skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now get your targets and guidance from an overhead drone and shoot at people you can't even see!
Hacker News is the absolute best place to get feedback. Any other objections?
Sure. I dislike the company i work for, and would love to disseminate their proprietary software. I appreciate you wanting to be complicit in the crime we are about to commit. What email address should I send it to?
You're tackling the problem from the wrong end. If you make lobbying illegal, it'd still exist. The problem is not that corporations want to take advantage of the power government has - however moral, they still have to lobby or their competitor will. The problem is that corporations have an opportunity to lobby at all. That is, the real problem is the existence of government.
This is why well into the 20th century we didn't have standing armies.

We should do away with the one we have now.
Ok. I give up. Creepy astroturfing or brilliant parody?
In whatever town has new homes available for the national median price of $275k. Definitely not my neighborhood.
Yeah, that too. I think women have already figured out cheaper/easier solutions than this.
Hopefully the quality of the annotations will be better than on rap genius. It's mostly bad attempts at humor and unnecessary slang translations. I don't see the value in it.
> While as scientific as we could manage

They couldn't even manage to compare yogurt with yeast vs yogurt without?
Salesforce plans a new research division, based on RelateIQ acquisition
I think that would be a nice bonus if the panties were priced in say the $13 range. I wouldn't pay these prices though.

I wonder how much margin there is at the current price point. If it costs them $15 to make one their product might be DOA...
Some(body|thing) else can aim the laser and now you can hit out of sight targets.
You don’t need to deobfuscate the code to run it.
I think they are, right?

I think they are telling you that you need to earn $120k+ a year.
What a fun story. I can see what the mathematician is saying, that with billions of "events" happening all the time, supremely improbable events like this are bound to happen periodically. And we only notice the ones that strike our fancy.

But it still makes for a fun read, and in the end it brought together two families and forged new friendships.
This article sounds like a PR piece designed to get out in front of news and control the messaging. Likely they have reason to believe the project will leak shortly, and rather than having the media spin it as "Secret military lab designing killer guided sniper bullets! Police state imminent!", they want it out in public as "Your tax dollars are going toward some very advanced technology to ensure American military supremacy."

Just a hunch, having worked with some PR people before.
All very good points. I suspect that Chinese brands will do to the Japanese what the Japanese did to Americans and Europeans. In some cases, they will take shortcuts to gain brand recognition early (e.g. Lenovo buying IBM's ThinkPad business).
Tampons vs. pads is like Ruby vs. Javascript. Not mutually exclusive; used in different circumstances.
Where I lived in TX(Mckinney/Frisco/Plano) had median home prices around that range for newly build homes.
The final demo literally gives me a headache. It shimmers. However for whatever reason I am able to screenshot it perfectly from Chrome on Windows 7.

Internet Explorer 10 won't render the image at all (blackness) and in Firefox it looks both corrupt AND shimmers (and screenshots look equally as horrible).

Given the choice between a watermark which might decrease my viewing experience and some shimmering buggy image that literally gives me a headache (like sea-sickness), I'm definitely opting for a watermark.

Does anyone else get sick while staring at the final demo?
> Thank goodness we are kept fat and happy.

This concept is actually called "bread and circus", and was originally applied by mid-roman emperors to better control the populace and keep political satisfaction up. I'm kinda disappointed that the wikipedia article doesn't go into detail about this because it played a huge part in maintaining control of the empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Realised that the second I pasted the text. It's midnight in Germany ... That's the original link I found: http://askville.amazon.com/AMERICAN-WOMEN-TAMPONS-PADS-PERIO...

And here is another statistic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22980411

They're both not clear though I do think it's fair to say tampons are preferred. Just google for "tampons vs. pads".
The record of history is absolutely crystal clear: only in countries that allowed relatively free trade the average citizen was able to escape the poverty. On the other hand, it is in those countries that decided to follow socialist ideas, average citizens were poorer than anywhere else.
Norton Antivirus and Internet Security 2014 21.3.0.13
>I don't think Bill Gates ever understood a book like Innovator's Dilemma. Not really.

Bill's taking advantage of IBM's focus on their mainframe customers and under cutting them with Windows pcs seems almost the classic example of the things the Innovator's Dilemma is on about and probably the biggest one in history in dollar value terms. I suspect he understands that stuff.
> I think that aiming the rifle in a different spot is only done for test purposes

I could imagine some scenarios where indirect fire, perhaps coordinated with a drone that can light up the target with the laser, could be useful.
>Thank goodness we are kept fat and happy.

