skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, seriously? Destroying other people's stuff just because you can't check where it flew from? Do they even know that the drones are a threat to anything or are you just gung-ho on shooting anything you don't like? Is there even a reason why drones shouldn't be flown over a power plant? Is it even illegal in France?

As far as I know, in most EU countries, even the security and police forces can't just destroy other people's stuff without a very good reason (and no, an unarmed piece of electronics it not a good enough threat to use firearm in most EU law systems). Firing a firearm is a serious disciplinary matter for a policeman and he has to prove that other people were in IMMEDIATE and SERIOUS danger before they can even pull a gun out of it's holster. About a year ago, the constitutional court in my country (Slovenia) just released a ruling clearly stating that protection of human life (criminal or otherwise) is the primary objective for the police, so they are NOT ALLOWED to even shoot at criminals unless they're defending their own and life of others. Shooting at flying toys is clearly out of the question under such directive and I'm very happy that is so.
If you haven't pushed it to revision control, it doesn't exist
It depends on what the n means in O(n). If n means anything other than "the number of digits of x" (i.e., n = log(x)), then this is absurdly slow.
Tumblr, I don't want to deal with self-hosting for my blog and just need a place I can publish my personal ideas.
Probably more of the latter, and the fact that TFRs can be shown along with them.
I don't understand this digression at all. Yes, ARM64 chips have approximately the same performance envelope as ARM chips. How is this relevant to anything in this discussion? If anything, it's an argument against tablet-level SoCs. Tablet-level SoCs have poor performance, so they want a better chip?

I don't understand the comparisons to ARM world at all. These people want to make an open (to the extent possible) ARM64 laptop. The ARM64 market is extremely scarce. There are very few chips, and even fewer are for sale. If you're not a huge player, almost nothing is for sale (yet). Those chose the available chip that has acceptable performance and requires fewest binary blobs.

Is there any ARM64 (!!!) SoC of comparable performance that requires less than of fewer blobs than this chip, and is for sale? If yes, I want to see it. If not, I don't understand the point of this discussion. Note that I mean actual SoC for sale, not some kind of board. And by available for sale I mean available in small number today, and without having to sign away your soul to buy it.
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The most astonishing part for me, is that those videos are made using Adobe After Effects, the amount of effort and patience it takes to work with a clusterfuck of shape layers and compositions is simply amazing! Kudos!
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In design terminology I saw, missile equals tree uprooted by tornado (not chemically explosive). They've not been designed for a plane strike (most were designed in the 60s and 70s). NPPs in the US had to undergo an analysis of the results of an aircraft impact, which may or may not have resulted in retrofits (the results are security sensitive).
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This is true, but it must of had aspirations of being a supplier or they would have said, "sorry production is beyond our area of competency, but we're happy to sell a supplier these furnaces".

I think that GT likely saw this as a low risk way to grow their business gambled and lost. Further, what does apple have to gain by GT filing bankruptcy? Looks like they pretty much got screwed too and are out hundreds of millions here.
Ask HN: Meaning of 'CitizenFour'
What do you think the meaning of CitizenFour is? I was thinking that the four represents the fourth amendment, which prohibits unreasonable search of a citizen's property or home.
A Better Software Engineering Course
Since HN is very much male-oriented, this is a good place to ask - any guys who would like to see POSHPO for men?

We can quite easily integrate men's fashion into POSHPO, but I'm wondering about the actual demand.
If, like me, you have wondered about the strange form of the accretion "disk" shown around the black hole, here [1] is a video, showing that it is actually still a disk, which is distorted by gravity though.

Btw, little of the science besides the depiction of the wormhole and black hole is accurate. E.g. how they need massive amounts of fuel to get off from earth, but just use their tiny craft to launch twice into orbit from the two planets they visit, or how these "frozen clouds" just stay in the air.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNepC_zvk9E
I'm not really an expert but I'm pretty sure you can call fork but you will pay a full cost of a creating a new process, manually copying the memory state to the new process and parent and child have to do a complicated dance to ensure it all happens right. So it works and most of the semantics are the same, but it is god awful slow.
What have you used for the backend?
How a failed technology is now behind Google's most anticipated project
Nice project, but is it just me or is calling this a "C" compiler a bit of a stretch? Couldn't the title read CC500: a tiny self-hosting subset-of-C compiler.

I realize it looks like C, but then so does anything with the words if, while, and braces. (It doesn't seem to have the word "for".) Since it says the compiler "does not even parse the types", that part seems like window-dressing and not part of the language.

