skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single passenger, and initial versions will not be self-powered but rather towed. I already have a very close friend who pokes holes in my ideas and innovations, and I certainly don't expect most people on here to understand the short, medium, and long-term goals of my concept. The innovation is one of physics, I'm simply mentioning the tools with respect to this discussion / item being shared.

Frankly it's actually more of a proof-of-concept for a highly efficient wing design - one that only recently was discovered within the past five years. Hence, even if everybody nipping at my heels thinks it could have been done already / 10 years ago with "off the shelf" parts and such, well, you're wrong. Like I said, I'm very protective of my IP at this point and don't mind fielding this type of criticism, it's just somewhat laughable to me because there's so many disparate concepts being put together that the only person who could be this crazy and innovative is me, because it's one of those inventions that only comes from a unique mind.

There's a lot of criticism on here for the OP because they aren't going into enough detail. I'm guilty of that too. I really don't care if you feel the same, because I like making connections with other big thinkers and dreamers. Critics are a dime a dozen. Liberal arts majors with a lifetime of aviation industry experience? Much more rare.
Somewhat related: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
> In order to claim high availability you must build an AP system.

I strongly disagree. The "A" in CAP describes a system such that any single non-failing node can always make progress. That would be a nice property to have, but it's much stricter than is required for a real system.

If a distributed database is resilient to failure of a minority of nodes, it still makes sense to describe it as high-availability. And that is exactly what a consensus algorithm like Paxos or Raft gives you.
(Shrug) The bankers have no power that the government doesn't give them. Your enemy lives on Pennsylvania Avenue, not Wall Street.
I live in Boulder and love it here.

Also there's a lot of stuff in Erie and Lafayette which are both fairly close and less expensive. In a Zillow search I found some 4 bedroom houses in Lafayette with an acre in the $400k region, a 20 min drive from being in town.
I was half joking, but I also don't think that "get money out of politics" is a pragmatic approach to amending the constitution.

Maybe something like "get governance back into politics" could take the form of a constitutional amendment requiring that every citizen vote (along with mandated funding to make that convenient for every citizen).
How long until Amazon.com ordering gets integrated into this?

For the sake of convenience, I've been shifting more and more of my shopping for "basics" like razors and toilet paper to Amazon, so they have know what brands I use. Pretty soon I'm sure I would be able to have an exchange just like this with Echo:

"Alexa, can you order me more razor blades?"

"Would you like to order 10-pack Gillette Fusion ProGlide razor blades for deliver tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"Your order has been placed."

This seems like exactly what Amazon has been driving towards: lowering the friction involved in making a purchase to the point where you only need to utter two sentences at the moment you think about wanting or needing something. You don't even need to reach for you laptop or smartphone.
Seems cool!

Anyone knows if the "everything for your project must be contained within a single directory root" constraint can be tricked using symbolic links?
> Governments regularly use all of these utilities as revenue-raising 'businesses', which they consistently strip of any capital that could be used for infrastructure improvements.

Is there any evidence of this? I was unable to find anything of value in a cursory web search. I found a couple of counter-examples, such as the Enron (NYSE:ENE)
scandal of intentionally causing blackouts and brownouts.

> worst services available

In many places, e.g. DC area, electricity (PEPCO) takes a long time to be restored and is objectively bad. However, regulated utilities are bound to serve rural and otherwise unprofitable customers.

> Roads are often subsidized for truckers

How do you get your food, iPhones, and button-up shirts?

> Water is subsidized for farmers and golf courses, and this often causes everyone else to suffer droughts.

Agreed that it is suboptimal for golf courses and manufacturers (including breweries) to use disproportionate amounts of water. Farmers? Maybe if they're raising livestock or other luxury food products. Causing droughts? How?
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Jupiter JS - JavaScript Publish/Subscribe
As a person, I struggle with 3 year old voices... I think its just that they are still learning how to properly form words.
AngularJS 2.0: Crazy Like a Fox?
I could not agree more with the liberty-above-all folks - in terms of sentiment. I could not disagree more with them that the greatest threat to individual liberty is the "government" - that was true back in the day of Paul Revere maybe. But times have changed.

