skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the difference is not that big. It's all in our brain anyway, and most virtual experiences evoke similar brain responses as real ones (theater, TV, cinema, mirror neurons etc). What virtual items lose is fine properties like touch, smell, permanence etc.

I think the bigger problem is both city planning and immobile technology: most of us are forced to live packed away from the nature in cities planned for the long-gone industrial era, and until recently we were forced to sit in front of our heavy information devices. I believe the mobile revolution is going to bring back a lot of those "physical" elements that we are missing now.

It's not the first time societies face transfomations. We already eat virtual food, i certainly don't remember slaughtering that many chicken, pigs and cows lately, and i 've only milked a goat once or twice in my life.
DigiNotar's mother company Vasco finally released a press statement.

http://www.vasco.com/company/press_room/news_archive/2011/ne...

Just incredible: They were hacked and they knew it, then forgot to clean up a certificate the hackers generated.

On July 19th 2011, DigiNotar detected an intrusion into
its Certificate Authority (CA) infrastructure, which
resulted in the fraudulent issuance of public key
certificate requests for a number of domains, including
Google.com.

Once it detected the intrusion, DigiNotar has acted in
accordance with all relevant rules and procedures.

At that time, an external security audit concluded that
all fraudulently issued certificates were revoked.

Recently, it was discovered that at least one fraudulent
certificate had not been revoked at the time. After
being notified by Dutch government organization Govcert,
DigiNotar took immediate action and revoked the
fraudulent certificate.

The attack was targeted solely at DigiNotar's Certificate
Authority infrastructure for issuing SSL and EVSSL
certificates. No other certificate types were issued or
compromised. DigiNotar stresses the fact that the vast
majority of its business, including his Dutch government
business (PKIOverheid) was completely unaffected by the
attack.

Maybe directly, certainly not indirectly.
Possibly right. However that doesn't give the equipment the right to catch fire.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938470

This was discussed yesterday as well, although the DigiTimes link is the original source of the rumor. Keep in mind DigiTimes also originated the refuted rumor that Samsung would buy HP's PC business.

And here's my comment on the issue:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2939477
Or even worse for United Fruit Co.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
I think a friend of mine in the business told me a while back that a 1MW turbine was about $1M (if someone could verify this, that would be helpful). That's just the turbine. He also said that one of the biggest problems in getting a wind farm up and running was the procurement of those turbines, which are in short supply due to the uncertain financial future of wind power. Nobody wants to invest in the manufacturing infrastructure only to have the government yank the profitability of the industry by canceling the tax incentives. Keep in mind that people are building farms on the order of 300MW - way, way smaller than the millions mentioned in the article.

You also need the right kind of wind patterns. It's not as easy as buying 1/4 of Alaska. You need to look at the wind speed distributions over time and pick a certain set of conditions to make it work.
I'm pretty sure that git does allow working with only part of the repository. You need to provide some specific options when cloning...
Free speech costs $60,000
18 Things you didn’t know about Firefly
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by sampling pixels, but the parent's post is saying that some areas are very bright while some areas are very dark, like you see in the HDR shot.. but the sensor doesn't know which of the two light levels you want to adjust it for, so it makes a best-guess based on your camera settings.

Example: while our eyes are much more advanced than any camera; think of the effect of having a giant spotlight shined directly* into your eye: You can see the light, but everything else is going to be much darker in comparison. If you look at it long enough, eventually all you're going to see is just the spot-light, everything else around you will be dark. Much like your eye, this is exactly what would happen to your picture if you make the exposure time long enough.. and it doesn't take very long, even 0.25 or 0.5 seconds of time can ruin a picture taken outdoors.

To answer your original post: a lot of DSLRs nowadays DO have features that do this, called "Bracketing" mode where it'll take the same picture with low, mid-range, and high exposure levels(hence the "high dynamic range" name). From there, you combine the three pictures(or more) in photoshop or other software and you get that resulting image that you see. In the low mode, you'll be able to see the foreground while the background is mostly white, the middle level will have both areas show but with not-too-pleasing colors, while the high level will show the background, but the foreground will appear completely dark.

*personal experimentation from long ago has shown that this isn't advisable :)

Edit: I should add that bracketing is just a special feature that takes the pain out of having to set the exposure time and aperture(how wide open the lens is when shooting), but these kinds of HDR shots are perfectly capable with any camera(yes, even the pocket-sized ones) if you have control over these settings. Knowing how to use the camera is key(along with keeping it perfectly still).
Or the auto giants...

