skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But why are we removing the need/worry for individuals to do this for themselves?

Computers and automation technology have made individual workers so productive that employers no longer need nearly as many workers as there are workers who need jobs. And we know very well what happens, right or wrong on an individual level, when there are large numbers of people who can not work but who still need to eat. And it's not pretty. Protection from that should be something every corporation willingly pays an increased tax rate for. The alternative is a destroyed economy that will take their organization down with it.
Or just shine a laser or RF beam at the window and read the vibrations.
Looks very impressive!

I'm waiting to see some more real-world feedback as the Inspire 1 gets into the hands of more people. I can see myself seriously considering purchasing one... even without a very specific need at the moment (I consider myself more of a photo/video hobbyist than anything). Still, a part of me feels like there must be some kind of dealbreaker/issue that just hasn't come to light yet. I wonder how the camera compares to other options in the price range - not just in specs, but in actual image quality, dynamic range, color reproduction, etc.

The one thing that would make me more confident in buying one (other than a better reputation for DJI's support) would be some kind of statement (either from DJI or from customers' experience) of compatibility with GoPro.

Also, is anyone else annoyed that they don't stop the background video when you click to view the product video? Even on a new Macbook Pro, I get choppy video with both of them competing for resources. Even if it did play smoothly on my hardware, the background video is very distracting when you're watching the product video in a lightbox. Of course, clicking the YouTube link and watching in another tab worked better, but still..
For the purpose of this study, "exercise" means "walked on treadmills ... three times per week for 30 minutes". I'd be cautious about extrapolating the results to more than homeopathic doses.
Fisher - thank you for taking the high road, for being brave and starting a great dialogue on what I think is an important topic, and a heart-felt congrats on your upcoming two year anniversary of sobriety. Good on you.
I'll add my single datum here. I lost a bunch of weight using the Hacker's Diet [1] when I was in university. I've occasionally put myself back on it as I get older, but there are two things that I believe are true about the way that I personally lose weight:

1) Losing weight while exercising is tough. I usually choose diet or exercise at any given time (or just light exercise so I'm not completely unfit by the end of the diet). I've had poor luck with exercise to lose weight, but it is very effective for maintaining it.

2) Fasting at the start of the diet -- and only at the very beginning -- seems to be critical to my success at losing weight [2]. Perhaps this has something to do with gut bacteria, metabolism or some psychosomatic factors. I'm not sure, but I basically cannot lose weight without that start.

As an aside, I've been very tempted to start an intermittent fast (even while not losing weight!) after seeing Michael Mosley's program on BBC a few years back. [3]

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsubsection1_3_3_0_3...

[3] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19112549
The site is too marketing-y. How about some technical specs? What battery do I need to run it? What voltage? Can I switch mains voltage? Etc.
As fare as the advantage goes it this case I'm not so sure :) but I agree. I learned long ago that raises and major changes in jobs aren't a reality for most tech work these days.
The google cloud SQL pricing[1] for a comparable specs tier (D32) is 35$/day (~900+) which is way expensive compared to aws db.r3.large

[1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/pricing
Developer here! This is the first game I made, doing the game design and the development and my friend doing the art/audio. I'm excited to see what you guys think.

Thanks!
For what it's worth, this is not true at large tech companies. There isn't a fixed number of job openings, and candidates aren't compared with each other. Instead, there is a bar that interviews must meet, and any candidate that passes that bar gets an offer.
Harvard’s CS faculty will grow by 50% via gift from Steve Ballmer
Make CLIs Like a Pro, Using Node.js and NPM
The best way to handle this is through schema evolution rather than migration. No red flag days or downtime. Works with rolling upgrades. See strategies like my own avrobase, facebook/twitter thrift or google's protocol buffers.
Ask HN: What happens to mono that .net is now cross-platform
Microsoft has made .NET opensource and crossplatform, now what happens to alternatives that was provided before to offer .NET on other platforms. Oh one last thing, does this mean I use my c# code and compile it for linux now?
I worked on and around Openstack for 18+ months. I think ignoring it is pretty safe to ignore at this point.

<rant>

There might come along something that is actually good, but Openstack isn't it. The architecture is just bad, it will never be as reliable as something like AWS. (not because of scale, purely because of lack of error handling capabilities)

Reality is these sorts of orchestration systems need to be written by specialists. The vast majority of Openstack was written by people that admit they have no clue about systems level programming. This is what hype does, it forces a whole bunch of bad programming and architecture down everyones throats.

The marketecture and hype machine have done horrible things to Openstack. Not only have vendors riddled the thing with lockin and crap code that needs to be supported, but they have pushed entire projects that should have been shot in the head. cough Ceilometer cough

There is security, performance and plain availability problems everywhere, mostly embedded deep in the architecture.

