skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to comment the above too. The world isn't static. This also discounts time of year shots, as fall trees vs snow covered hills vs spring blooms make a world of difference too (they do mention that geo-tagging isn't the only way).

Despite the entry point for photography as art being relatively low, this also discredits the idea that there are good and bad photography and the defining factor is rarity.
Imagine this scenario: There's already an exploited router on the network. On noticing traffic that can be identified as as coming from a Cisco router that appears to be booting (or apprears to be factory fresh), it immediately sources an exploit attempt to that address using default Cisco router passwords.

If your lab allows internet access, you would probably be exploited within seconds of booting for the first time.

There are sophisticated ways to employ very unsophisticated exploits.
Probably not, as the people who block all ads will likely continue to do so (and who reads ToS anyway?)

But without it, how can you back up any kind of complaint about someone not displaying the ads? There never was any obligation. It's like yelling at someone who leaves their lounge to make a cup of tea during a TV ad break.
Yeah, I have absolutely no idea why anyone would buy this.

"Oh, it's a camera that won't allow me to take whatever picture I want. And it makes staticky, clicky noises, sounding like an ill dolphin. Just what I've always wanted in a camera!"

Can anyone give me a compelling reason why I should consider buying this thing?
> 6. Ad-exchange receives all the bids and picks the second highest bidder (no idea why it's the second highest)

It's called a Vickrey Auction. It allows bidders to bid their true value (instead of trying to outbid all of the other bidders, as is what results from a first-price auction).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
Agreed. Having watched the video after reading the comments, I am actually rather disappointed at some of the negative things written here.

The interview contains a lot of other more inspiring stories than just his Harvard rejections.

For example, he talks about how he comes from a pretty bad elementary school, how he learned about the internet, how Alibaba got its name, how none of his capital came from the government, that Alibaba's workforce is actually ~47% women, how he rather would be respected than be rich, and his philosophy on businesses helping people.

Near the end, he says:
"I believe when you have 1 million dollars, that’s your money. When you have 20 million dollars, you start to have problems, worry about inflation, worry about which stock to buy, this and that -
When you have 1 billion dollars, that’s not your money. That’s the trust society gives you. They believe you can manage the money - use the money better than the government, than the others. So I think today, I have the resources to do more things. With the money we have, with the influence we have, we should spend more time on the young people."
This is great, I was looking for something similar for a while now! Quick question if you don't mind - Where are you getting your sources of news? I am sure the display algo is proprietary but curious as to what the source of all the news is?
Do you know where to find them? Preferably free, if they're on an archive somewhere or similar. They seem to be in german as well, am I correct in this?
It was in the first one, although the second article alludes to the fact that the hotel took the ATM offline, eventually. The first part also goes into some detail regarding the hardware and the fact that he was approached by an ATM firm. They'd probably know if the BT beacon was a maintenance tool.

Having an openly visible BT signal emanate from your illicit snooping device seems amateurish on the face of it, but it does make connecting to it easier for technically challenged criminals, who I assume don't have a bachelor in CS or EE. They'll be happy to escalate to a harder to detect wireless signal if it becomes necessary.
We have prisons which are run by the government, and we have prisons which are run by private companies that sell their services to the government. Call the latter what you like. The companies that run them do a poor job with prisoner safety, and lobby the government to keep the prisoner supply high. In some cases states have signed contracts that require them to supply a minimum number of prisoners regardless of crime rates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/13/aclu-la...
It is quite easy question actually.

In short, US is unified market with one language, laws for business are same across all states, one currency, one culture, low taxes, no social system and a lot of money.

In EU you have 28 countries, 24 languages which equals to same amount of cultures. 11 currencies. Every country got own laws so once you make business across many countries, you have taxation and law hell. EU tries to improve it so it is getting better but it is still very bad. You basically need a lawyer and a translator for every country where you operate. We have quite big taxes, social system and health system. All these needs to be payed for every employee and it increases the operation cost.

The country that I am from, we had better search engine than Google before Google, we had Uber before Uber and many other. Unfortunately they didn't expand because of problems I mentioned and nobody gave investment that would overcome all these problems. At the end when big name comes to our market they just buy established local competitor and rename it.

Also Silicon Valley is a bubble. In Europe we never heard about most of startups from there and we have local competitors that are established here and do basically same things.
Zuck started his business at Harvard with Harvard cofounders and harvard content and later Harvard employees.

Jobs credited Reed classes for inspiring the beauty and font quality that made Mac a standout.

They were great fits for their school, they just didn't need he arbtirary 4-year degree.

I don't know about the others.
I don't know why this comment is being downvotes? I sometimes feel the average voter actually thinks the president has all the power? He/she is just the spoke, maybe a few bearings of the hub, on a big wheel?