I bet you could write the complete reference for the language this compiles in a paragraph.
How is it fundamentally different from other "true crime" shows like "Dateline", "20/20", and "48 Hours"?
Not practicing anymore, but I had those political views while I was working as an engineer. I simply don't believe you have a blanket right to inter operate without the consent of the creator. I bet you'll find plenty in companies that actually create and sell software as their business model.
Return the error for the problem that occurs first, or - in the case of dependent errors - concatenate the problems in one error. Would be my suggestion.
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Ask HN: Just quit my job to start contracting, need advice on “about me” page
Hi everyone, past week I gave my notice at my current job, because I'm going to start as a contractor in January and now I'm finishing my personal website/portfolio.

I'm a front-end developer with 6 years of experience and a design background.

Writing for yourself is always quite tricky, so I would love to hear from you the best advices for write a modest and confident about page.

How would you expose/differentiate skills and techniques such as: html, css, javascript, angularjs, ajax, object oriented programming, mvc, seo (on-site) and performance optimization?

I also would like to talk about my design background without looks as a designer because I'm mainly focus on development and I want to get developer's contracts rather than design.

Any advice? :)
Are you climbing?? You're right in the thick of it.
404 from the main site so here is the Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3...
Kip Thorne says that much tough "frozen clouds" were violation of physics.
So "you really want your data model to be acyclic" means, "you want your programming language to forbid construction of cyclic data structures"? So, for example, connected graphs are not objects you can represent?
In the late 90s, I started a cloud-type hosting provider, with an angel round $100k+, dropping out of university. The dotcom crash happened and raising more money became near impossible. I was inexperienced and tried to do everything myself, and hired the wrong people.

I morphed it in to a web development business that did OK, then worked out it was easier working for someone else (got my life-work balance better) - in a VC-backed startup that ultimately got acquired.

I left to finish my degree. Got confused for a year and did a bit of sales. Then another startup that I couldn't get off the ground (services marketplace) - perhaps insanely ambitious.

Then I trained as a teacher (forgot that), teaching inner city kids how to add up.

I now work at Google in partnerships, where I am largely happy, married, get to travel a lot - and occasionally still 'get the itch' ...
Are there any svg based animation tools that you can recommend please? I crank out SVG but I'd like to be animate it easily for little things like the gifs on the Atom site.

https://atom.io/
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Most people don't feel morally bound to strictly follow software click through "agreements".
Wicket doesn't actually say it prevents CSRF, it says:

Sometimes URLs are a double–edged sword for our site because they can expose too many details about the internal structure of our web application and malicious users could exploit them to perform a cross-site request forgery.

To me, all this means is that it hides the url parameters so that the users can't find as much about the workings of your app. To simply assume that this is a means for protecting your app entirely from CSRF would be stupid.
Cut the hardline. Well, but seriously, shut down the network temporarily.
Same people that are making crashcourse: Sci Show (www.youtube.com/user/scishow)
It's important (and sometimes difficult for us technically oriented types) to recognize that the law isn't necessarily (despite what Scalia would have us all believe) a slavish dedication to the precise words, and that the broader context and purpose of the law is taken into account when making judgements.

Just because a particular reading of copyright law might suggest that APIs could be copyrighted, doesn't mean that in the presence of a greater good ("...To promote the progress of science and useful arts..") the court might just decide that allowing the copyright of APIs would be incorrect.
Because we don't rank evilness based on the casualties, we rank it by how close it is to us. The holocaust impacted modern western civilization (there still are people today who lived the thing), so it is regarded as the most horrible thing ever in the west.
You could definitely use content negotiation to present human-friendly errors if you were exposing HTML out of the API itself. But otherwise the concept of "human friendly" APIs seems a little weird to me. Likewise, the idea that error codes are more friendly than links to error entities also seems way more developer- / human-friendly. Random per-application error codes seem like a really bad idea to me, if you have the need to expose more information about a group of errors, the right way seems like this approach - link to a common error object, which itself contains classification details
I would love to see such a list for linux distros !
Electronic money in Ecuador arises as the first public service in the world
No, Direct Deposit in Germany usually refers to Giro[1] which is a payment between bank accounts. (Credit cards and even debit Visa/MasterCards are relatively uncommon in Germany)

I've never seen an actual cash deposit payment while I lived there, though we do have them in Sweden for example.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro
Animatron[0] jumps to mind immediately, I hope it does the job.

