skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this was really poor decision making on the pilot and or his commanders.

Imagine a building burning down, civilian car parked in front of said building... Whoops operation is ruined, better turn around and do nothing.

So the real issue is the aircraft dispatcher doesn't know how to handle emergency situations? This is horrible.
App Academy are selling shovels, for whatever price the market will bear.

I'm not impressed but I'm also entirely unsurprised.
If only I could give multiple upvotes.
Me either, and I've used all providers historically. I think Animats was confused with Japan.
I'm getting bizarre rendering errors in chrome for whatever character prefixes "self" in all those (I assume &?)
Totally different approach but I really loved your post and would simply like to add: learn a musical instrument.

It is something that you can noodle around on (like a guitar, or an electric bass, or even on a midi keyboard software) .. go to a pawn shop and grab an old instrument (put on new strings if necessary) and just play a little every day.

Music helps relieve stress, lets your mind relax, brings you to a creative space, and in a few months of noodling every day or every other day you'll find that your experience of music will have changed and that you'll be making beautiful sounds. Very gratifying, very healthy, and very easy. The juggler must learn to use both hands, the artist both eyes, and the entrepreneur both brains.
Maybe I'm ignorant here, but I picture a hobby drone hitting a DC-10 would be like a bug hitting a car's windshield.
Human drivers follow a bathtub curve. Young drivers (particularly male), are very dangerous in the beginning (so much so, that their insurance rates are much higher). Drivers become more dangerous as they get older, and their reflexes, vision, situational attention/awareness decline. I think one of the best uses of self driving cars initially will be for those populations.
“Seeing the world through the lens of Bayes’ Theorem is like seeing The Matrix. Nothing is the same after you have seen Bayes.”

I'm pretty sure this is an instance of cognitive bias.
DFectuoso [dead]:

>Sleep well, eat well and get fit. 100% guaranteed wins.

>Also, stop smoking/drinking. Hard battles, guaranteed wins.

>-----
It means there's an oversupply of people who want engineering jobs. Most people applying for software engineering positions aren't able to program even the most basic of things. That doesn't mean there's too many qualified engineers.
> For a small company, this is an enormous waste of time, money, and energy.

I think you have this backwards. A small company that writes a compiler and loses a few weeks of dev time per year survives for a decade, while spinning up various new products.

In another world, a small company rewrites its only source of revenue. 18 months later, they release the rewrite with zero new features and a chunk of new bugs and promptly die, because who's going to buy a product that spends a year and a half going backwards?
I'm quite late with this, but this is incorrect. At no time is the URL sent to Google; in fact, at no time is even the hash of the full URL sent to Google. I'd suggest you re-read the safebrowsing protocol.

As ploxiln notes, if a hit is found with a matching prefix to the (canonicalized) URL, a request is made for all hashes of URLs beginning with that hashed prefix. The hash of the current URL can then be checked against that list locally.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't even consider APL for collaborating with non-programmers. I'm thinking of just as a personal tool.

With R, you can do data preparation, but I find it easier to do it with Perl or awk than import the cleaned data to R. Is a standard workflow with J pretty much the same? I thought that with PCRE and other libs available in J, it might be suitable for more than just juggling cleaned data.
A parked car is easy to see and easy to predict what it will do next.

A drone is hard to keep track of and could move in any direction at any time, and if it collides with the plane could knock it out of the sky.
Some devices won't work, people need retraining, security with less tested stacks is a concern, addresses are harder to remember. It's a nontrivial change to push on to an established network, with a horizon for payoffs beyond the standard political term.
That was my first thought too but the article says the drone in question had a 4 foot wing span which is pretty large. So it wasn't just some time quad copter in this case.
I believe the similarities you find between Java and C++ are entirely intentional. But I respectfully disagree with:

> Java is basically a subset of C++ with some sugar around.

Here are a few reasons why:

* As you said, all Java classes inherit from a common type; java.lang.Object (Smalltalk).

