skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No help on the advertising, but I must say your front page video is amazing. I desperately was looking for a link like "Fly now!", "How to race!", or something similar. Join is a big fat wall to make an account. Might be worth AB testing the main page. Pilots and Photos were not what I wanted to see, I wanted more videos and a big fat link to the guide section. Maybe worth AB testing the order of the links with the Guild and Video on the far left too.

In the guide it would be worth mentioning that the Hubsan X4 only records video from what it looks like, it doesn't transmit. It also mentions that there are ready-to-fly quadcopter, but doesn't have any links. While it isn't much, having a good resource center with affiliate links can bring in some extra cash while you get your startup off the ground while at the same time teaching the user base.

Edit:
After thinking about it what was missing was a call to action page that showed if I followed steps A-G I could fly in a race too. Along the way I would need to make an account to find others in my area, start a local group, learn about regional races, etc. I am guessing that guiding new players is your primary challenge for long term growth?

Edit2: The events page should have a form so you can be notified when there are local events. I am guessing your larger market will be those that want to watch/goto the events so providing them with a way to get involved is funnel #2.
I haven't read the book, but from what I gather[1], the explanations were not all good. Getting to and from Miller's world should have required absurd amounts of energy. But as extreme luck would have it, there were "intermediate-mass black holes" positioned ever-so-conveniently to make those trips possible (along with some other stuff). Cherry-picking the physics you like and papering over the rest with a series of extremely implausible coincidences isn't good science or good storytelling.

[1]: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2040
> The real headline is that the IRS is hackable.

That's not borne out in the slightest by what we know from the article. These people might've been phishing victims - you wouldn't claim a bank is hackable because people entered their bank password on a phishing site.
Slightly off-topic, but regarding shininess of iphone.

My biggest issue with iOS it has no usable web browser. Zooming doesn't reflow column text to screen width. IMHO, the single most important feature in a mobile phone web browser.

So now web site authors have started to make these horrendous mobile versions with zoom-locked viewports.

Opera is still the only way to go for mobile phones. Note, not Opera Mini, but Opera.

So far this issue has kept me away from iPhone.
ShareLaTeX is even Online.
Then again, so did his (non-third-party) opponents. Not a lot of choice available.
> Or just different data that leads to a different conclusion. Some of the YAGNI sceptics here have also been doing this stuff a long time, but apparently with quite different experiences to you.

Purely a single data point, but I've been doing this on and off for 30 years, mostly enterprise, and agree that YAGNI is axiomatic to _efficient_ software delivery (most isn't built efficiently of course). And the bigger the project, the more pronounced this becomes.

This leads to questions about what architecture must look like, since it needs to be extremely malleable to support YAGNI. RESTful and microservices based architectures seem to be optimal approaches based on this assumption.

FWIW I've seen traditional enterprise solutions architecture approaches fail extremely hard against this worldview to the point that what looks like best practise in one world (e.g. stateful, transactional, end-to-end design) looks like worst in the other. (I don't think this is resolvable and notably causes huge friction for technical folk from 'the new world' going to work on giant programs populated by veterans who have spent long careers in a BDUF paradigm.)
There are no real world situations where the initial assumptions in your argument hold because you do not own a time machine. A time machine is necessary for you to distinguish between the situation you describe vs. any one of the countless ways that your situation could differ from your expectation as time unfolds. Such as the pirates getting wiped out by the Navy.

Suppose instead of a pair of features, you have twenty pairs of features. For most of those pairs:

a) The second item isn't really needed.
b) The second item is vastly more complicated than the first, and delays revenue
c) The se

Wait, here's an article that describes nicely the other possible outcomes and their costs: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html
Really disappointing to see someone complaining about one side "distancing" themselves from something instead of talking about the issues based on their merits.

"Team" voting is why politics is broken and we can't have nice things. People vote & evaluate ideas based on their teams position rather than the ideas themselves.

On top of that, Paul's first term was in 2009. I don't understand why he can't establish his own views on this.
That's accurate. I think the obsession with programming languages on HN is also misplaced. Choice of programming language is far from the most important aspect of the SDLC, as I see things.

I'm admittedly an atypical HN reader.
>No, it doesn't.

Oh? What does it say?

>But even if it did, it could still be wrong.

Not sure what you mean here. As I am reading it, it's a non-statement.
Put that information in the speaker's notes, not in the visible slides.
Yes, Obama is a tremendous liar (not to mention a piss-poor president). However, Crypoz is correct. Obama didn't lie about this. He has always been for a centralized government and a police state. Of course, he flowers those words up and puts sugar on them to make them palatable to the masses, but he has stated he supports this type of intrusive government behavior all along.
If you properly protect your security number, which requires some monthly commitment (such as $15 lifelock, or freecreditreport $5 per month), you can pretty much post your SSN online and really not much will happen. Any time someone uses it, you will get the alert and chance to act (stop the inquiry before it hit hard).

