skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I thought HN detects duplicate submissions and shows that it already exists. Thanks for the heads up anyway. Will have to do a check on HNSearch before putting up things.
Thanks for the offer :) but I'll have to pass as the code just isn't well formatted for design. Example: no proper containers, in fact, if you check the source most pages don't even have html tags...I guess that's what I get for coding at 3am.
In theory driverless cars could end up having algorithmic optimizations and use networked information such as to use overall road capacity much more efficiently.

Then hackers can take control and direct all traffic to participating gambling establishments.
And yet it should be the artist's choice on how THEIR work is used...

The question, really, is "Is this pixel-art thing even the same picture, legally speaking?" And the answer is: "We'll never know, because a legal decision is too expensive for one of the parties to obtain."
Theoretically, driverless cars could be programmed to behave in a collective fashion. Yes, a train is incredibly efficient when 300 people need to go from the same place to a different place. But in reality, 300 people are coming from 300 places and going 300 places. Driverless cars could calculate partial carpools or transfers to more efficient vehicles like trains depending on the needs of the commuters. A "smart car" could drop the commuter(s) off at the train station, and another car could pick the commuter(s) up for the final leg of their trip.
I get to hack maybe once a week now. YC takes up all my time.
The biggest problem I can see is the e-mail verification, but I imagine even that sort of thing would be scriptable. It's all just squirting characters over HTTP, right?
It sure does. I'm just not sure about these factions, I mean Nokia has the resources to have two teams on two different operating systems without there being some sort of fight between them.
Am I the only one that feels uncomfortable with these kind of sites?

Anyway, I tried "abc124" and received: "It looks like your passwords may be safe. No instances of compromise are recorded in this database. However, it's good practice to change your critical passwords regularly and ensure they are not re-used across multiple sites."
What we learned from putting a ridiculous billboard on 101
this really makes me sick. in so many ways i see the system as a giant legacy piece of crap with tons of bugs that certain assholes have latched onto as "features"...
City Life Could Change Your Brain for the Worse
It works great right up until Chrome has a bug that prevents anyone from using your internal app.
Perhaps even more important, they have a list of hundreds (thousands?) of pages I thought were interesting enough to read later. Seems like a fine base from which to build or enhance profiles of thousands of citizens.
Sounds suspiciously like it is image heavy (which is understandable in a book about computer vision).

I would be curious what the size would be if one used ePub.
I guess I'm having a hard time thinking outside the narrow frame of my own experience, but why wouldn't you just consolidate the signup process to one or two steps?
Anyone can do (almost) anything illegal and blame it on "Global economic order". Does it really justify the illegal actions?
Physical Virtual shopping
New York Flowershops » My Home Experience
I wonder if human-driven car will become minority of vehicles in next 30 years. If the technology will be affordable and good enough, this seems like a probable scenario. Also it could be possible that driverless cars will reduce traffic jams by introducing some better routing algorithms.
This could make road trips a lot more fun.
The Geometry Regents | Ebook Search Engine
I'm trying to think of an analogy which can explain why this might be reasonable from the FBIs perspective.

Suppose you were using a shared storage space (shared servers, or server farm) with several other dudes. One of them is a drug dealer. One day the police/FBI decide to raid the storage space since the drug dealer has been using it to store illegal drugs.

Is it not reasonable to consider this collateral damage (which, granted, is totally unnecessary) during law enforcement operations?

I'm not saying this is OK in any case, but might this not be a reasonable move by the law enforcement agencies?
I did. You know why? Because there's no way Google would announce a technology that they think would be used 10 years from now.

I knew it right away that if they announced it now, then they're doing it to get public support and then convince politicians to allow them as soon as possible.

They also wouldn't have announced it if it didn't already work pretty well.They wouldn't have announced it if it still needed 10 more years of work.
The more I think about it, the more I think this should be treated the same as any of the other thefts of data information to have happened in the past few months. Sony, Toyota, Sega, etc. A potentially hostile group now has a ton of personal info. People should know.
One could argue that current Europe is a 'United States of Europe'. So no surprise here. In USA it is also easy to 'immigrate' from one state to another if you are a US citizen.

Immigrating to Europe from outside Shengen space is as hard as getting to US from outside.
Hot Wheels Mega City
Official Hulu app lands on the Android Market
It's supposed to, and often does. In this case the URLs appear to be identical, so I don't know what's gone wrong. Possibly a restart, and the older item hadn't been loaded into memory. I'm pretty sure the algorithm only checks against URLs in cache.
OS X Lion Concept: iMessage App
There aren't people just wandering around with machine guns you can however rent them for use at various ranges.

