skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of extremely biased assumptions going on here.

All of the numbers here are correlations only.

No definition is given for what "consistency" means. Taxing cigarettes but not alcohol because of health is not, in my opinion, even remotely inconsistent.

Lastly, the article starts out asking a number of interesting questions and answers none of them, including the one in the title.

If you go digging for statistical confirmation of your biases, you will find it.
...how?

How do they fuck up that badly to need silverlight for attachments?
The argument that I've heard is that seat belts keep the driver in the seat, making it more likely that he or she will have some control of the vehicle after an abrupt maneuver, lowering the chances that the car just becomes an unguided missile, which is more likely to hit something or someone else without a driver.

Motorcycles don't really have the same issue, as they generally do a lot less damage than a car since they weigh only a fraction as much. So helmet laws are more a question of personal choice and how much influence the state government wants to have over those decisions.
How many people is that, though? 10 out of the 7 billion people on Earth? That's a very small fraction.

Unless the world population suddenly decides to become digitally literate enough to understand the web in a programmer's context, these patterns of bad unwritten standards will continue out of convenience for the "soccer mom" end user.
#Carswellwatch cuckooing UKIP IMHO
I bet "how many people downloaded the DRM-less version" is an important statistic for Mozilla - Having FF in the middle of an automatic update, I'll be getting the other version however, and I wonder if having disabled this feature, will the browser call home to count towards it...
Nobody is okay with that, it's an asinine question.

Am I okay with my new born infant's soft little squishy skull living in a world with drones, which occasionally drop out of the sky?

Yep.

And we do live in that world, actually. They've already been "introduced," as you put it.
> Live Free or Die

Or, as the evidence seems to show in this case, both.
> ran the javascript engine in a single-threaded subprocess with a greatly restricted set of allowed system calls.

You were trying to sandbox the JS engine rather than using disposable VMs?
I'm very intrigued by Bleep, I think that attempting to leverage the bitorrent protocol in a chat platform is a unique take, that I would like to see continue to evolve.

However, I think it's important that they open the source up for this project and even potentially offer the ability for me to install and run my own server. I think until they take those steps, it will be difficult for them to gain any kind of large following.
Evolving Types of Developer Funding
You can buy a gun. You can still (barely) buy model rockets. You can buy glass windows (which shatter into thousands of sharp pieces if broken).

I want proper insurance, liability, etc. when things fail, and good risk management.

I don't want stupid safety.
The Readinglist feature seems to have disappeared from the Desktop build. I really liked using it in Nightly and on Android.

I briefly looked at Bugzilla and can't figure out its future. Is it really being replaced with a tie-in to a closed source US based startup company, Pocket? Can any devs comment?
> I loathe this kind of thing. To me it evokes an image of someone who only knows computer science, and is entirely ignorant of other topics (say, history and literature) that a person needs to know to be a successful human being.

Actually, what it evokes to me is someone for whom English isn't a first language (at least not a mainstream American dialect of English) of but who has domain knowledge writing a guide in English in the domain in which they have knowledge.

It could certainly use editing, but the awkward word choice you point to isn't really something that suggests to me anything about what the person's knowledge of history and literature might be.
http://www.producthunt.com/

may or may not be what you were looking for
Interestingly enough, 2009 also saw Time Warner spin off TWC as an independent entity as well. They technically only use the Time Warner name under license now.
This article has several very important points that any creator should keep in mind 1) The medium is the message. In other words the medium determines the art. In his case, the higher-resolution of phone screens determines that his message must change to take advantage of the screen's capabilities. For example, when TV started it used radio and play formats for presentation. It wasn't until years later, that people began to explore the visual storytelling aspects of the media. It takes a while for people to discover how each medium should be used most effectively. 2) The meaning of a communication is the response you get [1]. When your audience is saying that your game is retro and old-fashioned, they are not lying -- that's what it means to them. You can try an educate them, but you are going against their understanding of point 1, or you can work to their expectations. Good luck to the guy, he really gets it.

[1]http://coachingleaders.emotional-climate.com/nlp-presupposit...
Is it Google or IE that's broken? Other browsers seem to be coping with it - I know these big sites tend to serve really mangled markup/code however.
Mcdonalds launches delivery
15 years ago, we started thinking how listening to music was going to change
I don't think that's a correction. You are being more specific, but Lily is definitely "an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously"...which is what a drone is[1].

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drone
3D matrix map
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/nyregion/remote-controlled...
There was some concern about the security of the product:

http://2014.hackitoergosum.org/bittorrentsync-security-priva...

These concerns were amplified by the difficulty of auditing a closed-source product. Their argument that hashes are one-time secrets and not permanent keys is difficult to validate without access to the source.
Good point. Heroes probably had the best attack animations. Either them, or critical hit from the paladin.

