skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only notice about 50 people at once in most servers. When there is one big behemoth at least twice the size of the one in 2nd in the leaderboard, most people simply RQ.
Skype Translator Preview Access Just Got Easier
Project turn by turn directions onto roadway – Instructables
That's a fairly big problem I hadn't read about before, with great writing. But I don't think the proposed solutions are realistic.

[...] all those web sites must use exactly the same format for
authentication challenges.

[...] the key cannot be used for any automated purpose [...]

[...] all applications which use the key for signing must include
such a context string, and context strings must be chosen to avoid conflicts.

[...] better than either of the above is to use a different key for each purpose.

That's shifting protocol problems to standardization and human caution. It may work, but I'm skeptic.

Maybe a change in the cryptographic protocol can fix the problem? For example, instead of

Server: server_value // domain + action + nonce + ...
Client: sign(server_value)

we use

Server: server_value
Client: sign(client_random) + sign(server_value XOR client_random)

and the server verifies that the two signed components, when XOR'd, result in the same value sent. This way the client only signs random data but can still authenticate.

This is not supposed to be a final solution, and is likely to have flaws, but I think it's a better direction to pursue.
United WiFi terms lets them use your ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques
"Any communications you send to this Portal or otherwise to United Airlines, Inc. by electronic mail are on a non-confidential basis, and United Airlines, Inc. is under no obligation to refrain from reproducing, publishing or otherwise using them in any way for any purpose."

"United Airlines, Inc. shall be free to use the content of such electronic mail communications, including any ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques or know-how disclosed therein, for any purpose, including the developing, manufacturing and/or marketing of goods or services."

Taken from 'use of information' section of their terms @ http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/wifi/terms.aspx
Audio is mixed. Should have had each game's audio go to a different ear.
They also removed the ability of a site maker to tell the browser "no, this isn't the user's login form, it's where he inputs the username of somebody else".
Casual sepaking is heard once. Published writing is read many times, and is easy to point edit, so it it worth investing a bit more in correctness.
can’t we agree that the law should at least strive to be consistent with itself when possible?

No, because putting consistency over correctness means instead of some right and some wrong, you've either got 100% right (not possible in our world) or 100% wrong.

Besides that, consider that a state's laws are supposed to be an expression of the values of their people, and it's entirely reasonable that a state might tax cigarettes and alcohol differently, or have different laws for cars and motorcycles. Depends on what the people want.
But a drone with a parachute falling into a pack of racing bicyclists sounds like a really bad idea as well, doesn't it? The larger issue seems to be the possibility of drones crashing into people who are involved in an activity that requires 100% concentration.
Technical skills: vim, bash, postgresql, git, redis, ansible, docker

But the most important skills: domain expertise, marketing, being able to go independent.

Most future-proof: be the one who hires, not the one who is hired.
Tried 'innovation' and 'innovative'. Nothing happens.

These are one of the world's biggest bs offenders nowadays.

edit: 'innovate' works.
While you have a point (and I've given you a +1 vote because of it), the fact remains that the "average person" I know thinks that Street Fighter 4 animations were better than Street Fighter 3.

The Chun Li discussion happens a lot in my circle of friends, and I'm always in the minority. Very few people appreciate classic pixel art.
I believe NYT carried an article last year about an RC chopper flyer who got beheaded by his own chopper's main rotor. It happened in the Central Park. It was a large RC Chopper and something went wrong and he ended up get killed. He apparently liked to do some dangerous stunts apparently...

However I would think these drones' propellers are shorter thus less dangerous? Any ideas?
Previously on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447
Yes. DOM manipulation in all major browsers is implemented in C/C++. The JS engine is just a wrapper; any noticeable performance difference in DOM manipulation is almost certainly due to differences in the underlying layout engine and not in the JS engine.
Verizon Will Pay $90M FCC Settlement Relating to Bill Cramming
UK politics – how does it all work?
Author here (thanks!), and yes, you're right, the alternative to ultra-luxe construction is more frightening, and we know that because of San Francisco. That's worth keeping in mind.
If you're morally opposed to DRM, then it's a surefire way to ensure you don't unknowingly use a service that requires it, thereby encouraging its proliferation.
Some antimatter particles are easy to make locally. For example many radioactive isotopes decay by positron emission (also named positive beta decay). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission Most of the times the positron just collides with an electron and emits a pair of 511eV photons.

