sponsored malicious actors. Indeed, it seems to me that messing with builds would be one of the more difficult ways for the NSA to pwn Firefox users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7045605
Reminds me of where I grew up (no air-conditiong). Sometimes it was so hot and humid that we could not do any other than just lie on the veranda and sweat. The amount of water you would drink a day was staggering. I can't say I miss that sort of weather.
This thing can photograph the whole sky in a few days in much better quality:

> VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view

http://www.vista.ac.uk/
X Genius[0], the catchall/beta section of the community, specifically mentions tax forms in it's mission statement. So I would look to that community for legal annotation. I'm guessing, however, there's some kind of legal connotation to annotating a legal document - similar to giving investment advice - that could make a legal docs section difficult to legitimize.

[0] http://x.genius.com/
"...generate it's own unique..." should be "...generate its own unique..."
I'm sitting on the floor by my window in my top floor apartment in Seattle, which is not air-conditioned. I've lived in Seattle for over 5 years, and I've noticed the summers getting hotter. Air conditioning used to be a rare thing in this city, but more and more people I talk to are caving this July.

I've always been sensitive to the heat, sleep being hard to come by in the "pall", as Miller calls it. It's nice to commiserate with the past, because my wife can sleep through anything.
Maybe I'm just too white but I use rap genius primarily for slang translations. I listen to a lot of UK grime and rap genius is like a translate.google.com for grime. There's no way I'd be able to decode most of the stuff Skepta says otherwise.
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Apart from the fact of being completely substantiated of course. But hey, don't let actual facts get in the way of your opinion.
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Your comment is the most pragmatic thing I have read.

The whole thing of ISP's complaining about Netflix to me is wrong, they are complaining about a peering agreement with a transit provider and just using Netflix as a name people will recognise.

The truth is there are technical solutions to these problems but politics is taking over the issue.
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I absolutely love that the majority of this thread are claiming all sorts of legal protections for Popcorn Time - all the way from free speech to ludicrous comparisons with screenshotting screenshots.

So you guys love the law - right up until Crawford posted MGM vs Grokster as the binding ruling and now suddenly it's all...

"The law is wrong and archaic!"

Honestly. You sound like teenagers throwing a tantrum. Just grow up and admit you want to steal content you didn't pay for. I would have a lot more respect for you than you. When you try and justify it you sound like a moron.

One poster below even went so far as to insinuate theft is OK because the movie publishing houses have so much money. Is that the standard we apply is it? If a company is successful it becomes OK to pirate their stuff?

Moron. Downvote away, it doesn't make the attitude any less moronic.
If it were true, the headline wouldn't be phrased as a question.
Interesting to me was that culturally even in the US, with native born women, there are clear lines sometimes. Example: I once, being the generally swell guy I am, volunteered to go on an errand to get tampons for my live in partner at the time, who was in a bit of a crisis. We lived in a laregly hispanic neighborhood, and despite the owners of the local store being family friends (they also rented our apartment to us), they were mortified that I was looking for them. I asked my (other white dude) friend who brought me into this circle of friends why everyone flipped out about it, and the general consensus was that in Latino-American culture, you just didn't use them. It was pads or nothing else, and that was disgusting to think of using tampons.

I've had little further discussion or interactions surrounding it, but that one anecdote basically reinforced my gender role of being weird about going to the store to buy them for my partner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice. The idea was ahead of its time. I remember it as a Singaporean company, but the Wikipedia page is thin on details.
"I belive"
regarding taking them off being an issue, I would presume eventually we'll have headsets you can flip up, like those flip up sunglasses people sometimes have.
Actually it shouldn't. It has been proven that the only use of Popcorn Time is to facilitate copyright infringement.

It is designed explicitly for that use. Hence banned.

Mainly because Judges are not stupid and Developers are not as clever as they think they are. Good with math sure; not so good with the finer points of the law despite their astoundingly arrogant perception of themselves.
and was once married to Marilyn Monroe
> I wanted to say I'm amazed by the number of commenters who just assume the OP states the truth, but I'm not, not really.

You mean to say that you're amazed by how few such comments are here?

> HN is awfully quick to take sides, and it's very predictable where it comes down.

Yes, exactly. HN groupthing seems to be leaning a lot towards misandry lately.

> So how about we withhold judgment on this for a little while, until there are actual facts?

That's exactly what we should be doing here.
Why do you think this is useless?
> You can make the argument that the long term value of BTC is zero because there's nothing that guarantees it continued existence, like US law guarantees the existence of the dollar.

