skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. My take on it is slightly different: it feels like a necessary condition of economic progress is that you trust that you will get to keep the fruits of your labours.

The way this happened in our history (I'm assuming that it's not the only way) is through institutions like The Old Bailey and the codification of laws and the visibility into the not always completely fair, but always getting fairer, application of those laws that they provided.
"If they added battery packs which the Nixie could recharge from to compensate then it kind of defeats the point of it being wearable and so portable."

Would depend on how it's done, of course, but just because something is able to use battery packs doesn't force me to carry them with me all the time. Just having some I could keep in a car to replace quickly while 'out' would be sufficient for some (many?) use cases.
For climbers and maybe surfers(water proof ?) this might be handy...

Sometimes it's not about planning... When climbing for example it's really hard to take decent pictures, because it's hard to go to the places where the picture would look good.

Their focus should probably be more like sports than "friends in the park"

I also think they will face some serious issues with making this thing work and I don't know how big the market is.

But I would really consider buying one if they made this thing work.
I'd love to understand the declining subscription rate more fully. I know that for me, though I am a The Magazine subscriber, and enjoyed the writing immensely, it never even had the mindshare that a paper magazine had. Maybe it was because it didn't require that I pick it up from the mail each issue and at least see the cover, maybe flip through it. I also don't ever just happen to see it lying around the house and pick it up to read. I have to intentionally go looking for it. And notifications feel very different, very intrusive and not serendipitous at all. Not sure what the solution is, just my observations.
Well that's certainly interesting. I was about to say, it reminds me strongly of a zeta function, in a way. But it turns out Dedekind's eta function was what I was thinking of [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_eta_function#mediavie...
Any roadmap for HTTP2 support?
It's useful to mention that Nixie was an entry to Intel's "Make it Wearable" competition. Intel is pushing some new processors, in particular focusing on wearables. Nixie won some money from Intel for their proposed design.
Strictly speaking, I think almost no extant languages, and certainly no mainstream ones, use pure HM, but many take it as a starting point. Certainly, HM has no notion of ML modules, or type classes, or record types, or lifetimes. Nevertheless many languages using those things use HM as a starting point.

I'm curious (and a bit skeptical) of your claim that the scheme is "drastically simpler" than HM. HM is a beautifully simple design, which can be expressed (abstractly) in just a couple of lines.
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I think the fundamental problem is that Android permissions (and privilege controls for most other platforms) are far too coarsely-grained.

I'm perfectly happy to allow an app to save files to a specific named folder on my device. I'm perfectly happy to grant access to my camera when specifically prompted for barcode scanning or what have you. I'm happy to allow an app to check whether I'm on 3G or Wifi to save on data costs. Android permissions are currently far too binary. Permissions need to be more specific and explicit, atomised down to the finest possible gradations; The permissions dialog needs to clearly explain precisely what is being accessed, with extra resources available to help the user understand the privacy and security implications.

This frustrates me both as a developer and as a user. As a user, I avoid all sorts of apps that are probably requesting permissions for good reason, but that I don't really trust. As a developer, I find myself leaving out potentially useful features so that I don't present the user with a laundry-list of permissions.

I fastidiously explain exactly why my apps require permissions in the app description, but I shouldn't need to and my users shouldn't need to trust me - I should be able to specify the exact subset of functionality needed by my app and my users should be able to grant me that and only that.

Users should be able to reject or falsify any API request at will, and the SDK should be designed around this; Appropriate and flexible exception handling for API calls should be mandatory, with UI to alert the user if functionality is unavailable or unreliable due to their privacy settings, and with the option to allow specific access on a case-by-case basis.

As an industry, we need to look past our short-term lust for analytics data and ad impressions, and think about the future of computing. I think we are grossly underestimating the importance and urgency of user trust, which is hard-earned and easily lost. With the increasing ubiquity of computing and recent revelations about surveillance and leaks, we need to be making bold decisions to empower users to control their own data and devices. The future of computing is truly bleak if we cannot truthfully convince users that they are the masters of their devices and not the servants. Without decisive action, we risk a catastrophic and wholly justifiable collapse of trust that could set us back decades.
Raid?

Yes, Raid.

