skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that there's a bunch of automated triggers --- e.g. if the vehicle leaves its flight corridor, it's supposed to get terminated. That doesn't necessarily mean that it goes bang; for a vehicle like the F9, shutting down all the engines is fine in most circumstances.

However, there is also a Range Safety Officer with a hand on a big red switch (or at least, a metaphorical hand on a metaphorical switch). They're the final authority on whether the vehicle lives or dies.

The shuttle may or may not have had a self-destruct system in the orbiter itself; I'm finding conflicting references. The SRBs and tank certainly did; the RSO pushed the button after Challenger disintegrated on launch to stop the SRBs flying away.

Yes, pushing the button while the SRBs and tank were attached to the orbiter would have killed the crew. Being the RSO is a job for very sober, very thoughtful people.
Multitenancy for Hadoop: Namespaces
True. They probably should have used some Lumias and Android phones since there are plenty of those that look sufficiently glamorous for these photo shoots and won't leave observant technical audiences feeling misled.

That said, wireless charging doesn't feel to me like a "flagships only" feature. I've been using Qi with my Lumia 920 for 2 years now; this doesn't seem like a flagship phone, but perhaps it was when I got it?
Yeah, Hacker News is full of not only censorship, but doing it secretly. I've been on this site since at least 2007.

For instance, I once had my account hellbanned for talking about how I'd met grace hopper as a kid. Seriously, was the only post in weeks and then poof, gone.

The unaccountable unelected masters of Hacker News have acted extremely capriciously and in a very politically biased fashion in the past.

I know there have been changes, but Hacker News should have a transparency report. Or some transparency.
There are a few problems with your arguments, but it's mostly that you aren't trying to see things from another perspective. You honestly come across as jaded, and only willing to see things from your own perspective.

Email is not a great form of communication. Private chat has a lot of value. Being able to chat in real time is very very valuable.

We use slack where I work, but we have always had a chat program of some sort. Having different chat rooms for different teams means you don't need to scroll through infinite chatter to get an answer, you can just ask it... and ask the right audience. Need to quickly see if you're platform is down? Hop in the OPS channel and see. Want to see what's up with CI? Hop in the Dev channel. Want to see if support is getting hammered? Hop in support...

It's simple, easy to understand, and easy to use. It's searchable, and accessible. The other things you mention seem more like a culture issue than a tooling issue.
Their $30 "JYSSEN" charger-for-a-hole product (found on page 25 of the PDF) looks excellent.

I've built a Nokia Qi charger into my desk (now used with my Galaxy S5) but the oblong form-factor of the coil and charger circuit did not lend itself to easy installation.

The round product looks perfect for retrofitting existing work desks, plus the price (as usual with Ikea) is quite competitive.
Hmm,
or it could just be there are a ton of very good free audio apps for android so no interest in paying for them?
The article mentions an experiment where they showed short movies with local actors to people in a village in Turkey who had never seen movies or television. They found that people processed the cuts with no issues.
I googled around a bit, and I can find some experts expressing "concern"[0] about the topic but nobody seems to know definitively.

So I'd stay clear until we have a definitive source that has actually tested it to prove Qi chargers don't interfere with pacemakers. It isn't worth your life because some random poster on the internet told you there was nothing to worry about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging#Electric_ve...
We use this as a static site backup for some of our client's sites (site goes down failover to static version on s3) and we built a small tool to help with keeping the static version up to date:

https://github.com/SquareMill/staticizer
A Better Way to Clone Production Apps with Docker and Delphix
I think it's more of a style to avoid actually doing choreography of fights and so on. Cut cut cut and zoom in on random things to give the illusion of action instead of having to do the real work.
Why do you think there is any more risk/responsibility in raising money in an E-Round versus an IPO?
My (unsupported) hypothesis is that the causative agents behind chronic idiopathic illnesses obey a power law: that there should be one treatment that will help an extremely large percentage of people (greater than 30%, say) that should be a "first-line idiopathic treatment regime", and then another treatment that covers another 10%, and then a rapid decline into a long tail of interventions that will only help a few percent of people each.

