skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the number of people lost every day on the roads: in the US alone that's 92.

Look at the number of people who've died during space flights: 18 total; 7 from Challenger and 7 from Columbia, 3 from a decompression in a Soyuz 11 and 1 cosmonaut from a failure in a parachute system.

More people die during the "safe" operation of tested equipment like cars, trains, boats, planes and helicopters.

The biggest issue in space flight is the inbetween. You're strapping yourself to a rocket that with a very small flaw turns into a bomb, or you're hitting the atmosphere at upwards of Mach 10 and expected to stop in what amounts to about 10m of water (that's the rough measure used for meteorite impacts).

By the realities, space flight is extremely safe because we do take so many precautions.
Microsoft integrating with competitor's products, this sounds news to me.
A really good move, for both companies.
> Google does take a copy of all rights pertinent to the work.

A limited copy, only for use in "operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

In other words, you agree to let everything you upload to Google be used for testing.

Anyone who's alienated by this shouldn't be putting content on non-owned servers in the first place. "The Cloud" isn't for your secret documents, it's for your family photos.
PHP Return Type Hinting Is Passing?
The article references a paper from 1980 called "On Understanding Laws, Evolution, and Conservation in the Large-Program Life Cycle". I just skimmed it - incredible insights that continue to be relevant.
If it's a Mac create a separate desktop instance, one work related the other personal.
> For example, they can be used for duplicate detection across a large data set.

And that's how my colleague sees the photos of some unknown woman in his Dropbox (and supposedly, she sees his pictures too).
I'd never heard of him before this morning, but this style of overly-polished TV production is common in the US as well. One of the things that irritates me about it is that they expend significant budgets on presenting and dramatizing quite basic things in science (which is a good thing) but all this experiential/eye-candy stuff comes at the expense of covering less material.
Microsoft Band Second Impressions
Would you recommend any course/site/tutorials/resources etc. for learning Swift?

P.S. Nice game!
Onedrive is deep in Office. Latest version defaults to trying to get you to save on your OneDrive
I'm with you. I think Occam's razor trumps a discomfort over the scale of the multiverse. The latter is just a failure of imagination.
Absolutely ... this wasn't an entirely new "invention," although Apple's technique of cramming their metadata in the spec is definitely novel, although nonstandard.
P.S. - I never had to deal with 8-bit machines, but spent plenty of time on 16-bit machines. 32 bits is a big address space, despite Microsoft having pissed all of it (and a CPU core) away just to load the OS, leaving little-to-nothing for actual work.
More info/docs here: https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/

I'm on the Kubernetes/GKE team and happy to answer any questions you all might have.

We also all hang out on IRC at #google-containers on freenode.
Launch your cremated remains into space
This looks interesting. Coincidentally I was just searching around for something like this to run in the browser.

I'll play around with it myself, but is there anyone who has used this that knows how well it does with memory usage?
Getting this on MonoDevelop would be great!
Yes, though I am still not thrilled with it.

I've just seen too many "two mbas and a PowerPoint" startups, "we just need some money to build a prototype"

I would rather see a prototype (or a soft launch with a little traction) than a PowerPoint that poorly explains the implications ("lipstick is a 40 billion:ur business, if we get just ONE PERCENT")

anyway.

The trading desk I worked on, many years ago, did not hire folks wih MBAs either. Inheritance?
That seems like a pretty extreme way of putting ADD. If you think this is really an issue for you, see a qualified doctor.

In terms of management, I like halfcat, find that things like exercise have no affect. Instead, when I have a task to complete, I make a list and then focus on completing those tasks on my list.

On the other hand, I think that having ADD brings an advantage to being a founder because my mind likes to manage lots of things at the same time. So, I can keep track of multiple issues at the same time and it's enjoyable and stimulating for me to actively resolve all of those issues simultaneously.
Sorry, I didn't try any polyfills; I had a few hours on a weekend and compatibility wasn't on my list. I did do that for a previous project[1] and it was more work than I had time for. I'd love it if Firefox included a CSSMatrix implementation, it's incredibly useful. That and a method to get the absolute transform of an element including all the fiddly transform-origin stuff would be wonderful (I remember roc talking about something like this, but don't remember what happened).