The article clearly mentioned "a heavily-armed K9 unit." The property owner could have easily been killed, in that situation. Why do you feel the need to describe it as a harmless "visit"?
Why would anyone install flashlight app which requires access to contacts and emails?
Frankly, I'd prefer no footage than faked footage (e.g. Myo, which showed videos of people waving their arm around with a plastic prototype while someone used a remote-control for the quadrocopter behind the camera).
This was posted on HN just recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425501

715 points and 280 comments.
They have a working development prototype, as seen in the video on this page:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/29/nixie-wearable-drone/

I presume that that's what they're shooting the video from currently...
It's impressive how many words and charts a government agency needs to use to say "listen to the dreamers once in a while".

Frankly not a very self-critical piece. It's pretty obvious why a lot of ideas get squashed - the CIA is at the core a political organization like any other, there's things that the leaders want to hear and things they don't.

You don't need a big chart and buzzwords ("hedgehog/groundhog/brown fox/red fox"), you need institutional reform and de-politicization.
Why did you choose against it?

I'm guessing the reason is cost (I think the quark chip alone is $9, + DDR3 memory + cost for BGA placements + 4 layer impedance controlled boards etc...)
> I personally don't really care if the NSA gets to look at my private documents, communications and photo's (for example)

When I hear that sort of argument/opinion, I like to reformulate it as follow:

"I personally don't really care if the NSA gets to look at/record my thoughts"

I have a hard time believing anybody would find this acceptable, and yet this is essentially the same as and a logical consequence of the original statement.
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And it was flagged off the front page far faster than it should've been. I'm glad it's back. It's an important topic.
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Thought-control was not the phrase that was used. Why bother replying if you're going to do this kind of stuff.
Depends on the nature of the reader, but for some people I have hired who were gifted coders (right out of the gate knew how to approach problems) I would often give it to them on their first day and they ate it right up.
Is chroot just using the built in command line?
The argument that I've commonly heard is twofold. One, Manning was in the Army, so lots of his actions fall under military jurisdiction, where the primary concern is not the rights of the accused.

Secondly, Manning dumped a lot of info without knowing what he dumped. Snowden knew what was in the docs he leaked, and he made sure to protect human lives.

That's what I've heard, at least. It seems to make sense to me, but I'm open to having my mind changed if you have a different perspective.
"I have nothing to hide" is a perfectly valid and reasonable response to privacy concerns.

No, it really isn't, because we're discussing government policy, something that impacts "we", not "I".

Saying that "you have nothing to hide" is at the very least tremendously selfish, because it carries the implication that policy should be made based on that stance. We're talking about what the NSA is doing to everyone, in contravention of the supreme law of the land. What one person does or does not want is a red herring and not part of the discussion.
The name was established in 1968. The relevant wiki page is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

Peter Hart (one of the three co-authors of the paper) discusses naming on the talk page, to wit:

> In response to this question about why it's called A* :
The notation is borrowed from the statistical literature. Statisticians use a hat (also called a circumflex) to indicate an estimate for a quantity, and often use a star to indicate an estimate that's optimal with respect to a stated criterion (like, say, a minimum variance criterion). When I (Peter E. Hart) was developing this algorithm and especially the theory behind it with my colleagues Nils Nilsson and Bertram Raphael, we adopted this traditional notation. We used hats to indicate estimates of heuristic functions, and went on to compare any other algorithm, call it A, with our provably-optimal (by the criterion of number of nodes expanded) A*. Hart 02:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Nixie looks super cool, but without a spec it's really hard to tell how useful it is.

How long does it fly?
How to control it (especially during a rock climbing...)?
What's it's range?
How does it land?
How to find it after landing?
Which flight controller is used?
Does it have GPS?

I am super curious of the answers.
If you think you can pinpoint secret project costs in budgets, go find the the X-37B expenditures as an example.

To date the development and missions are estimated to be around $1 trillion. You think that is visible to the public anywhere?

(and yes my previous 1 trillion reference was to the calculations, not cost)
Reminds me off my early days of discovering Unix commands. Except this was on my first job in a Bank running SCO Unix; a decidedly less forgiving environment than a University. I was the unofficial assistant sysadmin (long story) and running banner "hello"|wall in the middle of a busy day at the branch caused a fair bit of confusion. Thankfully we were a young bunch and sysadmin let me off with a somewhat stern warning.
See some huge design issues with this

Drones are not that safe unmanned yet.

Something this small will never deal with wind.

The flexible spars that form the bracelet need to be rigid to reliably transfer force from the rotors to the frame.

