skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of course. In a resource-constrained world, i.e. the world we live in, spending more on prevention than the expected loss makes no sense.

Refusing to spend $10 to avoid a $5 expected loss is not negligence, it's economic common sense.

(You should still be liable for the loss if someone else is experiencing the risk. You should be liable to compensate them fairly, but it's not negligence).

In fact in a world with scarce risk prevention resources, PL = B is not even a sufficient criteria to say you should spend to prevent the risk, because there might be opportunities to prevent greater losses elsewhere; i.e. you should not be investing to prevent PL = B type risks if there exists PL >>> B type risks. (For a finance analogy, if you are capital-constrained, you don't want to put your money in any investment with a positive ROI, you want to put you money in investments that have the highest ROI.)

In other words, spending $10 to prevent a $10 expected loss risk when there is an opportunity to prevent a $100 expected loss risk for the same expenditure makes no sense.

But since we're not smart enough to cooperate and globally allocate the total risk-prevention budget to minimize losses, locally and in terms of personal responsibility PL = B is a decent rule.
I haven't seen any links but I wouldn't be surprised. It was a theme (meme?) at Google to create a free service to generate data for other stuff. They create their 411 service to collect voice recognition information (for example). And I do believe Ingress (game) was originally a way to augment their maps data.
AppHub.io – skip the Apple App Store review process for updates
The Compounding Effect of Procrastination
We switched to Cloudinary.com a few months ago. We're in love with them. They have a slew of integration libraries and support things like document to image conversion out of the box.
WebRTC file sharing broker using Elixir Phoenix
I read the "How we make our money" page, and if I am reading it right, they only make money on the uninvested balances? It is free ($0) to invest and free to de-vest ($0, 0%), is that right? Seems too good to be true...

Also how legal is this company? I've read about small StartUps based on the stock market who then wind up getting in trouble with the FTC.

Honestly if this is free investment, then I might start doing some micro-investment. I am been put off the stock market by the overheads of investing/de-vesting (e.g. $20/trade). Although the hassle of filing taxes might still put me off.
The acrylic box blocks all your light (dark is bad), and now you have to keep THAT clean instead. Any surface in your optical path needs to be kept clean, but especially those that are between the center of the optical system and the sensor. Dust on the front element doesn't matter too much, dust on the rear element matters a lot and pellicle mirrors are even worse since they're closer to the focal plane. Scratches from cleaning are real bad too.

As long as your lens system is sealed it's not a problem. But many systems are interchangeable-lens, and when the lens is removed then dust can float in. Or some lenses generate a "vacuum" effect as they focus in and out.

Sensors often incorporate an ultrasonic motor which vibrates it and throws dust off. Or some sensors are mounted on shake tables to reduce blur from operator motion - you can do a similar thing there too. At the end of the day you just have to be careful though.

Like I said, totally possible optically, and yes, very simple to process. The downsides are that when you split the beams each sensor only gets half the light intensity, which means you need to get more light into the optical system in the first place, and you need 2 sensors, which are by far the single most expensive component in the whole camera.

You can actually do something similar with Magic Lantern, a hacked-up open-source firmware for Canon cameras. They scan alternate rows of the sensor at different sensitivities, and use the low-sensitivity row as the most-significant-bits of dynamic range for the high-sensitivity image. You lose a bunch of vertical resolution, but hey, you don't need 2 sensors.
Looks nice, but how do I install this?
People asking for body cameras on all police, whether net benefit or not, need to understand everything that is coming with it. That includes automatic facial identification of everyone. Police will simply no longer have to ask for ID. Obscuring your face is already being made illegal... (see: burqa bans)
Nexrad – Apache Storm topology monitoring service
"On August 13, federal officials received on their “hot line” a message from the site’s administrators saying Internet users in Russia no longer have access to the illegal content. Roskomnadzor has confirmed [Reddit’s] full compliance, and accordingly removed the website from the registry of illegal online materials."

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/08/13/russia-unblocks-reddit
The thread was flagged because the pro-Tesla crowd on HN felt that the article was inaccurate regarding the amount of money Tesla lost on each car, and flagged it over wording.

Tesla makes money on each car it sells (sales exceeds cost of goods sold), but once fixed costs and other expenses like R&D and capital investments are included, it has an enormous loss, so on average it loses about $4000 to $17000 per car (depending on whether you use Unicorn Accounting or Generally Accepted Accounting Practices). The article reported this as Tesla losing $4000 per car, which is accurate in a general/layman's sense but is technically inaccurate.
Is the tracking limited to Home edition, or does this also apply to Pro and Enterprise? Nothing I've read definitively confirms which versions are affected to what extent. Knowing this is useful in that I'd happily pay to not have the spying. Paying is also preferable to downloading an .exe that disables tracking that has dependencies I haven't installed (Python, for example). I'm more likely to trust a PowerShell script, but(for now) haven't the time to invest to create my own.
Last I heard you can ship Android without any Google components, you just can't call it Android.

