skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone gets the same luck!

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6060416,3.8762326,3a,75y,296...

The DeLorean DMC-12 is in Mountain View.
They are all either Google Street View or equivalents (Yandex in Russia for example).

The curator of this site is, I think, scouring several other websites which collect and display interesting Street Views, picking out those which are exceptional, then posting them on his own site without the location data or a source. Probably in the name of 'art'.

I know this because many of the images on 9-eyes were originally displayed on my own site, so I know where most of them are.
Currently it's Location, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, various internet accounts (Twitter, Facebook etc) and Accessibility - which is required for an app to read/control what's on screen.

A lot of game launchers (Origin, WoW at least) ask for accessibility permissions to do their anti-bot/cheating checks.
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.681...
First picture (and some others) is in Brazil. Those running are street sales people ("camelôs") running from police because they sell pirate stuff (mostly sunglasses and movie DVDs). Police sometimes do the "rapa", it is like a "sweeping" to aprehend ilegal merchandising. So the camelos run with their merchandising and come back later that or other day to the same place to keep selling.

EDIT: the cardboards they are running with are like this (this one selling CDs with MP3 music): http://i1.r7.com/data/files/2C95/948E/3959/6CE2/0139/59E6/DA...

Pretty common in every brazilian big city.
"His hedge fun is down 40 percent". Typo or clever dig?
Exact same suits being worn here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine#mediaviewer/File:Hype...
Are you referring to the Venona intercepts? Those were from WWII, not the 1950s, weren't they?
I agree completely, which is what I did with my own binding library (which is supposedly going to be open-sourced in early 2015). The templating language is HTML (which can be viewed and styled normally) with a few custom data- attributes, the logic is Javascript. No extra silly half-assed languages to learn (aren't HTML, CSS, and Javascript enough?). The entire library is under 7kB minified (less gzipped) and does one-way (read-only) and two-way (live-updated) binding without changing the underlying object.

To bind an object to a chunk of DOM (it leverages jQuery) you simple do something like $(selector).bindomatic(object) and you're done. (If you need additional logic, you pass it on the side in an options object.)
This looks really cool.

I'm a Python developer but have a little experience with audio/music processing. Is there some other software or DSL that can manipulate audio files with a high-level syntax like this?
There are Street View images that wasn't taken by the Street View car, for example inside airports:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/26/5147124/google-street-vie...

Also: Treks Journey beyond the road:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/street...

and you can expect even more wired angles:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/travel/google-street-view-...
Nothing happened. Educational achievement remains largely heritable.

GCSE scores were obtained for 13,306 twins at age 16, whom we also assessed contemporaneously on 83 scales that were condensed to nine broad psychological domains, including intelligence, self-efficacy, personality, well-being, and behavior problems. The mean of GCSE core subjects (English, mathematics, science) is more heritable (62%) than the nine predictor domains (35–58%). Each of the domains correlates significantly with GCSE results, and these correlations are largely mediated genetically. The main finding is that, although intelligence accounts for more of the heritability of GCSE than any other single domain, the other domains collectively account for about as much GCSE heritability as intelligence. Together with intelligence, these domains account for 75% of the heritability of GCSE. We conclude that the high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence.[1]

Even a major educational reform is just tinkering around the edges. Of course, people don't want to hear that so politicians will lie and give us exactly what we want. In this case, illusion that school matters a lot and they can significantly improve it. When it inevitably fails, we will blame them and hang our hopes on a different curriculum, "focusing on growth," getting ivy grads into teaching, or maybe just game the stats to tell ourselves it worked.

Next up, all new episode of democracy in the Middle East.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/02/1408777111
Crazyflie – A flying SDK
Thats not a web server, its doing packet processing, which is a different problem. You could connect a web server to it, but that is not a benchmark of that.
Even drug lords are innocent until proven guilty. Or are supposed to be, anyway. Except for treason, the Constitution doesn't distinguish between offenses charged.
> I'm actually wondering why would people spend money on a chromebook - the hardware is crap and the price isn't that great.

Battery life. Most Chromebooks get good to great battery life and in my opinion good battery life is a requirement on any laptop; no matter how cheap.

My experience with low-end Windows laptops is that the battery life is usually atrocious. 2-3 hours on my last one. If I want to be plugged in all the time I'll buy a desktop.
First off, there's probably nothing particularly new or exciting about their "patented biochemistry". Amplifying miRNA and sRNA is relatively easy and takes very little time and is something we've been doing for decades -- polymerases can PCR the entirely of one in 0.5-2 seconds and that "as little as 60mins" claim is a result of this and by no means revolutionary. They're essentially doing qRT-PCR in a plate, which would cost me ~$50-80 to do in my lab. This is another case of the patent office being out of their depth and granting patents to anything that sounds magical but believable to a layperson.