I say this because the causes of idiopathic diseases, when revealed, seem to be similar in structure to the causes of idiopathically failing companies, or idiopathically broken computers, or idiopathically recidivist criminals: namely, that there is some obvious-after-the-fact property of the environment, which combines with a person who never learned how to deal with/be hygienic in the case of/avoid that property. Computers choke on dust; criminals have friends/family who are in debt and need money; companies hire workers based on status rather than efficacy. None of the subjects of these forces realize that they need to do something about them (clean the computer; get their family to declare bankruptcy; give objective tests to their workers), so they get worse and worse until someone who actually knows enough about their life, while also not being immersed in the subculture that is missing the hygienic knowledge, comes along and helps them.

For the case of criminals (and bad parents), this is the job of social workers. For dentistry, you've got dental hygienists. But who is supposed to teach people how to avoid fungal infections, if it's not part of their implicit cultural package of knowledge? Who's supposed to teach them why they should care about the effects of their diet on their blood pressure, if hey have no family history of hypertension? Etc.

And because of that gap in cultural hygiene-knowledge transmission, I have a strong feeling that a few interventions that directly target the knowledge gaps equivalent to "have you tried blowing compressed air into the computer's vent?" Would have an extremely outsized impact in these cases.
It's open source now:
https://github.com/ikkez/CryptDown
feel free to add your own ideas and improvements.
..with a brilliant example.
Right now, FPGAs deliver slightly better perf/W than GPUs, but significantly inferior FP32 performance. That said, they do shine for simple embarrassingly parallel tasks assuming the task does not require FP32 operations. A good example here is bitcoin mining.

That changes this year with the release of Altera's Arria 10, which comes with 1.3 TFLOPS of hardcoded FP32 math units. The other gamechanger is the ability to write kernels in OpenCL rather than VHDL.

However, the build time for OpenCL on FPGAs is still many hours compared to tens of seconds for GPUs so my guess is that GPUs will remain the development platform for FPGA code for the foreseeable future, occasionally deploying to FPGA on a daily basis or so.

Drifting a little off-topic, the SDKS and libraries for all the accelerators should be free. That's what makes me such a CUDA fanboy. I'm looking at you Intel. Charging for your Xeon Phi/CPU OpenCL compiler? Bzzzzt wrong...
I have mostly the same experience as a software engineer playing with FPGA's. I don't buy the argument that Verilog isn't a programming language - there are still plenty of software principles that apply to a HDL and we should take advantage of those. There are interesting differences to software - we're used to sequential software being easy and parallelizing it being hard. In a HDL, parallel is easy but sequential logic is much harder requiring state machines. Writing testable software was historically hard, but test cases cheap. It is easy to write a testable Verilog module, but fairly expensive to write test cases compared to software.

Software tools are also way ahead of FPGA tools. I'm not sure how folks that develop FPGA designs professionally retain their sanity after using the tools...
J.J. Abrams reveals new Force Awakens teaser, details
I feel similarly. Of course there are tons of people saying "no no no, it's not a bubble", but historically, bubbles were never acknowledged until they bursted.
This is a case where I see the outrageously high valuation and really do think it's reasonable. They're allegedly adding $1m in annually recurring revenue every 11 days, which is just phenomenal for this young a product. They'll be in range for an IPO in less than 2 years if they want. Slack has just really nailed it and is moving really quickly.
>Various freedom of information laws acknowledge the importance of information being provided to the requester in a machine readable format,

Such as an XML(ish) markup with accompanying code to describe presentation?
I created this tool to make it easy to create Bootstrap Form HTML. Drag and drop form fields, preview the results, or copy the HTML code. It is built using Django and crispy forms. The forms you create can (but don't have to) be processed using my start-up's form processing service (in free beta).