[1]: https://github.com/iamralpht/tboard a spelling game for my kids, inspired by the worksheets they get at school.
Electric motors predate the internal combustion engine, keep in mind.
Makes you wonder why MS doesn't just release a protocol that all cloud service providers can hook into...
Unfortunately, you and I don't actually decide. We can simply reference what's already accepted.
Anyone have a good source for bulk beacon purchases? I need 200+ in the next 3 months.
I'm surprised by Microsoft's move here. Why would Microsoft not use OneDrive instead of Dropbox? Dropbox is surely a great product but Microsoft has something similar already. Am I missing something?
It guaranteed payment. It didn't try to prove a negative. It started from the presumption that there would be solid critiques.
Wait, I thought it's not possible to style the sidebar in ST (or at least not much)? I was searching for a plugin that would show Git status in my sidebar (as Atom does) but everywhere I looked people were saying it's not possible because of this limitation in ST.

Looks very good btw.
It works that way for videos. If I purchase a movie from iTunes it gives me the options to download it or not. The movie is available to stream (actually watch while it downloads, but the difference is indistinguishable) from other devices, so a similar option to avoid downloading the app into iTunes and get badges for updates would be nice.
Uhm, I'm pretty sure it can use all your ram if you want. It's an in-memory database, so all your ram will be used for data...
I enjoyed Yii 1.1.x when I was using it. It definitely gives PHP hope for the future. The biggest drawback was the small community and low quality extensions.

The core team is fantastic. I thought it was cool how the ten of them are distributed globally: USA, Russia, Croatia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Spain, Australia, Argentina. Only two share the same country (US).
[Yes, I realize this is just a launch page]

A friend and I have been playing around with this chat bot for a bit, and wondered if it would have broader appeal to teams that run on slack.

We are thinking about things like moving 1-1s to slack, weekly goal updates, etc.

If you're on a team and would want to use it, put in an email and one of us will contact you and get you set up ASAP.

As I said at the top, apologies for the barren-ness of the launch page. I was lazy with the launch page.

Feel free to add questions here.

I think it's a cool little bot that is also an interesting concept. Do you agree?
Yay! I should reboot it. Something that isn't eithet delicious or reddit.
Wifi-Beacon interop is quite new; it turns out the Wifi network at Levi's is really dense so it does have insane coverage. Also the Beacons are surprisingly visible even without further interop tricks - you can see them across the stadium at times.
Encrypt your images. If they don't accept the encrypted data, represent the encrypted data as RGB color values in BMP format (forget about lossless compression, it won't make sense on an encrypted data stream; use lossy compression before encrypting instead).
StackStorm debuts its open-source software for managing data-center automation
Weave is not Docker-specific either.
Looks cool, but this is still my favorite theme for Sublime: http://kkga.github.io/spacegray/
Spending Hack for College Students (TUN.com)
This site helps college students save and get free stuff at 1,000's of places throughout the US. Great apps too. Thanks.
Woz is such a cool guy, he reminds a lot of startup guys of how much pure fun tech was when you were 8-15yrs old and not thinking about money.
According to http://nfarina.com/post/101309491728/lets-talk-about-beacons , all iBeacons do is broadcast over bluetooth a unique id, which your phone can read silently.

From there, specific apps installed on your phone will register to specific ids to listen to, and then can send that information off to a third party if the phone is connected to the internet.
I just don't like investing in tech startups where the founders have neither engineering nor product skill.
Google Apps account went poof. How do I contact them?
Today I can't login to my Gapps account at all. It says my account was deleted, but I know I didn't. I can't login to anything, so I can't get help other than posting on their forum.