Nowadays the greatest threat, and a much more intelligent and subtle threat, too, is from Big Money. There's a war out there for people's minds, and we-the-people are currently losing.

Chaining up the bodies is so medieval and inefficient, so why bother, when you can chain up the minds and then the slaves will passionately defend their own chains. It's easy, too, just set up some "think tanks", or promote some newfangled ideologies that seem to promise "liberty" while in fact weaken the very defenses that support it. Problem solved.

I lived the first 2 decades of my life under communist dictatorship, so I think I know from first hand experience what freedom, or lack thereof, truly mean.
Completely agree with the whole assessment. I once requested to do the SANS course (on my company's dollar), and they declined based on cost, but offered me the CEH as an alternative.

Since it was still on their dollar I sat the course.

The syllabus was effectively "here's a bunch of FOSS hacking tools that you could use. Here's a lab manual that's a sort of 'Dummies Guide To...' a handful of them. And here's a really high level 'methodology' you might use".

Interestingly there were people on the course who had never used a non-Windows machine, or a command line before. This wasn't a problem.

I learned absolutely nothing new from the course. I could have sat the exam on the way in and got a broadly similar result as I had on the way out. I learned nothing about "hacking", I learned nothing insightful about network, computer, or application architectures, there was no discussion about protocols, shells. Nothing about the fact that "hacking" is hard work, heavy thinking, and ultimately clever exploitation of subtle problems born from deep, hard-earned, studious understanding of something.

But yeah, it's a post-nominal, and it gets me through a surprisingly high number of HR sifts, so I leave it on my CV. At no point have I ever made any suggestion to anyone in the industry that it's worth a jot, though.
I've been working on a personal webapp using cmusphinx for trigger-word detection, google for the rest of the voice recognition, wit.ai for the NLP, and google again for the voice output. Works pretty well, but would probably give most of the privacy-wary folks here a heart attack. Planning on hooking it up to a monitor mounted in a picture frame on our wall.
I would argue that makes them more friendly. You would think someone who works for SpaceX would have better sense than to administer is darknet server using his real email address though...
I live in Massachusetts and I would have surely heard about this Stalinist regime. Where are these broadband Bolsheviks?
>Cell phones are routinely used as listening devices //

Citation? I'm really interested, presumably there's a hacker convention talk or somesuch where they install a hidden service on a standard phone and upload all voice input even when the phone is off?

Clearly I use burner non-smart phones for my criminal activities (that's a joke!) so they're going to have to use other means. Obviously they can still sniff the data at the operator for phone calls.
Seems like the movie Her is not as far in the future as we may think...
These were on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View in August. They're interesting close-up, because of all the little details in the background.
OpenStack: Distribution or service?
It didn't irk me. I guess it's my video game background where boost is a ubiquitous term for increasing your velocity
Here's my favorite story of said "Big Boy Engineering":
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/

It's about fixing a short in a power transmission line. Sounds simple, right? It involves liquid nitrogen and hundreds of people with possibility of explosions or huge oil spills. That's right, the line is suspended in pressurized oil! It goes on…

I tried to find a good pull quote, and it's basically all mind-blowing pull quotes. But here:

"Every vault also has a nipple which allows sampling of the pipe oil. They said you withdraw the oil through a thick membrane with a syringe (?). This happens monthly on all feeders in the LA area. The samples are analyzed downtown by a staff of chemists who can relate the presence of things like acetylene, butane, and benzene in the oil to arcing, coronas, and so forth. Apparently the oil chemistry is a very good indicator of the health of the segments."
Code Quality as a Service
Exactly. Or, just good old fashion spy mics and cameras, perhaps placed by police, NSA, or anyone who has been shopping at the Spy Shop.
Your right about the title, i should have just gone with the storys title and left it at that.
If only it were that easy... my brother went missing in February 2009 and as of today it's still an "ongoing" investigation. I was basically blocked at every turn...