The Internet guarantees the continued existence of BTC.
When do they get sued by Gracenote, like all of the other lyrics sites of the past decade?
It's too bad the EDN standard ain't an actual standard or proper spec. I had to rail on those people for fucking ages to get any ambiguities fixed and last I gave a damn it still:

1. Wasn't congruent with what Clojure's parser allows

2. Defined by whatever Hickey feels this year

I've worked on more than one edn parser in non-Clojure languages, it was Total Hell.

Hitching your wagon to EDN isn't advisable, there are better formats if you need them.
I would like to travel and freelance around the world. The thing is i don't know is it sustainable model. I read this thread and think to myself how envious I am. Does freelancing mean working at odesk and such sites or what?
See http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2003-January/023054.html for an in-depth comparison from a compiler hacker experienced with both styles of IR.

A summary is that there is no advantage to CPS, since it is SSA with a scope nesting requirement that gets in the way of some beneficial transformations.
Show HN: ProHockeyIQ – connecting players and teams
It is common sense that pedestrians should stay out of streets. And for many years in the UK the pedestrian had the right of way; right up until a Judge was smart enough to realise it is easier for a pedestrian not to step into high moving traffic than it is for a 2000 kilogram lump of metal hurtling along at 30-40MPH to accomodate such idiots.

So now, the law is balanced again. Pedestrians are given safe crossing points but the roads belong to vehicles.

It was never common sense that cigarettes didn't cause harm. It was a lack of medical research.

It is common sense that piracy is theft. You the deprivation argument is utter bullshit. Otherwise you won't mind if I make copies of all of your house keys; car keys and private documentation. After all; I am not depriving you of the originals and they are just a series of atoms. No biggie.

Seriously; just grow up.
Wow, an incoherent rant with nothing to back it up.

Have I stumbled into a MRA subreddit without knowing it?
Must be because Dropbox still use Amazon services to store client files.
If we stole the thunder from security researchers by announcing about things they've found before they can we'd risk that they'd consider holding back. I feel it's the right move to encourage the researchers and respect their wishes.
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See it as a LinkedIn for hockey players and teams.

Example of player profile: https://www.prohockeyiq.com/view/player/30

And a team profile:
https://www.prohockeyiq.com/view/team/2
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^^ This is exactly why you are supremely unqualified to understand or debate the issue. Honestly. Your comment was simply stupid.

The takedown request was not because the screenshots are copyrighted. That is not the infringement. If you don't understand that then you might want to read a bit more before becoming involved with the grown-ups.
It's not a 'we let them publish' it's a we respected their wishes in that we would hold off on talking about it until they published.
Do you have a code review process?

Could you initiate one?
Exporting virtual build machine as part of release is good practice anyway.
you are empirically incorrect. Pull up the values. in 2010 it got up to 98, 2011, 2012 it didn't break 90, last year it hit 92 for 2 days. This year it still hasn't broken 90, though the insurance building in SLU said 92 at the peak today but that sign is in direct sun by their solar panels which are also hooked to the sign. Also that sign was reading higher solar output (5.8 vs 3.2) earlier this year when it was cooler which shows the effect of heat on solar panels.
I question whether the top construction is wicking enough to be comfortable. Pads (and diapers) have a top layer through which the moisture goes through, keeping the top relatively dry. This is actually a lot more challenging for menstruation, as it tends to be considerably more viscous.
Technical Illusions will supposedly have this for CastAR by using fairly new freeform optics techniques (AR/VR clip-on, don't think it has been demoed):

http://technical-illusions.myshopify.com/collections/frontpa...

If it can deliver on the low-distortion, it has a major advantage over Oculus. The distortion correction for the Rift currently requires you draw to an intermediary render target about 1.5X the resolution of the screen. This throws away a lot of pixels and has a huge performance penalty, and the geometry-shader approaches to avoiding the penalty that were attempted so far haven't worked out.
> "A private key is nothing but a large pseudorandom number roughly between 1 and 2^256

Note: Nearly every 256-bit number is a valid private key. Specifically, any 256-bit number between 0x1 and 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141 is a valid private key.

The range of valid private keys is governed by the secp256k1 ECDSA standard used by Bitcoin.

Source is the Bitcoin wiki, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key which surprisingly isn't listed as one of the references in the post.
I think my favorite part of the blog post is the last line.

> If you see me this weekend at GaymerX, I could use a hug.

