skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, it's one of the reasons I'm neither betting on IoT being big any time soon, or engaging in it myself (heck, Heinlein had similar advice in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress in 1966).

The saving grace is as the CEO comments:

“The shooter’s got to pull the rifle’s trigger, and the shooter is responsible for making sure it’s pointed in a safe direction. It’s my responsibility to make sure my scope is pointed where my gun is pointing,” McHale says. “The fundamentals of shooting don’t change even if the gun is hacked.”

As long as you're following the Four Rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Firearms_safety) at worst these hacks will brick your rifle or make you miss, but in practice they wouldn't make you hit something you're not willing to hit.
Detecting diabetic retinopathy in eye images
This seems like such an obvious thing, but I never thought of it, lol.

What key-bindings do you bind your wasd to or do the arrows suffice?
What It’d Be Like If We Obsessed Over Teachers the Way We Do Athletes
Since there will be so many flying at once you're going to have the occasional failure. That's going to make walking around in the city interesting for sure.
And according to everyone else, if you paid for it as part of either of those, it's still fucking there.
Linking laws through open data
How Side Projects Can Be Your Path to Entrepreneurship
>Lua has a significant strike against it in being 1-based when everything embedded you'd want to put Lua on is 0-based.

Why is being 0-based more important on embedded compared to other contexts?
um yeah, this is how the entire internet works. You can't possibly think that Google Chrome doesn't do the same thing.
"too much of a pussy"

Poor choice of language aside - South Korea has much more to lose in a direct or indirect conflict, and even if victorious (very likely despite the "size" of the NK force) would still sustain casualties that make them countering any NK aggression ... complicated.
Watching the latest Mythbuster episode is enlightening, particularly if you take the weights of the crafts they're testing into account.

THe TL;DR of the episode is - carbon fiber blades directly connected to motors (likely the setup for commercial UAVs) is capable of slicing deeply enough to hit your jugular, others are not (unless the motor is being held solidly and used as a form of saw).

I'm more concerned with UAVs and payloads in excess of 10 lbs falling from 400 feet up onto my head because a wiring connection came loose and cut power to the UAV (happened to me recently, minus the head).

In short, don't fly UAVs around people, or in no-fly zones.
The link referenced in the Wired story is better:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/1177...

The French island of Reunion is west of Madagascar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Reunion/@-15.3326014,72.63...
I work in the field, and while some models are based on biological structures/systems, there's a lot of fuzz about them being "based on biological foundations" that is now best avoided. Yes, it is true the model is based on them, but it's a model that only covers very little of the real complexity. So in a sense, it's naive to say "put a billion neurons in there and you'll get a rat brain" (as was publicized one time).

The effectiveness comes from their non-linear nature and their ability to "learn" (store knowledge in the weights, that is derived from the training process). And black magic, of course!
http://radius.com/2015/07/29/radius-establishes-philanthropi...
Some call it "cheating", I call it "bending the rules".

The reality is that it's running on the Android device itself, using the device's own kernel. I personally think that qualifies in a technical sense.
Private information will get leaked one way or another. It's incredibly easy to get someone's address, SS, phone number, etc. The major problem is not with these sites' security but with the credit system's security. The credit agencies have an oligopoly on credit scores and the banks do not care about security at all. They'll approve a credit card application that has been shredded and taped back together, obviously by a fraudster. These are the systems that need to be fixed/removed. Until those systems are fixed, people will continue to have their lives ruined. Let's not put the blame wholly, or even majorly, on these tech companies when many banks still use an SS number as the login.

Until banks are held responsible for their actions which are the only actions that matter as far as identity theft and fraud goes, this will continue to be an unsolved problem. Once you start charging banks the millions it costs for each victim plus a penalty for not fixing their systems that goes up with each case, we'll see that identity fraud will disappear.

Of course, that's justice and justice, at least in the US, is merely a fantasy.
Has there been much discussion about hundreds or thousands of drones filling the sky and how much of an eyesore that would likely be to many people, then the political fight that is likely to ensue?
I would hate to be immortalized by what I at least consider to be a pretty mediocre beer. I do not get they hype at all, and I've had it bottle and tap numerous times.
You have good eyes :) The screenshot uses the "legacy" white theme that didn't have the flat look yet. It did have a few more dark colors at the edges, which is why it was used for this screenshot. We plan to work with our designer on darker versions of the flat light theme. Until we release those, I can recommend using something like f.lux (https://justgetflux.com/) to make it nicer to work with bright web sites and applications in low-light conditions.
Feature request: always show the line that you will walk when you keep going forward (e.g. in a light color).
Why did you not ask the same question when the link was posted 5 days ago? That was the second time it was submitted by the same person in as many days. The real question is who cares? If it gets voted to the front page it is because people want to see it...

