skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did cover all of these points to some extent in the post, but could of course be wrong.

- I'm aware that similar sites exist in other countries. From talking to people in many such countries my understanding is that they are not as influential (see numbers in the post on the reach and influence; e.g half the voters using one of these sites, and a sixth of those users just taking the top recommendation).

- There is no ordering at all to the list, it's formed completely by the voters. (Well, there's an ordering in that everyone candidate is randomly assigned a 2-3 digit id number). This is to me a fundamental difference, since there is no obvious fallback option for "I just want to vote for this party", and that case becomes entirely about name recognition. It should be possible to check whether this really does make a difference, by checking what proportion of celebrities got "accidentally" elected under the different systems.

- Yes, the first Finnish version was from the mid-90s, and the story of the site I built predates OkCupid too. But when you're explaining X in terms of Y, there's no assertion of causality (or even of Y existing before X). What matters is whether Y is a cultural referent that's likely to be shared by the readers.
With every new version of Windows, Explorer gets worse and worse. I personally switched to Directory Opus long time ago.
> However, primary occupancy in the major properties under discussion here (the three along 57th plus the Time Warner center and a few others) is incredibly low, and basically speaks to high-end real estate bubble.

So? I don't care if you bought it to live in, to invest in, or to farm pigs in. It should be taxed according to the actual market value, which pretty much means taxed based on the price you paid for it (at least in the year you bought it).
The author of this article is guilty of his own criticisms. He lambasts the fact that people have mixed up the facts of what has and has not been shown by the various parties testing the device, but he himself casually lumps the EM Drive and the Cannae drive into the same concept, when in reality they are two separate implementations of an engine that takes advantage of this unknown force researchers keep measuring.

This is an important distinction, because he mentions that the concept has been debunked because the test designed not to produce thrust in fact did. The null thrust test did in fact take place, but only for the Cannae drive. The theory behind the Cannae drive is that it contains slots along the side of the cavity that produce the thrust. The EM Drive does not include these slots and is based on a totally different interpretation of how the force is generated. The null test was performed without these slots, and in no way is related to the EM Drive other than it proves that slots are not needed.

Here is a decent write up (it's missing sources, but frankly there isn't much out there yet) on Reddit that was posted a few weeks back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/34cq1b/the_fact...
The Foresight Linux project shuts down
It's an optional setting (right-click in the area next to the address bar to change it). I just prefer it that way, as I use IE since IE4 on Win95. Though, I am pretty pissed with the upcoming "Edge" and will probably switch to Firefox or Chrome.
Wasn't this already known (or presumed) before?
Wow, what's up Microsoft?
Thanks.

As @frik noted, it uses "I'm feeling lucky" feature of Google. It requires the page to be indexed to work. If the page isn't indexed then it won't work. But since the pages you'd like to see are indexed almost always, it shouldn't be a problem.
That formal standard also leaves huge swathes of code undefined. Not exactly what you want for "safety critical areas".
it's not particularly interesting or inspiring... maybe that's just me.
Yup. It is! I wish more people would take the plunge.
Is Sketch really better than Photoshop?
SF judge rules against Googler who bought apt building and forced out tenants
I'm sorry, but Jim Sensenbrenner has no room to complain. After the Section 215 warrantless wiretapping program was first revealed back in 2006, he voted for the Protect America Act[1] to legalize it. Then he helped renew it in 2008 by voting for the FISA Amendments Act[2]. After the Snowden leaks began, Sensenbrenner suddenly became opposed to them. Later on in 2013, he admitted publicly that as a rule he avoids attending any classified briefings because he doesn't want to be burdened with the responsibility of protecting classified information and would rather find out about these things when they leak to the mainstream media.[3] So every time NSA came down and briefed the program to the intelligence and judicial committees, Sensenbrenner shirked his oversight responsibilities. Now he wants everyone to believe that he's hard at work protecting their civil liberties.

[1] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll836.xml

[2] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll437.xml

[3] http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/11/the-shameless-revisionism...
Even if it's possible, it's incredibly unlikely compared to an automobile accident.

If there were as many drones (of that size & rotor size) overhead as there are vehicles on the road, I'd still expect to have zero to single-digit fatalities from drones every single year--at least from "falling out of the sky onto people's bodies."

Perhaps there are more likely cases where the drone is the indirect cause, like breaking someone's windshield and causing a fatal car accident.
> If the work will be long and hard there are better uses of your time than working to ensure that "streaming providers" can oppose Mozilla's vision of an open web.

Your criticism is misguided; as soon as the W3C endorsed EME, it was all but a done deal that Firefox would have to support it. Microsoft and Google have no interest in keeping proprietary software out of their browsers, and the only alternative is for Firefox to fall behind in both standards compliance and market share. That serves nobody's interest.

