skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in southern Humboldt County, in the heart of the emerald triangle. Marijuana used to be "mom and pop" businesses, often with legitimate businesses used as fronts. More recently, we've seen more Mexican cartel activity which has increased the violence, among other things.

I now live in Colorado where I voted for marijuana legalization (though I neither use nor grow), but back home, the growers don't want legalization because it would destroy their profits.

It's a very interesting market to look into. There's also a show called Weed Country that follows growers in the emerald triangle.
99pi is great. I've also been really enjoying The Allusionist: http://www.theallusionist.org/
Yeah, if you really want to do this, you can use chrome.permissions with "optional_permissions" set in your manifest requesting all urls -- then call permissions.request() on invocation to add a specific host.

See: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permissions
I had never used a tweening library with easing functions. I had used my own easing function before but not a library. So I threw one together, made a small sample to test it. Turned out better than I expected.

http://greggman.github.io/doodles/tween.html
I'm on permanent vacation as far as the NYT knows
The Birth of a Movable Trip
Self-driving cars.
Just idle speculation, what happens when 30 follow-me drones are on the slopes at the same time? Will they all be able to avoid each other?
My menu button on the right of the address/search bar doesn't work anymore either.
(OSX 10.10.2)

Gonna uninstall/reinstall
Interesting. I posted a Chrome extension that did the same thing a while back (WSJ specific) and HN unanimously told me I was in the wrong, so I took it down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109987

This time the comments seem to be mostly positive.
Announcing the new uBiome Data Website (hint: microbiome timeline)
The biggest showstopper for me on this is the hugely disappointing top speed (40 km/h). I'm an alpine skier (ex-racer) and the only times I go that slow is on transport stages. This thing literally wouldn't be able to keep up with Usain Bolt running the 100m. It needs at least twice the top speed.
Is Verizon competing with Comcast, who bought its own media company (NBC Universal)? Are the big communications companies now competing over vertical integration?

If they invest in vertical integration, that might give them a strong incentive to maximize their investments by priortizing their own media over others, degrading the open Internet.
I Beta-Tested the Apple Watch So You Don't Have To
Guidelines for Animation Timing
>Which makes sense for a civil case, but it's not much of a guide as to what criminal cases would be viable.

But that is the guide book for criminal proceedings against individuals. The prosecutor dog piles on every single charge they can and then offers a scaled down plea bargain.
Re: shortstuffsushi

Generally, merchants don't take AMEX because it's expensive to do so. The fee rates are usually higher (~3.5% vs ~2.5% and there is a monthly access fee as well.
> Yes, invading everyone's privacy and illegally searching them will catch more bad guys. I don't think anyone's arguing it won't.

I am arguing it won't.

What it does is it makes it easier for the government to manufacture bad guys* to then continue manipulating the public.

[*] How is that done? Gov. agency finds patsy; Gov. agency entraps patsy; Gov. agency blames patsy, says he is a terrorist, arrests/kills/tortures patsy, gets confession, passes new legislation, all in a day's work. If not a patsy, an ally disguised as "enemy".
It used to be a goddawful cesspool of misinformation and poor advice. Thus, http://www.w3fools.com/. It's gotten better, but you're better off with MDN.
BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox
Flattr is more about donations, not payments. As far as I know, you can't detect if the person has flattred your page.
Waterproof will be amazing safety for kitesurfing and surfing in general, quadcopters are super cool, but you don't want to drop one in salty water. There are already techie stuff for kiters, we use the Woo device and gopros a lot.

Most areas have a club to keep members under control (irresponsible kiting can be dangerous to people not in the sea, unlike surfing) ... our club is keen on getting Woos, GoPros, webcams, internet enabled wind-o-meters etc... Hope they decide to get one of these!!
> No. Not like that. Basically, its Google saying publishes must do this or they won't send traffic their way (via search result / SEO)

Links published --anywhere, not just Google-- for content behind paywalls are called ads.
srcset! Finally, responsive images are gaining ground.
Serious question: Why does Tinder need an API?
search the old feeds. I see this question posted regularly. I think people get tired of answering it, but those older threads are out there.
It'd be doable to set up something with aalib[1] or libcaca[2] (for color support) - the resolution would be pretty bad though ;)

I'd give it a shot myself, but unfortunately I'm not familiar with Go or Tinder's API.