* Inner classes automatically have a reference to the containing class (not in C++, though Java "nested classes"[1] behave similar to C++ structs/classes).

* java.lang.ClassLoader has no corresponding abstraction in C++.

* C++ has pass-by-reference semantics which is completely missing in Java.

* C++ supports destructors intrinsically.

* All definitions must exist within a type in Java. There is no concept of a "free standing" definition.

* Java provides meta-objects by way of java.lang.Class for all classes (not present in C++).

* Java does not support stack-based allocation except for built-in POD's.

> Java interface is full-abstract class without fields (in Java 8 even not so full-abstract). Multiple inheritance only with interfaces.

A Java interface has a distinct type within the type system, yes, and there exist meta-objects describing them generated as well. But until Java 8, interfaces had no behaviour and could only declare static fields.

> So Java "reference" is C++ pointer without asterisks and ->.

Pretty much.

As an aside, it has always cracked me up that a language touted as having no pointers has a "NullPointerException" class. (I am easily amused)

1 - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/nested.ht...
I was expecting really bad comments. I would say they were actually mostly positive, or constructive criticism.
"all models are wrong, but some are useful" - Box.

I think the Bayesian approach is a good place to start, and provides a coherent way to think about things.

Pragmatically, one might end up needing to introduce a few approximations into the model, to make it computationally tractable, for example, but it is good to be able to view this in the context of what the gold-plated theoretical modelling approach would be.

Instead of doing something ad-hoc that appears to work, say.
A 3 Ghz P4 from 2005 way well blitz a Core-M from 2015 on certain single-threaded benchmarks. But if you're concerned about energy bills, emissions, fanless computing or all day battery life then performance per watt matters even on x86-64 desktop environments.

From the article:

parallelism results in power savings. Multiple threads working in parallel on a page-rendering job allow the CPU to complete the entire page in the same amount of time while running at a lower frequency.
It's easy to image that a bird wouldn't do anything to a plane, but that doesn't mean that birdstrike can't bring down airliners.

You might only suffer minor damage but you could also lose an engine or a control surface.
Many of these academies/bootcamps have a 90+% completion rate and a 90+% placement rate.

Those are numbers you only get by extremely rigorous filtering on the front end; there's simply no way to admit anything except low-risk students and maintain those numbers.

Changing their pricing model so that they can admit more risky students without taking on unnecessary risk isn't unreasonable at all. The alternative is to just not admit those students.

Of course, they should have been more transparent.
They're more dangerous than you think. When doing my private pilot training, I had to be very aware of birds striking the windshield as they do have enough energy in them to cause serious damage. Even passenger jets have issues with them[0], and have been taken down as a result[1]

[0]: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Plane-Damage-0New-York-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
Are you joking? You're equating a stationary vehicle that workers have to inconveniently walk around to a toy that can knock an airplane, and all of its crew, out of the sky?

You've got to be kidding.
Ahh, the halting problem :)

I think it will be a long while before we have fully autonomous cars which drive better than humans even in the edge cases.
I set up Redmine for my wife, who is an attorney. She uses it to communicate with her clients and manage projects, and also for some personal stuff. She really likes it.
The article says a hobby drown was spotted at 11000 ft. I didn't think such drones typically flew anywhere near that high or were even capable of it. Or is this happening in a high mountain area and the altitude above the local terrain was actually much less ?
Drug addiction is not the cause but one of the symptoms of being ruled by a dynasty
Not if it sucks the drone into the engine.
You can smash through the windows of a parked car to run the hoses through it, but a drone might move around, pose a threat to your aircraft, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Well, not "low-hanging" meaning "easy to fix" so much as "low-hanging" meaning "really obvious high-ROI thing to fix."
> But I would hope the majority of HN users are pretty good at spotting, and steering clear of malicious websites

yeah, about that:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/web-forum-for-iphone...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/pwned-in-7-seconds-h...

etc etc
If I used my old PC with the 3DFX card, could I see through the walls to snipe other players?