Battery life will be terrible
Did not know that, thanks, it's gone.
just in case it isn't clear: the 24 means "open 24 hours a day" - which is pretty exciting in a country where supermarkets are closed on sundays
Connecting via a proxy and installing a CA means this is more of a tool for a snooping parent to intercept the snapchats of their kids while they are at home, rather than a scary-looking tool for intercepting the general stream of snaps (as it is made out to be).
You make an excellent point. I might even argue the more extreme position that the goals of contemporary schooling are antithetical to rigorous thinking.
Maybe not ASICs, but definitely FPGAs.
Interception? Seems like a reasonable use to me.
I'm a bit skeptical about the success of their business model, though.
>My point is that it doesn't matter what the majority thinks, it matters what's the right thing to do.

Democracy naturally conflates the two and assumes that what the majority thinks, as expressed through their elected representatives and filtered through some of the Republican checks on raw democratic power, is synonymous with the right thing, or at least the legal thing. It does matter what the majority thinks in the US, because our system is predicated on the belief that majority thought should become law.

Maybe it's worth the risk that the majority will choose something wrong, as long as the majority is allowed to self-govern. After all, it's still government for, by, and of the people if the people codify a law that violates absolute moral expectations, but is widely believed to be the appropriate solution intrinsically.
Pretty sure they were going for a contraction of Snapchat interception.
I don't think, that such a scheme can work, when somebody else is using my laptop. Sometimes the simplest attacks are the most effective.
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Let's not act like Risen is some sort of hero. He publicly railroaded a Chinese-American nuclear scientist (playing up racial fears given tensions with China), publishing false information that led to the scientist's arrest and detainment under 59 counts of crimes against the government, most notably espionage. None of these aside from "improper handling" were found to be true.

What Obama's administration is doing to Risen is horrible, but let's make sure context is clear. Risen is not a good person.

EDIT: I should note there is really no evidence that the improper handling charge was "true." He merely pled guilty to it as part of a plea bargain, probably to appease the prosecutor.
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Who am I?

I am full stack developer with prior startup experience (sole owner, successful exit by sale, but no big figures to brag about). I have major experience working in NodeJS, AngularJS and PHP. I have worked on a lot of projects involving heavy API usage. I know how to find my way in a documentation. I know how to deploy apps on linux environments. I can work with pretty much anything (working with the stack I know will be faster, obviously). I am okay at designing. I have built some nice interfaces, but none of them are artistic.

I am very open to learning new technologies, if you already have something going on, on a different stack.

What kind of products will I prefer?

Products that involve new tech (bitcoin, etc) and would optionally allow me to open source some of the work and build up my GitHub profile.

Why am I doing this?

I have been freelancing on and off, for 5 years now and

- I have no projects to put in my portfolio.

- My public GitHub profile is almost empty.

I would like to do something about that.

Why do I have no projects to show in my portfolio?

Well, most of the work I have done is invisible. I have built scalable REST back-ends for mobile apps. I have built private web interfaces for large subscriber management systems. I recently built a product for someone working in a corporation. But the person abandoned the project citing financial issues and it was never launched out in the public.

Why is my GitHub profile empty?

I never felt the need to write something from scratch (thanks to the node community for such great modules) and I couldn’t open source any of my clients’ work.
https://github.com/thebradbain/snapception/blob/master/snapc...

Oh lordy. I wonder if they eval() arbitrary input from users as well.
Not wanting to change the way you work but the whole responsive design movement and the mobile first approach are king for web development these days. User agent sniffing was always a bad practice and thats why Chrome and friends still need to refer to themselves as Mozilla/*

If you code using responsive design, not only your site will work on mobile devices and desktop but it will also work in future aspect ratios. Lots of people were doing pixel perfect design on mobile sites for iPhone but when that iPhone 5 came in with the new resolution all those designs broke. Blackberry Passport device uses an rare 1440x1440 resolution, if you do pixel based alignment or fixed layouts you will be in trouble in all those marginal devices that together amount to a large percentage. Specially when dealing with Android devices.

So if you begin from the start using bootstrap the way it is meant to be used which is by following a responsive design paradigm then you can forgot the clunky hack that is "display desktop site".

Instead com arguing for a agent sniffing solution, we should all be coding for resolution and depth independence.

Your main issue about bootstrap and escaping mobile version is antagonist with the way it should be used. There should not be a mobile web and a desktop web. There is only one web and media queries are your friend.