Selected Papers in Anonymity -- xvirk 8 hours ago 3 comments (http://freehaven.net/anonbib/)

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My score, not including the local gas stations and businesses that have been compromised. I have replaced my credit card four times in the past two years due to compromises.

Address	4
Birthday	3
Credit or debit card	2
Email	5
Employment history	2
Financial history	1
Fingerprints	1
Health history
Password (encrypted)	4
Phone number	2
Social Security number	1
I still don't understand how an autonomous delivery drone is better than an autonomous delivery car.

I feel like a delivery drone is the absolute most complicated way to solve this problem other than somehow involving rockets.

Drone limitations:
- Needs great weather.
- Package size and weight exceptionally confined.
- Exceptionally limited range.
- How to actually get package from drone to human? Drop?
- Night flight? Yes / no? Probably not.

Car limitations:
- Traffic.
Breaking smart (Venkatesh Rao)
Obviously like the concept but still quite skeptical. What onus would be on me as the user to show you how much it hurt my business that gmail was down for instance? Will you re-imburse me for my usual MRR I would have gained that day?
> Likewise the downdraft of the heli would force down anything of that size in it's path.

I imagine even the downdraft coming off of a helicopter would be enough to ruin and take out any drones that got within a certain level of it.
Boycott Github, use Bitbucket!
I think Windows 10 is pretty much free as in beer for most ordinary users so the wallet threat is pretty flat.

Why is it free? First of all because they are scared to death that iOS and Android will eat their lunch in the consumer space. Secondly, because they want to sell services and SaaS (Office 365, etc.).

For the latter part, you can certainly vote with your wallet.
No, I'm not saying that you should accept someone else's valuation of your contribution. Instead, I am questioning this particular person's valuation because, like those of so many other employees, it is too narrow.

If you do not even address the long-term value you provide to the company, then you can't possibly make a reasonable argument that open-offices are a detriment to that long-term value. For the record, I believe they probably are a detriment, so I have an incentive for the discourse and arguments to improve.
If an individual desires privacy, perhaps being on Facebook is not wise.
The next Marketo.

These guys are doing great.
Feel free to contact me, email in profile.

I'm pretty connected in the Toronto finance community.

I'll help if I can, and your abilities are suitable:) At the least I can probably get your resume to a few different funds and banks.
Feminism, by its very name, is a sexist philosophy. And according to feminists, sexism (mainly patriarchy) is bad. Unless it's feminism.

Feminism -> Feminine -> Female

Definition of -ism: a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement.
Clinical trial and publication bias simulator
More internet drama over trite things, hooray. This kind of stuff just reminds me of Steve Hughes' comedy bit on being offended.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
You can think of Aurora as a single-instance database where the lower quarter is pushed down into a multi-tenant scale-out storage system. Transactions, locking, LSN generation, etc all happen at the database node. We push log records down to the storage tier and Aurora storage takes responsibility for generation of data blocks from logs.

So, the ACI components of ACID are all done at the database tier using (largely) traditional techniques. Durability is where we're using distributed systems techniques around quorums, membership management, leases, etc, with the important caveat that we have a head node generating LSNs, providing a monotonic logical clock, and avoiding those headaches.

Our physical read replicas receive redo log records, update cached entries and have readonly access to the underlying storage tier. The underlying storage is log-structured with nondestructive writes, so we can access data blocks in the past of what is current at the write master node - that's required if the replica needs to read a slightly older version of a data block for consistency reasons.

Make sense?
I wonder if people would pay for a magazine that contains ancient writings, but altered in style to appear like they were written today; the original Greek/Latin texts could be referenced if necessary to maintain the original meaning of the text.

With a catchy appearance and some artistic license, this might be an avenue to get people to read ancient texts. Now, there need be no lying, the magazine could plainly state that what is presented was written thousands of years ago.

I personally would like to get a magazine in the mail that contains excerpts of Plato, Socrates, and Marcus Aurelius, etc. For good measure, throw in some modern commentary as the op ed section.
Irrespective of what the desired use of stolen property is, it is stolen.
Do you have the wood attached in any way, or is it just freestanding on the scaffolds?
If Amazon is going to be using these aircraft to deliver packages they are going to have to be a fair bit larger than the prosumer drones out there now to have any sort of useful payload capacity.
Yes, that's what you're supposed to do. Why would it be any different just because it's a virtual machine as opposed to a real one?
> Korean government are too much of a pussy to aggravate North

Perhaps they are more concerned with the well being of their citizens in Seoul than with being the big tough guy.
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Interesting analysis.

