skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submitted a direct link to tØ this morning but it got flagged because people didn't understand it and/or thought it was a scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008684

The background to this is that Patrick Byrne (CEO of Overstock) isn't a fan of Wall Street, particularly naked short selling. He became interested in Bitcoin and potential applications of the underlying technology for trading and settlement[0]. Last year, he hired the team behind Counterparty to actually make it happen[1,2].

In April, Overstock filed a prospectus with the SEC, seeking permission to issue crypto-securities [3,4]. In May it emerged that Overstock had purchased a strategic stake in PRO Securities, a brokerage which operates an alternative trading system[5]. Last night, he held a press conference where he laid out plans for tØ to provide a platform/services for trading crypto-securities, and create a market to bring together investors who are willing to loan out their long stock positions, and short-sellers who are looking to borrow stock (this market is currently opaque, over-the-counter and intermediated by investment banks like Goldman Sachs).[6]

0: http://www.wired.com/2014/02/rise-fall-rise-patrick-byrne/

1: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/overstock-and-cryptocurrency/

2: http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-hires-counterparty-develop...

3: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000104746915...

4: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/overstock-files-offer-stock-wor...

5: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/overstock-stakes-trading-co-sto...

6: http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-unveils-blockchain-trading...
I disagree but I got down voted enough to guess people like the term???? It makes zero seance. Your retina is the part of the eye that converts light into signals for the brain. Your screen is a display and has nothing to do with converting signals.
The article says that Kamkar intercepts the connection from a user's phone. Wouldn't that either imply this only works for phones on weak 2/3g connections or that the hack is much more impressive in that 4g/lte connections can be intercepted?
I always flip those terms around in my head. Thanks stand corrected.

http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/02/26/ppi-vs-dpi-wha...
If I want to use twitter-the-thing, I have to use twitter.com-the-service. No other service offers decent twitter. There is gnusocial.de and quitter.se, but their twitter is not as feature rich as twitter.com's twitter, and also twitter.com refuses to federate with their accounts. That means you have no access to twitter.com's biggest asset, their user base, which is pretty rude if you ask me.

(I hope someone gets what I'm trying to say :-))
And orbital solar collectors solve the night/day problem. The 50% improvement in duty cycle would offset transmission losses.
We currently allow to convert images to Fourier space using FFT. We might add wavelets later on, thanks for the feedback.
Before leni536 posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008973

As I see it, it is more or less on the same level of abstraction.

We are not aware of a even higher level tool for computer vision.
This is an interesting perspective. I didn't intend to "frame the academics as the bad guys" but I can see how it came off that way.

To be blunt, I don't think that the current generation's academics are at fault at all. This rotten system was built decades before they came on the field, and they're just trying to survive in it.

I'm putting blame, mostly, on the older generations: the Boomers, the Silents, and the "Greatest" Generation. They had it so good that they must have assumed that they could just ignore the teaching part of the job, so they devalued it, creating a state where even those who want to focus on teaching aren't rewarded for it.

I don't even fault specific people. I fault the tenure system. I understand its value, but I also see how it allows the older, comfortable generation to behave in a way that hurts the young. The blow-off-the-teaching attitude isn't something I see in most 30-year-old professors (and, to the extent that it exists, it's a rational response to a system that doesn't reward it at all). It's something that started decades ago. The tenured professor, who could blow off his teaching and administrative duties with minimal consequence, could say to his juniors, "I get five papers out per year, so I don't see why you can't do it." Academia has this weird dichotomous system where you're either almost impossible to fire (tenured) or treated as human garbage, with nothing in-between.

Of course, university administrators and politicians are also at fault, but one has to wonder why they've decided to impoverish academia. Many of those administrators are ex-academics, and the politicians' anti-intellectualism and resentment of academia has to come from somewhere. To blame academics entirely is to miss a lot, for sure, but one has to assign to them (again, with blame falling most on the older or retired ones who were most influential when this mess began) a fair share of the responsibility.
It sounds like biologic growth, processes bootstrapped to other processes.
>we end up in a world of RESTful APIs, some well-documented and some not-so-well-documented, and, when one emerges as the winner, it becomes the de facto protocol.

Can you give an example of a proprietary RESTful API that then became a de facto standard protocol that was supported by a wide variety of software (both clients and servers)?
That covers a lot of what I love/d about Smalltalk; it was fantastic. If there was a great cross-platform Smalltalk that let me create small, fast, standalone apps I'd probably be all over it in a heartbeat, once again.