Ahh, the good ol' days.
I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate the domain name.
I've always found resumes to be quite useful in figuring out who to bring in for an interview - BUT, most of the people I've been involved in hiring have had between 5 and 15 years of experience, usually at at least 2 or more real companies. I can well believe that if you're only interested in people right out of school, then it's harder to figure out candidates from their resumes.

I am a little puzzled, though, about why others seem to find resumes so opaque. It seems like resume-reading is a lost art. A resume is usually a document that someone has spent a lot of effort on to make themselves look good. If you learn to read them, that can tell you a lot about the author. (Note: searching for buzzwords is not "reading.") A resume should not be regarded as simply a collection of facts - of course you'll be misled if you do that; a resume should be regarded as a document of self-expression. After a while, you can see useful patterns in what people put in resumes - a least for more-experienced applicants. Almost every resume suggests a bunch of next questions, which can be asked in a phone screen or interview to get a pretty good idea of what a person is about.

It's worth recalling that absolutely all software engineers at all software companies in the world from the first ones around 1955 up to 2002 were hired without benefit of LinkedIn, StackOverflow, Github. Almost all of these engineers submitted resumes, which were reviewed prior to offering interviews. Yes, there were hiring mistakes in the old days, but I don't see a huge number of people taking about how the hiring process now is so much easier, smoother and more foolproof than it used to be.
Yeah. San Bernadino has peaks up to 11,500 ft, so I'm guessing that's the case. 11,500 above the ground is crazy high for a hobby drone.
I'm 21 and went through a programming bootcamp. In fact I dropped out of college to do it and made the highest starting salary of the bootcamp afterwords (RefactorU).

Risk doesn't give you the right to hide something. It takes a lot of time and effort to go through a bootcamp screening process.

For them to throw a curveball after someone has passed all the requirements is just plain unfair.
>
Most jurisdictions tell you to obey any random person directing traffic.

I watched the most amazing form of this in action after Hurricane Andrew. You'd pull up to an intersection and a random person would be directing traffic till (it turns out) the car they were passenger in got through. Then they'd go hop in their car and another random passenger from another car would hop out and direct traffic for a few minutes. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Not to diminish the large contributions of many Sikhs in military service to India - that record is indisputable - but it's a bit far fetched to call them The warriors of India.

India has had many martial communities over its history and up to this day, and to focus only on the Sikhs in this regard is to tell a selective story of the past and present.

In my travels in India I've seen a large number of Indian military personnel drawn from all over the subcontinent. Indeed most of those I saw stationed on the front lines in Kashmir when I visited there just ahead of the Kargil war in 1999 were from southern India.
Tone immediately changes post funding, brash excitement early customer phase -> pr.
New workflow added to further control the flow of your team emails
Thanks, nt. Cloud-based IDEs are the future, I think. Too many good reasons to have them.
Looks like the area of the fire is 7500-9500ft. Nearby San Gorgonio Mountain is over 11400ft.
Awesome

i can hear the zenimax lawyers stampeding now though...
Reminds me of this: New Yorkers will help a cute but hapless robot get where it's trying to go: http://www.tweenbots.com/
I am curious how these sensor arrays deal with being in proximity to each other. Most of the technologies that measure/map depth are susceptible to interference from other transmitters.

Can these systems operate properly with only visible light cameras?

Infrared Interference (XBOX Kinect): http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/1qy2lk/can_you_have...

Radar Interference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_jamming_and_deception#In...

LiDAR Interference: http://www.aiqus.com/forum/questions/22373/using-multiple-li...
Could you shed some more light on this? Instacart claims to offer in store prices for my local store.

Although I have caught a few issues where they charged double for an avocado or something like that but it seems like more of a data entry error based on the current price of "2 for 1"
Ha, just finished reading this about delivery startups: https://medium.com/@alexschiff/dear-food-delivery-startup-dc...
I get a warning when I click on that link.
Is this the same article http://www.delfini.org/Publications/SKEPDOC.15-3_Screening.p...?
Why was the DC10 manned?
What's the solution? Does the U.S. Forest Service create its own fleet of attack drones? Orbital laser platform? Hack the radio control frequency?

