skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are complementary. I use the suite with Lightroom all the time. In general I find them super easy to use and they get me the results I want.
and not having to take the damn bus is worth at least $10/day to me.

So I'll keep driving.
How to Crack RC4 Encryption in WPA-TKIP and TLS
Although, in fairness, misuse-resistance is a theme of EdDSA.
Yeah I'm gonna leave a reply here just in case I need to find this again (already opened tabs, but you never know). This might be big for a stalled project at work. If this can un-stall that, I'll sure owe you a beer ;)
There's a lot of truth to the information in the posting, but remember this is from the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, which has ties to Koch industries. They often like to use examples of bad government for justification to roll back government programs that help the average citizen in favor of corporate rule, not just the bad ones that hurt everyone.
$Companies have a tendency to say what will get them the sale, or even include features initially... and then fail to come through with their promises.

So it is a breath of fresh air to see this happen.
Silicon Valley's defense of inequality
Hmm. First off, you do not really know if senators read letters or pay attention to phone calls or blog posts or not.

Second, my feeling is if someone sits down to think about an issue, writes a letter and stamps their name on it, then they probably become more informed and involved in discussion than another guy who just ticks a box on a petition. This informed person can go on to discuss the issue with friends or form his/her own local group. So, writing letters to senators is useful, even if it is just a first step or means to an end.

Nobody needs to change their opinion as a result of my letter. I wouldn't respect them if they did so without consideration. So (2) is irrelevant.

I didn't intend to clash with you, I'm just stating my opinion which is a bit different than yours. It's perfectly fine if you want to say writing letters is useless. I feel differently.

If you sit back and assume your district is already modeled, etc etc, then you are not participating in democracy and you have not seen for yourself who else out there might agree with you. The most important things about democracy are your vote and your voice. One without the other holds much less strength.
Looks like they do have one:
https://www.digitalocean.com/help/policy/
Cygwin can't run binaries compiled for non-Windows systems, can it?
For the "dialect" of spanish that we speak in Argentina, Watson misses every single word. So, to me, CMUSphinx is valuable in that it allows me to tweak it, while IBM miserably fails at every word. Must've been trained with Spain or Mexican "neutral" spanish.

Googles engine also works fine (have been trying it with the phones), but the pricing may or may not be a deal breaker.
Privacy.com
This site uses a weak security configuration (SHA-1 signatures), so your connection may not be private.

They not even using a secure signature for their SSL Cert and they want to be your trusted payment proxy?
it is typical example of corporate self-contradiction - a splurge, on CFO in this case, as a first step to 'financial discipline'. Like inviting a wolf to teach and promote vegetarianism.

I remember how Sun killed Wednesday donuts as basically a centerpiece of 'financial discipline' back then. Another remarkable act was to allow business class for a given person only after meeting some threshold of travel - you can guess how it played out - yea, people were basically 'forcing' themselves to fly more (and not to Alaska or Antarctica) to meet the threshold :)
Sad it's paywalled.
Can you use it with non-Steam games?
That's fair, if you're doing something illegal that may result in a subpoena, this is not the product for you.

However, that doesn't mean what we're doing isn't meaningful. We just think that you just shouldn't have to share your personal info with a random merchant you want to buy something from.

This notion that passing along your billing info is going some how substantially cutting down on fraud is ridiculous. It's anti-privacy in the guise of being anti-fraud.

And yes, it's fair, if you skip out on a gym contract, you do risk getting taken to collections. We're mostly talking more about the ticky tack, deceptive recurring billing fraud. We can do better. We'll make the language clearer on our home page.
No, in the second step, you compile your personal selection of filters from all filters that are available.

This may not be clear enough in the description. Sorry!
>Finally, I am very skeptical of their claim about walking away from subscriptions and trials. Sure, in theory, you make it much harder for vendors to track you down, but by law, you're agreeing to pay for the company's services when you accept their agreement.

I am not sure about this. One could argue that you by signing up for the recurrent payment (or the free trial with automatic payed renewal), you merely consented for the company to automatically sell you another months subscription. If they are unable to do so, then they have every right to cancel your subscription, but it is not obvious that they have any right to require you to buy it. This becomes even more clear when you relize that, even if you used your real card, you would still be able to cancel before they charge you, and they would have no recourse.
In some places the law says to drive in a reasonable and prudent manner. Driving above the speed limit is only evidence that the driver is speeding, but is not necessarily illegal.
They also missed the hilarious saga of the Crystalline cipher.
I have no experience with Hortonworks, but Cloudera certainly tries hard, even though it too has plenty of issues, but then the whole "Hadoop Echosystem" is in such fast-moving flux, it's understandable.

