skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK has shown that video isn't that great a deterrent of criminal activity. It does make people feel safer, but doesn't actually reduce crime. It is sometimes helpful in prosecutions, but even that isn't a major factor in street environments (in a bank, it's better).

AFAIK, those cameras are placed in locations, and the street crime just moves elsewhere, while the bank robbery stays at the bank. I'm proposing to place cameras on people. I bet the crime in specific street locations did decrease.

The reason I propose the (private) escrow, is so there could also be an audio recording. (Not compatible with current laws, though.) An audio recording would've been useful in the posted scenario.
For a setup with conflicts of interest left right and centre, you end up adding another: a bank wanting to depress the share price once it hits a threshold. Who, if that were to happen, would buy a share knowing Goldman's eagle eyes are on it, ready to slap it back down to 30%?
How much space does a kindle book take?

Actually lets get some numbers for that.

Gutenberg ebook 11 (Alice in Wonderland) is available in kindle format 131kb. It is a short childrens book.

Gutenberg ebook 2600 (War and Peace) is available in kindle format 2mb. It is properly longer than most books though.

A tale of two cities (ebook 98) is also available, 506kb.

Anna Karenina (1399) is also available, at 1.1mb.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (ebook 2488) is 551kb with pictures, 518kb sans pictures.

So lets say the average book is going to be about 750kb and most people only need access to their three most recent books. That is only about 3-4mb - can't a web app store that much, client side?
In other words, it has nothing whatsoever to do with astrology. They are just taking the traditional format of the "daily horoscope" and trying to make it a means to "give good (generic) advice", or some such.
The author of fossil (and SQLite), Richard Hipp, has posted an analysis of Zed's problem:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.or...
That tree's a good example of how not to do it.

For one thing, it's representing something that's not really a tree. "Support Vector Machine" and "Neural Networks" appear more than once as leaf nodes. Like any Chinese Encyclopedia classifications they often succumb to the temptation to add nodes that say "Other" to keep the length of the branches constant. (They could probably think of some name for what neural nets and the SVM have in common -- they've got all day to think about this stuff because they get paid to teach and to do research, it's not like they are harried practitioners.)

At some point I quit distinguishing regression and classification. There was a time when I knew some tricks for classification and regression seemed mysterious. Once I got over my mental block it seemed pretty obvious that much of my box of tricks worked for regression too.

Another issue is that it's not a good graphic for the web. You could probably print this out and read it but you can't take it in at glance on the web which destroys the purpose of it being an infographic
Why did you lose 3 days of work, though, could you not have copied your recent changes somewhere before reverting?
This is really, really cool, thanks Dr. Sayad. I love how this allows people to see the entire process and then drill into each step as deeply as they want to go.

I really think this is the way complex topics need to be taught. It's so easy to get caught in the weeds and lose track of where you are in the overall picture, an approach like this is extremely helpful.
It does seem a lot faster more functional than Michael Grinich's app. I'm not sure I really like the 3 line comment previews and having no indication of how many replies a comment has. EDIT: it does show the number of replies, I don't know how I hadn't noticed.
Most problems are trivial or impossible. Progress happens on the small margin of problems that are in between.
I have a feeling the 'Fruit's hands are going to stretch and block this app by some idiotic reasoning. If they can claim 'app store' they can do anything. urgh..
It's very relevant to the comment I was replying to.
I think it is unlikely that Apple would buy Sprint. It is an extremely US centric option, and whilst Apple's home is the USA, they are a global company.

Clearwire is a little more likely, but WiMax is just not matching the performance:power ratio that LTE is offering.

As the article points out, the expense of a network build is mostly in the land for towers (and the backhaul from tower site to network point-of-presence - sometimes 100s of miles of fiber/microwave links). Buying Clearwire still lands it with a lot of cruft that they don't need.

So the third way, unmentioned by the article, is that Apple goes into a joint venture with a cell co. Joint ventures for infrastructure sharing (site, tower, power on site, security, etc.) have long been established in the UK and other EU countries (site sharing is used everywhere, but often only on a site by site basis, with tower sharing not always happening).

Also in the UK market we've seen consolidation on the radio access network front. Everything Everywhere is the network operator for two UK cell co's. At the moment they still operate their own backend networks, but roaming between the two is free.

If Apple were to go to Sprint/Clearwire with a proposal to create a infrastructure or radio access network sharing operating company, this is a win for all - reduced costs for the existing service provider (giving a competative advantage) and access to Apple to build out their own iNetwork.
If you already have a site people go to, advertising a web app on there seems to work. Just don't it as annoyingly as IMDB.
Thanks to external constraints a big player is going into the right direction (for a certain set of applications where native is not really needed).