My favorite animations overall though were definitely swordmaster, specifically their "dodge" animation. They only moved like 3 or 4 pixels, so it was hard to tell that they actually dodged. But once you saw it, it was in fact amazing.
that engine looked really cool. the level editor setup the have is especially cool, and very Bret Victor-esque.
> need silverlight to be able to watch GoT

No you don't.

I've watched every episode of GoT, without having Silverlight installed (Does it even run on Linux? I've no idea).
Then all towers in New York should be infinitely tall
It seems like you're arguing about different things. donohoe took issue with you saying the NYT isn't relevant, and you are stating that people's unwillingness to pay equates with irrelevance.

I don't buy that. Many new media sites don't even have reporters in the field - just lots of writers in a room that rewrite what these "legacy" orgs do. So if they disappeared people absolutely would notice, the connection just isn't apparent yet.

News costs money. And a functioning media is important to society. That people are not currently willing to pay for it doesn't mean that it's irrelevant, just that the correct business model has not yet been found.
I wrote about TR-808 when I did an article on drum machines in college newspaper a few years ago. (http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/2011/06/01/8761/legendary-drum-...) Hope you find it interesting.
The part about the researchers being surprised that the effect isn't cumulative seemed like something from The Onion.
Homicide Monitor – Interactive World Map of Homicide
Well put. This sounds like my experience, and I agree that the freedom to build what I want to put out in the world feels like wealth to me. I hope the money wealth follows. :) Cheers to SaaS adventures! Thanks for putting this out there.
While not a bad idea, I think the existing avalanche rescue gear is better suited.
> I don't even recall if they did start offering DSL.

They did. My parents had it in the early 00s. They'd resell the local phone company's DSL but require you to log into the AOL app in order to actually use your connection.
As technology moves forward, more and more tools are at our disposal. The trick then, is choosing the right tool for to communicate the look and feel you want, in support of the story and world you are creating.

I feel like the author is so close to the issue that they lost the forest for the trees: there will always be some games that benefit from the pixel art, it just takes a full and proper understanding of what they style instantly communicates to your audience.
>do you think anyone will rent them a brand new, technology packed car for what is effectively $20 a month?

Self driving cars won't always be new though. The price of the technology will drop rapidly as they become mass produced. And there will always an economic advantage to renting vs owning. The cost of the car is effectively divided over several people instead of one.
It's true that superb pixel art is harder to pull off than superb 3D models because of greater self-imposed limitations. However, it's also true that if you just want your art to be passable, it's easier to achieve that via low-res pixel art than via amateur 3D modeling. IOW, pixel art has both a lower barrier to entry and a higher skill cap.
You know, I'm sick of people making such a big deal just becasue Mozilla lost its CEO in such an awful way that he didn't even return to his CTO role. Just because he literally wrote JavaScript, co-founded Mozilla and worked on Firefox since it was called Netscape Navigator it doesn't mean he should be able to take part in America's political process in a way that some find offensive.
I was very impressed with this handwriting demo (and the accompaning paper):

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html

Using a recurrent architecture.

To be honest I haven't played with NNs, but it puzzles me as to why the non-recurrent approach is so prevalent for complex tasks. I mean, it's the basic combinatorial circuit vs sequential circuits, which we all know are much more suited for complex or large outputs. Where's everything we learned from synchronous logic synthesis?
Care to provide an example?

And keep in mind this is not a complete authentication protocol. I'm just proposing a small change to fix the signing-not-random-nonce problem, so I assume the rest of the protocol context is kept.

Barring stupid mistakes from my part, if this is vulnerable to impersonation so is the article's.
Your post may seem snarky, but I upvoted you for truth. Many of us consider Adobe's DRM software to be nothing but malware.
A bigger issue is that drone power consumption goes down as they go faster. Even if 20m at 25MPH is fine, you'll actually get less than that if you go slower. Hovering uses a lot of power.
I don't trust anything released by BitTorrent. Sync was a huge let down and frankly I'm not going to waste my time on any more of their software after the ad/toolbar/bitcoin-mining infested installers they put out for uTorrent...
> signed data include session id that is derived from result of first DH key exchange and thus unpredictable to either side of connection

The unpredictability of DH output depends on the group parameters and public key validation performed by the peer. If the group contains small subgroups, Eve can send an element of small order and predict the DH output with high probability.

For example, this is one of the attack vectors for the triple handshake attack on TLS: https://www.secure-resumption.com/tlsauth.pdf.
Seatbelt law without helmet law is a bit inconsistent as far as driver safety goes.

