skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda reminds me of Flight of the Old Dog - in that case it was 80's high-tech stuffed in to a B-52, giving it 'escort' capabilities...

As many have pointed out, this type of air-to-air platform may make sense for knocking out our current opposition, but when that opposition is all drones?

That's the real game changer - a drone wouldn't even have to 'launch' a missile, you could build one with a secondary impulse engine that would turn it in to a missile. Have dozens/hundreds flying on-station in high-efficiency/high-boredom flight paths, all controlled over-the-horizon, or from a standoff AWACs stop platform 100s of miles away.

The potential impact on naval warfare may be even greater...
He discovered it 6 months ago. Maybe he gave Apple 6 months to fix it before disclosing?
Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us: http://www.nedhardy.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2011/may/h...
I'm sure there are a million examples but I find snowboarding very similar. If you're going too fast the instinct is to lean back but that makes it extremely hard to turn into the mountain, but if you lean forward you can take the weight off the back foot and whip it over to turn into the mountain and weave some of the speed off.

Or when you're on ice and you really want to turn but just have to keep going straight until you hit a patch where you'll get some grip from the mountain cover.
Beyond Siri: automated assistant will make your appointments
Show HN: HereBy = photos nearby
Made an iOS app which lets you share and see photos taken nearby, with radius from a block to 500 miles. It's visual place discovery for beaches, trails, food, events (comedy shows, weddings, games) and news (downed trees, accidents). Hosts, doesn't scrape, and it's not Color: https://herebyapp.co

Made in Swift/Obj C and Python back end on a retina iMac. Looking for feedback and bug reports. Thanks!
Reminds me of: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/100
The problem to be solved here, as I understand it, is accessing the recording after someone takes the recording device away from you, and possibly also attempts to delete your recordings.

You don't need to upload to the cloud here. You just need to upload to a storage device that cannot be easily recognized as the upload target for the recorder, and would not typically have probable cause for a search.

These could be attached to the recorder using a wide variety of short-range wireless communications technologies. Maybe your pinky ring has a microSD card under the gaudy cabochon, and connects using IEEE 802.15.6. Maybe you get a parylene-coated implant in your beer belly. Maybe your eyeglasses can store 256 GB. Perhaps the label on your underwear can store more data than just your name. Or one of the keys on your key ring does not actually open any lock.

Maybe the "delete" function in your device's UI also activates a piercing audible alarm that screams "SPOLIATION! SPOLIATION! SOMEONE IS TRYING TO DESTROY MY EVIDENCE!" and the real data-destruction function requires a pre-authorized device to activate.

The device itself would, of course, need a decoy SD card in it somewhere. People tend not to stop looking for something until they find it.

As for the recorder portion, it would have to be plainly visible to be legal in all US jurisdictions. Also, you need something obvious for the bad actor to take, so that he can believe that he has confiscated both your recorder and your recent recordings.

The data are the important parts, if you can give your attorney a recording of the cop illegally seizing your camera, it is a lot easier to get it back.
Thanks Arcsech!

We're currently indexing each individual company's job site and standardizing the data on the backend.

We're adding more companies daily, if you have any suggestions we'd love to have them.
* The last Girlfriend on Earth
* Grails In Action: 2nd edition
* Keep It up

I guess it counts: Going through my 2 year old reading queue in instapaper.

I think we should have this on a weekly or monthly basis.
And it's almost certainly bullshit. There is no correlation with crime rates and lead exposure. The pattern observed is a massive spike in crime during the '80s and '90s due to gang activity from the crack boom, which then falls back down to '60s/'70s levels afterward. What you'd expect to see if lead exposure was the problem is a very gradual increase over time and then a gradual tail off as exposure reduced. Instead the homicide rate doubled for folks under 25 between 1983 and 1993, and then fell back to 1980s levels by the early 2000s.

The background crime rate increase from the 1960s forward is more readily explained by societal changes, as well as the start of the "war on drugs".
And the structure looks a bit like you might want to use a withSubscription function instead of subscribe/unsubscribe pairs. Same for start/stopRoundtripTimer.
Cool! Good luck with your book - would be happy to read an advance copy when you have it. :-)
Art can have value. But, when "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", then that value is as intangible as copyright, and equally as absurd.

If people didn't share fire we'd all still be living in caves.
It's a business decision.
You would probably really enjoy Brandon Sanderson's and Patrick Rothfuss's novels, based on your fiction list.
>There is no such thing as "doom" or "pessimism" besides that in which humans perceive it.