[1] http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
[2] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
I Have lived in Humboldt county my whole life. Growing weed is not as romantic as it seems. It has definitely helped the economy of our county, but it has hurt us too. Rats are attracted to weed, and growers put out Decon to kill them, which eventually kills the owls. A researcher documented this to get growers to stop. Someone killed her dog by feeding it Decon. We are also having a problem with creeks drying up from growers drawing water. The state is starting to crack down on this, just trying to get growers to be compliant
> I do think calling those plug-ins non-standard is a bit of a joke, given that Flash had 90+% market penetration for years

Flash was also proprietary. It's closed-source, patent-encumbered, and has a single implementation. It's completely under the control of Adobe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard

> For those users, a lot of major sites still "don't work properly" today because of Apple's arrogance.

As Apple explained countless times, it is not because of "arrogance" that they did not support Flash. Adobe weren't able to supply them with a working mobile Flash runtime, and Flash's resource use was a big problem (memory, CPU, battery life), so it couldn't run on mobile devices. Recall that the first iPhones had severely limited RAM (128MB!) and CPUs, and even when, years later, Android devices with Flash bundled were released, they couldn't run it terribly well. Flash was also a massive security and stability headache: as Apple loved to point out, it was the single largest source of application crashes on OS X.
Duck tape and led torch (flashlight).
You could dynamically (and temporarily - use chrome.permissions.remove when the tab navigates or closes) request the webRequest permission for the current host when the user clicks the browser action icon. Yes, that would mean clicking again to confirm whenever the user wants to use the extension, although it's possible that Chrome will remember what permissions have been granted and not prompt the user for future use on the same site.
Shaping Big Data Through Constraints Analysis
Apple beats Xiaomi in China, now No. 1
As big of a stretch as punishing teachers changing question answers under RICO?
That's oddly scary to watch for some reason. I'm not sure why?

Maybe due to the fact drones are primarily used for war at the moment...
Free Mobile Ready Responsive Website Design Report – IBOtube
Same concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VudWv9pQNdE
Here is a hypothetical exchange.

Statement: The phone should have a glass back.
Response: The phone should be durable.

The only reasonable interpretation of the response is that it calls into question the durability of phones with glass backs. Otherwise, it is a non sequitur.

Similarly, the only reasonable interpretation of the quoted statement is that it calls into question whether a board composed of 30% women can also be 100% composed of capable people. Otherwise it makes no sense as a response.
Well, is not about the speed of the _drone_ but being able to fly in a 20knts wind, with 30, maybe more, gusts. Which means in order to keep course it needs to know the wind speed and compensate. It's been done ( for auto-boats ) but I doubt this drone has this.

Last time on Hintertux at 3500m we had also strong winds while snowboarding. I'd give it a test nonetheless!
Agreed -- see this never-ending Chrome bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177351
Wow this is pretty cool. Any feedback on Elixir?
Like GoPro, just 10 times better?
Related drone camera projects on kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=camera+dr...
Wonder if you can buy a few and tell them to follow each other.
The minute drones like these start shipping they'll be banned from all ski resort faster than you can say pow.

Also, with a top speed of 40 km/h this isn't able to keep up with anyone who's past the rookie stage skiing/snowboarding. So their marketing is very misleading, either by intention or because these guys don't know shit about skiing.
I used to be a freelance writer. I love writing. I wrote for several magazines, a daily, and a weekly. I even consulted at a newspaper back in the 80s installing desktop publishing capabilities.

I love printed media.

Printed media is also dead.

I wish this were not the case, and I know lots of folks are trying really hard to prevent its complete destruction, but heck if I can see a way forward.