For example, this is applied in a common medical procedure: Positron emission tomography (PET) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography
Seems more like you are a provincial person who is not aware that English has many dialects.
Skype Translator now offering live translation in video chats
I've owned a TR-606/TB-303, 2 TR-808s and currently own a TR-8. I bought my first 808 in college in 1998 for 750 bucks. Being a broke college student I sold it to pay for school. After college I bought another TR-808 for 700 in 2003 and kept it for 2 years. I grew bored of the sound, and had taken a decent enough sample set of it to replace it for most uses. The second 808 I had I modded to extend the decay of the kick drum to the point of self oscillation. I also bought a new row of buttons for it. Lastly I added a midi-DIN sync box. I had considered adding a pitch pot on the kick drum but prices were rising to the point that I thought was an 808 bubble(a princely sum of 1600 dollars). Now I see tr-808s on ebay for 3000+ and kick myself.

For anyone interested, the TR-8 does a good job emulating the TR-808/909 for the most part. I find the 808 cymbal(and to a lesser degree the hi-hat) sound nowhere near as good as the original and far less adjustable. The snares don't quite have the snap I hear in my 808 samples. It should be noted though that there was quite a bit of variation from unit to unit in the TR-808. My first 808 had a nice long 2-3 second kick decay, while the second one I owned was about .5 seconds(which is why I did the mod) the hi hat and cymbals are a slightly different pitch as well.

I bought the 7x7-TR8 expansion and while somewhat useful(I like the 707 snare) the 707/727 sounds rarely get any use. The expansion did include some new takes on the 909 kick, snare and non specific clap and snap sounds. I really like to play with the new snap sounds, as it is a cool noise generator effect. I haven't seen any news around this, but it seems silly for them not to do a TR-606/DR-55 expansion pack for the TR-8. I would have bought that over the 7X7 expansion.

There is a TR-808 documentary coming out soon 808themovie.com that will have tons of artist interviews who made their name with the 808. This article did a decent job of naming music that really used an 808, as there was one a few months ago that suggested mostly 909 tracks or tracks that may have used 808 samples sporadically in them. I get a bit pedantic about that because to me, you aren't using an 808 if you loaded a drum sampler with 808 sounds. Beastie Boys licensed to ill is a great example of an album made mostly with an 808(but synced up with a sequential circuits drumtraks and possibly a linndrum on one or 2 tracks) By the late 80s, most rap was made on sp-12/1200s and akai MPCs.
I am working on an app for a new working method for makers that makes it more fun to be employed as a maker while making managers and customers happier.

The main gain for makers is that they get more time in flow and secondly get more control over their time and how and when they have to do the work.

http://timeblock.com
I don't doubt you will add EME to other platforms, but that doesn't mean anything if there are no supported DRM for that platform.
D-Nice used to call himself the TR-808. I always thought that was weird since he never really used them in his music...
I can't help but imagine a time when, instead of smartphones or wearables, it's not uncommon to have a little drone that flies around after you.
For anyone who wants to run Spidermonkey with Node, JXcore is a Node fork that enables this.
> Only one of Earth’s creatures can pull off that cognitive trick.

What I really liked about Carl Sagan was his humbleness. He knew we knew (and know) basically nothing about other animals' thought processes, so he avoided arrogant assumptions like this
> Direct cash payment is always better than subsidies.

Because you say so?

Direct cash benefits have one effect, rent regulation has another. It depends on what you are trying to achieve.

I am always perplexed when people talk about NYC housing policy and how it's self-apparently and obviously being done wrong, they invariably fail to note that it's the most desirable and culturally important city in the Western Hemisphere.
I doubt it's too high up on the list of priorities. It would require really careful work to work in a backwards compatible way (there are almost certainly a tonne of apps that expect <=260 character filenames).

I guess the main thing is that it's one of those 'who cares' problems. The only time I've ever seen this limitation being complained about, it's by people who've had problems with npm.

That directory structure is undoubtedly horrible and is not mirrored by any other piece of software that I've seen.
I was flying drone in my street in India and it got stuck in electric cables (we have cables on poles).

I just got nervous and called few people and cracked down the drone.

Then decided never play with them in domestic living area.
This is why the Let's Encrypt movement is so important.

https://letsencrypt.org/
Late, but if your library gets truncated because it is huge like mine, you can instead get it by opening the console and typing JSON.stringify(localStorage); while on grooveshark.com
DHTML is a category, not a single search term.
As someone who has flown RC drones and heli for the better part of 5+ years now I generally find that there are 3 camps: 1) people who have never flown and assume the worst and often want unrealistic "guarantees" (see above), 2) those who fly, fly often and fly as safe as can be "guaranteed", 3) those who fly in an unsafe manner due to inexperience or just general carelessness.

I've always tried to fly responsibly at all times. I am cognizant of weather, people/pets, surroundings and right-of-way in the sky. Nothing in life is guaranteed 99.9999% of the time. Is it OK for me to levy a 99.9999% guarantee on you, that you drive perfect and responsible (no radio, no food, no phone, no talking, no distractions - period)? No. That's not life in general - we don't live in a bubble. Well at least the general population doesn't.

