skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think drone delivery belongs in the same category. That's clearly a moonshot program, where it's ridiculous and has an extremely low chance of working out, but would completely change the game if it did. The Fire phone was yet another Android phone, with a couple of gimmicky features and a price that was far too high.

This service, on the other hand, seems completely reasonable. It's easy to implement with mostly existing infrastructure. The delivery trucks and drivers are already out there, GPS-enabled connected cars are already out there, all that's needed is something that lets the delivery driver talk to the car. This could be something as simple as a QR code on the package that opens a URL that shows the car's location and has a button for opening the trunk. It's a service that's actually useful: getting packages when you work all day is an ongoing problem for a lot of people.

A brief aside: "next day delivery" is hardly an innovation of Amazon. I remember catalogs in the late 80s or early 90s which prominently advertised "same day" service if you called in your order by, say, 3AM.
this guy sounds like a baller.

i wonder if he's gone running with the bulls? or killed another person in the throes of passion?
Also one can enter the following in the URL bar:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

But it's different from Blank Slate in that it doesn't allow for saving quickly (I make a PDF or take a screen shot if I need what I write for later referencing).
> Nowhere near...

You're right, Apple is significantly worse.

Microsoft went out of it's way to make sure that competitors applications didn't work (DOS isn't done until Lotus 123 won't run). This sparked a development arms race wasting hundreds of hours of development time working around intentional compatibility bugs.

On the other hand, Apple sometimes just doesn't let your software run at all. No matter what. Because fuck you, that's why. Your company plays by Apple's rules and tithes to Apple or it dies on iOS. Oh, and Apple reserves the right to kill your compay's sales on iOS for any time, any reason, including stealing all your ideas and competing with you.
Just like all other comments ... total opposite for me. I love visual studio. I did some android development few months ago, I tried eclipse and Intellij and I missed VS2012 badly.
Use "control" not the Mac key sorry! Are you windows? What browser? I don't have the ability to test on Windows or IE and neither does my co-creator (who posted the link).
Nobody is going to stop one trusting of the huge CAs like DigiCert or Verisign over something like that. It'd be like deciding you're not going to use Windows because there is a bug in it - you're too dependent on it to give it up and the alternatives are just as bad.
An Audi Just Drove Itself from San Francisco to New York City Without a Driver
From the forum comments, this is new behavior. It seems connected to Apple entering Pebble's space with their new Apple Watch. The existing Terms of Service about competing platforms is now being interpreted to consider Pebble a competing platform. The developer appealed and Apple told them that they specifically can't mention Pebble anywhere in their app description or metadata. Other developers have confirmed that Apple is now forcing them to remove existing screenshots in the App Store that demonstrate a given app's functionality tied to the Pebble.

So, yes, it is Apple being anti-competitive now that they have entered the same space as Pebble. Apple are attempting to kill off Pebble support within the iOS ecosystem. It appears Apple will only allow mentions of Apple Watch within the App Store and in screenshots, no other smart watches going forward.
> I think it does, actually

You may be right, but what I meant is that every rubyist i know looking into elixir is after massively persistent connections. Websocket, basically, to thousands or more clients. They are leaving ruby because it simply cannot offer that (I don't care what DHH says. No-one big is doing EM WS in production, nor should they).

Phoenix has a steeper learning curve than rails but is addressing the new paradigm of persistent duplex connections. Rails remains unapologetically a request-based framework, ActionCable notwithstanding. That is fine. 99% of today's apps don't that. Right tool for the job! But to me, the future is very clear.

I'm heavy into ruby too, but speaking pragmatically, it and elixir are playing different games in different ballparks. That's why I said they don't compete.
Is My Code Good?
You used the n word in a racist manner to play games on HN. I simply pointed out that this sort of behavior on HN fits a pattern. I'll leave it to others to figure out a "civil name" for it. I certainly didn't say anything that I wouldn't say in person, or wouldn't mind being reprinted a decades from now.
There is no offline access or syncing.

The data is available over gigabit link. It is local, after all. No need to sync to hide the latency.

And after all, there is more data on NAS, that the drive on my notebook can handle. No need to have it all locally.
So basically, no.
I don't think #2 is a taboo subject, Meatloaf wrote a song about it[1] :-) it just doesn't make for an interesting story for a movie. It is also a self fulfilling prophecy to 'turn into a 40-something zombie' so you have to be careful there.

[1] Paradise by the Dashboard Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw
Leaky Chimney: From Inspection to Repair – All Roofing Solutions, DE/PA Roofer
Tokaido 2.1.5, 2.1.6 and 2.2.2 have been released
Half Life 3 released.
>A job in industry ultimately felt like it might provide more freedom in the long run than the academic track [...]

Does having a full-time industry job allow you to seriously pursue your own research interests on the side?

