skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It wasn't really NeXT that they purchased; it was Jobs.

Easy to say in retrospect. But at the time Jobs was the guy who was once ousted from Apple and hadn't done that great of a commercial job with NeXT (besides the technology they created). So there wasn't much ground at the time for Jobs to be considered as some kind of "miracle man" that will save Apple.

So, while we now can say "they purchased Jobs", I think it was mostly the allure of a turn-key next-generation OS that the needed sorely at that point that made them go into it and for half a billion.

Let's not forget that Apple had just killed Copland, and was simultaneously discussing to buy BeOS.

>And I'll note that the OS wasn't that great a deal for Apple; it took them more than 4 years to get a consumer-grade release of it together, far longer than they were predicting at the time.

Again that's in retrospect. At the moment they didn't think "we're really buying Jobs, who'll do miracles and make the company #1 in the world". They thought: "We need an OS, and this NeXT thing looks like it can be turned into the next OS version soon".

>I'd again put that down to the power of Jobs's reality distortion field, not any kind of market success.

But they weren't looking for market success. After all they didn't want to buy an existing userbase but an OS to turn into "OS 9 successor" to give their (Apple's) users and attract new ones.

So, what they wanted was a good platform for what they do. And given Apple's enterprise, dtp and graphics focus in the 90s, NeXT was pretty damn close.
Most structure from motion or monocular SLAM algorithms use some kind of feature tracking and then estimate a dense reconstruction after they optimize the locations of all the cameras and all the features.

But it's not the only way. There's one notable alternative method, which is LSD-SLAM: https://github.com/tum-vision/lsd_slam

In general, it's extremely hard to get good quality models from a cellphone camera. Believe me, thousands of innovative researchers are trying their best to make it better.
There is also a project called USBProxy[1] for BBB. It essentially aims to be transparent bridge for all USB device classes.

1: https://github.com/dominicgs/USBProxy
Well, after all these years, I think that's okay. Some people probably need to hear it a couple of times for the good news to sink in. :-)
Indeed, auditorium lectures are a terrible way to teach humanities, that's why expensive and highly selective private schools have a claim to providing a higher quality education. Those classes are taught in discussions of 18 kids and a professor around a conference table. This is expensive, but there's no reason it should be restricted to the wealth or intellectual top-10% as it currently is. Just public opposition, driven in large part by the STEM crowd.

Germany at least has a 13th grade. I expect the burden of general education is simply shifted to high schools. You can make a C average and graduate high school in the US while barely literate; I expect that's not the same in England and Australia. I know that in Germany, smart kids fail Gymnasium classes routinely: like college, to pass you have to have actually learned something. In my experience at a very good public high school in the US you had to be brain dead or not trying to make less than a C+ in most things.
Thanks for the reply and perhaps we can work together someday!

The platform I'm currently building is just to facilitate the provisioning and correlation of third party services for emergent results.

Thanks again for the info. I'll conduct more research. Cheers. :)
That's it... keep your head stuck in the sand. That'll make all the "accusations" untrue. Those wasky wepublicans. They made 40 years of lies and scandals ALL up. Every. Single. One.

I mean... being a Democrat is more important that the truth. Or more important than being an American...

Seriously though... At least BS seems to have the credibility that 'Liar'y doesn't. There is a reason Hillary is losing in credibility and trust-ability.

Blaming Republicans is like blaming Obama's falling numbers on racism: Proof that you can't stay focused on the facts and instead have to focus on the big bad boogey man.

I couldn't in good conscience ever vote for a Democrat, but I'd vote BS before 'liar'y any day of the week.
> We have statistics. We know the probable outcomes.

Yes and no. Those things are possible if we have sufficient data, but I'm under the impression the way the CIA classifies a civilian vs. a combatant is inherently biased to reflect a much brighter outlook than a rational, detailed, slower, more careful approach would (although I have no hope for such an alternative).

> but the average number of civilans killed per bomb is well known

By whom? The CIA considers (considered?) every male of combat age in certain regions an "enemy combatant" or "militant" or something similar [1]. Under that definition, only women, children, and elderly _could_ be labelled as "civilians". What incentive is there to minimize harm to combat age men who are not "enemy combatants" when they are defined as such?

The CIA (who I am under the impression controls most drone strikes in {Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia}) doesn't go collect DNA then forensically work the case for every person killed in their strikes as if there was a DNA collection of all terrorists. _They_ are the people expected to tally up the terrorist vs. civilian in your visualized scenario, yet they are the same people who refuse to distinguish between combat age males and combatants.

You seem to be arguing that there is a moral high ground in trying to limit the number of innocents killed (which I agree with), but the article is about controlling media information. Perhaps your post would have been a reply to the grandparent post.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/
Maybe they'll rewrite Hurd in Perl 6...
That's an excellent analysis of what happened.

