skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot for the appreciation and feedback. I completely agree with all the points mentioned. The first issue has already been fixed.

There is no API as of now, mainly because it was developed as a client side technology. Everything happens on the user's browser. I'll consider making one though.
Alternatively, bikes. Folding bikes have been used for paratroopers and military purposes for decades. And they can go much faster than a 4 minute mile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_bicycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_infantry
exactly. I use python daily..and didn't realize it was not the snake until recently...
Google often does rolling releases.
This course was designed for students with 0 programming knowledge. While I agree Objective-C can give you a deeper understanding of coding iOS feel free to jump right into this course especially since this will be easier to follow with the current tools. Plus learning the latest thing is always more fun.
They presumably still must comply with a court order for a tap. AT&T doesn't store the contents of your telephone calls either.
> According to Bloomberg, Apple is charging banks.
> But that is coming from the fees paid to banks by
> merchants, so the thesis about this being free for
> both merchants and customers still stands.

Apple is charging the banks and the banks are charging the merchants – so it is not free … and of the Apple _and_ bank fees are of course part of the customer price.
If I were NASA, I'd pick SpaceX and Sierra Nevada and here's why:

Boeing CST100 is the most conventional of all the 3 designs. It's probably the 'safest' bet but also the most expensive to operate. This is because it still requires an Atlas or Delta rocket to launch. Atlas is likely out because its russian-sourced motors are currently out of fashion. That leaves Delta; which is the most expensive of the currently available launchers. Also, CST100 uses a traditional 'SplashDown' recovery that requires a flotilla of helicopter-capable naval ships to be on standby for every mission. This is not cheap.
That said, I'm sure it will work as-designed and will be fairly reliable. But all this comes at a cost; and IMO if NASA are smart, they can get more functionality for less money from the other providers.

Lets see: SpaceX has the advantage of using their own launchers. These were already much cheaper than Atlas and Delta, but soon we're promised that they'll be reusable. This can slash the cost by a further factor of 10 again. Such possibilities are hard to ignore.
Furthermore, the Dragon2 capsule does not require a naval recovery and can land on a simple slab of concrete anywhere you'd like.
There are other fringe benefits too... Dragon2 is re-usable, you could potentially just refuel it, put it back on another rocket and launch it again within a few days.
Also, Dragon2 uses a novel pusher-type launch-escape-system that's integrated into the capsule instead of being jettissoned on each launch. These things add up to considerable savings.
NASA would be foolish not to choose SpaceX as one of their 2 choices... Price-wise, SpaceX is probably the cheapest of the 3, however the risks are fairly high; there's a lot of new tech that needs to be proven. But the potential rewards are so high and SpaceX's track-record of acheiving their promises is so stellar, that NASA surely must give them a shot.

That leaves SierraNevada. They're kinda the wildcard in this competition. They have this wacky spaceplane that looks like it came from the 60s. If you ask any astronauts which one they'd pick, I bet they'd all say SierraNevada. Why? Astronauts are often test-pilots. Test pilots like to fly things. This is the only one that can be 'piloted' in the traditional sense of the word (with wings and surfaces).
It has several advantages: Easy and fast recovery; just land on any runway. Reusability; no need to build a new one each time. Pusher-style LES. Also, it just looks plain cool.
And it has one big disadvantage: It's designed to launch on the currently-unfashionable AtlasV rocket.
If SierraNevada can convert this thing to launch on a Delta or a Falcon, I think they'll have a good enough price advantage over CST100 to make them the 2nd-choice after SpaceX.

Having said all this... space hardware gets built on the whims of politicians. Even with the best planning, there's still a good chance that some politician will point at the pork-barrel and fuck it all up.
It worked for Amazon
There is actually a settings icon right next to the submit button. You can specify the parameters there. It could be easy to miss.
Hard to stomach? That's a curious choice of words. Do you think Google or Amazon would not do the same marketing and try to create the same kind of hype around their products if they can? You are saying you can see through the clutter but it looks more like you are biased against company that was successful in their execution.
3 seconds saved on a 200 meters run.
18 seconds saved on a 1600 meters run.
Really? I didn't get that sort of idea at all. For example, the top book, the Harry Potter series, is something that tons of people have read. I don't think I've ever encountered someone who only pretended to have read the Harry Potter series but hadn't actually. Also, among my personal friends, I haven't seen anyone post a list where I had any suspicions they hadn't actually read everything, although most of the lists I've seen posted are by my more well-read friends.