Or Lisp, I'm fine either way--but Smalltalk had some advantages even over Lisp. (Operator precedence not being among those advantages :/
It is by design, it must be.

There is the acceleration module, then there is a wireless networking me dule, and there is a physical wire connecting them.

Very shitty, very dangerous design.
It makes sense in the detail that it matches resolution. Our retina is the fundamental limit to our visual resolution. Like the pixels on the screen. Would it make more sense to call it a 'retina-matching monitor' instead?
The communist party participated in the Greek government after Greece was liberated. The reason they quit? They disagreed with the disarmament of their military wing.

Another thing that deserves mention is that the civil war actually started years before the Nazis left. The communists had been attacking not only the Nazis, but also right-wing resistance groups (EDES, PAO, EKKA)! The Brits actually brokered a ceasefire in early 1944, which the communists broke 2 months later by murdering resistance leader Psarros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios_Psarros).

There is no assuming involved; they didn't simply "want" a violent take over, they actually tried to do it and lost.
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It is partly by design since the ECU is physically connected to the infotainment system for diagnostics / user configuration. If ever there was an example of when systems should be airgapped, this should be one of them.

ECU's have no business being integrated into infotainment systems. It's fine to have a physical wire that can be connected for diagnostics, but don't have then permanently connected by default. Just don't.

edit: just read the article (doh for commenting before reading) and this attack is different from the previous ones. This one uses a feature that was built into the cars purposely for unlocking the vehicle and controlling the engine. That feature seems monumentally dumb from the outset - and very much implemented by design.
My first computer was a Sol-20 (My dad still has this machine) and than I became a Commodore guy so I miss the days of talking Trash ;) between Pet-20 vs the TRS-80 days.

P.S. Yes colors are pretty and I prefer color.
"Rumor is that they're being bought out by the Chinese company they've been developing the unit with. So the refund is so that no can have claim the designs (like a bunch of people who bought a product because its all open source.)"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-t...
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I think invisible pixels works for me :)
To start the flood of anecdotes, I'll suggest my old digital circuits professor who never returned homework, ignored the textbook and was never present for lab help. His grades always came out weeks late. And he started doing that long before he got tenure. Because he was a prolific researcher with lots of grant money coming in.

So tenure wasn't to blame - its an effect, not a cause.
This thing is awesome, thanks for sharing!
The React DnD docs/examples site is rendered in a similar manner:

https://github.com/gaearon/react-dnd/blob/master/scripts/bui...
And I blame lazy software developers who had security holes in their apps that endangered enterprise networks. I'm an app developer and we shouldn't be placing blame on someone trying to do their job and protect their internal network. We need to own up and start making security a priority over yet another feature someone wants in their app. Yes we were quite clever to tunnel things through port 80, but we're just delaying the inevitable.
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The concept sounds good. My son likes magic so I thought this would be fun for him to watch and learn. But it's over $100/year. That's a lot of money for only a few tricks. Right now you only have about 1.5 hours of video. That's very expensive.
I agree, before you start implementing all these changes you should probably also spot the time consuming parts of your software using a profiler. Otherwise you might be making a bad trade-off. My software engineering professor always used to say: "Never start optimizing before you have measured [using a profiler]."
Canadians say "aboot" nearly as often as Americans who plan to go drink at a "baah". After all, the United States = Boston and Canada = St John's.
France is still a democracy, and the democratically elected French parliament had the right to vote against the Lisbon treaty. Which they didn't.
> ... until then Apple is just using everyone as guinea pigs.

Exactly. I'm not being judgemental about that, but I don't see myself wanting to invest time into being a guinea pig. If Apple wants to build a tool that only works in and for their walled garden, I won't donate any work to it.
What is this using to do the actual processing? (i.e. is this using OpenCV behind the scenes or ITK or it's own code)?

Can this handle:

1. int16 and float data

2. 3D datasets
> I imagine you can also really simple add new own plug-ins?

You could write your own filters in its custom language and save them, of course you could easily download existing filters from others and save them too. I don't remember if you could save composed filters, last time I used it was in 2007 and I was still in high school. I found my abandoned flickr profile, I really liked writing geometry filters [1]. The two spheres and the two spiral patterns were made using mathmap. Right now I can't find an easily installable version for Linux though. As far as I remember it could compile its filters to c then binary if gcc was available.