> you have not succeeded

He failed [at political part of his job].
Why soften the blow?

> Where did I screw up that relationship?

Exactly - that should be the focus.

Change what you can change and do not focus to much on things that you can not change.

> find a position with a very strong lead developer

It's good to have a strong leader, but:

1) How do you recognize a strong leader?

2) In order to become a good leader yourself you still need practicing it. Just observing leadership in action is not enough.
You Can Always Find an Anonymous Former Employee to Trash the Founder
Thanks for reporting in on your experience - if I had an Android device handy I'd check it out .. maybe later in the week. Got any samples of your session online by chance - it might help to introduce newcomers to this fantastic tool.
Ruby and Go for the web?? Really? Not JavaScript and PHP (still). Python is old hat too it's all about Julia now :P and R is making a come back in some weird computing renaissance.
I strongly disagree with you about them being “less evil,” but even if I agreed with you, that wouldn’t invalidate what I said. Which is, there are a number of ways to compare countries X and Y, and civilians killed is a legitimate way to compare them.

“Amount of evil” is another, and we could agree, disagree, or debate it indefinitely. But in the meantime, that’s a separate category of consideration.
Fair enough but you are pointing toward employment insecurity, low salary, and other stressful work conditions - these seem to be largely functions of job skills and industry, not how many years you spent at an employer. I would probably learn more about job insecurity working 2 years as an actor off Broadway than I would in 10 years as a programmer or product manager at Google or Facebook.
Kurds march in Germany against 'Turkish state terror'
I would be more worried about a backdoored sshd in a public ami. At least authorized_keys is a known place to check.
Not sure if it was here on HN or somewhere else, but that reminds me of a story about someone finding odd conversations in his blog comments.

When he inquired the people involved about what they were doing he found them to be school kids that used the comments section of blogs as makeshift chat rooms to get around school site blockers.
Didn't quite make it by Christmas
how does convox scale when moving to non-trivial aws scenarios? if i have three autoscale groups running seven different apps with associated kinesis streams, s3 buckets, elasticache, rds and elasticsearch instances how cleanly does convox handle this? what about monitoring and reporting?
It's because of a Chrome bug that dynamically granted options will be "forgotten" after Chrome restarts if I set all urls as optional permission. In order to support GitHub Enterprise, which I cannot know the domains in advance, I have to request permission for all domains and deal with script injection myself.
Been there. You can do this, keep a minimal overhead and lifestyle and only do a few things at once. Focus.
this release is for 64bit assholes, i need 32bit
I have been doing freelancing for last 3 years and i agree with you but i think you can avail opportunity to scale your business if you are lucky to get big clients because you become a business for others and as every business man wants to scale his business so i think its solely you who can show a big picture to a client. If his business grows following your picture so as you.Its my point of view though i am not that much experienced as you are but i think that should work in this way (mutual benefits). Above all i am happy to see a post in English by an Italian :p . Its my 2nd month here in Italy and its hard to find an english speaker here. :-(
> one of the popular web frameworks

Which?
Horrid. Glorious too, but horrid all the same.
You might want to read the date on the article...
There are also quite a few Ansible core modules for EC2 if you're looking for a uniform way to manage your resources outside of the AWS GUI, although to be honest I'm not sure if that's "easier" so much as more flexible. Still solves the problem with mistake #1.
The killing of his son did bring some mild attention to the fact that US drone strike announcements call all combat age males "militants" or "combatants", even if there is no proof they are anything but civilians[1], but that news cycle was dominated with the fact that this was an unprecedented attack on a US civilian put on the kill list.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/
No. I try to stay away from it. When I can't I just let my privacy tools and ad blocker block them.
There are a bunch of decent tiling window managers on OS X but I don't know if any support a Common Lisp connection. Which one do you use on Linux, I'd like to check it out.

I've tried tiling wms in the past but they never stick for me, probably because most of my work is isolated to the browser and email, and I typically have each maximized on separate displays. I've always preferred my terminals to be backgrounded when not in use and to have all the tabs consolidated.
I don't know if the XIM works when connected to a PC, but I think in this example the PC is just a middle-man and the XIM lets you cut it out completely.
I would contest your description of the blogger as an "NSA fanboy." The blog is about secure communications equipment, so that's what he spends most of his wordcount on. It's a technical blog, not a political one.
In the eastern way there are two paths, the positive and the negative. In the positive you know what you want and strive towards it. In the negative you just do something and keep moving forward until you realize it or realize that it is not what you wanted by which time you have a few other options to pursue. Keep your ears open to reality and stay vigilant for reality to Present you with your path.
Because ISPs have made it damn hard to run servers on on consumer connections.