If by "we" you mean you and me, and people like us. Plenty of people are skipping meals to save money.
And in the Bay Area... I'd guess at least $280K a year.
How Elon Musk Quit Stanford After 2 Days And Launched An Empire
Why the law is slow, impersonal and obsessed with details
If it had been the truth she should have reported him back in college, when there were evidence and witnesses. Years after the fact? Yeah that is not really believable.

Also I am going to have to see the research methods that allowed them to come up with that number of false rape accusations, since I doubt it is possible to come up with a real number.
I cannot tell what your point is. Is it that nobody should discuss problems without a solution ever?

Like should we not talk about the North Korean work camps/political prisoners/torture because we aren't ready/willing to go invade them?
Militias don't have to fight directly against tanks and fighter jets. That's why they're effective.

You can't maintain a police state by blowing up houses. If you do that, you end up cutting off your only revenue source (taxing employed people), because your tax base either can't or won't work (because they're dead, the roads are impassable, etc.). In fact, this situation would actually be quite beneficial to an insurgency, because if an attacker can't pay or feed their foot soldiers, they will lose their army.

In the end, you need foot soldiers to maintain a police state. It's not economically feasible to give everyone state of the art sniper rifles like this, and spending 10x more money on soldiers doesn't make them 10x more effective.

It is exponentially harder to maintain a police state than to destroy one, which is why even poorly trained, poorly equipped insurgencies can effectively fight against well trained, well equipped governments. If the US government has problems with this in Vietnam and Iraq, imagine how much worse it would be if they tried the same thing on their own well-armed revenue source.
Ask HN: Good Canadian hosting providers?
We are currently hosted on AWS (US-East), and recently one of our new Canadian clients have the requirement to be hosted in Canada (for legal reasons).

I looked around and found a few options, notably iWeb and Netelligent, but was wondering if anybody has any other good suggestion? Also if you've used iWeb or Netelligent before, could you share some of your experiences?

We are looking for server hosting for web services and websites, both dedicated and virtual could work.

Thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7741170
I actually agree this would be a great way to add capacity to the Tor network if implemented in the way described.

I'd love to hear if anyone else has thoughts on something like this or if anyone know if something like this has been attempted before.
It's not the state of the software itself that's being questioned here. It's how security wasn't put first and foremost in this case. Putting an extraordinarily high degree of emphasis on security is something a lot of us have come to expect from OpenBSD and related projects. Security comes first, even if that means waiting a bit longer for an official release, or something like that.

While LibreSSL does appear to be going in the right direction, especially after the disastrous few months that OpenSSL has had, the community at large does want to be reassured that the LibreSSL project truly does revere security. A more security-conscious release in this case would have helped with that.
[W3C] Food For Thought
Twitter/tumblr social justice warriors are a small, loud, and uniquely disturbed group who are only relevant in a discussion of how small, loud groups tend to be taken as representative of majorities.
there is a lot of wasted space in a 50 BMG cartridge - you could easily make the bullet much longer without using up needed powder capacity. As long as you make it the same mass, you should be OK to fire it in guns currently chambered in 50 BMG. If you need to trivially prove this, pick up a loaded round and shake it. You can hear the powder jostling around in there.

Why is there wasted space? As powders become more efficient, you need less powder to get the same result. Consider the age of the round - there's been a lot of development in powders in the interim.
> If you were isolated from decks with legendaries and had a seperate ladder, h

Offtopic but that reminded me of those decade-old Slashdot posts with the sudden cutoff mid-sentence followed by 'Connection dropped' modem messages.
I'd be very surprised if 100k did the job. I would bet under $500k though. Still worth it.
At least in U5, if you clear a dungeon room it stays cleared, so the next time through Dungeon Doom is lot easier.

U4 really kicked us in the crotch, though, with its "INFINITY" riddle ending. There was only an extremely vague way of figuring it out: each time you would get an eighth, a runic letter would be put on the screen. But reading runes wasn't really required for U4, so at the time I didn't even recognize them as runes.

Entirely by coincidence, I had a card where I had all the virtues listed horizontally, and I manually drew the "weird symbols" I saw at the bottom. When you play U5 you get good enough to read runes by heart, and I glanced at that card once and immediately saw the answer leaping out at me.
Indeed, online societies tend to implode over time. If they ever get to that point. However there are more immediate issues.

In a world where $10 buys you 10k followers on Twitter (and it does), using a rating system to build trust does create a lot of questions.
I hope that you can start to see women as people with whom you can form meaningful relationships, rather than seeing them as "girls" that you need to "pick up".
-2 for an absolutely true fact?

