skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people in the database are registered Democrat voters. So presumably they consented to this kind of tracking when they signed up.

But isn't the point of this to help the campaigns identify and avoid people like yourself who would not welcome their advances.
Show HN: VoxelCamera – 3D scanning with a mobile phone (YC Fellowship 2015)
Thanks, glad you like Product Chart!

It is a pretty typical LAMP stack. Linux,Apache,MySql,PHP.

As for libraries, I use jQuery and noUiSlider. Apart from these, it's all custom code.
Kdv – KDebug Unleashed for OS X/iOS
Insurer asks policy holders: do you drive for Uber?
That's why it's an "exception" instead of an "impossibility."
NID India's premier design school starts offering online courses
All smartphones sold in Switzerland will use a standard charging port in 2017
>There's a big difference between Obama and Hillary

Did you mean between Sanders and Hillary? Or are you referring to past election?
Placeboing myself into emotional control and improved attention sounds like a good deal.
http://tamaloa.github.io/2013/11/11/ubuntu-servers-most-anno...
Competition existed in the past.
And then they went back, brought some CARS, and DROVE around on the moon, and came back again.
Solving the competitive storage model in Economics using Python
but you don't know if you're actually getting emotional control or improved attention.
I understand the appeal for sticking with what you know (because ease-of-use is most often just "what I'm used to"), but I don't really find the modern Gnome UI and desktop problematic. It has some pretty big annoyances, in terms of notifications (some of which are seemingly impossible to disable), and the screen dimming thing that it does when using any menus (which also effects the secondary display, meaning you simply can't use a Gnome desktop for any professional video or presentation task).

Nonetheless, I'm not choosing a distro based on the desktop; Fedora has spins for every major desktop I'd want to use (though no good tiling WM options, with good integration, unfortunately, but nobody seems to build something like that).

I do like that they're building based on the LTS release of Ubuntu. The life cycle of a standard Ubuntu release is too short for comfort, IMHO. (Fedora, too, though security updates stick around long enough for me.)
She was ready to move on when someone else got attacked, yes. Why wouldn't she? She only stands to benefit from ignoring the issue, and she stands to suffer for engaging.
Well when someone can now use Netflix Super HD and don't know they need to go into their Netflix account and disable it, they'll suddenly be using a great deal more bandwidth than before.
How Bad Are Things?
If you live and breathe good software engineering practices; it's sometimes hard to realize that the actual practice in industry varies wildly. From shops where everything flows through the CI server to shops where whoever last pushed to production is the source of all user visible bugs...

I have; within the last 6 months, dealt with a team that was reluctant to adopt version control and for whom 'push to production' meant firing up filezilla. They are doing better now but they authored and support several ecommerce apps that handle millions in orders every year.

So, yeah; I believe it.
This counterpoint is edging towards meme status (just try googling). The usual counter-counterpoints to parachutes:

* Parachute hardware adds non-useful weight

* Salt water landings increases refurbishing costs

* Active guidance ("hitting the X") allows for less logistics

* Parachute landing technology would not work on other solar system bodies, meaning less tech would transfer to Mars
This analysis seems OK. Be careful with this blog, though, as the author has shown selective, pro-NSA reporting on Schneier's blog where both he and other leakers frequent. His title is P/K. We've called him out repeatedly for ignoring the bad on one side in the leaks while criticizing Snowden. Blog bias was clear in original content which was just pictures of government, classified gear with fanboy comments.

Again, though, this is an exceptional one that seems more reliable. Probably because existence of extra leakers is important to both sides for different reasons.
Infrastructure price-per-bit has been plummeting.
> WITH THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE IN THE 1960s

Exactly, in 1969, sir, they had to code everything WITH NEGATIVE TIMESTAMPS [1]. Apart from the joke, it underlines the prehistoric era of technology at the time.

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/10/06/before-timestamp-0/
> I'm not sure that people with lung infections would appreciate the reduced 02 associated with high altitude.

On the other hand: http://newmexicohistory.org/people/lungers-and-their-legacy (Taos is about 7k feet, Albuquerque is 5k+ feet)
Although a little long this video compilation helps to understand key differences between Hillary and Sanders. These differences can be extrapolated to how both campaigns handled the "datagate". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpm4rjejFgQ
When we took our kid to get a picture with Santa this year they used a virtual Queue. It allowed them to backup a queue of customers up to 8 hours! Customers registered at the top of the line and then were sent away. They texted 30 mins before and then 5 mins before. It was quite effective. When we finally arrived we were in front of Santa in 5 mins.
>I think that Hilary may be known in the future as the one that lost presidency twice.

What about Romney and McCain?
Over here in .fi we just have a landfill for it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/snowbout/12810955964

http://yle.fi/uutiset/helsinki_battles_with_snow_that_just_w...
I have sometimes wondered if where a company is based forms their products.