Does anyone know how I can contact them?
I ran into the limitation this morning, so as of 0.140.0, the answer is still "No" :(
I put "country" in scare quotes for precisely this reason.

If what you do impedes the state, even if it is outwardly legal, it will impede you right back, with whatever means that seem most convenient. If you want to develop strong encryption and distribute it worldwide, your operational security had better be impeccable.

There's good reason why Bitcoin developer Satoshi is a secret pseudonym, and why the real person or people behind it should be reluctant to link their public identities with it. There would certainly be either a character assassination in the media, or an "unfortunate accident" on the streets.

There have always been men in this world more willing to serve power than to uphold principles. It hardly matters what flag patches they wear on their uniforms.
EDB Support for PostgreSQL
Somebody on Reddit took that scene, sped it up to something close to normal time, and made a gif:

http://gfycat.com/GentleMeaslyFattaileddunnart
If you want to see more of it in video, it's also where the opening scene to "The Avengers" was filmed.

It's appeared in a lot of movies, "Futureworld" (1973) being one of the first.

That's where the nuclear rocket upper stage for Apollo was supposed to be tested.
Nobody will call a country without free elections a democracy, so it's a necessary (not sufficient) condition for democracy.
As i said, i need a way to close apps, leaving them on is not an option.
> weaveDNS uses weave’s UDP multicast to solicit answers from other servers when it doesn’t know a name. This probably won’t scale up very far, so we’re looking at other ways of doing that;

Does weaveDNS's use of UDP multicast go beyond simply finding other Weave nodes? i.e. Weave can discover other nodes via UDP multicast but you can also tell it addresses of other nodes if for instance, you are running in an environment that doesn't have UDP multicast available. I'm wondering if this same workaround can be used for weaveDNS.
My first job in college involved helping them build the first Car Talk web site (it was around 1994). All of the graphics were drawn on paper and scanned in, and I spent hours converting their recordings into (IIRC) RealAudio format so people could livestream them. (Downsampling / compression at the time was far from real-time.)

They were both great guys to work with, who seemed genuinely surprised at their own fame and came to everything with genuine humor, warmth and without the slightest hint of ego. Out of all the notable MIT alumni, they're my favorite and I was really happy when they finally got invited to speak at commencement. (I'd also argue that the guys at Top Gear owe them some credit for pioneering a "show about cars" that's really just entertainment.)

It's a terrible loss, but at least Tom will live on for many years in the form of all those recorded hours of (somewhat auto-related) entertainment. The world is a little less happy and funny today without him, though.
That (looks nice and fun) is the only reason I kick around the idea of getting a Nest. Living in San Diego, there's not much reason for a thermostat. It does get chilly in the winter, but we use firewood to heat the house. We use the A/C maybe two weeks a year. But that UI sure looks nice.
Carry a beacon (or a bunch of them) with you into a shop and the store will recognize you the next time you enter. That's handy! It's like a cookie that you physically bring every time. ~

Or, in other words, no thanks.
But 98% of M3, 911, or AMG owners will never take their car to the track or engage in such long-duration, high-performance jaunts. So I don't think the comparison is as unfair as you make it out to be.
The show-stoppers are "... promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones".

Suppose I use Google Drive to store my current project, a big-ass novel that's going to see simultaneous publication by major publishers in a number of markets around the world. Google could in principle give it away for free to new sign-ups for their service as a promotional goodie.

Or "develop new ones" ... well, we already have Google Books: I am not sanguine about the prospect of a not-yet-published book of mine suddenly showing up in Google Books, or a next-generation incarnation of Google Books, without my say-so (or an agreement to pay royalties, because that's what I earn my living from).

These uses are certainly unlikely but they're not impossible, and that big-ass slab of lawyer-speak in the middle of the ToS is a show-stopper for me. Which is a shame, because if they'd just bothered to specify that the rights are for the limited purpose of [yadda] internal development of new services -- i.e. as test data -- I'd be fine with that.