It's probably because, true or not, not the best argument. Other than the fact Microsoft ended support Windows XP is fine. It does the job. It's not the latest and greatest, but right to the end it was better than acceptable or tolerable, it was downright decent.

A hardware refresh at work gave me a 7 box, but I've still got my old XP box in a corner somehwere, heavily firewalled ofc now that support has ended, I remote desktop into it 5-10 times a month now for the few straglers I haven't migrated off, and its fine.

Yeah legacy does have support costs, but as I said, you're not building openbsd from source nor would you be if they were on a trendy vcs. That's why they mirror libressl on github, this is a case where they know outsiders might care. And one vcs or another you're going to the mailing list to submit a patch to them, so until you're in it, don't really matter.
Who Are the Docker Developers?
or arm the drone.
Car thief becomes first person to die in a Tesla Model S crash
Slick in my experience is pretty unusable even for experienced Scalaphiles. I couldn't use it until I wrote a wrapper for it:

https://github.com/zenbowman/slickint

And even then, I think I by far prefer raw SQL to Slick. If you stick to the standard Scala libraries, they are pretty well designed, and I second taking the Functional progamming in scala course. There is some discussion of the toolchain in Lecture 0 of that course.
FYI: Menstrual blood is not like, say, blood from a cut on your arm. It is clotty, nasty, disgusting stuff. Menstrual blood has been collecting in the uterus for some weeks, creating a lining on the walls intended to become a placenta should one get pregnant. And when a woman fails to get pregnant, the body decides to shed that lining.

It's really not pleasant stuff to deal with. Plus, it is contaminated by mucus of varying amounts and thicknesses.
While clever, the items in the article merely accelerate the DRM arms race; they do not deliver a war-winning weapon to any side. All the tricks here can be defeated with technology, even the interlace idea.

This whole line of thinking is an attempt to re-fight the music DRM battle, and the conclusions are the same now as they were then. First, if you deliver media to a user, then given sufficient technical means, the user can copy it. Either your users don't care to copy your content, in which case it didn't need to be DRMed, or they do wish to do so, in which case it can be copied, so DRM is a waste of money. Second, the cost of such technical means drops exponentially with the popularity of the DRM that is being used, because only one person needs to develop the circumvention technology and then everyone can share it. This last principle holds regardless of laws such as the DMCA, and regardless of lawsuits such as the thousands of lawsuits filed by the RCAA and MPAA.

In a way, this is all good. Entities that seek to control when and how other people copy data will waste their money and time they are weak enough that wiser competitors can remove them from the ecosystem. Sony is a good case in point. While they were wasting resources with DRM, Apple was eating their lunch in the music market. I now think of iTunes when I think of music, way before I think of Sony.
$2k for clothes is "essential"? That seems ridiciulous. I probably spend less than 200 a year on clothes.

Also, I disagree with the sentiment that children (2?) are essential.
I really appreciate that they pointed out where they got their numbers.

I don't agree with all of them (I don't think that a family of 4 should necesarily own a 4WD SUV which will accentuate gas and insurance costs when 4 door economy car would be fine.

Not sure what the $2,000 a year per child education expense is, seems too small for private school, too big for public school. I couldn't find the referenced USA Today article. Our neighbors' kids who are still going to the public high school spend about $1,500 on various sports costs and other school supplies.

Also food seems a bit steep, a bit over $1,000/month on food? That is like $250 a week. Presumably they eat out a lot?

But the quibbling then boils down to how they are living and where. So that makes it challenging. A family of four that buys annual ski passes every year, eats out for at least four meals a week, has the bread winner buying lunch every day, buys all new clothes to match the latest fashion, doesn't keep any vehicle longer than 4 years, and only buys things "new"? Ok, I could believe $130K.

But then I fall back to what is the point? And then you see it, the entire point:

"Nonetheless, it's clear that though the American dream is still alive, fewer and fewer of us can afford to live it."

And this, I just don't believe at all, although I get how if people do believe this, it works to their advantage. So by and large, not a reasonable article in my opinion.
I guess it would be hard to underwrite something which is essentially a legal opinion, but there are underwriters who will do weird one-offs. Generally it's based on being able to reduce it to well-known probabilities, though.
I think you missed purringmeow's point. Yes, 6% of cases were determined to be false reports but how many of the remaining 60% were also false reports and we simply don't know?
Midland, Michigan? Normal, Illinois? Medianton, Hypotheticana?
Verizon is not a transit provider in this context. Level 3 is not asking Verizon to take traffic in New York and deliver it to customers in California or Germany. They're giving Verizon traffic destined for local Verizon customers.