Cloudera also makes (Apache Licensed) Impala, which IMHO is a pretty cool product.

Another company worth mentioning is Databricks, which leads Apache Spark development.
Precisely. Both google drive and youtube have the potential to be businesses that are each on their own as influential, as important, and as profitable as google is in its entirety currently. But google doesn't have the drive, or the need, to put in the work to make them such. Instead they just sort of piddle along with half-assed improvements as time goes by. And really at some point some other competitor is going to put enough of its own pieces together to eat google's lunch and then they'll be on the sidelines. Google is only unassailable because the rest of the industry is even more dysfunctional, not because it's so strong. That's also true of Apple and facebook and Microsoft and so many other tech giants.
Losing money is fine (you don't make money off of your car right?). The important thing (at least on the economics) is looking at whether it costs more for everyone to own a car, or for everyone to pay for trains, or the right mix (with other transit options).
These things are going to happen anyways, a feature of anti-fragile systems is that they can handle and deal with volatility and stressors, so we're going to be fine.

The easy times can't always be in, and you will never catch the next good times if you're not in it well beforehand.
Glide 0.10.0 – Vendoring, Gom imports, and more
I'm not convinced todo lists are a good long term solution. Short term if you've got more things to do than you can easily keep in mind then they are good but longer term you're better off automating or simplifying life so you don't have the issue, perhaps.
Since the move to open source, more recent upstream changes have been slowly merged in the code base, though they seem to be still on a 8.3 base, still a couple of years worth of code to go through.
That's a reasonable use case for Houdini, yes. But I also think that if that's the goal CSS Paint and CSS Compositing should be redesigned...
It is basically incompatible with both Open Source and Free Software definitions. ie:

"6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition

and

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition
I felt it was time reasonably well spent.
The euphemism treadmill is infinite.
>> the PostGIS extension is GPL

But then it doesn't really belong or aim to be in PostgreSQL proper, at least IMO, so I think that's fine.

The functionality (i.e. distributed processing and horizontal scaling) that Citus has done is something that I predict will eventually be part of standard PostgreSQL, but it will not be Citus's code (unless they change the license, of course).
Of those I've only played Threes. I do not question your self report, but it's likely that there's a big difference in how we enjoy games, because for me there's an immense chasm between the quality and the experience of any Metroid game and a game like Threes. From my perspective it would be like someone comparing a home cooked meal to a tic-tac.

That said, You Must Build a Boat looks pretty neat, I grabbed a copy and will check it out.
Where do you get 11% state tax from? Every California state income tax calculator I've seen for $150k-200k puts it at around 7.4% - 8% (sliding scale due to how California state taxes work).

Not the lowest taxes still, but I'm bewildered as to where does some of this myth of the 10+% state income tax comes from.
"Whenever I pause to think about surveillance and other activity of the sort that is aimed at stifling peaceful, ideological movements and groups it gives me a chill."

They fear the political awakening of the masses of the world.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137
Ask HN: UK Based API for Payouts
I'm currently working on a UK startup and i'm struggling to find a solution for easily paying out my clients.

We need to pay our clients every 2 weeks, and our only solution at this moment is to manually send payments via online banking. Batch payments are limited to 50 accounts and every new account needs to validated via the pin-entry system which is very slow.

We expect to have a quick increase and payouts having to pay over 100 people with different amounts and the process currently is slow and time consuming and i’m trying to find a way around it. I’ve had several calls with my bank and several departments with no success.

Does anyone know a UK api/service that can help me achieve my goal so we can create e custom system for paying out using sort-code and account number?

We bank with Barclays.

Thank you.
Are people who live in low-density suburbs generally well off financially? Aren't people who are well off financially happier?
Minio, S3 Compatible Object Storage Server 4 DigitalOcean in HA fashion.
If he really wanted a higher calibre for tests than for product, he could offer 10% more salary for test engineers, and let the test engineers be the interviewers. May be detrimental for business. But he'd get his top notch engineers in test.
I'd do it if you offer equal or better pay as your other positions, and you were in Sydney. I was the tech lead who introduced concepts such as code reviews, jenkins, unit testing, code coverage into the company, so I have some experience in that regard. I thought about asking if you'd hire remote but the time difference is too much. Your challenge looks like a fun afternoon otherwise.
US infrastructure construction is routinely 3 - 10x more expensive [1][2][3] on a like-for-like basis compared to other developed nations. This is one of the biggest facts that even well educated people seem completely unaware of, despite it foundationally shaping the debate around infrastructure investment.

