skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slocket is a PCB with an edge connector, just like current graphics cards.

This is a multi-chip module or MCM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-chip_module). Intel also uses them to put the North bridge on the same package as the CPU for its mobile CPU's.

There are several innovative aspects about this MCM, but MCM's have been around for a long time.

A single GDDR5 chip is 32bit. GPU's use many chips in parallel to achieve wider buses.
I just wonder, are drones like these purchased by "enthusiasts" in the middle-east?
30 years ago they used to say exactly same about Japanese.
Seems like a market that goosoftple will soon be entering, or at least making some acquihires
> I also don't know what you mean by "you express most of these in code". The problem isn't writing a piece of code that expresses that constraint... the problem is doing so without introducing a race condition!

I agree, and this also exposes a weakness of javascript as a backend language. If you use Java/Scala, you have multithreading support and can sync the threads + concurrently verify that an item isn't being purchased more than X times. Which makes this problem solvable even with a NoSQL database. Javascript is single threaded though, which makes this problem a lot harder and I don't know how you'd solve it without an RDBMS with transactional support.
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Why must everything be a cloud service?

Also, I doubt this could be used with private trackers (if one values their account, anyway)
Oh, I agree with you entirely.

Let me reword/summarize my comment: there's r-strategists and K-strategists. It's usually better in most relationships to be with K-strategists. Where I disagree with Djisktra is in the idea of a world without r-strategists; not because it's not desirable, but because it's highly unlikely.
I think you're glorifying engineers here. They're a lot more careful, but they don't have some fairy pixie dust of rigor that makes everything work perfectly.
First, did you build this project to solve a personal pain point OR was it just a fun technical challenge? If the former, great, continue on. If the latter, your first order of business is to find out if this solves a pain point for anyone. If it doesn't, you don't have a business.

Next, start getting in front of people you think might be customers, talking to them, showing them a demo, and showing them where they'd save time and/or money.

Having working in the photography space, my hunch is that you're unlikely to have success selling this to consumers or even smaller companies (I could be wrong and not understand your product).

Two other things to chew on:

This might be a project you open-source and then provide a "premium" level on top of (premium support or help with installation).

I know HN is generally against software patents, but this might be a situation where you could get a patent and that could help you license the technology. IANAL and JPEG has/had its own patents but it might be worth investigating.
Words fail me. The horror of what everyone must have experienced in those places...damned, all of them.
I thought https://typing.io/ was pretty cool as a complementary course to more traditional ones. it's aimed at programmers. Helped me out a bit with special characters when I was relearning how to type.
Wireless power transmission via laser:

> Stalker is a small, silent UAS used by Special Operations Forces since 2006 to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. In a recent wind tunnel test, the UAS demonstrated 48 hours of continuous flight powered by this innovative laser system.

> Demonstrated net positive power to Stalker in flight, at ranges up to 600 meters.

> The beam director tracked the receiver for long periods, with centimeter accuracy at 500 meters, despite turbulence and aircraft maneuvers.

http://lasermotive.com/products/uav-power-links/

Note they first successfully demonstrated this outdoors 3 years ago: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/au...
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Obligatory: IANAL

My understanding is that you gain a trademark by using a mark in trade, so basically as soon as you create a name/logo and start using it, it is a trademark, and it can be enforced. However, there is an optional step of "registering" your trademark with (in the US) the USPTO. Doing this gives you some degree of additional ability to protect/defend your trademark, but I don't know how to quantify how much so.

I did a little bit of research into registering trademarks a while back, and came to the conclusion that it was something an engineer can do on their own, with a little work. There are plenty of books and websites out there that explain how to do it.

Caveat? The only one I can think of off-hand is that it does cost a little bit of money, and some time.
No autocratic one-party state does.

What makes you think that a two party system is drastically better?

The illusion of choice is way more dangerous and treacherous than blunt and in your face authoritarianism and despotism.
WebRTC doesn't have a tab in the web inspector yet. :) Try chrome://webrtc-internals/
Basic training technique really hasn't changed much, very true. There are new techniques (balloon and kite) for getting falcons to fly to a high point more quickly, and now drones are being experimented with. In the past 10-20 years we've also been using motors (drills, winches) to drag lures (a dummy prey-like item) to simulate a chase. These techniques don't have full acceptance, though; there's a lot of dispute about their value when it comes to actual hunting.

We did get rid of certain items deemed hazardous: the screen perch, which really requires constant supervision because raptors can hang from it and not be able to get back up, and single-piece jesses were replaced with a 2-part system where the jess part is removable. Should the bird get lost it can take the jesses out and not be hampered by them.