Dumb decisions like "All systems must be Python" when Python is clearly not suited to a large number of the things they want to do is painful. As is the general "not invented here" syndrome and boys club that leads to certain libraries or patterns being pushed over others, usually to the peril of the project due to the 'blessed' thing being incomplete and unproven.

</rant>

I don't intend on returning to Openstack if I can avoid it, unfortunately my skill-set does tend towards that sort of thing so we will see how I go.
The number of weapons sold has skyrocketed, but the percent of households owning guns has fallen by about a third, from 45% to 30% over the last twenty years. (The per capita firearm homicides seem to have fallen by about half.)
If only there was an app for voting...
> Specifically regarding the patent grants (of which there are three on http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm: open source, non-military, and OpenSSL) they would appear at first glance to cover OpenBSD. All three in fact. The problem is that this then creates a trap for anyone taking OpenBSD and using it to build something to sell to a military. Suddenly they are no longer protected; we prefer not to incorporate anything that can create such traps.

How so? As far as I can tell, the "open source" grant, covers everything under a BSD license (among other licenses) -- and holds no provision for "military use". I don't see how anyone using the [ed: algorithm, not code] under license 1, could become subject to license 3?
> Pretty much all breakfast foods other than eggs are just sugar and carbs and extremely fattening.

I never understood that. I came from another country and live here now for many years. I don't get it how breakfast is a completely acceptable time to eat just dessert food -- pancakes and syrop, waffles, oatmeal smothered in sugar honey and cinnamon, cereal, even "healthy" yogurt with sugar in it, toast with jam on it. Not saying I don't do it, I eat those things to once in a while without thinking much about it, but in general looking at it, it just seem so strange.

There is the whole "breakfast is the main meal of the day" mantra. Is that really true? Not sure anymore. Maybe it is something created by cereal and bacon producers out there...

For the curious, for breakfast, I am used to eating porridge -- buckweat, wheat, oatmeal with butter and salt. Or just rye (I call it "black") bread and butter (yeah I know bread is sugar too to some degree). Coldcuts, cheese, smoked fish. Not all healthy and good but most are not sweet.

Something that is hard to give up is fatty foods, I like bacon, olive oil on my things, even eat whole cured and spiced pork fat. I would cut slices of it and eat it as a snak. But I am almost underweight for my height.
>Even Americans don't glorify hard work for it's own sake.

This is a hard thing to argue about, but I think you could not be more wrong about this. Americans identify themselves very strongly with being productive at their jobs. They take few vacations. Any suggestion that people should be paid more or get more time off is denigrated as laziness. Unlike many other countries, having a gap in your work history is seen as a huge warning sign. You saved up money and took 2 years off? Good luck getting another job. America still has a tremendous amount of the Protestant Work Ethic in it. Why do you think America has stood by while companies got rid of pensions, and go decade after decade after decade not giving raises?
How Alibaba is using bra sizes to predict online shopping habits
Thank you Microsoft!
Exercise controls mainly muscle composition.

Diet controls mainly fat composition.

Exercising to lose weight is a stupid idea.

Stop getting your health research from the news. Go read a book written by a doctor.
The person who started this thread, posting to HN, was always using a logged in account on Wikipedia.
> Unless they're going back to mechanical ones.

I've been going back to cash instead of using credit cards because I've been exposed twice now via Target and Home Depot. I want to even avoid using ATMs and go into the bank to get cash because you can't really even tell when an ATM has a malicious card scanner installed.

Once we have automated cars maybe we'll go be back to walking and riding bikes to avoid being victimized by remote car jacking.

Imagine the mess hijacked delivery drones might cause.

Your phone can be cloned remotely. You can't easily clone a rotary phone that plugs into the wall.

I'm definitely not looking to automate my home, especially after reading how Chinese hacker had installed back doors on wall mounted AC devices or whatever which had access to the internal network at the New York Times building to keep infiltrating and reinfecting all the machines on the network.

Maybe we jumped into the digital world a little bit too quickly.
You can tell it’s a strategy game created by [only] programmers — the graphics look like absolute ass.
Really cool idea.
Gift from Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard
Ah, I see, you're assuming the "valid" string is fixed-width across all requests. I guess in that specific case you might be right. But it's easy for that not to be the case: e.g. if there are several different resources an attacker can request that have different-length strings. For example, an attacker might scan for users with short (=bad) passwords by comparing the time it takes to complete an authentication check against various users. So the safe thing to go is to go with the attacker's string.
There was a period of time in the last decade (due to war and politics I presume) where getting primers was somewhat difficult. I can get lead and cast bullets at home from tire balancing and fishing weights.
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There are three times as many deaths by suicide from firearms than violent crimes. Those rates have remained fairly steady over the past 20 years.

