skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is very much NOT a quote from this article, if you are quoting another article by mistake please link it. As this article does not even use the word "presented"

In this article it mentions how Chrysler is working with them and has developed a patch, indicating that they did not dismiss previously done tests. So basically saying the opposite of what I take your point to be.
Sorry, I've re-read it several times and I still don't understand it then.

It sounds like you were claiming that the problem isn't with the GPL but with my company having bad policies. So I attempted to defend my company's policies (as I explained in the post.)

The overall point is that I can't help contribute to GPL code because the GPL license prevents me from using it in the first place. (My company's policies are a red herring, they're merely there to make sure I use software properly.) I am theorizing that perhaps a developer may want my contributions, which is why they may want to consider that before they choose the GPL.

Edit: Ah, I think I understand now... when you said my company has bad policies you meant not open sourcing our SaaS is the bad policy, not don't use GPL as a policy. It's an entirely different conversation if that's the case, sorry I misread.
Someone who checks in broken code will also take flaky tests as an excuse not to look at the build results, or to convince themselves that the failure is caused by flakiness and not their changes.

If I had a dollar for every time I asked someone why they weren't fixing their shit, and they answered "Oh, I thought the build was failing randomly again." I'd have a lot of dollars.
I'm not worthy.
Netcat.c
Some highlights:

1. Take a look at 'gethostpoop'
2. Take a look at 'getportpoop'
3. Make sure to read the netdb.h rant in the function above.
4. #ifdef GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE

Nearly half the comments in the file are taking the piss out of BSD sockets. Enjoy!
I have seen for myself how people in the UK live compared to the US as I have family in the UK and have been back to visit quite a bit.
I agree that both sides are in the wrong, actually. I've even stated my disagreement with the methodology in several of those "dozen" comments.

Most of those comments, however, are only clearing up a specific misconception: the belief that the researchers jumped straight to a "live" test before trying tests in closed conditions. My idea of "right" v. "wrong" does not factor into doing my part to ensure that discussions on this matter are based on accurate information.

My "defense" of the researchers is more just identifying a lesser evil. Between the evil of a couple of nerds hacking one car and the evil of auto manufacturers willingly putting hudreds of thousands - if not millions - of innocent people in mortal danger, I'd sooner take the former (assuming that it actually makes a difference re: security priorities of auto manufacturers; in reality, even this particular demonstration is probably insufficient, though perhaps I'm just jaded).
Oh shit, the contagion is spreading.

"Near miss" means "a miss which was near." It does not mean "nearly missed." It's not an incorrect phrase, it's not a contradiction, and the only thing that's silly about the phrase is how people keep on pointing this out.

(Carlin makes it funny, I must admit. But you're not him.)
I've known some people (researchers in HPC data centers) who took approaches like this where they shared MD5[1] hashes on a traditional channel so they could use a simple UDP system with a really tuned file -> network path and not have to implement the crypto.

1. This was a long time ago. Don't do this now.
How is deliberately disabling a vehicle on a highway the FBI's jurisdiction?
Couple months ago, I was looking out the window on approach to LAX and spotted a metallic helium balloon, maybe 200-400 meters past the end of the wing. As far as I can tell it was not a threat, and I've not been able to find an instance of one causing engine problems, but it was a bit unnerving.
> Speed is a defining characteristic — if not the defining characteristic — of the leader in virtually every industry you look at.

Not even close.

Apple was WAY late to the MP3 player party. AltaVista was way ahead of Google, but DEC marketing ("DEC has it now, but you can't have it.") couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst in the Sahara. Android had far better and faster competitors, but it brushed them aside.

In addition it is well documented that the first company in a category takes all the arrows while the second company makes all the profit.

Things rarely need to be done that fast.
Yes. Here are some examples:

1. they distract the pilot during the most critical phase of flight

2. In an airport environment, planes are closer to each other than elsewhere in space, so if a pilot has to suddenly deviate to miss a drone, he might hit another plane

3. If a drone gets in the way of one side of a LOC or a GS signal, it might mess up the plane's ILS approach, possibly causing it to crash. Birds (being radio-transparent) do not.
It is probably true though. It must be incredibly stressful trying to make your product successful and to try and keep both your investors and loved ones happy. If a struggling company is acqui-hired it presumably offers some long-term financial stability and a return to a more sane lifestyle for the founders and employees.
Let me remember the state of affairs before gpl.

Before the GPL, the biggest software companies hiring the highest paid developers were companies that made proprietary software that ran on a users machine and the data did not leave the user's machine.

Now the biggest tech companies are companies that use GPL software to run infrastructure that gives users 'free' services and in exchange takes their data and sells it. Because they are using it as a web, they can keep all their secrets.

Now you tell me, what scenario is more conducive to user freedom and privacy.

