skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit the nail on the head here. While it's possible that the video they posted is 6fps (which is close to what those mencoder flags will achieve), it's more likely that they simply saved the first video with no compression and saved the second one as a regular video file with compression.
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that's OMinous...
> It is awfully hard to even formulate an argument that the New York Times isn't a journalistic organization.

I'll yield - doing so would set the bar so high that there would be no 'journalistic organizations'. To be useful, 'journalism' has to be inclusive, avoiding ruling out every organization based on its failings.

> On the other hand, it is not as difficult to formulate an argument that Wikileaks staff aren't journalists

Precisely because Wikileaks is so different from other journalistic organizations. It's very easy to choose from any number of simple criteria that separate Wikileaks from 'the rest', and then assert that this criterion is a requirement of journalists. But since we're classifying organizations based on what they do, rather than what they don't, it's awfully hard to exclude one which solicits information, analyzes facts, and publishes stories.

More connotations of journalism are speaking truth to power and critical analysis of the situation. Wikileaks does a much better job of the former, and the NYT has abdicated the latter.
They mentioned them on their previous site's blog (http://www.simple.com/blog/Simple/partners-funding/) - The Bancorp Bank and CBW bank.
> It's clear to me that the goods manufactured by passionate, talented, (and largely under-capitalized) craftspeople are inferior to what could be made by automation.

That is not true for all goods....I cannot forsee a computer making a better painting than a good human artist in the near future....In fact I cant even forsee a computer understanding what a good painting actually is in the near future...This holds true for music too....In general works of art are (and will be in the near future) better crafted by humans.

But can you please point to me some good books on this subject.I find this topic very interesting.
Assume a GPS is already installed on every car and in every cell phone - this will be the case in about, oh say, right now.

"allow them to designate specific vehicles in the course of actual investigations"

What process do you think they should use to designate a vehicle and access the records? I would think passing the request by a judge and swearing to him that they think there is a reason to track this car is a good way to do it.
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Unfortunately they need to make their web site cross-browser functional. Doesn't function well in IE8.

I still have no idea why I would need their service. My current financial institutions provide awesome service without cryptic bs. Consumer banking and small business banking is simple to the moderately educated.
> linode uses "E" for the njinx

Apparently, nginx is meant to be pronounced "engine x."
If you go by price signals, human time is one of the scarcest resources on the planet.
Got a better one for you: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot

As the script from the OP, this is a tool to plot STDIN. This one has been refined far more, so it's trivial to use and very powerful.
Glad you liked Chas's interview style!

Length is a tricky one. I rarely get time to listen to a whole hour in one go so I actually prefer 20-30 minute episodes. Looks like the average length of all the podcasts I have in iTunes (427 episodes of various shows) is ~35 minutes so that covers quite a range of lengths.
Maybe you could provide more detail? Simple appears to be very transparent in what service they provide and where they make their money. I said that HN is not a financial forum not because we aren't curious, but because we aren't informed. It's rather like customers fervently demanding to know which web framework you built your photo sharing website on, because "there was that thing that went bad that time before and like lots of people lost some data". Would it comfort this customer to know that you are using django? Or rails? It's foolish to provide any answer, because at such a high level there are no wrong answers. It's important to be concerned about your money, but let's be reasonable in the technical questions that we demand answers to. As Simple handles money, they are already heavily regulated and bonded, and if anyone doesn't get their money back, it won't be depositors.
There is a very informative overview (video presentation) of this model at Ted:

http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html

by the Better Place CEO Shai Agassi.
matplotlib is a library; this is a commandline tool. The Perl part is largely irrelevant.
Dear Mozilla. Why do you keep doing all these full version releases? Seriously it's just annoying.
Just because IE is on version 10. Doesn't mean you have to be.
Why are you doing this....
You've gone from 3-8 in a year. That's not right.
But it isn't, really. If you want to trade compression for speed, the presets listed on the top of the help page are far more effective.

subq=6
Default is 7. This makes compression worse.

partitions=all
Higher than the default, but for negligible gain. This is only enabled on the slowest presets.