Also, while there have been more guns sold, household ownership has been decreasing - it's largely individual collectors that drive up sales.
Shame we never had any Church committee after the Snowden revelations. Where are all the NSA "reforms" now? They even have the nerve to say that the "pendulum has swung too far" in favor of privacy, when absolutely nothing has changed in the form of law since then.
Is that such a bad thing really? Wikipedia already has a terrible reputation in research and academics, most people simply refuse to accept any information off it because "anyone can edit it."

Insisting on verifiability is a necessary evil if Wikipedia wants to have even a modicum of credibility. Maybe the standards are far too stringent, but verifiability is tangible, and the 'truth' isn't.
That would be me, and I vastly prefer it to maven scripts. Once written you can then basically forget about it. All I do now is type:

msbuild build.msbuild and I get full-rebuilds of 32-bit and 64-bit executables, tests run, and upon success, everything packaged up in an installer and ready for deployment.
So because Java shown that then it is a good thing to try for? Does Java represent to you a sort of a unbeatable limit that no one could possibly pass? Have you ever seen a JavaFX app?
This book is great, but could be overwhelming depending on how much you exposure you have to similar material. That said, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. I particularly enjoyed the war stories.
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Good question. That's because this method doesn't scale and fails as a solution to the industry's challenges.

There's companies that are trying to get retailers to implement APIs but this leads to a fragmented ecosystem. Year's past payment processors that sold "pay/checkout with ..." buttons and wallets have failed to achieve significant merchant adoption despite being fuelled with marketing spend in the billions.

The solution everyone embraces seems to rely in building an independent and neutral piece of infrastructure (an API) that any publisher can integrate and that plugs into every checkout out there. It's the missing pipes in ecommerce, anyone can use it and nothing really changes (we don't process payments, it's all automated etc) -- and conversions go UP.

I'm repeating some ideas in the post but on the publisher side it's worth noting NONE would entertain the idea of integrating multiple APIs -- one for each merchant. Did I also bring up the required combined efforts of all merchants to keep those APIs up & running? :)

So pro-scraping because it's the only way to build adoption in ecommerce.
"The only catch was, he couldn’t tell anyone what he was doing. Bartos’ company depended on the trust of customers, and if word got out that the company had been hacked, they could lose clients."

It's unfortunate that still today the attitude is "cover it up" rather than disclosure. I would hope that any company that I entrust with my data would be forthright about breaches so that I, as a customer, would have the opportunity to take whatever precautions were necessary given the details of the breach.
When my mom hears about stuff like this, it feels like it's getting enough coverage.
Hey thanks for being so understanding! I just want to say that I feel badly for being this negative, it's out of character for me, but this is a realm that's close to my heart and I'm just critical because I care about it and want to see projects like these exceed my wildest expectations.

You should also take my comments with a grain of salt because my hopes for things like this are for lack of a better way of putting it musically bound. I can't help but listen to this as art, and so I'm responding to it that way. I'm taking these pieces as things for close listening.

I think making long renders for static streaming is a fine approach by the way - have you thought about automating a re-render more often for each piece?

A more expensive alternative would be to run a dedicated render server to generate music in realtime, and then multiplex the stream on demand with something like wowza. Makes me miss the days of r4nd.org: http://rhizome.org/discuss/15607/#29894

Good luck with the project & thanks again for sharing!
The part about big companies being machines for squashing bad ideas is pretty spot on. Combine it with petty politics, credit stealing, and a dash of brinksmanship and you have a pretty good idea of what the inside of any big technology company looks like. In fact the situation is so bad that all the examples he pointed out were about acquisitions because internal innovation in that kind of setting is pretty hopeless.
Why not somewhere in between? Ignoring bans on commercial drone usage for the moment, I could see this working well for, say, a realty agency or a local news-gathering team. Really any small organization that has an obvious path from aerial photography to more revenue, can afford this, but can't afford and doesn't have individuals who are dedicated to UAV configuration and piloting.

That said, a non-Vision Phantom with a gimbal and a GoPro can probably also get satisfactory results for those same customers. Still, the price wouldn't be significantly less, and the Inspire 1 has a full 360 gimbal with yaw and separate camera controls (which is huge), seems to have more flight control features (last I checked, Phantoms didn't support waypoint navigation), and might have better video quality than a GoPro.
We have 3 languages in our house and my 8 year and 10 year girls master all three languages (English, Chinese & German) without a problem.

