skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an aviator, but I was under the impression that commercial flights fly on auto-pilot for 99% of the trip, with an exception for take-off and landing. I don't know the reasons why humans handle lift-off and touchdown though.

Still, commercial airplanes are much, much safer than cars, therefore I'd expect a push for self-driving cars to be stronger than for self-flying planes.
Cool! Or do I mean :cool: ?

From their license:

- the art (PNG and SVG images) is released under CC-BY-SA 4.0. This means it's okay for commercial and non-commercial use, as long as you include attribution ("BY"). You can also modify the images and redistribute as long as you don't change the licensing terms ("Sharealike", or SA)

- the code (PHP and javascript) libraries is GPL v2.
There is a discussion forum specifically for this: http://devpressed.com/ Please check it out, and also any of the talks [1] by its founder, Greg Baugues. It's from a ruby conference, but is applicable to all developers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIa-Mc2KSk)
Dejavu: Audio fingerprinting and recognition in Python
> There is no source nor destination, it's a merge of two equivalent trees.

Let's say I have two systems in a programming project. On one of the systems, I have edited some files, but now realize I have created a bug I can't locate and I don't want to try to undo what I have done -- I just want system B to be returned to its original state, a state represented by system A, but with a minimum of file operations.

So I run a synchronization operation, and I tell the algorithm how to proceed. If I follow your philosophy --

"You're still thinking in files. There are no files, just actions. The files are a byproduct, not the things being synced."

-- then (using the default rules of two-way file synchronization), the edited files, the files I have ruined, files having newer dates than the originals, will be copied onto the original source tree, tree A, and I will lose the only remaining copies of the files' original states. If instead I delete the edited copies to avoid this, the originals will be deleted too.

So much for automatic file synchronization without the operator understanding and overseeing the process.

Your reply doesn't analyze file synchronization operations with enough depth to avoid such disasters.
... a high-end device, off-contract, for $350.

Maybe even less if you can time it right. When the Nexus 4 went on sale last year for $200 (8GB) / $250 (16GB) USD last year, I debated it for all of about 10 minutes before buying one. If the N5 goes on sale this year to clear out the inventory, I'd consider that a very good value as well.
Keep in mind that (courtesy of the (aeronautical) engineer buddy o' mine) one of the, if not the primary, costs of air conditioning is condensing water out of the air in even moderate humidity.

If you open your house to the outside at night when it is cool enough, you may be allowing moisture into the house which will cost you more during the day when the AC is running.

Note: your mileage may vary.
Apple Shoots for the Moon with Its New Apple Watch
You mean you can't post a link to http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ on HN as a submitted story?
Yes? Sort of .. is your distribution an OS? (Should the distro's source repo change every time the installer is rebuilt from new upstream packages? I don't think so)

Someone has been working on this repo for the last 22 days and they merged their changes back in #12. Possibly in response to allegations that the Node-OS project is dead.

I would expect most of the active development to be in the upstreams of this project (npm, linux kernel), it doesn't seem to be dead at any rate. Just not very fast-paced or popular.
Tomorrow's cities – what happens when lights go out?
Show HN: RebilderU – Learn with a near perfect memory
What Do the World's Top Watchmakers Think of Apple Watch?
Traffic lights aren't even necessary for autos, if all drivers are minimally aware of their surroundings. (Admittedly that situation is uncommon.) It would be extreme authoritarian overkill to use them in a bicycle-only situation. Appropriately-placed "yield" signs are quite sufficient.
But we already know the time, it's on our phones? I don't get why anyone would buy this watch apart from trendy reasons.

I bet sales will be low. Body monitoring sensors are better off hidden I rekon, then you can wear any watch, or no watch, and your phone does all the interfacing with the hidden sensors. All this should be open technology too, compatible with any phone rather than tied down to one system. It's your body after all, our data's fate shouldn't be a corporation's monopoly money.
> This is what people think "literally" means. But it is not what "literally" actually means. The common perception is false.