For mathematics research especially, why don't more research-oriented mathematicians pursue this dual path? I understand part-time research necessarily implies a slower publication rate, but since you're already eschewing this anyway, are there any other drawbacks? Two that spring to mind are a restriction to travel to mathematics conferences and socializing with mathematicians during the day -- are these big show stoppers?
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It is possible to run a Tor node as an exit enclave[0], ie. a node that allows exits to its own IP address on specific ports. For example DuckDuckGo runs a Tor node with the IP 184.72.106.52 that allows exits to 184.72.106.52 ports 80 and 443.

However newer versions of Tor do not honour enclaves for various reasons.

[0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ExitEnclav...
Chrome dev tools network tab -> right click on request -> copy as cURL is one of my favorite features of chrome dev tools.

Another favorite of mine is the Tamper extension, which lets you edit js / css and reload the page, having your edited versions served from mitmproxy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tamper/mabhojhgigk...
Well, that didn't happen to us.

We have access either to completely separated guest network, where we have to use VPN to both our network and customer network, or access via Citrix or Remote Desktop, where to exchange the files we have to use the built-in file share facility.
On windows, one can use this:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/working-with-netw...
I'm also a big fan of using standard notepad programs (this, TextEdit on OS X) but struggle to find a good program for mobile note taking. Any suggestions for iOS or Android?
Show HN: Leave a message for the next person who visits this page (pre-alpha)
Maybe its because I'm not a Dropbox user (or a cloud storage user for that matter) that what I found most interesting was that Google tried calling someone up for a support ticket on Google Drive.

Google doing actual customer support? I thought the internet said that never happened.
Ubuntu 12, Firefox - could only see three lines before a scroll bar happened.

Also, I was able to type outside of the main textbox for some reason.
Yep. If I was an iPhone user and just bought a Pebble, I'd go to the App Store and search for "Pebble" to see what apps I could buy that work with my Pebble. It's the same thing I did when I got a Moto 360. I went to the Play Store and searched for "Android Wear" to find apps that make use of it. If I'd gotten a Pebble, I would've done the same thing.

It sucks for the developers of iOS apps that are meant to integrate with Pebble (or other similar devices). I assume this means you can't create an iOS app whose sole purpose is doing something with a Pebble watch since otherwise there's no real way to describe it in the app store (not one that would make for easy discoverability at least).
Will never forget how I (German) walked into a Safeway in San Francisco with my bag full of bottles and asked the cashier where the deposit-machine is. She had absolutely no clue what I was talking about.
Blank Label's “Anti-Unicorn” Approach to Building an Apparel Company
> Unacceptable TLS Certificate

It would be really nice if the new services commonly showcased on "Show HN" would take the time to correctly implement HTTPS. In fact, since my browser is set to strict-ssl enforcement, I cannot load the webpage at all.
The Corman Fantastic Four? If memory serves, it was quickly filmed just to keep the license.
The Economist also raised the point recently that these "offers" from the Government are essentially shakedowns, the risk to the bank if they actually fought the charges is so great that it is never in their interest to do anything but pay up.
When you consider that States as well as the Federal Government are capable of doing this the potential for shenanigans increases.

In both cases justice is not done, wrongdoers not actually punished etc.
Finally–Skate Where the Puck Is Going
Actually, at least for the US, fines paid to governmental agencies are generally non-deductible and so DB will take the full brunt of the fine to the bottom line.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they embrace you, then they extend you, then they extinguish you.
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Nope. Note that I didn't say "makes money." Economics isn't about money; it's about utility. Facebook didn't make anyone any money for a very long time—but it served a social need for people that they were willing to invest their time and mindshare into.

A stupid idea is one that serves nobody's needs; it has no monetary value, no social value, no value of any kind. Again, Pets.com: it sounds like something that could work on paper, but there's nobody (in 1999) that would be better-served by doing business with it than by ignoring it and doing what they were already doing.

To make this clearer, some "social good" examples might help:

- Food stamps are a smart idea. People in the targeted group are willing to go through the trouble of getting them, for what they get from them; people who can afford food aren't, so they don't. Since they can't be used to buy much other than food, they also aren't a common target for exploiters trying to make a public-handout money pump. The incentives work out.

- Ambulances (under their current model) are a horrendously stupid idea—they bill people extreme amounts for taking them to a hospital, such that the people most in need (the poorest people usually wait the longest before going to a hospital, and are therefore in the worst/most critical condition) are the ones most strongly disincentivized from taking them. The incentives don't work out at all.
The infections needed to have access to web console (in Synology case, that's port 5000).

Unless you are targeted, that's very difficult to achieve even in slightly secured networks (i.e. every possible toggle in settings is not ON).

