skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the most important point. GPS data is associated with my car, but there is not guarantee that I am the one opperating the car. Manual police surveillance would (hopefully) notice this. Furthermore, it makes planting false evidence rediculously easy. Some nasty cop (or civillian) could simply transfer the GPS to another vehicle, violate some crimes with it, then transfer it back to the original vehicle.

Without controls preventing these sorts of abuses---and I suspect such controls would be impossible to implement in practice---GPS data would do more harm than good.
You don't need to run your own server to have a choice. Running a VPS with root access is cheap these days. Even on a shared server to still have choice (at least IIS vs Apache).

Of course, you also have a choice not to care, but then you probably don't do any server side programming.
Tapping into OnStar also gives an audio feed. Just FYI.
But what prompted you to cancel all those accounts you were born with? And how can you stand not knowing how each of your acquaintances is currently distracting themselves from their reality? Maybe you have some blogs or twitstreams I could subscribe to that would help me lead a simpler life?

I think the original site says more about the author (and those that find it insightful) than anything else. You're getting possibly multiple 'notifications' per minute and it just now occurs to you that it might be suboptimal? Sigh.
I remembered my first time trying gentoo took some 12 hours to compile KDE... Well that was really long time ago.
It's not outrage, people just don't understand how this business works. I think people want to know how it works both because they like understanding the inner workings of things, and they won't use it until they're convinced it will work.
Scoble: "I wish I had never heard of Google+’s brand pages"
The name is ok, not good or bad. 7 out of 10.

The logo though. Good type, horrible website icon. It has the Star of David on it. The only ethnicity to Google auto-complete to banking conspiratorial pages is represented by this symbol. There are lots of idiots in the world, I know, but I wouldn't go with this logo. The one on the actual card is much, much better.
If you have reason to believe the device was placed by law enforcement, tampering with its function to deceive them is a criminal offence.

No, it's against "the law." It's hardly a crime.

But semantic distinctions aside, I really don't care if it's a crime or not. If the US governments fucks with me and pisses me off, I'm going to do what I'm going to do.

It’s far better to work to make such activities illegal than to do your complaining from behind bars.

That's not really an either/or thing. They haven't (yet, as far as I know) put one of these on my car, and I work on making things like this illegal though the political process . And I'll continue to do so, up until the (hypothetical) day that I wind up behind bars for fucking with one of their silly little tracking devices.

All that said, I can't imagine them ever getting a conviction in a jury trial, on a charge of "tampering with a government owned device" if it's not labeled or anything. It's totally reasonable to say "Oh, I found this thing on my car and I didn't know what it was so I took it off and threw it away" or "I knew what it was, but I assumed my crazy stalker ex-girlfriend put it there," etc. Getting any reasonable jury to convict on this would be insanely difficult.
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The article is from July.

I was surprised to hear Better Place described as a California startup: Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur; almost all Israelis can describe Better Place, but no one knows the company is incorporated in the states.
That's roughly what they do in the hypervisor version too (protection is at page granularity). The big problem is that this causes major suckage on an unmodified kernel because mprotect() changes mappings synchronously and only works on a linear region at a time. So basically every page that gets scanned involves a separate global TLB shootdown.

The Azul collector doesn't need the changes in page protection to be visible immediately, so their kernel patch allows batching together the changes and committing in a single operation.

As far as I can tell from reading their whitepaper, however, they still require kernel patches.
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Is it possible that great founders can be different types of people (engineers, professionals, visionaries or some combination of the three)? Weird.
I think , if startup founders were to emulate anything from Apple's early days, it would be to emulate THE TEAM.

Founder-teams should consist of one brilliant engineer (Woz), one business guy (Markkula) and one design guy (Jobs).

Everyone should be themselves, but for a company to truly succed, a perfect combination of people is needed. And a perfect timing. Apple had both.
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GPS tracking allows for tracking many targets at once and then sifting through the data to find "bad guys".

Excellent point. Professional statisticians make these mistakes all the time. It is widely considered the reason that so much published scientific research is false. If professional statisticians make these errors, then how can we expect the average policeman not to?
My thinking is that an innovative, abstract replacement for banking will either float or sink on the strength of its offering and subsequent word-of-mouth. My mother wouldn't ever sign up for this on her own regardless of what it's called, but in time, I might be able to get her to use it if it's good. A descriptive brand name is almost irrelevant for a company like this.

Now, the other angle here is that banking might simply be their entree into the abstraction business at large. So maybe today I bank through Simple, but in a few years I buy insurance through them. And maybe my cell phone plan.

