skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> considering they are searching for one specific image

That was not the case. They were authorized by warrant to search for the following, which I transcribed from a copy of the affidavit in support of application for warrant:

A. Personal computer hardware to include, the computer system case with internal components, motherboard, CPU, memory, etc., internal and peripheral storage devices (such as fixed disks, external hard disks, floppy disk drives and diskettes, tape drives and tapes, zip drives, optical storage devices, transistor-like binary devices, video cameras, digital cameras, cell phones, and any other memory storage devices); peripheral input/output devices (such as keyboards, mouse/track ball/pad, video display monitor); and all related cables, power cords and connections, RAM or ROM units or CD ROM; as well as any devices, mechanisms, or parts that cat be used to restrict access to computer hardware (such as physical keys and locks).

B. Computer software applications used by the computer system and any related components.

C. Computer-related documentation that explains or illustrates how to configure or use the computer hardware, software, or other related items/devices. The documentation consists of written, recorded, printed, or electronically stored material.

D. Computer-related passwords and other data security devices designed to restrict access or hide computer software, documentation, or data.

E. Digital data that may be kept on any computer related storage device listed in 'A' above. The specific data will be (or will contain or incorporate) digital video and/or image files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, any digital data related to the trading or exchange of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and any digital "user attribution" evidence to include, but not limited to, registry information, configuration files, user profiles, e-mail, e-mail address books, "chat," instant messaging logs, photographs, and correspondence (and the data associated with the foregoing, such as file creation and last accessed dates) that may be evidence of who used or controlled hte computer or storage medium at a relevant time.

F. Photographs of the interior and exterior of the listed residence.

G. Papers showing dominion and control.

H. Any other evidence of the crimes of RCW 9.68A.070, to include but not limited to videotapes, books, magazines, catalogs, photographs, film, diaries, or other documents pertaining to the possession or dealing of child pornography, to include printed material documenting any communication with other persons regarding the trading or exchange of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Serverless Buffer App clone
That sounds like the underlying problem at heart and is why I started down the path of being more customer facing (combined with getting quickly tired of all the nerd stereotype personalities as my immediate coworkers). The reward for incompetence and the perception-driven careers that is so common with professional managers is a slap in the face to everyone that not only are under them but to those that have to live with the consequences of their negligence. There are some that get kicked down, but typically they'll just find another sucker and continue on and on with self delusion that they've actually brought any value besides some vague association with some rich people to the company.

The problem that really bugs me as well as a lot of others is perhaps more deep-seated - that the popular kids from high school really do win anyway and become your bosses, and stories like Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates where smart, technical people can get ahead of the incompetent but very personable charlatans are becoming less and less common. That confidence / arrogance really are enough to succeed (many do work hard but so do the majority of technical workers too with almost none of the rewards) in the eyes of US society is a lingering thought.
I live in a place with a slightly higher COL and make about that with no benefits. I also have about 4 years experience. Some people just make shitty career choices or don't get lucky/unlucky.
No, not really. I love my cousins over in Ceph-land, that's for sure, but asynchronous but fully ordered replication across data centers is not in their feature set. At the RADOS level replication is synchronous, so it's not going to work well with that kind of latency. At the RGW level it's async, but loses ordering guarantees that you'd need for something like this. Replicating the highest-level operations you can tap into - in this case git operations rather than filesystem or block level - is the Right Thing To Do.
Code-generating away the boilerplate in our migration back to SpiderMonkey
I think phrasing it as "also now include CommonMark" is a little misleading, it has been around for a few years now and the entire goal is to take the quotes off of the "standards" to actually have a Markdown specification. The drivers behind it also include (IIRC) GitHub and StackExchange.

That said, I did not notice the "GitLab Flavored Markdown" in the story link but I'll be fairly disappointed if it is actually "yet another Markdown pseudo-standard" and not CommonMark.
The problems you describe sound like communication issues, not technical issues. Specifically, it sounds like you have a real problem with asking for help when you need it. Your time might be better spent reading a book on effective communication or perhaps taking a course at a local community college.
Justinmind New Release: an enhanced prototyping experience
Load Balancing of WebSocket Connections
Nothing better than seeing a picture on paper, that's the memory I want to look at.
Migrating from Objective-C to Swift
Pastalog: Simple, realtime visualization of neural network training performance
Islamophobia, Refugees, and Islamic Apologists
Good advice here -- and even better links to more useful articles. Thanks.
Ask HN: Looking for Feedback on Heroku for Live Streaming Idea
Hi HN,

I have been looking into creating a Heroku for Live Streaming.