When you are targeted, it does not matter, whether you use Synology or Dropbox, the approach is tailored to your situation.
Who is too dependent on Windows and has no superior alternatives? This is a laughably weak argument that's getting weaker every day. It sounds like a personal problem.
Claiming Apple is a monopoly because only they make iDevices, what I was responding to, is just as ignorant as saying Ford is a monopoly because only they make F-150s. Is that hard to understand?
"Bottled Water writes the initial snapshot to Kafka by turning every single row in the database into a message, keyed by primary key, and sending them all to the Kafka brokers. When the snapshot is done, every row that is inserted, updated or deleted similarly turns into a message."
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/syrian-man-middle-agai....

> The attack is not extremely sophisticated: the certificate is invalid in user's browsers, and raises a security warning.

> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/iranian-man-middle-att....

DigiNotar was compromised, not compelled.

> http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/32469/hacking/china-runs....

> the connection was established with a self-signed digital certificate.

> http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/chinese-government-executes....

> but the company’s SSL certificate is replaced by the intruders for a self-signed one
I'm getting the sense that QA means something dramatically different to the web developers of today...Seldom a day goes by when I don't find major errors (that I would fire people for not catching) on major web apps!!
I disagree, if you're wanting something to "go viral" or whatever 100 upvotes at a busy time, when there are 30 other submissions with over 100 in a similar timeframe is not nearly as useful as 100 upvotes on say Saturday morning when there are less submissions and less voting activity.

This is why others have done analysis on the "best time to post" they're not trying to gather upvotes they're trying to be on the front page for as long as possible... actually maybe that's a bad assumption on my part, I figured this was about an eyeball funnel, perhaps people are karma gathering? if it is the latter then absolutely upvotes is the correct metric.

Personally, I think the focus should be on creating something great and let that be what drives the upvotes, if its about getting internet points, umm I've already spent too much time discussing something I don't care about.
Almost. So close. But no cigar.
Go generate is for the package creator, not the package consumer. So you, as a package creator, may create a "generic" red-black tree, but unless you pre-generate all my use cases for all my data types, I can't pull your package and then use go generate to create Tree<int> and Tree<string> if that makes sense.
Do we know how the app approval process works internally?

I've never been involved with iOS, but from the various articles I've read, it sounds like there is a large team involved with approvals, their process is largely manual, their internal documentation is lacking, and they're probably missing simple things like checklists.
I've heard of the light powered camera before. Cool concept, needs work though. Defiantly a stepping stone!

Question though, is it 'light' or 'solar' powered?

It appears to be light powered by photons which is crazy.
This is similar to http://wrttn.in, which a HN member created.
I think syntax matters more than some would like to imagine. I tried ruby, erlang and elixir. I went with python over ruby, lisp over erlang and I am playing with lfe (lisp flavoured erlang) over elixir. Function is important, but if you get most of it, why not choose the best syntax as a second factor in deciding? Besides, all the 'end's in elixir play out in my head of somebody ending all sentences with 'like'.
The problem with trading bans is that they effectively kill the bank, or a substantial chunk - which then causes all the knock on effects of a bank failing which might very well be more expensive to the Government / society in the long run.
It all comes back to "too big to fail".
Gayy:

Someone is editing the message right now. Please close the browser window or tab and come back later.
Not a fan of overriding default shortcuts (ctrl-p)
Really? No way to know what college was about. No media in the UK, no radio, no access to the internet for the poor? Ok, that's a culture gap I'm going to just have to take your word for.

The article was about posh universities going after poor students, and making education work for them. Like minorities, its important to seek out Qualified candidates (not just some quota system that allows anybody). So the 'no poor kids apply' hurdle is moot. The Uni is supposed to be looking for them.

And they do exist. There's absolutely no monopoly on brains among the upper class.

And about how far ahead 'private schools' are - some of that is true; some of that is mythology, perpetrated by TV. In the end, its the students that make the reputation - and by definition, public schools have poor students, and poor students underrepresent achievers.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear your experience, its not all that different from mine.
I've generally come to associate Amazon shipments with dinged packages, so I'd for one look forward to the circus that'll ensue from this.
So everyone who runs Hadoop is installing junk? Seems like plenty of other companies have been able to build businesses on it without adhering to your Debian-only rules...
Only 3 lines visible on scroll.
Why would i use this over Sublime Text?
Why is it even trending?
As I mentioned, I was using IntelliJ mostly and I'm aware of those warts with Eclipse as well.
-H is for headers; yes, but basic auth is actually the base64-encoded string of user:pass , so if constructing it manually you'd want to do something like curl -H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n 'user:pass' |base64)" http://whatever .