The primary cause appears to be the way the US solicits and manages infrastructure projects which leads to massive bloat and inefficiency.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...

[2] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

[3] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-08-26/u-s-taxpaye...
Thanks so much for the reply. It is good to hear it from someone with info from both sides. I am cautiously optimistic :)
Vultr – Redesigned website
That would require a musical number, with at least a ... division of Cub Scouts singing "Found A Peanut."
What. The. Hell.

Amazing.
Ultimately, isn't this just saying "currying might be great if it was syntactically different from function calls"? JSX is just a hack to make that happen with today's JavaScript tech... It feels like a red herring to focus on it.
It's a useful instict that when properly used is very good. First if your gut is telling you something you must reason:is this something I've created all in my head? Or is this a reasonable feeling? Weigh both rationally and decide which is most likely the reason for your intuitions. If it proves to be irrational and caused by your own unreasonable thoughts and or feelings dismiss it. If it proves reasonable and not just irrational thinking then listen to your intuitions. Intuitions or gut feelings don't lie trust yourself!
I don't hate it, but a big problem for me is that the editing seems to produce quite low-quality output, at least in the Android app (maybe it's better if you use the web version?). For the use-case of cropping/editing photos and sharing low-res versions on Twitter it's not very noticeable, but I was very surprised when I looked at one of my edited photos in higher res and it had a bunch of really grating artifacts, that weren't in either the original, or a similar edit reproduced in gimp.
A very unusual move and likely to lose them some customers. Some of them will cough up money and I suspect many will leave. I wonder if this was in response to abuse? At least they didn't waste the opportunity to try to move people over to their Google Docs competitor.
Toronto aims to lure U.S. tech talent with mention of ‘divisive’ politics
Perfectly put. To me, intuition means "actually understanding the concept". Sometimes we understand incorrect things, which should be removed, but we have to go beyond fragile, memorized facts.
You misunderstand puritanism, it has many tentacles that have stretched to many corners of american culture. It still has a strong presence in our standards of media "decency" where abominable violence is fine but naked bodies, eroticism, or rough language is clamped down on to an extreme degree. It also has lots of little weird echoes and side-effects. Consider, for example, the way that overly happy, "bubblegum" pop music is denigrated, especially by those who think that valuing "sophisticated" and "mature" music (whether it's classical, prog rock, speed metal, or what-have-you) is important. Or look at the legal prohibitions against drug use and sex work. Or look at the modern trend, especially online, of ironic detachment.

There's very much an undercurrent of looking at pure, unfiltered exuberance, enthusiasm, and enjoyment through a skeptical, dour, or peevish lens. The fact that people enjoy looking at porn in private doesn't change that.
I think this pretty much says it all:

> a short, relatively linear experience like ours

If you want to make money, don't do that.
At worst, Microsoft researchers are guilty of not being familiar with internet racism. Hardly a great sin.
Cloud rot.
Wow, the San Fransisco budget is around double the entire state budget for Oklahoma. If San Fran can't keep up its infrastructure with about 2x the budget per capita in around .3% of the land area, they're doing it wrong.
crypto is less CS than Applied Math . When I was graduated, there was no such thing as a CS degree - it was called Applied Math. But even then, most Applied Math didn't require very sophisticated math. Crypto does.
This is unfortunate, but all too common among so-called "unicorn" startups.

Often its their willingness to take big chances that gets them to the top of their market. But once they get there (especially after going public) the "adult supervision" takes over and they lose what made them successful in the first place almost as soon as the finance professionals or sales people take over.

I'm not sure why it's so hard to understand that technology companies should be run by technology professionals. Would anyone walk into a hospital and suggest that it should be run by someone other than a doctor?

Of course any successful tech company should employ finance professionals, but they should help the company achieve its mission, not define the mission.
How to build a tech remote team?
Some of my friends want to explore their tech team, they are considering to have a remote team in East Asia like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan.
Looking for advisement here.

Thanks!
Well I guess if you don't like the reflection get rid of the mirror.

And on a side note I really pity MSFT legal team they must have been sweating shrapnel when Tay went 4Chan.
Down-voted because people find it romantic living on cereal and a friends couch, all while having employees completely satisfied being paid in equity and high fives.
The cereal thing was a bit out of desperation having "maxed out a binder full of credit cards and racked up tens of thousands of dollars in charges." Probably not the ideal way to go. Though testament to the guys resourcefulness.