The main innovation is radio telemetry. Bells are still handy for immediate feedback of your bird's location, but telemetry is fantastic for falcons which can fly 20 miles away in a half hour if they feel like it, or hawks that will sit tight in a thicket on quarry and be completely invisible.
I thought of that, but I don't like it for a few reasons:

1) It's cumbersome to update. I don't want to run to the bank, get the thumbdrive, update it, and take it back every time I change a password.

2) Everyone has to know that I have the box, know where it is, and know where to get the key.

3) The key could get lost or destroyed. For example, if someone slings an especially effective curse at me and I literally die in a (house) fire. You can keep the safe deposit key in a safe... but now you have to store the key for that safe, or the combination.

4) Even if they have the key, the bank still might not let my next-of-kin into the box. The bank keeps a list of who is allowed in and their signatures. You'll have to physically take every person who needs access down to the bank and add them. It's one more chore, particularly because my family lives in other states and rarely comes here to visit (we all go back to the parents' house instead). In theory a death certificate and some other documentation can overcome that, but it's going to be time consuming and annoying, during a time when they don't need one more damn thing. I'm also not sure how access is handled in case of incapacity but not death (ie, coma, sick in a foreign country, kidnapped, whatever).
Does SENS get NIA funding? Have they put forward any candidates to NIA's ITP?
So your arguing for enforceable contracts that neither side can get out of easily? Ie sign for 7/12 or even a lifer at 20 years

You do know that military's that use thease systems have some rather nice tax and benefit perks that civilians wont be able to match.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567754
At the expense of maneuverability. It's worth mentioning that this is the trade off here.

From least to most maneuverable:

Weather balloon -> Fixed Wing -> Single rotor -> Multirotor
"Point-Defense Sunglasses"
I wonder: how much of the work done by those who reached the national level, will be used in some way in real products ?

How does this compare to real scientists/engineers success rate ?

Just out of curiosity - and of course i know it's not the goal here - but education/inspiration is .
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What is CoreOS' relationship with Google? Wikipedia says CoreOS is a fork of Google's Chrome OS, which is itself a fork of Gentoo. Chrome OS seems like an odd choice for a server product. Why not use something simpler?

CoreOS received funding from Google Ventures and uses Google's Omaha updates distribution system and Kubernetes cluster management utility.
A Subway Delay Story
Huge difference: KVM can run any guest (eg: BSD), LXC can only run Linux guests.
Yes, the problem with "you guys" is that you don't seem to want to solve problems like this. It's just too trivial. Otherwise one of you would have done it.
Just like the US did before it emerged as the #1 industrial producer in the world.
I worked in COBOL in the early 80s and despite its bad reputation, I found it was well-suited for the tasks I was asked to perform with it. (Compared to the other languages I knew at the time: C, BASIC, Fortran and Pascal)

Interestingly, the thing I liked best about COBOL was the PIC clause, which was actually a notation for formatted output. It beat the hell out of printf, that's for sure.
Yeah but sed isn't present by default in Powershell. in Unix systems it is and Powershell's ecosystem makes the approach sed uses a second class citizen.
Apple Safari Browser Vulnerable to URL Spoofing Vulnerability
It is the revenge of the mainframes and micro-kernels.

Also a return back to the days where the language runtimes were the OS.
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The guys at Snowplow Analytics are really into applying schemas to event streams, and will write or bang on about it at any opportunity:

http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2014/07/11/on-the-benefits...

http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2014/05/15/introducing-sel...

https://github.com/snowplow/iglu

I think there's a lot to be said for knowing for sure what shape your data is.
It is no longer horrific, but the entire Dachau site still has a strange nature to it. The original barracks that the prisoners stayed in are gone, although two reproductions are there. The buildings within the compound are still intact and have a variety of presentations and artifacts in them. There are several memorials on site. In general, there are just a bunch of tourists trudging around onsite nowadays. It is still really weird to stand their and realize you are vacationing where so many atrocities were committed.

The buildings outside of the fenced compound area were part of the Dachau site, but are still used today.
Remote Debugging a Java Process on Heroku
Having been thru this stuff, financial/official orgs have policies for accepting a death certificate by fax or mail. If they know your social security number, there is no need to worry a death cert is the ultimate root password to any account. So don't worry about banks / brokerages /insurance etc. Once your SS # shows up on the SSDI list they don't argue much, and that only takes a day or two, or so it seemed.

Utility/subscription type services pretty much get a copy of the certificate and they go away, maybe with a final billing statement. Look out for scammers sending fake invoices to dead people listed in obituaries or legal notice section of the paper.

Where it gets messier is non-financial institution online accounts, but they wouldn't be financially important or time critical. I remember ebay was fairly civil about the whole thing, although I don't remember what they did.
The deal is the people chartered with the task of providing an accurate timebase are failing to do so because they are adding and subtracting arbitrary units of time. So if you actually need a monotonic timebase, you can't get it without having a human diligently subtracting leap seconds at random times. The proper thing to do is to generate a proper monotonic timebase and then publish a separate offset with microsecond or better resolution. Thus people that need monotonic time are happy and people that want to set the wall clocks are happy.