If what you want is Firefox but without EME, then the answer is: Firefox. (Firefox doesn't require you to use EME). If you really want Firefox but without EME even available by default, then use Iceweasel[0].

[0] which is what I'm using to type this comment, FWIW.
It would be cool if the JavaScript engine was interchangable in NodeJS and IO.JS so you could pick Chakra, V8 or SpiderMonkey very easily. SpiderMonkey is faster than V8 these days on a lot of benchmarks.
They are using this API: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn903710.aspx
It's just an abbreviated form of the nets shown in this (http://blog.otoro.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/sli...) image, the 3 outputs displayed correspond to the "forward", "jump", and "back" on the diagram, and the 8 inputs correspond to the agents' and balls' position vectors (which you can see in the Brain() code in slimevolley_pro.js).
@elihu
Many people would agree with that point.
That is until your cheap drone hits a paraglider, or other light vehicle that is actually allowed to operate in this air space.

In most legislations I am aware of, RC flight requires an operator to be in control of the drone.
It could also automatically trigger some sort of warning on a high-enough acceleration detection. Enough Gs that it's likely that you've broken an arm - send out several emails to other people who you've marked as being with you. Enough Gs that it's likely that you just feel a fifty feet - dial 911 directly.
When was the last time they went all the way?
Shark project: we are building a modern performance management system
Currently System Performance Management is painful(and suck). We are going to fix it.
All is open sourced, any feedback is welcome.

https://github.com/sharklinux/shark
Their point is that the Patent Office would have a "perverse incentive" to encourage/increase the number of filings and the numbers of patents it grants if the Office were allowed to keep the proceeds raised from fees, which you correctly point out is not the case right now.
I'm not a web designer: just wondering, how does someone go about designing a website with such animations as you scroll? I know there are a lot about these days; are they all custom, or is there some tool chucking all these out?
Now if only I could uninstall flash. One day...
Seems equally fair for a city to require the standard tax rate regardless of whether the owner lives there. What interest does a city have in allowing residential housing to be bought up by absentee owners paying lower taxes vs. locals who (a) need housing in order to contribute to the community and (b) will pay the standard tax rate?
Show HN: Screenkit – Ready-to-build mobile app templates for Sketch 3
> Are A-10s cheaper to operate than a G-V? (costing at least 8,000 per hr)

Not necessarily, but they're a hell of a lot more robust. Thunderstorms are a really violent environment and no place for an executive jet.
Exactly what I was looking for; a command line interface for an image based dating service. What's up with this 'command line for everything' fad? Balls to britches
go bears. i just placed my order.
/r/startups

/r/entrepreneur
Interesting that Microsoft forked Node instead of io.js. The Microsoft repo says, "This branch is 16 commits ahead, 29 commits behind joyent:master".
I've talked with more than one set of specialized lawyers who had the domain knowledge necessary to identify a lucrative problem and imagine a productized solution. They all considered creating a start-up, to the point of talking to me about it, but in the end they just kicked the tires for a while and never seemed to do anything.

My theory: if you've got the specialized domain knowledge to do something in the legal space that isn't already being done to death, you're likely very well paid already, and quitting to focus on a startup would involve a huge opportunity cost. That dramatically cuts down on the number of startups that actually get created - it's just too much security to give up.

That said, there's still a good number of legal startups out there.
Actually, I do more development work than SEO, so referring to my "entire field of work" is a bit. . .well. . .erroneous.

But hey, whatever makes you feel better pal.
Thunderstorms can the thought of as being driven by one of nature's particle accelerators. The electric fields in thunderstorms can run up to at least 100 kV/m and maybe more, so getting potential drops well into the mega-volt range over relatively short distances is not too difficult: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/amu/journals/jamc-2008.pdf

Electron-positron pairs require an energy of just over 1 MeV to be created (the energy of a single electron charge dropping through a potential of 1 MV). So there is more than enough energy kicking around to generate pairs fairly copiously (positrons are always produced with a companion electron in this kind of process, although they may be produced alone in certain types of radioactive decay.)

The interesting part of this work is it seems there was a large volume where there were a lot of positrons, and the specific mechanism capable of producing that situation is not known. Really interesting science in an extreme and transient environment!
Nothing beats working with a nice energel pen (http://www.amazon.com/Pentel-EnerGel-Millimeter-Assorted-BL7...) and simple notebooks from muji (http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/notebooks.html)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc
This was a long time coming. I remember some MS folks talking to Ryan Dahl about doing this back at nodeconf 2011.
Additional problems: running into deadlocks because a standard stream is not being read, ensuring cancellation of the external program when the parent is cancelled.
Honda advertises it as being sure that everything on this huge checklist is double-checked and ensured to be working properly before you buy it. The salespeople specifically tell you that. My point is that ads and salespeople lie (surprise) and the "certified" bit doesn't mean anything.
> With every new version of Windows, Explorer gets worse and worse.