Google is not the magic gateway to the internet, and sites that treat it like it is will have this happen to them, just like the sun follows rain.

I do not enjoy pointing these facts out, and I worry tremendously about the quality of journalism, writing, and online discourse. But the facts are the facts. This has been a losing battle long enough for all of us to figure out how it ends.
>Among today’s physicists, there are some who still believe the cosmos cycles in and out of being in this way.

It may take science some time to grudgingly test hypotheses drawn from mysticism and metaphysics. So perhaps not so much due to sentimentality as pride?
Funny that WhatsApp is somehow WAY more valuable than AOL is. I feel old.
You'd rather use an expensive, noisy drone that works for twenty minutes than a $15 headlamp that runs for hours?
I propose that we collect this data on dogs when people register them, so that when the owners leave shit on the sidewalk they can be identified and burned at the stake.
What else are their native apps supposed to use?
Google is OK with it as long as you show the same content to a user going through Search as you do to the bot. They don't care if you show different things to users coming through other sources or directly hitting the URL.
Great name choice!
Did you miss the part I mentioned about putting that on s3?
Leaving unpowered SSDs in a warm room can kill your data fast
Whatsapp is worth 19B to Facebook, not to the rest of the industry.
> To be fair, I was a self taught programmer (albeit PHP) and I was on my second or third programming job before I came across a modulus in the wild.

Knowing of an existing modulus operator/function isn't necessary to solve FizzBuzz; there's a fairly simple solution with just add/increment, assignment, and conditional logic without modulus.
Correction: a set of microbenchmarks whose own documentation emphatically states the difficulty of drawing any conclusions from those results.

Comparing different programming languages is notoriously difficult, particularly since the metric is underdefined. The best programmers might write faster code in language A compared to language B, but if average programmers write code that is no faster, does that mean language A is better than language B?
Fiber is future proof but most people don't have it. The process of getting it is called growth. If it's the case that making the "pipes" a public utility would have hindered growth, then you would never have got fiber.

And 100M ethernet over Cat5e is pretty useless. Standard WiFi these days is 150-300 Mbps. I regret not running Cat6 in to my extension just to be safe.
Jeremy,

Useful plugin but BLAH chrome! Any chance you will port this to Firefox?
It should probably be noted that this is apparently for the "2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon" (https://stupidhackathon.github.io/).

So... yes, the point is that it's stupid and amusing.
Announcing HashiConf
Sorry, what? How on earth would this be better than a headlamp, apart from the "look at my drone, my drone is amazing" part?
I see someone like Gopro acquiring these guys
The paywall model is currently broken:

* not culturally integrated the way we don't mind paying for smartphone apps;

* not atomic enough (we want to pay cents for an article, not dollars for a website, nor tens of dollars for a long-term subscription);

* it raises convenience and trust issues;

* it competes against ad-based models, which adblockers have failed to bankrupt until now;

* paywall sites aren't taken into account properly by Google et al.

Relieving pressure from the currently broken paywall model won't help fix it. Making the situation untenable is the only way to make it change. The most effective move would be to kill ads as a business model. Of course, don't expect Google, an advertising agency, to help us do that. And how to pay author while keeping Internet searchable remains an open problem AFAIK.
Usain Bolt does around 38 km/h
Chicken embryos have been altered so that the birds grow dinosaur-like snouts
Surprised we aren't seeing the Gov jump in with Antitrust laws. Verizon can't have 4G AND dialup! Just not fair
Apparently having a few javascript frameworks under your belt can put you on the right side of the law.
I just got the DJI Phantom 3 and got hit by the blades after a collision. Sliced up my arms -- didn't require stitches, but 10 days later i still have evidence that the blades aren't totally harmless.
Show HN: Bezier Playground
> I understand your frustration, but I think you're complaining that you didn't get an option that was never realistically on the table in the first place. Your respect for the W3C matters a lot less to them than millions of people being able to watch content produced by a billion dollar industry, which much of that industry simply isn't willing to make available without DRM-style safeguards at the present time.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I also gather downvotes whenevver I make a comment like this. The current crop of content producers will not produce content without some guarantees/safeguards. There was never an option to outright refuse these conditions because we would simply be left with no content at all or it would be completely locked to proprietary hardware and/or platforms.
Looks like an episode of Peep Show.
What's even worse is that when you speak to a specialist doctor they state that their is no causal link between s et and UC. They are happy to keep prescribing meds. They also refuse to accept that a course of antibiotics was the trigger that started me off.
I think this happens in reddit sometimes when people pick out nuances in the comments. It's also lead to the meme of "I come to the comments to see why the headline is wrong."