This is particularly a port-web phenomena, as now everyone expects to do everything via the web. And it is quite a bit more connection straining than say IRC.
Now I added a disclaimer of top. Is it clearer now?
ArcaBoard, the hoverboard nobody wants™
If you are interested in non-electronic digital computers you might want to check out this previous discussion:(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824588)

If you are particularly interested in domino logic and adders,	baddox posted this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SudixyugiX4),
petercooper posted this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuPy-r1GuQ) by Matt Parker (the same guy in this video) and I documented a 2-bit build I did (http://imgur.com/a/qq7Kl).
Stremio3.4.5.linux/Stremio-runtime: cannot execute binary file

waste of my time.

where is the 32bit release ?
This costs more than my car.
Absolutely, in hindsight there would have been different ways we could have managed the board more effectively from the start, and saved ourselves grief (and likely created even more value). At 22 y/o we lacked the experience to do this. (And don't worry, you couldn't possibly be harsher on us than we were on ourselves once the dust settled and we reflected on the whole rodeo ride.) Part of what I think incubators do well is they remove some of the crazy early stage investor dynamics that used to plague very young early stage founders who raised money from close personal networks of doctors and dentists. The experience I wrote about is from a decade ago in the early 00s. Before Y Combinator came along there was very little written about pre A angel investing.
Guess what you can do both at the same time! :D There is already a module which converts an ANTLR4 grammar into a full Perl 6 grammar which then provides a ready made parser for you :) https://github.com/drforr/perl6-ANTLR4
>A strong AI will self-improve to maximize its value function, whatever that value function is.

Really - won't it rethink its value function? Won't it dwell on the reality of being? Undertake new philosophy? Imagine arrangements and conceptualize in languages beyond the utterances of humans and human minds?

Maximizing value functions seems to me to be not intelligent.
I hadn't heard of Convox before, but it sounds interesting.

I'd like to use AWS more, but each time I tried to get into it I felt overwhelmed. I currently use PagodaBox a lot, which is great (most of the time) because it handles a lot of the complexity for me, but it can often be expensive. How does Convox compare to PagodaBox?
Believe me I did a lot of research to prevent this from happening but it failed...
This is incorrect. The October issue was not part of NGP VAN - it was with another DNC vendor that works for both campaigns, though I haven't seen anyone publish which one.

The data director (who was fired) corrected his statement on MSNBC saying “it wasn’t actually within the VAN VoteBuilder system, it was another system" [1]

I would also say that all the conspiracy theories about connections between Clinton and NGP VAN are insane. You can take any other tech company in this space and find just as many connections to the Clintons. If you've been involved in democratic politics at any point in the last two decades, chances are you can be linked back to Bill or Hillary.

That being said, I'm by no means defending the DNC's actions or saying that I think they have or have not been fair to Sanders... All I'm saying is scrounging for links between companies and Clinton is a waste of time.

[1] http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/fired-sanders-camp...
If your code is using the AWS SDK then you don't need to export an access key for your running code. Just create an EC2 Service Role in IAM with the policy you want attached to the role; then launch the instance with that role, to get automatic temporary credentials.

Refs:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use...
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles...
Ingenious. I wonder if they found serious race condition issues.
I don't see how our discussion is heated. I'm merely asking for specific examples, because reading an article about how quiet and media-averse a particular HFT firm is doesn't ring any bells in my head.
How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel
> I'm also not sure how to make the jump from exporting AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and having my instances automatically request the permissions they need - STS?

Check out instance profiles. This feature allows any AWS API-aware application to request credentials on demand, eliminating key management/rotation:

docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2_instance-profiles.html
The spokesman was incorrect, the October incident was not from NGP VAN. From their press release:

"Josh Uretsky, the former National Data Director for the Sanders campaign confirmed on MSNBC (at 5:47), and also on CNN, regarding the previous incident: 'it wasn’t actually within the VAN VoteBuilder system, it was another system.'" [1][2]

[1] http://blog.ngpvan.com/data-security-and-privacy
[2] http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/fired-sanders-camp...
> I suggest that we "loan" 2 of our current 4 people to the back-end

That was your biggest mistake.

In abstract theory, moving developers from frontend to backend might have sense, but in practice you moved developers from capable tech leader (you) to incapable tech leader (K).

So, in essence, your suggestion made these two developers to wasting their time and, ultimately, quitting in frustration.

At the time of your "loan 2 developers" suggestion did you know that K was a clueless developer/lead?
mint-search-addon tacks their referral code to searches you make using it.
Variable names can contain dashes?