Also seriously, leap seconds suck as an offset because a second is a huge amount of time for many applications.
"We're standing at an evolutionary precipice, where everyone should be asking the same question: Where does Kanye West fit into this?"

YES!
It's a lot more accurate when you set it to track an exercise. I believe it decreases polling frequency normally to save battery.

I have some weird heart issues and it can have trouble with that as well. If it's not set to track an exercise, it's frequently reading 10-15 bpm lower than my actual heart rate.
My understanding of law leaves lots to be desired, but wouldn't the trial, even if they won, be way too expensive? And there is always the risk of losing, Coca-Cola can certainly afford better lawyers.
I never knew this place existed. I'm really curious how they shielded the antenna for Allegheny Mountain Radio from the radio telescope. If something as small as a poorly maintained vacuum cleaner can interfere with the telescope then how on earth do they shield a radio broadcast antenna?
I think the "bear suit" is a traditional Japanese raincoat made of grass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mino_%28straw_cape%29
Looking at this from an Aerospace Engineering perspective, the weight distribution / CG properties may significantly limit the lateral movement of this vehicle; looks as such in the videos as well. This is because in order for a helicopter to move laterally it must pitch the rotors (in this case meaning the entire body) and a cg far from the rotor location makes this difficult. Something to think about.
Cloud, as in Blowing Smoke.
I wonder why more remote-operated drones like this aren't being designed with gasoline motors rather than electric. I remember flying all kinds of tiny gas-powered RC planes as a kid, and it's not obvious to me that the benefits of electric out-weigh the multiple-orders-of-magnitude reduction in flight time. In fact, what are the principal advantages of electric UAVs over gas-powered?
So, it is a helicopter with variable pitch blades.

How does it compare, reliability-wise, with quads? Quads only have to change rotation speed. This one needs to change pitch, as helicopters do.
Thank you for your critical comments.

I find that when I keep my opinions to myself, people assume that something very different than what I am thinking. I have become more outspoken recently as I have found that people are more willing to listen to and argue things that they disagree with if they trust the person saying it (yourself perhaps?).

The audience of this document was the TA3M Seattle group, which is very different from the average tech audience. It was a mix of people who are programmers and people who are not. I tried to put the subject area into both areas. If I was speaking to a tech audience, I would have made the paper more like this: https://www.altsci.com/ipsec/ipsec-tools-sa.html and simply described the problem of software security prediction instead of trying to give people actionable advice and the reason why.

So this document attempts to give people 0-day and the motivations behind naming software as unmaintained. I think that most people don't understand how many hours I spent trying to report my findings (~20 hours) when finding the vulnerability took just 3-4 hours. If we want secure software, we need to remove IPsec-tools and similarly unmaintained software from the open source ecosystem so that we don't spend 20 hours trying to contact them every time we find a vulnerability.
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These are all very recent (eg: ~10 years) icons, and on OS X only. Far from being "through the ages".

This had a lot of potential if they had started with windows 3.11 (dunno if earlier had HDD icons, another interesting fact), Mac OS 1, and maybe gnome/kde 1.
What I learned from using Ansible extensively for over a year
That's pretty clever. They're buying WooCommerce, one of the leading eCommerce platforms.
Getting people to switch podcast clients is hard
Our team built a podcast client that has a lot of interesting features to simplify discovery and listening to podcasts. Having a tough time finding the right channels to get it to people. Anyone have any suggestions?

itunes.apple.com/us/app/raur/id643855633?mt=8
I know the Container world is full of idealistic developers who are busily waxing poetic about the benefits of portability and interoperability. But a Containerized app must still look to the OS for its DLLs and other underlying code.

To which end it looks like a Linux OS is required to run Apache containers, and a Windows OS would be required to run a .NET web app. Or we can run cross-OS binaries, aka WINE & Cygwin.

These files have to be somewhere. Unless we're baking them into the Container, at which point it's not much different than a VM.

Administration tools haven't been tied to the target platform for decades. A great many green administrators still connect directly to the platform to administer, but the tools to do the work from your own system have existed on almost every platform for a very long time.

Server farms need about 1 driver per microprocessor in each server's chassis. But this isn't about drivers, it's about not having to think about the part of the system you don't want to care about, to reduce your cognitive load.
The expectations are not independent though. There can be no more solutions for b=6 than there are for b=5. Given what we already know, we should calculate those sums, not from i=2, but from i=10^2184 or so, because we there are no solutions below that. The theoretical expected number of solutions for b=6 is therefore vanishingly small.
Apple Patent – “Transparent Electronic Device”
Agree with you, but defense in depth.
And just like that - by acquiring the people behind e-commerce plugin WooCommerce - Automattic has become one of the major e-commerce platform providers. Great move by Automattic.
You are right, CertSimple is a competitor (reselling Digicert), but nothing in their blog post is wrong. They may be getting benefical advertising from this post, but they are doing so by providing a public service calling out the baseless fear mongering from Symantec and other CAs.