Also very cool of Playboy to prominently show the historically significant "Lenna" in their advertising.

Very fitting indeed.

http://i.playboy.com/index2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Small world! Swiss french here too. (grew up in Geneva)
FUD about what Google might do in the future does not help me today nor really invalidate the point
Yes you would. Right, thats by sunday afternoon project taken care of, a transparent write-through HTTP cache using web SQL in javascript. Awesome.
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Why don't you try doing something cool with it and let us know?
I expect multiple groups (Google, Amazon, Facebook?) to eventually release a Mobile Web App Store. The app/store could even be built on some sort of common frontend framework that provides many of the similar services as iOS, purchase, in-app purchases, etc. Has any group actually announced plans for anything like this?
If you mean "how do I use Dropbox to do exactly that", I share encrypted files with coworkers so that they are automatically replicated when connectivity is available. This addresses both the security-of-content perspective and the fact that even in the best of circumstances we will find necessity for offline access.
In the same sense perhaps; hidden them from the end user.
How is being on the internet a problem for freenet? The anonymity it provides not depend on what layer it is run ontop of.
dupe : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570829
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Like the whitepaper states, the current specification isn't aimed at defeating state level adversaries.
However relatively small changes will improve that situation. Changes like peer selection algorithms, two-way tunnels, random padding and a bunch of others.
In the age of the web, we have the power to make democracy more direct. I also believe we don't need so much statemen whose daily job is to make new laws. A strong and centralized state is mandatory during war, and that's it.

In aviation, a lot of crashes could have been avoided if the captain released the commands instead of desperatly hook on them, because the plane is programmed to get back on its feets alone.

It think it would be the same for our governments, people would be really surprised to see that the world wouldn't collapse if you removed the bulk of our elected and non-elected statemen. We give them too much credits. The industrial revolution happened in spite of them rather than thanks to them, that's why every western european country encountered about the same progress overall with different political systems. Unless a certain amount of freedom was missing, progress grew naturally. Thats what happening right now with the Internet.
I thought it was China.
I've been "banned for life" from things having nothing whatsoever to do with a sexual situation. I've chosen to walk away from other things where sexual stuff (including but not limited to discrimination) was a big part of the problem. I'm wondering if anyone else here can raise their hand and say "yea, verily, I am also banned for life from something and it had nothing to do with sex/gender". I'm sorry for this person's experience and I don't wish to talk bad about them but I really think folks blow some things way out of proportion and make it about "I'm female" or "I'm black" or "I have X issue and everything in life that goes wrong is about that issue". Just looking for some perspective.
I think the way phantom is intended to be used is the main difference compared to i2p. Since phantom has a small address-space and therefore is ipv6 compatible it can be effortlessly used by client applications (if the client does not leak far to much information).
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I normally invest in real estate and get around 20% of ROI (without much time spending) ... but wanted to explore other avenues with similar GUARANTEED return ??
Interested in the use of the term "printing" as the process here. It's a good metaphor for moving from ink on a sheet of paper to manufacture of original, standalone structures.

We send visual instructions to a machine, it spits out something that looks like them. It "prints" them.
The graphic does what it's intended to do: give a high-level overview of machine learning concepts and techniques. Even if not perfect, it's a lot better than a block of text.
I'm a dev of anonymous software, and use gmail (as well as others). Let's not be ridiculous.
It really doesn't look anything like a moko though...

ie: http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1233108507/512/167512.jpg

I'd seen that tattoo a few times and hadn't realised it was supposed to be māori in any way...
TeleHash a DHT. DHTs are key-value stores.
Finding good problems for the answers you already have (built) is hard, also known as seeking market fitness :)

I stumble on good problems with no obvious answers frequently, and my take is that approaching them with the mindset of "hey, what if...?" is what is really uncommon. Not hard, children do it all the time.

What's hard? Keeping that mindset of "what if...?" alive over the years! :)
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Maybe you could do this with in-app purchases. Make the app free and include different items that people can buy for different prices. I'm not sure what that items should be, but I'm sure you can figure out something.
Wow, lots of hysteria. I was hoping to find a comment that said something like the following:

It sucks that things like this still happen. I've seen or heard about a few stories like this and it's heartbreaking to think that the industry I love can cause such pain to people. Worse still is the thought that these incidents punish everyone, from the women who are turned away to other, less risky fields, to the managers who struggle to find competent female hires, to the other men who get unfairly tarred for just being in the same gender.