It just that most people believe that not making their SSN public is enough for it to be safe.
If you learn Java you will be able to get a job doing it. So in that sense it is relevant. I personally feel it is a dead end though. And this is coming from someone who loved Java when he first played with it 15 years ago (previous experience was C++ / VB6 / BBC Basic though!)

If you want to enjoy your job, or your hobby, choose a better language.

I'd suggest Clojure or Haskell. But where I live at least it is a fight to get to do paid work in those languages, but a fight that is worth it.

Hard to explain why Haskell is better than Java in a little comment. I say learn some Haskell and Java and discover for yourself what you prefer.
Yes, polling. If kernel gets involved, we're talking about microseconds.
I worked for NASA in its beginning in 1954 up into the shuttle program AMA
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the expected value is higher on the 1% chance for 1B
Or low latency requirements.
And down voting those truths people don't like to hear is exactly why he made it into office . . . twice.
Cheers, right the idea would be to market it to YouTube stars - those who want a bigger piece of the pie. Apparently Youtubers aren't getting as much as they could considering the enormous view counts. Of course, the platform is hot which is why the view counts are large, but even if we can convert 5-10 stars to this platform it has a better chance of growing quickly, and bringing the fan-base with it. Additionally, we can target enterprise clients that have internal video tutorials/programs etc... just brainstorming as I type this, but I appreicate your message because it encourages fresh perspective.
I built my first mobile app this year (iOS) and I was appalled at how bad the tooling and development workflow for mobile was. Swift is a disaster, the app store approval process feels like going back 10 years in a time machine, debugging XCode is like trying to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, testing is hard, a reloaded dev workflow is non-existent... It's no wonder startups can't get out the door and quickly iterate on mobile.

It's crystal clear that using web tooling and compiling Javascript to native components is the way forward here. It's just that tools like PhoneGap, Titanium, Cordova ... were half-baked solutions and never really excited me. This is why React Native is such a game-changing technology. If a startup can get to iOS and quickly iterate without being held back by XCode/Swift it's a massive competitive advantage. Let other companies spend millions and 9 months hiring 'iOS only' developers, and struggling to get a V1 to market when you can take just your existing model layer which is already rendering JavaScript somewhere anyway, and have it target iOS native without missing a beat.

Really interested to see the fallout from React Native, especially once the Android library is released later this year.
Powerpoint is a tool, that like email, can be used correctly or incorrectly. PP is great at making slides for presentations. People are terrible at making slides for presentations.
This post is right, but only because web technology is currently a second-class citizen on almost every native environment. If you were to expose system API's directly to the JS layer à la FirefoxOS, then I'm pretty sure you could recreate most "native" apps on web based platform with minimal / narrowing performance hits. Booting to browser technology can only get better with projects like ChromeOS and FirefoxOS pushing the envelope, so why not push for a unified application runtime in the web across devices? Sure, html wasn't made for rich applications, but html5 was...
I wrote this below, but here it is again:

> Team" voting is why politics is broken and we can't have nice things. People vote & evaluate ideas based on their teams position rather than the ideas themselves.

I'm glad you're able to evaluate the situation based on it's own merits & come to your own conclusions, but the polarization & villainization of opposite sides of the spectrum is what is killing real political debate.
Mr. Rogers' curiosity and enthusiasm is inspirational. This video by PBS is a lovely tribute to a great human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM
Louisiana Health Cooperative
I am having another D&C tomorrow in Covington. I just had one in January and and my insurance company Louisiana Health Cooperative denied my hysterectomy scheduled for this past Monday because they said it was not medically necessary even though my doctor says it is. So if that is your insurance company beware!!! They will be paying for more than a hysterectomy when my attorney gets through with them!!
The irony is that the iPhones are designed to be broken from falls so that consumers are motivated to buy new cases.

Anecdotal (as an iOS dev), yes, but how hard would it be to add back a fraction of a mm in casing above the screen to protect from falls?
I think you're right, in part because tech has also plateaued for many people. Things like new processors or operating system releases, etc. used to make more of a difference when there were more obvious limitations holding back the average person.