So yes, this effect can be mitigated, but I doubt it affects the credibility of the publisher much at all.
This is the sort of thing that can really only be answered by asking you to clearly specify the alternative you are proposing. You want a world in which... what... being altruistic makes you feel bad? Isn't altruism supposed to be good? Shouldn't doing right things feel right? (I grant this is not always the case, but we're talking normative here... shouldn't good things feel good?)

How crazy would it be to say "I'm going to build an AI that is selfless and altruistic. When it performs an act of altruism, it will be penalized."? That's not going to end well.

Do we want a world in which it doesn't make you feel anything at all, but by sheer force of rationality our apparently-disembodied consciousnesses choose to do good things? Well... presumably they're going to do it because it creates good outcomes, not merely because altruism is somehow intrinsically good in some abstract, unquestionable Platonic sense.

Altruism just doesn't work as its own moral principle somehow abstractly severed from its effects. We desire it precisely because it has good effects. This is not separable from the desirability of altruism... if altruistic behaviors simply had bad effects we would not continue to advocating for them anyhow because altruism was simply its own moral good, we would call those actions evil.

I'd propose that "true selflessness" of the sort that many people seem to propose in this sort of discussion is merely a fuzzy concept that has no possible manifestation in the real world. Clarifying the concept of "true selflessness" clarifies it it right out of existence.
The prize categories are hilarious.
The big drug database in the sky: One firefighter’s year-long legal nightmare
Walking an extra two minutes each hour may offset hazards of sitting too long
w3schools is fine for students just starting out. Though I'd direct them to the MSN articles (but I'm guessing Google can't)
>Improved page load times via speculative connection warmup

turning into chrome!
Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
TeslaCrypt Looks Like AlphaCrypt Malware Uses TOR to Transfer Ransomware
Java has log4j…Objective-C has CocoaLumberjack…and now Swift has CleanroomLogger
Alternate Ruby implementations are much more popular because MRI is much, much worse than CPython in terms of performance and memory usage. Alternate implementations are therefore much less important for Python.
I can't imagine that propellers play nicely with kites...
I support subscription content. But you can't have your cake and eat it too -- in other words, you can't put content behind a paywall and also have it publicly indexed by search engines.

Remove the trick where it's okay for Google searches to circumvent the paywall and this extension becomes useless.
I think the OP may be referring to a public API. I can't think of any positive practical uses for the public API as-is. In the hands of a more malicious person, it could be a tool to automate harassing users.
From the FAQ:
"What is your policy on refunds?
If you decide to cancel your pre-order before Lily ships, we will provide a full refund to you."
Yeah. I kiteboard and I would love to make some images using Lilly. But I'm pretty sure eventually Lilly may crash into the lines or kite.
Abstract of the paper can be found here: http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/early/2015/04/29/CJN.08...
Maybe you want to build the Swipe App To Rule Them All, or maybe you want to build HotOrNot for Tinder: "The Hotttest People On Tinder" [sic].
Amazon Dash Teardown
> "Should" car purchases be negotiations? Well, they aren't at all dealers or with all brands but it's the way things have evolved in the US generally. I don't consider it right or wrong in some general sense; it's just the way things are.