8x8dct
The default.

me=umh
Higher than the default, for small gain.

frameref=5
Default is 3; 5 gives small gain.

bframes=3
The default.

b_pyramid=normal
The default.

weight_b
The default.
You can't separate Jobs' and Wozniak's contributions like that. Jobs deserves great credit for helping to motivate Wozniak's great feats in the early days (look how much effort it took to convince Woz to leave HP, even after Apple's initial successes), handling practical considerations and component issues, and forming the early Apple leadership team which eventually lead to Markulla's involvement. PG has spoken many times about how "scrapiness" is perhaps the most crucial sign of a successful startup; almost all of Apple's came from Jobs.
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>* I do not think it is unreasonable for law enforcement agencies to designate, during the course of an actual investigation of a specific target, individual cars for GPS surveillance:

I don't understand where you draw the line. You don't think it's necessary for them to get a warrant, but you don't think they should be able to at-will tap into any OnStar system. Those, in my eyes, are virtually the same thing. The standard of "probable cause" has been around for a long time and it is in place because of the language of the Fourth Amendment which protects against "unreasonable" searches and seizures.
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good luck with that.

if something is too critical to be taken offline, it should have a hot standby, right?
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

Do you have data on banks increasing fees to combat the expense of "cyber-theft"? That's a new one to me. Banks have mostly been raising fees because new legislation in the US has cut into their interchange revenue. Plus, the cost of building and maintaining physical branches remains high, and foot traffic to those branches is decreasing.

I'm not sure what you mean by "physical collateral", but we do take steps above and beyond what many banks offer to make our systems and our customers more secure. We're offering multi-factor authentication, and we participate in rigorous internal and third-party security audits.

In some ways, our partner-based model improves our security stance. Our systems never touch sensitive data like customer debit card numbers.

I appreciate your concerns about security. Please understand that it's a top priority for us.
Again: I do not think the police should have warrantless access to telemetry devices owned by the motorist.

I do not care what process is used to determine what cars an actual police officer will walk up to and attach a device to, just like I do not care what process is used to determine which cars an actual police officer will tail in an unmarked car. I care that some process exists, but I don't think it needs to be court ordered.

I think you should consider carefully whether mechanically involving the courts in decisions about collecting information in plain sight of police officers is in your best interests. Search warrants are already often a formality granted in the overwhelming majority of requests. A good way to help condition the court system to say "yes" to every request is to flood them with requests that in virtually every single instance will be be reasonable.
Ask HN: What does the next 10-20 years look like in tech/engineering?
Specific questions I'm thinking of:

- Is it all facebook and google from here on in?
- Are we going to solve the energy crisis?, How about the climate crisis?
- Flying cars? seriously?
- How will quantum computers change things?
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- And anything else you want to discuss ...

I'm not necessarily looking for hard facts. Vague opinions can also be interesting.
"he failed every product in the next 18 years and spent millions of dollars."

The Mac failed?

NeXTSTEP failed, when it's running the millions of Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TVs today?

Pixar failed?

Jobs' record has more successes than Wozniak's.
This is awesome! Thanks so much for sending this out!
What if I need to bank in-person? I know it seems odd these days, one example is if you need a lot of cash. I hit my maximum daily ATM withdrawal limit last week, it was extremely annoying. I happen to have accounts at two banks, so I used my other account to get around it. I used to exclusively use online banking (E*TRADE Bank). Not being able to go to a bank in-person, for things like cash or money orders, become a real problem. I switched to normal retail banking.

How would I handle these issues with Simple?
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Yea, I identify with the guy, and as best I can tell he just enjoys his newfound craft. For someone like that, selling your work provides you two things- validation when other people like your work, and money to keep doing what you love doing.
Yea, I find it sad.

I would self identify as a fiscally conservative proponent of free markets and I vote for the Democratic candidate most of the time though I have been leaning to the Libertarian party lately.
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Relevant, always. But demanded? We don't always demand to know important details regarding open source NoSQL databases, and that's our area of expertise. Just suggesting that outrage isn't appropriate in this situation.
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Let's see. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Barack Obama, Bob Iger, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Dell, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Spielberg, Michael Bloomberg, Stephen Wolfram, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dick Costolo, Steve Case, Marc Andressen, etc. They all think he's a visionary. Should I believe them or you?
Looks like Poland/Czech?
just a correction, you need to import the sleep function from Time::HiRes, otherwise it will use the default sleep function and sleep 0 seconds instead.

use Time::HiRes qw/sleep/;
beginning web developers don't run their own servers. they might run wamp on a local test machine, but everybody deploys to cheap shared hosts where they don't have a choice of server.

I don't know (or particularly care) what my personal site is running on. i pay dreamhost a couple bucks and they take care of all that boring stuff for me.
Maybe they contributed a kernel patch?
Do you have some concrete examples?
The survey question was specifically about coordinated criminal activity. Certainly, repressive governments often condemn peaceful demonstrations, but few would argue that widespread arson and looting (as happened in UK riots earlier this year) constitute peaceful protest, or indeed any kind of protest.
"We are basing ourselves now on OpenJDK and to do that we have to release our stuff as open source as well because it’s substantially derived work off at the Open JDK. So the managed runtime is essentially a source drop as of a couple of months ago, and we are due to put on another source drop before long here. Essentially what it is I am building and running on my desk every day. Zing is the productized version of that that we intend to sell for money. There are a few features we don’t have to put out in the public domain, and those are going to be extras, are going to be probably the high res profiling tools."