While wikipedia now says that Subaru has their HQ in Tokyo, i could have sworn they were initially based on Japan's northern island. And they seem to make some damn fine cars for winter roads.

Similarly both Korea and Finland gets damn cold during winter, and thus both Samsung and Nokia may have ignored capacitive touch screens since they don't work too well with thick gloves.
+1 to Cinnamon being great.

I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I've never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use. Cinnamon is an absolute joy to use in comparison - just does its job and gets out of the way.

Sounds like Mint is a sort of "unbuntu-without-unity" which is worth its weight in gold in my opinion. Wish I could change my work's distro to use it!
Yubico with new 4096-bit keys and gpg-agent for ssh authentication
I really don't get the need to be a "better" achievement. SpaceX's immediate objective is affordable transport into space, Apollo was solely focused on human-manned space exploration... So we can agree that this is a case of apples and oranges? Even if they were in the same domain, the pursuit of science isn't a sport, it's a collaborative effort where one stands on the shoulders of those who came before them and re-draws the boundaries of human intellect. SpaceX owes a lot of what they can take for granted to the Apollo program, as does Apollo to the physicist who preceded them.
1 lb of food would take about 10 megatons of TNT of energy. I'm not sure you'd want whatever that device is sitting on everyone's kitchen counter.
What do you propose they should do? Is it compatible with their existing infrastructure? Does it play nice with existing consumer devices? What does the roll-out cost and time-frame look like?
That calculation really doesn't apply to 99% of what people use their internet connections for. It takes me 15 minutes to update Office over me 50 mbps connection. I'm not going to download twice as many updates because my net connection is twice as fast. I'm not going to buy twice as many iTunes movies or twice as many games on Steam.
>Everything below a 100ms feels like reacting instantly.

No, 100ms is far from instant. You can try this yourself, ideally with an Arduino and LED+button, or some other hard real-time capable system. But even with an ordinary PC, you can do an approximate test. First disable compositing to reduce latency. Be sure your monitor is in native resolution to avoid scaler latency. Using xterm (note that VTE based terminal emulators have a 40fps frame rate cap which unnecessarily increases latency), clear the terminal with control-L so you are not misled by scrolling, and compare "sleep 0.05" and "sleep 0". 50ms seems like a reasonable conservative estimate for the remaining total latency of your keyboard and display, so you are comparing approx. 100ms vs 50ms latency, and the difference is very obvious.

And in the case of audio, humans are even more latency sensitive. Musicians generally aim for <20ms latency with soft-synths.

100ms is not an acceptable "instant" latency goal, especially as latency is cumulative and there's likely to be a lot more latency in the chain that's out of your control.
Ask HN: In a difficult situation at work. Need advice
Exceeded text limit, posted on Pastebin here: http://pastebin.com/raw/g0kQfuYW

I'll include the TL;DR here:

TL;DR: Project in a very messy situation, I'm under tremendous pressure to deliver while all responsible parties are on vacation, my performance rating from 2.5 months ago was lowered after the fact, and a promotion I was told to be given was withdrawn. Advice? And are they even allowed to do that?
The communication satellites are meant to become a revenue source to find the Mars mission
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See also the 1995 US TV series "Nowhere Man", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_Man_(TV_series). The single season show is online at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6fJmjt84zZjDCMUCDmvEnUKD.... Nowhere Man was influenced by the 1960's UK TV series, "The Prisoner", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner, online for US viewers at http://www.crackle.com/the-prisoner/.

"Nowhere Man is the story of photojournalist Thomas Veil, who discovers that his life has been abruptly "erased": his friends claim not to know him, his wife claims not to recognize him and is living with another man. His ATM cards and credit cards no longer work. His best friend turns up dead. His mother, recovering from a stroke, is incapable of confirming his existence. In the course of a single evening, every trace of Tom's identity is gone."
Arthur Ganson Makes Moving Sculpture [video]
Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
Almost like we have entered an era of public shaming, where third parties either out of honest mistake or willful ignorance take things out of (unspoken) context and turn them into shit storms.
I think we'll see in the years/months ahead that Dropbox is indeed FNAC. It's only survived this long because the unit economics aren't that bad - the hardware costs are not anywhere near what O2O companies like Postmates or Instacart burn. But in the end, if they don't have any lock-in capabilities (such as collaboration features), the service won't be sticky in the face of price increases - the tech for seamless syncing across platforms is now table stakes.
> Comparing 1gbit cable to 1gbit Ethernet is like comparing a dslr and a smartphone based on their megapixels.