This criticism is a bit misplaced here, since the whole reason for this limitation is due to backward compatibility with older versions of Windows (and software written for older versions).

It's not like this is a new change in Windows; it's been there for ages.
I'm curious as to why anyone would want this?

I guess if you consider the new DRM integration a potential attack vector it removes that possibility.

But, if you're going to install this in the first place you won't be consuming DRM content - so you probably won't even be visiting the sites that have it anyway and using the feature.
the chances are good: http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/05/12/bringing-no...
It's the large volume at high positron density that seems to be the new observation that can't be explained by what we know about positron production in thunderstorms currently.
Mmmmmm dinosaur-like snouts. Off to McD's for some nugs!
You're not being fair to his or her question.

Yes, most cities cannot attract billionaires like New York. But London or Hong Kong can. And London has been much more successful at it than New York lately.

Fun fact: the states with the most billionaires per capita are... Oklahoma, Oregon, and Ohio. New York comes in at #4.
What did everybody make of the benchmarks cited in the article? I couldn't really understand what they actually represented, or if I should put much stock in them. I was surprised that Rust didn't come out better in those.
Doesn't work, I wrote "Meticulously hand crafted by PixelAmbacht" and all of it got through!
It provides some redundancy, but 8 motors is better in that area IMHO.
Link to said youtube series?
What about the license of Node.js/Chromium? Isn't linking a closed source library (Chakra) problematic?

You know it includes multiple code parts under various licenses, Wikipedia says:
BSD license, MIT License, LGPL, MS-PL and MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licensed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser) )

There is a reason why major open source projects like Linux, etc. choose licenses like GNU GPL v2+. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
Well, I'm working on a startup that's based on Open Source software, but right now everything is funded out of my pocket, essentially. We plan to sell subscriptions to the official, certified, released version(s), ala Red Hat, as well as offering a SaaS based on our offerings, but we don't have paying customers just yet.
A lot of Ruby is about the ecosystem and tooling nowadays (like Java, ironically!) so https://howistart.org/posts/ruby/1 might be a useful starter as it really digs into that side of things, with the code part being mostly obvious in nature.
Testing view controllers with Quick and Nimble
Read for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
Amazon drone patent imagines delivery that comes to you with one click
Wish I had known I could compose something from existing functional libs, but I created this simple function to solve that very problem.
https://gist.github.com/angstwad/bf22d1822c38a92ec0a9
I believe your foundation for this argument is flawed and doesn't answer my statement: just because something is easy, does not make it right.

"People shouldn't do it" is the fundamental way laws and regulations work. You shouldn't damage property or steal items or assault people. But you can. Very easily. And depending on when/where/how you can probably get away with it. Does that make it ok?

Actions in the physical world have very lasting effects and, these days, leave a big trail which allows the proper authorities to catch the bad actor and dispense justice (the topic of what is proper justice being out of scope for this thread). The digital world is much harder with things happening instantaneously with very little if any trail. If publishers could catch you, they would. Realistically, they just can't. But this lapse in their abilities does not empower and justify your abilities to do what should not be done.

Business models are a completely separate topic and, yes, it's usually good to align the model with normal consumer action. However, human nature is to always take with the path of least resistance and in the case of "value", to acquire it for nothing in exchange if possible. Most businesses work because they can block any access to that value without a proper exchange. Internet publishing however is very unique in that the very structure of the web which makes it so open is also what makes it impossible to stop and effectively filter anyone. The paywall is one such filter but they have this opening for access to Google listings and let a few users be randomly awarded free content. If there was a way they could be listed on Google without losing their paywall, they would, and this whole situation would be non-existent.
Progressive tax schemes don't need to be complicated.
I bought a walnut one when they first came out.

I like the shape: it feels good in the hand just like a carpenter's pencil. The tip is pretty squishy and so isn't useful for precision work, and it wears quickly. I use it a couple of times a week and maybe charge it once a month. The specs say it's pressure sensitive, but I wouldn't know it by how it performs. Best features are probably the eraser function and that it enables palm rejection. The walnut has held up well, but I don't think it's worth a price premium.

I think it's a nice fit for the Paper app. If you like the app, you might like the stylus. I find that I like using the app with the stylus more than I do with my fingers. If you're planning to use it with other apps, the Pencil may not be the best choice.
Ugh. You realize there are like 3 people who are still working there who were around when this was really a thing? Yes, Satya was hired in 1992, but he didn't grow up in that culture nor did any of the other current leadership. Most people working there now were in grade school when that was actually a strategy.
Actually, I was thinking, what's up node? Each dependency keeps a private copy of its dependencies? How messed up is that? Or am I just reading that wrong?
At 10"x10"x3", you're going to need really big pockets!
uMatrix for Firefox
Kiunsys is hiring Java/PHP developers for improving INES Cloud, the platform for managing urban mobility processes in the Smart Cities market.