- Cliff Click, http://www.infoq.com/interviews/click-gc-azul
"This program is originally based on the driveGnuPlots.pl script from Thanassis Tsiodras. It is available from his site at http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/gnuplotStreaming.ht...

:-)
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Two inevitable events that will bring this situation to a head:

1. Citizens start throwing these devices into large bodies of water.

2. Armed citizen returns to vehicle at night, in mall or office parking lot, as suspicious man stands up from behind citizen's rear wheel well. Citizen draws down on Federal officer, one or both parties end up dead.
They're not the same thing for several reasons:

* The OnStar device is owned by the motorist, not the police.

* The device is installed on every car. I specifically do not think it's OK for the police to dragnet every car.

* The device is by design difficult, in the long run impossible, to remove; it's built into the car.

You seem fixed on the actual information the police are gaining: whether from OnStar or a portable telemetry device, they get a real time feed of where the car is going. Well, they get the same real-time feed from tailing the car. Tails do not require warrants.
It's a contranymic idiom. A contridiom!
There is a commit to the new-identity branch on Oct 19th 2011.
Here's to the crazy idea
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No, but the price difference between buying normal and fair trade (as a consumer) is much larger than the price difference between the underlying coffee crop used in each.

Tim Harford wrote about this: http://timharford.com/2008/04/business-life-fair-trade-or-fo...

In some cases, he says, fair trade is 10X the margin!

Fair trade exists to segment the market and collect more consumer surplus (more than it exists to improve conditions).
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> There is a difference between a premium brand, and a premium brand that promotes fair trade.

That's true, but when it comes to coffee, in my experience the two overlap a lot.
likely a change in the way netcraft counts things. i remember looking at some other netcraft graph with a similar jump, and after some research i found that it was because they decided to count every single blog on a chinese blogging service as a separate hostname. similar to counting every [username].tumblr.com as a separate host.
In the same vein, but I found http://devour.com/video/moroccan-woodturner/ a lot more satisfying to watch.
I'm torn between dearly loving spending my time on crafts such as this, and being unable to give a strong rebuttal to your criticisms of the handmade movement.
Surprisingly, yes it can, and the margin of error can be precisely calculated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_sampling
Azul's last upstream patch request wasn't received well by the kernel community.

http://lwn.net/Articles/392307/
or: http://www.sec.gov/whistleblower

quote:
The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.
In many cases the $15 pot from WalMart is better than the $50 pot. It's thinner than the $50 pot, so it reacts to adjustments in temperature a lot faster. The coating is simple thin Teflon, so it wears out a lot faster than the $50 pot, but it actually has better non-stick properties than the $50 pot.

I've got expensive pots, but the skillets that I use the most are a $5 teflon/aluminum skillet I got from Loblaws that I replace every 6 months, and a $15 cast iron skillet I got from a flea market that I properly seasoned and I expect to last 100 years.
Cliff Click rules everything around me
It is a horrible mess here, which is a great service like Mint.com can't be provided either.
For posterity sake, I'd better answer my own questions:

- yes, unfortunately we're no longer building for the web, we're building for the facebook and google platforms, and it pisses me off no end, because more innovation is required. I only hope Google open up their API completely so that developers like me can build some cool shit on their platform

- energy crisis, I have no clue. But I really hope so. Climate crisis, same.

- Flying cars, seriously! http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/109522/20110207/flying-cars-... ... will probably never 'take off' though.

- Quantum Computers. I can only wildly imagine some crazy mind-reading computer who has nothing but benevolence and love for me so that I may be hooked up to it's matrix and suck on it's glorious god-like nipple. Google be thy name. Don't bloody wake me up!
Boston Dynamics robots like Big Dog use hydraulic actuators [1] which act somewhat like a spring and are hence very robust towards perturbations. They also have more power (= force*velocity). ASIMO in contrast uses an electric motor with a high ratio gear drive [2] that makes the robot very stiff and slow while allowing for high torques. This setup doesn't allow for backdrive and hence can't handle impacts well. I don't know about the new ASIMO legs but in the video you can still hear the screaming of the gears.