Whence did the "correct" definition of "literally" arise, and how does this origin differ from that of the "incorrect" definition?
Fair enough, in that case:

y = sqrt(w^2 + h^2)
Also consider that some imprisonment may be attributable to the drug war even if the crime itself is not. Crime does not inevitably lead to imprisonment, or even prosecution -- whether a crime leads to prosecution, and what kind of punishment is sought, doesn't just depend on the crime itself, or whether the prosecutor can prove it, but also on what effect the prosecutor wants to have on the potential target of prosecution.

If someone is a target of law enforcement because of the drug war, but the crime they can make stick is something other than drug-related that they wouldn't have bothered to prosecute in otherwise similar circumstances were it not for the attention given that target in the drug war, they aren't always going to say "oh well, let's not prosecute until we can gather sufficient evidence of a drug offense."
The monkey's hands are incorrect. Monkeys are not wearing a suit, so the back of their hands are generally the same color as their "sleeves".

Also the emoji used to tell your story are confusing to me at least. I had to read a few times to determine that the gun was a placeholder for 'kill' and not 'shoot' or 'gun'. I have no idea of that trophy is a substitute for a word, or just giving emphasis to the text that follows it. Why is there a monkey after the end of the first paragraph? Does it imply blindness, willful ignorance, stupidity, or monkeys in general? Perhaps it means 'doh!'. And the text is just as hard to read all the way through. I have to backtrack multiple times through a sentence to figure out what the emoji is supposed to represent, since they can have a 'literal' meaning (just the text of the word, which in itself is not so easy to determine which text is accurate), an implied meaning, an 'object' meaning and an 'action' meaning among others.
This is definitely a step in the right direction (ref: reversible) but it still looks quite fiddly. Like micro-USB. A tight tiny connection within which the plug has to be perfectly face-on to get it in.

That's one area where Apple's Lightning design doesn't get enough credit. The socket on Lightning is larger than the thing you're plugging into it, so if you're slightly misaligned no problem, and you can definitely plug it in without looking.

Micro-USB has an on-going issue with the plugs breaking when people fiddle about trying to get them into an almost identically sized socket. Seems like that is something the 3.1/USB-C standard could have attempted to solve.

Having the socket act like a funnel to guide the connector in just makes rational sense. You still get a good solid connection at the end but it is a LOT easier to plug A into B without looking.
This is similar to Yahoo's old Placemaker and a few other services out there. Extracting locations is quite tricky.

I tried "St Francis near the statue of liberty. Going to new york to see the queen." but it gave a zero results result.
Creating Web Application with Ruby Lotus
Whoever is responsible for this hacking crime robbed these actresses of a lot more than a few pictures; they were robbed of the very basic ability to control what confidential and personal information was shared publicly.

This ability never really existed--it was just harder for it to be circumvented before the 'net.
I like how when i go to their demo it gives me a javascript alert saying "XSS". C'mon guys
How do you work with current QA sites?
Polar is joining Google
Many agricultural vehicles are computer-controlled when in the field. They cost so much, however, that the additional cost of the operator's time is fairly insignificant.
You've moved your argument from "synchronization always must have a source and destination" to "certain synchronization models are not well suited to some use cases".

I certainly agree with the latter, even if it has no bearing on the former.
Thanks! So, we've benefited a lot from word-of-mouth thus far. For example, we've received referrals from friends running Baremetrics (http://baremetrics.io), HookFeed (http://hookfeed.io), and FirstOfficer (https://www.firstofficer.io) because Churn Buster is a logical progression for customers of those products who are now more aware of how much they're losing to failed payments. Our customers themselves also talk about the results they're getting in the subscription product circles they travel in.
I'm not sure I understand. Aren't most emoji included in Unicode? I mean, they're sort of black and white and poor, but they're there. What does this add other than a new library of graphics that needs to be supported and may or may not be better than the ones we see on iPhone or Android?

