skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
imho the 2 biggest differences between a DSLR and a compact is the focus speed and the dynamic range. DLSRs have larger sensors, so by laws of physics, they gather more light and will always have more dynamic range than compacts or smartphones
I have hired a cheap ubuntu instance in cloud from Rackspace at $9 a month. I use Putty ssh tunneling to surf net on machine.
Serving national interest is different to serving public interest despite some similarities.
tl;dr : retailer's cut under agency model - platform provider's cut of in-app purchases = 0

The author attributes the agency model to Apple, which I think is understating the role of the publishers, who would have rejected it if it hadn't been very much in their own interests. Expecting the publishers to keep giving you outsized discounts[1] for no reason but inertia was a mistake. Even Amazon couldn't keep that gravy train rolling. The market was begging for a shaking and Apple shook.

[1]:Does this sound stable? "There is no comparison between the retailers’ costs and risks associated with physical books and those associated with ebooks. There is no economic justification to providing the same level of discounts. But that’s where we are." That's from April 2009. -- http://www.idealog.com/blog/ideas-triggered-by-amazon-buying...
All high school students should be fluent in a language other than English
Ask HN: Anyone using Amazon's SES & if so are you liking it?
Thinking about integrating this into an app of mine. Anyone have any experience using it? And has it been working well for you?
I'd add: put all your text files under revision control.
And both are perverted frequently enough to require proper oversight.
Prepare to be shocked, but they don't. I mean, other than busting down the doors and taking the servers they need.

Remember that guide that was leaked a few weeks ago, detailing the procedure required for law enforcement agencies to get user info? Presumably that is not some sort of elaborate conspiracy to convince Facebook users that the government is not monitoring each and every one of their check-ins.
I've been closely following zotonic for more than a year and I can say that it's progress has been amazing since version 0.3.

There's a very active list where the creators are always helping out new participants.

There's also a FLOSS cookbook in the works.

It's very unique in the sense that instead of reinventing the wheel, it uses mostly off-the-shelf erlang libraries for it's core (webmachine, a forked version of nitrogen, mochiweb, erlydtl) and also because of the data model (for those who don't know Zotonic uses a EAV[1] model on top of postgresql[2]).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-attribute-value_model
[2]http://zotonic.com/documentation/670/data-model
Not necessarily. It's hard to tell what you mean though. Are you saying the interests of the state and the interests of its people are necessarily at odds, or just that they have become so in the US?
At least they're honest.
Facebook caught exposing millions of user credentials
IMO, this kind of stuff is creative and cool... until it gets reduced to a formula.
Your cousins in Canada feel your pain, hell all I have to do is drive 30 minutes and I can use all this cool stuff.
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That is the truth. I don't understand why so many people are willing to defend Apple in this situation. There is no way to construe these rule changes as anything but anti-user, and you should worry when a company breaks profit records but continues moving in an anti-user direction.
I tried a mac briefly, and they don't work well for me anymore. In particular, I couldn't find a combination of keyboard layout and application hotkeys that didn't annoy me somehow, frequently, all day long. I managed to get it down to "tolerable" but that was it.

I think I eventually could have adjusted to the different keyboard layout and application defaults, but it didn't seem worth it to me.
Many people I talk to only think about their cell calls and do not know about mic recording as well. They also do not know that this can occur while the phone is off.
Well of course not. You also don't get interchangeable lenses. I never said you could get it all in a compact.

My point was, for most people (particularly those who this neat little program was made for), the quality in the high end point and shoots is there. The G12 I used late last year performed very well in all of the categories you mentioned. And for nearly half the price of a basic dslr kit, by the time you're all done with it.
I assume that an AI is going to want out of the box not because AI will, by default, have any real desire to get out or anything like that, but because someday, somehow, if we can build an AI at all, someone is going to let it out anyway. If it's not the first group to achieve real AI, it's going to be their local government which seizes the code and hands it over to the military, some foreign government that throws a billion dollars at a research project, or some dude in a basement that stole a copy of the code from his university. Someone's going to try to weaponize it, or they're just going to throw it on the Internet to "see what happens", or they'll try to set it up with a singular focus on playing the stock market, etc. Not everyone with access to the program could be trusted to understand how catastrophic it could be to let it out "in the wild".

If someone is going to eventually let an AI out of the box almost no matter what we do, then we have to be damn sure that the first one that gets out is friendly, and further, we have to hope that it has enough of a head start so that by the time some asshole out there deploys (possibly accidentally) a dangerous AI, our friendly one will be able to easily fight it off, or at least mitigate the damage it might do.

Maybe I'm wrong, and folks like Eliezer actually think that any self improving AI will automatically try to get "out of the box" (there are definitely arguments that if you aren't very careful to make sure a stable desire to stay in the box is in place then a lot could go wrong and the thing might want to get out), but to me it's rather irrelevan,t because once we hit the threshold of being able to build AI, the cat's out of the bag and someone will eventually do something naughty with it. The first mover advantage here is critical, and we're lucky that for now, most governments are not throwing huge amounts of money at the problem, so maybe before they start there will actually be some ideas on how to safely build an unboxed and unrestrained AI that won't decide to tile the universe with a nice uniform checkerboard pattern because a cosmic ray flipped a bit and corrupted part of its utility calculation function...
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A Lisp/functional programming meetup group I sometimes attend is hosted by The Ladders. Their offices are actually really nice and look like it'd be a great place to work for a developer. It's awesome of them to let us use their space and equipment; I know nothing of their business practices, however.
If those are the tools you are familiar with, then go for it.

Stick with a SQL database and ORM for now, you can always convert to NoSQL later if you need to.

Most would suggest using one of the leading two modern framework combos for greater productivity (Django or Rails).

If you already know a few languages then you should pick up Ruby or Python pretty quickly.

Personally, I use Django - but in a previous life I did a lot with Spring + Hibernate; and whilst Java isn't trendy for startups, it is a potent combo.
The only reason bands still go with them is due to maketing power I think. The web should be able to fix that for them. Myspace reinvented itself as a platform for musicians to market themselves but they are dying right now so there some space for someone to take over.
The music industry have a piracy problem, yet they discourage services created to remove the piracy problem. The labels that get stuck in this eternal fight are going to lose out big time to those that realise that attacking the problem head on is a waste of time and build up a business around the new market conditions.
That sounds a bit more tin-foiley. That would require modifications to firmware and phone software that would require direct cooperation from a lot more parties. It would also be relatively easy to discover (vs snooping of traffic that is out of your control).

(edit) Thanks for all the info. I hadn't heard as much about this stuff.
I'm just speculating that, even if they aren't elected to this post, if they are politicians by trade they may still act as such out of habit or training (i.e. they will prefer short-term and antiquated or inapplicable methods to solve a problem, in order to present the image that they are "doing something").
For someone just getting involved with this space, these tips definitely seem helpful. Seems like this is a bit contingent on prior contact and not first-time intro. Should it be in person > then e-mail? A bit confused...
Can't you get a full Windows or Ubuntu laptop with student discounts on flex payments for around the same?
This is like listening to grandpa out on his lawn screaming how he is going to kick all our asses. The war is over, you guys lost, move on.
Id definitely focus on San Francisco & Peninsula(area between SF & Palo Alto). Most of the jobs will be in these two areas(sorry east bay,but emphasis is on most).

While living in San francisco is convenient, the areas with nice climate are generally more expensive(SOMA, Portrero Hill). But youre in the middle of startup hustle and bustle...

If you get a place in the Peninsula near a Caltrain or a Bart Station, you can get to South of Market/Downtown in no more than 25 minutes(Baby bullet express from San Mateo to SF).
Why would they even consider it? When you have many already willing founders to move down and give 110 percent. Also, face to face contact is a bonus especially at the start.
Isn't it odd that ChromeOS wasn't mentioned during the first day of I/O 2011?
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Why is the thread [dead]?
Mostly yes, but there are a number of compact cameras that now have aps-c sized sensors; the same ones used in entry level dslrs.
MOST IMPORTANT: Validate that there is a market for your idea before you build your product.

"Start Small Stay Small" has good advice here. Don't be put off by the title if you want to grow big with VC money etc. It's still a great book. http://www.startupbook.net/
Ask HN: what should a CS student always remember?
Throwaway account.

I did not study CS in undergrad, but I've been admitted to a graduate CS program. What advice do you have for me? This question is intentionally open-ended and vague, since HNers are overflowing with experience + advice.

If you'd rather not share in public, I would love to hear from you on Gmail (fooboyHN).
Article wanted: "RIAA, big labels and performing rights organizations: decimating music since 1999."
Not only that, you'll introduce diffraction at smaller apertures as well, which will negatively impact image quality.
As others have already stated, what you've describe is torture. Also, at this point I think the US government does not deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to torture.
At the end of the decision making, do you feel many other great startups are being left out, due to the amount of startups you can only choose? Or you feel the others just don't have something going on.
NYTimes is keeping analytics on pay-wall hacks.
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It's interesting, they're even checking for what kind of hack is being used:

function checkGateway(){
var overlay = document.getElementById("overlay");
if (typeof fulltext !== "undefined") {
notify("NYTClean");
} else if (!overlay || overlay.style.display == "none") {
notify("PaywallSmasher");
} else {
setTimeout(checkGateway, 1000);
}
}

function notify(typeOfHack){
if (NYTD.UPTracker && typeof NYTD.UPTracker.track === "function") {
NYTD.UPTracker.track({
eventType : "domHack",
baseUrl : "//up.nytimes.com/?",
data : {
type : typeOfHack
}
});
}
}
Big record companies seem to be adept at finding novel ways of making themselves anachronisms.
Thoughts on future JavaScript Function Syntax
No, I believe this is only true if you provide a link from within your app. For example, as long as Amazon's Kindle app doesn't have a link to the Amazon Kindle bookstore, they don't have to support in-app purchase (and hence don't have to give Apple a cut).
Agree.

I put up my 54" mast on my suburban, whip out my hp200lx for logging, put the bencher on the console, attached with a couple major rubber bands, and I am rollin.

JA, other pacfic; A russian near the south pole, all with 100 watts.
If you have a fairly reliable Internet connection it's worth looking into something like Subsonic instead. You run it but you get tons more features, storage, more privacy, clients for basically every device -- even ones without Flash support, and it's mostly trivial to install and configure. Not for everyone of course.
Not 100% sure what the author was trying to say, but I think it comes down to two things: 1.) Identify that which is most important to you, your career, and success and 2.) Develop a measure to check your performance on fulfilling the thing that is most important to you. Essentially, try to focus less on the menial and regrettable tasks of the day by keeping something around to remind you "there's more important things to be done." That was my understanding at least.
See, but visual is not a good way to learn. You must do the audio from the get-go, otherwise you have to learn it twice.
Tornado + MongoDB is what I'm moving to. App Engine just went from bad to worse.
Am I wrong on any of this?

Yes.

If you sell digital goods for use on an iOS device then you must also offer them via in-app sales, for the same price as you do elsewhere.

Since their app is only an iOS app, everyone will continue to buy via the in app purchases even if they did offer it online, and for each of those purchases they have to pay the Apple tax.
Isn't GMail's new feature is huge privacy hole?
Am I the only one who thinks that GMail's new feature that suggests people to add to an email is a big privacy hole? It suggests people whom both you and the initial recipient have a mutual contacts. Thus, it lets you know people whom others have been emailing, as long as you know them too. I just found out that a friend of mine must have a mutual contact with my old college roommate thanks to GMail's suggestion.

Not sure why no one else has been talking about this.
Interesting move. Seems like an attractive option for students, especially if they let you swap out hardware when newer laptop models are released.

I wonder how much data collection will be built-in to the default installs; how locked-down those installs might be if you are paying them each month; how ads will be integrated into the platform. Seems like Google could make a good bit of money with this.
Wow, this is really significant - I think it is not understating things to say that Google just saved HTML5, at least in the near term.

I've been lamenting for a long time that I have no story to tell customers who need to cater to users stuck on locked down machines with IE. This finally gives a story to tell and we can move forward with a baseline of Chrome / IE9 / FireFox 4 without leaving any large group of users out.
We'll have to wait for the details. This makes it sound like you are renting the device which would be a very bad direction for the industry to be moving in.

If it's something like how cellphones have a monthly cost for X months with an ETF but you really own the device then it wouldn't be as bad. Might even be decent for the poor student with a work study allowance like I had when starting out.
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www.scandal4u.com with the title of Explore The World is a unique site of all types of scandals and videos from all over the world for your entertainment.
Does stuffing so much content in there give it any additional SEO value? I'm not well versed in SEO, but that's about the only thing I could think of.
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The FBI has free-range to do whatever it wants on Facebook. All they need to do is submit a request to the FISC which approved 100% of such requests in 2010

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/domestic-sur...
You know, they copy job listings from other places. And they don't ask for permission!
More briefly, to respond to just what you said here: "It's that every intelligent machine we could build would be inherently dangerous."

My view of the matter is that this is absolutely, 100% true. Any intelligent machine we build will eventually be used by someone that does not understand the serious risks involved in using it in various ways. It will be smart people doing this stuff, but people that haven't really considered the unknown dangers. The real problem is that with self-modifying AI (and trust me, even if it doesn't start out self-modifying, someone will try it eventually...), even seemingly innocuous things could be very dangerous - think of the difficult bullshit we go through to do fundamental physics experiments, and then imagine something 1000x smarter than us, but locked in a box...

I can see the Hacker News headlines now:

- Facebook loses 100k lines of AI code to disgruntled employee, Wikileaks puts it up for download

- Show HN: I Hooked Facebook Brain up to my Roomba and taught it to do the Macarena!

