skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flytenow's fee is irrelevant because the rules apply to a pilot, not a company. It's the pilot who can't receive compensation. For example, the outcome (according to the FAA) would be exactly the same whether or not a fee is charged by the company.
I would think the environmental strain will be significantly higher with the construction and eventually ships - this is a country where most people don't own cars and shared modes of transport are used by everyone.
I'd have no problem with inlined, hyperlinked titles but this implementation with the buttons is pretty obnoxious.
Note that the newest version of master Rust does not require you to write the explicit lifetime in io_thread.rs (I didn't see any others).
I applaud these guys for attempting what is basically the Lyft/UberX model -- comply to the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law (i.e. Lyft's original "you're not paying your driver, you're making a donation"), though it's debatable if they're even trying to do that.

BUT! And there's a big but...

Lyft & Uber were/are disrupting a system that heavily regulated/legislated, some would argue unnecessarily, has false barriers to entry, is inefficient, and is essentially an oligopoly. And their entry is lowering prices, making the market more efficient, and making consumer super-happy.

I don't think private aviation is suffering the same ailment. If anything, the airlines are operating below cost because of heavy heavy competition. The FAA licenses private pilots not because they can or they want to charge fees, but because they need to make sure that they're not flying around killing themselves (and despite that regulation, they still are doing that).

So Flytenow's approach here feels more like they found a regulated market they feel like disrupting because they can vs. actually making an inefficient market more efficient and better for consumers.

In summary: Whereas I'm happy to take a ride with random stranger in their Lyft/UberX car, where I'll get a cheaper and generally better-than-Taxi experience, I'm not in any sort of rush to join a random private pilot who has not been commercially-certified by the FAA in his aircraft that isn't designed for commercial passenger transport.

Now - that all being said - that doesn't mean that Flytenow should die! There is indeed an opportunity here, and with the right safety checks and approvals, there could be a market for P2P flights. But this should be done with the FAA, not in spite of it.
Thunderbird XMPP wizard silently ignores “Force encryption” setting
The bug was reported over half a year ago, and nobody at Mozilla seems to even notice.

We can complain about the NSA and OpenSSL as much as we want; if we treat security that laxly, we won't get anywhere.
Once you become a manager your perceived technical value will be zero, regardless of your past contributions or current skill set. If you're cool with that, and have no plans to return to being "just an engineer" then go into management.

Don't do it if you ever plan to join someone else's startup.

Don't do it if you aren't a people person, or savvy with organizational politics.

Don't do it if you do not enjoy confronting people (regardless of what the confrontation is over, the entire point of being a manager is to manage confrontations in many organizations, between labor and management, between organizations, etc).

You're better off if you're in Corporate America and there's a clear management career path. If you're in startup land you're better off staying an engineer, unless you plan to retire by age 40.
Hey Jordan, ye last time we talked I mentioned how your script was a big inspiration but my rapportive projects. Glad you saw this one as well.
The btree is very immature. TreeMap is better. It demonstrates that these operations can be done fairly naturally with swaps: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcollect...
Yup it still works. I just tested it as a sanity check.
Poor / developing countries don't have the infrastructure or standards to avoid disasters so I'm sure 'we' could indirectly cause a fire or a landslide or something that overwhelms their emergency services. Nicaragua's capital has been destroyed twice in the last century by situations like that.
Here are two Rust projects I did back at the 0.8 time frame. I tried to make it more read-friendly than clever hacks. Some of the syntax might be outdated since Rust has changed quickly and I didn't want to keep updating it until 1.0 is frozen.

A memcached client lib implementing both the binary protocol and text protocol, plus sharding to multiple servers. This is simpler in scope.
https://github.com/williamw520/rustymem

A gzip implementation and deflate implementation. This is more complicate in scope.
https://github.com/williamw520/rustyzip
Yes still working
The price volatility in the power market makes bitcoin seem downright boring.
I am tunisian in fact !
Generative Experiment, Node + processing + gmaps
Ask HN: What does it take to make a successful submission on Product Hunt?
I have submitted my product Social Crawlytics (https://www.socialcrawlytics.com) to PH a couple of times now but have never made it.

What does it take to make a successful submission?