I guess some are missing from the Unicode set. But I'm not sure I like the art style on this one, so I wouldn't choose it either.
What are some good hardware startups to work for?
Looks like the images themselves are incorrectly cropped, so everyone should get the same clipping, whatever browser they use:

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/content/news/2014-09-11_iphone-6...
So, what is the price? I guess I could signup for the trial and see, but don't want to burden if it's not something within the budget off the bat.
Well I'm glad someone is tackling the pressing issue of online emoticons... that's a load of MY mind.
I'm sorry for being so sarcastic, unless I'm missing the point, please downvote me.
The problem is that it competes with something that I love. I have to chose one or the other and, as a watch collector/enthusiast/lover/obsessor (I seriously love watches) it will never win. Ever.
The three key lessons all seem to come down to chest-bumping with one's fellow bros after another raging all-nighter.
So many great data analysis exercises that could be run with such a set. Effectively, you could create scalar variables representing lots of different population statistics on a country, state, city, ect level.

Density: http://i.imgur.com/bfVdrbK.png

Racial Density / Clustering: http://i.imgur.com/pQDJLtX.png

Terrain / Feature Clustering: http://i.imgur.com/AH9f2KW.png

City Homogeneity: http://i.imgur.com/Lo3X6KI.png

City Racial Mixing: http://i.imgur.com/VBzLPI6.png or http://i.imgur.com/ldIgYaw.png

City Cluster Homogeneity: http://i.imgur.com/2TLabMj.png vs http://i.imgur.com/LlsAMx4.png

Cluster to nearby dot gravity (how much do dots spread from a nearby loci): http://i.imgur.com/LlsAMx4.png vs http://i.imgur.com/qNkMCcu.png

And that doesn't even cover stuff that's harder to show like gradients, edge analysis (who's likely driving between two towns?), or migration patterns if multiple census years are available.
I have 100 paying customers and this wouldn't make sense for me either - $20 a month is a significant chunk for that many customers and low subscription prices (I charge $3 a month).
You could probably secure more customers with a better landing page. It's too wordy, gramatically awkward, and there are several spelling errors ('ressource' -> 'resource'; 'recieve' -> 'receive'; 'paypal' -> 'PayPal'). The crucial 'Subscribe' button is semi-transparent, overlaid on a busy background. The menu is not 'balanced' vertically. Also, I don't particularly like the name, either; but that's just a random point-of-view.

Basically, considering that you mention the proxy industry is pretty big, your offering is just not competitive! Yet with a few simple cosmetic changes, the look (and thus the impact on first-time visitors) could be improved hugely. It might make all the difference...
Chrome OS can now run Android apps, no porting required
Warren Buffett's partner Charles Munger says it best in this interview (time linked). He's talking about wall street executives, and the envy they have over one anothers' successes, but the same applies to tech founders.

"If somebody makes a lot of money, or reports a lot of money... Let them!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6RS_PqudxU#t=1460
Show me a staging environment that's as robust as a production environment...
Epic how quickly that XSS vulnerability was fixed. Great work guys!
Are there any good online or real world assessment tools out there to identify people who may be suffering from depression / more predisposed to be depressed?
How did you find subscribers with no spending on marketing?
There's also a strong positive correlation between incidence of depression and intelligence.
I think the kinds of people who engage in gang violence or monetary crimes over drugs fit into the category of "bad, antisocial" people I mentioned. Society would have to deal with their proclivities whether or not their energies were directed towards illegal drugs or something else.
> Are you sexist if you're gay?

No more than if you are straight.
I wonder if Netflix has ever come out with some kind of, "So you want to get into chaos engineering, eh?" kind of article that explains the basics and some pitfalls/things to look out for.
App Swap Android, one swipe away from all your apps
We're very far from this being the case now, though. Humans are very good at filtering multiple inputs and coming up with a reasonable understanding of their surroundings when sensory input is limited or different form normal. Computers are still not. Yes, maybe different sensors on the car will help, but real situational awareness and adaptability is what will be hardest to program. Not something that will never happen, I'm sure, but also not as soon as some hope.
For GSM the baseband code is always closed. It is often loaded into the module. Part of a modular approval for PTCRB (as well as FCC/CE) is that the end user can't change the power and radiation profile of the device. This is one reason why the source is closed.