Not for too much longer.
I'm not the author, but I have looked over the source code. The project only supports XYZ format files, which are super easy to parse. The colors and atomic radii are all given in one large dictionary. So the amount of chemistry and physics present in the code is minimal
From the README: "built at the 2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon". I'd say it definitely doesn't need a public API, but for their apps on various platforms, it's probably useful.
Instead of companies hiring a full time engineer that works 50-60 hours (causing him/her to burn out and quit), how about hiring 2 part timers working 30 hours, allowing more family time.

Paying salary for 1 full timer may seem a little lower than 2 part timers initially. But with better family life, I would think you will get better productivity and recover the investment by retaining workers better.
Url changed from http://avc.com/2015/05/the-patent-act/, which points to this.
Hmmm? What OS do you run? Netflix works great on the Linux version of Google Chrome. Yes, you have to use proprietary software, but it does work.
AOL Has Been in Talks to Spin Off HuffPost as Part of Verizon Acquisition Deal
The "blackbox" approach for machine learning is the same concept Simon Chan used to build Prediction.io
The bet there is "would developers be fine with using a blackbox?". Or would they prefer to have full control on the algo inside the box?
Nice reading tho.
Self-Destructing cookies extension also keeps the read count at 0 after you close the tab. As an added bonus the extension should also help prevent you from being tracked across the web by various advertising/state agencies.
For those who want to improve patent quality, let the patent office keep its funds so it can invest in updated technology and hiring and training patent examiners. Currently, those applying for patents pay fees to the patent office, but congress takes most of the money for other stuff (e.g., pet projects in their districts). Let the patent office keep its funds paid for by patent applicants, so they can be re-invested in the system.
The FAQ says they're working on having multiple cameras follow one person
If their only option is to produce content without "safeguards", they'll produce it without safeguards. Content will be pirated regardless of whether browsers have DRM.
you can see all the podcasts here: http://www.radiotopia.fm/
Intel last keynote demoed very capable drones. They're showing it off, it won't be long until it hits the market. They named the components RealSense, a miniature kinect I guess. Nice demo at 4:55:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0BqJvsF9k&t=295
Because the Founding Fathers understood the nature of authority (absolute power corrupts absolutely).
I probably have no clue what I am talking about, but wouldn't it be sorta like steering forces?

Seek A
Avoid B

In your case, a ton of Bs in terms of leaves, branches and etc.

I guess it would need a wide scan to detect if there is a path either vertically or horizontally.
This is the true hacker mentality right here
I cannot disagree more with this line of thinking and the rest of the commenter's general ultra-pedantic attitude.

Please, stop thinking like an "expert" and put yourself in the mind of an 18 year old who is unfamiliar with all of the stuff. Yes, the author could be infinitely more pedantic, precise, and helpful for one specific career outcome (being exactly like you). This means precisely jack for a confused 18-year-old looking for guidance on what areas to spend their time learning programing topics while being medium-ly effective.

Please can the pedantic nonsense and try to focus on the goal.
The issue is that if it can modify one page, it can use that to inject code to request data from any web site. Those requests will contain your cookies for those sites so your data can be revealed.
Sidecar Partners with Meadow for Medical Marijuana Deliveries
W3F is brought up quite often, and W3S receives quite a lot of hate, criticism (not always constructive).

But I still use W3S when it's the first result in google search and I am ok with it. It might not be the best learning resource but it's pretty great if you forgot some CSS property, or how some JS method is called. So W3S is fairly good as a cheat sheet.
"The new introspectiveness announced the demise of an established set of traditional faiths centred on work and the postponement of gratification, and the emergence of a consumption-oriented lifestyle ethic centred on lived experience and the immediacy of daily lifestyle choices."

If my generation was called the "me" generation, how would you describe this generation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation
Now there's a stinging criticism of HN.

Sorry habosa. You're not popular enough to do disruptive things.
Well, there's Whatsapp Web, but it oddly requires you keep your phone connected.
Originally had "(stupid hackathon project)" in the title, but it was removed by the mods.
http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi...