skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that Google, HN, "share" links etc is free advertising. Media says that certain discovery channels (Google) should be let in, while other (HN, emailed links, etc) shouldn't. This extension only equalizes that.

Perhaps a better extension would be to hide organic search results in Google for pay-walled content providers, while leaving AdWords links intact. In the interests of protecting profit-based interests.

Additionally, Facebook should require paywalled content providers to pay users that use their integrated comments or click a like button, as we certainly don't want free buzz, as that would violate the profit-driven flow of information.
Finally a drone with elegance and purpose. A truly consumer oriented drone. Like it. Will wait for the v2.0 :)
You should be ashamed of doing the work of adding EME to Firefox.

Please don't add it to other platforms. Remove it from Windows.

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.
I agree, I have never seen that before.
Even with the possibility of obtaining gag orders, the risk and potential to exposure to Apple would be huge.

They'd be in much safer territory to just not include encryption software with their products at all, unless the whole NSA surveillance thing is so complex and intrusive that they force large OS makers to specifically develop backdoored encryption technology for the specific purpose of encouraging people to store sensitive information on FileVault encrypted drives so that the government to access it at it's will.

But, that doesn't really stand to reason in my mind.
Firefox is now a malware installer?

Awesome!
They are bloody expensive for my home country, where the average salary is around 400 euros before taxes.

While I live abroad and could afford one, it doesn't offer the CPU/GPU combo I care about, so in spite of the body quality I never bought one.

Not to mention that the last OS releases quality isn't that inspiring.
Mom and dad probably aren't into extreme sports or spending $500 on toys either, though. Which is why I think in a lot of these new drone ideas are disconnected from their target audience.
> Many people have argued that Java, Ruby, (insert favorite language here) will one day match the speed of C, it just requires more advanced tooling, but that promise has never been fulfilled.

The primary block to this is memory management. Rust allows a superset of C/C++ memory management techniques, so there is literally no technical reason you shouldn't be able to port a c program to the equivalent rust program. Unlike java, go, etc., this doesn't break new ground in terms of optimization but rather verification of existing systems programming techniques.

To put this another way, you could write a rust -> c++ compiler and "automagically" get the speed of c++, but the same could not be said of Java.

The one area of which I'm unaware is pointer aliasing (in unsafe code, obviously). I am not entirely sure how well rust can restrict the types to optimize exclusive access to a memory region ala the c `restrict` keyword. But there's always inline assembly if that fails.
Do you have anything to quantify "much, much worse"? From what I've seen they're roughly as bad as each other.
Upon this Wrist
I see multiple comments saying that the blades are harmless, but a quick search through google photos seems to imply otherwise to me. Not to mention the force of this thing dropping on your head after it clips a nearby branch, or has a system failure.

I suppose the answer is that the owner needs to be responsible with its usage. The example footage seemed fairly reasonable use-cases (no bystanders).
Then they can present that explanation and gain the warrant legally instead of trying to do it illegally.
Do you have examples of such sites? I'd be interested in seeing what they're doing, and how we can fix password manager to avoid that.
Ask HN: Web search is broken. It does not work for making purchases?
Web search (Google in particular) evolved and optimized over last decade. It has been optimized for users to search and find the most trustworthy sources of information in context of the query.

However as web evolved and economies evolved, a majority of web searches are to make a purchase(concert/bus/train/airline tickets, order food, buy anything off of amazon/ebay etc).

So for the times, when you know exactly what you are looking to buy. You are still sent of to different websites/app to look for best price.
So there no knowledge graph like feature for shopping.

What if an app had your default shipping address, and knew all the card you have and then once you look up for an item it hunts the best price across all reputable sites and applies any discount codes. Also figures how you should pay depending on which card will get you maximum cash back.

Thoughts?
Agreed. I'd be satisfied with nothing less than a mid-air explosion into fine particulate matter upon engine failure. wipes drone gook off face
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What happens if you click "no thanks"?

(I don't think you should have to. I think Google should be honoring whatever you have set in your browser.)
This raised an interesting question for me - how much money is saved on a per-subscriber basis by sending the digital version vs. print (for the NYT)? Their pricing certainly doesn't reflect it:

Web + Smartphone: $3.75/wk $16.25/mo $195/yr
Web + Tablet: $5.00/wk $21.67/mo $260/yr
All Digital Access: $8.75/wk $37.92/mo $455/yr
7-Day Home Delivery: $8.90/wk $38.57/mo $463/yr

There are multiple levels of insanity here:

Web + Smartphone & Web + Tablet are identical except
for device type but Tablet is 33% more.
Web + Smartphone plus Web + Tablet cost as much
*together* as All Digital Access (and are feature
equivalent).
7-Day Home Delivery *includes* All Digital Access and
costs about the same. Paper is free?

None of these pricing strategies appear to be designed to maximize readership, broaden subscription basis, or grow brand penetration. They are structured to capture the most value possible from customers with high switching costs or price indifference. This is what a conservator in a dying market looks like.
Maybe because someone else already did so...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9483231
It actually is about the drone being able to fly faster than the wind. If it can do it, it can go in any direction it wants (though slower against the wind).
You can also watch and participate in related discussions on https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-houdini/- I think the article didn't mention IIRC.
Americans don't have contracts. Instead, we suffer this weird thing called "at-will employment"[1].

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
The free-for-Google paywall is in many ways similar to online advertising: it's all bait-and-switch.

Anything that discourages such practices is a step forward.

It's time publishers start considering their readers as customers to be treated with respect instead of either dumb cattle or the enemy in a digital arms race.

What kind of a legit, respectable business tries to trick people into thinking their giving their product away for free? At the very least don't whine about the public tricking you back in return.
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How Bill Gates's Mother Pushed Him to Be a Philanthropist
"can you experience us now?"
This tool saves the 3 seconds it takes to highlight the article title, 'Search Google for ...', and click the link in the search results.
This is a big, big worry of mine. I'm considering doing commercial work with drones, and the major thing holding me back is the risk of injuring others with these things. The DJI Phantom, and Inspire, could kill someone if they fell from high enough. And I can tell you from personal experience, the software is simply not even CLOSE to bug-free enough for me to be worry free.

The more I think about it, the more I think, the risk of flying these things in populated places just isn't worth it.
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It's impressive, no doubt, but I wonder about the actual utility of the device.

My main concerned is the 20m battery life/record time - that is pretty limiting. If I were to use this to record myself snowboarding (like the video shows), that would be a problem. Here in Colorado a typical blue rated mountain run is easily 20m from top to bottom, esp. if you aren't gunning it the whole way. When I ride alone I can maybe go top to bottom in slightly under 20m but I'm flying and really pushing it the whole time, I wonder if the drone could even keep up in that situation (speed would be over 25mph almost the entire time).

Pretty cool but I personally think there is much bigger market for a device designed to record kids playing hockey, basketball, soccer etc... imagine a tripod that tracks your kid, that would be way way more killer and useful for most people and probably a ton cheaper as you could use a smartphone as the camera.

Technically it's impressive as hell, I just don't know about how practical is in actual use.
Capitalism does not have a concept of consensual transactions, only transactions. Exploitation of the slave class is something multiple empires have grown out of.

Whenever people CAN exploit (in the name of capitalism, or racial superiority, or any other equally sociopathic concept) they will. Why are we working hard to put our neighbors out of the job in the name of some ideology? It seems a lot like you literally care more about the efficiency of the market than you do giving people a form of sustenance (or income they can barter for sustenance).
You're probably pretty unlikely to hit capacity when it can only fly for 20 minutes.
Maintenance jobs pay poorly

I would call this an inaccurate generalization. It all comes down to supply and demand. What and who needs maintaining? How many people out there are capable of maintaining it? Price is set from these variables. Example: Cobol and Fortran developers during Y2K.
Flash existed for Symbian OS (think Nokia smartphones) way before there was iPhones, and those devices naturally had even lower hardware specs.

(I still agree that not supporting Flash was the correct choice for Apple, though.)
Not to mention that the speed (+-) is variable by the wind speed.
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For what it's worth, we're hitting many of those same problems even without lite. People are finnicky about how their contracts look, and they tend to spend a lot of time getting them to look just right. It's especially difficult with the jump from Word to HTML, even when it's abstracted via e.g. CKEditor.

May I ask where you work?
As an observation, that's trivial: as an apologia, it's inadequate.

I'm judging the author on what he said, not what other people think he really meant to say. If you change what the author said to be "C, C++ and Java are written in different ways," then sure, the author's right. But that's not what the author wrote, and what the author wrote is unsupportable.
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> As a result, we risk ending up with a huge mess with packages like in the Erlang world with its Rabar

This should be "Rebar"
It's quite depressing that we can't have both compression and encryption at the same time - text is very compressible - particularly HTML markup...
Oh my, that's a terrible site. So I have to watch a full page video to find out what I might want to install?
We still have ~1 Netherlands worth of union employees:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

(not a high percentage overall though)
It's marginally better for startups. Something that would be a big-win is the nullification of the entire idea of software patents.
If you discover content via Google, you can see it. If you discover content via HN, you can't. Anyone who believes this is ok is pretty much saying they are opposed to net neutrality.
Very cool. I used Tarmak[0] at the time, which allows to only change 3 different keys for each level. That way one doesn't loose too much efficiency.

[0] http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=1858
More daring models? It's easy to just say "do something else" when actively circumventing a system. I really wish people would generally stop with comments like this unless they have an alternative to propose, otherwise its just criticism without purpose because the people involved in this industry are trying their best to make things work.

What does the size of the "hack" have to do with anything? Simple execution doesn't make something ok by the fact of being simple to execute.
I want 99.9999% reliability and strong safety guarantees as a feature of cars, bikes, and can openers, too.

Unfortunately, currently we probably make do with a few less nines on all these items.
Idempotence has nothing to do with it. POSTs are also Idempotent.
I put torture and the murder of innocents beyond merely morally dubious, but perhaps you have a more liberal view.

Look beyond your self serving and hypocritical narrative, would you equally defend the bureaucratics under Stalin, what of an IT worker for ISIS?

I'm all for improving a system and government which has faults. However it is maddening to watch people continue to lend legitimacy to a government that tortures and murders innocent people -- what is your red line, genocide? The US is quickly approaching in the 21st century that marker as well when applied to Muslims.

I recommend you reflect on your moral views since they currently support the aiding of torturers and murders.
Some of these projects are crazy. They could be straight out of the South Park episode "Go Fund Yourself".

These campaigns are essentially people just asking you to buy them a drone:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1430324424/drone-scouti...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1802912897/drone-build-...

I wasn't aware campaigns of these sorts actually existed. Probably because I have always stuck to the front page of kickstarter.
Well that`s annoying. At least the newer version of the Silverlight player supports HD, didn't appear to before. That was my main reason for wanting the HTML5 version.
I hear that while it can be depressing to stay while the department is transferred overseas, companies will often sweeten the deal to make it worth your while- despite the fact they are getting rid of you, they still need the transition to happen gracefully, and to transfer knowledge to the new team.
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. While it may be an important issue, conflating it with net neutrality is unhelpful.
Order cabs on behalf of others.
> (This is when I learned about holding down shift while hitting the browser's reload button to make it act like it was a fresh page fetch.)

Most useful aside of all time.
Seems like a good place to put Extreme Drone Crashes - Compilation 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rnTk6FBzs

hehe
At least you have the option. My girlfriend`s Mac supports the latest version of OSX and Safari but not HTML5 playback.
I love this. Would be handy to include examples of when particular functions map well to specific types of interactions.
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Prodigy. That was built between CBS, IBM, and Sears. They wanted an Amazon in 1988 ... Didn't happen.
I disagree with "never." A Masters is excellent if your employer pays for it or if you'd like to transition roles, and you can also complete one while working full-time.

Still, they're not great in many cases. The "Bachelor's + 1 year" model is especially bad, IMO, since I believe you gain more from a Masters with some amount of experience.
I read a perfect parallel: real networks employees knew their product was shit. But making it not shit would wreck the company:

As employees, we weren’t proud of our business tactics, and we griped about
them frequently. The topic came up at company meetings, round table
conversations with executives, and through a lot of water cooler
conversation over email, during lunch, and across the foosball table.

One day my manager showed me a horrible graph. It was pretty simple: the
graph was steady, then it dropped straight down, then after a short period,
the line shot straight back up and stayed level again:

“That’s what happens when we do the right thing”, he said while pointing at
the drop, “and that’s how much money we lose. We tried it just to see how
bad it was for our bottom line. And this is what the data tells us.”

“Wow,” I said, taken aback. My employer clearly had two options: “do the
right thing” or “be profitable”. That was the position they had maneuvered
themselves into through a series of bad management decisions.

My manager then said, “More than half the company would have to lose their
job in order for us to stop these tactics ... so are you volunteering to be
one of them?”

https://medium.com/launching-ux-launchpad/the-graph-that-cha...
But they'll always have the alternative option of providing content through iTunes/their own crappy locked down system.
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If that's straight-up bog-standard ANSI C++, then yes, there's a memory leak.

But, to put my Devil's Advocate hat on a moment: the environment could be GCed and new could be overridden to return a GCed pointer, as opposed to a naked pointer. (There are lots of good GCs for C++ -- see, e.g., http://www.hboehm.info/gc/)

One of the great things about C++ is how thoroughly you can customize the system using operator overloading. One of the big drawbacks about C++ is that without knowing the precise environment in which the code is operating, you really don't know what 'new' does. Or any other operator, for that matter. :)
Because there's no point in writing a Python script if more than half my code will consist of calls to commands.getstatusoutput().
I expected that clicking on a easing function would use that function to transition to its detail page. Instead, it uses what looks like easeInOutQuint for all of them.
Whoa.... any chance you can write up something on how this works? I've never seen a working implementation of a recurrent net before. I would be very grateful!!

Either way, this is very impressive :)
Fascinating how a unique perspective can change your outlook on life. Not often that I hear that not much has changed in the past 50 years.

I summarized my philosophy in 10 points, and I’m actually very surprised that
people today, especially students, still accept them. I didn’t intend these 10
points to be set in stone forever. They were actually meant to mutate with time
and to change. But apparently things have not changed greatly in the past
50 years. So even nowadays, they are still accepted.
I wonder if a heavier-than-air airship design would be safer. A balloon with helium or even hydrogen would let such a device fall slowly with engines off, and motors would let it fly up and maneuver around swiftly enough.
writing passwords down somewhere, such as on PAPER, is not a particularly bad idea unless you keep the paper by your computer.
>I imagine that if one would thoroughly internalize the belief that we're driven by purely rational, mechanistic forces, diving head-first into irrationality in an attempt to search for (or somehow invent) freedom and meaning, would be the only rational thing to do.

Nah. Compatibilist free will is entirely real, and meaning is more-or-less a built-in byproduct of living life. In fact, the most common reason people "lack meaning" is precisely because they're trying to be as "free" as possible by minimizing the attachments that make life meaningful.
You may want to put a better description in your tilt page. You are assuming everyone visiting it know what that device is.
Isn't that basically Amazon? They patented one-click ordering and shipping back in the late 90s, and now they've brought many smaller suppliers under their umbrella (that's the "X new and Y used from $PRICE_MUCH_LOWER_THAN_MSRP) blurb next to the product. They even sorta do the cashback thing - many credit cards offer "5% cashback on purchases at Amazon.com!"
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When have micro-payments actually been used in any meaningful way? I've only seen companies complaining that they aren't viable. They were certainly quick to make the choice for me.

Otherwise, if people saw truly unique content from you (and others), they would be paying in one or more of the options you mentioned. They obviously don't see the point, however, because very little on the web is truly unique.

This seems like more evidence of the thing we all already know... large news/opinion organizations, especially those who started in print and are trying to maintain their business models, have become irrelevant.
Same here... but I'm viewing from inside corporate firewall and it may have blocked some scripts.
Google admits Hangouts doesn’t use end-to-end encryption
For UML, have you tried PlantUML? It's a brilliant little text-to-UML converter. Eg. Sequence Diagram (http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/sequence.html)
That's how you know it improves your workflow. Unless you have knowledge of my preexisting workflow and the constraints that shape it (and even if my workflow looks like yours did, that doesn't mean the constraints are the same), it doesn't mean you know it improves my workflow.

Don't confuse the two things.
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[accompanying blog post](http://blog.otoro.net/2015/03/28/neural-slime-volleyball/)

I too am perplexed as to what the neurons represent, the blog describes the RNN as 19 inputs connected to 7 outputs.

Examining slimevolley_pro.js (Agent.prototype.drawstate) shows only the agent states are depicted onscreen x,y,vx,vy,bx,by,bvx,bvy in the top row and actions forward, jump and backward below.

The code is well documented and builds on convnet.js by Karpathy.

The network is trained by genetic algorithm and self play - so this is a neural net trained with reinforcement learning.

The author's method seems unique and effective.

The blog post comparison of the resultant 'genomes' of network weights seem to show that the space has been searched exhaustively.

The game is played with trained networks but the code contains a training flag - it will be interesting to watch them train with self play.
'The author' had million other things to do instead of tracking AdWords policy changes every day. There was no email from Google announcing this major policy or explaining that 'free desktop software' means _all_ downloadable software. Even confirming that took two weeks because not one person from AdWords phone support support knew.
Sure they do - if they have probable cause otherwise. The last few times I went through these checkpoints (in Texas) they ran dogs around my truck looking for probable cause.

Whether or not you've crossed the border recently seems like fairly ineffective criteria. Are you sure that's the case? Where did you see that?
There is always the option of not messing with the request at all. Instead actually have it redirect through google. For example you could have the background script do:

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
chrome.tabs.executeScript({
code: 'window.stop(); window.location = "http://www.google.com/badurl/' + encodeURIComponent(tab.url) + '";'
});
});

and then you can have a content script run on "http://www.google.com/badurl/*" which just does:

window.location = decodeURIComponent(window.location.pathname.split("/")[2]);

Now that is super brittle compared to your solution, but it does work(for the sites I tried, some may require you to actually fake a search query). It only requires the activeTab permission and content script permissions on one page.
When I heard about Soylent, I thought my prayers had been answered. I was wrong
The FAA doesn't appear to have any guidance on automated flying: e.g., it doesn't say anything (at least in a 1m search) about a human pilot. (I was surprised by this.)

So long as you stay within recreational use guidelines (e.g., don't upload videos to YouTube), you should be fine.