But practically every state will lobby for their large companies.
Amazon Android tablet will hit the market: expert says
According to latest report by Forrester Research’s expert, Amazon Android tablet will hit the market in Q4 of the year. A few experts have noted that more than 3 to 5 million Amazon tablet PC will be sold by at the end of 2011.
Or more modern, Exxon. I don't have such a problem with doing this kind of stuff in europe for Oracle, or uselessly for boeing (airbus will always get better treatment in europe). But you want to see some real cloak and dagger shit, read about commodities.
Looking back on the quest for payments
For films and music the audio data may have too much noise, but TV programmes with low background noise (news, documentary, interview) with available Closed Captions (CC) are good training sources. CC transcripts are enforced by broadcasting regulators so they should be highly accurate.

The big problem with using these sources is the huge vocabulary. Speech recognition works better for smaller vocabularies than bigger.
Well, no surprise there. It was stated and elaborated already from the start years ago - Spotify is a cloud service, and the users help out. What IS surprising is that there are no numbers what so ever about how much bandwidth and how many connections that might be in use on a client's computer.
I'm not saying your job has to be the most important thing in your life, but you're going to be doing it for 8 hours a day, 5 out of 7 days each week. As you sleep another 8 hours a day, that leaves 8 hours a day (16 on weekends) for the rest of your life. It's almost half your life!

For something that takes up almost half of your life, I expect you to treat it as something special.

Also, her note starts out 'I need a job' and that traditional methods have failed her. That almost always means she doesn't have one.
I haven't tried this yet, but as a premium subscriber, I'm pretty sure I could save songs as an offline playlist, and then set Spotify to offline mode.
While that is a reasonable policy, the statement in question is one of regional culture. Compare "silicon valley startups".
Woo Hoo Four months after I gave up on my app, a LifeHacker write-up
HN meta point here. This link was posted 18 days ago too, but with a forward slash at the end: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874982 (nonetheless it gets an upvote again for being cool). Potential fix/update for news.arc on this issue or just a useful trick to let slide? :-)
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu...

> In addition in Chromium 13, only a very small subset of CAs have the authority to vouch for Gmail (and the Google Accounts login page). This can protect against recent incidents[1][2] where a CA has its authority abused, and generally protects against the proliferation of signing authority.

[1] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/04/improving-s...

[2] http://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html
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Lightweight Data Access in .Net: Massive
It does that - it's a P2P system. It also eats tonnes of disk space. My spotify data folder is about 12 gig.
Indie Dev adds 'Portal' to Super Mario
It sounds a lot like Asimov's novels. In Caves of Steel humanity lives under domes and feels unconfortable outside them. In Naked Sun humans inhabiting another planet have become totally reclusive and never contact others in person, but using holographic teleconference.
I would recommend following this blog if you like to see impressive progress and tech that no other game can show (from what i've seen)
Do You Care If Google Has Your Information?
Why You Need to Listen to Your Social Network
Targeting Local Keywords
Cramp is a fully asynchronous web framework that's very good at dealing with thousands of open connections. It supports WebSockets (latest protocol) and Server-sent Events out of the box. Optionally, supports using Ruby 1.9 fibers to prevent spaghetti evented code - which means seamless Active Record integration.
Skype is p2p.
To me, he seemed to flip-flop back and forth on it until the end. I think he was trying to counter-argue, but ended up presenting the ideas as his own.

Very confusing.

As for the company... They tried the money & collaboration method first. When it was rejected, they went another totally legal route.

We don't know why those devs left. Maybe it was money, maybe it was pride... Maybe they disagreed with the direction that was being taken, and changed companies so they could go in a better direction. Maybe they were bored. We don't know.
I didn't want to call him a Luddite, as that seems rude, but I'd have to agree with you.

Of course there is some truth in saying that technology has some unwanted effects on our lives. But, the question is what alternatives or solutions does he propose, if any?

You can improve the world by solving problems for a lot of people or you can improve it by writing books about problems which new solutions may or may not create. I think Carr has chosen the less useful option, if he is indeed trying to improve the world and not just trolling.
Ask HN: Getting traffic to a new Blog
I started a new blog a couple weeks ago that focuses mainly on Programming but also has some content on Startups, Food and Drinks.

I've been doing a numerous things to get traffic to the site like commenting on similar blogs, submitting articles I think are interesting to here, reddit and other sites and spreading through Twitter and Facebook and while this brings in a little traffic every time I do these things I'm finding none of this traffic is staying (drops off if I don't promote for a day).

My question is what are some good ways to get traffic that sticks to a new blog?
I think taxpayer money shouldn't be secretly spent to support private company.
In my world (I'm not a mathematician) vector geometry is a subset of linear algebra. Consulting Wikipedia doesn't tell me otherwise:

Linear algebra has a concrete representation in analytic geometry ...

In classical mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry, or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system and the principles of algebra and analysis.