The idea is that anyone can setup and streaming node and then our infrastructure will handle all the transcode and CDN for the event. Unlike others this service would only charge you for the time and data used and have no monthly fees.

Some other key features are:

Analytics:
We give detailed analytics about who watched, where and if and when they dropped out along with a host of other data points.

Chat:
Viewers can chat live along with the content and the user streaming gets the transcript with their analytics.

Tickets:
You can ticket the stream if you wish, either free tickets so that you can fix costs or paid which will allow the user to generate revenue.

I am very interested to find out people's thoughts on this and anything that may be missing or I have over looked. We are currently testing the service with artists in the music industry but the service can be used for any event. Below is the URL which for more info.

www.videowookie.com

Thanks
How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution
Lead is actually not that cheap. Lead ingots are $6/pound (at McMaster), while steel is $.50/pound (from Alibaba, but that's a minimum purchase of 1 ton). Scrap lead is around $.40/pound, versus steel at $.02/pound. The cheapest thing would probably be rock/concrete, or water.
outdoor statues
Very cool, thank you! Definitely going to be checking this out tonight.
You are correct! If you're just colocating, you need your own people to manage your gear. Dedicated equipment is managed by the service provider.

Disclaimer: Provided hosting services for ~8 years.
But what about artworks at/near streets?
Ask HN: How do I monetize an online social community
A partner and I have a social media group that has about 15k members and growing and is a very active community. People post things to sell, local news, pictures, and have discussions. We're not sure how we should go about monetizing this. We're thinking driving the traffic from there to a website where we can advertise for businesses and have an area where people can post in a hacker news type forum. We'd also think we could promote particular events, special deals and even sponsor local events ourselves. We'd also have some type of newsletter.

I'm helping him with the tech stuff, he's had the community, and would be driving most of the business/customers/revenue, while I'd handle the tech stuff, and after the initial setup, I dont think I'd have much work. He mentioned a 25% split of profits with him getting 75% of the profits. Do you think that's fair?

Any thoughts on how we should handle this and take advantage of the community we've built? What do you think I should ask for regarding the split? I don't have to much leverage as he could always use a different tech or outsource most of the work, although I don't think he has the money to spend. I just want it to be fair when it's all said and done.
That's because there is often a social (status signaling) benefit to disparaging Southerners in many parts of the US. Particularly in coastal, urban areas.
Actually, it is the reverse. It is the database (ie. the map) that was found to be illegal. The photos contained within are not. And if they were not assembled into a database, they would all be perfectly legal. This is even explicitly mentioned in the court decision (in swedish): http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Mer-om-Hogsta-domstolen/Nyhete...
That's a reasonable optimization, but wouldn't help much with runtime, since you aren't traversing any of it, but rather opening with full paths. I suppose it might make backups, or some sort of monitoring more efficient.
Cities like SF and NYC should receive far more Federal money than they currently do for infrastructure projects. For decades, they've pumped billions of dollars out of their areas in Federal taxes that could dramatically improve quality of life. Invest in services for your most prosperous areas and magnify the impact of that investment -- Much of it will come back in the form of future taxes guaranteeing a decent multiplier on the spending.
Idris. Really interesting language exploring dependent types for practical programming, but not yet production ready.
What is more depressing than OP is the HN crowd agreeing or saying how "programming is a dead job" and "it's easy" (see @okyup's comment).

These are what you call script kiddies who create CRUD apps and pretty UIs. I'll probably get downvoted by the hoards of script kiddies. I mean c'mon, these are the same kids ranting about how their world coming to an end with the whole left-pad fiasco.
Having multiple monitors is pretty much the main reason I still prefer working from home with my desktop. I'd love to sit myself down in a coffee shop and work for a few hours but I find my productivity is significantly less without my multi-monitor setup.
Going from iOS to Android is easier than going from Android to iOS. Learn iOS first.
I'm not saying it was painless. Citizens were affected and probably still are affected, my envy was about the decisiveness of their political parties, that at those grave times didn't resort to popularism to rise to power, but instead almost all the parties agreed and now are free from IMF et al.

About the savings of their citizens, you're right, I would do that as well, and wonder why they didn't do it, like just "print" an IOU or something for the citizens that got the haircut up to some limit.

On the other hand Greece went through everything but the traditional haircut of the savings. Continuously new increased and "temporary/emergency" taxes, enforced capital controls and we are way longer in crisis. All this time and sacrifices and still only two of the minor socialist parties (one of which wasn't even in the parliament) joined forces (probably for survival reasons and not for the "good" of the country).