If you know all this I am talking about and that would be pretty normal since I spoke nothing but common knowledge, then you know that user agent sniffing and mobile version of sites are all legacy stuff. Coding with modern practices is much easier and less trivia filled than it used to be.
The -ception suffix is typically used for nested abstraction; for example running a virtual machine within a virtual machine could be referred to as VMception. This is in reference to the 2010 movie Inception, a major device of which is the use of nested dreams, or /a dream(?: within a dream)*/.
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Yeah, that's a misuse. It should be something along the lines of "a blank within a blank".
Thanks for the feedback guys! The book is still a work in progress. It started as curriculum for the workshop I gave a couple days ago at DotGo. The plan is to continue making it awesome and to make the examples more complete.
Should I take away from the video that wolves are good for the environment or that rapid and substantial change in the relative populations of important species can have substantial impact throughout an ecosystem?

The idea that I take away from the video is less one of trophic cascade and more of the connectedness of things in biology.
Article is just b*t. There is zero criticism, zero data, just naive adoration. It is sad to see something like that on NY Times.

My friend worked in Netherlands for 6 years. He lost 20% of his salary, he will get ZERO, because he is not local resident.
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The financier is Miami-Dade County. Looks like the idea is to encourage new startups in the city.
I wish I knew why they couldn't just send 2 officers to knock on the door and ask, if the home owner refused then bring in a task force. US Police get more money when they send in a force than just one or two officers.

That was a semi-raid, because they didn't break down his door and force him to the ground while ransacking his house.

Still a raid yes.
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Typically for short command line options, I've noticed that if I stick with the first character of the word that immediately comes to my mind while contemplating, I'm able to recall it much easier and even after a longer time. Maybe something to do with how my brain is wired so sticking to the natural instinct results in repeatable results. If the option takes the last <n> lines from the file, "tail" immediately resonates so "-t" makes more sense and sticks to memory longer. Of course, with increasing no. of options, this strategy becomes less reliable.
Snapchat's supposed valuation at $10b while they appear to be completely inattentive to the security of their product is hard to reconcile.
This was right around the peak of CS degrees awarded to women: 37% in 1984.
I read that book. It was very enlightening to say the least.

That being said, my view is in line with the book: cautiously optimistic.

I believe that the domestication of mankind will continue, but that isn't inevitable. Maybe in the future, the trend will reverse. It's up to us and our responsibility to ensure that doesn't happen and to accelerate the trend of less violence over time.
As the developer, I was going for combining "Snapchat" with "Interception", and "Snapception" was the result. I wasn't even thinking of Inception at the time, an oversight on my part.
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"interception", not "inception".
amazing why? so you can have that sweet sweet compatibility with Windows 3.11? or access to cutting edge BCD opcodes?
maybe its the price point of 4x faster ARM SoCs? or 1Wat at idle when connected to a network?
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What's also really sad is that the FTC is actually on their case, but they're evidently in no capacity to throw their weight around enough to put a stop to this.
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I don't understand the title. Humans are constraint solvers (I have personal experience in this), although they are not fast at it, so humans also use constraint solvers.

If you don't have a constraint solver in your layout engine, you had better be a good one yourself, because somebody has to do it.
The Economist looked at pensions systems back in April 2011 and praised the way Netherlands run theirs. It's not just putting lots of money in, it's also keeping a lid on promises: if there is significant inflation, the retirees will have to share the pain.
At the end of the promo video the suggestions to watch next are unfortunate.

http://i.imgur.com/21olI3n.jpg (NSFW)
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I don't think there is a single way to do layout that is perfect for all needs. Both CSS style layout and Autolayout work well for many cases and fail miserably for others.
Should you design a pension system for the people retiring there, or the half of percent of people who are visitors?
Having access to private data (implementation details) is another reason to have a member function.

Unless you're a fan of `friend` keyword ;)
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Snowden was careful and calculating with what he leaked. Manning just grabbed everything she could and released it without regard for the safety of folks involved.
Intersnaption?
you mean like this $4 dongle ?
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As others have pointed out, there is Docker which is great for this. There is also Packer[0] from the team that built Vagrant and other great tools. Packer allows you to build images for several different IaaS providers.

0 - ﻿﻿http://www.packer.io/
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For those that can't watch the video, aka tldr, the deers in Yellowstone National Park were apparently very destructive, and the harm caused by them was lessened when wolves arrived. The wolves also reduced the coyote population. Forests recovered which lead to increases in population of other species including eagles, beavers and bears, and there was less soil erosion affecting the rivers themselves.
The article seems to imply MBAs are consulting right out of business school, in other words without experience? The education is valuable, but unless consulting is very different in the "business" side of things, this sounds dangerous.