Importantly, there is no other way to reach those customers. If you need to get traffic from New York to San Francisco you can use Level 3 or Cogent or Verizon or any of a dozen others. If you need to get traffic to a particular household which is a Verizon subscriber, there is no path other than Verizon.
Well, when you put on a 4WD SUV as 'essential' and the payment/costs is approx. 65% of housing expenses, either the numbers are padded or someone doing that is a fucking idiot.

4k education expenses also seems excessive but I won't comment on that since I don't really know much about the US education system costs but apparel 2.6k? More than Utilities? WTF? That comes to around 200 dollars on apparel per month.
Web browsers facilitate crime and piracy. There is no objective line between criminal software and software that can be used for criminal purposes.
Chasing skills is a bad bet and bad policy
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Hmm, interesting. Thank you for the feedback.
Or AIDS or global warming?
While I don't necessary agree with the tone, unlike the other sub-commenters, I kind of agree with philbarr POV.

Anything that Government covers (education, health) will increase in cost because the "vendors" know the government will "bail" them out.

Real-estate increasing price is partially because the realtor as well in some places.

Perhaps the government should take note of the trends and at least investigate a little bit deeper.
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We assume what OP states is the truth because the woman took ten years to come forward. Ten years is far too much to be credible.
> The screenshots of the applications clearly showed copyrighted works being pirated.

I could take a screenshot of VLC clearly showing me watching a pirated movie. What's your point?
I prefer our approach:

> Case #1: I want to add a new column

Issue an ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN on the production database. Try not to make it NOT NULL.

> Case #2: I want to change a column type

Add another column (see Case #1) of the same name, with a suffix like "_2" or "_NUM" so you can tell them apart.

> Case #3: I want to rename a column

Don't risk it. Keep using the original column name. Very few of the column names reflect the reality of that they contain anyway. It's little bits of insider knowledge like this ("Product name is actually stored in ITEMNAME_LONG, ITEMNAME is only a CHAR(15) so we keep UPC in there") that contribute to our fast-paced, agile work environment.
I don't think so. It's always 118-126 years, no matter what year it is right now, so we'll only see this blow up if there's an explosion in that population.
Where have Japan's gamers gone?
By being barely smarter than Gene Simmons. Michael Crichton directed IIRC.
Do you have a more realistic automobile for a family of four? IMO, it's more realistic to have two cars, because it usually takes two incomes to make 130K, and 275K houses aren't near good public transportation.
The very 1st photo after the header on that homepage sends the opposite message to your "Paper is making a comeback" with it's clearly computer-generated text on this image:
http://f.cl.ly/items/0v1m0x0a2a35420m3a3L/styles.jpg

Handwriting the text, even if it were slightly less legible, would be better than doing it in a stock font in Photoshop.
How terrible for him, to have to experience what every woman in tech with a prominent online presence has to endure.
The problem isn't that users don't care, but that there's no revenue model. As a result none of these decentralized networking or platform companies can get funding.

Without funding, they don't have the resources to build truly compelling products. You can prototype something in your spare time, but to polish something to be truly competitive outside enthusiast circles you need to dedicate serious time to it.

Even if users did care there is no mechanism for them to pay for it, so it doesn't happen.
Curious to know how much Rap Genius paid to secure the new domain, genius.com?
That remains to be seen. In a year or three, when his name is mentioned in the media, will people still be talking about this accusation? Only time can tell, but my money is on "Yes."
Supposedly Milk thistle works the best against hangover http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3568094/The-best-hangover-...
the network.
Seems like a silly thing to focus on. Learning to shoot accurately is by far the easiest part of becoming a sniper.
Many do have a simple answer: slightly modify our social arrangements. There's no law of physics leading to these outcomes; we are way past the need for starvation; there's enough shelter for everyone; etc.

Just that those of us who wish to do this find themselves in war with the elites who don't. :)
>I probably spend less than 200 a year on clothes.

For four, including growing children?

>Also, I disagree with the sentiment that children (2?) are essential.

Essential for the "American Dream," not for the calculation. Of course they are.
Ok, my information was, that U6 was released on IBM PC and the developers did not support older (8bit) HW any more.

Was this an official port?

I tried to play U6 much later, but I hated the new controls, as much I remember.
Speilberg a disgusting dinosaur hunter
While I do appreciate this disclosure, I'm not sure doing so a year later warrants much applause. While I agree this is a vulnerability that only effect a small subset of users (<1%), this actual number of users could be large depending on the size of their customer base (likely tens of thousands).