In both of those cases the majority of customers doesn't care about the difference.
Expose looks very impressive, and was posted here 74 days ago:

https://github.com/Jack000/Expose

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376468
> Would need at least 10 gb to each neighborhood which I doubt they have now

The backend connectivity is just a matter of exchanging the coax-fibre gateway in the roadside boxes and at the fibre terminator. No need to dig up the streets for that, and in most cases, each roadside box is connected with multiple fibre pairs so additional capacity can be deployed with ease.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong. I'm looking for a hard source, but haven't yet found it.

http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-data-breach-co...

"On Reddit, an r/technology thread about the controversy included comment from a self-identified 2008 Obama campaign staffer who claimed such breaches were both common but of limited strategic value:

"As an '08 Obama staffer who used the VAN extensively, it went down like this, "Oh, that's weird. It looks like we can pull lists from Hillary again. Hey Erin, do a quick search..." Then everyone in the office room (there were 4 total accounts who did a search) tried the search too.

Any data they pulled would not have been that useful, especially considering both campaigns use the VAN. They couldn't just turn around and re-enter the Clinton supporters as 5's, etc. That's not how it works ... The breach is a non-issue, however how it is being handled by the DNC (in addition to the way the debates, etc) is the telling issue about how undemocratic the Democratic National Party has become.""

Partway through my search I found one source, not primary, claiming that NGP VAN was not at fault, but that's it. Can anyone find anything else?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2...

"Weaver blamed the DNC and its vendor for failing to protect the data. He said the Sanders campaign contacted the DNC about an earlier firewall failure in October, and he feels “very confident” that some of the Sanders’ campaign data was lost to another campaign then. That system was not controlled by NGP VAN, the company notes."

It's interesting that essentially the same issue has happened with two different systems. Assuming the phrase "firewall failure" is meant the same way... The technical doublespeak is really starting to get on my nerves. The use of the term "firewall," it seems, is explicitly to make people think a "hacking" was done.
It's not quite "signing up", at least not in all states. Not all states have formal voting registration, but since the parties still want to have voter databases in those states, they just infer your likely party preference without you explicitly signing up. In Texas, for example, primaries are open, and you can vote in a different one in each election if you want, but not more than one in the same election. What political parties typically put in their voter databases are people who've voted in their primary in N consecutive elections, typically N=2 or 3. So e.g. if you vote in two consecutive Democratic primaries, you're likely to start getting a lot of D spam (and likewise for the Republican primaries).

But in any case the legal answer is simpler: political calls are explicitly exempt from the various no-call lists and telemarketing laws (in the U.S.), so they don't really need any justification for why they put you on the list.
Web design is certainly dead on that site.
Unless web design is about slapping visitors straight in the face with a series of irrelevant intrusive irritating adverts.
Really? It was capitalism, but not The Enlightenment, mathematics and science, or the development of egalitarian rule of law, or democracy?

Feudalism may have lifted more humans out of poverty than any other system in the history of the world at the time. It's a good thing we didn't decide to stop there. What would you have written at the time?
Is not being IPv6 really a problem? 90% of the world isn't. Comcast has the largest IPv6 network but it's deployment is dual stack so most everyone is still using IPv4.
If SpaceX is just building on existing knowledge that everyone else who cooperated with NASA has access to, then why is SpaceX so much better at rocketry than everyone else? NASA is spending 1.5-2 billion dollars per year for ~10 years to develop their expensive one-use super-heavy lift rocket, whereas SpaceX spent <1 billion in total to get to the Falcon 9. SpaceX is making the first real moves towards lower-cost launch systems, and this is a completely different (and more sustainable) achievement than going to the moon by throwing money into the spigot.
When you install un-signed code into your editor, it might as well be malware
Ebola has never been the global threat it has been made out to be. It can be controlled by simple sanitation and common sense (i.e. avoid contact with bodily fluids emanating from people with active cases of Ebola). This was demonstrated by the fact that when the virus was introduced in the U.S. it didn't spread. For Ebola to spread requires some pretty abominably lax public sanitation practices. Having a vaccine in hand is just a bonus.

Oh, there's also probably a treatment for ebola if someone can be bothered to do the study: http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/12/the-cure-for-ebola.html
Nothing is said in the abstract about type system. Anyone knows if the subject is covered?

Also, the book is from 1992, which should be added to the title.
If it was written somewhere that people's stated political ideologies are required to be comforting to others, I could have sued Alan Greenspan and Paul Ryan for millions.
Apart from this talk being good, I really want to thank the author of the points. Too many great talks on CS topics stay only in video form, which require an hour to consume, and never get a good TL;DR treatment.
That's if you're watching professional sports on TV. The article is about children playing the sport themselves, so I was referring to playing baseball vs. football or basketball, not watching endless beer/car/fantasy sports commercials interspersed with occasional gameplay.
To be fair to the computer, it did all of the hard work. The LEM was probably not controllable by a human alone. Even when the commanders selected manual mode (as they did on all but one landing), they were really just controlling the outer loop of the LEM.
This is pretty cool. People wanting a nodern Amiga experience are still best trying MorphOS. It's beautiful and runs snappy on old Macs. Cost money if you want to keep it or run for 30+ min without reboots.