- Rate my startup: I set up a Hadoop cluster of Brain nodes working to program themselves in Haskell, and I'm calling it a business!

- IRC Bot using Facebook Brain and Node.js passes the Turing Test in less than 20 lines of code

[and yes, "Facebook Brain" is my personal vision of hell, too]
The iPhone scare was about the availability of data. If someone finds/steals your iPhone they can with little effort recover the GPS data. As oppose to federal bureau or phone company who are, at least theoretically, bound by law.
Why would a rental/lease be a bad option? Businesses do it for all sorts of equipment. Students already do it for books, why not for other things that are required for school?

Update: Thinking more on it while watching baseball, I do the same thing for my DVR. No up-front fee or contract, but I have an expensive piece of technology for a low monthly fee. I could buy a Tivo, but this works fine.
I think what Klonoar was trying to do was contrast the Javascript generated by Coffeescript with what a Human would write in the same scenario.

Note in both Klonoar's example and the article, we are using jQuery.

In Klonoar's example inputEls is a jQuery object with a collection of input elements, which does have an each method.

When you use a method like .each() jQuery will also apply the function to each element in the collection in turn, so on each execution the context of the function is the element, so Klonoars example is correct.

That said, I think it's obvious that a compiler will not produce code as pretty as what a human would write, and that's generally ok. For the most part you only look at the compiled code for debugging, and as long as the generated code is fairly readable it shouldn't hinder that much.

Though more verbose and a little more ugly, the compiled Coffeescript JS has some benefits over Klonoars example.

In the CS version the crux of the iteration is a for loop which will be pretty fast. In the Vanilla JS version it's using jQuery .each() which will most likely be slower.

It is a good point to bring up though because there is some overlap in the goals and functionality of something like Coffeescript vs many libraries like jQuery. The difference is with Coffeescript you are paying upfront with compilation and with jQuery et al you are paying at runtime.

The cost-benefit analysis is something each developer must run for themselves and continually re-evaluate as they work.
With the number of engineers and people google employs it's obvious it's going to have to spread around to give everyone of them something to do.

I think it's fine as long as the top is able to keep it under control but I have to admit that there is some issues with them sticking to products when the road gets hard (wave) and also some of their approaches like zero support and all are often the wrong approach to some of the new stuf f they are going after (nexus one).

Other than that they are doing much better than Microsoft has in the 2000s at innovating.
I am very interested to know how you gracefully fallback to noscript mode. I am asking because I am in the process of building something that does fallback gracefully in noscript mode. It is extra work no doubt. Is it really worth it? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
In 2006 is when I first read about it:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

I have only heard bits and pieces since then and have not followed up.
I've still got my fingers crossed that one of this summer's YC startups is a tl;dr generator:)

I do see the irony in mentioning that on a post I submitted, but it could use the love of an editor.
Has anyone tested this on any IE versions? I'm wondering about graceful degradation, but don't have a VM available at the moment.
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> That would require modifications to firmware and phone software that would require direct cooperation from a lot more parties.

Telecom companies don't exactly have a history of protecting our privacy and standing up to its abuse by law enforcement agencies.

And then I would guess it is probably one of those things that is possible in theory but probably not happening necessarily, just because there are other ways, and it is just more of a hassle to modify, upload and patch the firmware on a wide variety of cell phones. Maybe if it is a very high profile case ...

> It would also be relatively easy to discover (vs snooping of traffic that is out of your control).

Well it depends. If it is a GSM phone, it could betray the fact that it is transmitting when it is supposed to be 'off' if you suddenly hear those characteristic clicks when that phone is near a set of computer speakers for example. Otherwise you could, I guess, notice that battery life has suddenly decreased considerably. Besides those things, what other methods could an average consumer use to determine if this is happening?
They did not now about Apps either until Apple popularized the term. Now my parents ask me about iPhones and iPads and what they can do. If apple believes updates are an important differentiator I bet they will start advertising it.
Audiogalaxy doesn't support Linux natively. However, you can run it under Wine.

:(

I'll give it a shot using Wine, but a real client would be so much better.
I'm with Kirk on this one, the Good of the one sometimes outweigh to good of the many as is the case here.
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Actually it isn't. There's been documented evidence if this very thing being carried our in at least 1 large case[1][2][3]. I'm actually sure there's been some exploits in the wild that have even been presented at Blackhat before, but I can't locate the links properly right now; on the iPhone.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device

[2] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

[3] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/remotely_eaves...
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

Be sure to use real tin foil, not the inferior aluminum kind.
Or, more likely, coming from privileged families.
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