As nailer replied, it may be common, but it is not right. Those tactics should be called out and shamed whenever possible.
Interesting development. Congrats! It will be interesting to see how the two will work together. That is will there be shifts in product/spec roadmap? I have had a lot of fun using woo and I look forward to using it more.
It would be even nicer if useful content wasn't immediately slagged on in the comment section by people accusing them of impropriety. So much for no gratuitous negativity...
This is definitely unexpected. I'm guessing Auttomatic + WooThemes + Jetpack + More? is WordPress's answer to fending off the Weebly, Shopify, Wix, etc..
I wonder if this will somehow improve the quality of WooThemes' themes?
Why bother? Airplanes are complicated enough to make them even more complicated, so we can solve non existing problem to calm the germophobia of people.

Of course you could have provided arguments to show why my criticism of his invention were not valid ... and actually have discussion. But whatever ...
I guess the domain has not actually been seized. The order was written but not executed yet, and there may be an appeal etc before it takes effect.
Up until 1865, the United States made extensive use of slave labor to grow its economy. It also made use of foreign innovations, stealing others' intellectual property.

Both were immoral, and neither should be accepted today.
Mining the Internet for time lapses
With the coming REST API and possibly some new ways of obviating the dashboard and the TinyMCE editor WordPress is headed in a great direction.
We copied half of British government, too. I never implied otherwise (in fact I specifically said it isn't national for me). Our thinking on intellectual property has evolved since the time before the invention of electrical power and it is possible to learn from failures. Are you suggesting once someone makes a mistake everyone else is entitled to do so as long as said person was enormously successful in part due to said mistake? Everybody here has been party to the explosion of technology and knowledge in mere years and yet we defend poor judgment by saying "well, the United States did it 200 years ago, so clearly we don't know all we should know about the morality?"

The industrialization of the United States succeeded quickly for far more reasons than intellectual property.
Let's work out how that would work, in a simplified model of the world.

Let's say you have a 1000mAh battery at 10V that weighs 100g (these numbers have all been made round for purposes of easier arithmetic). Everything else on your drone is weightless, and your motors have perfect efficiency. To keep this aloft, you need to overcome 9.8 m/s^2 that is applied by Earth's gravity; but since we're simplifying things, let's just round that to 10 m/s^2. 10 m/s^2 * 100g is 1 N, which means it requires 1 W of power to keep that battery aloft (resist the force of gravity). 1Ah * 10 V = 10 Wh, so that means you could stay aloft for 10 h (remember, these numbers are unrealistic, we have ignored any kind of efficiency, or the weight of the rest of the drone, etc).

So, lets use two batteries. Now we have 20 Wh of energy available, but we're holding up 200g of battery, which requires 2 W of power to stay aloft, so again, we can stay aloft for just 10 h.

And remember, all of this was ignoring any notion of efficiency or the weight of any other part of the craft to support this. As you increase the weight, motors will need to get more powerful to be able to actually keep it aloft, which means they need to get bigger, which is extra weight that you need to support that isn't giving you any extra energy. So the real world is actually even worse than our idealized model; as you add on more battery, only a fraction of the increase in weight adds more energy, so you will actually see shorter flight times.

Now, of course, there are designs for which increasing the amount of battery can lead to increased flight times. If the power supplied by the motors is sufficient to sustain the extra weight, so they don't need to be scaled up, then increasing the amount of battery relative to the rest of the weight of the craft can lead to higher efficiency as there is less relative "dead weight" (weight besides the batteries, that is not carrying energy). But that can only take you so far, which is why the flight times of drones plateau at a certain point and you can't fix it by just adding more battery.

This is why you don't see electric helicopters carrying people. The energy to weight ratio for batteries is too low; only fossil fuels have a sufficient energy density.
> If you use Java/Scala, you have multithreading support and can sync the threads + concurrently verify that an item isn't being purchased more than X times.

That does cause you to have a hard limit of one application server for the app, which can be a pretty big deal...
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I can tolerate know-it-alls when they really do know a lot more about something than I do and are willing to share.

However in my experience, the majority of people with a know-it-all attitude are simply blowing hot air and trying to cover for the fact that they really aren't nearly as smart or knowledgeable as they would like to be.

Most truly smart and knowledgeable people I've met have been amazingly humble and usually fairly quiet about things. The qualities of quietness and humility lead to learning.