Dropbox is a paid-for service that specifically supports business uses. It's ToS is acceptable. Google Drive is mostly used for free, and as the old saying puts it: if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.
It's more l33t that way. We all just like pretending we're in swordfish.
This would be a great app to have
When is it worth it to be concerned about this type of attack?

Do both files need to be altered to find a collision, or just one? Can it be done in a fixed file size?
This has been the official line for a while but it has never been that way when it actually matters (ie. Windows and Office).

That's why some people are pleasantly surprised by this.
Who is suggesting that users would carry beacons?
>>Because this new service is officially in alpha, you’ll need to apply for access and be whitelisted to use the service. It also means the service isn’t feature complete and the whole infrastructure could melt down at any minute.

Not sure what the take away here is other than, this may one day be a feature. No information about pricing, support, or sla. My attitude is wait and see. Should it be otherwise?

Edit: Can someone tell me why this isn't a valid question? Why the down votes?
I've enjoyed the published chapters so far.
When would you finish the missing chapters?
That's pretty cool :)

To be fair, though, the 450 lines include about 120 lines of comments, a configurable full operator precedence parser, syntax for array creation and indexing, range and looping operators, short-circuit logical operators...

Most minimal language implementations skimp on syntax because it is irrelevant to a language's expressive power. The point of this exercise, though, was to make one that didn't.
"The Cloud" isn't for your secret documents, it's for your family photos.

Which is why putting your business documents on Dropbox may not be a good idea.

Also, it's kind of slow. Somebody at TechShop accidentally put a Dropbox folder in an Autodesk Inventor search list and slowed down launch of the program by several minutes.
> I think the point is that cold weather imposes different trade-offs on a pure electric than it does on a conventional car. This is largely expressed in decreased range -- but then again, an IC engine will also be less efficient in Winnipeg than LA.

I don't know if that's necessarily true. Doesn't the Carnot equation imply that it's the difference between engine temperature and ambient that helps determine efficiency?

Eg, a 100° engine running in 100° ambient is inefficient, but a 100° running in 200° or in 0° will be equally efficient?
A demonstration of how being lazy helps you be good at programming
This is insanely cool. Always impressed to see what people are doing in the browser nowadays, this presentation is immersive, without being overbearing, and informative. Transitions are smooth and purposeful, great work
Tech Crunch incorrectly mentions that the service requires being added to a whitelist to use. It is available for anyone to try out immediately.
You have just described the poster boy for self publishing.

That's not a coincidence. This is a contrived example after all. What I'm trying to get at is that assuming the perfect scenario, is the ecosystem of services there to cater to these guys. Is it feasible that such an author would be able to handle online marketing (getting them into online stores, not getting interviews on morning radio) of physical and ebooks. Would he be able to handle the production of actual printed books?

Also, on the "art" side. Are editor-for-hire types doing the same thing as editors working for publishing houses? Is the relationship the same?I love books. I had a lot of hopes for ebooks in terms of what they'll do for authors. Apart from a pleasant enough reader experience, I haven't felt any earth shattering changes from ebooks.
It rarely matters who is first.
As someone said elsewhere, the problem there is philosophical - I like the idea, it makes a lot of intuitive sense, but if I can't visit any of the many worlds then it's not really falsifiable. Also, if there was ever a reason to break out Occam's razor it's this one - conjuring entire new universes into being for every available variation at every step of the Planck time seems awfully hairy. I appreciate that it's axiomatically simpler but this seems like an awful lot of information overhead. It would be nice if there were a clearer description of the multiverse in which the many worlds exist in superposition; I'll try Deutsch's Fabric of Reality book to give it another shot.
Related: SQL.js, which is sqlite compiled with emscripten

https://github.com/kripken/sql.js
That's not the only incentive, unfortunately. The folks fixing tickets would like there to be more invalid tickets issued; that's how they make money. Worry about winding up with something line how Intuit (TurboTax) lobbies against the IRS making tax filing easier.

http://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-linked-to-g...
Shops will have beacons, not you.
Those are reminiscent of 1950s marketing art.
I agree! Where are the spy shots? I haven't seen "boo".
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Today it's becoming harder and harder if users have to make sure that feature X is enabled in kernel version N or even compile and load a module. I do not disagree that your suggestion would benefit the performance.
My guess: you either push for universal adoption of Office and Office formats or OneDrive. Office is a bigger deal for Microsoft than OneDrive so they went with the former.
> Win-win if you ask me.