Banning motorcycle riding outright is a much more invasive law than requiring a seat belt. Costs vs benefits.
Only if a lot of people use it. I suspect something like this can continue to fly under the radar while only a tech savvy minority use it.
Indeed.

But the Fire Emblem sprites were redrawn with details from each of the characters in the game. Amelia from FE8 for example, was the only blonde female paladin, and her long-blonde hair would blow in the wind during her critical hit animation.

The animations were incredibly personalized to the characters, a true feat for a game with several dozen playable characters (and random mooks to KO).

In contrast, the 3D Art of FE:Awakening is clearly built off of recycled bone animations across multiple units. Furthermore, they were mostly recycled from FE9 and FE10.

The level of effort needed to create the 2D sprites is clearly much higher than the level of effort for FE:Awakening's animations.
This is a HUGE claim. As many have said, the larger (stranger) the claim, the more skeptical we should be and the more evidence should be required (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi#.22Extraordinar...).
I don't see how this criticism has anything to do with his point. But if you must, and if you would like anyone else to take your criticism seriously, I suggest citing Crichton's work and addressing it directly. Here's a lecture that touches on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCCvOv3qZY

http://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=111

It contains one of my favorite observations:

"...most people make the assumption of linearity in a world that is largely non-linear."
London is leagues ahead of New York in global importance.
Some of us try to be.
Our S3-compatible store died. Anyone know of an S3-compatible storage host?
Our S3 compatible store, A cloudian instance, provided by Constant.com has died. Data is still available but we cant' store anything on it.

We're looking for an alternatives solution, but the main players (Amazon themselves, Google, and Rackspace) are too expensive in terms of bandwidth out (150TB per month).

Does any one have any suggestions for an S3-compatible storage host, and what technologies they use under the hood (Ceph, OpenStack, etc.)?
The TR-808 is up there with samplers and the Amen Break in terms of defining modern music. If you have twenty minutes, there's a wonderful video explaining the Amen Break that I suggest everybody watch at least once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
A consumer follow-me quad with a youtube camera launched via kickstarter? Probably not. A future DJI aerial photography product with a 4000-8000 price tag? Absolutely. If Amazon ever intends to deploy these for actual package delivery instead of just PR they'll need redundant computers with a voting system, fault tolerant flight control algorithms with some kind of fault case detection and some kind of failsafe parachute / alarm system to slow down descent and alert anyone on the ground of an incoming object with 16+ razor sharp carbon fiber blades.

To say nothing of things like active sonar/lidar avoidance and a secondary navigation system of some sort for when GPS is unavailable.
I have wanted this for so long. I wish it had longer flight time but I still orderd this immediately, before the trailer even finished
Just curious, I know nothing about these things, how would it know what's a human and what's e.g. a dog? It couldn't even rely on the fact that there must be a human sitting in the driver's seat because the concept of the driver's seat is meaningless in a truly self-driving car.
ooooh so mesmerizing...
Well, there is an incredibly easy and obvious answer to this.

Mothers.

Mothers of dead children have been a huge force is traffic policy in the US.
> Everything you need to know about how to win Slime Volleyball in 140 numbers !

I know kung fu!
If you want your 3D art to passable, you download a few models from online for a few hundred dollars and tweak the bone animations.

IE: What Archer does with all of its 3D models of cars it sticks into the show.
NBC Confirms White House Lied About Osama Raid, Hersh Claims Accurate After All
When Half Life came out, it was amazing. I went back to retry it half a year ago, and it looked awful. And what was a wonderful intro sequence was now unskippable minutes of a slow ride past crude polygons and very low detail environments. It was interesting seeing how my opinions had changed.
Objective C: properties vs. ivars
If that's the justification, then shouldn't the law only apply to the driver and not the passengers?
You'd need to add power, a button, and some code to replicate the Dash. Dash is really a super simple device.
*most find offensive.

It is possible for someone to be a brilliant technologist and an otherwise awful person. And before someone takes me to task for the words "awful person" - sorry, that's my evaluation of someone who'd rather lose their job than say sorry for the prejudice.
I would love to hear Moxie's thoughts on Bleep and whether he thinks this is secure or not...
we want to pay cents for an article, not dollars for a website, nor tens of dollars for a long-term subscription

Is that true, though? I think Spotify has proved that people prefer subscriptions to one-off payments for music, for example. Having to make a purchase/don't purchase decision for every news article you read doesn't seem like a good experience at all.
That is a really good argument, but doesn't apply to streaming.
The Economics Behind the Everpix Shutdown Decision – Ivan's Research
Ask HN: What does “enterprise software” get right?
I hear a lot about how enterprise software can learn from startups, is there anything startups can learn from enterprise?
Who said that they would have died without a seatbelt? Maybe just severe bodily damage, crippled, etc.