Edit: Oh they already did! The U.S. Forest Service requested a drone from the Department of Defense
I love this app. I gladly paid $3.99 when I saw it, as I've been wanting something like this for awhile.

Question: any evidence of increased battery life due to the lowered brightness on a portion of the screen?

I was sitting in a dark room with my MBP at full brightness and noticed how bright the windows are when they're focused and you have the dim set sufficiently high. There's gotta be at least SOME savings, right?
They took great care to make sure the ads were unobstructed.

My observation of the noise box is that it doesn't appear to be tuned for retina screens and it seems to be a 5x5 box where each cell has the tame square texture.

Gave me a head ache staring at it for about two minutes though.
So, what about the path between "complete rewrite" and "invent a proprietary intermediate language": doing what they did at the end (running a permanent transpilation and committing the result) at the beginning? They could have just moved from straight ASP to straight PHP, and then later done it again to move to straight C#. No rewrite necessary, no technical debt necessary.
They've also built a reputation of producing quality students, and a network of employers associated with that. 18K is a fairly low price to pay for this, when you compare App Academy to the cost and time commitment of a university / community college program.

As for the tuition difference with age, I presume that a higher percentage of 22 year olds and under pursue a start-up job, where salaries are lower. Hence, they make up for the difference by charging an amount upfront.
LLVM merges SafeStack
I understand why you'd address this to entrepeneurs given the audience around here, but really, is there anyone to whom this advice _doesn't_ apply? Sure, if you're a textbook entrepeneur you're working hard and might overlook other things. Same if you're working three jobs to make ends meet, or if you're studying all hours, or looking after your family. The advice has common validity.

Your strategy won't work for everyone, or even most people, because "just do it", whilst very compelling short term, tends to lose effectiveness over time. Instead seek out something that you really enjoy, that coincidentally provides great exercise, removing any problem about motivation and long term commitment. If hanging at the gymn really is your thing that's great, but if not, don't beat yourself up, get into something else instead, cycling, karate, trapeze, dance, roller-derby, yoga, there are lots of alternatives, main thing is to make it fun then you won't need the "I must do this" self-discipline every day, you'll go out of your way to do it.

And as others say, explore creative and cultural activities too. Your mind does not thrive on pure coding and hustling alone, it needs its own free-form exercise too.
I get that, running an open source project can be very time consuming and expensive, and once it starts it becomes a part of your brand that cannot necessarily easily be dismissed. So it may have been wise not to open source it. I do think though, that wasabi was not obviously stupid or anything, and it probably could have had some amount of success in the wild.
I did a lot of work with device models and SPC, while working in VLSI Design. We had SAS and APL2 (with a companion stats package called GraphStat). The APL2/GraphStat combo was awesome, and I always found myself going to APL2 when I really needed to do some analysis. But, APL2 withered on the vine long ago.

After some recent forays into Clojure, Haskell, and R, I find myself getting re-interested in languages in the APL family.

I had read about Q, K and Kdb+ a while ago. Guess I'm going to have to kick the tires.
Pretty Evening Dresses
My startup is bootstrapped and does deliveries.

In fact we actually hired people that hated the old/current Postmates model.

But basically, it's not an easy business model and it's not one that makes financial sense, no matter what the funding, city, tipping situation is.