0.http://animatron.com/
Why I love databases
The raise and the kabuki around it is at the very best a necessary evil -- bring your own capital on board if at all possible.

Having raised, you are under no obligation to do what your angels want you to do -- at the size we were, we spent a totally disproportionate amount of time sucking up to the Angels rather than just getting on with it.

Don't pivot to something that nobody wants to work on, simply because the investors want you to.

If you're in business with a friend, make sure you both have comparable skin in the game -- I could float off because I hadn't relocated my family from a different continent. And I lost a friend because of the way I behaved -- much, much worse than losing investor cash.

Don't be pie in the sky flakes about which color your M5 is going to be.
How are you going to create a free version of the spec without making it derivative work? If you read the original and you paraphrase it, that's derivative work, so it would have the same copyright as the original.
Maybe this needs to be wrapped in a "application/problem-collection+json" specification ;-)
I've studied Tor vulnerabilities for two years. I'm seeing signs of traffic confirmation (active), traffic confirmation (passive), stream watermarking, and a massive willingness to shape control of the network with DoS. Just about every attack on hidden services (active and passive), of which I am aware, was deployed, all at once. The malformed packet DoS was especially clever. And I'm sure a ton more were used that never made it to the academic research.

It was almost comical, like the star ship captain saying "now on my mark, fire all photon torpedoes!" They just revealed a massive amount of capability to send a message: Tor is not safe. They want everyone to know that despite that sticker on Snowden's laptop, Tor remains vulnerable.

But what remains interesting, and glaringly obviously absent, is user identification. The NSA does not appear to be able to deanonymize users at will. That is, given enough time and enough resources, they can ID hidden services and long-term users, but given an arbitrary Tor exit and and TCP stream, they can't simply follow it back to its origin.

A for effort. But in organizaton it looks like a military campaign, not a cyber attack. Straight out of the "total dominance" playbook.

But of course it won't work. Tor isn't a country. Its an idea. You can't force the Internet to "submit."

All this did was make blindingly obvious holes that many researchers have been asking to be fixed for a while.
WhyNotTheBeach could get some good buy in from the other towns like MB. Daytona, Wilmington, Panama City, Pensacola, Destin, numerous others. Pool resources from the Chambers of Commerce and what not for decent advertising and recruiting. Anyways, great concept.
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Ask HN: What surprises do you make for loved ones?
Just read this
http://aplus.com/a/father-john-wilhelm-photoshops-his-three-daughters

What other surprises/tricks do you do for your loved ones, using your skills? (design, coding, anything)

For example, an ex-girlfriend pretended her phone was ringing while we were out, she picked it up and said "Yes, he's with me. ... It's in the purse?", then she pulled out a present, saying "It was Santa. He said this is your present."

A few days later, I changed a contact's name to Laponia, and had him call me at a preset time when we were together. I showed her the phone while ringing, wondering who's calling. She already knew the country is automatically shown when it's not local. Then I answered and did almost the same trick, a little more detailed :) She asked me if I built an app just for this.
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"Your brand is your business identity.Through unique brand identity design we help you to distinguish your business from your competitors." --> You forgot the space after "identity."

The site is very dark. You can hardly see the image in the background with all the black.

Move the example products (like the 4.99 fakia landing page) closer to the top.
I've no idea who made this map: http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1376/37/1376372253480.... , but it looks like people who live in or near Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus or Cleveland would have signifcant concerns about direct nuclear strikes. Ohio is historically a major manufacturing center in the US. And Wright Patterson AFB is a major logistal and administration center of the Air Force.
The n is just n: it's the number you are subtracting from. Of course, it's impractically slow, but I believe it's just example code in a opening tutorial for the Nock language.
You lose the ability to write step functions as

g(y) = ∑ᵢ cᵢ × (y ∈ Aᵢ)

which is useful when you define integrals and expectations:

E g(Y) = ∫ g(y) f(y) dy = ∑ᵢ g(cᵢ) P(y ∈ Aᵢ)

where Y is a random variable with density function f. Any integrable
function can be approximated as the limit of step functions, so this
is a well-behaved way to get a general theory of integration.