Mac users used to clamor for the latest processor news because there was no computer available which was fast enough; a 7,200 RPM drive had to be a big deal because everyone spent time waiting on their slow 5,400RPM drive. Digital photographers anxiously awaited better sensitivity, lower noise, storage speed, etc. but it's been years since a good phone camera was adequate for most people and even discerning types were more likely to be held back by skill or lenses than their DSLR.Even on HN, I'd bet most readers would take a LONG time to notice if someone secretly their Core i7 with an i5.
This wasn't a hack or a bug - open source software built to do the same thing would've been just as vulnerable to this.

Per the article, the attackers had to put "the taxpayer’s Social Security number, date of birth, address and tax filing status" into a form to get access.
Sure, but there isn't much of a difference there. Again, in 2014 we knew we'd be looking at something like 2x1080p with 90hz vsync. Nobody would tell you you'd need something less than a high-end gaming PC to spit all those frames out.

Edit: The consumer confusion arose because Oculus released developer hardware with significantly lower requirements, and a lot of enthusiasts jumped on the bandwagon. But if you were developing for that hardware, you always knew it was insufficient for consumers, and that the release version would need a lot more muscle behind it.
The user can. BinaryIdiot means striking a deal with a manufacturer, the same way PC manufacturers make agreements to preinstall software on Windows machines.

But while manufacturers such as Samsung can and have agreed to preload Microsoft apps on Android devices, I don't think Google would allow manufacturers to change the search provider. Though that still doesn't prevent them from preinstalling Cortana, or replacing the homescreen with a Cortana launcher.

Partnering with a custom ROM such as CyanogenMod is certainly an option, too.
The criticism was "I can't install apps from third party sources". There was never a requirement to make it particularly user friendly in the OP. If it's a Windows Store application, then XAP sideloading coincidentally is easy. If not, then it's still possible, even if it requires you to be more of a power user.
the tea party has never been untainted by koch money, it was funded fully by them from the very start and existed as their explicit political project long before obama was elected.[0] it's 100% astroturf and always has been

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/final-proof-the-te...
here: http://andrewchen.co/2012/08/15/mobile-app-startups-are-fail...
Don't think lifelock will prevent fraudulent tax returns.
What a disappointment from someone who ran, in part, on his record as an educator on Constitutional law.
Are you seriously arguing that Google is not making enough money?
As a user of Android HN apps, premii seems to beat them in all aspects. The major aspect being them actually working properly.

It seems like apps are less maintainable. Right now pretty much all of the Android HN apps are broken in some way, or missing a core feature of the desktop experience.
"a bunch of people who basically believe in the goodness of individuals. That isn't terribly dirty IMO"

Maybe not dirty, but terribly naive. Not in the sense that I think people are inherently evil, but I do believe they are inherently greedy (naturally as greed serves an important evolutionary function as long as we live in a society with scarcity) in a way that makes them perfectly willing to bend and break the rules to increase their personal wealth and power as long as they don't get punished for it and nobody that they have to actually see (and thus empathize with) gets hurt by their greed (though some have such advanced systems of self-denial that even this bit is negotiable).

This is why unregulated capitalism is just as flawed as pure socialism for now, current humans can't be trusted to live in any system without external checks and balances (and even with those the best we can hope for is that the system mostly works for most people).
Considering that America and France both shared a common enemy - Britain - during that time, that would be highly unlikely. The Louisiana Purchase also made that prospect unlikely, as did Napoleon's explicit admiration of American ideals and leadership (as the article pointed out).

What reason would Napoleon have to attempt (and probably fail; the American navy was not nearly as much of a pushover as you state the army to have been) to launch a trans-Atlantic campaign against what was historically an ally and a strong cultural/political influence?
Essentially the assumption that prices are set efficiently does not hold for FX. Errors in pricing can occur, and when there is an arbitrage opportunity and a market maker loses money then it is assumed (possibly) due to a pricing error which the arbitrager shouldn't have taken advantage of.

A bit of history how the messaging protocol works might make things clearer.

In the old days a trade would take place over the phone as follows:

You: "I'd like to buy USDJPY, $1 million worth please"
Market Maker or broker (MM): "Ok you can get $1 million dollars worth for 123"

At this point there was a gentleman's agreement you would respond within 4 seconds whether you want that price or not (as the market may move)

You: "Mine, I'll take it"

Here you have completed your side of the contract and cannot back out. You just need the MM to confirm that they can still get your USDJPY 1 million 123 (this was traditionally confirmed with a trader sitting nearby who could see all the prices and volumes being published in the market and could give a price at which they could hedge the entire volume and still make a profit. These days traders still perform this role to a small extent but generally the broker would read a price off a screen themselves).

If they can, MM: "It's yours, USDJPY 1 million at 123" and the transaction (contract) is confirmed good. The position is transferred to you, and the trader who provided the original price hedges the risk and gets out of the position, flattening his trading book.