There's a lot of confusion and noise interfering with the efficiency of consumer markets as mediums of value exchange. Abstraction, quantification, and objective selection could be a neat way to cut down on some of the inefficiency, misinformation, and confusion.
Actually, there are quite a few points where modern technologies would allow for a significant streamlining of research processes. Off the top of my head (as I work in the field):

1. data acquisition - you won't believe in how many labs devices with a computer interface (gpib or whatever) are running in standalone mode, costing hours in grad student hours where parameters are changed and values are read by hand - in the best case people duct-tape something together with a labview program. No. Just No.

2. collaborative data sharing - if you want to show your boss a graph, you email him a jpg - where is the site to upload a csv and show a graph to other people/edit together?

3. Writing papers: The state of the art is mailing a LaTeX(!) or Doc(!) file to your colleagues with .v1.edited appended...
Reviewing the published material is just the last step.

PS: I'm working on a solution for #3 (Etherpad + LaTeX preview + export in the appropriate journal format). Drop me a line if you're interested in details.
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Specifically, the "standard compression" version is MainConcept at 10 Mbit, and the "Raystream" version is x264 at 1.15 Mbit using the following options:

> x264 - core 112 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2010 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=6 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=0 b_bias=0 direct=2 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=0 keyint=250 keyint_min=24 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=22.0 qcomp=0.70 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=3 ip_ratio=1.41 aq=1:1.00
Does your claim stay for the r() with the period longer than 2 to 100, the shortest in the algorithms he presents?
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Got multiple requests after building http://Scrolldit.com (Scroll Reddit) to build the same mashup for Digg.com in order to easily compare content.
The thing is, I don't really need linux. I started using it since XP was okey and Vista sucked. I needed change and Linux provides room for lots of experiment. We have good WMs and we have a wide range of types. All of that was fine and dandy when I was 15 and loved to experiment. But now I don't really want to experiment much. I just want a stable OS which works great with my laptop. Should integrate well and all the buttons on my laptop should work with it (like I have only one button for both wifi and bluetooth, on windows it brings up a dialog box with options for turning them on or off, in ubuntu there is this [00,01,10,11] sequence. Its annoying).

I am a student and majorly do C programming for microcontrollers. All that works good, sometimes better [looking at you TI MSP430 launchpad debugger] on windows. So the only purpose of having a linux installation is that I am habituated in last 5 years.
Well good enought :) I often listen to podcast on the train and when im surfing the web witch both talkes up alot of time so I never have enough good podcast material.
The financial system is inherently complicated. Having an account with a traditional bank is no guarantee that your financial life will be free of intermediaries. Banks outsource everything from IT to customer support to marketing and fraud analytics. Unless you either run a bank or work with a very basic credit union, you probably don't have the full picture of what's going on with your bank accounts.

Banking with us does not obfuscate where your funds reside. It does, however, mean that you don't have to deal with a bank for support and technology issues. Instead, you get to deal with a company that's focused on those things rather than on managing a treasury, making loans, etc.
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That's good to know, thanks! They really do hold their sharpness.
Probably it should be named DBG_KEYS or D_KEYS - some evil hard to type name, that says - I'm to be used very rarely.

But what do I know, just giving friendly advice...
Maybe the definition of a hard credit pull should be changed? It discourages people from shopping for loans since you often cant get a real interest rate quote until that provider gets your credit rating themselves anyways.
IIS (MS) plays a different game compared to e.g. Apache. Since the Apache Foundation is non-profit, I doubt they define "winning" by revenue.
tl;dr Scoble created his company's G+ account and now he can't give it to anyone else at his co or let anyone else post to it because it's tied to his account.

Worse, he's afraid of accidentally posting personal stuff to his company account.
I really want to try redis, but Windows is big part of our development. Is there any port of redis to Windows?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i... should provide enough info about this.
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The actual process of opening an account with us at least as straightforward as opening an account with a traditional bank, if not a bit simpler.
I agree with tptacek on this one: Even if they have the same effect, they're fundamentally different things. The difference is that by placing a tracker, you really are just tailing them with an electronic device of your own. But co-opting their phone or forcing a company to divulge records without a court order is essentially a violation of their property rights and protection from unreasonable searches.
Society for Amateur Scientists:

http://www.sas.org/
> Beer? No, it's NOT an acquired taste. Bavarian brews bought & imbibed in Bavaria are 100x better than the canned swill here.