Regarding another comment of yours it also said:

Thus matrix theory is often considered as a part of linear algebra.
I recently heard of an old persian saying that goes something like "Try to learn something from everyone or you will always stay dumber than them".
I agree with you- that example may not fit everybody's problem. When I switched from a simple phone to a smart phone it was important to me, but now I don't bother (never too far from a charger).

And you are right, of course, in that ios allows most people to do the things they most care about very easily-- that's probably the takeaway. If you do that, then, apparently even if the other stuff is hard, people will probably figure out how to do it when they need it. Somehow.
I was referring to this. Didn't know about the other.
They do if they decide to use you as a super node.
Website seo for Search engines - online promotion
Thinking about period of time, most of us needs to be related onward or over the top of the multitude of others. Equally, the same ideal is put whenever it happens to publishers and web business owners which might be looking to outshine their opposition around the search engines like google.
I would really love to see some perf comparisons vs C# or Java.
An iPad Allotted To Every Indian MP {Member of Parliament)
Mozilla Firefox Killer Bug: Open Communication
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473832
Ha! I didn't realize about '/'. I asked in #startups about giving my old thread a bump but no one responded. So I tried making a new post and it worked!
Interactive Python Book
You will need a Google account
Based on Python 3.x
Buildings/Windows are far more dangerious to birds than windturbines. It's really an order of magnatude problem where people see X deaths per year per turbine and think that's bad and ignore far more significant issues like domestic house cat's. For comparison consider well over 1 billion, aka 1,000,000+k birds die a year vs ~80k from wind turbines.
Web Developer tool box
One Rails project I had got sidelined for a good 6 hours because ActiveRecord requires IDs on everything. The documentation says that you can skip IDs, but when you try to save it crashes every time.

Go figure whose fault that one is.
Related:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point
A side effect of losing touch with the physical world is that it wrecks your brain. You begin to feel isolated from the rest of the world. What doesn't help is the growth of cities, and overpopulation. We start to view other people as competitors and enemies. Have you ever gone through some days when you encounter many people, whether it's in a commute, or whatever and ask why people are so useless in your life? What does he/she matter in your life? Life has become so impersonal, and it's not our fault. But I think we have to do something about it, as individuals (not as collective).

In the past, we had tribes. Small communities where everyone felt a sense of belonging. Why? Because everyone was important to the success of the whole. You could save the world, because the world was not 1 million people. Everyone mattered to each other, and everyone had stake in each other's lives.

The world has become something like this:

We RUSH and STRESS to go to places for 40 hours we hate, to work on stuff we don't like, with people we don't care about.
World's 7 billionth person about to be born
So You Think You Can Design? Quirky Tests Amateur Inventors
Yes, as long as you reconnect every 30 days.
The "persuade record companies" is also a valid point and contribution. IMHO, this persuasion has convinced other content producers to trust Apple in their walled garden model. Also as a user I can say that I have paid loads more for content (music, iOS apps, and Mac apps) via the Apple platform, than I did with Windows and Android. Casualty or causality?
> But practically every state will lobby for their large companies.

One thing I realized when I moved to Italy was that "business friendly" does not refer to large corporations. All countries take care of those (more or less). It refers to fewer rules, regulations and taxes for smaller, more marginal firms.
secretly

Thank you. We live in a democracy. We expect our governments to do things for us, and every four or five years we decide whether we like what they've done. That only works when they are transparent.

If the US government wants to shill for Larry, fine, but tell us so we can decide whether they are "Going to bat for American business and jobs."
You can change how much disk space it uses in the settings.
FF nightly builds also block the PKIOverheid CA which signs the certificates for key Dutch government websites and services (DigiD). Mozilla is going to have a fun time with Dutch users/Dutch Government/DigiNotar
Thanks! If I were IT support, how could I get this to happen on every Mac in the company?
You really need to have more information about what this is. Why would I give you my email if I don't know what the product does?
Deploying Ruby applications in the cloud
I'd love to see it too! However, I do think the comparisons should be about the ability handle the number of open connections seamlessly and not req/sec. And relevant memory/cpu usages.
Cluster - extensible multi-core server management for node.js
My guess is wacom managed to improve the quality enough to make it usable for artists. The other pens seem to be mainly useful for ocr, and are marketed as tools for taking notes.

The automatic vectorization of the drawings is also nice.
"The client simultaneously uploads to at most 4 peers." I've never seen anything regarding how much bandwidth is used though.
For the programmers out there, it's a bit like the difference between writing code which takes concrete data types ('n-tuple of floats', 'n by m matrix of floats'), and writing more generic code which takes abstract datatypes (roughly: 'thing supporting addition and scalar multiplication' and 'function on said things which happens to satisfy a linearity property').

The abstraction brings some benefits, but also has some conceptual overhead for those new to the area.