For the company, maybe.

If you're a user of their half-baked crypto you're playing a high stakes game with a partner that isn't actually interested in keeping you safe.
I'm curious why NeDB wouldn't suffice.

https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
+1 for interesting.

The ToDo demo shows the size of the collection [1]. Seems rather efficient.

[1] http://lokijs.org/#/demo
There are a few hoops to jump through if you're not from AUS/NZ, but I think this company is doing amazing things. I can't wait for them to get enough funding to mass produce these!
>Microsoft integrating with competitor's products, this sounds news to me.

Or as it was previously known, "Embrace".
If your buddy wanted to save gas, he would have purchased $4000 Kawasaki Ninja 250. Your buddy wanted a BMW motorcycle, gas savings was the excuse he felt he needed to tell others. I bought a new BMW motorcycle this year. Sure, it gets 50mpg but that's not why I bought it. I feel no need to make apologies for my purchase. :-)

I make software money, I can afford gas just fine. I still bought a Nissan Leaf for a lot of reasons other than saving money on gas.
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Can you elaborate on what mechanism of Dropbox lets this work?
Exactly. If you have to have a "DOM" of an XML, it's going to take A LOT of memory.

I recently replaced some generalized Java code (my own, alas) that built a DOM of some XML with substring operations to find the element text in the only element in the XML that mattered. (fortunately, I could guarantee that the text had no markup related special chars in it) This caused about 6 GC cycles (in a 32 bit JVM) to disappear from this process.

However, if you have to display or navigate the document tree, you are stuck with the memory hogging DOM.
Oh interesting - you appear to be correct. You need to enable it through the APIs page then you have access.
Really cool technology. I think the really hard part is 'What is a good interaction?' Clearly the offer isn't too useful, but the hospital one seems good. In general, I think 'help me find stuff' and 'notify on exit' will be the dominant modes of beacon interaction. What do you all think?
Interestingly, I seem to have the inverse problem. People telling me how easy it is.

I don't do web dev as a matter of course these days (I did nothing but back in the day though), but once in awhile I help a friend out with their portfolio of sites. Usually easy updates. But the conversation almost inevitably starts out with, "Do you think you could take care of it? It should take a few hours".

Of course, it takes two days.
Market, Marketing, Aesthetics, Then Functionality
That's hardcore, glad you are fine! I cannot complain about much now.
Watch Briana Brown on Ted Talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0
I can't remember having those sync issues. I do remember a couple of times it was hard to tell if it had finished synching as it seemed to be doing nothing visually, that's the only issue I remember.

Will look into Zocalo to see what they offer.
Thousands of short videos, eh? ;)
Either get better developers, or get better management. Usually the second, because if your management doesn't know how to reward your devs for good work then they are going to cause more problems than just this one.
I can recommend f.lux. With it the whole environment becomes of about the same light. Without it, and with a dark theme in your code editor you have one level of light, and when you switch to a web browser you can bombarded by photons. :-/
Yeah but has any of it got better?

Skype, Halo, Minecraft? I think not.
Flickr isn't great for hardcore photographers with plenty of RAW images. They don't keep metadata and filenames of the originals, and you won't be able to upload RAW images.
Gimbal can should able to do that, though I would avoid their series 10 beacons if you want the battery to last more than 2 weeks. Series 20s are a bit big (a little larger than wallet sized) and use standard AA batteries (4 each) instead of something exotic.

There's also http://kontakt.io/ but they require a more exotic battery. I'm not sure about production capacity though.