I'm not sure having several $100k to start, selling other stuff or pitching at disrupt are very good routes to startup success. The thing that seemed to work for Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft was building cool stuff first on almost zero budget.
While I'd agree that the modern espionage-industrial complex is not motivated by old-fashioned Puritanism in the historical sense, it certainly does have roots in the sort of naive moral authoritarianism (which we call small-p puritanism) that political and religious figures have exploited to great effect in American society since Anthony Comstock and before. The creation of US security services like the FBI and CIA and the cultures they engendered owe a great deal to people like J Edgar Hoover who had a keen sense of this kind of puritanism, and accumulated a great deal of power by leveraging it.
I'm not a pianist but I can tell the difference between the best sampled piano synths and a real piano so there's no doubt a pianist can too. Of course it's better than nothing but a musician could prefer living far from work than not having a real piano at home.
You didn't read my post. I said O(2^N) which means basically computationally intractable for large N and even if Moore's law were to continue indefinitely it would still be computationally intractable for large N. O(N^2) problems, on the other hand, are far more approachable by software.
Not that anyone is going to be convinced of anything here, but...

Car: $11,600

http://bellingham.craigslist.org/cto/5494584275.html

Taxes/tags: $1,500

Gas: $150/mo (100,000 miles @ 25mi/gal @ $2.50 gal over 6 years) = $10,000

Maintenance: $250/year * 6 years = $1,500

Insurance: $600/year * 6 years = $3,600

2 sets of 65k mile tires: 2*600 = $1,200

sell the car @140k miles: -$2,000

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5488481558.html

Total: $27,400 or $0.274/mi
You'd be surprised.

My son, and the daughters of a friend of mine, have always preferred to watch me play games that they could play themselves: I'd happily hand them the controller. In this case, their excuse is that I am better at the games than they are, so instead of being frustrated by, say, a Zelda puzzle, or some of the harder sections of a Mario game, they get to see someone that has been playing these games for over 20 years. When they see how much worse they are, they are just not mentally ready for doing so much worse. I get better results getting them to play simpler games: Less Mario, more Kirby.

Now that they are old enough to be trusted with youtube, they watch people play in youtube, when they have the exact same game! Often the excuse is that if a part is boring, they can just skip to the next video, but when a game feels padded, they can't.

If I was designing games today, I'd pay a lot of attention to this phenomenon: Before we had complaints of piracy, used games, rentals and such. Now, if your game is not any more fun to play than it is to watch, people WILL WATCH!

It's very hard for That Dragon, Cancer, because it's more of a linear experience with limited gameplay than a traditional game: Watching and playing isn't very different. But going after the ads of channels that play your game is not impossible, and is probably their only choice, other than just being OK with people watching without paying.
Ask HN: Image/video recognition, what's the status quo and application?
I'm just curious in this field, but don't know where to start to look at after a few tries on google. So perhaps I simply have not found the right terminologies to start.

The specific applications I'm interested in is motion recognition (e.g., finding out the form of athletes is more efficient).

My uneducated guess is there should be some way to recognize an image first and video recognition is to process a sequence of images.

Thanks in advance.
Why not? In a former life, I used such pianos.

The "make it sound like a wood-and-felt-and-wire piano" issue is solved. The "make the key action feel like a physical piano" is (based on my extensive side-by-side testing) close enough to solved that -if one's concerned about bothering the neighbors with the sound of your playing and one has the money- purchasing a good model is a no-brainer.
>>But the identification problem isn't unique. It's true of every crime there is. Criminals don't come with tags labeling them as a terrorist or a murderer or a pedophile.

Correct. But terrorism (inspired by hate ideology or religion) is significantly different in a very important respect from other crimes you mentioned; that is, the terrorist(s) generally find support and shelter amongst large number of otherwise normal citizens inspired/driven by the hate ideology or religion whereas a murderer or a pedophile generally doesn't find such shelter.
That's why

>>You're kind of making my point. Cancer kills way, way more people than terrorism. Why are we spending more resources fighting terrorism than cancer?

No, I am NOT making your point. I gave the cancer example to point out the problem of identification. But I am not entirely against you here. You may say that we must spend some more resources to fight cancer but if you say we must curtail on mass surveillance and other anti-terrorism measures to do cancer fight then I don't agree.

>>And mass surveillance has a huge cost in privacy and in money and in security itself.

Privacy is important but NOT as important as survival itself.
Entire Yahoo Board Would Be Ousted If Starboard Value Gets Its Way