In a sense the abstraction isn't technically necessary, at least for finite-dimensional vector spaces: every finite-dimensional real vector space is isomorphic to some R^n, so you can express all the results of finite-dimensional linear algebra in purely concrete terms (vectors, matrices) if you really want to. In particular, if you're only interested in doing geometry in R^2 and R^3, the abstract vector space treatment adds relatively little.

But (again perhaps analogously to programming) hiding away the lower-level details can make things clearer and more elegant if one invests some time in getting comfortable with the abstractions involved. It allows you to use whichever representation comes most naturally for your vectors, rather than tying you to representing in terms of some particular basis. And it does add some generality, especially when it comes to infinite-dimensional spaces, which turn out to be pretty useful things.
Hi Rick,
maybe you should come and visit Nedap. I would really like to show you how we do business here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQ5Aac96aM
Kind regards, Bart
Facebook Introduces five new Privacy Tweaks
In my research group (in the School of Computing at Dublin City University), we publish all our papers to our web site and to the university's own research portal (doras.dcu.ie). They are free for anybody to access.

The version we publish is the "camera ready", which is to say the last version we submit for actual publication. It is not, however, the final published version (so, for example, they don't include an Elsevier logo or conference proceedings page numbers). I believe this is legal in our jurisdiction, or at least nobody has called us on it!
Where did "Firefox with Twitter" come from?
I once worked somewhere where we had a need to store and transmit lots of camera created jpegs in as efficient a manner as possible.

When working on this problem, I noticed that all digital cameras create jpeg with 422 sampling. This might be a religious topic for some, but I cannot see any visual difference between 4:2:2 and 4:2:0, even with high magnification or on physical prints as large as 30 inch height. Simply sub-sampling to 4:2:0 along with subtle tweaks to quantization tables and with little effort we'd bring a typical jpeg from 1-2MB down to 300-400KB.

We even did a series of experiments with people who look at photo prints all day and they could not reliably pick the 'recompressed' images.

The only reason I think people really hold on to 422 or even 444 is that when subsampling you can get nasty amplified errors if you are using two tools that sampling with different algorithms or from different siting (i.e. imaging if one tool picked odd lines and one picked even). Although the spec specifies siting, I think there are still people who do it wrong, not to mention there is still leeway for interpretation on how pixels are averaged for siting that is not on a pixel boundary.

Bottom line is that if you know exactly what you are going to do with the photo in the future you can compress a lot and quite easily with little risk. If you have a lot of unknown processing in the future, things can get dicey.
If you're building a Rails app, just profile your queries (perhaps with New Relic) before pushing to production.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoge6QzcGY
And this is why you never-ever want to release a good product to the US. If it works great in EU and the rest of the world, you can be damn sure that you will meet so much hate in US, for some obscure reason. Well - from a personal perspective.

I've been running Spotify since early beta, and monitor the network usage of all my application, both when it comes to traffic and when it comes to what it accesses (littlesnitch is a great tool!). Spotify hardly uses any upstream bandwidth, and if it were using a lot, I should've seen that. I see a lot of downstream network usage.

This is just another blogger to piss on Spotify for some strange reason, to the point where they make up stuff. And it does not make sense to enable the user to not have any caching, then the network usage of the entire swarm would've quadrupled. I feel that 1GB minimum and standard at 10% of free diskspace (!!!! free, not total) is a good middle road.

(For those interested, Skype uses a boatload more bandwidth than Spotify. We've had problems with network congestion because so many clients on the network had Skype open and they routed so many calls through our network.)
> Spotify is a cloud service

That much was well known, but never has a "cloud service" meant that the users were the cloud. That's P2P, a completely different paradigm.
Yes, it does, why shouldn't it?

1. Edit some files

2. start git gui and commit

3. repeat 1+2 as many times as you want

4. git svn dcommit

5. all local commits will now be committed to the SVN repo
Apple’s Designers Work Towards Storefront Symmetry
Have never seen the devices in DE and CH, thank god IL doesn't use them either for all I can tell.

I would reject to fly in that case. No question. The whole security around planes is already stupid as it is now, no need to get more intimate with the security staff.
I haven't seen a huge increase in spammy submissions per se recently (though I don't have data, and do think there's definitely one compared to 6 months ago), but it does seem like they stay undead longer. I'm not sure if the flagging threshold went up, or if not enough people are flagging spam. It'd be cool if more people did. The New page is already pretty noisy when it comes to finding interesting new stuff (it seems most people just read the front page, so the first 2-3 votes are very luck-based), and having it be spammy just makes it less likely that people will read it and/or find the interesting stuff on it.
I think it means that everything is mediocre crap.

(bar 1984 which goes missing).