Location: Pisa, Italy

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/48940496
This isn't a limitation of Explorer, but actually is a very well documented part of the Windows API. MAXPATH has always been 260 characters.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).asp...
JXcore is another fork of Node that makes the VM pluggable, supporting both V8 and SpiderMonkey. I wonder how similar Microsoft's and JXcore's VM abstraction layers are and whether Node upstream would accept them. Drawing a hard line between the Node native code and the VM would make binary addon compatibility more stable (and lessen the need for NaN, the "Native Abstractions for Node").
Some people find graphics like this helpful for conceptualizing them :

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/Visual_SQL_Joins/Visu...
Given all that Microsoft has been doing lately I'd really be surprised if this is all an elaborate ruse to squash node. Having been around when the actual "embrace, extend, extinguish" was running at full throttle, though, I can tell you what it does looks like:

"Full access to UWP APIs from Node.js applications"

When you use platform-exclusive features then you not only lose a major strength of node, but you put the owner of that platform in a position to start pushing developers around.
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This is wonderful - some of the captions I'd love to see illustrated in their own right.
A bunch of changes landed right before the beta release some weeks back, and a bunch of examples broke. We also haven't invested much time in making sure that the examples have kept up lately. We used to beat C++ in several of them, but who knows what's happened since.
I think it's wonderful that the NYT made a difference, but that certainly doesn't prove your point.

> original content that these orgs churn out that other sites repackage and repurpose.

What percentage of their content are truly original, first-to-break stories? Really, be honest. Now how much of their content are fluff/opinion pieces, rehashes of the last month of stories, and info that has been 'repackaged and repurposed' from the internet? If you try to claim the larger percentage is the former, you're just being obtuse.

You're quick to defend traditional media, but you totally glossed over the other points I raised. It's obvious (based on your comments here) that you have a bone to pick with anyone who doesn't believe your employer (and others like it) are worth what they think they are worth.

Again, it's clear based on market force that the PUBLIC doesn't agree with you. If they did, you would have seen success in the methods you mentioned.

> Micro-payments, dumb 'capthcha' based models, memberships, events, "premier access"

Whether you personally agree with me or not, the public is speaking, and they are telling you that your business model isn't worth what you claim.
Fail your dev project so your client can love you
There are quite a few!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
You know, across the country, homes are undervalued for tax purposes.

I've seen several of these articles pop up over the last few days, but they are, on the face, oriented towards "ohhh look at the 1%ers and how little they pay!"

Just sayin, be careful what you wish for. If the government decided on some new system for assessing property values... well, you better believe it's coming to the masses as well. End result: If you own a home, your tax bill WILL go up and your property value WILL drop.

Probably best to just let this one slide, unless you just love paying taxes.
C64 glitch art
Looks like it's been close to a decade. The CEO responsible for that whole ordeal is gone. When do people decide Microsoft has behaved long enough to be given a second chance?
Dawn of the personal drone/robot/servants. I'm wondering if it's able to navigate around tree branches or corners without slamming into anything as opposed to the wide open spaces they show.
I read the title as "fast mobile waterboarding" and was very intrigued...
Ah. No. See, the painter got to paint it and sell it, presumably to a private individual, whereupon it was not seen for decades. This was ok.

Now that private individual seeks to resell it, exactly as the artist did originally, and is marked a philistine and evil person, who 'disgusts' the OP. I called double standard.

Clear?
> Self-awareness is just ability of algorithms to observe its own "subroutines".

What does it mean to observe? If we design an algorithm that observes its internals according to your definition, is it going to be self-aware?
Two quotes from the article:

> The research … does not aim to engineer flocks of hybrid ‘dino-chickens’ or to resurrect dinosaurs, says Bhart-Anjan Bhullar

> But applying these insights to engineering ‘dino-chickens’ has proved difficult, [Jack Horner] says. “We’re having a little more trouble with the tail. There are so many components.” Other anatomical features could be altered by tinkering with development proteins, Horner adds. “It gives us a lot of opportunities to think about making new kinds of animals.”

I think this means that Bhart-Anjan Bhullar does not aim to engineer flocks of dino-chickens, but that Jack Horner does.
Yeah, also noticed they referenced w3 schools as a source of learning. Guess MDN was not allowed by management.
But you will have a video of your death.
New Upgrades usually cost between $40 and $100 for the upgrade DVD.

I bought Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $40 when it came out.

Microsoft might give Windows 10 out for free to make money on the Windows Store that sells apps, movies, music, and other things.