Yes, and we are humans, who discuss things in a human context. You can discard anything with "it's just a human construct". Where are you trying to go with that?
While there's alot of unknowns at this point, my money would be to stick with S3. Serving static files quickly is a large part of what it is designed to do.
From what I'm reading here, EFS seems more geared towards shared volumes where it being a filesystem is a critical part of the interface. If you can get away with not needing a posix filesystem layer over your datastore, you should.
Hypercapitalism: What you think about money is wrong*
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When everything is a crime
As always, it depends on your use case. Just because it can be slow doesn't mean it's not a viable (and in some cases superior) option.

We use it to store petabytes of large video files and our system is structured such that no folder ever has more than a couple files in it (>20 is rare). With properly tuned caching this works fantastically well for our use case and I would take the simpler code and reduced points of failure over NFS nonsense any day.

That of course doesn't mean s3fs is the solution to every problem, it simply means it's good to have options and don't write something off because it "might be slow."

Know your data, know your use case, and know your tools. You can make smart decisions on your own rather than driven by anecdotal comments on HN.
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AIM-54 was a Navy only project, not an A-12 armament. Perhaps you're conflating it with the AIM-47? The Phoenix is a natural derivative of the Falcon, but still a distinct system.
Eh frankly I think we all pretty much like modern C++ here judging by the posts that get upvoted.
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One nice thing would be hosting wordpress on multiple EC2 servers. All local copies of your wordpress directory would be kept in sync automatically with no other configuration.
It is perhaps naive to assume that any given part can be had with identical properties and costs from American or non-American suppliers.

Also, there are other considerations at hand, such as making life harder for foreign intelligence agencies.
I never used the Ad service, but I did use the resume database and it was pretty good.

I only recommend it if:

1. You are in a location with a lot of population or are willing to hire remote

2. You are looking for mid-career developers -- (5-7 year range).

If you use it

1. Only contact people that are active -- I found the passive list not worth the time

2. Do a little research on the person and make your opening contact somewhat customized to them. They are asking for contacts -- they might get a lot, so you have to stand out.
Oh true. I just realized I have the same issue. I connect my macbook to my hengedock which has 3 monitors attached. If I disconnect my macbook and hook up my tv via hdmi, I plug it into my hengedock and my 3rd monitor is just black while plugged into that hdmi port. I always restart it after watching tv and then plugging my monitors to get it to work.
Yeah, if you liked diaspora then permutation city will have you picking your jaw up off the floor in a similar manner. Schild's Ladder is the third in the unofficial trilogy (he denies any connection, but I definitely reckon they form a nice trio) and it's pretty hardcore: lots of quantum mechanics and graph theory actually driving the plot.

A fascinating thing about diaspora: if you read reviews of it, opinion is split between those who see it as a story about nerd-heaven, which to me is how egan wrote it, and those who see it as a dystopia, basically a vision of hell. Apparently to a lot of people, the book reads like pitch-dark satire. I'm guessing there aren't so many of those people here.

EDIT: Bonus scott aaronson quantum conciousness essays! Wooooo! Egan fans will like these:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951
The app looks good with nice design, and icons. I think this can take off, but my only suggestion would be to have some kind of a "help" section. It's not confusing, but some guide for new users is always good.
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Directed energy weapons will be have an increasing role in protecting aircraft.
It happens quite a lot. The catch is that the whole thing end-to-end is secret, with the result being that you don't hear about it at all.

All we really hear about on the outside is the screwups. The successes are silent.
We'll be providing a lot more details later.
Excellent, finally a chance for some real competition with us chip makers.
I'd be very interested to know what kind of consistency guarantees EFS provides. The history of NFS is plagued by syscalls whose docs have a variation of the phrase "this operation is atomic (except on NFS)".
That would be my #1 desired feature to add to this app - syntax highlighting for the Jison grammar.

Since CoffeeScript and Handlebars are written in Jison, you'd think someone would have done this already, but I couldn't wrap my head around the Ace highlighter implementation for those languages. It didn't seem to be as simple as "plug in this Jison grammar and get a highlighter." If that were the case, it would be easy, because Jison itself is written in Jison. :)
I think they're meant to solve different problems. On one hand S3 is designed for (among other things) serving files over the web. EFS sounds like it's designed to be used as a filesystem multiple instances can write to (say for a high-availability setup).
That's the mentality that has made "right to farm" programs necessary.

The farm was there long before the interlopers built their houses. It's not selfish or stubborn for a farmer to continue to farm, even if other people have recently decided that the land would be better used for McMansions.

It's one thing if we're discussing the expansion of farming into suburban areas but this is suburban sprawl into rural land.

First come, first served and all of that.
Most of those are people giving fairly reasonable benefit of the doubt, no apologism. But I suspect you're probably about as biased against Apple as the people you're assuming are biased towards Apple.
For something like a DMV, it is important that a live human being personally verify individuals and documents in-person. This is inefficient by design, but quite necessary.

Automation of things such as this with current technology makes something as important as vehicle licensing and government-issued identification (along with everything that entails) a very risky and dangerous thing indeed.

Okay, so going to the DMV is boring and even infuriating. But, for now, we must have human beings asking all of the questions, administering all of the tests, looking at every person in the face, double and triple-checking things and so on.
Yeah, imagine if the same was true of say, Rails 4.0.
Yeah, I have a WP Multisite cluster that's a real pain to manage for this reason. Probably will be my first use of EFS.
Making managing your funds 'fun' as in interesting, and addictive is a huge win in a place where most people are so financially illiterate they are afraid of their own money-management.
Capitalism has become incredibly abstract. You make a deposit of €1000 to your retirement account containing €10000 and hopefully, in a few years, due to investments the number will be larger than €11000. But I don't think anyone can trace exactly what happens with the money or what chain of middle men they go through before they come back at you with some profit.

Btw, "pension funds" are just an elaborate illusion. What you pay today funds this generation of pensioners. It's not money doing nothing in a bank account. We hope that the working generation coming after us will be nice enough to pay taxes to fund us after we have retired.

Surplus tax income used to be used by governments to build infrastructure, schools and housing. Building highways is a form of safe, long-term, high-yield investments. It's almost always profitable but it may take many decades before it becomes so. Nowadays, much less of the surplus is used for that kind of direct investments and we are instead giving it to fund managers and hoping that they will work their magic and give us back more money in the future.
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Blog link announcing this + many other new features: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-service-ready...
I'm sure that everyone who comments like that makes frequent trips to Washington and Colorado ;-).
hey calbear81. i'm not saying that investors shouldn't ask these questions - because it helps you understand the market. however, imo the most important questions are the ones i highlight and these are rarely the focus of discussion.
Yes, some sort of filtering is missing, I would like to filter by frontend for example. It would be very practical that way.
hey pbreit. i'm not saying that fitbay necessarily is a unicorn.. i'm saying that there are potential unicorns among series a start-ups that are not getting funded. but i agree that "can this team create traction?" should be the most important question that investors ask.
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I'm not so sure. Unless I'm missing something, he doesn't demonstrate that this 'backdoor' is in use. It looks like they were using an escalation backdoor in `systemsetup`, but quickly patched a fix after 10.8.5. He just found a way around it.

Now, the fact that 'it takes too much effort' to backport would suggest that it was still in use. I don't see any other evidence, though. I'd be interested if someone found it!
Actually, as stated in the article, the other main problem is habitat creation for deer via sprawl. Deer are extremely adaptable and are perfectly happy hanging out on highway verges, fields and the like. Wolves don't like those things. Simply reintroducing predators won't work if those predators don't adapt to these new suburban ecosystems.

Coyotes do adapt but they aren't generally capable of taking down deer. But humans with guns are. As a hunter myself, shooting deer is a quick for the deer and good for the hunter in various ways, not all of which have to do with eating.
i partially agree with your point on an explosion in early stage companies. however, i think part of this explosion in seed stage companies is because companies are now raising 2-3 seed rounds and jumping straight to A rounds which in effect is the old "B round." i think part of this behaviour is driven by investors dis-interest in A rounds so entrepreneurs try to be "seed stage" as long as possible until then can raise 10 million dollar A rounds which is really a b round.
I also have my MP3s by Album Artist - Album directories with their M3U playlists (ripped from my collection), but I don't want to dig through directories, that's why I use iTunes. I can search, get some pretty artwork so I can find which version of a song I'm looking for, add it to a playlist, etc. Cog is a player, but I want a music manager.
Just bought it on Amazon for $2.99 and $1.99 audio included. Thanks, your first sentence was enough.
Yep - but this tool does it in bulk for multiple domains...also returns results based on URLs in ranking in the SERPs for your target keywords.
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

Bayesian Data Analysis by Andrew Gelman et al.
If your base salary is enough to cover your expenses (and at Google it should be more than enough), it's not especially important to be able to plan around bonuses.
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If you've got a minute, I'd be very interested in discussing a bit more in depth. {username}.co@gmail works.

I'm in Atlanta now, but have definitely been mulling PR over.

Heard the same thing about east vs west sides of the island.
Parallel construction is only needed if they want to conceal how they originally discovered the crime (or potential crime). If someone is walking down the street, or in a public forum like this, discussing drug use and a law enforcement officer hears it, they may have cause to investigate the person (depending on what's been said). Really, discussing anything illegal in a public (or semi-public) forum is not a good idea. When I was in high school this is what caused about 10% of my graduating class to get arrested in the span of a few weeks. One kid talked a bit too loudly in a hallway and a cop heard, which lead to him rolling on someone who rolled on someone and so on.
That's how all local exploits work.
I hear Fidor bank chose to go with Node.js. Strikes me as an interesting choice though as Node isn't in even in a v1 state yet....
>> “Rest assured, we analyze all of our competitors in excruciating detail – so we can learn what they are doing and develop our own strategies accordingly,” he said.

Perhaps worrying more about analyzing their customers needs and less about their competitors would be better.

I also found it amusing he considers PayPal a "new payment technology"...
The issue isn't evolution, nor any other area of knowledge, the issue is how humans use language (or at least English.)

In many many areas, we use personification to easily abstract complex behavior and rulesets. It's a signal to the reader/listener that we are deferring discussion about exactly why or how something happens.

The oxygen "wants" to bind to the iron to create rust, because we're glossing over electron orbitals. The T-cell "thinks" it has found an intruder, because we're not tracing it's internal algorithm. The computer "guesses" when to retransmit a packet, because the details of exponential backoff are outside the scope of my explanation...
At first glance, this looks to go somewhat beyond Google's Prediction API, which (at least from my experience) is pretty limited in its usefulness.

Its nice to see tools for analyzing your data as well as multi-class classification, and some tune-able parameters but this doesn't seem to bring anything 'new' to the game.

All the hard parts, feature selection, noise, unlabeled data, etc are still up to the end user, which makes me wonder how many people will try this out and get poor results.

It would be nice to get an idea of what sort of model they are using on the backend or even having a choice of models.
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To be a pedant and assuming your confidence interval is at the 95% confidence level. Taking 73 checks will produce the 95% lower bound 95% of the time if you take any random 73 samples.
Hey thanks!

I'm glad you like it. You're right, my friend and I've been thinking about doing something like this, but maybe in a more sleek way, maybe the app would start out with help messages, and users would just flip thorough them - not obstructive, yet gets the point across.

Did you find the Easter egg?
If you have any more suggestion, please feel free to let us know.

Thank you again!
As someone who loathes Yosemite, I was hoping to find another fix for this. However, the exploit code when run in my console already returns "You need an administrator password" prompt. Huh? I'm running 10.9.5.
I bet that C# would actually make a better scripting language than powershell - you can actually use most of .net easily (especially generics), and async support is a real boon in scripting. It's mostly missing a decent library to do practical process-glue stuff - the .NET `Process` is verbose, incomplete, and a minefield.
Does anyone else cringe when someone suggestions using NFS in production?

I can't be the only one that has been woken up at 2am because of an NFS outage.
> he problem with this viewpoint is that it's horribly ignorant

It may be, but please justify that statement. I think I've outlined in depth my point of view farther down multiple of these responses, and while obviously I don't think I was being ignorant, it's not clear to me that you are responding to an actual point of mine, or whether you are making assumptions as to my reasoning and responding to that.

> The fact is that almost universally hunting is a more ethical form of gathering meat than farming.

What type of farming? Is it more ethical than traditional farming? Who says this discussion is just about gathering meat. There's also the consideration of managing a deer population.

> By far the most committed and caring ecologists that I've meet ... have mostly been hunters/fishermen.

Did I make some argument that hunters were bad people? I don't remember that, and if it was implied, it was accidental.

This topic touches on a few highly charged areas of discussion; hunting, farming, animal population/ecosystem management. People have strong points of view on this, and have an idea of what their opponents already believe. I think I deserve the benefit of a doubt before being labeled with specific beliefs.
Apparently ternary is superior to binary. Actually 'e' is the best base by some logic, and 3 is closer to e than 2.

And of course the other advantage is, instead of bits you have tits.
Huh? Is the death rate in prison significantly higher than outside? I have a hard time believing that.

For example, the murder rate in prison seems to be actually lower than outside. There's also less risk of dying in a car accident, etc.

Before you get outraged, note that I'm only talking about health effects, not happiness or achievement.
Much of that early difference in port availability relative to IBM-compatibles is because Apple's computers weren't IBM-compatibles; in that context, things like PS/2 ports for one's keyboard or mouse wouldn't make sense, whereas USB would.

In other words, Apple never really "dropped" those things (other than floppy disks and maybe VGA); rather, it simply never adopted them because their computers weren't in the same class as those which had adopted them.
Would love some throughput and other performance numbers!
Currently plugged into my laptop:

* Logitech receiver for my (wireless trackball) mouse.
* Speakers
* Power
* USB hub

When I'm on the go, replace speakers with headphones, and USB hub with a flash drive.

Not to mention that, if they see battery life so important, why does this have so disappointing battery life?
I always wondered why there is no standard unix tool to accomplish this.

Also useful would be a tool to close a TCP connection, regardless of the processes that have handles to it.
I'd guess this is some sort of clustered solution with failover.
How do you manage it now? Plugin? S3?
Congratulation on launching a killer feature once you addicted to it, very hard to move out from AWS :) (but honestly, this is a very awesome technology we've been dreaming for years)
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