The real issue is popular apps like Snapchat and Maps that require Play Services. So manufacturers are never going to abandon the Goog for fear of their customers not being able to run the latest fad.
This is a known bug, we're addressing it with a new version of open-vm-tools, there's a thread going on over at github[1] to track this.

[1] https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/1460
Unconstrained face recognition from NIR sensors (often used in CCTVs) is studied substantially less than on images acquired from visible light sensors (for obvious reasons). There's a few face recognition datasets (e.g., SCFace, MBGC Portal Challenge) that aimed to change this, but it still far from meeting the same accuracies we see from Google/Facebook.
To the people downvoting me:

7500 EUR is what it currently costs: http://www.ferrolic.com/inquiries/
> This, in fact, was inevitable

Agreed! This is a perfect example of people arguing "slippery slope!!" when the tech first came out and getting shouted down repeatedly. Now they're being vindicated, as it's absolutely happening exactly as predicted.

My point is that the slippery slope argument is often used and no matter how many times people say it's invalid or unlikely, is often right.
Unfortunately, that's also the best way to not get any work done because:

1) None of the software most people need is available for Linux, and

2) "GNU/Linux" sucks at providing a rich and stable API/ABI on which proprietary software can be built and supported, and

3) Usability of what does exist generally sucks, because unsurprisingly, not charging for your work makes it very hard to hire artists and designers.

Also unfortunately, that means the majority of people are stuck choosing between relinquishing privacy to either Apple, MS, or Google.
Hivemind members who have accumulated sufficient PG funbucks (karma) can "flag" a story.

This causes it to be moved down in rankings, and if enough people flag it, killed and locked--at least, that's my understanding.
That looks pretty cool and I love that there's a ready made gulp file for most of the common tasks. :)
Citus Data is hiring distributed systems experts to scale out PostgreSQL
While it is true that most end users of Free software do not audit or compile their own binaries, the situations aren't even remotely comparable.
Have you looked at UbuntuStudio or other similar distributions? I'm not running a professional studio, but I do a fair amount of audio recording and production entirely in Linux for bands I plan in and personal projects.
Like people mentioned there are different settings for Enterprise SKU's including different settings for different verticals (e.g. education or health industry).

For example Office 365 for Healthcare which is HIPAA compliant has probably quite a different privacy policy and out of the box authentication, encryption and right management settings than what you would get as an individual or even by buying Office 365 for business editions.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/health/products/office365/def...

Not saying that's right, but most companies that provide free/subsidizes consumer services including companies like Google tend to have quite a different SLA and service terms for corporate customers.
Probably downvoted for asking a question in order to make an oblique point, which was that improving the efficiency of an unjust process makes it less just. I don't think anyone can argue that actually enforcing all those arrest warrants would improve the situation - does it really make sense to lock up 3/4 of a town? No, obviously not. But then they sit there ready to be used as justification for other police action.
There's a commercial version of this in parts of Boston: http://www.netblazr.com/
Automobile Engine Disabling Device
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10052633
If what a vendor is allowed to do is buried in a EULA that the world knows is never read, then that vendor is hiding something. There's a difference between the letter of the law and truth. Obfuscation is not truth.
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So, here's a question then, assuming that's true, why send it? If its been so thoroughly anonymized that nothing useful can be gleaned from it, why bother sending it in the first place? If it is possible to derive useful info from it, that seems to directly contradict the idea that no sensitive information is going to be exposed (there being no realistic way to programmatically identity only sensitive information without some very specific domain knowledge). You can't have it both ways, either the info isn't useful in which case they have reason to transmit it, or else it's exposing potentially sensitive information and they shouldn't be transmitting it.
Could you confirm or deny that you are using the word "nanoparticles" carefully?

I think that the ferrous particles in ferrofluids are mere particles. They'd have to be very, very small to be classified as nano, and we've seen before that making particles of an ordinary material that small can change its properties, ala "transparent titanium dioxide".
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Windows is not gratis and has tracking.

GNU is gratis and has no tracking.
That would be the case except if you where a US software company fleeing a legislative climate that made it hard to do business are you going to put your HQ/major business units in Berlin/Paris or a third-world country.

These are large primarily sales driven organizations so first world transport links and infrastructure matter.
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We need a complete rework of our entire legal system in regards to consent to contracts. The problem is that it'll never happen because there is so much of an advantage given to the capital owners by having it so the rest of the population doesn't really understand what they are signing up for.
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Keep in mind that Windows filters the contents of etc/hosts and basically ignores (some) entries for its own domains. For example, you cannot null-route Windows Update servers this way.
In my opinion life's too short to use free tools over high-quality tools. I'd rather spend a small amount of time fixing problems with Windows than spend a huge amount of time trying to make Linux a usable desktop.