Deliveries = Time
Time = Money

If you want someone to have time to make deliveries, you have to pay them enough money to have that time. Until VERY EXPENSIVE robots and cars replace people, deliveries will always be expensive, and relatively dependent on the speed of traffic + production. And even once we have robots, we'll need to charge enough to cover the robots, the guy that repairs the robots and money to invest in the next robot. That probably will be more than an dollar... especially when you factor in energy for the robots.
I recently started to think about connections between Bayes' Theorem and fuzzy logic:

http://sipi.usc.edu/~kosko/Fuzziness_Vs_Probability.pdf

(also from wikipedia on fuzzy logic):

"Bruno de Finetti argues[citation needed] that only one
kind of mathematical uncertainty, probability, is
needed, and thus fuzzy logic is unnecessary. However,
Bart Kosko shows in Fuzziness vs. Probability that
probability theory is a subtheory of fuzzy logic, as
questions of degrees of belief in mutually-exclusive
set membership in probability theory can be represented
as certain cases of non-mutually-exclusive graded
membership in fuzzy theory. In that context, he also
derives Bayes' theorem from the concept of fuzzy
subsethood. Lotfi A. Zadeh argues that fuzzy logic is
different in character from probability, and is not a
replacement for it. He fuzzified probability to fuzzy
probability and also generalized it to possibility
theory. (cf.[10])"
From http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/technical-debt-and-tacki...:

> I fixed a crazy number of silly bugs in mono’s class libraries. To be fair, implementing all of .NET is a herculean task, and most of the fixes were easy enough to make. The result of these fixes meant that we had to ship a patched, custom version of mono

This was 2007. Using Mono in 2005 does not sound like it would have gone particularly well.
Totally agree. Having kids is a window in life that is much Shorter than the window for doing a startup. I was a bit crazy and had two little ones when I started and a third not too long ago. I know many others who have done both as well.
Beyond what tedu and krallja pointed out, the debugging required inserting tons of #line markers in the C# output. But a single line of Wasabi could map to multiple lines of C#, making the definition of stepping ridiculous. Throw in that Wasabi necessarily grandfathered ASP globals that C# lacked and you also had fun variable display.
That's not the problem here. The problem is that they're being completely dishonest about what payment is required to participate in App Academy.
This is smart.

A friend once told me that a guaranteed win for them was cleaning their apartment.

For me, exercise is a good one. Also reading. Reading great books on a regular basis is a life goal for me, and if I just put in the time on that one I make progress.
Here is some practical advice on the "how" of putting money away for the future: http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investing_st...
As another example, Firefox uses "manual reflection" to e.g. build lists of all the smart pointers in some classes. It then uses these lists as part of its "cycle collector", which breaks cycles in the refcounted graph of objects.

Writing and maintaining these lists is error-prone, and at least used to be a major source of memory leaks. You can imagine writing a static analysis to figure this out, and the Moz folks may have since I last checked, but if the language could do it, that would be so much better...
Well if people keep doing this they'll just make drones harder and harder to acquire. If people stop doing this, maybe we can all enjoy a pretty cool hobby.

I'd imagine they'll start outfitting with some type of signal jammers? But I don't know how drones behave when they're not receiving signal.
Some prison time for these irresponsible man-children would be appropriate.
The deterministic-coupling-between-exercise-and-fitness thing is a good idea, but I'm worried that the OP has ignored the vital, crucial importance of doing something wise with your daily hour of fitness. If you're a fitness n00b and spend an hour a day doing steady-state cardio on the treadmill, your results will be hilariously worse than if you implement a formal fitness plan that has worked for lots of other people such as [0-1] or similar. All "exercise" activities are not created equal.

[0] Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength
[1] Lynn MacDonald's Body Recomposition
I like Atom, was using for few days and I'm quite happy, also seems much like Sublime Text experience when first launch after Textmate "dies"
Path dependency. At the time, PHP was not as easily deployed on Windows as ASP, and so the original design was set up to give them PHP on *ix and ASP on Windows.
Oh don't get me wrong, I definitely agree it's dishonest and unethical of them to not be upfront about their costs. The process they make you go through is incredibly time consuming.

Frankly, I'm kind of surprised that they -would- do something like this, given their reputation, and I'm confident there must've been some sort of miscommunication. I won't make any assumptions though, until we get to hear from the other side of things.
They made it to London, though.