Plus I don't need yet another company improperly mining heath data.

On top of that, doesn't anyone else think this is a bad idea to try to test everyone for low incidence diseases? miRNA and sRNAs are OK markers for disease, not great and certainly not definitive. You're guaranteeing that most of your positives are false positives.
> should a near-perfect version just be frozen for competitive play?

This. Balancing the game is hard work and it took Blizz many years and patches go get it right.
This is pretty much literally what "accountability" means. When you say you want an "accountable" government or support politicians who talk about "accountability," measuring things and then firing people or cutting funding based on those measurements is exactly what you're asking for.

Accountability is maybe the solution if the problem is laziness. If your problem is anything else, greater accountability won't solve anything.
It depends on many variables that we don't know from you. Things like how many current clients you work with, your rate, which countries you plan on going to, if you want to travel like a baller or as cheap as possible, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative
> It takes a simple & stateless text-mode protocol and converts it into a binary & state-full mess.

That seems better than the current situation, which often ends up doing the exact same thing, but in an ad-hoc way that gets reimplemented every time.
Coursera is down
Good point. This has me thinking more about the root of the problem. It seems like the justification they use most of the time is related to drugs. Perhaps asset forfeiture is a another example of how the war on drugs undermines our civil liberties, and yet not even John Oliver has framed it that way.
It reminds me of VirtualDub's scripting language, which is meant for videos but could do audio, if I recall correctly. It's been about half a decade since I used it, though...
I only understood the first part, but representing an AST as an interpreter is interesting. Does this require a functional-style language or could a similar thing be done in, say, Java?
Traceur is more complete. ESNext requires less overhead. For most Traceur features, if you want to run it in a browser, requires a rather large runtime.

ESNext is more modular. You can use just some features which may or may not require a runtime. It just depends. Overall Traceur is "better". But ESNext is nice if you just want feature X and don't want the overhead of having to support everything.
Once Again SnapChat User Accounts Hacked and Photos Leaked
Yeah... the following (which I assume that you're referring to)

> > Re #19, we understand that this was an undesirable decision for some users, but we sometimes need to make a product decision like this. Chrome and Chrome OS strive for simplicity. Every feature comes with complexity. Complexity adds maintenance cost, QA cost, slows down development, and adds surface of security exploits (as mentioned in #12). We should add a feature only if its benefit clearly outweighs its cost, but this particular feature was slipped in for some historical reason.

Sounds reasonable enough. But it could be used to justify pretty much anything.
Interesting, I would like to see how non-tech users evaluate the user experience of this.
>Ads have a lot of JS these days.

A lot of the ad JS I see is in the form of inline script tags, which generally should not block anything (the JS usually asynchronously constructs another script tag, which shouldn't impact performance).

>Try it, the change can be dramatic.

I've been using AdBlock Plus, and now uBlock, for at least 8 years. So I'm definitely not arguing against it.

It's just that in theory, an ad tracker (like a 1 pixel image) does not necessarily have to impact performance. Also note that some ad blockers add performance overhead themselves.
The hitchhiker:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=48.768...

Factory:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.681...

Injured cow:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=-23.34...

Kidnapping(?):
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=-23.63...

Convict on the run:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=-26.40...

If anyone wants the locations of others I can probably find them.
This street view photo [0] is very concerning. Any background?

[0] http://40.media.tumblr.com/b25992bbea23f4cac12d7dde172a4295/...
Press a Button, Silence Someone's Voice
My background is mostly software, but I taught myself enough electronics and mechanical engineering to be dangerous.
It is definitely viable, particularly if you're traveling in countries where the cost of living is low. The biggest problem I ran into was that it was incredibly difficult to find motivation to work while traveling.

Traveling is fundamentally about meeting new people and getting outside of your comfort zone while experiencing a new culture. If you haven't done long-term travel before and particularly if you're staying in hostels, there will always be things to do and new people to meet. You're having the time of your life -- the last thing you will want to do is pick up your laptop and start coding.
Playing devil's advocate: in a perfect world with perfect schooling for everyone, wouldn't you expect a very high level of heritability due to the fact that this is the only source of inequality left?

That's like cancer becoming the primary cause of death - not because cancer is getting more dangerous, but because other, competing causes are eliminated.
This is good advice. The other point I'd make is: when you do start the travelling, ease into it so you get comfortable working from a foreign country, dealing with cell roaming, WiFi, local postal system, co-location spaces etc etc. By ease into it, I mean start with 1 month in a super-backpacker-friendly place like Chiang Mai Thailand, Quito Ecuador, Antigua Guatemala. That approach will massively reduce the stress of starting out.
The story of Stronzo Bestiale and other scientific jokes
That statement was made tongue in cheek, mostly to illustrate that 1) police are only protecting and and serving themselves when seizing our stuff and 2) removing the incentive would help reduce the problem (along with other points made by you and AnthonyMouse).
My understanding is that Duncan told the ER staff that he had helped to treat a malaria patient. At the time of his first visit to the hospital, he didn't know, himself, that he had been exposed to Ebola.