For example: http://www.lasvegasgunrange.net/RangeRentals.aspx
np, thought i'd offer all the same. if you ever change your mind give me a shout @christopherdb
No. Even if it was shared space, it should be possible to, through software and IT, extract the necessary data and bar it from further operation.
> Why is IE8 still around?

On XP, you can't upgrade to IE9. The question that naturally follows is: Why is XP still around?
I think you're underestimating the 'curating' aspect of DJing. There's no skills involved on turntable.fm other than song selection. Picking the right song at the right time or something new that people find exciting is the biggest payoff in DJing for a lot of people.
I used to do IT in the Navy and participated in upgrade processes like this, and this is exactly why I didn't go work at a government software contractor like most of my shipmates did after we got out.
Cerf: Streaming network crunch could be eliminated
Every person I know who has talked about public transport says the other people (especially bums napping and skeevy people) are the big thing that limits the amount of traveling they do on rails and buses. Reach and timing take up the next two slots.
"So it would be more accurate if you had written "humans and other apes"."

You knew what he meant, so clearly that is not needed.
Is anyone aware of any direct competition in the credit card "scanning" space?
There are drive through liquor stores in some counties.
The de facto standard in this country is one dedicated car per person, which spends 90% of its time sitting in a parking space. Communally shared cars will be massively more efficient than that, and, unlike buses and trains, will actually replace dedicated vehicles for a majority — some day 100% — of users.

The public transportation the public uses beats the one they don't.

Not to mention that communal vehicles would make electric cars suitable for any length of trip— Forget about exchanging batteries, just swap cars at the charging station.
"For obvious reasons, you can't watch movies while the car is in motion. You can, however, listen to the audio. And you can watch on the MMI display whenever the vehicle is stopped, even if it's just for a moment."

Why is this even a feature? Wouldn't it make more sense to just pause the audio and video and black out the screen when the car is in motion?
Irque du Freak: The Vampire Assistant
While Steve is the son brat who always gets angry teachers.
PTX seems quite reasonable to me, but I don't think it's really intended to be a programmer-facing abstraction. NVIDIA wants you to target CUDA, and they'll (try to) ensure that CUDA has sufficient performance advantages to make it worth your while to do so.
Phuket
The author responds to that point in the blog's comments section.
Apple Gets Antitrust Approval for Nortel Bid
It does, at least for visual artists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act
This looks even smoother than Square, but I'm curious to see how it handles credit cards with the silvery ink worn off of the numbers, or cards with complex graphics on the front.
CSS Grid: Adapting HTML for Application UIs
BitTorrent Launches µTorrent 3.0 - µChat Beta App
Apache OFbiz for automation solutions
I mean, there's Square... but they use a hardware piece. I'm interested to understand why the hardware piece is better than the photo scanner. Is it more secure? More reliable?
Maisel bought the place for a pittance in the '70s...

2008 - 42 = 1966.

$102K in 1966 is $711K in 2011 inflation-adjusted dollars.
At $50k for 4 weeks, maybe I should just start a billboard company instead of an internet startup!
I'm guessing that it will be really important to allow cops to disable autonomous cars, or at least force them to pull over and stop.

I'm really interested in how they will handle that issue.
Godzilla is played by a man in a costume; do you think Godzilla is humanoid?
Me too! I've still yet to meet a real live .net dev who is actually panicking.
I was replying to this:

My view is that the biggest problem in civilization and our country now is the brain-dead, all-emotions all the time, dysfunctional, self-destructive nonsense of old media

I don't think the state of the media is a problem. In my opinion the media reflects the nature of its consumers, not the other way round, therefore if there is a problem it is with the consumers.
Enterprise Portal and collaboration for small business
This.

A few weeks ago, I left my house for the grocery 2 miles away. I followed a car from my subdivision to the grocery. After shopping, I followed the same car back from the grocery to my subdivision.
Unless you don't trust the hosting provider. Then their best bet is to take down the proper machines.
Can one take the referral fee as a sign-on bonus if he refers himself? (half joking)

How important is it that candidates have a passion for food?
Eric Schmidt has referred to it as "solving the bug that cars were invented before computers." It seems so obvious now!
While Washoe and Clark counties are the two largest with Reno and Las Vegas being the two largest population centers there's a large rural and conservative population that prevents many progressive laws from passing.
No Not Nortel but from a corporate perspective a little bit like Sun maybe. Making Outdated Phones for an enterprise market that has move on, relying on an humongous installed user baser, making weird technology bets, and half-hearted attempts at emerging markets like Tablets.
Sound almost like Sun with Solaris, Java, MySQL and VirtualBox. I think Microsoft will play the Role of Oracle as the last act :)
" So you want to do a startup, eh? "
See getaround.com. They are doing something like this already.
Easy REST API with django-tastypie
No, we humans are not apes. Different species entirely.
Mobile apps development: HTML5 vs. Native apps
What PHP Needs
Risk associated with mobile computing
Exactly what you just did.
The site should treat @gmail.com and @googlemail.com as equal. I found my leaked MtGox mail address for one variant but not the other.
what do you mean "now"? DHS got their handbook from the FBI
Corporations don't want LTS. They want RidiculouslyLTS. Ubuntu's LTS releases are supported for 3 years. IE 6 is now almost 10 years old. This is what corporations want. They want to install software and forget about it for a decade. This is not a realistic model for a browser. Even 3 years is not very realistic. 3 years means running Firefox 3.0 now, in June 2011. Sure, some people do it, but it's not a great idea for many reasons.