I am already using Linux on servers and smart phones (but I won't call it GNU/Linux, sorry). If there is ever a decent desktop GUI for Linux, I'll try that out but if I still like Windows better then I'll continue using that.

I'm positive that most people here would agree if my post said "OS X" instead of "Windows".
Even in Ubuntu, you still need to disable user tracking. It's not difficult though, but you still need to do it.

I don't even mention 3th party tools such as Chromium with their microphone spy activities...
If you take something that belongs to another person, but you believe you do own it, no crime has been committed. For example, if walk out of a store thinking you paid for a bag of groceries when in fact the card reader had errored and you need to swipe again. That isn't shoplifting, that is a mistake of fact.

This concept is called "mens rea" or "guilty mind". A statute for each crime should define what type of mens rea it requires. As an example, generally murder requires an intent to kill or seriously injure someone. Manslaughter only requires a reckless disregard for whether or not you've harmed someone. However, some crimes do not have a mens rea requirement. They are usually minor, like speeding.

For a better explanation of mens rea, see this part of the linked site: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=173

EDIT:
For an interesting example of when the mens rea requirements for a crime are unclear, see Elonis v. US: a free speech case involving intimidating speech posted to Facebook. http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/elonis-v-united-s...
Uninformed consent is not consent. This needs to be applied to the business world and all other legal contracts.
No, that's pretty much it. I recall a specific interaction I had with a South American carrier that really colored my opinion of the future of our company. We were pitching them on our search system and it was going well for a while. But then they told us that their hosting provider had offered to lower their distribution fees through travel agents by some material percentage if they used their search instead of ours... and their CFO essentially made them take the deal.

I seriously doubt the proliferation of travel sites has changed the leverage of the parties much: you can still count on one hand the number of entities that offer all of search, distribution, and hosting. They will remain an oligopoly for some time to come, and will, I'm sure, continue to use that to their advantage.

Regarding Google (or Alphabet, or whatever they are now), I have no idea. I didn't stay on after the merger, and frankly don't ever talk to them because every conversation I've ever had with them has been totally one-sided. (They expect me to tell them stuff, and then won't say anything... because Google secrets matter!)
Yes, but the comment above his simplifies both into "fruit" so it's valid to call it out on that.
> 2) "GNU/Linux" sucks at providing a rich and stable API/ABI on which proprietary software can be built and supported, and

Care to elaborate on this one? I don't see what sucks about it. You can build proprietary software and run it on Linux. See also: Steam games.

> 3) Usability of what does exist generally sucks, because unsurprisingly, not charging for your work makes it very hard to hire artists and designers.

I've personally found the latest editions of Debian-based OSes (such as Linux Mint) to be very intuitive and beautiful.
> It seems like they're advocating short-term trading -- pretty risky behavior.

No matter how successful they're, I'd argue that it is a drop in the bucket compared to high-frequency trading. I cannot see it hurting the markets.

> Also, the only real reason a commission-free account would be helpful is if you're trading pretty frequently or in very small amounts.

Why? It saves you $10 even if you only trade once every year. It is MORE helpful with many trades, but it is helpful regardless.

> pay $10/trade [..] and have access to some mediocre portfolio analysis, risk analysis, and research tools

Why can't people get these from third parties? A lot of other services provide these tools and information. This de-couples the bundling and allows people to shop around.
I am probably less technical than most of you but the upside of this technology (at the point it is real world ready) might be producing what I would call a RAW file that is RAW(ER). By that I mean the file would simply contain a wider range of scene information that could be accessed by Adobe Camera Raw or the like. For the class of photographers that have no interest in RAW the information would help the JPEG engine in the camera make a "better" informed JPEG (or whatever the standard is at that time). To me capturing more scene info is better than less assuming there are minimal penalties being paid elsewhere (file size, burst shooting etc).

As a side note, it seems to me that aperture and shutter speed would still be essential as they affect not only exposure but depth of field and subject motion. Perhaps a technique that allows proper exposure independent of fstop/shutter/ASA would allow exploration of extremely wide aperture with slow shutter but no need for ND filters.

In any event it will be interesting to see what happens.
Of course the OS catches all your keystrokes. If it didn't, the keyboard wouldn't function.

EDIT: Except for BIOS. The keyboard would work in BIOS and that's it.
Honestly, I use other sites to do my research - most of the great research communities like motley fool, stocktwits, and seekingalpha are reasonably decentralized away from a brokerage app anyway. Since my account size is relatively small, the 10 bucks really eats into a lot of my profit margin, so I appreciate not having to pay it.