I am fine with sane safety measures put forth... Certifications, registrations, etc. But this is a hobby like many others. People own many kinds of recreational hobby gear that can endanger the operator or surrounding people - yet, they're accepted because people think they understand them. Most don't, however, understand simple engine operation - yet drive cars.

All mechanical vehicles have the guarantee to fail at some point or another and, yes, someone is 100% guaranteed to get hurt at some point in time. But, please don't ruin my hobby because you choose not to understand it.
" In my belief system is included the belief that I'm never ill"

So how is life in your delusional world?
3D Printed Mini Jet Engine
The question is why should node/io.js take such a pull request. It adds support for an irrelevant platform and would add the burden of maintaining the 'wrapper' which will probably break on every v8 update.
I am guessing the biggest problem is the noise. Yeah, it's easy to figure out if there is a giant wall standing in front of you, but what about snow that constantly blocks its lens? Some leaves may be attached to tree so it might be required to circumvent, but some might not even be worth circumventing if it's just a piece of leaf falling.
I am surprised that higher speed limits are so strongly correlated with higher mortality rates. I thought the trend was to increase speed limits, and I remember reading that at least for one of the states where they increased the speed limit, people were still pretty much driving at the same speed.

It seems that the general consensus is the speed limit should be at the 85th percentile to minimize accidents. However, this just considers minimizing accidents, and I suppose I can see how we can lower the number of accidents but also increase the mortality rate.

Also, I suppose it's not completely fair to compare different states, as what works in one might not work in another and vice versa.
You mean MDN?
youngstartups.io
Property taxes in ALL of NY are excessively high.
Cool, thanks for explaining. :) Would it be a compile-time or runtime error?
The problem with this reasoning is that while new buildings / tenants may be marginally beneficial to the city, if the rate new condos pay is significantly lower than existing buildings, then fairness issues arise. To me, this is analogous to incentives for building factories, etc - why does the big / new factory get a tax incentive while the small / old one doesn't, if it generates the same spinoff investment / employment / revenue? Put another way, the marginal revenue gain may be positive, but lower than the community average revenue gain (or gain in comparable properties) - how is that fair?
(author here) To your point: "They are not and should not be taxed like single family homes or condos."

They are taxed like condos—they are condos. I think the larger issue in this story is that the tools for assessing tax value are crude and don't allow the city to assert a progressive taxation. The range between 0.017 and 1.7 is large, and the city needs to be able to find a target taxation that draws in revenue without warding off services. There's no reason to believe the limit there is 0.017 percent.
No, that's not what I mean. I mean that the bookmarklet is working intermittently for me on any page. I'll click it, and sometimes get redirected through, and sometimes end up on a blank white page. That doesn't happen to you?
Wow I actually thought about that and then my fingers typed Mozilla anyway. Oops.
What if Windows went open source tomorrow?
Would this auto-update if I wanted this version?

I don't want to be off the normal firefox release cycle, but I also don't want my browser to have DRM.

Why couldn't this be an install option and a preferences setting in the normal firefox version? It could even be enabled by default. Then people who care about DRM when they install have the option of disabling it, and people who care about it later once they realize the evils of DRM could disable it in their preferences. If someone installed without DRM but wants it later, the preference could download the DRM at that point instead of automatically.

edit: thanks to cpeterso below: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

But I still think it would be better as an installer option.
I'm confused. I like your context, the explanation of why IM might be a big deal. I don't have that background and might be using IM in a weird/non-mainstream way and certainly don't get global trends.

But then you say 'wechat'. Note again: I don't use any of these apps. It seems that this is a competitor? How does "A competitor is really successful" translate to "you guys are doing something valuable"? And if you'd say "Well, any IM application with some traction can take away that spot again", how can WhatsApp make sure that a) it is the one to pull that off and b) it won't go away again when the next IM app comes around, and this time it's GREEN! And - I don't know - has cute cat and puppy images as part of the built-in 'emoticons'/icons to distinguish itself from the feature set of the inferior IM apps?

I understand that there might be a huge market for IM applications. I don't understand the market for any _specific_ IM application.

The way I see it? WhatsApp is boring. I can't do anything new or interesting. At all.
That would enable the truest form of helicopter parenting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent)
Fundraising Roadmap Algorithm
But for me some pixel artists miss (for me) a large part of the artistic value of pixel art: restricting complexity of the scene -- not just portraying things in blocks. The blocks aren't important at all, in fact they're pretty ugly if you're not a great pixel artist (hence the natural wish to find better upscaling algorithms). It's often overlooked the CRTs those art were made for were quite blurry and round, alleviating the blocky look.