While German friends are proud of their beer, they love American microbrews and practically survive on the stuff whenever they visit the US.
Looks remarkably like asana.com, flow.com, orchestra.com... Seriously, how did this happen? The UI, emphasis and core functionality of all these are so similar (even for a narrow category) that this cannot be a coincidence.
I've been using this lightly for about a month now and it's a fantastic service. I hope it's wildly successful.
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would be great to integrate with github
Thomas --

I mostly agree, but I think it makes more sense to flip the question: what do we lose by requiring a warrant to attach the device? If it's a valid criminal investigation, it seems like this would be easy to obtain, and having this small hurdle seems like it would help prevent abuse for political or personal agenda.

For me, the difference between attaching a temporary removable device and traditional visual surveillance is that individuals are allowed to monitor the coming and goings of vehicles in public, but are not allowed to trespass to do so. While I might be OK with an agency deciding that a vehicle should be monitored after following a written procedure, I'm not OK with individual officers making this decision without central approval. Or do you think it should be legal for individuals to do attach their own devices?
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"Custom magic algorithms" in this case being "off-the-shelf free software, using completely default parameters, that we've stolen and claimed is our magic algorithm".
> A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically

And yet it actually did arise organically in a way, as it is based on an app that the parent company acquired.
The article makes at lest one important point. There are only two incentives for a scientist: publications and grant money. Getting published fast reduces quality of research. Also, the focus on publications hinders other research outcomes like publicly available data or software.

Industry or start-ups may not make full use of publications that attack the same problem over and over again but they surely can improve with a new data or newly implemented algorithms.

[EDIT] Publicly available data and software make replicability more realistic. Currently lack of details in publications make it almost impossible.

If only there was some way to influence NIH and NSF grant requirements ...
Blocking port 25 doesn't impact people in a meaningful way, only spammers. For years virtually every ISP has offered an alternate port like 587.
https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads
For me it's clearly a violation of my rights the second an agent of the state lays a finger on my property without oversight and due process.
There's a couple of outcomes I can see:

1. We just aren't the right banking service for you.
2. We find out that a lot of people are interested in rewards programs, and we come up with a really compelling one. We've addressed that briefly in our FAQ, FWIW.

Either way, thanks for your feedback.
"Full" version releases? There will be a new release every six weeks. Whatever features are ready to be shipped at that time will be released. There was a discussion about removing the version number from the "About" box but it was left in for debugging purposes. That's all the version number is for now. Since there are no "long-term support" versions, just make sure you're up-to-date and don't give the version number any mind.
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Also known as...

... the default x264 parameters. Yay!
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Falling costs and shrinking size mean that over time, your standards of 'walking up and attaching' and 'detection and removal is allowed' will become less meaningful over time. They could become so cheap, ubiquitous, and nearly undetectable that your 'same activity just more resource efficient' standard will allow a quantitative difference to become a qualitative difference.
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I still call BS.

>Before Raystream, a one hour video converted to 720p using the best compression algorithms resulted in files in excess of 1 GB, far too large to be streamed over commercial Internet connections. Using Raystream, the same one hour 720p video can be compressed up to 90% of its original file size, which makes it easily streamable over connection speeds ranging from 0.4 to 1.0 Mbs per second." ... "Raystream compresses online videos, reducing their file size by up to 90%, with no loss in video quality or clarity."

That's not possible unless Raystream developed H.264. Apple uses H.264 for their encoding too. The magic is just H.264.
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We've explained in our FAQ why we don't do this currently: https://www.simple.com/faq/

Basically, reimbursing ATM fees is an illusion. They charge you over here and reimburse you over there. No net win for most consumers, unfortunately.
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Are you going to put limits on check amounts? The only checks I tend to get are payroll checks and often those are too big for most deposit by smartphone check deposit programs.
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Scam or not, the CTO is called Roman Rumpf. You can't make that stuff up.
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If you're happy with your current bank, you're probably not our target customer.

I think we're doing some stuff that's pretty different in terms of making your financial data easy to explore and helping you meet savings goals and automatically earn more interest. Those things might not be compelling to everyone, but a lot of people seem interested.
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Just got the notification, but didn't upgrade because a lot of my very useful extensions for HTML dev weren't compatible.

I don't think the new features in 7->8 make up for the lack of my extensions.
Oh nice. I've been doing a lot of crawling myself (http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2010/12/09/my-thesis-building-blo...) and I'd love to get my hands on this data. I hope they'll segment their data a bit further.

I personally would LOVE to have a simple list of the domainnames themselves without all of the connections and documents.