When you're looking at Microsoft Word, expecting long-term support makes sense. It's shrink-wrapped software and upgrading is a big ordeal. You have to upgrade everyone at once, or someone's going to (repeatedly and consistently) send out docx files to coworkers who cannot open them. It can take a lot of time and money to upgrade everyone. Browsers are (or should be) different. The web is continually evolving. New exploits pop up fairly often. Regular upgrades are necessity for security and functionality, so upgrading a browser should be a minor, easy thing, and it should happen frequently. The problem is not the lack of support from Mozilla, but the expectation from corporations that browsers should be treated like Word processors.
StartSSL suspends services after security breach
And in general, those artists are laughed right out of court, as they should be.

A photo of a sculpture is in no way a substitute for the sculpture.

The pixel art is in no way a substitute for the original photo, either.
You mean the connections? Yeah, that was the most difficult thing to wrap my head around when I first started learning iOS programming.

Apple's frameworks are strongly MVC out of the box, but unlike some other frameworks, it doesn't automatically "wire up" the view and the view controller for you automatically. In the MS world, you double click on a button and an OnClick handler is created for you in the code behind class. Views and their view controller classes are strongly coupled. In the Apple world, views and controllers are very separate things. There's a huge wall between them and it's up to the controller to inform the view of its properties and actions. This is different from other frameworks where it goes in the other direction: the controller loads a view and queries the view for its elements (e.g, Android).

So in your NIB/XIB file, once you've assigned a view controller class for your view, you have to manually associate elements in the view to the appropriate properties and actions in the controller. That's what the connections are. No magic. Just very loose coupling and I think the "connect the dots" UI helps to illustrate that.
Wait... what IS the difference between a webapp and a website?
This already exists in Austin, TX and a few other cities around the world. http://www.car2go.com has Smart cars scattered around the city. You grab the nearest one (or book ahead with your smartphone), swipe your RFID card, drive as long as you'd like, and then leave it in any public parking spot.

Edit: Minus the driverless bit obviously. :)
I think it's always important to remember that the first order of business in a raid is to preserve evidence against deletion or modification. This means that their first task is to remove the hardware from anybody's hands but theirs. At which point they can peruse the data as they are able.

Why did they take an entire rack, instead of a few servers? I can think of a couple of potential reasons.
- VM's, which could potentially live on any physical server in a VM pool
- Insufficient information on which physical servers belong to their suspects
- They just don't trust the colo operators to not be involved, and thus limit the suspect data to the servers they provide.

While I wholly agree that it's unfortunate that Instapaper and Pinboard were affected, it's not an unexpected consequence of having your servers alongside (or on the same physical machines) of people you don't know.
The C#/VB async feature looks like a variation of the F# feature and seems to derive from it. The C# team work pretty closely with the F# team. There is a good comparison here of the C# and F# features here: http://tomasp.net/blog/csharp-fsharp-async-intro.aspx. There's a paper on the F# asynchronous model mentioned at the end.
I might be wrong, but I seem to recall that credit card companies charge less in fees for magnetic strip readings than just entering in the number, which the photo scanner would be analogous to.
It seems like either the FBI didn't pay attention to the information given to them by DigitalOne or DigitalOne had poor information about where their servers are located.

The picture painted here is that the FBI came in and hastily took a bunch of equipment without making sure they were taking the right stuff. If that is accurate, then it's likely they might have missed a server with data on it that they needed for their case. Moving quickly and causing collateral damage in a relatively safe environment where you actually have the time to triple check your work is inexcusable on all fronts.
Well, the technology has been nearly there for over a decade. The problems are all legal. The obvious part was that automated cars are illegal to begin with. Less obviously, the liability situation is unclear: who would be willing to accept liability for the driverless car? The company that makes it would be at a huge risk at the mass market stage, because there would be many cars. Therefore, they would be unwilling. The passenger has no control over the car, so they would likewise be unwilling. The state could do it, but this is unlikely. The accident victim could be stuck with it, but this is unacceptable.

So, who takes the liability?
Tech journalists who make no sense
It is not reasonable if the FBI does not have a warrant for your servers(/storage space). Instapaper is completely right to call this "theft".