That being said, I can see that the lack of features might be discouraging for people who want to run a more complex portfolio of options or require a feature like a rudimentary asset allocation model.

The potential here really seems to be for people who hold well-researched single names regularly, mixed with some index ETFs.
Yeah, that's what put me off of NW.js too. The prebuilt Electron binaries, electron-packager and electron-builder are too good to pass up.
That also sounds like a sweet project to learn the ins and outs of Node because you can hack away at a chat app for weeks adding cool features.
How is Google scanning massively one's emails a requirement for "intelligent systems" and is OK, but Microsoft sending telemetry data is "over the top"?
> If Sun were still around, I suspect not only would they not be suing Google, but they would be actively involved in the Android development scene

That's a big stretch. For one, Sun people weren't particularly happy that Google blatantly sidestepped them; all the time Sun was a going concern, backroom discussions with Google were ongoing and not particularly conciliatory. Sun didn't contribute to Dalvik and would likely never had (why, when they had OpenJDK?). The fact that they never granted use of the TCK is quite revealing in itself.
Fedora 20 was EOLed over a month ago... you should probably upgrade them to 22 (and fedup is relatively painless nowadays).
This article, and the details behind what is driving the changes for Sesame Street, are a good illustration of the tectonic changes coming to the industry.

Combined with HBO Now available without Cable, availability of services like Sling, and the recent financial troubles in the cable industry it is an interesting time. Cord-cutting is no long an if, it's a how quickly.

Or am I reading too much into this? Wishful thinking?
Productivity has everything to do with it.

Why do people work? To earn wages to buy things that have been produced.

And race to the bottom? More like race to equilibrium between supply of labor and demand for it.. albeit, in a market with plenty of inefficiencies and illiquidities.
I wonder, if a large mass of people really switched, would the OSS ecosystem be able to channel their needs into something suitable...
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That makes sense. They do come in waves. I do think that Apple does get a free pass a majority of the time though because of their monolithic following. But overall I agree.
How can you trust any cloud service then?
Excited to see you Sept 2 and 3 at the Jenkins User Conference
Personally, I'd rather fuzz their servers with terabyte after terabyte of garbage, but to each his own.
I wonder if Windows 7 support might last even longer than XP... no doubt there will be plenty of anger when MS decides to end support for 7/8 like they did with XP, but the best way to delay that is to vehemently refuse to "upgrade".

...and I am writing this on a machine running (a much customised version of) XP, which remains completely silent on the network and never produces any traffic unaccounted for.
I liked the shit to do app an the live preview thumb image. The website I self is sweet! Nice work. Μπραβο αδελφέ!
Agreed, this isn't about "staying young," it's totally about practicality. It's almost certainly more energy efficient than walking but a folding scooter is more convenient to carry around than a bike.
I mean China literally doesn't stop. Every college, every department, they're all under attack, all the time. Whether it's sanctioned cyber-theft by the Chinese government or one of their thousands of "patriot hackers" they are ALWAYS trying to penetrate our networks and steal our research, personnel information, and so on. This is an indisputable fact, and my university is not alone.
Kudos for stating on the README what it does.
> "but all apps are "written in Java", in practice"

That's not strictly true. And if it is or not, it can't be relevant. If you take a JVM language like Scala, compile it to Java bytecode, and run it on a Java(tm) runtime you downloaded from oracle.com, does Oracle have any IP rights in Scala? In the toolchain? In your code?

What if you wrote it in Java? Same answers.

What if you translate that code to Dalvik bytecodes? Same answers.

When I say "There is no Java in Android" I mean the runtime in Android is not Java. Everything else is code that was written in Java and translated to Dalvik and runs in those runtimes that are themselves not Java.

So either Oracle has IP rights all over the place, in everything that is in source code that a Java compiler compiles, or that at some point in the toolchain is in Java bytecode, including stuff like Scala, or not.

Google, and Android, make and sell none of the things in which Orcale has plausible IP rights.
is the camp the same thing as the congress?
You mean AOSP, Android has a completely different meaning and expectations in general use.

Apart from apps that need the Play Services, lack of the Play Store is the biggest issue with shipping AOSP. That's why they forcibly bundle it with all other Google apps and default as Google search.
No, you need two things: the intent* and the act. If the act of watering your lawn isn't an element of any crime, then you're fine.

If the victim says that the accused did X, Y, and then Z, that is a statement of fact about what happened. If the victim then says that he doesn't think that X, Y, and Z constitute a crime, that is a statement about the law..which might just be incorrect.

* except for strict liability crimes like speeding
What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
As someone who loves Angular, searching for information on Angular 1 vs Angular 2 is insanely frustrating. They should have just renamed the damn thing.
Current discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053352
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You're the one who mentioned Ubuntu.