That's the right reason to defend using modern screens to their full capability with a certain simplified-art style.
I'd guess, at the very least, that it doesn't support the Win/ARM ABI.
Can you access your resume in JSON format?
How far do you want it to get? Ping me at sethjgore@gmail.com with the answer. I have something under the wraps that centralizes email and all messaging into a form of interaction.
Not beheaded, though the blows did kill him, sadly.

But yes, the huge blades [1] compared to the small and softer wings of a quadcopter make a big difference.

[1] http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bA3wp9h3abI/maxresdefault.jpg (same model that killed him)
Not all spending is directly related to infrastructure costs. AKA school teacher salaries. Also, land is varying pricy in cities with a small empty lot could easily be worth 100 million. Or as they say, location, location, location.

Taxing property values much like sales taxes is already regressive as % of income spent on housing decreases as income increases. EX: A firefighter might spend 45% of their income on housing costs where many billionaires spend less than 1% of their income on housing costs.

PS: Though this does bring up the question of what bill Gates’s hypothetical 60 billion dollar house might look like. 15 one world trade centers lined up in a row? How about 1/2 of the ISS?
AFAIK, the Linux version does not support DRM yet, so a PPA would still make no sense.
For specific domains, like drone control, you can achieve much better accuracy then you typically see in "dictation"-style speech recognition. You can use a statistical language model that represents the things you're most likely to hear.

For example, Google & Siri kind of need to be able to handle anything I throw at them: "What is Ke$ha's new album?" "What year was the Hardy Boys book 'Hunting For Hidden Gold' written?" They may use a language model that favors grammatical language, that is: "What is Ke$ha" is a more likely speech recognition hypothesis than "What hiss kush ball", but they still need a big model to represent that.

For drone control, you have much more constrained language, which helps recognition accuracy significantly. The model can tell the recognizer that if it heard "Go <unsure> 100 feet" that the <unsure> word is most likely to be a direction like forward/back/left/right/up/down, and not "neutrino".

It's a lot like the way that Norvig uses n-grams to illustrate writing a spelling corrector: http://norvig.com/ngrams/ch14.pdf Having a model lets you fix errors in the input.

Having constrained language and a good model is often critical to creating a successful speech interface.
There's a charming book about a long-distance relationship between telegraph operators called Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. The writing itself isn't anything special, but it is remarkably prescient.

Here's a particularly insightful quotation:

> ... we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future!

Note that this was published in 1879!

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_... [via Boing Boing]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353
Suspect customers are not actually the target of this, and the objective is convincing apple editorial team of design innovation worthy of a front-page app store feature.
Well, there's one way in which the JS engine effects it: how efficiently one can call into C++ from JS. Mozilla have done a lot of work to reduce the cost of that in SpiderMonkey.
I should note that Arc System Works has also renounced Pixel Art as per Guilty Gear Xrd. :-( (Arc System Works are the masters behind BlazBlue's Pixel Art)

Granted, their 3D Artwork is quite good now, so maybe they can succeed in the transition. But fewer and fewer major developers (and even small, niche developers) are producing pixel art.

"WayForward Games" has an interesting vector art style however which gets the classic feel down. Its technique is more akin to a high-quality Newground game however, as opposed to the nostalgic Pixel Art feel. And artists know that vector art is easier to do. Still, WayForward (Ducktales Remastered, Shaente Half Genie Hero) might be one of the last great 2D Artists still around today.
Try The Well-Grounded Rubyist. I appreciate that it focuses on the language, not the standard library.

http://www.manning.com/black3/
On Thursday every major financial institution would be drained of all their funds.
I noticed "synergistic" got a pass while "synergy" was converted. Also, phrases like "fully realize/realized" get a pass as well. Perhaps we all have different dialects of Corporate Bullshit Speak?
What is money? (1913)
No mention of it being open source and after what happened with Sync I don't understand who would use this.
Impostor_syndrome
It's a rubber stylus, which as a side effect allows you to use touch area detection to simulate pressure detection, since the rubber squashes, and thus produces a larger touch radius with more pressure.
And here is the end result of people leaving Firefox for Chrome. You neutered Mozilla. There is no longer a browser vendor which has both your interests in heart and sufficient power to direct the evolution of the web.

Who now gets to choose which features are built into the majority of desktop and mobile browsers? Advertising companies.
"he didn't mean so that the city could literally confiscate their assets"

well, I wouldn't put it past him.
How to stop having Xcode project merge conflicts
Postbox 4 – The best desktop/Win and Mac/ e-mail manager releases new version
I have no idea how I missed this project. If it lives up to its motives and ideals, that will be an absolutely amazing project! I'll start watching for it to launch.