If the market has since moved and the trade is no longer profitable, MM: "I'm sorry the price has changed, you can now buy at 123.1" and you jump back up to the previous

Ok, so all this has been upgraded with technology over the years, specifically messaging is now done via the FIX protocol (same as is used for other asset classes). But the basic flow is still the same:

You: Request price at a quantity
MM: provides price
You: decide whether to take that price
MM: confirms that the price is still good, then sends you confirmation the trade was good (and hedges the trade), or otherwise rejects the trade.

The issue arbitraging causes is that if the prices in the market move and those moves are known to the arbitrageur but not to the market maker then the market maker gets into a position where they accept and confirm the trade, but can't hedge out at the price they thought they could, and so lose money on the trade. A few of these trades and the losses start to build up, and if it keeps happening with a certain client (remember, no anonymous exchanges here) then it's easy to punish that client (show them worse prices, cut them off completely, etc). If an arbitrageur is hiding behind a third party then the market maker might have enough clout to punish the entire third party (in which case it would be in the third party's interest to seek out the arbitrageur and punish them themselves).
Gingerbread is roughly four and a half years old and it still runs on about 6 percent of Android devices in use. Adoption of new technology lags a lot more at the tail - if Android was going to be completely off 32-bit in five years time it would have to have significant adoption already.!
People sometimes think this is about an individual president/politician's values or policy thinking. That might be the case, but over the last decade I've started to think that there's a different explanation.

Sometimes I call it the "Giant Robot Theory of The Presidency" -- that is, I suspect that occupying the white house is to no small extent a lot like climbing into the cockpit of a large and complex piece of anime mecha. It mediates your senses, your reality is "augmented" in a number of ways, you have information being fed to you from various subsystems. You're empowered, but you're also somewhat isolated by the cockpit, too, and it's easy to start to think about reality in terms of what the various feeds and subsystems are telling you and think about your actions largely in terms of the controls in front of you. Perhaps at first you focus that way because it's all so new and awesome and exciting, then later because you just got used to it while barely noticing how totally you accepted this interface to the world. Over time the system itself shapes your perceptions and thinking, and you think less like what you were before you climbed in and more like the system itself.

That's a colorful metaphor for saying that once you're in the leadership of an organization, you see like the organization does, because you "see" via the organization, but I think it adds something.

(BTW -- it's also true of everyone to some extent. It's a useful exercise to think about exactly what kind of mecha you've climbed into and how it's influencing you.)

I think this tendency may be more pronounced in organizations with strong mission-oriented and ends-justify-means cultures.. like, say military/defense/national security orgs, which we intentionally staff with people we train to set the value of human autonomy and even life (theirs and others) below various goals and "interests."
It's the people's fault because they elected the Congress.
How much have browsers invested in their pagination solution, though? If I specify that tag on my pages, does that mean users who visit my site will have an awesome experience when it comes to pagination?
Libertarians still count education and security as values, they just think there are ways to do it that don't involve centralized government control. Just because someone is against tax funded public school doesn't mean they are against education.
The CMS they use doesn't force them to use a different language. A better equivalent would be people arguing over emacs vs vim
Ah, this explains why he's constantly advocating for the elimination of private property and for the state to own all means of production. Of course.
There were some options during the primaries (like Dennis Kucinich), and this is why the primary elections are so important. None of the No-to-USA-PATRIOT options made it past the primaries, so we were left without much real choice.
Also, with react native you can push software updates over the wire without Apple even knowing.
> non-third-party

You're imprisoned in a cage of your own making.
But also, in that case, the copyrighted work was registered, allowing statutory damages. It's unlikely that these instagrams are registered, which reduces the potential award. In addition, there's likely no actual damages in terms of lost sales.

I think that he's got a pretty good chance that he'd win based on the history, and lower damages in the case of a loss. (Not registered, not otherwise commercial work, no potential loss of sales for original)
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What will the reader do while polling? If they will spin/poll, that will consume CPU resource unnecessarily. If the reader does it frequently the OS will preempt the process and pay the price.

Typically, it takes around 50ns to 80ns to access RAM via north bridge. Most probably the CPU cache is screwing his measurements.
This is also essentially what we do in Daala, as proposed here back in 2012: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-terriberry-codingtools-02#...

The only difference is we don't use rANS (which didn't exist when we started), we use a different arithmetic coding technique that does not require divisions, that also handles probabilities that don't sum to a power of two, so even the traditional frequency count style of models work fine.

Glad to see others are recognizing that this is a good idea.
Not to go too far off topic, but it's worth noting that many investors today are people who sold bags of dog shit to real companies in 1999.