Key in the early learning stage is the relationship of person to language and to repeat it

one person = one language

Our family conversation is happening in English and that is their native language by a distance. The girls do have daily Chinese afterschool program and with my wife using it daily it kept them very proficient. My German use is limited and I can tell they are getting a little rusty.
Mortgages are just loans, that's not the relevant part. The relevant part is what the mortgage is being used for. If it's being used as means of owning property and if you always have positive net equity in that property then you're not saddled with a mortgage for 30 years. If you're smart you keep around a bit of savings and if you find yourself in a situation where you can't pay your mortgage any more you simply sell the house (or rent it) and move somewhere cheaper.
I'm one who you speak of. Systemd to me is just a scarily large attack surface. Working through my servers slowly replacing them with FreeBSD. ZFS raid root out of the box on install! That one really impressed me.
just my 2 cents, but my biggest grips are still no universal search, ala spotlight; and privacy controls for each app, for each function. If they fixed those i'd switch.

(and no, i don't want to have to download other apps, tweak this and that to achieve the desired outcome. It should be standard)
Really? Even if the malware was nearly identical to that of a previously found malware that was presumably used by a government on government attack? But whatever, seems you are more mad at windows than any sensationalism in the article.
A wandering mind is an unhappy mind (2010) [pdf]
People don't account for the calories in drinks properly, I'd rather not use an example with soda.

So yes seven Reese's Cups (well 6.8) will make up an entire meal. That's a bit much for a snack.

The fact that three sodas can be an entire meal is a different problem (you can drink that much without even realizing you ate) with a pretty easy solution.
does it advertise 15000 feet somewhere? Can't find it on the website. I find this rather dubious, since it would take at least an hour to climb to that height.
> Exercise don't help you loose weight. Even the heavy routines burn minuscule amount of calories that would be compensated by just couple of slices of bread. Exercise helps you build cardio and/or muscle strengths which is very different than loosing weight.

Increased muscle mass produces increased resting metabolic rate -- exercise often isn't a short-term help to losing weight, but its a long term help.

More importantly, "losing weight" is usually not the real objective, its a proxy measure for improving overall health and fitness, for which exercise is useful, even without weight loss.
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This is an extremely thorough review. Tough to say anything negative. Huge fan of Google Material design and have been using a lot of it for my native app designs, and my users have frigging loved it. Also transferring a lot of this into desktop (web) design as well and getting lots of great feedback.
See, when you put is this way your advice is sound and I agree with it. And I recommended to name and shame strategically, while consulting a lawyer.

But in the original comment you called naming the company "petty and childish" and insinuated that he is is behaving like a "jerk", while saying that posting on HN is "talking behind others back". The gist of your comment was "move forward" and be generous to the company by allowing them "to defend themselves".

And this is what I disagree with.
Microsoftie here. Pure speculation on my part, but Visual Studio in its full form might be one of the most impressive pieces we have at Microsoft - but definitely one of the most complex. Good intentions aside, bringing VS over to *nix would involve a gigantic amount of (costly) man hours...
Rob, I spotted this on the download page:

>"During this 15-year journey they were acquired, but subsequently
bought the company back a few years later and are now wholly owned by
the staff."

Non-small tech companies owned by staff are pretty rare. Have you ever
written anything about the experience? Does it work well? Is it
structured like a co-op or similar?

(sorry for the barrage of questions, but I've always wondered about
this)
Sort of like apps that nobody would download?
Sure it is. Graphics in chess are not that good also.
What happens to mono now?

Also its great to have an engineer at the helm of microsoft again.
> I'm surprise that he went about building the
> large-scale automated machine first, rather
> than evolving it from simpler devices.

Yeah, he never heard of doing the MVP first!
Why don't you just add your GCal to iCal?
While I understand the initial appeal of schemaless databases in my experience the schema is the best living documentation of the shape of the data. It becomes really handy to decouple this from the application layer when you start having multiple clients connecting to the database (transactional vs analytics workloads). I've also had my fair share of seemingly non deterministic behavior when working well tested code hits old data that you forgot was in a slightly different format.
I support this wholeheartedly. I have wanted to mix my love for starcraft/AOEII with coding, and no games have done it to my satisfaction.

Here are some other ones that didn't quite hook me.

http://www.javascriptbattle.com
http://codecombat.com
http://fightcodegame.com
Serious question - why do you very concerned if your credit card number is stolen? By law, credit cards have > 30 days (I forget the exact amount) of fraud protection as long as you report it. The only downside I can see is the pain of getting a new card. Your money really isn't at risk.

That said, I do agree that security is becoming a major issue in our world.
Don't Chinese citizens dream of making their country a two-party or multiparty democracy like US or India, respectively?

This one-party autocratic rule will one day make people insane.
NoSQL always seemed like a misnomer, should be SomeSQL, postgresql can do the same kinda ops and usually faster than your average NoSQL db:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/nosql-for-enterprise