Hook. Line. Sinker.
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> the progression of social services from places of privacy to places of publicity

I don't think that's a clear-cut anecdote. Facebook does actually feel very private, because it's isolated from Google and outside users. Look at the number of female profiles where everything but the name is hidden from non-friends. I don't remember MySpace or blog users ever being this paranoid.
And then, anecdotally, many people around me have started to live in WhatsApp/LINE gossip groups, which is something that could easily be decentralised.
This works for your goal (being able to reproduce the binary build), but in Mozilla's case it's slightly different.
Being FLOSS software, Mozilla's goal is that end-users can completely reproduce the builds from source. This includes dependencies, toolchains, AND the build environment. In this scenario, accepting a pre-build binary VM would not be acceptable, since it defeats the spirit of FLOSS.
You should also learn Scheme, too.

From your link:

> The first self-modifying AIs will hopefully be written in functional programming languages, so learn something useful like Haskell or Scheme.
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Only if you take the romantic view that the civil war was fought over slavery, instead of over states' rights.

Or perhaps if you define freedom precisely as that which you fight for in the name of America.
This JSConf.Asia 2013 talk about NodeJS in Photoshop [1] is very good as well, e.g. "Generate > Image Assets" is a Node script that automatically extracts PNG & JPEG when the PSD is saved, so combine it with gulp watching the output folder to livereload images of the site you're testing by editing a PSD: imho that will sure help designers work with programmers.

The "OK Photoshop" demo is just hilarious :)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqmMqB91zdI
Anything you consume in any way could be a drug depending on how you classify it. Typicaly the term drug implies some thing negative while terms like nutrition and medicine implies some thing positive. Its all politics though.
Honestly, if you're using windows (which, AFAIK, is the only OS that includes Comic Sans), why the are you complaining about being unable to trust security software from a certain provider?
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It was fought over states' right to maintain the constitutionality of slavery.
I'm hearing numbers ranging from 5-15% of the company. I'd say that a major layoff is anything as big or bigger than the 2009 layoffs that cut 5,000 people. 5% is about 6,000 people. 15% is about 19,000 people.
That's a simplistic view. What if the 'whole point' was avoiding project-unraveling team turnover, and deterring a corrosive culture of mercenary focus on salary rather than intangible or equity compensation?

Counteroffers once an employee has mentioned a plan to leave are so fraught with morale issues that many managers recommend against them no matter what. And auctions suck for buyers due to the "winner's curse" – wise buyers will often try to avoid being part of an auction process.

Does that mean the seller always wants an auction, highest price always being best? Maybe if you can sell-and-forget a physical item. But selling your unique-in-the-industry talents for the next N years isn't quite like that: it's a relationship where you'll need a full gelled team and other costly resources to do well, and some safety margin for miscalculations. A 'cursed' winner who overpays for you, and others, might wind up sinking your projects and career when the errors manifest.

Pixar employees have done very well, overall, including through stock options which became more valuable because their teams stuck together, and delivered critically-lauded and highly-profitable work at sustainable costs. Perhaps an alternate-history, with more talent raids and compensation bidding-wars, would have led to some superstar employees making even more money. But it might also have torpedoed key projects at key moments, and left the company and the bulk of the employees, far worse off. It's not a simple situation to model.
Come on man, that is the cleverest thing I've said so far on HN and thanks to having 0 votes nobody will ever see it.

Being a Southerner, I think the view that the civil war was fought over states' rights is the romantic view.

Anyway, the two really aren't mutually exclusive, it was both.

And no, I don't define freedom in such a dumb way, why would I?

P.S. Properly speaking, only individuals have rights. States do not have rights, neither does the federal government. Of course this was not understood fully by the Founding Fathers and it's also not true in a legal sense, only a moral one.
License is one of the reasons. OpenBSD uses the BSD license, and has a strong preference for it when it comes to the base system, base tools, etc. There's no chance they'll move something so critical to GPL-licensed software.
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Sure, I get that, but:

> Most people will naturally stop drinking it at the sweet spot.

Putting an "I believe" before a claim like that is insufficient, given the evidence of people who are anywhere but at a so-called sweet spot.
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Back in Switzerland we still rarely have AC in homes and offices. My parents still work in an office that can get 40C/104F for two to three weeks in summer. Everything is built for winter.
This product isn't for you, which is obvious from the astounding ignorance of your comment.

1. "Expensive underwear are bad because I gain sexual gratification from new underwear and money spent on expensive period underpants take money away from that." Could you be more self-involved? How about respecting women to know what products they want, considering they are the one actually having periods? But no, it's all about keeping your dick hard. Okay.