If you look at who is actually paid to work on GPL software, I would guess that most people either work for hardware companies or companies whose revenue is from advertisers. Relatively few are working on software that is actually for end-users to run on their own personal computer.

GPL is great if you are Stallman and limit yourself to only what you can build yourself. For the average user, they are less free, more beholden to a platform, and have less control of their data than in the pre-GPL era.
Why not? Currently the extension API could be used to create a server that directly serves web pages and is as secure as every other application.
Yeah, the ShooTag thing is totally bogus.

Viewing magnetic recordings with magnetic particles used to be a standard maintenance tool. It was used to check tape drive head alignment. There was a liquid with iron particles in suspension into which you could dip a strip of tape. When the solvent evaporated, you could see the data tracks. A non-destructive version was a hand-held viewer, with a window on top and a thin plate on the bottom, filled with a fluid containing iron particles. You could press this against a tape and view it.

These were sometimes used in data centers during the transition from 7 to 9 track tape drives, when an incoming tape had an unknown format.
I would like to see how these researchers presented it to their review board.
This article needs to be more specific about what they mean by "drone". I thought this meant a military drone until about halfway through the article, and I only inferred that it was talking about a quadcopter or hobby RC/UAV plane from context.
> Why can't we condemn both?

Nobody's saying you can't. I certainly do (I strongly disagree with the researchers' obstruction of communication between themselves and their test subject).

My only point is that there's a massive difference in scale between a couple dented fenders and hundreds of thousands of dead/maimed innocents.
The key word in your statement is "drive". I don't want to drive. I want to walk/bike. Driving means I have to get gas, I have to deal with traffic, and I have to find a place to park. I don't want to do any of that.
Facebook Surveils East Oakland with Biometric Cameras
Here's an update on my BWAVE situation with Facebook. I just learned that a company is called BWAVE already, so I think I'm going change the name. Basically Facebook is using Biometric Cameras to surveil homes in my area within a 50 mile radius in each direction near my home. They are in the apartments at 9300 Walnut St, Oakland CA 94603. This is illegal surveillance, so I think everyone should look into this. Facebook owns the building. So a quick pull of public records will reveal that fact.

Now here's the part where things get into the realm of the fantastic. My Biology is psychic. I am the only confirmed Biological Psychic. This is easy to prove all anyone needs to do is buy a Biometric Camera, point it at me, and my biology reacts to it. I communicate psychically with the surveillance team. All of our interactions are recorded on more that 40,000 transcripts and a litany of feedback loops dating back to when I purchased my home 8 years ago.

I want to push forward human existence by giving everyone telepathy through BWAVE. I call my psychic connection to their system the wave. It follows me everywhere. All of my thoughts have been recorded for the past 8 years. I hear them constantly until this day; they refuse to shut it off.

For the sake of brevity. Since Facebook does not want to look into this matter, I am contacting the State Prosecutor today. Believe me my friends telepathy is real. Psychic ability is real. And I'm going to give it to you. I just thought you should know.
It only really takes one to whack an engine. The "flock" bit was particularly interesting there because it got both engines at once. A single drone would presumably only take out a single engine. The airplane would likely survive the encounter, since they're built to survive an engine failure. But it would still do a hefty amount of damage (I bet the drone owner doesn't want to be on the hook for the cost of a new engine!) and survival, while likely, is far from guaranteed in the event of a single engine failure.
Yes, compared with what a bird can do. This is what a single bird (vulture) did in to a a small airplane in Brazil recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbWN3XTcig (strong images). This was what another bird did to a large airplane a few years ago also in Brazil: http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2013/08/aviao-da-... (article in pt-br).
I feel like we might be in an Internet fight here but the line about Pearl Harbor is the best thing I've read all day, thanks for that.
Hi Kat,

This program sounds amazing. We took 30K from a good friend and they took some equity. Can we still apply? We would be willing to forfeit on the 12K
Hi there - thanks for the interest! For a more technical dissection of some of the genomics approaches we employ to identify neurodegenerative disease targets, check out these reviews:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7266/full/nature0...
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v16/n8/pdf/nrg3934.pdf
(nitpick: vim isn't distributed under the GPL)
I wonder why "drones" have recently gained so much mindshare.

It is true that autonomous drones are a new thing. But 90% of the reporting I see on "drones" is about small radio-controlled aircraft, which have been around since well before the computer.

Is it just that the possibility of a "smart" drone is drawing attention to the other kind, as well? Or is there something specifically about quadcopters that captures the public imagination?
And this is exactly why I dislike Elixir hype. You mistake Elixir as the
primary platform, while it's BEAM/Erlang/OTP, Elixir being merely syntax
wrapper over it.
Software licensing is based on copyright. It is copyright licensing for software.
You used to be able to buy magnetic field viewers to inspect tape. Here's a picture of one: http://nickapedia.com/2011/02/21/back-to-the-geek-future-coo...