It kills me when I hear, "Obama hasn't done anything?". Yea, the legislature put on the brakes on everything? (Sorry about the mechanical metaphors--spent the weekend under a truck.)

A few years ago someone/group did a study, and concluded most voters literally don't know who's the best candidate? (Basically saying, the average voter is to--simple--to vote for the best person.) I think about that study often?

I'll admit, I don't know who's the best candidate for this country. It's basically a craps shoot? What I really take seriously is, "What kind of judges will this presidential candidate put in office, if elected?" And I know, history has shown that liberal/conservative candidates can go in opposite directions once they get into office. I just hope for the best?
Why not go the other direction? Build a large, slow moving blimp/dirigible, and offer overnight service with relatively comfortable accommodations?

If I could take off in Boston or New York in the evening, sleep through the night, and wake up in London or Paris or Berlin, I think that would be an improvement over the transatlantic flights that I have taken.
For president yes your vote really doesn't decide much. In any system even if it was a popular vote you could still say the same thing.

Vote locally. That is the root of our political system and where people can easily make a difference.
I have always been a huge fan of http://Readme.io I wish StackOverflow would integrate with some of these existing platforms instead of creating a new one. One of the biggest problems I have with documentation is fragmentation across platforms. I fear StackOverflow adding another platform will add to the fragmentation problem.
There are surprising number of exit nodes running on Windows 7. Home subscribers on DSL and cable connections. Isn't that rather "suicidal"?

I assumed that nearly all would be running on Linux in data centres somewhere.
But it's not only language, there are real legal, logistical and cultural differences between countries. You negotiate for content rights in the US, and you have them in the US.

Also, by the time you've gotten enough traction in your country, there's a me-too (or a dozen) in your other markets.

Look, you're a start up, you're running lean, you're cranking out a MVP - are you really going to invest an extra 40% into trying to get into 3 other markets before you're able to get your head above water?
IBM Watson uses Prolog?

Yep. Watson has been described as "mostly written in Java, with some chunks in C++ and some in Prolog"[1]. The Prolog is apparently mainly used for language parsing[2].

Also the open source UIMA[3] project is heavily used by Watson. UIMA started out as an IBM project called OmniFind (IIRC) and was later donated to the ASF.

[1]: http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/ibms-watson-written-mostly-in-jav...

[2]: http://learning.acm.org/webinar/lally.cfm

[3]: http://uima.apache.org
United States was also intentionally grown over centuries, mostly as a single polity. Systems design is hard - takes time, takes effort to fix any bugs. US might be one the most painstakingly designed/constructed systems in the modern times.

China figured their system out when the pyramids were built and has basically been ruled using the same principles ever since.

The thing is, these things take time because they require a cultural context where the motivations and the dynamic of the people can be understood and made to cooperate.

These time and culture aspects make the concept of the united states of europe feel quite fantastical.
She fills the entire engine oil
IntelliJ has a good vim plugin. It is the best of both worlds for me.
Exactly, R&D requires capital. Capital comes from profits. Overly competitive markets destroys profits, destroying capital. Thus too much competition destroys R&D.

Look at the airlines. There doesn't need to be this much competition in the airline industry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airlines). They've had too many players for far too long, and it's caused them to compete to the bottom.

Sure, flights are "cheap", but not as cheap as they would be if these companies could afford to upgrade their infrastructure, invest in more modernization efforts, and so on. In fact, the average airline makes about 1% return, or $100 in profit for every $10,000 they spend. That's not a recipe for a healthy business, or a healthy industry.

By comparison, AMD and Intel have a duopoly on x86 processors and have for ages. Intel's profit margins waver between 1/4 and 1/3 of revenue. Simultaneously, processors get better and cheaper every single year.
> I get form letters in response, with absolutely no indication that my voice has been taken into account in even the smallest way.

They listen; they just don't have the staffing to write an individual response to every comment. Unfortunately, they listen by having a staffer say "We had X people contact us in favor of this; Y were opposed." But they do listen. Or: Our voices have been abstracted into sort of a reverse-poll thanks, in part, to technology.

As an anecdote, the only time I had a staffer actually respond to my opinion with more than "I'll pass along your comment" was during the SOPA/PIPA call ins. The staffer I spoke to was clearly (and kind of understandably) irritated with the volume of calls and was somewhat short with me. I think everyone views that whole thing as an exception, though.
Official job listing: http://careers.jobscore.com/jobs2/dailyburn/data-engineer/c8...
Because they were born in China and they learned the rules of the system where they grew up.
It depends on the setting... I've been to many strip clubs where they don't seem to have any problems at all.
I guess the question becomes, if you had to choose between being stuck in a cage without video games and being stuck in a cage with them, which would you choose? There are many things I don't like, but in most cases I would rather have them in the cage with me than not. In short, my view is that if you add another option at no cost, no matter how bad that option is, the situation is never worse for it being added.
Because the network effect of Silicon Valley is profound.