If his servers are included in the warrant because they were suspected of housing whatever it is the FBI was after, and the court granted the FBI the right to seize them, then yeah, it's reasonable.

If he was sharing a physical machine with the bad guys, then yeah, sorry, that's collateral damage. However, if he was on his own separate leased machine, there is absolutely no reason for the FBI to seize it. It'd be like them executing a seizure warrant on one of those self-storage spaces, and seizing the contents of all the adjoining compartments (which the person being investigated would have had no access to) just because.
[Survey question] What are Google's options for monetizing driverless cars?
S3 has bittorrent support built in, it's trivial to enable. But you probably knew that.
The FBI has been doing these kinds of raids for years and years, there just hasn't been one in the news lately.
Meme backlash is certainly something to be watchful for. Reddit and other meme-hubs can be absolutely vicious when it comes to their sacred symbols. Hot Topic recently started printing some memes on their shirts, and 4chan trolled them in a very public and embarrassing way. (see: http://www.urlesque.com/2010/11/18/hot-topic-rage-guy-shirt-...)

I guess if you go this route you have to weigh the risks and rewards.
Eh? Strange. 9/11 was, as terrible a tragedy as it was, great for computer vision. DHS and DOD were throwing money left and right at researchers and companies (through SBIRs), though mostly for surveillance, activity recognition, vehicle recognition, not industrial machine vision, as far as I'm aware.

I wouldn't expect a large company to pivot, necessarily, but if the branch head wanted to do a startup, he probably missed out on a huge opportunity.
The citizens equivalent would be to offer a $500,000 dollar prize for the best idea to figure out how to turn myself into a quadrillionaire.
That's exactly what I'm talking about: that facility9 blog post explaining why they chose HBase had many factual errors about Cassandra when it was posted, and had to be revised after several respected people in the space contacted the author.
"I’m sure all fields have terrible reporting, but the shit that’s coming out of the tech world must be eligible for some sort of cake."
Then it doesn't exist.

Driverless is key.
Exactly, how hard can it be to have two versions installed. Most browsers even have the ability to launch the browser without menus, address bar etc solving the "learning problem". Just create a shortcut to your internal app and pretend it's a native application with an old version of the browser and use the latest for browsing/research/etc.
Just because ONE application requires IE6 doesn't mean everything has to go through IE6.
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Announcing Get Balance REST API
With this new service on your Nexmo SMS API, you will be able to retrieve your current balance and never lose track of the remaining credit.
You conveniently left out the late 1930s and 1940s, in which a nation-state perpetuated ethnic war and genocide before being stopped primarily by two fairly transnational states.

Would you be interested in a summary of 20th century armed conflicts, classified by the type of states involved? There are a couple in Asia and Africa I'm thinking of.
Yup. Machine vision has rekindled my love of computer science since I fell into it early this year. And OMG the possibilities are endless!

BTW: Richard Szeliski has an excellent free PDF book too.
If it really is the case that Rowling owns the rights to digital distribution of the Potter series, how did the publishers not have the vision to realize how valuable that would be? Are they really that short sighted. That just seems baffling to me.

Kudos for Rowling to put them out DRM free as well.
The driverless bit is what makes this work. If I just hopped off the high speed rail from Atlanta to Austin (I'm optimistic!), I don't want to have to walk to the nearest Smart Car center. I want the car to come to me. :)
I think it may be prudent to begin encrypting all data on disk that can reasonably be encrypted while being able to set up the server remotely so that no one can just snatch your server and get all your data.

This could work by encrypting your database in a truecrypt volume that must be mounted by entering the password. Thus, the data is only ever saved on disk in encrypted form, and the key to access the data is not saved on the disk. Of course, it is still in principle possible for anyone to access that information if they have physical access to the computer while it's running, but at least this makes that much harder.
No, you're right :) Swiping a card makes it a card present transaction, which have lower rates than keyed entry. Some processors will even shut you down if too many of your transactions are keyed (worried about fraud).

From what I can tell, this just does the scanning and doesn't actually process the transaction though? Could be wrong on that. Also, 15 cents per scan seems expensive.
if you can always legally access the book, which will for sure be available to you in that drawer, then the hotel key you stole must be a closure.
Here's to the possibility that the era of automobiles being a significant cause of death is coming to a close.
If it's not obvious to you... People will pay for it.
I think the OP was unreasonably harsh on DigitalOne (never heard of them let alone have any interests). It is very possible that they are consumed with FBI questioning, gag orders or who knows what else. I would give them a pass for a few days until more detail comes out.
The interesting thing is that they're not asking for innovative ideas about spaceflight, which you might expect from DARPA.

They're asking for ideas on optimal management and alternative funding for big long term projects. Spaceflight is just a widget example.