One other interesting property of mathmap: It didn't cache intermediate results between filters and handled images as if they were infinite and had infinite resolution. It works, because if you only care about one given pixel of the resulting image you can calculate the previous image pixels lazily. It allowed really convenient compositions, like composing a Mandelbrot-set generator and a zoom filter then zooming into the set indefinitely only adjusting the zoom filter.

I didn't try ImagePlay yet. Can you write your own filters in it or you can "only" compose from the existing filters? Writing your own filters was a killer feature of mathmap for me, especially for custom geometry filters.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/10529466@N02/
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I agree with your assessment of academia, but I don't think "startups", as HN defines the term, will improve anything.

Academia's one imploded guild system, but venture capital is just as bad. The transition from a "what you know" to a "who you blow" culture happened a long time ago, and I don't think there's any turning back for the Valley. It's one of the most corrupt economic ecosystems known to humankind. VCs collude and arrange outcomes based on prior socioeconomic value to them rather than allowing the market to determine the actual merit of a company or product, and most of what Silicon Valley-style venture capital is, is taking behaviors (insider trading, market manipulation, anti-competitive collusion) that are illegal on public markets and applying them to unregulated private equities.

The trillion-dollar question is whether it's possible for something else (possibly outside of the U.S.) to emerge that outperforms the Silicon Valley nonsense. Academia itself is done, as far as I can tell. It selects for a naive lack of humility (as does the Valley, where people honestly believe that their engineer positions on 0.02% will lead to investor contact and founder status in their next gig... and, of course, that never happens for socioeconomic reasons) because anyone who is capable of getting a realistic picture of his or her probable future in that game is going to exit.
> Make every service with more than, say, a million users required to offer federation. There must be an API, and everybody must be able to get their data in and out free of charge, and there should be no limitations (except for fighting spam).

I totally agree. Setting a minimum of users would also help the controlling of the system and the startups getting on their feet immensely.

> "You may use this protocol / implementation free of charge in any way you like (source closed or open) under one condition: you have to offer federation."

I'm not working on a protocol but I wonder if such a license already exists. I would financially contribute if one were to hire a bunch of lawyers to write one.
"Bessarabia is now the republic of Moldova. We still think of them as being Bessarabia, as Moldova is also the name of the adjacent region in Romania."

Moldova is bigger than just "the adjacent region in Romania", Moldova is that and Bessarabia together. What's in Romania now is Moldova without Bessarabia.

I strongly agree with "damaging mentality", but we don't hate everybody! Nowadays we don't resent anyone other than the russians (with their wishful "sphere of influence" over us), and I hope that that will pass too.
I did not get this on my HTC One M7. Still one of the best phones ever.
The problem with that is the network effect.

None of my friends use IRC, 95% have never even heard of it. Most of my friends are on Facebook Messenger.

For more public conversations; a lot of that is now taking place on twitter. Twitter gets promoted by the media with hashtags at the start of TV programmes. I never see any reference to IRC or other protocols.

I'm sure people will get bored with these current silos and move on but I doubt they'll move to something more open. The financial incentive just isn't there to develop the protocols and clients for an open system, whereas there is clearly big money to be made by creating the next big silo.
It's a shame we don't have like little keychains that can unlock or beep our cars from afar. We're not living _that_ far in the future though, I suppose.
> There is no money in exploiting these bugs

- Murder for hire.
- Killing political opponents.
- Another country could use it to kill our leaders.

I'm looking forward to self-driving cards but my only real fear is a bug being used to kill people in the manner I just described.
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You're replying to the wrong post. That should have been to my parent commenter.
Or this: http://www.xkcd.com/1559/
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> A saner way to handle repos is to recognize that it's not necessary for people to have the full history of everything in the repository stored on their local machine most of the time.

Local history enables rebasing. Of course you can do it without local history already present, say in SVN you'd use separate branches for changes and 'rebased' changes where you merge your work on top of some new state of trunk. But this involvs creating branches(and at cleast one checkout for separate branch folder) and communicating with the server(takes time). This all means that people almost never do this.
With git rebase is a snap.
But of course one can live without rebase, it's not oxygen or something.
I partially agree but isn't the port blocking mostly about reducing the attack surface? If I were managing infrastructure (I never did), just trusting a browser and its security model sounds better than following bunch of white-listed apps for zero-days.
If Greeks really believe that the EU is "Nazi-like", then why don't you just secede? Article 50 of the EU treaty allows you to do that, you know. Not really a freedom that the Nazis granted to the nations they conquered...
What colorspace does it use? I suspect it is sRGB. Can a user change it? There could be filters that makes more sense in a linear colorspace. Anyway any sane colorspace handling would be awesome.
No offence, calling type safety an “academic problem” shows a tremendous amount of inexperience.
I am not sure if you are joking or not, I wouldn't want my car to be opened without keys. Especially after such news
> "Without borders, people will just flock from one place to another, destabilizing and draining the cities of resources..."