> So you see folks saying things like: I'll never use GitHub again if they do this, instead of just remarking to themselves privately - gee, that was a bit harsh of Github, and moving along with their day.

First of all, I assume that most people DO move along. After all you don't hear of those who don't say anything.

Secondly, perhaps those who do feel compelled to speak do so because they are afraid of being part of a silent majority and thus some group A imposing their standards on everyone because that group A is in conflict with group B.

Something like "I don't agree with B's behavior, but I don't agree with A's demands either. I just want to do whatever I do my own way. Please be tolerant, even of things that might offend someone out there".
Like it isn't already. Cars are loud too, our brains just learned to filter them out.

But in terms of things falling out of the sky, it will definitelly be interesting (the Chinese curse kind of 'interesting').
Swift: Is It a Duck? Is It a Rabbit?
Apple puts users before developers and actively thwarts advertisers. If you are not concerned with security or usability Android is fine.
Lots of DCs refuse to let you bring cardboard into the hall _at all_, never-mind keeping some in a rack.
Actually, Palantir just raised a Series K...

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir-technologie...
My main point is that there are likely multiple factors and a headline titled “Can the ‘Right Stuff’ Become the Wrong Stuff?” with speculation and hand picked comments doesn’t help the investigation or preventing accidents in the future. It does drive traffic and revenue for James Fallows and the Atlantic though.

If you fly GA, I’d recommend you know where nearby airports are (and thirty miles isn’t that far for jets), where instrument approaches are, where MOAs are, where low level routes are, etc. I’d also recommend using flight following. You can say that these things aren’t your responsibility, but I don’t think that’s a good attitude.

Also, I’m not sure how you interpret that the Cesna was rear ended. Reading the NTSB report it sounds like the Cesna was heading southeast (135) and climbing and the F-16 was heading west (265) and turning south (180). Seems closer to head-on or perpendicular with the Cesna climbing into the F-16’s altitude and the F-16 in a belly up turn with no visibility.

Regarding the Tacan, I don’t see any mention that the F-16 was below altitude or off course. So just because you wouldn’t expect a plane there, doesn’t mean that one won’t be there. Again, maybe this is a bad Tacan with nearby civilian airfields and should be axed, but it doesn’t seem any rules were broken.

We don’t know the results of the investigation, yet all the blame is being put on the F-16 driver. It sounds like small failures from all involved resulted in a tragic outcome. There may be lessons learned from this incident that can help prevent another in the future, but placing blame without the facts and pointing fingers in the media isn’t how we figure them out.
The "Suddenly any financial analyst in your company, given the right permissions" comment is telling. The companies that would be most likely to use a service like Blockspring would be the types of companies that would never be willing to give and trust data access and processing to a random third party. The Privacy policy does not help alleviate these concerns (tl;dr: we keep everything). It is also unclear if the business offering (https://www.blockspring.com/business ) offers self-hosting.

Case in point, one of the example scripts in the blog post (https://open.blockspring.com/pkpp1233/get-amazon-new-price-b... ) requires you to input a Amazon Product Access Key and a Amazon Product Secret Key as parameters.
It was the first west coast IPAs to have in my opinion a perfectly balanced profile.

Now there's hundreds of other choices and copycats out there. I personally like more aggressively hopped and flavored double/triple IPAs but Pliny was brilliant.
That's what I meant by "personnel confusion", yes. A.k.a. the "cried 'wolf'" effect; how can a lifeguard be expected to treat this alarm seriously when all the other ones have been false positives?
It is extremely rare that you actually need to block the UI. Most uses of modals would be better served with local notification that respects fitt's law. An example would be popping up a "confirmation tooltip" adjacent to a delete button that was just pressed. The subsequent required mouse movement will be a short travel away. A modal in the middle of the screen moves the locus of focus, is jarring and blocks the UI.

Simply put, blocking the UI is hostile.
Isn't that subjective?
Killing java.misc.Unsafe considered unsafe
That would be a fascinating, probably nausea and vertigo inducing, minecraft mod. Plus or minus using VR with the minecraft mod.

