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> how we can spot and stop the general public from being spied on

You can't spot when a well-funded government secret service, with access to communications infrastructure, is spying on the population.

> Also, I want to see The sources for where they got the information on these spy products being used in Egypt and Lybia.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. You think a site for whistleblowers should release information about those whistleblowers?
Ask HN: OpenCV and Computer Vision, where do we stand now?
I want to do a project involving Computer Vision. Mostly object detection/identification. After some research, I keep coming back to OpenCV. But all of the tutorials are from 2008 (I guess it was big for a bit then). It doesn't appear to compile in Python on a Mac. I'm using the C++ framework in xCode, but none of the tutorials work (except one) as they're outdated and the documentation sucks from what I can parse.

Is there a better solution for what I'm doing, and does anyone have any suggestions as to learning how to to use OpenCV?

Thanks

P.S. I saw O'Reilly's book, but it's from '08. Check out this review: "Book was good at the time, but no longer applies as opencv has moved on. They should update their book."
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yes. I did that because in one of my projects 3rd party code was rarely throwing exceptions that I could not caught and incoming request was hanging for a minutes (and after that overall app's state was inconsistent)
Money?

None of them (Path, Instagram & Facebook) make money off their mobile apps.

Facebook makes its money off its web site.
Please update the title to indicate that this was written in 2009. In the meanwhile, Haskell has gained (besides Happstack) two excellent web frameworks: Snap and Yesod.

One of the points of critique has been addressed now is database access. For instance, Persistent provides type-safe database access:

http://www.yesodweb.com/book/persistent

The author also mentions the problem that exceptions can only be caught in the IO monad. But this has become less of a problem, since more people started using monad transformers (such as ErrorT) to add error handling to their monads. ErrorT allows you to catch exceptions within that monad. For instance, quoting from one of my own projects:

readEntry :: MonadIO m => Corpus -> String -> ErrorT CorpusError m Text

readEntry is a function that takes a Corpus and a String, and returns Text in a monad of the class MonadIO if the function is successful. Otherwise it reports errors in the form of a CorpusError. You could now, for instance, run this function with runErrorT, and it will return an ordinary Either value in the given monad (Left CorpusError in the case of an error, Right Text when the call is successful).
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This is looking great Dave. I'm excited to see where it goes. Here's me: http://hackerbuddy.com/users/28
if people had the choice to get a windows PC for $50 in exchange for some preinstalled apps and no admin access, you'd better believe they would.

They did try and it didn't work. Why? because PCs are abundant and the companies that wanted to do subsidized PCs couldn't get the economics to work. The smart ones realized that PCs were getting cheaper anyway so just wait a little bit. Others realized they could put it on credit and still come out ahead. Only the ones really bad with money/poor credit went the subsidized route (pay us now, and then pay us $40/mo indefinitely).

Phones are slightly different. The service doesn't get much cheaper whether you buy up front or subsidized. And unlike PCs, the price of phones hasn't dropped, the features just got better. And do to wireless restrictions of competition the price of plans hasn't dropped either.

For example, I just renewed my plan. I could pay $600 and buy my own phone. The carrier was going to knock $10/mo off my calling plan. Either way I was going to be locked in for the next 2 years. So I could shell out $600 and save $240 or I could only spend $100. I looked at the PAYG plans but due to my volume of calls it would cost more than the calling plan.

People aren't as naive as you think. They know they are going into this deal at a severe disadvantage so they might as well make the most of it.
I do think that intellectual property is
currently a societal right

This line of thinking misses the point - you cannot talk about a societal right if it goes against human nature.

And it is in human nature to share, much like making sex or having free will. It isn't hard to imagine a society in which your daughter is your property and you can marry her to whomever you want, selling her to the highest bidder. Such societies still exist in 2011. It wouldn't be hard to imagine that if the ration of women to men would get balanced, then some women are going to become independent and get married for free, slowly destroying a perfectly valid business model ... so what should people do in such a case? Push for legislation to fix it?