Really frustrating to see a similar product on there and its nowhere as good as what we do.
I like that you can choose the starting time directly in the video. But I'd like to choose the finishing time in the video too. (I wouldn't remove the option to choose starting point+lenght).
http://pwdr.github.io/ <- this nice and cheap DIY 3d printer can print on powder sugar, gypsum and other powders.
Hah. I got to 896 using a broken laptop trackpad. When I discovered left and right arrow keys, I started averaging 30 because I kept on tapping the wrong direction.
One of the funniest memories I had of grading undergrad elec labs was from the course for nonmajors:

"It turns out that opamps are not actually shaped like triangles. :("
What is the frequency that they asked the question and did they weigh their response to heavily? It would be useful if they could count in the variation of how people perceive their lives. If it is based on just a few responses, then this graph would just be a snapshot rather than a general trend indicator.
I remember that video and the trailer for "Rob Roy" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-2kzujLA8 ) being on there and remember watching both with amazement numerous times at how smooth the video was and how many colors it had (coming from the mostly 256-color Windows 3.1/DOS days).
Happy 21st Birthday Debian
X86 Internals for Fun and Profit [video]
How exactly do I quantify my productivity? I like the workflow better. It works better for me, and apparently it works better for the parent poster. What's it to you?
Recent reports of three-sided Note 4 unlikely to be true
How is attaching a gif any different than attaching a webm?
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree and something we were trying to work on.

One thing that's difficult is choosing the finishing time on the video. For example if it's 5 seconds or something, the two end points are really close.

What do you think about beta.gifyoutube.com? It's a little different mechanics for choosing start time (which I'm not the best fan of), but maybe it's a little easier for end time.

I'm actually not really sure on this. We were going to try some A|B testing but the beta GYT isn't 100% ready
Plants, parasites may communicate using messenger RNA
On page 67, "According to the binomial theorem," ...

What follows on the right hand side, I'm not sure where that came from.

According wikipedia: (1+x)^n = \sum_{k=0}^n {n \choose k}x^k. If you plug in 1/2 for n, you get a sum from n=0 to n=1/2, not n=0 to n=infinity as in the paper. So, this is confusing :)
Cool project! Kind of an unfortunate name.
Yes. But can you activate a volcano with a (big) digger? Or this danger is only FUD.
This article could've stood to have fewer empty quotes from a podunk mayor and some kind of an explanation of the contracts themselves instead. There's just "congestion = profit" repeated over and over again, presumably as some kind of dog whistle to the average NYT reader.
Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm
Really cool but wonder how youtube's legal department will react to having youtube in the domain name let alone copyright claims.

What are you using for the queue?
I'm not that surprised. Obtaining self-sustainment is more rewarding than being exploited by serving another.

Discontent stems from being exploited, and LA, NY are clear examples of cities and areas where expectation and exploitation go hand in hand.
I really like this idea, and the precompiled lisp images made it simple to have this up and running instantly to play around with.
$80K but you're probably 1099. So, no health insurance, no workers comp. coverage, and you have to be more diligent about all your taxes/withholdings.
See also: CV Dazzle, a fashion trend designed to foil face detectors like Viola Jones (which is pretty easy to foil) or face recognition algorithms (which are all horrible wrt occlusion these days): http://cvdazzle.com/
This is really interesting. I think I know the answer. I live in Louisiana and I noticed a majority of residents grew up here, had family that grew up here, and have kids that are all growing up here and everyone knows each other, all their kids know each other,and there's very strong community values and regional pride.

So my theory is that happiness is tied to roots and community more than good economy, good education, good employment prospects, good future for your kids, low crime, and all of the other things LA isn't really strong on.

I would like to see the happiness research compared to migration statistics.
And then what.... Rock Paper Scissors for which one is correct?
Related to playboy 2nd uncle hugh
I've been given an assignement to build a UFO for playboy and playgirl ships i don't want to waste my or anybody's time with the filth i want to do the aliens UFOs machines aliances ships. Diamond coated fiber optics sorter valves cyclone intakes housing covers coliders "particle accelerators" plasma weaponry nuclear payloads for galaxy merges and comet shaped for faster flight and meneverability. flex jointed and join them not some greed filth corporations like we have. i was told they do shared work and equality and free education programs they're not as ill behaved as the creatures of earth.
Blast! I came to the comments to post nearly the same code. Thanks though, yours is slightly better. I didn't know about .css(). It would be interesting to see a pure javascript implementation.
This is awesome. Less than a minute to create this: https://www.gifyoutube.com/gif/kWm
In Kenya, the SIM card application is very important as most Telecommunication companies have important services that they offer thorugh the application. These include Mpesa, Airtel Money, YU Cash and Orange Money among other services.

The iPhone has a menu option within Settings > Phone > Sim Applications where these are displayed. I haven't seen this on other SIM cards
There are some great comments from the last time this was submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938348
To be clear, I meant "low level 100%" in the sense of outlawed bad programs. I'm quite confident that it'd still be sufficiently expressive for application level concerns—perhaps with a change of style!
Yes, I can see that. And there is also a bunch of interesting patterns to learn from.

Please understand that by no mean I want to discredit your work. Rust is a great thing, and will be amazing. However, a random programmer alone in the jungle with only the rustc and the doc will had a hard time to express whatever he likes. It will get better, I trust you. Just don't let the hype grow too fast as Rust is not ready yet, not only in features but also in accessibility.
Sorry! I don't know my Southern geography apparently, I meant Mississippi, not Alabama.
On second thought, it looks what the binomial theorem could be extended such that k (in the paper this is n) goes to infinity, though for values of k greater than n the value is zero.