Also: Why not just use bittorrent to distribute it?
Although I've not looked into exactly why Mozilla have adopted the rapid-release cycle, I'd imagine it may be something to do with the ability to quickly drop backwards-compatibility and support. That way the code base can mature faster and less time is spent on redunant versions.
I was the former GM of Yahoo BOSS (was there from pre-launch through 11/09). BOSS does still exist - http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/. It is now a paid API under the umbrella of Yahoo Developer Network. The pricing plan (http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/#pricing) is based on query type and volume. Unfortunately there is no self-serve advertising model (meaning if you incorporate Y!/Bing search ads, the service is free). It's important to note though that this is the Bing search index, not the old Yahoo Search index that is effectively shut down. The original BOSS product was based on Yahoo! Search.

From what I have heard BOSS continues to do very well and is pointed at internally as how to turn an API into a real business and product.

One more note, I am now at Factual where we are very happy consumers of the CommonCrawl service.
Quite - and with 4 wheels, I imagine that stairs would be manageable for Justin as well. You might like this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qJyAWZeV4

I think US industrial/product designers are seriously underestimating the market for consumer-facing humanoid robots.
I have actually used one of the Xerox PARC machines. Three button mouse, you needed to know which button did what or it was useless. No diagonal scrolling...
I think these guys ripped us off, and all they did was go after the low-handing fruit: tasks only. We pushed to add geo-tagging, voice, business card scanning, and some a peer-to-peer CRM system.

Plus, we have a cooler name:
http://fieldforceapp.com

I guess we shouldn't expect Salesforce to cannibalize themselves with a mobile CRM solution, but still they could have tried a little harder!
I agree. I'm a beginner and have used Apache because it's just what comes with everything. My non-toy sites always use Apache as I know I'm less prone to trouble because of my experience with it.

I do have a VPS account with Webbynode which lets you run several Linux flavors, and a choice of nix, apache, or node which is cool but still scary for someone like me who is comfortable with the command line on my own file system but a little shaky when SSH-img into my VPS.

This might sound dumb, but I'm a server newbie. What I've always wondered is why anyone would use IIS at all? It seems like all MS products make you jump through hoops to do simple things that work on Apache ad others with just a click or simple command. It's been a while since I've experienced it so I wish I could point to so,etching more solid but I remember a few years back having to install PHP on IIS with MySQL and it was a pain plus not everything worked by default and there was just a lot of hoops to jump through just to get a simple CRUD app online. What does IIS offer that others don't?

Also, why does most enterprise software get built with ASP and .NET? I'm in a CIS program in college and they're all about teaching us Microsoft technologies and I can't stand it because I feel like I'll be using languages, frameworks, and other tech that's open for the most part in real world situations (I don't plan to be a corporate programmer, I'm already in business for myself). Please excuse my ignorance, I really do just wonder, I could be thinking totally backwards here.
I sort of understand their reasoning. It's easier to get people interested in a "full" release, than some 3.0.21 version every three mongths.

It also was more wrong to stay on 3.6.* for over two years.

A middle road might be to start a year with a full release and then do point-releases doing that year, so in 2013 we would have, for instance: 13, 13.0.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.2.1, 13.3.
This has huge implications - imagine every "thing" having a freely-available API. Combine that with predictive analytics and we can come really close to predicting the future.
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A non-bank entity cant have the word "Bank" in the name, but any other spelling is okay. BancSimple is legal.

The changed spelling is to indicate that it is not a bank and its accounts are not insured by the FDIC.

e.g. Banc of America Securities, U.S. Bancorp
Can you tell us which banks in particular will be holding the deposits? I ask because I am interested in your product, but I do not want to do business with any bank that repeatedly forecloses on houses for which it holds no mortgage, hires mercenaries to commit the crime of breaking and entering, has a chief underwriter who has testified "Defective mortgages increased during 2007 to over 80 percent of production," or has admitted to over 100,000 instances of perjury. As such I'd like to be certain that you aren't doing business with Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or Citigroup before I open an account.
It was the right move for the first Droid phone, but I agree that the time has passed.
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Love where you're going with this; however, the trust level is just not high enough for me to move my funds from a credit union (becu.org for me) to your partner bank. Now if you could partner with them, or a similar credit union, that would be amazing.
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True, but you could make the same challenges to human surveillance in many cases, or that of traffic cameras at red lights (with some success, it must be said). I'm trying to focus on the second-order effects that could ensue if I accepted Tom's legal argument at face value.