Investors are looking to fund companies with global reach that will break down communication barriers, render national boundaries meaningless and bring us all close together. . . as long as they are located in California.
thanks I was going to make a similar comment. Additionally it's like I should pay for a product that will let me know if I am taking a photo of popular tourist destination? i get that it tries to solve a problem of too many photos of the same thing but there is 0 benefit to individual users of it, and they're expected to pay for it.
What can paleogenetics tell us about prehistory?
The BSPL Compiler
>It would help surface questions that do need updating.

This is the biggest issue with out of date answers. No one is browsing old questions when they already know the answer. They are browsing because they have the same problem and they got there through search. The user can leave a comment in that question but that won't really bring any attention to the issue. This can lead to the question being asked again and then quickly closed because it is a duplicate of the question with the outdated answer. That serves to worsens mod/user relationships regarding duplicates that has already been brought up in this thread.
Of course, the real reason is that Chrome is an OS masquerading as a browser. If you consider the keychain to be an OS level function, Chrome (the OS) provides it.
> If I choose to steal a physical product is that an "obvious flaw in the business model" too?

If you give away a physical product, with an implicit expectation that each recipient will take part in some other interaction that will give you a small amount of money, then that is an obvious flaw in the business model.

If you want to apply your analogy of theft, then you need to discuss password-protected web content where people pay for subscriptions. In that case, if someone hacks your site or steals another subscriber's password, then your analogy would hold.
Troubleshooting a Slow RDS Connection: Bandwidth
why should you buy it? Because it's a work of art, and not a consumer device, mainly. Because it doesn't make logical sense.

It works as art and has value because it creates the things that we are talking about in this thread.
Anecdote: The only Hmong people I ever met were at an Ivy League school.
Inside the EDSAC computer [video]
The profiling vastly outweighs the cheaper price (like 99 to 1). I'll find that myself thanks.
I figured. I was talking more on how you mix analog and digital parts. Do you reconfigure analog like field programmable analog arrays do? Or do you use the same analog circuits while modifying digital part go just put different things through them?

Trying to see if there's a consensus emerging in how people accelerate w/ mixed-signal chips. Might help academics figure out better place to start on next project.
I think the coolest part is the Geiger counter for number of images taken in an area. Having that playing while you walk around a new city could be a lot of fun.
> Model checking with 2 acceptors worked, but I gave up on model checking with 3 acceptors since it took more than an hour.

Does anyone know how the TLA model checker works? I wasn't able to find this information. Does it use a SAT/SMT solver? Or brute force search?
The one I use the most is MathOverflow. Second place is probably Mathematics Stack Exchange.
Atmel launches Linux ready, 500mW Cortex-A5 SoC
Austin's land area is 50% bigger than San Jose
Snapchat Starts Charging $0.99 for 3 Replays, Adds Face Effect “Lenses”
I did a little digging, and it seems that it's not really appropriate to compare underwater decibel measurements with decibel measurements in air. For example, [0] discusses whales that generate clicks at 230 dB, and suggests that that is "equivalent to 170 decibels on land."

I'm not sure if it's even possible to get to 240 dB in air... Ah, an article on wikipedia sort of backs me up: [1] says that, at 1 atmosphere of pressure in air, the maximum loudness for undistorted sound is around 194 dB. Anything louder would be a shockwave.

[0]: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1103_031103_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure
Europe has more Fortune 500 companies on than the US according to what I am linking. If it was just a matter of language then how come they USED to be able to create global players but aren't able to as much any more.

Whats changed thats holding Europe back?
Aside from the obvious fact, that you cannot compare 500 million Europeans that speak plenty of different languages to 300 million US Americans (have you been to Eastern Europe?), it is because the PC, the internet etc. were invented in the US, thus SV was formed and the start-ups there still reap the benefits (exit opportunities, investors, etc).
Why should I support so-called "art" that wants to restrict what I can do? Why should I spend any money on this garbage, when a digital camera from any Big Box store is clearly superior?
It isn't going to be overnight. It's going to take days.

If "overnight" is 12 hours, then you're only moving about half as fast as an airliner moves. That makes for something like a 300MPH cruising speed, which would be challenging to achieve in an airship.

The Hindenburg (I know, great example) could cruise at about 76MPH. NYC-London is about 3500 miles, so that's about two days, assuming the wind neither helps nor hinders.
Muslims vs. hindus. There were lots of political issues when britain ceded the Raj - but basically one of the driving factors for an independent Pakistan was escalation of political friction between factions representing hindus and muslims.
Protests, complaints, and petitions for redress are also part of democracy - YES, YES and YES! To what purpose? To change votes either on the Democratic side (Elections) or the Republican side (Our representatives that we elected). Sure we have the court system but that is decided by a few to balance our government system. It is voting that the VAST majority are trying to do. FCC we protested in the US and that changed the FCC's VOTE. They were appointed by elected officials who were scared of what? Re-election.