It might help to mod minecraft because players have a general idea of "how things should be" so you'd have a common frame of reference. No need to explain how flat world looks.
No no no. People at my company already use spreadsheets where they don't belong (in the place of databases, note taking apps, regular expressions, and one time someone tried to do page layout with it). The last thing we need is for these bozos to program with it. I see the need for an intermediate entryway into programming (Hypercard), just don't tack it on to an already bloated program like excel.
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> Amazon Prime Air engineers have largely kept a low profile as they test their technology overseas.

Canada, specifically British Columbia, is hardly "overseas".

http://www.thecanadianpress.com/english/online/OnlineFullSto...
You learn to code that way or you learn to code this way, either way you're gonna pay the piper.
Is there any issue with unfair inflation of costs? From what I understand these patent trolls are mostly teams of lawyers. Under this ruling could they charge themselves exorbitant rates, then the few times they do win makes up for the times they lose?

What about the situation with east Texas where they side with the patent holder the majority of the time?

Under this I might almost be more likely to just settle. Do I pay nothing, a paltry sum to settle, or 2-4x the cost without "loser pays" to lose? If I have even a 10% chance of losing it sounds like settling might be a good deal.
Russian Watchdog Threatens News Site Over Bitcoin Article
Why would that ever be the case?
> We don't actually know if that's what the data shows

Naturally. I'm only basing my comments on the article contents.
RIP the Personal Computer – Win10 Kills the PC Era
If you're wondering about which flux implementation to start with, I'd highly recommend checking out Redux : https://github.com/gaearon/redux

The main idea is to think of stores as reducers (redux = reducers + flux). He also gave a very good talk on it at react-europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs
The no flight under 500 ft over anything other than sparsely populated areas is in AGL, not MSL. I assume they would also need to stay out of class D/C/B areas. My main concern is that this doesn't take care of helicopter traffic that doesn't have this 500ft AGL rule.

Having ADS/B or a variant of it for the drones would take care of that issue, as in 2020 every aircraft will require ADS/B.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9969637
Is it too late for 33 years old to change career path?
In the beginning of my career I was a Java/J2EE developer (3 years), but later I learned some SOA and EAI technologies and became consultant in telecom industry. However, I feel like burnt out, this enterprise job is boring and not really a programming most of the time.

I have a plan/dream to become Scala developer, learn technologies like Akka, MongoDB and go into BigData business, but this would have two downsides:
- I would become Junior Develper once again, at age 33
- I would probably loose large part of my salary

Also, I see people at my age becoming team leaders, managers, company owners. I feel like I'm lagging behind.

Any career advice?
That's true, but figuring out the maximum number of arguments passed to another function is trivial; I would think it isn't harder than determining how much space one needs for local variables in an Algol-like language.
I'll just have to admit to a difference of opinion with you on this. I believe there is something inherently wrong with the n-word. I took the time to seek out its etymological roots via the Oxford English Dictionary, and the earliest evidence of its use is entirely negative and demeaning to those being described as such.

You don't need any additional context when the word itself was contrived as a convenient brush to disparage a people. It is, to its very roots, a bad word.

I also think you missed the point of the r-word campaign. They are not trying to get people to say "r-word" instead of the r-word. They want people to be more thoughtful and stop using the term altogether. Most people in polite society have stopped using the n-word, and they didn't substitute the literal phrase "n-word" for it as you suggest might be done. I would like to see these same people do this for the r-word. For example, I've heard a few of my coworkers use the r-word on numerous occasions when I know they would never dare use the n-word. The r-word campaign is simply asking for the same type of consideration.
It's a soft release. There is actual scarcity depending on what device you have.
I would half-disagree. There are some high level parallels like you mentioned, but the Ted mail is attacking the statistic by it's definitions, whereas this article attacks the statistic directly because it has no basis in reality and simply persists due to the nature of politics. (Publicly trying to correct this misconception would make a judge/lawyer/politician look like a rape apologist, or weak on crime, or sexual predator friendly in headlines)
That was exactly my first thought as well. The LAST thing any company needs is more excel sheets—unprotected, easily lost, bloated, no-backup excel sheets.

Leaving alone the observation that, in many companies, the rank-and-file don't even know how to insert a new row in a spreadsheet, let alone muck with functions..
/u/cecilkorik explains why PDF is such an inconsistent format
Using delivery cars would cause a lot of traffic in densely populated areas. Cars are presumably also more expensive than drones. On the other hand, I suppose a car could do more than one delivery at a time whereas a drone would be more limited in what it could carry.
This is how you document CSS