I personally have some hope which was reduced from the last elections' results. But the problem is the people that keep choosing to blame everyone else and take the seemingly easy way out. What do you do then? Pray for a Messiah starts to look like the more realistic option. /f
For me, the combination of the experiences of the people I've met/heard from firsthand which I feel enough subjective similarity to does provide a contributing weight to my decision making process, alongside a really shifting number of personal judgments and extrapolations. In this instance, this has made me more willing to seek out/accept a management position to see if I can address similar feelings of powerlessness that he expressed.

(To respond to the child since the respond window isn't up yet and I'm about to go heads down on some stuff, it certainly is a matter of "this is a push", that's what I mean when I say I weight it alongside other things, it tipped the balance meaningfully. As to why I give it this weight, it's another entirely subjective judgement that as I said earlier enough statements he makes echoing with me)
Story of my life right there. The standard library will take you a long ways in web dev (specially in prototyping), but ultimately needs a lot of improvement that the community made in the form of 3rd party packages.
Yeah, in "Person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul" there's the deeper category "smiler" which contains the categories "smirker" and "simperer". Some of the images are (note: my idea was to link to the images directly, but it isn't loading, so I had to take a screenshot and upload to imgur):

* http://i.imgur.com/Wex6pSR.png

Which I say is pretty much what you'd need to train a net to detect people smiling (amongst other things). Of course, there are some refinements you can make to improve accuracy and presentation of the results. My point was: you should begin with datasets that are readily available, and then improve on need (and if resources are available to justify the investment).
What size is the Cloudflare cache on the Free and Pro plans?
Heh. I was surprised that somebody mentioned/linked to source code details of hot pruning etc.. Then I noticed it was you Peter ;)
The Programmer's Price (2014)
Only the physical products need to be in french. The reason behind this is that an employee that doesn't know a word of english has to be able to use all the tools without having to ask for a french version (a french speaking employee in a workplace where the management is english speaking may get discriminated against otherwise).

My keyboard is french, but its layout is english and so is my OS and all my softwares. However, I had to change the language myself since everything come out of the box as french.
No, it is the act of pooling images into a database that is the issue. According to the court including the copyleft licensed photos in the database creates value that the creators then have a claim on.

It is however from the ruling not clear exactly how the photos and metadata create value; for instance it seems clear like just hosting all the offending images on a separate service and naming them with guid:s will be perfectly fine so long as the user has to navigate and find the image themselves.

Ruling: http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgo...
This is kind of an extension of the "throw more hardware at poor performance"... but its throwing more bytes at bad code ;)
If artist are concerned about copyright, then they should make art that can't be copied; take some comfort in knowing Banksy agrees with me, though even then, I'm still have the same opinion.
Finally: dock your Unity launcher an the bottom of your desktop
Edward Snowden lambasts Cameron for sudden privacy u-turn
IP rights are most likely heals in the Netherlands. Possibly in Belgium or Luxembourg.
Street View depicts other things than building. The following example is almost certainly illegal:

https://goo.gl/maps/3KCxh5LRs3B2
Tax records.
Above all, observe the #1 Rule of Business, similar to the #1 Rule of Dating: Always Be Successful. Then his choice would have worked out well no matter which path he would have taken.
Random chat game – Wordlusion
I don't take pictures. But I like them. I'm still waiting for the vacation-album app - where I just photobomb other people on vacation, then on Facebook it finds all those pictures from other people that I'm in (maybe using my location-info history from my phone) and makes me an album!
Stopping work on Water Tunnel #3? That's not good.

Does NYC have water meters yet?
I was with him until the pseudo-babble about auras and energy.

And it occurs to me: that situation was self-selected for those people.
See, some folks are not really capable of the perception effort required to really look at something. To experience it fully. But they can buy a camera.

Just go somewhere else. They apparently travelled through wonderful countryside to get there - just stop! Barns are not rare, and many are made on the same plan.
You are the first person who ever described the lawyers' dog-eat-dog up-or-out competition for parter as "socialism" -- unless you meant it as a sarcastic analogy to Chinese Communist Party
no allergens

Nightshade allergy includes tobacco.
IIRC the LAB color space was originally based off of empirical data from studies conducted on actual peoples' perception.
Court Decision on Recording Police Erodes First Amendment – Inviting Violence
Exactly my feelings after reading the article. He's either not making smart investments or not investing for retirement at all.
> The first group would have the entirety of their grade based on the creativity of a single piece they submit. The second group was graded on only the total number of pounds of clay they threw.

I feel like that works partly because an important part of practice the feedback loop between continually practicing and having a sense of whether you did well or not.