What you'd normally care about is the protocol to talk to that baseband. 9/10 for M2M applications it is the 3GPP AT Commands and PPP therefore you can pretty much use PPP dialer to talk to it.
Make customers say “YES” to your un-sexy advances
See byoung2, your post is [dead] just for mentioning the URL.
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This is not just a trick, it's a actually feature that the user can turn on throughout the system, look for "Zoom View":

http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/display/

This is going to be great for older users :) But it begs the question if there shouldn't be a similar feature on the iPad mini.
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Estimating the fatality of the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
At some level, it all boils down to increasing accuracy, but the point I was making was just that doing that seems right not to be best accomplished with loads of data. If you look at the deep learning work that's been big lately, you have models with millions of free parameters. By necessity, you need a lot of data in order to constrain a model that big.

Even speech recognition has gotten a big boost recently from taking a "simple model with massive data" approach.

I'm not convinced that these approaches are sufficient to give you some sort of human-level AI. I'm pessimistic on the timeframes for that in general. And I'm sure there are areas where they fail, and maybe someone else comes along with a better idea, but Apple's not working on that either.

Certainly, they could acquire their way to competency, and I'm certainly not going to chime in with the proverbial "Apple is doomed...DOOOOOOOOMED". The only thing really stopping them is interest. But it takes a while to ramp up from getting results from a research team into making those results into a product.
Small suggestion - people who have done payments before know this process is called dunning, which you don't mention at all on your site - that's going to affect your SEO potential when I'm looking for a solution to this (which almost always takes me straight to your competitor: bestunning).
...and the other 5% aren't all necessarily changing it for the better.
You missed my point, which is that, no matter which definition one chooses, a word cannot simultaneously mean what people think it means, and the opposite of what people think it means, at the same time. Even given the fluid nature of word definitions, that's not rational. That's why I choose this example over and over again, not because of what "literally" means, but because it cannot possibly mean A and not-A at the same time.

And some words have technical meanings that are contradicted by popular usage, like "theory" in science. Many people think "theory" means "hunch" -- "but it's just a theory, you know?" In science, theory has a specific meaning contradicted by the everyday understanding.

In the present case, file synchronization has a specific meaning that many people don't know. This misunderstanding causes them to lose their music collections.
Cons is your friend
A bit tangential: If you have a problem with losing customers to expired credit cards and already have a good dunning process, talk to the guys at Spreedly about their "Card on File Updater". They're a payment gateway agnostic credit card vault, but one of the services they're trialing (you have to ask to join the beta right now) is automatic updating of expired credit card numbers. They have access to the bank systems that do this automatically, so your charges continue going through without your customers having to update their numbers themselves.

https://spreedly.com/

Spreedly works with Stripe and 70+ other payment providers.
NY Times: Ignoring the Warnings for a Honeymoon in Mexico
They told us to not go to Mexico. Too dangerous: drugs, machine guns and black-masked kidnappers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/travel/ignoring-the-warnings-for-a-honeymoon-in-mexico.html
What Investors Really Look for in Founders
Inspiring read Venky! Good that your Momo store didn't took off :-)
Considering your lack of basic reading comprehension of my statements and metaphor and the repeated insults I've received in this thread and others, I feel like my opinion of cyclists is even more justified.

Please continue lecturing me and others how we should be respectful of others while calling them dangerous and demented.
Worth noting that the Orange Pippin site takes it's name from the Cox Orange Pippin variety.

The Cox is an incredible apple that seems to grow well in England.

http://www.orangepippin.com/apples/coxs-orange-pippin

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8381396/Why-Coxs-wil...

Even deep in Iris Murdoch's "The Sea, The Sea" you'll find the Cox being praised by the lead character for being a prince of apples, and putting all others in the shadows.