I'm more intuitive than mathematical. The thing feels like taking a taylor series of a square wave.
Ah, very interesting use of the ! operator.
'Qajaq' Floats Into Scrabble Dictionary
It even successfully un-mangles the shipping label from Ode to a Shipping Label: https://www.facebook.com/cmb/posts/619241744770551:0

>>> ftfy.fix_text('L&amp;amp;Atilde;&amp;amp;sup3;pez')
'López'

Bravo!
The results of decades of the government failing to properly invest into power generation + grid:

http://i.imgur.com/L6adSdy.jpg
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Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, and Blockly
This is how I understand the stakes at the point immediately preceding the grid hiccup:

DC Energy Trading Firm: Out a sizable chunk of money. Incentive to stir trouble in the energy grid. No evidence that they did.

Power company: Has extra money from selling the contract and double incentive to spend that money in a manner that would prevent price differences between Northport and Port Jefferson.

----------------------------

CMV, but it sounds like the market is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing. DC Energy placed a bet that others were underestimating the probability of trouble between Northport and Port Jefferson. They created an incentive for other market players (especially power companies) to take action against this possibility and install backup capacity, perform preventative maintenance, or generally to do whatever a power company can do to prevent problems like the one that happened. Since these measures weren't taken DC energy now gets their payout for having "told them so." At least, that's how I understand it. If my understanding is correct it seems like everything is on the up-and-up. Consumers were victims of power companies that not only failed to anticipate the problem but didn't take the hint when trading firms offered to bet that there would be a problem.

The thing that would make this a scandal would be if it were discovered that DC Energy had, say, payed someone at the power company to "pull an Enron" and sabotage maintenance. The danger of this kind of scheme is obviously real (see: the audio clips of Enron traders giggling like kids stealing cookies (yes, really) as they ordered power plants offline in California, driving up prices by creating an artificial shortage that eventually became known as the infamous rolling blackouts). However, it doesn't look like there is any evidence that the same conflict of interest is happening here.

Is the article arguing that these markets shouldn't exist because this kind of behavior would be nearly impossible to detect, making for tremendous moral hazard? That's the only "point" I can extrapolate from its discussion. It's not an unreasonable question. I could forgive its clickbaity title if only the article itself had been clearer about its own purpose.
Some email clients support animated gifs embedded in the main email content. None that I currently use, but I do remember it as a feature in Outlook 2003.
There's some gameplay on YouTube of the 95 version for those who never played it. It's CTF on hovercars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeFEBCwXy0
Docs for pussies.
Hi,
I'm from North Africa myself, precisely from morocco. I understand you already have your bacalaureat and are having a hard time getting to an engineering school. What about the next best thing, which is University or private university? so you can get your degree at least. I know how hard it is there, especially if you are in morocco. Working on private projects on the side or on your own startup shouldn't be a problem or blocking you from getting a bachelor/master or phd degree.
Your other option is to apply for universities in europe, especially france, germany or UK.
Very nice. If this had a simple way to add timed annotations ("#ann=top,10s,18.3s,SomeText" or similar), that'd be absurdly useful.

What technology did you build this with? What do you use to decode videos and write out gifs?

Here's a useful bookmarklet to apply this to a video:
javascript:location.host="gifyoutube.com"

EDIT: are you getting hammered by traffic right now? Because I tried this on a 15 second video, and it's been processing for ten minutes.
The Washington Post previously flirted with this idea years ago. I'd be careful jumping to conclusions about Bezos' influence. On The Media did a radio segment on it (and the ethical issues it raises) in 2011: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/170064-web-links-money-maker... (click the stacked lines icon for a transcript). It's worth a listen.
Plan was to get a different domain (suggestions?) and fwd it but still have the GYT functionality

I'm not 100% sure if youtube minds. Someone from youtube actually put it on one of their videos (a button for it), and then said youtube community department were having fun and spreading it around

We don't use a 3rd party queueing software ^_^.
Really great idea. A little feedback: the huge animating background is really distracting. It also doesn't play well with click-to-play flash blockers.
Is there not a model of QM which uses quaternions probabilities? Is there a place where it breaks down?
i hate to be that guy, and without actually trying to start a flamewar or "who's better", I find it really interesting that americans are so great at marketing things, the german stuff works, but usually looks crappy. here's a CCC talk from 2011 on the topic [1]

you could observe the same thing when the ccc guys had their first gsm phones. Someone just showed up with a base station in the trunk of his car. compare that with the huge buzz that went around the same thing at defcon a couple of years ago. The defcon truck definitely looked WAY cooler.

but on topic what's actually really scary about this is that even newer smartphones would allow sim exploits to roam free. contrary to what you may think it's not just old phones.