2. Yes. Women who use tampons carry tampons around with them. However, the way you know when your period starts is when you find blood in your panties. At which point there is already blood in your panties. You shouldn't put a tampon in prior to your period arriving as that is a) extremely uncomfortable and b) risks TSS, but wearing special underwear as a precaution seems reasonable. Also, when the tampon is full, it will leak. This can be pre-empted, but not 100% of the time, as flow varies. This is why many women wear panty liners in conjunction with tampon use. And yes, it is fucking annoying to make sure you always have a tampon with you 100% of the time, and isn't 100% successful, thanks for your concern.

3. Again, your ignorance astounds me here. For one, spotting is common with continual use of birth control. So actually these panties would be pretty helpful with that as spotting is completely unpredictable, unlike actual periods. Secondly, did you seriously just suggest that every woman who menstruates go on continual hormonal birth control as an alternative to expensive panties? You do realize that BC a)has side effects and b) costs money?

4. No, that's not the real goal. They're making a product. For people to buy. Which should be obvious. The charitable link-in is a common marketing technique.
You are implying that rolling your own will give you faster, less buggy code, more organised code than using a framework?
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021429.
We're about to have five consecutive days of >= 90º weather[1]. Also hacknat was lucky to miss the Worst Week Ever in Summer 2009 when the temperature peaked at 103º[2]

Meanwhile, I'm unlucky enough to be heading down to Portland for the weekend, where temperatures are expected to peak at 95º and 98º. Yuck.

(Also, I broke down and bought an air conditioner last year, as I had a south-facing apartment and a brachycephalic dog[3], who couldn't deal with the heat. I have the AC running and my apartment is currently a glorious 68º :D)

[1] http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/Seattle+WA+98122:4:US

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Pacific_Northwest_heat_wav...

[3] Moxie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst/8590965099/in/s...
My grandpa fought the WWII in the Italian Army.
He told me that during war, they had to drink coffee with anise every day, and they were forced to do so.
Of course it wasn't really just "coffee with anise", but it contained some kind of drug. He remembers that, after drinking that "coffee", he could see a dying fellow soldier calling for help, and just don't care about that.

He was sent to war after a quick training lasted just a few weeks, and I guess that without taking some kind of drugs, the average 20 years old guy wouldn't be able to fight a war without going crazy.
Agree, one of the best business books I have read!
I learned Javascript from that book with around zero prior knowledge of Javascript as a programming language. So, to be more specific, I'd throw in that it's a perfectly fine book for a beginner to Javascript per se. It will probably confuse you, though, if you are not merely desiring to learn Javascript, but you are a beginner to programming in general and learning a programming language is a novelty to you in and of itself -- by the time I picked up the Crockford book, I was proficient in a variety of other programming languages and had a computer science degree.

If there is anything I could complain about, it would be at the other end of the spectrum: it ends after covering just the basics of the language itself; I don't even think it covers the browser DOM. But if you buy it at a physical bookstore, the thickness of it should tip you off as to what you're getting. As far as it goes, it's a great book.
See, writing a full sentence wasn't that bad. Why didn't you do that to start with instead of "srs plz?".
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>While searching for the paper I actually found a lot of women calling pads disgusting which I though is a little harsh. I hope they're talking about the feeling rather than the blood?

I think what these women are saying is, "I personally find wearing a pad disgusting" and not "Women who wear pads are disgusting." I definitely would call pads gross or disgusting, and when I say that, I mean that is my experience with wearing them in comparison to tampons.

With tampons, the blood doesn't make it to the vulva, in general. So the vulva stays a lot cleaner. If you wear pads, the blood flows out, so it dies and cakes on your pubic hair, labia, and anus. In addition, you can feel the blood once it exits, so there's a continual "gooey" feel, squelching when you sit down, etc. I honestly don't know why women who wear pads prefer it.

To be clear, I don't have any hygienic concerns with pads, nor with women who wear them. It's just that both the mess and the felling caused from wearing pads vs tampons I personally find gross.
Wouldn't the average temperatures be a lot more important than brief highs on one or two days?

Many of the record highs for Seattle were set 40 or 50 years ago. There is only one new monthly record high in the last 20 years.

http://www.seattle.gov/html/weather_averages.htm

Would love to see a 50 year breakout on the average highs and lows by year and month for eg Summer in Seattle. I can't seem to locate data of that sort pre-organized.
What is annoying? The level of intrusive advertising that the median North American is subjected to now is annoying to me, as someone born about 40 years ago.

So, no, the ads won't be annoying to people who have been slowly conditioned to think the ads aren't annoying. It's valid to ask whether we, now, want that or not.

Also this:

> It would be silly to believe that any system that gets used by millions or billions of people wont have ads.

Why? Given our current assumptions, perhaps, but why can't we try to innovate socially, as well as technologically?