Edit: I forgot the word "everything" in "actually read everything".
Given how few books most people read, my suspicion is that this captures "10 books that you have read", more than "10 books that have stayed with you"
I'm not disagreeing with you, I don't think. I'm just pointing out that I don't think people having less kids means that they are poorer. As you pointed out, kids have gone from being profitable to being a cost, so it doesn't really matter how rich or poor people are, they will have less kids. Unless, I guess, the state heavily subsidizes, and it seems that this article is saying that the efforts thus far to increase fertility via subsidization have proved too little.

But actually, I think the general theory is that people have less kids precisely because they are richer as opposed to being poorer, since they don't need kids in order to labor on the farm and don't need kids to pay for the parents retirement.
Enterprise developers slow to embrace mobile, despite all the hoopla
my first question after reading that post as well :P
Java compatibility and NDK ...
Handful of Android apps (WeChat, KakaoTalk etc) already had this feature. It's just Hangout that was late.
Maybe not, but the six I have read (out of the top ten) were all really good in my opinion. So it seems (to me at least) that they are still good recommendations. The only one in the top 20 that I have read and not like is The Alchemist - I thought it was terrible.
VBprogrammer's post is pretty spot on.

In my experience around towered airports, I can't say I've heard "take-off" used in any radio comms I've had. In the example you've given, "departure" would be used instead of take-off as you've said. Towers are encouraged to use other terms[0], like the following:

"N1234 cleared onto the active runway" which means you're free to proceed with your take-off roll.

When you leave the airspace(at least at a class D airport), the controller will contact you with "N1234 frequency change approved", which means you either contact the next frequency planned in flight(such as flight following, or no frequency if you're just flying around in class E).

[0] http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc/atc04...
http://expeditionportal.com

http://overlandjournal.com
Fluorinated graphene
Other than chalking it up to Elon being an absurdly talented superhuman, I'd venture a guess that these industries move at a slower pace. The ground shifts every day on the web, which means day to day leadership is crucial. I'd imagine during the longer development cycles of these companies that he can tune out for extended periods of time without development going astray - especially in areas where his input isn't crucial.

Just some conjecture..
Reddit reportedly raising $50M at a $500M valuation
So excited to try this out. An Angular specific smart model layer is something I've been wanting to contribute to the community for a while. Thanks for doing much of the hard work!
Might be time to learn Swift.
Mutant butterflies found in Japan after Fukushima nuclear disaster
A guy did something similar on a snowboard and set the world speed record. http://vimeo.com/86155198
I don´t think they have published any paper, but this kind of experiments are tricky. In the setup showed in the video (n=1, not blinded[1], no control group, no crossover), I would conclude that Jetpack does not work. The time differences are small and the athlete is biased - unconsciously - to run faster with Jetpack.

[1] Blinding in this case it not easy, but they can use a JetPack that sounds like the real one, but does nothing.
Chrome, latest version. I think it may have been my internet provider since I was unable to connect to several major sites for a bit.

It's working now.
Both will work, as long as they were compiled with GCC or only provide a C/ObjC API if you want to use GCC in CLion.
Is the Internet about to get sloooooow?
What Anonymous Got Wrong in Ferguson
Three interactive visualizations made with Python and plotly
Do you recommend this course for someone who is building apps for app store with objectiveC and just want to learn Swift
Kindergarten covers children aged 3 to 6 in Germany, while school starts at 6 (with some variance allowed based on individual development). In any case, when entering school, kindergarten is a thing of the past.

School teachers prefer kids to go to kindergarten for the social and verbal skills they acquire there, but it's not mandatory.
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Inventing the LED Lightbulb
> it's 2014, not 1998?

I could say the same of Go as a language, given the disdain for all what modern languages offer.