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good race-card rant.
What do professional music producers and mixers use? I imagine GUI-type mixing software is still the most popular, but I feel like there must be some experimental musicians out there producing music by fuzzing different parameters in some kind of scripting or configuration language.

If there actually aren't, I kind of feel like there should be.
Hey just gonna "tell it like it is"

There is already an army of unpaid critics working around the clock on HN and Reddit.
Thanks for taking the time to run that test. It is an extremely impressive result if it truly is lossless. I'd love to be able to independently verify it, so if you ever get a Linux compressor/decompressor, feel free to get in touch with me (contact info is in my profile).

If you're looking for another challenge, HEVC content can be found here: http://www.elecard.com/en/download/videos.html
Nonprofits can be acquired too (maybe not the org itself, but everything including staff¹). The reason most don't is because the people who run it are usually not interested, but you can get the same result with a for-profit company. Just don't let VCs invest :)

¹ http://www.citylab.com/commute/2013/05/what-happens-when-non...
Wouldn't the justification in the case of the flashlight be that they need to mine the data to keep the app free, which would at least be honest. Though gutting misleading apps from the store would be difficult.

I'm concerned more with the problems an app with a legitimate use for the data might have when the user tries a certain feature and it doesn't work properly or worse causes a problem by doing some important operation with the junk data.
Nice effort, but collaboration demands more - much more. I'd suggest play around with Asana, Trello a little more if you've not done already to gain insights on other aspects of collaboration.

All th best
Any relationship to G-WAN[g]? I can't see any mention of it in the readme, or on the web page (perhaps I didn't look hard enough) -- but there appears to be some resemblance? (Use as a C web framework work-a-like, fast webserver etc)?

[g]http://gwan.com/
I buy my meter based on how much the strips cost, not on features. My grocery store pharmacy sells a cheap meter that uses cheap strips.

I think personal meters are only expected to be accurate +/- 20% anyway.

Edit: I'm Type 2, I have it easy.
> discredited free-market economics

This is the problem with what Salon has become. Little digs like that that are not citaed, vague, and just loaded with the author's biases. I don't remember any part of Atlas Shrugged where death match style, internal bickering was promoted as a management style.

Whatever opinions you hold of Rand and Libertarianism, this was a pretty poorly written article.
stop being afraid of the future, this is experimental technology, and one day it will be the present, and normal. a vulnerability is not fixed till it's patched, if you tried to access /etc/foo, A3 will recognized you don't have access and block it, but if you have access to /usr/bin then it won't block it, an attacker then can craft an exploit to only use what they know you have access to, say netcat in /usr/bin or wget to get a shell and carefully try to bypass your other security layers.
That's correct. Despite what most people believe, US laws don't apply outside the US.
Seriously: I was reading through the whole bug and finding the conversation (both complaints and responses) to be quite informative until I hit 100 posts of angry lunatics with nothing to contribute and often a misunderstanding of the issue in the first place.
Before clicking the links I assumed it referred to the end of a faggot (the kind used for kindling).
My first visit to Sears was the Oakland store mentioned in the article, about a year ago. It was close to our hotel so I thought I'd check it out. Stayed for about 2 minutes, it resembled something between a squat and a jumble sale.
Flash Superhero(Barry Allen) Logo Using CSS
Interesting that GCSE is used as the example (GCSE is the UK exam), when I took my GCSEs (quite a while ago I admit) students were placed into different sets based on ability. Lower sets took exams covering a smaller amount of material and had a maximum grade of a C. Are students seperated by ability in the US?
There are a lot of failed Kickstarters with the same idea of "pay me to travel and you will see where I went", and I think it's normal that they fail: it's just a better class of begging for - let's call it as it is - your vacation. Unless you're already very well known (mostly by chance, see Matt Harding[1]) and you want to continue a project, or you are a hugely charismatic person with really really great ideas, the chances to get the funding of your vacation through Kickstarter are slim.

I'm not the only one who thinks like this[2]. Maybe there are more who think otherwise, but I would not bet on it.

[1] http://www.wherethehellismatt.com

[2] http://gadling.com/2013/04/25/your-kickstarter-vacation-my-m...
I'd say it works best if you're a project manager, and have a few others working steady (and longer) hours that you can bill out. Also a well established set of clients is a must. I did this while in SE Asia and Nepal for months at a time and my trips were all cash positive.
You can run TCP inside a TCP connection, but your bandwidth throttling gets a bit strange. Your inner TCP sees delays instead of packet losses and that isn't how TCP is built to throttle.