Personally, I hate monocultures and oligopolies. I'd like go see a good Amiga make a comeback combined with superior tech as a differentiator. Maybe language, security, reliability, GUI... something to push things forward with Amiga part just making it interesting.
Electrospaces has better detailed analysis than anywhere else I've found on the internet, but the author also has a point of view.
You seem quite young. Did you email your AWS IAM contact and ask if that job offer is still on the table?
We focus exclusively in this book on the ‘back end’ of functional-language compilers. We make no attempt to discuss how to translate programs written in a fully fledged functional language [...] or how to type-check such programs.

(Added the year. Thanks.)
Perhaps, but many people watch Netflix, and by default Netflix consumes as much bandwidth as it can in order to stream at the highest quality available. This is going to sting for those non-teksavvy Netflix users.
Everyone should watch the documentary series "When We Left Earth".
I think the X-1 is still in the camp of furthering advanced expensive technology and pushing the boundary of what is possible, compared to SpaceX and their efforts to make space transport practical. In support of the author's theory think of the significance of the Ford Model T compared to whatever the first impractical car was.

But I don't think it's possible to judge historical significance of anything with so little hindsight available. Give it another few decades and then let's talk about what the most significant spaceflight development was.
People that play games and get 1ms latency vs 20-30ms latency within the same town/city care, and that isn't a very small market..
How Google Brought the Poop Emoji to America
This seems to pop up in different forms on HN every now and then and then the same arguments all take place in the comments so allow me to start.

As a Swede I would not want to have it any other way, and any time I'm abroad I miss the simplicity.

There are privacy issues and cost issues sure, but this is a general problem in lots of ways for most nations.
It seems to me you could make a case for either one.
Starleaf works surprisingly good
Just look at how many vids exist, even from years ago, of Hillary caught in various lies:

https://www.google.com/search?q=video+of+hillary+lying&rlz=1...
Here in Sweden most people don't carry any cash and would buy a stick of gum with their card. If you want to give someone money, you "swish" it to them. Swish is a massive smartphone app for people to people payments supported by all banks.
The Akron class airships this idea was based on used helium, not hydrogen.
Being early is the same as being wrong in aerospace just as it is for VC (i.e. Northrop YB-49, Boeing 2707, Lockheed D-21). While the Apollo program was an impressive flags and footsteps mission, it did not pave the way to a future lunar base. The Apollo astronauts were lucky to get back alive (, if you've ever looked at how many single points of failure there were on the LEM and CM, you know what I mean).
Especially if you are doing it in frequency space, all you would need to do is 1 forward FFT and n reverse FFTs.

Alternatively you can just perform a prefix sum operation and subtract each (n - k)th element from nth element for results in the kth iteration. This could be even faster.
How does this improve on the Interpreter pattern? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_pattern
Sorry, but it really isn't. Who knows what SpaceX will achieve in the next couple of years but let's not belittle the Apollo 11 achievement, given the time it was done in, the resources it took and the state of technology back then it was an absolutely amazing achievement, way ahead of what SpaceX has achieved to date.

But the future isn't quite over yet and SpaceX has one advantage, they are moving whereas Apollo 11 is frozen in time.

Calling SpaceX 'better than Apollo 11' indicates a poor understanding of the situation back then. Apollo 11 was a milestone, reusable rockets is also a milestone, but a completely different one.

I'm wondering how the author would have looked at SpaceX had the situation been reversed, in case Apollo 11 would have been the mission that allowed NASA to launch a rocket to a good bit of orbital velocity and then to capture it for re-use and SpaceX would have put a man on the moon last week. Would they still feel that the SpaceX achievement was the smaller one?
It's very common to have divorced parents. If you saw your parents go through a divorce the fear is far from academic.
Let me correct my self, there are n^2 results in total, when the algorithm ends. The naive algorithm is doing n times more work. That is redundant, because there is clearly an overlap of some partial sums.
And moreover, people who support capitalism don't get an automatic right to label socialists as "murderous" or "genocidal" simply because our revolutions kill people up front. Sure, blame us for the Holodomor and the "Great Leap Forward" (and other similar artificial famines, disease outbreaks, etc caused by bad state-socialist policy), but don't act like your hands are clean when you support a system that kills, last I remember, 49,000 people each year simply by artificially refusing to treat their diseases, and kills further millions in its endless-yet-pointless foreign wars.

I fully support having a genuine contest of ideologies to see who can kill fewer people and save more lives, with greater health and happiness! But that means we have to admit, in the first place, that capitalism kills, which is more honesty than we get out of most people in Western societies today.