I'd love to get some feedback!
My roommate is working on this problem:
http://diamondman.github.io/Adapt/
https://github.com/diamondman/Adapt

I don't understand this stuff well, I'll try to get him to comment here.
There's been some discussion whether this should be in the core or not. I understand why they chose their current "simplistic" implementation, it has a lot of benefits but we try to go far, far beyond that.
Some kind of machine learning based answering system that look like Stack Overflow but answers come from analyzing chats!
Hey. I was the fifth employee at Etsy. It was the three co-founders, a guy in Arizona (or was it New Mexico) doing Flash, then me. It was pretty a weird and wild ride.

I was hired to write the Etsy Middle Layer "Emid" server. They told me at one point that they were arguing about being able to find python developers and one of them went on Craigslist to settle it and mine was the first resume they saw. (That was personally kind of a let down. I just got lucky.) We had a phone interview. I mentioned that I used Dvorak and that clinched it. I worked from home for months before ever meeting the others.

The "emid" server was pointless: nearly three hundred api calls and fully 80% of them were bodyless wrappers. Just a decorator that did the real work, the function def, and a docstring to please the syntax (could have used a pass statement.) All the real "business logic" was in stored procedures in the DB. Yes, the DB was constantly on fire as we scaled up (our numbers were mind-blowing the whole time I was there. Up, up, up, and accelerating.) The idea was that emid would sit between the web servers and the db and provide some caching and other scaling support, but we never effectively used it. We actually did not turn on the caching until the investors forced an outside tech consultant on us to try to get some management of the horrible scaling fires that were constantly happening. So emid just sat there consuming resources. It had one good use though: when the system messed up (because the DB was almost-literally on fire) the ops/dba dude could complain to the CEO about "the emid problem" and pass the buck.

There's a lot of stories I could tell, but I don't want to "talk trash". Overall the users LOVED us and that's what really counts, eh?

Also, for what it's worth, the whole "Etsy was born in 2005 in a Brooklyn loft as a way for one of its co-founders to sell his handmade wooden goods." story, although it sounds great, is B.S. as far as I know. The original three were pretty close with the info (I do NOT know what "Etsy" stands for or means, don't ask) but they did let it drop that they had picked up the site from someone else who had originally made it but didn't want to do anything with it. Certainly the original three are responsible for it taking off like it did, them and dumb luck.

One highlight was that I got to work with Glyph (of Twisted networking engine fame, now at Apple I believe.) He was a class act and I learned a lot from him. I got to watch over his shoulder as he implemented a Twisted client for memcache. Woo!

Final take away: you can get away with ALL KINDS of crazy B.S. when you're sitting in a fire-hydrant of money.

(And how much would anyone reading this like to bet me that I'll never see a penny from the IPO? Please? It's the only way I'll make anything from being involved in this weird and wonderful enterprise)
#TBT Sam Altman HELLA excited about un-boxing an iPhone 4
"APRIL" 2015
Book on a Stick
How Shippable Transformed Its Internal DevOps Processes with Slack, GitHub, Docker
These action sequences being a jumbled up mess is a feature, I think. It allows the action on-screen to be visually sloppy and imprecise (thus easier to make), and the audience makes up for it (subconsciously) with their imagination filling in the imperfections with something even better than what they could put on film.

At least, that's what I tell myself. Perhaps we're both just getting old.
Duracell must've payed Starbucks, because wirelessly chargeable phones are all using Qi.
The only way I can imagine Powermat making a dent is by getting Apple to put it in the iPhone.
OMG, I didn't realize it was December. I was assuming next May.

Going from the cinematography and art direction this movie seems to have more in common with the original trilogy than the second trilogy. Which is great. So much detail, such a "lived in" universe.
>>How did Slack blow up so quickly?

I am pretty sure even founders don't know. It just happens with a combination of lot of luck and a very good product.
I would request you to refrain from personal attacks.