As a practical matter, the percentage of customers who will put up a VPN to use your service is vanishingly small.
Apart from sharing the "wan" suffix and choice of language, there's no relationship whatsoever.
I'd say it works best if you're a project manager, and have a few others working steady (and longer) hours that you can bill out. Also a well established set of clients is a must. I did this while in SE Asia and Nepal for months at a time and my trips were all cash positive, and didn't require too much of my time working.
Todd Motto's angular style guide [1] has been one of the most helpful to me. It's always good to read multiple style guides and cherry-pick what works best for you :)

[1]: https://github.com/toddmotto/angularjs-styleguide
I'm doing it now, and unfortunately I can't really tell you how easy it easy to get a job because I was lucky enough to have an incredibly flexible and reliable long term contract fall into my lap. I'm making less than I would like, but my hours and methods are flexible.

If you can find a good client relationship I would fully recommend it; however, I think it would be pretty rough doing it scrounging on E-lance. It would put a good strain on the joy that is traveling.
I'm doing in now. Unfortunately I can't really tell you how easy it easy to get job because I was lucky enough to have an incredibly flexible and reliable long term contract fall into y lap. I'm making less than I would like, but my hours and methods are flexible.
The echo chamber – ranting after startup school
Naah, I wont live 100 years. Would be interesting though if you could pull up some life expectancy statistics from public data (WHO has it I guess or World Bank) based on region and incorporate that in the diagram.
:)
>It's not even something consumers see, it's a driver for crying out loud. It doesn't even make sense to remove it for "product simplicity" as they are claiming now.

I may be confused, but isn't the discussion about removing support in the files app UI (while actual ext support remains in the console)? That would mean the exact opposite of what you're saying: it's a UI change, not a driver change.
The ethics are interesting, too. Does the Google driver have an obligation to stop and render aid when someone is being mugged, beaten up, or shoved into a car trunk?

Or does the Prime Directive apply? Are you just supposed to drive the car, and having driven by, drive on?
Use it or lose it, it happens to the best of us. There is only so much I can remember at one time, I don't even worry about it, so long as I can find a way to look it up. I wish I had a photographic memory. Knowing that I don't, I don't obsess about remembering the details only the high level over view of things.
There are many DSLs for music! Here are a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_programming_language

Many of which are inspired by or even directly based on Max Matthew's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N
Yeah, in a world with perfect schooling... but either way that means there is little room for improvement.
Hawking radiation mimicked in the lab
I think this could be a very elegant solution.
How is this any materially different than the "I always forget my password and I always use the forgot password link"? I guess you don't have to pick a new password each time? But you could just rapidly type in gibberish and achieve nearly the same effect, no real password, login via email.
So long as you understand that you won't work hard any less, but will probably work harder, then it's viable. Most times I see people wanting to freelance while travelling they also equate it with "easy work" and being able to work 4 hours a week. Yeah, that's going to be rough. You can freelance, travel, but you might have to work 60 intense hours a week. Most people are not sufficiently motivated to work hard when answering to themselves. How motivated are you?
I like this idea a lot, but given the centralization of authority to a user's email account, I do think it requires beefed up security for however the user accesses their email---i.e., would be great to allow this only for users who have 2FA enabled on their webmail, although I have no idea how you'd check or enforce that.

Actually, the "lost password" flow already assumes email as a single point of failure, so I suppose my 2FA comment is moot (in other words, we should be pushing for 2FA for accounts regardless of their password approach on other accounts).
I remember this idea from a while back, and I still think it's not going to work. It's too cumbersome to have to access your email every time you want to log into something. I love the creativity of the solution, but I just don't think it's workable on a large scale.
Mountain View? That link takes me to France!
This makes a lot of sense. On every device you would use to login to some kind of service, you already have access to your primary email. Clicking a link is easier than typing your password. It also seems to be safer. Your account is safe as long as your primary email is not compromised, in which case the attacker would gain access to your account by Forgot Password anyway.
It's also not relevant for non-diabetecs. But for Type 1s who would benefit, it's huge, like having injectable insulin available at all.
We discussed an earlier article by this author once before on Hacker News, which I recall submitting. I was actually embarrassed after submitting the article to find out that the author pushes his guesses beyond what current research shows and that scientists who work on the same problems mostly don't endorse his conclusions. You'll note, as I should have noted last time, that this New York Times column is an OPINION column, not a reporter's article about established facts. If you read this opinion piece the same way that Malcolm Gladwell encourages his readers to read his essays (as a prompt for further thinking, not claiming that he has the last word), then maybe no harm, no foul, but please be wary of making important health decisions for yourself without gathering second opinions on ideas like this.