skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to build your own streaming “Nest Cam”?
I am attempting to build my own home monitoring system, to learn more about computer vision/image processing. Need some help on the hardware side - i.e. which camera to use for streaming to a custom IP?

Would love to learn if you built such a system before or can point to some useful resources?
About the fact that you miss events, I found the following website really useful: http://carpediem.cd/ (no https access)

They scrape Facebook events, allowing you to browse them without a Facebook account. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing.
However, what I haven't figured out yet is if this is actually an evil-Facebook issue or just a user issue.

I have a side rant that has been bubbling in me for a long time on this issue. My city's alternative weekly paper, The Dallas Observer, switched from Livefyre to Facebook's commenting system about two years ago. Livefyre was bad but the Facebook comment system is worse. With Facebook forcing "real" people accounts, comments plummeted on stories that presented alternate takes on local stories that didn't fall into line with the Dallas Morning News's traditional power structure patriarchs (mostly land developers).

The editor's suggestion to people that wanted to comment on a story without using their "real name" was to create a separate Facebook account. Un-fucking real.

My conspiracy theory is that The Dallas Observer, and probably all Village Voice Media properties, were promised better exposure in Facebook user's news feeds if they used the Facebook comment engine. Seems like a devil's bargain to me.

I put the Facebook comment system squarely in the evil-Facebook pile.
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It's more like the Polish Acquisition.
TIL that reporting on the potential conflicts of interest in a sources comments are signs of political hackery.
"Liberal" doesn't mean left, though. What's 'left' about big business? Or capitalism? Just because "liberal" ideas are frequently found around leftist ones, it doesn't mean that leftism is liberal, nor does it mean that liberalism is leftist.
Not to hard to understand, i think, its bureaucracy, incremental changes and not dealing with the technical debt from the changes, having a farm of coders that just need to check off the that requirements were met.

Now add a continuous stream of revenue and the only people that notice or care are technically oriented people.
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> Not everything on the internet needs to be public (or part of the "open web" as the article calls it).

Indeed, and since the beginning of the web there have been ways to create private content. The old-fashioned solutions give real control to the user.

> Facebook is a fantastic place for web content that isn't meant to be public.

Not really, because: a) you have no control over the platform -- the notion of private can change on a FB's whim and there is nothing you can do -- and b) you have no control over whom your content actually reaches, FB's opaque algorithm does.

> Is Facebook actively encouraging this web breaking behaviour or is it a "mis-use" of what the tool originally intended

Can you remember FB ever complaining that people should use the open web for some of the stuff that goes on in there? I don't mean to offend you, but I would say that you have to be a bit naive to believe that they do not desire to turn the web into a walled garden under their complete control.
Personally, I look at all of it as rigged and treat their narratives as such up front, regardless of the source.

The media in the US has been gamed by one power broker or another since its beginning. The Founding Fathers wrote and distributed propaganda anonymously.

The government invented an entire group to handle modern propaganda operations and worked with the media to peddle their narratives for the last generation.

This is all documented plainly, often via government record itself.

I don't think measuring these things is all that useful, given this.

The premise of "it's gamed for partisan gain" is firmly established by history. How much either way is a quibble, IMO. Let's focus on equitable outcomes for all, and stop diving into these overly customized data holes.
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Do you think it would be possible if you bootstrapped something where you have a consistent userbase and then started paying creators based on the revenue you get from viewers/advertisers?

So lets say that popcorn time wanted to go legit. I don't know how many viewers they have but I would assume it's in the millions monthly. I guess they would have to be the sole source of viewership for production studios to agree to license to them, and even then they would have to fight other distributors for exclusivity.

So it seems the only way to get there is if you somehow get 100M daily viewers then you could have a compelling case to make for licensing.
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Concerning cross compiling, one useful tool the author may of missed is [xargo](https://github.com/japaric/xargo).
As a rabbit "parent", I now shake my head at every depiction of a rabbit with pads on its feet like a cat(!) (Rabbits' feet are padless and entirely covered with fur.)

viz. every cartoon with visible foot bottoms here: https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=easter+bunny

Also… rabbits don't typically eat carrots, they eat carrot tops. (Just like how cats don't drink milk, and mice don't eat cheese. Sure, they like it, but where would a mouse find cheese in the wild?)
The open web is an attack on the average user. It's unremittingly hostile as a place to go to if you aren't part of the culture that spawned it. Facebook does a very poor job of sheltering people from the worst of the open web, but it's about a billion times more bearable than the open web scaled up to modern adoption rates would be.
Here's the blog entry Maciej wrote about the exodus:

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/

My favourite line comes from the tweet storm (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-...):

> "there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you money"
This makes sense. I think it's an inherent challenge to the domain.

In Facebook's defence, there is a difference between "public" and "discoverable". They don't go out of their way to make things discoverable. That's their business and may be evil or not depending on someone's given values.

But "public" content on Facebook could potentially be seen by anyone - and that's staying true to the definition.
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Yea, I have three nephews. I used to see them on FB, shirts off--Pea cocking, but they all deactivated, and didn't come back.

I activate/reactivating daily. I have a watch repair group on the site. FB thinks it's my business, and is constantly begging for ad money, but I'm just giving away information I learned. I honestly don't hate FB anymore. Maybe I'm a old people?

I still cringe when I see the person with 400 friends, and is portraying a life of 007, or the female equivalent--I don't know what that would be? Women need a fictional character to emululate?

(Off topic, but it interesting how Hollywood affects speech. I'm wondering when they will start using "Buckets of money".)
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Well, I mean, this is why they have the BuzzFeed brand and the separate BuzzFeed News brand, right? They even show up as two different channels (and different colors) in the Apple News app. A lot of people still don't seem to realize that there is a split like this, but changing people's perception of them is really just a matter of time.
> This is an issue for a really small segment of users.