Your strategy of not evaluating your own work sounds a bit like mushing clay into shapes with a blindfold on and then tossing it in kiln before you even check whether or not it's shaped like a pot. The users can sort through them later!

If the end goal is just ending up with a volume of work that's been culled down to the better ones, I guess you still get that. But it's inherently different from the Thinking Fast and Slow example where they're in a class and the goal is to learn and get better, rather than see who's made the nicest pot by the end of the semester.
18 Things Unusually Productive People Do Every Morning
Not just dealing with people but it's a waste, why become sometimes at best a mediocre manager when you are already a decent developer.
Right, but wouldn't the Facebook sum total of photos be considered such a database? Or indeed Google Image search?
If you however create a group on facebook and collect photos of statues there along with comments about them on each photo, FB would presumably be liable since I don't think its the sort of thing they prohibit in the ToS.
Novices also tend to gravitate towards "end-game" business metrics which have a lot more inherent variation than simple operational indicators.

For example - optimizing a content site for AdSense; many folks would gravitate to AdSense $$ as the target metric, which is admittedly an intuitive solution (since that's how you're ultimately getting paid).

But if you think about it....

AdSense Revenue =>

(1 - Bounce Rate) x Pages / Visit x % ads clicked x CPC

Bounce rate is binomial probability with a relatively high p-value (15%+), thus you can get statistically solid reads on results with a relatively small sample.

Pages / Visit is basically the aggregate of a Markov chain (1 - exit probability); also relatively stable.

% ads clicked - binomial probability with low p-value; large samples becomes important

$ CPC - so the ugly thing here is there's a huge range in the value of a click... often as low as $.05 for a casual mobile phone click or $30 for a well qualified financial or legal click (think retargeting, with multiple bidders). And you're usually dealing with a small sample of clicks (since the average % CTR is very low). So HUGE natural variation in results. Oh, and Google likes to penalty price sites with a large rapid increase in click-through-rate (for a few days), so your short term CPC may not resemble what you would earn in steady-state.

So while it may make ECONOMIC sense to use test $ RPM as a metric, you've injected tremendous variation into the test. You can accurately read bounce rate, page activity, and % click-through on a much smaller sample and feel comfortable making a move if you're confident nothing major has changed in terms of the ad quality (and CPC value) you will get.
So you say, as long as they implement "statue and art blurring" similar to what they have now for faces and license plates?

Sometimes I don't envy those engineers :p
>disproportionately impact the impecunious – the almost-certain forthcoming hike in T fares looms large in my anxieties right now – but I am a professional with an advanced degree and possession of the shibboleths of the professional class

This actually hurt to read. It sounds like an excerpt from a Nabokov novel.

(Don't get me wrong, Nabokov is a fantastic writer. But there is a time and place for writing like that, and this is not one of them.)
So why not elucidate on the themes of the essay, explaining how they play out racially? This will nicely illustrate that it is a mistake to announce derailing topics.

All you've done is complain about it (i.e., derail).
I remember having to interpret between an Ulsterman and an Afrikaaner, both of whom were nominally speaking English but to mutual incomprehension.
It would stop working if you did it NOW. That's irrelevant to the point that that's how JS should have worked from the beginning. Also, they can add these semantics to JS now too with a new type of strict mode without breaking anything.

As for how painful it would be, your claim is a total fabrication. Other dynamically typed languages are a pleasure to program in without implicit coercions everywhere. JS is widely considered a pain. Coincidence it is not.
This kind of systems/algorithims also allows to asign a certain semantic component to images (with a grain of salt, of course), which might enable further developments that weren't considered posible yet.

Sadly, it also brings another complete set of cases to the oh-so-anoying "but Facebook/Google/Twitter/Amazon does it!" clichés that we'll now have to deal with...
I don't think you are articulating your point very well, and the last bit seems to be veering towards ev-psych nonsense.

Can you clarify what you are trying to say?
The frustrating fact in technology is that your career is pretty much a lottery. I know people I went to undergrad with who lucked into the right company and are now independently wealthy. Most of the rest of us are still slogging away, having worked for a string of non-rocketships. Nobody at that time (late 90s) knew which company would mean early retirement, and which ones would go bust. It was a total crap shoot.

Try browsing the "Who's hiring" threads here. If you're looking to join a start-up, 99% of them are companies you've never heard of. One of them will be the next Facebook, and if you go work for it, you'll end up set for life--but there's no way to know and chances are you're going to pick one of the many who will go bust or just sputter around without making money for a few years.
You can't be all things to all people. I realize businesses want the perceived efficiency but it's a trade-off not a productivity gain. You it's hard to be great a two jobs at the same time. Programming and Management require work "at work" and outside of work.