[1] At least the orignal Raibert Hoppers at MIT also used pneumatic actuators
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/3D_hopper/3D_ho...
[2] e.g. Harmonic Drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_drive
I added the "pissed off cop" bit because it is true, go search around if you don't think so. The rest of it shows what I think is a part of the problem. God forbid we express our opinions and try to have a discussion without someone making a meta-comment about hn itself as if they are above it all.
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So they're competing with Starbucks at that point. (Or partnering since much of the coffee in B&N is Starbucks already.)
Thank you, yes, that's what I meant. Good mind reading.
After three hours of trying to install this with GHC 6.12.1 and GHC 7.0.3 I have given up.

The problem isn't with berp .cabal files but with dependencies of berp.

ghc-7.0.3 requires containers ==0.4.0.0
language-python requires containers ==0.3.0.0

ghc-6.12.1 requires directory ==1.0.1.0
language-python requires directory ==1.0.1.2

Fetching and unpacking language-python and changing the dependencies manually doesn't appear to fix the problem, for reasons I do not understand.
Single page view: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracker-times-t...
This theory is not supported by reality. Companies succeed just as often with lousy engineering.
According to a video on their site they don't add additional fees for out of network ATMs only forward the fee that ATM charges.
The Stasi extensively "observed" people before an arrest.
psuedo-account numbers do not inspire confidence that my money is safe. please put a HOW IT WORKS section on your website and go into details, because this just seems insecure and shady
I bet they just sacrifice granularity and use the MMU to do what they need. Unmap an entire page and handle the segfault would work, but be not as good as the VTD stuff they use in the hypervisor version.
The issue I have with that is as it stands right now how would any know if this is true or not? The NSA and FBI can effectively keep things secret as they don't have to disclose all that they are doing.
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Ahhh, idle speculation...

Re: flying cars -- I think that even if all technical problems were resolved, an economic/legal problem would remain. In a car, if you crash, the externality is usually limited to the cars around you -- other drivers who have implicitly agreed to share in the risk of driving via insurance and whatnot.

In a flying car world, the externality of crashing (not sure if that's the right economic phraseology) is now shared by everyone below you -- people who want nothing to do with that risk. This isn't a huge problem with airplanes because we have a vast regulatory apparatus to mitigate the risk. Would be feasible with individuals routinely flying their cars over populated areas? Seems doubtful.

TL;DR - I wouldn't trust my neighbor to fly over my house, much less my kid's school.

Now, if all flying cars were AI controlled, that might be another story...
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I wish Simple would consider supporting all ATMs, not just in-network ones. And by supporting, I mean reimbursing all ATM-related fees. Ally does this. Although Ally is a bank rather than a front-end-for-a-bank, this feature has become increasingly important to me as I find myself increasingly patronizing cash-only establishments.
From all the questions here on HN I think you need to much more explicit with people about who actually holds their money, and that they can withdraw it from that Bank directly if they desire.
Looks like it uses a kernel interaction of some sort to implement memory barriers in software (whereas Vega provided hardware memory barriers):

http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing/c4-java-garbage-col...
this kind of reminds me back the increase your MEMORY BY 8 fold MS-DOS "RAMBOOST" days.
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I'm not terribly worried by GPS surveillance as described in the article. One objection does occur to me, though:

Watching suspects the hard way, with patrol cars and binoculars, is really expensive for the police department. They're forced by their own internal economies to gather data only on people they're deeply interested in. That, I'd argue, is why it's ok to follow people without a warrant. GPS transponders are much cheaper, so the police have less motivation to focus on only the most important suspects.
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Impressive work, but I really feel the kind of issues the author had to overcome are also the reasons for avoiding JavaScript in general programming (which would require quality RNGs).
Looks like a pump-and-dump scam: http://www.beaconequity.com/smw/14546/Raystream-RAYS-Stock-a...
now that we're back to normal, share this on all the social media i've just condemned and give me money.

that ruined it for me. but I'm glad he reassured me it wouldn't be a site that meant to scare the shit out of me!
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Also, please don't forget that Fedora is available via BitTorrent: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all
I can foresee software being able to discern good paintings from bad based purely on supervised learning from examples, with today's technology. I.e. humans label paintings as good or not good and the machine learns to extrapolate from this.
Is there a consensus among humans about what makes a painting good, though? Perhaps we could settle on well-made. I.e. I may not like an artifact but I can agree that it's well made.

Creating good paintings seems like it should be doable, but take a couple/few decades.

Music should be a lot easier, as music is a much simpler signal than images. I'll probably start with music.

Making maille: http://www.mailleartisans.org/articles/articledisplay.cgi?ke...

Rolling plate armour edges: http://www.ageofarmour.com/education/armour_rolled_edges1.ht...

Armour reading list:
http://www.ageofarmour.com/instock/books.html

Machine Learning: http://www.ml-class.org/

AI Composer: http://singularityhub.com/2009/10/09/music-created-by-learni...
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