You also make it sound like people are only a cost to society. Lost taxes, scientific discoveries, families, etc., depending on their vocation. A lost parent can hurt a family, for example.
My guess is that higher average speeds are the confounding factor and that the speed people drive is mostly independent of the speed limit.
This looks more like its about hiding files in GPU ram.
Also seems to indicate GPU ram can survive a reboot cycle. Learn something new everyday...
The reflog just lets you undo commits (whether created by `git commit` or rebase or merge or whatever), while actions like `git reset`, `git checkout`, `git add`, `git gc`, and `git rm` cannot be undone with the reflog.
It's all about reasonable safety balanced with freedom. Wearing a seatbelt keeps people a lot safer and has a really low cost in terms of impinging on freedom.

There's no equivalent on a motorcycle that checks both those boxes other than the helmet laws we already have in many places.

There's no inconsistency here, it's the same philosophy but the outcomes are different because the situations are different.
> So, why did managed language designers decide to use heap allocation for reference type objects?

Because you avoid having to think about where to put the object while also not eating the cost of copying it if you guess wrong.

The lifetime of a heap object is whatever you define the lifetime to be (which thanks to GC is very flexible) the lifetime of a stack object has an absolute maximum.
The author here seems to be making the assumption that all these laws are considered purely from a 'public health/safety' standpoint, without ever being weighed against something else. If we wanted to evaluate laws purely under a 'health/safety' aspect we'd be scrutinizing the 2nd Amendment a lot more too, or even car ownership in general. Luckily legislatures weigh these things against other interests. People weigh gun ownership, motorcycles, and smoking against their public health, because despite the risks these activities are fun to do, make you feel good, etc.

Additionally, these issues aren't evaluated in isolation, there's lots of competing interests. Auto manufacturers and consumer interest groups have influence over seatbelt laws. For motorcycles there are ABATE groups in many states that tend to lobby against motorcycle helmet laws. How much influence these groups have may not necessarily be related to how safety conscious the state is in other areas.
Thanks for your feedback.

A lot of startups in that space seem to rely on building a large community of engaged voters, and then they'll figure out where to extract money, social media style. The problem as you point out is building that community in the first place, bacause we'd need a pivotal change in our politicla system for that to happen. Interested voters? There's not a single country in the world where a big chunk of the lectorate dedicate a significant amount of time to figure out how to vote. Money certainly can't be extracted for voters, I don't imagine people paying in one way or another to get tod who to vote for.

Why didn't you follow the money more directly and create a product aimed at politicians or PACs? Couldn't the intelligence you built be used by campaigns?

Were VCs curious about how you would eventually make money out of this?
And besides, nothing says you mean business by making your appearance in an A-10. Gets them everytime.
In practice, and from experience... content changes driven by JS tend to lag a few days, if the content was changed via direct output... If you're doing client-side rendering, couldn't you refactor to use node, or similar for your output rendering?

If you aren't heavy reliant on conversions from search traffic, you can probably get away with being JS driven, I'd suggest sticking with Anchor tags for direct navigation with JS overrides. Assuming you are supporting full url changes.. otherwise you need to support he shebang alternate paths... which is/was a pain when I did it 3-4 years ago.
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The bean-counters will throw in fixed costs per head. There are facility costs, IT costs (computers probably can not be shared, nor some software licenses), etc. Overheads from support functions (HR etc) are often allocated per head. There are medical insurance etc costs per head.

So, bean-counting makes you prefer fewer heads, and some of that cost is not just due to bean-counters, but very real.
Video report of this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU7lRuMg_tM
Right, this is true for WP and WinRT; it's not clear that the same is true for the IoT Win10/ARM builds?
Watch Mesos users unite on killer apps for the datacenter – Mesosphere
Facebook has no such compunctions, though, which may be why Whatsapp is worth significantly more to Facebook than it is to Whatsapp.
Sounds like a perfect team. One gets stuff done and one cares about quality. Stop whining about recognition and be awesome together!
Whelp, never have to visit Vox again.
I've had success with OwnCloud as an opensource replacement for Dropbox. Buy a VPS from DigitalOcean or RamNode, and you get a more libre and cheaper Dropbox that you can control at all levels.
As someone who was very confused by this post it's important to look at this [0] GitHub page with the disclaimer at the bottom:

> This project is satire and was made during the "2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon. [1]

[0] https://github.com/diafygi/gnu-pricing

[1] https://stupidhackathon.github.io/
It would be nice to have a simple user-tag and official-tag customizable field for tagging related research and development patterns.

Every time a closed source nightmare reoccurs, we can just let newbies find the related open source alternative.