I understand it's tempting to say "but this might be made up!" - yes, it might. We don't have any facts and we should be cautious not to use it as an excuse for a witch hunt. But would you be surprised if it was true? Put-money-on-it surprised? If not, that's problem enough. These things happen and we know it.

The thing that gets me is that theoretically HN is a place for people who aren't satisfied with "oh well, that's how it goes", who instead disrupt and innovate, who find novel solutions to problems nobody thought solvable (or even worth solving), and who change the world for the better in the process. Where's that spirit now? Surely we can find a way to make things like this less frequent or less damaging?
If it were notices sent to registrars, yes (talking .com, for instance). A US based registrar is bound by US law. A UK based registrar is not.

In these cases they are going after the registry itself (Verisign) which is completely under US law and the individual registrars have no involvement whatsoever.
Looks great but how well does it run on Mobile Safari?
Very interested in seeing a demo of this app that isn't just a video.
Also very interested in knowing what tech they've used.
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While developing this we were quite sure it was a great, fun idea. People say and do the strangest things on facebook and twitter, but when it comes to put your voice out there it seems to be some resistant. Am I to late, to early or just wrong?
"Byte-saving" made me think more of memory management than source file size.

Since version 1.5, JavaScript accepts Unicode characters as identifiers. Shouldn't this be "character-saving"?
Lots of people in this thread are excited about Playboy bypassing the App Store but no one is talking about the huge user experience downsides that it brings up:

* Have to sign in every time you load the app.

* Herky jerky animations & orientation switching

* No offline access!

* Low-res images that are tough to read... in a magazine app

Granted these issues could be remedied in whole or in part if the web app was built with a little more thought & care, but the fact is that it wasn't: this is the user experience people will get when they view this web app.

I work on the web, and I build native apps for the iPhone & iPad. The reason I like building native apps is because the user experience is better. Everything's faster and smoother. If developers in here are putting technopolitics above the user actually using the app, then I think people need to re-evaluate why they build software in the first place.
I swear I see this topic across various forums on a daily basis.

But anyway in no specific order:

Python - The simplicity of the language was an invaluable gateway into programming for me. I worried much less about syntax than I did when I learned Java in HS, and spent much more time focusing on actual concepts of programming as a whole. It's still my go-to language when applicable.

Javascript - I continuously get blown away by the things people are able to do with this language across the web. Recent example: Bellard's Linux emu.

C - After I had a firm grip with python I began picking this up via the K&R bible, and I still find myself challenged by either concepts or the use of the language itself when using it.
Nah to make it malicious, they would have redirected to a search on google for the movie in question with "avi download" appended.

That would have been malicious.
Alternatively, the people who wax lyrical for 60 or so pages don't understand much either, and are compelled to pad out their document.

I remember seeing this a while ago, but I didn't pay much attention to it then, because punishing those who understand the problems with a lengthy verbose soliloquy isn't a good strategy for disseminating information.

:-)

The other problem is that something 60 pages long without any references or citations beyond an occasional casual link to wikipedia, smacks of reinventing the wheel. This would be why he can go for 60 pages without mentioning known terms like "Cybil Attack", or "Onion Routing".

This white paper smells more of bikeshedding - there was no code and right at the bottom of the document, you can see the caveat & apology "This white paper is in no way a complete protocol specification, far from it actually. Its main goal is rather to provide suggestions for solutions for several typical problems [...] which could hopefully work as some kind of reference point for any discussions that may be inspired by it."

I think my favourite part of the paper is where he handwaves PKI & Voting atop of a DHT to 'solve' lots of problems, without realising those are the genuinely hard problems people are still working on.

A close runner-up is in the slides he talks about "no central point of failure" and then explains his "Manual Override Command Support", which is a central point of abuse.

It is nice to see that someone is finally writing code for it, and I wish them luck working out all of the details left out in the paper, especially the organisation and management of addresses.
If nothing else the long term effect of this is simply to harden the internet infrastructure against govt. interference.

It's sorta like saving electricity. We're mostly pretty inefficient so it's easy to make instant savings. For example switching from incandescent light bulbs, putting in geyser blankets, and so on, are all implemented easily, cheaply, and have an instant material effect. But it's a one time saving. It delays the inevitable, it bys time, but it doesn't solve the root problem.

In the same way fiddling with root dns servers is easy, quick, and (temporarily) effective. It's a one-time solution though. If this carries on then people will simply work around the problem. We're already seeing alternative root dns servers, alternative top level (non-US) domains and so on. If the govt. want to waste their effectiveness on such mundane things as movies and music, then so be it.
But every time they do it they just encourage more and more people to work around the problem. And the solution is likely to be (already is) more resistant to this form of explicit interference.