Then how do you know what this means:

users=users-churn-rate*time

oh, i see ... they are prefixed with $. so it's:

$users=$users-$churn-rate*$time

Hm... still a bit confusing. But ok. It can be avoided by avoiding dashes in variable names.
Take a photo of a road sign, document, newspaper and it translates to a language of your choice, on the photo. Like Google Translate on steriods.
You cannot break grounds without permits from the city, state, and federal governments (highway, streets, poles, etc) and then you must have an agreement from the land owners to lay the fiber through the rest to the places, think apartment buildings, rental places, and so on.

After that, you then have to schedule the construction to comply with the city regulations for quiet hours, cleanup regulations, inspections, and so on.

All of that cost a lot of money that only the federal government can handle alas the highway project we did.

For an example, we could have a federal law that said every time we rebuild the roads, there should be fiber laid in. Every new house should have new fiber by default, new water/gas pipes should have fibers laid in alongside of it, and so on.

IIRC, one city in CA already requires all new house constructions to have fiber wired up.
Reposting my response from below, but the October incident was not with NGP VAN and was actually another vendor - not sure who though but I'd be interested in hearing theories.

From their press release:

"Josh Uretsky, the former National Data Director for the Sanders campaign confirmed on MSNBC (at 5:47), and also on CNN, regarding the previous incident: 'it wasn’t actually within the VAN VoteBuilder system, it was another system.'" [1][2]

[1] http://blog.ngpvan.com/data-security-and-privacy
[2] http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/fired-sanders-camp...
Front running is a technical term

You're clinging to the old definition. Pop culture has generalized the term to mean something different than it used to. It's like the word "hackers".

To throw out a bunch of cliches: that ship has sailed; you can't put the genie back in the bottle; no sense crying over spilled milk. Etc.

I urge you to progress quickly thru the five stages of grief and get to acceptance.

Of course, that's just the layman's meaning. I have absolutely no idea if the meaning of the words "front running" will ever change in a legal sense.
Both groups are acting rationally, but their behaviors are based on different premises. The "relax" group values reducing the risk of suicide, burnout, and future psychological problems. The "push harder" group is responding to the (completely real) pressures to compete that get more serious all the time, pressures that tell them their children will become part of the precarious segment of society if they don't. The former group "should" be listened to on a health basis, but their ideas suffer from a collective action problem, so the latter group is probably going to win out one way or another (even if things like homework or whatever gets banned, they can always step up things like tutoring or extracurriculars outside school.)

The latter is willing to chance suicide or psychological problems in exchange for the reduced likelihood of future career failure. I think the way to deal with a Gordian knot like this is to convince everyone that it's actually pro-career success to have people step back, pursue creative activities, etc. Convince them that:

- Napping is a productivity booster (recent article on HN talked about this one.)

- Many jobs in the future will require creativity, not just memorization or technical skills (personal chefs, gardeners, high-end nannies, pilots, publicists/marketers, artists, entrepreneurs, and tutors as Tyler Cowen and others have suggested.)

- Lack of exposure to "play" ideas will limit possible inputs that could help with everything from game and UI design to business strategies. We're in a highly specialized society, but cross-disciplinarity is becoming more important every day.

- Many jobs of the future will require both technical and social skills (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-best-jobs-now-requir...)

The single minded focus on pure academics is missing the bigger picture. The "push harders" need to learn that.
> If X says “We’re careful to minimize killing Y’s civilians,” shouldn’t we judge X by how successful it is in minimizing those casualties? Or should we say, “Oh, well, X is trying their best, so no need to keep count or compare the counts.”

Compare what to what? How do you find out how many civilians would have been killed or lived in an alternate version of history?

US killed more japanese civilians than Japan killed US civilians. This doesn't mean that US was evil and Japan wasn't. It just means that US was successful and Japan wasn't, nothing more.
acloud.guru has some pretty decent video tutorials. It was easier for me to start with those tutorials before diving into the AWS documentation.
1) Not sure - humans spent quite a while not building technological civilizations.
2) Yes, this seems to be true, although I've wondered why there are less adaptations wrt getting more through less; is a sphere the optimal configuration for a brain case - other animals seem to have done other things, humans haven't which is strange.
3) Well - arguable, the measurements are difficult as if you manage to deprive other bits of the system of power the brain stops working.
4) One wonders how many kids in rural where-ever-when-ever could have done the same if they had lucked out?
Stackoverflow was written in C# when the rest of the world had moved on to Ruby.

WhatsApp had clients written in Java against J2ME.

JaneStreet is (apparently) killing it with OCaml.

iOS apps were written in Objective-C when the rest of the world hardly even heard of that language.

This site is written in a niche dialect of Lisp.
They are, the output you're so disdainful of reflects methods even more complex than you're imagining. It's a tough problem.

The best work I've seen recently (from MIT) uses two sensors with different polarization filters to get an additional signal to help with noise rejection and surface estimation.