With modern languages where library types can be treated as first class types, concurrency can be exposed via libraries.
Cool - if this is indeed faster than Jackson (and GSON), I would recommend writing a Retrofit converter (https://github.com/square/retrofit/tree/master/retrofit-conv...) so developers can just drop in ig-json-parser for use with Retrofit.
The title for this post is regrettable, but op-ed authors often don't choose their own headlines.

Despite the title, the article is well worth reading. Barbara von Schewick is one of the leading thinkers on net neutrality and understands the underlying issues better than almost anyone out there.
I wonder if they will become fashionable in part because Apple has released a smart watch, thus proving that they are not a fad. I wonder if other non apple smart watches will now become more fashionable and see increased sales too.
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11 pounds is light by military standards.
Limited to 256 colors, bloated (poor) compression, and overall terrible old legacy format.

I'd throw that image at gfycat.com faster than you can say "next slide please". Even the twitter example given -- twitter has already converted the gif to mp4. Why waste the bandwidth uploading something that's just going to get transcoded anyway?
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Greetings HN community,

A year ago, during my senior year in college I have decided to write code every single day as a way to improve my coding skills. Today, I am happy to say that I've made it to 365 days without breaking a streak.

Was it worth it? Yes, definitely! Without doing this, neither Hackathon Starter nor Satellizer.js projects would exist on GitHub today.

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The stalling was a consequence, the fundamental problem is that there's no indication that two pilots are fighting over the plane.

And that is an obvious problem. It's literally one of the first things you cover when you begin learning how to fly. The instructor will sit you down and walk through how you hand off the controls and agree who's flying the plane at any given time. Likewise, when flying with another pilot you always do a positive handoff. "You have the plane." "I have the plane." The physical link between the two sets of controls is an important backup mechanism that ensures this happens.

Not linking the two sets of controls is insane. It's unrelated to the different approaches to fly-by-wire. Taking two radically different control inputs and simply averaging them together makes no sense.
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None of those are particularly high status books. It's a mix of popular fiction, popular books children read and books assigned in high school English classes.
Note that I've done none of this, but if you're looking for "closest possible" I'd travel out to the Snoqualmie Pass area and head up something like NF-54 to Stampede Pass. Probably still too much light, but it's an hour one-way. Don't try it in the winter, and a Subaru Outback-ish vehicle would be preferred (though I saw a late-model Mustang come off Stampede Pass this past week). One of these days I'll take my R1200GS motorcycle up there in the middle of the night.

If you're looking for more dark, but more travel time, just about anything between Snoqualmie Pass and Spokane and off I-90 a ways should offer a good bit of darkness. Think US-97 toward the Canadian border: open high desert, not a lot of civilization.
Required self-promotion: If you're interested, I have produced over 12 hours of content across 106+ videos around Elixir, at http://www.elixirsips.com

I started when I was first learning Elixir. Was already a pro with Ruby and had around 3 months of Erlang experience at the time. The first video was nearly my first experience with Elixir ever. Some of the more fun projects I've built with it have included synthesizers, API clients, and websites.

The release of 1.0 gives me goosebumps. José's done great work, and always does.
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Hey Eliot,

How accessible is this for people with a CS background? Is this targeted specifically for beginners? I don't have a lot of background with iOS but have a CS background. Would prefer to go more into the nitty gritty rather than just talking about variables :)
5M Gmail Usernames, Passwords Hacked
This is all headed to one login for all your email, sms, chat, etc. Gmail, Hangouts, Voice are all converging. Communication is far more valuable from a data science (aka marketing) standpoint than "social." Who you have as a "connection" on any network is nearly meaningless now, however who you actually talk to is very valuable information. This is why (not trying to start a political discussion) NSA stores meta data about who people talk to on the phone.
This is new? I've been using Hangouts on my iPhone as the only way I make calls for over a year now...
That's different. Your spouse's and yours financial interests are most likely aligned - you are both bringing in money to one family, so most likely there are no arguments who gets how much. With friends, you and your friend are competing for the same financial pie.
Aren't these tokens used in addition to cookies?