[1] http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/Fahrplan/events/4427.en.html

EDIT: while technically not exactly the same as opensimkit here's an answer to the why question posed by jacob appelbaum. I suspect the same applies here(and it's not really a bad reason either)

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...
At first sight of man, who knows nothing about Python it uploads all pics to imgur... What kind of p2p is this?
When I heard about Flytenow, as I private pilot I could not believe they were attempting to set up a ride share market with private pilots. It is so blatantly condradictory to the spirit of the law and the common understanding of the rule among aviators, and I would certainly not want to be the lawyer trying to prove it met some obtuse letter of the law.

The bulletin board justification is also ridiculous; GA airports are out of the way and the average person does not make a trip out to see who might be flying where. How could they not have seen this coming?

Flytenow would have been much better served to encourage a more streamlined process for commercial pilots to ride share and navigate any applicable FARs be it part 135 or other. There is certainly an opportunity, not quite on Uber-terms, but there are plenty of pilots with commercial or near commercial doing crappy CFI (instruction) jobs and building time for an airline transport certificate. They will certainly welcome any new revenue or time-building scheme.

The relevant FAR regarding private pilots is here: http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&r=PART&n=14y2.0...
Don't worry about not having testimonials to start with, but give your customers a face and a story they can emphasise with. Tell them why you started the company and what you've done in your previous jobs. At the very least have a bio that says "Hi, I'm X and these are my qualifications".
Mwaha I love it. What's really cool is clicking the View on Youtube button to go back to the source video ^_^
Coming Soon: Apps for Sharing Anything
I think that's a fair hypotheses. The movement of people in and out of cities results in residents having far few bonds with their fellow human being. I think there is a decent amount of evidence that "connectedness" contributes to happiness.
I'm trying to do what they "UFO" machines crews want earth to do they the government layed all this on my table I'm not doing there dirty work. i will not upset UFOs machines aliens aliances crews with a filth porno whore ship. Yeah i know crazy like Einstein or Edison or arcamedies yeah billionaires joy i ain't like that greed tyrants table no not happening. yes i realize to build the best types is expensive and they UFOs type want me to tell USA government to have shared work load equality free education system.
I'd love to see more innovative ways of having the sugar interact with the glass. The included example in the middle of the set was really cool and shows you how unique this could be for a coffee shop or restaurant.
I'm sorry :(. That was totally me. I made sadsquidward.com and riddlydiddly.com a little while ago and just was obsessed with GIFs ahaha.

Will definitely change in the next update. I was thinking maybe a very small change just for the lols- like a cloud just drifting by
I consider myself more on the right side of the US political spectrum, but I cringe when I read comments like this from either the left or the right.
> Totally negates the value of a college degree.

Totally negates the value of some college degrees. And to be frank, it's unclear why some of those degrees exist in the first place (beyond just bringing in easy tuition money to the university while making the students feel that they are following their dreams).
From reading this article, it appears that these are not Over The Counter bets that are placed between one Investment bank with another. Rather this is a product created and sold by the grid operator NYISO in order to hedge price volatility and collect a fee.

While there is a mention of price manipulation, the article fails to clarify exactly how the prices are "manipulated" in order to favor the banks. The focus seems to be more on "bad banks" making money.
Hope you don't mind poolpool but I quoted you in a quick writeup I made of VimR.

http://tosbourn.com/vimr-first-look/
Not really, the market in North africa is tightly related to france market. In france, having a degree is almost a must. You can't hack yourself around things unless you are really very very lucky. Even career changes are looked upon badly. Example: you are an engineer and you want to switch to management, unless you have a degree in management, you will have a hard time moving up the ladder. The franco system is very very different from the Anglo-saxson system where people are more risky and hacking around the system is rewarded.
Also biggest sound system in our area for sonar the sun the UFOs got earth pegged so go build it. there's your supervision we all needed.
What's really interesting is that their printer can, apparently, do full-color prints like these:

http://the-sugar-lab.com/gallery/color-floral-single-surface...

http://the-sugar-lab.com/gallery/3d-printed-sugar-i-love-my-...

http://the-sugar-lab.com/gallery/blue-floral-single-surface-...

http://the-sugar-lab.com/gallery/3d-printed-colorful-sour-ca...
Oh yay, I'm working my way through that book so I'll look forward to reading that part.
It's funny, I didn't know Amazon acquired WP until earlier today.

I do appreciate these kinds of ads though. All due respect to Google's algorithms, but I'd rather see ads about what I'm reading about. Not something roughly based on my browser history which is usually something I was just looking at and already made a decision on. (Does anyone ever click on Google ads?)
Regarding the latter: please provide alternate content (at least a notice) for your <object> tags, for people who don't have flash. If nothing else, you might provide a <video> version, if the content is not interactive. (Then again, if the content is not interactive, you might as well only have a <video> version.)