Another fun thing you can do is put the iron filings in a jar with mineral oil. Give it a good shake, then put a strong magnet on the side. You'll be able to see the magnetic field in 3D.
The traffic and parking problems are there due to the lack of public transit, which is in part due to the spending of transportation funds on subsidizing you in the suburbs instead of building public transit.
Planning restrictions are very popular with old people who are "alright thanks".
At Rackspace - some time ago, I can't speak for now - the most common phone call we received was:

"My site's down!"

Ninety-some percent of the time, the customer's internet was down, or the internet in their country was down, or they were in Europe and the Sprint link across the Atlantic was down, or there was a problem with DNS.

There's a notorious video of one of the founders, barefoot, teaching a class about DNS for the relatively non-technical folks we hired for first-level support triage.

This would be a great supplement, the moral of the story being, these days, if you support any service on the internet, you support every internet service provider that exists. ;)
Haha, in fact, from the article, Chrysler already fixed one of the issues.
PickTrace (YC S15) Helps Farmers Manage Their Harvest
I take offense to idea of speed as a priority, though not necessarily to the whole article.

> All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win.

All else is never equal when speed is the driving factor. I have never seen a company execute well while pressuring for speed.

It's significantly more important to think about systems. What is the cooperative source of your speed? What are the barriers to making good product quickly? What allows us to make faster decisions?

Invariably, without fail, unequivocally, the answers to these questions—which are sources of speed, quality, and market fit—lie in the systems that compose a company. Not systems as in slow methodical heavy processes, but systems as in a clear understanding of how things are connected and how to continually improve how they work.

Start with systems, then you can go fast. It's ludicrously dangerous to put the cart before the horse. Granted, much of this article dives into detail on how to make things run smoother in order to go fast—that's great, but if you make it the primary focus, imagine how fast you could go.

Speed... a noble goal, but as W. Edwards Deming said, "By what method?"
Sure. But in the UK the govt is planning to artificially restrict building land to boost asset prices in place of actual growth.
Cities grew for thousands of years. Suburbs have had a 50 year run. Maybe it's oscillation on a exponentially increasing frequency, but I'm more inclined to think that suburbs were a temporary aberration.

People seem to like to be together, and throughout technological history the infrastructure scales better in cities as well, so even if people were indifferent to isolation vs. socialization the economics would favor urban development.
Recycled mag stripe that was poorly bulk erased?
I've spotted a few balloons at altitude while flying. Once I saw a red and blue balloon tangled together which had somehow got to spinning. From a distance it looked like a strobing light. Neat effect.

Anyway, I definitely wouldn't worry about those. They'll shred to pieces before they cause any damage. A couple of pounds of heavier-than-air drone hardware is a different matter.
This is strange, in my country you are forbidden by law to fly a drone near an airport (which I find as an appropriate law).
Engines on planes are made to chuck a flock of birds without exploding, i think the plane would have been "fine" (aka no human casualties) even if it did hit the drone.

Assuming it was a quad-copter not an actual military drone.
> More than a bird even

A lithium battery is going to get chopped up and spit out the rear of the engine - if it manages to get in the intake to begin with, which is a huge if. There's ZERO chance any of that lithium would stick around long enough to cause a 'fire', whatever that means. It's not called a 'jet' engine for nothing.
It's a method that attributes reward to where the effort is put in, therefore you can be sure the rich hate it.
That was definitely not my sole intention, which is why we have different filters on the page. Each creator is updated nightly so as I gather more data, the "Trending" page will be more accurate. Would love to hear your suggestions however on how I can get the unknowns more known. I have a cousin on Patreon who's extremely talented but struggles to get a fanbase so I know how you feel!
Hygieia: Capital One's devops dashboard
"This container will be alive for next 15 minutes. If you would like to keep it running more than 15 minutes please contact us on Twitter."
- Changing 12 hours to 15 minutes, is the server overloaded?
First, check your core hypotheses.

> Still, the passion expressed for browsing independent bookshops through articles, social media, and other projects is immense.
> I know I'm hitting an area dear to many...question is if I have the right angle.

1. How do you know that? For example. I love custom made chess pieces. I'd never buy (or use) an app to browse different chess boards/pieces etc. I need to touch them, talk to a person that made them, etc.

2. Can you find 3 people who want this (i.e. give you money) ?

If yes: What do they say? Why do they want(love?) this app? Where did you find them? How many others like them are out there?

If no: Ask them why they don't like it.