In order for to get a cellphone log or trace, the detectives on the case needs to file for a subpoena. A judge will then need to sign off on it which takes 24-48 hours. Following that, they need to submit it to the cellphone company which claims it might take a billing cycle before the data is provided since it's on the "cell towers" and it's not transmitted yet. Even then, the information is useless. It's nothing more than what you receive on your monthly billing statement.

Police has no authority to just do it since it's up to the cellphone provider.
Kinect 2 has 4 downward facing microphones:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20683610/recording-with-s...

The Echo probably has an advantage in placement as well as number, having them pointed up seems better than pointing down.
FCC Should Reject Risky, Confusing “Hybrid” Net Neutrality
The internal combustion engine has not improved much in the last few decades either. Perhaps whoever is building those things is incompetent too.

Oh wait, it's the laws of physics that have greatly diminished progress in this area...
Very interesting device. I just fear that they will lock it down' like it's the 90's and would come with no open API. And then of course the security stuff... but that's everywhere now ...
> * Boulder can force competitors for it's own broadband service to subsidize their own competitor. These are non-trivial problems to overcome.*

If it is the will of the people, it isn't a problem. Nobody has a right to operate a for-profit SP any more than they have a right to operate a for-profit water utility.
It's possible to be skeptical of the government and government agencies while at the same time thinking that the arrest of (alleged) drug traffickers is a good thing.
> Providing electrical power, sewage lines, etc.. is not very difficult compared to handling Internet traffic.

That was true in the 1990s, when I got my first job as a techie at an ISP. Things have changed since then.
Well I was in emotional, physical pain and panic like (I assume) a crack addict for a couple of weeks. It was horrid.

Then I was sitting down reading a book (Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card) and realised I'd blown 4 hours on it rather than doing any work. Rushed and grabbed the laptop and nothing was broken, on fire and no one had emailed me. Then I did a two hour coding binge. Did more on that day than any other and it has just got better and better.

Concentration has improved as has tolerance and patience. I also read a lot more because I have the time to.

I'm only posting on here because I'm waiting for compile cycles :)
I'm curious about this statement. Is there any electronic workaround for that?

"BRAKING DOWNHILL ON A FULL BATTERY WILL CAUSE BOARD SHUTDOWN since the regen will overcharge the battery. To prevent this from happening, the remote will warn you by beeping, and you’ll lose your braking power. Safely come to a stop before this happens, and ride on flats or uphill to drain the battery."
No prob. Thanks for the reply.

I still haven't been able to reproduce the error, but I added CloudFlare so it should serve a cached version of the page if the server has any hiccups.
3. Modify the hardware at the manufacturer to make it easier to snoop on without the user being aware.[1]

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/internet-privacy/sn...
Which actually activates the stream-to-NSA feature /paranoia.
A much more complete article is http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html.
Ha, oops, I guess I didn't read it closely enough. As someone who's partially colorblind, just seeing those dot patterns pisses me off... :P
Boosted rolls off the tongue far better than sv_maxspeed 1000 too.
Warning for all those with headphones on:

If you navigate to a different tab, and then come back to groovemechanics.com, the sound pops in VERY LOUDLY...it was painful and a bit scary to my eardrums.

Other than that, though, this is really cool!
False positives... But yeah they're probably rare. The real risk is that it could be hacked or national security lettered to listen permanently. The FBI has form in this regard.
Federal authorities arrest man for running a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme
> Now would it be possible not to turn every post like this into an NSA warning?