Of course, one could replace (y ∈ Aᵢ) with 1 - (y ∈ Aᵢ) if one wanted
to use "0" to represent the event (y ∈ Aᵢ) and "1" to represent its
complement and not affect the truth of the math, but then there will
be lots of termf floating around just to convert the notation into the
terms that you need for the math.
My take on that is that this design choice arrises from the anti-democratic authoritarian sentiments which (at least one of) the developers apparently hold. At least they have repeatedly expressed these sorts of sentiments in their rather long winded blog(s).
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I'm not sure I understand. It's a wiki where the pages are the words in questions asked, and it's currently completely unpopulated, and therefore currently effectively useless. Is that right?

So I type in a question and it takes me to an empty wiki page, inviting me to add an answer. However, first I must login using my Facebook credentials.

Have I got that right? If not, it could do with explaining. If I have got it right, my advice is that you need to start populating it first, before you try to get people to contribute. In short, for every 100 readers you'll get one who might contribute. There needs to be content to get visitors, and even then, you need a lot of traffic to make it self-sustaining.
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> Do you need anonymity if you're selling towels?

Yes. When I sell towels, I put my business reputation on the line. Not my personal one. The customers don't know my real name.

Tell me this. When was the last time you knew the full name of a store clerk you interacted with? The name tag might say "Sally", but is it really "Sally"? Or is it "Sally Smith" or "Sally Jones" ?

You don't know, and you don't care. All you know is you went to a business (with a prominent name and location), and bought a towel. If you're happy with the towel, you'll go back. If not, you'll write bad reviews.

At no time do you know the full name or address of the store clerks you interact with. Therefore, it is completely appropriate for the clerks to demand the same level of anonymity online.

Now, this isn't always true. You might have a neighborhood hardware store you've been going to since you were 5. You might know the full name and home address of the owner. But that is his choice. It is entirely inappropriate for you to demand to know his full name and address, or to forbid him from operating behind an anonymous "Hi, I'm Bob" nametag.
Hehe, same here. And then my Dad would come in calmly pointing out that this house might come in in handy as a place to live in the future as well.

He once really stalled on us, we were stuffing an empty 7.62 cartridge with explosives and he very clearly explained that while he though we shouldn't make fireworks at least we shouldn't use metal parts.

We continued with a small plastic tube and a couple of hours later it went off in my hand. I love my Dad for a lot of reasons.
This reminded me of a similar GitHub project that I had starred in the past: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/

https://github.com/ubuwaits/beautiful-web-type
That is quite actually one of the creepiest things I've read in a while. I've always been fundamentally uncomfortable with a certain wing of Valley thought, but man, even I didn't think it went that far and in such lofty halls.
I admire the core of what they're attempting here, but if you want an argument for good design impacting the ability to communicate, this is a textbook example. That page is really hard to process due to a combination of bad design and content strategy. Too many links, line widths waaaay to long making, the link color is obnoxious compounding the fact that there are more links than actual text in many of the paragraphs, terrible navigation and general layout, bad quality pics, etc...

I know the whole damn web looked like this in 1998 when I first started looking at websites in High School, but good gravy this is awful. I must be spoiled.
it seems almost as lax as the nobel peace prize...
My co-founder and I started an ecommerce analytics company. We self funded (minus a small accelerator investment towards the end). The tech was hard and took us much longer to bulild then expected. We felt we were finally heading in the right direction towards the end but we're running low on money and gas.

We spent 6 weeks shopping the software around in attempts to get acquihired. We ended up with two interested companies after talking to about 15. One made a small offer for the tech and generous offers for us to join the company, the other made just generous offers and wasn't interested in the tech. My partner and I didn't see eye to eye on the offers and were able to convince both companies to take us separately.

Three months later we were introd to a company that wanted to buy the tech and didn't need us to come along with the deal. It wasn't the huge exit we had once hoped for, but it brought some closure and the product lives on.

After a promotion 2 months after joining I'm leading a 13 person engineering team and enjoying having some money and time to spend with my wife and friends. I have some more startup left in me but plan to see this one through for a while.
You are absolutely correct! It is great notion, thanks for that. At the moment we are aiming for those one of 100 who contributes, and will try to reach them to help me shape the product. At the same time some people enter the search terms, further I hand pick "normal" terms and write definition myself, that is the way I am population it.
Looks useful. Is this better implemented as an option of a linter?
Given their motivation, which is to promote the movie and the book, I'm skeptical that this is a real discovery and not just something visualized that was previously in a mathematical form.

If this is a real breakthrough, then where is the paper?
%5C%22 stands for \"

Not sure if that's significant in any way, could be just a unique identifier.