If you don't vote the rest really doesn't matter that much.

If someone is complaining about government the first thing I ask is "Do you vote?" Voting is the Democratic government system by its very definition. If you say you don't vote I really (Wrongly) don't want to hear any complaints because you removed yourself from our political system. We are in crisis in United States due to lack of voting to the point where only extremist vote and the majority voluntarily hand over the political powers to extremist. This is why reasonable people have a hard time getting past the primaries in national elections i.e. Trump's popularity is decided by extremist. The MORE people vote the weaker extremist voices matter.
Prehistoric times: Nortel, Mitel, Corel, RIM

Recent times: possibly Shopify, one other moved to USA

Most money in Canada is controlled by civil pension funds, who don't like smallish investments for big risks.

Thus a large percentage of software engineers move to USA, and are active in Silicon Valley.
It is about 70% through 2015.
Came here to say this. Whilst I don't particularly like sharing my contacts with the big G-Brother, I do find their user interface and the associated Android apps extremely good.

I tried to move to ownCloud, but I just couldn't bring myself to make the full move over since my email was still on Gmail.

Just as I had decided to move to Fastmail, Google came out with Inbox. The Android Inbox app is just too good to leave now.
Porsche Mission E: The Tesla-Killer Porsche Has to Build
LastPass got hacked just this year:

http://lifehacker.com/lastpass-hacked-time-to-change-your-ma...
Plug.dj out of funding, asks for donations from users
Instantly download any song!! Without knowing the name of the song!
Depending on how you are using it, you could look into an actual constraint solver like Gecode or a more deterministic logic language like Dyna. The latter would probably require some implementation work - the only production-quality implementations I know of are proprietary.

http://www.gecode.org/

https://github.com/nwf/dyna
"Via", used on danish railways, is somewhat famous for it's iconic lowercase "g", saving space on signs which usually don't have much vertical height:
http://typedesk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Kontrapunkt_D...
Open-sourcing Terrapin: A serving system for batch generated data
With a 7.5h flight time from JFK to LHR, plus a 5 hour time difference, that's a 12.5h of effective travel time. So, you already DO take off at, say, 19:30 from JFK and land at 08:00 in Heathrow.

From SFO this is a 19.5h journey when you factor in the time difference, which means to "wake up" at 08:00 at LHR, you leave at 12:30 from SFO.

In both cases, making the journey longer isn't going to make it particularly more pleasant, even if the dirigible was more comfortable. And anyway, how fast do you envision this craft flying? A 200mph dirigible sounds like a feat, and it still would take AGES (with time difference, basically 24h from JFK to LHR).

(yes, I'm aware we don't typically factor time change into these travel time calculations, but I'm doing it for the sake of "go to sleep in X and arrive rested and refreshed in Y")
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Exactly, and yet people look at me weird when I express that being remembered is a worthy pursuit of one's existence, and that the enjoyment of solitary creation is comparable to that of hanging out having some more socially accepted form of 'fun'</rant>
First of all, the US is an Oligarchy, not a Democracy:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

So whatever the "majority of the population wants" doesn't count, period.

Second of all, if you really believe the US isn't ruled by a secret cabal, like so many US Presidents and other important US politicians have warned us about since before Andrew Jackson, I'm sorry to say but it just makes you come across as ahistorical.
The Art of PNG Glitch
and on mobile?
Show HN: Neural Noise, using RNNs to compose MIDI song snippets
FYI: The captions under the images (which have to be expanded first) are more interesting with more technical details than the article itself.
Gingrich was pro colonizing mars which is very different than being pro-NASA. He's been anything but pro-nasa when not talking about mars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Newt_Gi...
Agree. I solve this problem not with technological barriers, but by going to places that tourists don't go. In fact I often look at the Lonely Planet maps, cross off everything mentioned, and then go to the remaining parts of the map, assuming it's a safe area.
> on occasion I'd get 100 millisecond pauses

As a first guess, this sounds like garbage collection pauses. Details of what to do about them depend on the particular implementation.

In SWI you can use the profiler to see if the garbage collector is in fact being called when you don't expect it. Then: (a) change the default (veeery low) garbage collector settings to use more memory before collection is triggered; (b) make sure you're not leaving unnecessary choice points around (listed as "redo" by the profiler, fix with correctly placed green cuts); (c) call garbage_collect/0 yourself at well-defined points when you're currently not doing low-latency stuff; (d) possibly (but I have no personal experience with this) turn off the garbage collector completely for certain sections of the code.
Why I wouldn't use Rails for a new company