Sure, right after the need for an NSA warning on all of these things stops being necessary.
One would think that true based on the thermodynamic first principles of the Otto and Diesel cycles, but you are actually incorrect due to a number of innovations such as fuel injection, EFI, direct injection, intake design, CFD analysis, materials advances which allow higher temperature and more efficient combustion, and turbocharging.[1] In addition, I happen to work on automotive and small engines, and can assure you that engine reliability has dramatically increased over the whole span of their existence, and every interval thereof.

[1] http://www.achatespower.com/pdf/opposed_piston_renaissance.p...
"Hal" would be an excellent name. You can name it yourself, so...
The people who don't broadcast their lives on social media are also concerned about what happens to the people who do.

Because they are not psycopaths.

well, generally speaking.
Yes. (Site is NSFW, by the way)
That fallacy says that there are instances where people believe that something they imagine to be true is actually true, or that if they don't understand how something works then it is beyond understanding.

I don't see how that means that everything we observe at all times is false.
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beautiful :')
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Milk included?
I've wondered about this before if advertising was just designed to be a big negative sum game for advertisers.

Interestingly if these same bots were capable of making real purchases and were run by ad companies this behavior may be sustainable because some people are making money. Almost like wall street.
Except not all conversions are human either. That's the "new" problem.
No where did I refute that.
The energy would need to be dissipated through a large heat sink.
I wish I had more up votes to give. This is easily the most enjoyment I've ever gotten from a HN comment.
You can generate TV signals in software on an Arduino: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/05/playing-pong-on-pair-of-candy-ca...
But... But the first law of robotics?!..
The time when you should have been worried about personhood and legislation has passed. It was when they messed with Citizens United, and gave humongous power over the political process to semi-anonymous legal fictions.

Now is the time to fix that.

> I also don't think that "get money out of politics" is a pragmatic approach to amending the constitution.

But that's the current root of all evil. Unless you pull that out of the ground, bad stuff will keep sprouting up.
FreeBSD 10 r10 stable with some ACPI frigs and dpms set up (I didn't write them down)

Windows 8.1 Pro with Lenovo power manager installed via windows update.

Dual boot.
It will break your page if you aren't sent a polyfill when you should have been. Imagine running a browser without Object.observe, spoofing an agent of one that does have it, and you aren't sent it. Suddenly data-binding doesn't work at all.
I went out for one of these roles back in the early 2000's. I even flew to Dallas on my own dime to attend a Raytheon career fair, in hopes of getting in the door at Raytheon Polar Services. The recruiters at the fair had little knowledge of these openings and I never got a call back. I had about 8 years *NIX system admin experience at the time.

Raytheon's contract expired and now support personnel are found through a variety of contractors. It's incredibly tough to get in the door at these places. I never got a single call-back from any of them back in the day, even though I was very competitive for jobs at private sector tech companies. I suspect that you have to have an inside contact or luck out and meet them at a career fair if you want to get your foot in the door.
They already have a device for that: https://fresh.amazon.com/dash

But yeah, it would make sense to integrate it with Echo as well.
> it's a speaker with extra features.
This is so true! Nice speaker with add-on capabilities, definitely a plus and will probably buy!
This is really good news for the Apache Kafka project. Having a corporate sponsor behind it will ensure that it gets the attention it deserves, and has a long term future ahead. Congratulations to the team, Kafka is an awesome piece of software.
Your doctor might reward your overactive imagination with some adderall.
Looks like we're bound to keep replying to each other "but I didn't claim that either."
This Startup Built Internal Tools to Fuel Major Growth
A Presentation on Challenges in Querying a Distributed Relational Database
I don't think it is. AFIAK that's all of the normalisation code right there. IIRC, the front page inherits from MultiReddit internally.

But if your front page is 25 links long (the default) and has 25 subreddits, I imagine adding 2 more means that you need to show 27 subreddits in 25 links, so you hit some edge-case there where things need to be laid out again.

The way this probably works is that we pick 25 subreddits at random (and cache that random choice for a while), some of which may have no qualifying submissions. So you may end up with 2 /r/funny posts, even though you had 27 subreddits for 25 links.