That's how I've always implemented them (not using Rails). Basically a separate token which must be presented with cookies to perform certain actions. If the cookie identifies a valid session but the token does not pass verification you assume it's a forged request.
Have five million Gmail users been hacked?
I wondered what level this was designed for and didn't see that information at first glance (found it after seeing this comment). It might be a good idea to specify higher up on the page or under a separate header? I imagine that's information a lot of people are looking for…
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I don't know what they say, but I do now they have a systemd-shim package that you can use to emulate systemd functionality when you don't use it as the init system. And the sysvinit package hasn't been removed.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/systemd-shim
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/sysvinit-core
That was the apple ssl problem. But yes conditionals are far safer with braces then without.
Looks interesting!

It looks like they want the ships to be programmable in C#, and I'm wondering if that's going to work out for them. It doesn't seem like the right kind of language to embed within a game.

I'm not saying they have to go all bare metal like Notch was going to do with computers in 0x10c -- though I was kind of looking forward to bootstrapping a Forth environment on my spaceship -- but I would have expected a language designed for embedding such as Lua.
New Features in Rails 4.2
Yup. How would Skype fight this?
"Technically, what happened was that the virtual machine manager abandoned the event currently in progress and returned to the event dispatcher. It's the kernel-mode equivalent to swallowing exceptions in window procedures and returning to the message loop. If there was no event in progress, then the current application was terminated."

Can anybody explain how Windows 95 and beyond use a virtual machine manager? Is it just referring to the separation of kernel and user space (the virtual machine being the application/"window procedure" and the virtual machine manager watching for exceptions from kernel space)?
"Disappearing" message apps like this will obviously cut down on the volume of logged messages. However, like snapchat, I worry that it lulls users into a false sense of privacy and security -- and it is naive to think you'll always know when a screenshot is taken. And this false security may breed a cavalier / sloppy attitude in what you say and send.

As I've told my kids (and I think this applies here), do not assume that the messages either disappear, or stay private. Or that you will even know that a screenshot has been taken.

* photos of the phone can be taken

* 3rd party apps may be able to take screenshots w/o notification

* security breaches in the messaging company

* messaging company logging data even when they say they are not

* Poor app implementation / caching

* Etc.. etc...

I try to assume that my family, friends, and enemies will eventually see and read what I send.
"Orthagonal" doesn't mean "opposite to"; it more closely resembles "perpendicular" and in computing usually intends the idea of reaching a goal in discrete, composable steps rather than taking a direct--usually hacky--shortcut.
It would be good if they would better manage dependencies with those, so that if you can install the Dialer from the Store, you can also install the version of Hangouts on which it depends.
Ivy League Grade Inflation
This is great. I've written more application-specific angular data stores than I'd care to admit at this point. From what I understand, this is something that Angular 2.0 will handle better, which was enough for me to justify being too lazy to write a generic library. Thanks for doing the grunt work!
CartoDB, Interactive Mapping Startup, Raises $7M
He made a course on it over at Udacity as well if you're into videos > text
Archive.org is arguably the world's largest repository of public domain content, which is even better than CC.

You can search for CC licenses on archive.org, with a bit of effort on URL queries, https://archive.org/post/54525/search-by-license
Might be more accurate to say that it was at a standstill for years.

Yes, they release bug fixes and minor features often now... but the game is almost identical to what it was years ago.

The only really big thing I know they've done lately is make the game properly multi-threaded, and while that is a big and worthy accomplishment, that should have come years ago.
A bit of both. There is a certain shortage, but I hear that tune for 15 years or so now (that is, across two tech booms and one bust).

The difference is in the objective: Our tech lobbyists (luckily quite incompetent) would like to reduce the minimum mandatory wage for skilled immigrant workers which exists to avoid pressure on locals.

As if even lower wages make working in Germany more attractive to skilled labor that can choose between countries - including the US (where at least the gross pay is noticeably higher for skilled jobs).
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Apple Pay may have sunk Clinkle
1. Don't be a dick. (Seriously it's a bit disturbing how much work goes in to using lots of words to try to define this explicitly, only to end up with key parts being subjective anyway ("offensive" is in the eye of the beholder, etc).)

2. Don't forget that drowsy driving (say, after staying up hacking all night) is at least as dangerous as drunk driving. (And of course drowsy hacking is just silly, for much the same reason.)
What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
Schneier actually wrote bitcoin by piping /dev/random to a file of appropriate length, then decrypting it.
Google acquires Lift Labs, the maker of a self-stabilizing spoon