I don't know if it was a ToS takedown at all. Look at what the page[1] says -- "Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff. Contact support to restore access to this repository." Geek Feminism's wiki [2] says "Misogynist C Plus Equality satire project announced and repositories were created on GitHub and BitBucket, with commits impersonating various geek feminists. GitHub removed it quickly." without mentioning a reason.

[1] https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...
Did previous investors participate in this round? I can't tell from the wording in the article.
How Many Vulnerabilities Are There in Software?
How Much Did Early Transistors Cost?
One disadvantage of conda/anaconda is that you can't, or are discouraged from using virtualenv with conda/anaconda.

I use Anaconda on Win7, like it a lot, but I haven't figured out how to use, say, the python 2 that comes with anaconda alongside the python 2 that comes from python.org. I've looked around, haven't really understood what I should be looking at for that. But whatever it is, it isn't virtualenv if you use Anaconda.
The Terasic series are great, especially if you aren't too fussed about peripherals on the board. The DE0-nano has a decent sized FPGA and SDRAM for less than $100. There is also a SoC variant of this board coming soon with an integrated ARM subsystem.
My results are obvious in favor of HTTP/2

HTTP/1.1: Latency: 561ms Image load time: 32.64s
HTTP/2: Latency: 623ms Image load time: 8.77s
You don't discover this, you construct it this way. It's pretty basic math.
Star Wars: The force awaken (teaser 2)
Probably because it's a leak and they didn't intend to release it yet.
Considering what you're capable of, I can't help but imagine you as a robot. No offense. That's just what comes to mind when I visualize you.

Seriously. How do you do it? Do you just read a book and absorb everything in it?
Parenting is a huge job, you have to give this new person everything they need to survive life. This is pretty much all inclusive from tutoring, personal growth, overcoming issues, being successful in relationships, creating the scenarios their first accomplishments come under they feel are their own but really you set them up to be successful and gave them something that they could really chew on successfully setting them up for their next success, and their next success and so on.
Super nerdy
Want to Record the Cops? Know Your Rights
I thought that was hilarious. But in the video no one laughed which is a shame :(
Movies do not follow the logic of external sensory input, they follow the logic of internal reflection on memory that gives rise to dream and story.
A Better idea for a demo:

Take the top 20 website on the web, and get their static assets from archive.org

Show me how much faster they load. I'm imagining sites like CNN or Yahoo which serve many images on their home page could load faster.

How much faster?
Etsy has over 150 engineers, all living and working in NYC; of course they are 'EXTREMELY' well paid.
> The simple fact is that corporations don't have your best interest in mind any more than you can claim you always have your employer's best interests at heart.

This is true. It also applies to the labor union, and to the government.
Wow. I know this guy!
تحميل جريدة الوسيط الصعيد عدد الجمعة 17/4/2015 – تراخيص
Why do spam emails often contain gibberish?
Why is it that spam emails often contain gibberish? What benefit does this yield the spammers?
Why is mounting a phone as a GPS still so terrible? I have one of those suction cup stick on ones that falls off when the outside Vs. inside temperature changes too rapidly (so often).

They either need to allow the phone's video output to be displayed on the in-car LCD (and for touch actions on the LCD to be relayed to the phone), or my preferred option just add a damn screw hole to every dashboard, so we can just screw in a GPS holder (or other accessories) and it will never ever fall off.
Chrome 43 Beta: Web MIDI and upgrading legacy sites to HTTPS
Odd that you say that --- that's about when the two booster stages are supposed to be dropped...
You could use git to exchange information securely via SSH or also gist.
Heroku is awesome
Valuations are also based on future potential (or lack thereof) as well. If a company is currently having a great quarter but there is news that might impact their next quarter, you can bet their stock will drop before their financials even take a hit. It works both ways.

Obviously based on their current financials this valuation is absurd, but given how fast they have grown and how many companies have picked up their product, I would put my money on them justifying this valuation in the future.
Nope, it was an anti-feminist, parody language. I guess commas matter :)
"and they have been proven to be barely more effective than placebo treatments."