Curl provides a shortcut for this as --user; e.g. curl --user name:pass http://example.com

Try it yourself with -vvv to see all the headers from both ends. Ref: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html#Basic_Authentica...

http basic auth protocol: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
This attack has existed in the wild since the mid-1990s; it is literally the reason SSH exists. We didn't call our TCP hijacking tools "quantum inserts" back then, but that's exactly what they were. The only reason we didn't redirect HTTP connections to malicious sites is that in the 1990s, that would have been a waste of time; the r-commands were much lower hanging fruit.
If I remember right people in the 1980's had trouble with Audis that drove themselves, although not that fire.
>I have to pay extra to recycle, which I do not think is correct.

what.

Who's charging you? Local government?
Would you describe today's web browsers as “innovative?”
Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71 demolish caricatures of his thought (2013)
Arduino + Chromebook
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I have my browser set to everything default and I get:

blankslate.io uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
He has. Just in recent years Bucky Barnes and the Falcon has all taken up the mantle. Both of those after the events of the comic version of Civil War. But there's been other versions too.
Military pursued concealable lie detector for interrogations
On a side note, I am consistently reminded of the extraordinary skill level the staff of The Economist employs when writing photo captions and article headlines.
> saying it's on another smartphone doesn't add value to the description

Except for all the cross-platform IM apps out there where it does add value. People want to know whether their friends could also use a certain app so they can talk to each other.
"Most recycled materials should be cheaper than virgin commodities"

Surprisingly this just isn't true. It takes a lot of work and chemicals to clean inks and glues out of paper for recycling.

Penn & Teller looked into this in an episode of Bullshit! a while back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExEVZlQia4

Aluminum and clear glass are very efficient to recycle, plastics and colored glass depend on commodity prices, and paper is just a terrible idea to recycle. It's much better for the environment to farm trees for making paper, then put that paper in landfills and harvest the methane gas the paper emits when it decomposes.
It can be hard to be a good citizen if the conditions of your parole prevent you from working.

Given the conditions, this guy has been extremely lucky to land a job.
Have you seen http://www.battlecode.org/ and http://bwapi.github.io/ ?
> If you have to execute bulk operations, your only option is to first sync everything to a local machine, then move stuff around there (or delete it) and wait for the low performance desktop client to shovel everything back up upstream.

> It’s such a flawed design.

> One major advantage of cloud storage and selective sync is that I conveniently want to be able to re-organise files and folders through my Browser, without actually being forced to download everything first.

Hmm. The way I see it the Web UI is a bonus and a fall back when you are not near the computer where it's much easier to move files and folders around. Dropbox was sold and still sell as `files on your devices synced everywhere´ not `central mainline repo that downloads to your devices´.

I am old school, I still think that file management in the browser doesn't work well.

But I agree the desktop client (win and mac) got slower and slower (UI wise). My debian installation runs a previous version that is much faster.

I am glad they aren't packing it with new features that would disturb the dropbox mental model every layman has.
How do you know these new initiatives haven't worked out?

Keep in mind that it took >5 years for Prime and AWS to take off. When they first launched, they lacked many features and no one gave a second look at them.
Looks like the trial is underway or so [1]

Still, only 13 people charged in what as institutionalized corruption. I believe the leaders of these companies were knowledgeable about what happened, or should have been.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/20/rabobank-libor-all...
Market makers are obligated to keep lots of orders way outside the NBBO in order to maintain an "orderly market".

If a trade occurs at $10.00 and then the next trade is $12.00, that's considered "not orderly". So a market maker must keep orders at $10.00, $10.20, $10.40, ..., $11.80, $12.00. This way if someone comes in and buys everything then the sequence of trades will be $10.00, $10.20, $10.40, etc.
New York has those bottle in/ cash out machines. If you have a bottle that the store doesn't sell it would reject it.

Recycling is very regional. Some states don't have bottle deposits.

Where I live now, they gave up on the rules that nobody followed (plastic # types in particular) and have "single stream" where everything that might be recyclable goes to one plant and is sorted by machines/people.

I remember having to buy my bag in germany because I didn't have one. Ikea did the same thing here for a while (no bags), but they have plastic ones now.
> "Tits or GTFO."

> Surprisingly, that didn't deter Kylie. In fact, she responded by posting a picture of herself in a bikini. "So we started talking," says Higinio. "And from there it was just love.

This has to be the first instance in history where that line has resulted in marriage.
Even if you are Mayor of London and haven't lived in the UK since you were a child. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30932891
It's interesting to be reminded in little ways of the importance (and all-or-nothing nature) of opsec. It's something most of us don't really think about, since we tend not to consider ourselves as having a reason for it.
> "It's just suck to the core"

You are not helping anyone out here. Why does C# suck for you?

I find the tooling for C# projects using VS as a very nice feature set. Look at what VS supports today. Grunt, npm and bower are supported by VS out of the box. Also, nuget package manager has saved me many DLL hell problems that could have occurred without it. VS also supports many third-party extensions and tooling, which is what makes me thinks it is one of the best IDEs out there.