The Internet is a genie not going back into the bottle. It is not something that can be controlled, censored, or governed in the traditional sense. As music and movie executives come to terms with what the digital part of 'Digital Revolution' really means, the govt is starting to learn what the real meaning of Revolution is.

The times they are a changin' (again).
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> I just want to make as much as people want to give me

The usual way to do this is to release the app for free and put a (PayPal) donate button on your page...
California, public employee spending. (Crazy.)
I dont remember people talking of "app stores" before the App Store.
I don't think OSX is specifically that important - I've met plenty of "new" linux users who have no idea htese tools exist either - linux has a gui too, you know.

Converseley, there are plenty of long-term unix experts out there who also find that a mac makes a nice workstation that still satisifies their need for unix tools plus other stuff.
I don't have a smart phone. What is it about iphones/androids that make it difficult to find and save interesting apps on the web? Is it that much more difficult than finding sites on a PC?
Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to process the huge zip file?
First, there's no chance about it because you can't do anything with it once it's a normal executable. There's no "hoping" about it - remove special permissions and audit the whole FS and it can't be used for an attack (any more than any other binary on a minimal system could be). That being said, you do it to improve the efficiency of the system for the users and reduce time to troubleshoot issues.
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Snake oil, its the future; and I can get you 100Ks worth easy.

Seriously though, this is a dumb question. There is no such thing as guaranteed returns, and anything with a 20% return probably has inherent risks that you don't appreciate, or is completely illiquid. If you want to invest money responsibly and you don't know how, then speak to a financial advisor -- that's what they're there for.
Surely we can find a way to make things like this less frequent or less damaging?

I hesitate to say this, but I think women have some power to make this better. Yes, there are men who are real pigs. It happens. But I'm a former homemaker and now have a job with BigCo and a) most of the women's fashions shown in magazines and such would get me sent home if I showed up at work dressed like that b) in spite of that fact (I mean that the dress code is intended to prevent this), there are still women who show up at my place of employment looking hookerific c) the last time I saw a story of this sort (ie some woman talking about her negative experiences with sexism) on HN, I was dumbfounded that the woman who wrote it stupidly said things that could be interpreted as a come-on/opening after the man had made it clear he was hitting on her, so I then googled her image and in most pictures of her she was displaying cleavage and so on.

I don't say this to "blame the victim". I say this because if you are a woman and you want real power, acting on the piece of it you have control over is a much more empowered position than whining about how "men are still pigs" or some such.

Just trying to respond to your actual request for something positive and pro-active.

Peace.
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This is aimed at people writing tweet-sized JavaScript for http://140byt.es/ . This is a great resource for learning JavaScript and has some very impressive code behind it. Generally for production sites, though, I'd much rather go with jQuery due to its extensive test suite and bowser support. Between tweet-sized and jQuery-sized JavaScript, there's a whole lot of micro JS scripts / frameworks on http://microjs.com/

I'm currently writing a mobile web app that needs to work over GPRS connections with 30kb/s bandwidth and up to 1s latency. In these cases, shaving off a few bytes to get a page in 1 fewer TCP/IP packets really does make a difference.
Interesting. I'm living in Argentina - where the Internet connectivity is particularly slow. Therefore, my preferred setup is: everything local but backed up near-instantaneously onto the cloud. (I heart Dropbox.) Does anyone else have this problem? Are there other Dropbox-like cloud services to use for those of us with slow Internet?
I hope everyone is upvoting this just for science. DON'T use these all the time, leave this job for a minifier and focus on maintainable code.
It's important to realize these predictions were not all separate things - where he just said "Oh hey, what about X?"

He developed mathematical models for currently available observations. Those models in turn also suggested other phenomenon that could not be measured at the time. As time went on, some of these have been measured and found to hold true, others observations about the universe have been had that suggest they don't hold true in all cases (eg: "dark" stuff)
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Any desktop app based startups?
Seems a large majority are doing web based startups. Is anyone writing a desktop app as their MVP, etc? My background has been mainly writing "enterprisy" Microsoft based (yes I know) back-end office desktop applications in Windows using C#, WinForms, WPF, and in the past C++/MFC.

Just seeing what's out there as I'd be interested in joining a startup that is writing a thick client app even if it's not a true desktop runtime like Silverlight. And even if you're not looking for anyone I'd be interested in hearing about your startup (as probably other "desktop app dev" lurkers are perhaps interested as well).

And although I could try to learn web dev I feel I could better leverage my existing skills as there could be an untapped market/niche in the world of desktop apps that web apps currently can't deliver that could be filled while everyone else is focused on the next Web X.0 app (not that there's anything wrong with that).