I think barely is giving them too much credit. And the barely better than placebo was only for the worst cases of only clinical depression, and even the worst naysayers can't seem to say the truth--they just don't work; probably out of compassion? I can say this (feeling terrible)will get better with time.

(Psychiatrists and psychotropic drug companies really did a number on their patients and consumers over the last few decades?)
yeah cool, why not. The code is on github now.
GoPro's Woodman Is About to Become the Highest-Paid CEO
This is a transport problem, however. Why not calculate the error correction codes on the fly? Why wast disk blocks?
Probably because a rocket engine is pretty hot on landing, so the thermal shock upon contact with the liquid would deform it or cause cracks.
You'll probably enjoy this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

In particular, at 5:26, they show how Jackie edits hits to appear twice across cuts to aid in viewability.
If a police officer seizes your phone and erases the video, is there a reliable to restore the video on iOS/android?
That's a little more sophistication than I'm willing to credit Spielberg and Lucas, especially given the rest of that film.
I imagine that Slack's founder, who was formerly co-founder of Flickr, is experienced enough that he could avoid a lot of the pitfalls of raising too much money such as losing control of the board.

Since this isn't to add runway, it doesn't make much sense unless he's not planning on selling to another company anytime soon. By my estimation, Slack is not too far from being profitable (or able to get that way), with ARR somewhere between $15M - $30M and only 125 employees.

With this big war chest Slack could buy or build a few other collaboration tools. It'd be great to have a competitor to Google Apps at a similar price point.
YouTube seems to have removed their frame by frame keyboard shortcut, but you can use rowvid to accomplish the same:
http://rowvid.com/?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

[not my site]
Police Must Respect the Right of Citizens to Record Them
What if I created a band containing 0 and some urealistically high numbers? For example what if my band would include [0,1M-1M+248]. Everyone knows that 1M+ is unrealistic, so...
For real. Highland should just use an H.
https://revisr.io/revisr-v1-9-3-released/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/revisr/faq/

How does Revisr handle the database?

You have complete control, and can decide whether you want to track the entire database, just certain tables, or if you don't want to track the database at all. Then, during a backup, the tracked database tables are exported via "mysqldump". When importing or restoring the database to an earlier commit, Revisr first takes a backup of the existing database, creating a restore point from immediately before the import that can be reverted to if needed.

You can also set a "Development URL" that will be automatically replaced in the database during import- allowing for backups and restores that work on both your dev and live environments.
Now all we can do is hope that this really will become more popular :D
>stranglehold of the pharmaceutical industry on psychology that prevents research

I think that may be a bit backwards. Evidently research like this is going forward and looking at the references it mostly seems to be in the US, with one researcher in the UK, countries with big and medium sized pharma. It would seem more the case that research like this does not happen much in countries without large pharmaceutical industries, presumably because the money is not there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging#Disadvantage...
Insanity is an outdated term that usually refers to psychosis type illnesses.

When a person has a conversation with their God figure this happens in (roughly) one of two ways.

1) they say a prayer and spend some introspective time thinking

2) they have an actual conversation with a real voice. Is someone in the room with you? Ask them to say something. An auditory hallucination voice is as real as that voice; it just happens to come from something that isn't there.

EDIT {this second one is what we would call"insane" or "ill" or "pathalogical". But the vast majority of religious people do not experience this, ever, no matter how religious they are.}

Describing religious behaviour as insanity isn't helpful. It shows a lack of understanding of mental illness. It's not an effective attack on the harms that some forms of religion can do.
Probably for the account details of people accessing certain repositories.

For example: account information, access logs, IP addresses, relating to the Tor project's managers, contributors, downloaders, etc etc.
I built something to better discover content on Periscope
Sadly (though necessarily) that email-a-link thing doesn't work if you turn on 2-factor auth.
"but historically, bubbles were never acknowledged until they bursted."

What does it mean when there are more people shouting bubble than those who deny it?