Not really. I'm from India; while my home network connection is pretty good, when I'm travelling anywhere outside the metros, the mobile network speed is abysmal. However quite a few news outlets employ Facebook's comment system. You can imagine what a nightmare it'll be for users to load all that with a 2G connection.

> You are loading 37 assets to support a social commenting platform.

37 Javascript files out of which, I'm willing to bet, most are tracking agents employing every trick in the book to record all activity. Wasn't there a recent article that discovered that FB continuously sent home the position of your cursor when you're scrolling through your newsfeed so that they can place ads better?
Shim is signed with microsoft key, does it still require custom mode for booting?
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> Twitter is making the news dumber. The service is insidery and clubby. It exacerbates groupthink. It prizes pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the silly over the serious — for several sleepless hours this week it was captivated by “covfefe,” which was essentially a brouhaha over a typo.

This paragraph captures the essence of it perfectly.

The medium basically encourages superficial thinking, or lack of thinking altogether. It's appropriate for rumors and informal shout-outs and chats, but not much more than that.
These events are actually not rare. There are roughly billions of them in that volume over the current lifetime of the Universe. They are comparatively rarer than many other kinds of events, like supernovae, because they involve the extremely massive stars that are themselves very rare.
"Liberal" as used in America usually means leftist. The original meaning of the word is largely forgotten.
> I’m sorry no matter how good your idea is fuck you I won’t help you and Facebook kill the open web.

This is not how you win hearts and minds.
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> $$\dot\theta_i = \omega_i + K / N \sum_{j=1}^N \sin(\theta_j - \theta_i)$$

What's the quickest way to preview that (without needing a hosted service)?

I just made this small LaTeX document (I'm amazed I knew this by heart, I typed this manually maybe thrice in my life):

\documentclass{paper}
\begin{document}
$$\dot\theta_i = \omega_i + K / N \sum_{j=1}^N \sin(\theta_j - \theta_i)$$
\end{document}
<esc>:wq
pdflatex tmp.tex && evince tmp.pdf && rm tmp.*

but that's still quite a bit of extra work just to view it. Do you know a better way to do it?
Yep and Google to a bigger extent.
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In a recent talk at Computer History Museum, Michal Kosinski [0] referred to a 'post privacy world'. This is a world in which bits of data about each of us are made available, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally, through our online activities. The most jarring revelation was that algorithms can determine your political preferences, with high accuracy, based on your public Facebook likes, and, neural nets could determine your sexual preference from a photo of your face with 90%+ accuracy. Therefore, it seems likely that many personality traits can be hinted or directly exposed from the information we share about ourselves. Who uses illegal drugs? Who cheats on their taxes? Who has committed murder?

Snooping on our computers via Geek Squad, or via our local auto repair shop, or via 'private' communication like the NSA did is in some ways simply accelerating the inevitable. The discourse should be about the inevitable Post Privacy World. It's not one I want to live in, but which I am inadvertently diving into. For example, by commenting on Hacker News.

[0] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/michal...
I don't think I would have ever noticed this but now, I think I will always notice it.
> they will both sooner or later have to reach break-even; neither will run at a loss forever.

This. Subsidies don't scale. When you're company does relatively few rides, you can afford to subsidize rides on the order of dollars. The more rides you do however means can only subsidize rides less and less until it has a negligible effect on a rider's decision to switch providers. At that scale, all companies will start to move away from subsidies.

Subsidies can't buy the same amount of market share at scale without losses growing linearly, which is unacceptable to investors. Subsidies will decline and should eventually disappear in mature markets even with fierce competition. Heavy subsidies really only make sense in immature markets where there is a land grab.
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I posted this comment a few weeks ago, but this seems super relevant to extend the author's point. I agree that Facebook is a walled garden. But in the developed world, Facebook is just part of the internet that people use. However, in some parts of the developing world, Facebook is the only internet people use.

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Facebook's dominance is even more pronounced in parts of the developing world. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones).
But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers.

To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. They don't search the web. I met someone in a small town who never even used the maps feature. I tried to think of what value the true internet might bring them, but when I suggested that "you can search for news and read other things", the response was that they already did that with the Facebook App.

One guy handed me his phone, so I could add myself as a friend on his Facebook. While I started typing my name, I noticed his search history... and to him, Facebook was even a substitute for what people in the USA might use Incognito mode for!

I would call Facebook their internet portal, but it's not really a portal to anything - Facebook is just the entire internet to them.

Buzzfeed (yes, Buzzfeed) did an excellent writeup of Myanmar, that mirrors what I saw there:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-tru...

“Nobody asks, they don’t care about the email,” he said, explaining that most don’t know that creating an email address is free, and easy. “No one is using that. They have Facebook.”
Reminder to self that I should put in my LICENSE files:

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person ...

(the usual stuff, followed by ...)

It is the express wish of the author that this software shall not be used in derived products or services to collect or spread information about users against their will for any purpose other than the main functionality of the product or service. Users will need to explicitly "opt-in" to such use of information if desired. The functionality of the derived product or service should be sufficiently broken down to avoid an all-or-nothing proposition to the user.

Suggestions for extensions and/or better phrasing welcome.

The rationale is that, while this will not have meaning or uphold in a court of law, the least we can do as developers is to send a message of our disapproval for the way big companies are treating the web and its users.
I enjoyed this, and agree completely. I don't know if the pattern described within should be called "composition", but I have seen this and similar patterns. As the author says, it should be obvious which code owns which attributes.