And very soon, it's Cox season again. What a delight.

I like apples. What a strange thing to say!
I don't know the addresses you're looking at, but it's about $20 from Mill Rd in Alexandria to DCA (I've taken the route a ton of times), which is a much shorter distance than to NE D.C. I don't know if $71 is entirely accurate, but it's definitely more than you're quoting.

EDIT: Just quoted it. It's about $42 in light traffic, about $69 in heavy traffic (from the hotel I stay in Alexandria to an address on Oglethorpe St in NE D.C.). So they're providing the worst possible fare, whereas they should probably provide the median.
I think you're misunderstanding, icehawk219 was talking about individuals owning their own self-driving cars. That's a separate question from allowing human drivers on the road.
It'd be really interesting to see one based on income now
Perhaps I should have prefaced in the original post "In the US..."
Even if you go out every Tuesday, you can't anticipate anomalous events which may impact traffic. I use Google Maps even when I'm going to a known destination, because it will tell me if there is a traffic problem on my normal route before I encounter it and enable me to route around it easily.
First set of Android apps for ChromeOS
I think the opposite situation is more common, in fact. Drug offenses are easy to prove and invoke federal jurisdiction. That makes it more likely for someone to be prosecuted and incarcerated on a drug offense when in reality they were of interest to the police for other reasons.
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> Sexual orientation and sexual preference are not the same thing, though people argue where the line is.

Probably because there isn't a line. Rich and poor aren't the same thing, either, but there isn't a line between them either.

Humans like clear binary categories (to the point of trying to force things into them) but reality often doesn't oblige by being neatly structured around them.
Yeah I agree: it seems to be a weird double edged sword. Simultaneously pushing people further, while also (in some cases) causing them to fall infinitely back.

I think the percentage of people who kill themselves versus the broader number of people who have depression is small.
I believe this is because Apple wants the logical size to correspond (roughly) with physical size. This is particularly important for user interfaces. A button needs to be sized for the human finger that is tapping it and thus should be the same physical size on each device, which in turn means it should take up a smaller percentage of the logical size of the bigger devices. The only case I know of where they broke this was the iPad mini, which has the same logical size as the larger iPad, and you may notice that everything on the iPad mini is just smaller.
This aligns with Malcolm Gladwell's article "The Talent Myth" http://gladwell.com/the-talent-myth/ which focuses on how Enron self destructed even though it was filled with "A players". Gladwell asserts that anyone can be highly productive in the right environment with appropriate supporting organization and process.
It depends on how this averages out. If on average the benefits (increased productivity leading to increased mating) outweight the drawbacks (people committing suicide), then it still might be an advantage. Evolution doesn't care about individuals, it's a statistical process.
You need a font to render the those emoji unicode characters.

This is an open source set of emoji characters which can be turned into a font file.
I agree about scavenging. It is inefficient and doesn't make much sense.. They're likely rebroadcasting but at a much much lower power level so the next hop is much closer than the first.
can't fletching be made from stiff cloth or paper?
Thank you, I prepared a new design for my newest product http://seo.skyul.com and I will implement that in the main domain as well and see how people are reacting to it.
> Cool! Or do I mean :cool: ?

I think you mean: 🆒

Though admittedly that shows up as a blank for me :(
This one works for me though: 😃

So font makers, please add all emoji to unicode fonts? Thanks!

Also, why do Emoji have flags for 10 countries but not for all the rest?
I just did this, it was thrilling, like ripping a table cloth out from under a table setting. I wish I could do that in regular jenga.
The antenna is way too small for 2.4GHz. It makes sense for higher frequency (60GHz or whatever he said in the video). You can power harvest RF waves straight up but what you absorb gives you very little to rebroadcast again.

There are others doing work on this for sensors you could embed into say a wall to give you the pressure reading of the concrete (a simple piezo say) but those usually modulate an RF wave (similar to NFC) instead of rebroadcasting.