Or at least that's how it used to work. I know this bit has changed but I don't know what the new way is
Take all arguments that these models resemble our brain with a huge grain of salt. At best they're a metaphor.

There's one critical difference between biological neural networks and the artificial models they're talking about here: the biological neurons produce spikes when they activate, not continuously-variable activation levels.

These artificial models whitewash these features away by modelling only the neuron's firing rate and not the inter-spike timing or spike train behaviours.
My favourite Ricky Jay quote:

"magic consists of taking more pains than anyone will possibly consider worth it"

Or sane perhaps. Kind of says it all

Edit: quote from memory of a TV show some years ago - can't find it.
Yup. Exactly. Echo's promo video has this strange feeling to it. It's almost as if it's a satire (or horror) disguised as your boilerplate technology product marketing video put out by one of the well-monied firms.

I think it's because the acting and dialogue are so unbelievable, but perhaps there really are greater forces at play...
Hopefully anyone doing this in the future would be doing so only from Tails and public internet cafes
Many of the states that have legalized marijuana require that no part of that trade cross state borders (including growing it, packaging it, investing in it, etc.) (This may be true of all the states that have legalized it, but I'm not sure.)

So the Mexican cartels can neither sell the stuff they grow in Mexico in the states nor own the storefronts legally. Doesn't mean they can't do it illegally (they seem to be good at hiding their illegal activity, after all) but they can't go legit.
Good idea. I'm sure it's on the roadmap. Plus, I would use that. You're on the john and out of toilet paper. "Alexa, order my 10 rolls of Scott Brand toilet paper." Then, you just wait... Maybe the drone can even drop it through the window... Anyway, all kidding aside: I like the product, and would probably even use the ordering and I don't really see a problem with that at all.
Switch the regen output into a big-ass heatsink so as to burn off the energy? Put actual brakes in there for this sort of situation?

Nightmare situation for a SF resident who lives on top of one of the crazy steep hills, charges his board at night and is just about to head to work...
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The technology - shooting lasers into the eye to focus an image on the retina - has been around for a while.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3265255

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/research/vrd/

I think it's languishing in patent-encumbered hell at the moment. There used to be videos showing soldiers using it as a HUD-style visual aid.
$52K/yr. That's really crap pay, especially when you consider that it's a contractor job with a 12-month option-to-renew.
What Daniel Steigerwald would recommend instead of Angular.js
It's an interesting video for other reasons, but at 1:47 here Binney mentions it:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001733041/the-pro...

Here's another article about real-world use:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3522137.stm
Buahahahaha - Brilliant! Thank you Siri!
Posting because I found it interesting. Still forming opinions myself.
See also: Sales Pitch By Philip K. Dick, 1954:

http://www.american-buddha.com/dick.phildickreader.14.htm
system_header {
name: "gnuradio"
name_type: DIRECTORY
cflag: "-I/usr/local/include/gnuradio"
}

system_header {
name: "microhttpd.h"
ldflag: "-lmicrohttpd"
}

system_header {
name: "mysql/mysql.h"
ldflag: "-L/usr/lib64/mysql"
ldflag: "-lmysqlclient"
}

Let's see... hard-coded absolute paths, compiler-specific flags... Yeah I'll stick with QBS and wait for proper modules.
Talky Tina it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Doll_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Shame it doesn't actually cache the images. Really interested to see what this one looks like.
Hearing about someone get so into a arguably esoteric subject and really expand the knowledge base is inspiring.
The sad part is that the authorities are just as bad in SA.
I also have this problem and I don't even use Ghostery. Just plain vanilla Firefox 32.0.3 on Windows 7 with Cookie Monster and AdBlock Plus.

Went so far as to allow cookies because that fouls up a lot of sites and this looks really interesting, but still no dice. I'll see if updating to 33.0.2 helps.

EDIT: Nope. Clicking any button still has no effect.
Radio telescope sees signs of planet formation around another star