I'm not sure about that. After all, even within countries there are huge disparities between regions and we don't see this effect take place.
the corporate media always speaks with reverence regarding the idea of doing away with borders....gosh, I wonder if that has something to do with the fact that the corporate media is funded by advertising purchases made by big business, the same big business that buys labor.
I guess it comes down to organisational style. Using merge requests requires some benevolent dictator (poor sod?) to perform the merges. For us, if your commit is approved in Gerrit, it's your task to merge it. If some other commit was merged in between, you have to rebase, possibly solving merge conflicts. So guess that with a monolithic repo, that wouldn't scale, but it could be made to scale by appointing someone to perform the merge requests. I'm not sure I would like to be that person...
It's less formal only because you're acting as if it's not business. But I suspect you're the only one, the erstwhile clients are and they are demonstrating a perfect willingness to not pay you for your time.

It's a tell. Most people who will screw you live with themselves under the rationalization that they gave fair warning. You're hanging around past the initial conversation where a little free friendly advice is socially appropriate among acquaintances, and now past the point where it's clear that a normal business transaction is in the works. You're the one buying and the seller has been clear: *caveat emptor".

You're not part of this deal. You have no leverage to force your way in. If the company grows, then paying work for you may be created organically. It's only worth playing long.
The infighting is so fierce, because the stakes are so small. The 'thinking about money' is not at all the same as we in industry think. Its about survival on a shoestring, not about making it big.

Anyway, the academics are so inbred because, well, we made them that way. Did you get your degree from Phoenix, the for-profit college? No? Because its not as legit somehow? That's the real issue. Ivy-league schools are the way they are, because we keep throwing money at them.
Nice, it run on Mac Yosemite but has problems on 10.8 probably because of OpenCV ...
It allows you to do things like have varying passphrase strength on your encrypted keys, depending on how much you care about keeping each one safe; or putting only the private keys you usually need on each device, rather than one/few keys that will get all your systems pwned if it's compromised.
If something is an accurate description it's no cynicism.

Cynicism implies that something is in a condition X, and the cynic describes it as a much worse condition Y.
Read the article. If you dont understand why then talk to a Lawyer or a Judge.
If I am not not their supervisor and they are not specifically impacting my ability to get my own work done, I would mind my own business. Because it is thankfully not any part of my job description to monitor the time my coworkers spend in office.
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Perhaps you would like Annotate (https://github.com/roomkey/annotate). Type annotation checking in development, but no overhead in production.
Self driving cars are going to be fun
The problem with IRC is that it now lacks some features that prevent its adoption from a wider userbase.

Outside of our tech circle, there's not many people who wouldn't be turned off by having to register an account by typing custom commands. Or chatting without avatar support.

It may seem silly, but I think many people are turned off by this.
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The worst thing is, people can hack your car through your 'entertainment system' on your car. I don't even want to know how such a system exists, why my radio has access to brakes?
Thanks for the tip.

I never thought of this particular use case. Will give it try.
> inhouse .NET solution that

This is not true.
One study I saw suggested that 90% of workers saw improvements.

Edit: see https://www.nber.org/papers/w12497.pdf
We tested with Mavericks 10.9, 10.8 we never tried. We might investigate this. Should not be a biggy.
Looks like a nice tool to prototype for OpenCV.

Question: What made you choose the classical QT gui over QML ?
Is the car receiving commands indirectly through OnStar itself or directly from a smartphone connected to the in-car wifi?
We provide a C++ API:
https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/wiki/Plugins:-01-Tutori...

You basically get access to pixel values and can then do whatever you want. Might not be comparable to what mathmap does though.
I do not understand how the prices are set for buying food (at least in my games). some items can be 20 or 30 each, whilst others are 2 or 3 but are just as good. curiously, bread and water seem to be the most expensive food to buy and raspberry juice is dirt cheap.

It must be hard in these types of games to have an economy which for the player involves anything other than kill-loot-sell-repeat.
Actually, that's not quite right.

"Cynicism is an attitude or state of mind characterized by a general distrust of others' motives."

Perhaps you are conflating the word cynic with critic.
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The project was started quite some time ago. Today we mainly use QML in our projects.