Anyway, if you want to talk more about it contact me. I'd love to help.
I knew someone was going to notice that! :)

It's true, but it is 'open source', and many of my coworkers were not particularly discriminating among the different interpretations of OSS.
The HN crowd tries to discourage sarcasm. It doesn't matter if you are correct if you are sarcastic about it. If you had started your comment with something like "The article implies" instead of "Haven't you heard?" you probably would have been upvoted.
Nothing wrong with low density areas if the homes are sustainable and transportation is electrified.
Well, think of the inverse. Imagine you never release your software at all, and not one ever gets to use it. In what sense is there "user freedom" in regards to your software?
Pro tip: Whenever you read "drone" in a news article you can almost always safely replace it with "unmanned aerial vehicle" with no loss of information. Journalists currently do not make the distinction between (semi-)autonomous military "drones" and hobbyist "drones".
Speaking of which, why do we keep calling hobbyist quadcopters and such "drones"? Using the same word for unmanned military bombers and (relatively) harmless toys seems a bit counter-productive.
It's not making it cute that matters. It's making it fast. With modern slow, bloated web sites, there are much longer delays between clicking on a link and the page display than there used to be. Especially on a slow mobile connection. Something needs to visibly happen as soon as you leave the page, even if the browser hasn't even received any packets from the new site yet.
Traditional RC aircraft are extremely niche. They're expensive and hard to fly, so you need some dedication to get into that.

Quadcopters, on the other hand, can be purchased for $40 and flown by somebody with no experience. Obviously a $40 quadcopter won't be threatening airliners, but it's representative of a big change all over the spectrum.
A large part of it is their ability to keep themselves stable. That opens up a huge range of uses that weren't there previously, as well as reducing the chance you'll break it the first time out flying it.
The ease-of-use of these modern "radio-controlled aircraft" is unprecedented - vertical takeoff, live video, intuitive controls - making them much more pervasive than ever before. That's why they're getting more mindshare - AND getting into more trouble.
What+Is+Dependency+Injection?
Birds do not come with exploding lithium batteries or large metal bodies like brushless outrunner engines do!

I do not think you understand how tight the tolerances are in a modern turbofan engine. Birds are relatively soft and get chopped up by the blades. Metal bits (like a drone will have) can break off or bend a blade. The imbalance of a broken blade will cause damage to the turbine instantly, which will cascade into further damage. (clearances are MILLIMETERS, if that, so any bending is a serious issue)
NASA-funded study reduces cost of missions to Moon and Mars by 90%
So I'm wondering if they'll limit local storage accessibility for the Applications devices as a way of enforcing prototypes.
First Form (RelativeWave), now Pixate. Two prototyping apps in less than a year.
This is cool, but it seems like GitHub has lost their focus. Shouldn't they concentrate efforts on improving collaborative software development?
Have you considered setting up alerts? E.g. sending an email when a trending new Creator in the Games category appears.
If you are referring to Giant Swarm, yes, we have a few private deployments in production in Europe. If you are referring to the CI project, nah, it's just an example of what you can do! :)
Transforming Bloggers into Published Authors
Quadcopters with a GoPro attached are useful in a way that r/c planes never were.
I think the idea is that you can cycle through many ideas more quickly; you may be thinking of first-mover advantage which is different from speed.

The other MP3 players couldn't copy Apple or market fast enough. Google has kept up their search dominance by iterating quickly; AltaVista felt as if search was a solved problem.
Same reason my 550lb glider and a 100-ton B-52 are both "airplanes." It's a general word that encompasses a lot.

The problem isn't so much the use of the word "drones" but the lack of any further qualifiers on it. Sometimes it's evident from context (an article about military drone strikes isn't talking about a 2lb quadcopter, for example) but sometimes it's not, and I think writers need to be a little more careful with it.
Contained engine failure is not really a good outcome on final approach.
Hey all! I'm one of the two founders of PickTrace! Our system helps keep track of labor and harvest for agriculture, we would be happy to answer any and all questions!
Wheeee!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UPvorv2qY
I flew RC planes in the late 80s when I was around 14. There was a barrier to entry back then. It wasn't money, although that was part of it. You generally had to build the planes (much more involved than assembling a ready-to-go drone), and then learn how to fly them. The were not easy to fly like the current drones are. Part of the training we got was not to do stupid stuff like fly around airports. Those barriers to entry are gone, so now you plop down $1000 or less, and a day later you're up and flying.
The breathless tone of this TechCrunch article reminds me of this commentary on Atomwise (also a YC biotech): http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/03/26/tone_it_down...

In my opinion, YC has no idea what they're doing in biotech. Here's a much more credible neuro disease startup that was recently launched: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/05/14/former-...

I'm sure Alice and Jason are very intelligent and motivated, but the smart money's on Marc Tessier-Lavigne any day of the week. The industry dynamics of biotech are totally different - the small and nimble upstart with unconventional thinking rarely wins.
Right tool for the job though. And all to often the attitude is that the jackhammer is always better because it is newer.
> containers scheduled < 5s on average

That seems awfully slow for a fancy chroot. I use KVM to bring up WinXP snapshot VMs in around 2s to a running state...maybe they mean 5ms?