So if your society gives rights that go against human nature, then your society is broken, really ;-)

The real question is - how can we reward authors in a world where distributing digital works has zero cost?
I can think of many options, including introducing an optional monthly tax for anything you may download without a license to do so, which would at least work for another 5-10 years. Otherwise technology has been invalidating business models since forever, so maybe it's time to grow-up, quit the winning and think of other ways to make money - like doing good old fashioned concerts that can't be cloned or pirated - Michael Jackson understood this simple fact and made a lot of money off concerts, however I could see this not working so well in the long run for the likes of Bieber and Britney Spears.
What I have found is that a given set of people in the larger population[for a particular system] will like you, just random probability. What you effectively have to do is to social proof yourself, ie make it seem to others that it is okay for you to be aggressive. What this means is not trying to appease the people that don't like you or even talking to them, until you have them over on your side you basically ignore them or keep your words to them at a minimum.

People in social situations tend to doubt their own judgement. So, if a certain number of people say you are cool, you are cool[ Three man make a tiger, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger ]. According to asche confirmity experiment[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments] it takes about 3 person to 1 to change an opinion.

Because you are staying away from people who effectively don't get you, they wouldn't have any other basis to judge you on other than your friends, who will be telling them how cool you are.
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It's strange that few grasp how amazing this actually is.

I think its because of the poor article title.

These are millimeter sized diamonds - that's a staggering phenomenon.

Einstein would be freaking out.
Maybe it should start with open hardware. The Open Graphics Project seems dead, but maybe there are other alternatives.

There are a lot of open hardware projects lately. Synthesizers, computers, 3D printers. All great examples. But video cards might be too complex to be open.
Nope, just a shorthand for "dynamics with immutable parameters". Parameters of a dynamic process might be immutable, no contradiction here.
Exactly. I'm not actually saying they should be in congress, God knows they are way too competent to be there. But if these smart rich people can threaten to do something (run themselves, say they will do all donations to maximum permitted by law to other candidate, support some aide of them, etc) that will cost the election for the current candidate that is supporting SOPA, they may think twice about being shells for some industries.

What I am advocating is actually fighting fire with fire. You have politicians that get elected mostly by the donations made to them by these companies. So, why not get other companies that matter (Google, Mozilla, MS and Apple (not sure they stance on this) FSF, etc) together and start pushing the agenda as well?

Again, I don't know enough about the US system to even think what I'm saying is possible.
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I have decided I have "star quality". And it's not something the big bureaucracy I work for is likely to tolerate well. I need to find a way to cash in on that. Historically, it's gotten me attention at times like a "star" but no money. I've had fan emails at times and gotten big fan-like reactions in some forums/email lists and one of my emails was quoted in a book (after being heavily edited down from 2000+ words to 300, with my signed written permission).

I want to be the Madonna of the Internet. <batts eyelashes -- in a star-like way, mind you, not flirting per se>
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The problem is, the government has that power, irreversibly, simply on account of being the government. Once you've got the monopoly on the legitimate use of force, you've got it all.
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There are many many examples.
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Got an email that if I upvote this item on Hacker News I get two free months of SEOMoz. How much of that sort of stuff happens here? How many of the 127+ points this item has are from incentivized SEO?
The problem I have with all these drop-in-systems is that the comments belong to the system in use. I want to be the comments part of my site because most off them add value to the articles. There should be at least an option to export all comments into a machine-readable format so that I could take comments with me when I want to change the comment system.
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It seems clever with the Z instead of the S, but what you're doing is giving up natural organic traffic and making your product/brand harder to remember/find.

If you already had a world class product or 10k active users, make the domain whatever you want. You don't so change it to something stupid simple.
Also, if you aren't wedded to SQL, Haskell now has acid-state, a memory resident database written in Haskell (formerly happstack-state).
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We had originally hoped that the introductory Ruby course at P2PU would serve as an entry point leading up to the Mendicant University core skills session. Unfortunately that class hasn't quite come together and we don't have an immediate alternative path that is both free and of sufficiently high quality to recommend.

What you can definitely do (as Jordan mentioned) is get some help from our mentoring program. You'll be able to study at your own pace that way, but get some guidance as needed along the way: https://github.com/rmu/mentoring/wiki/Instructions-for-stude...
So I know for a fact that disqus can export into XML, not sure about livefyre, but... you probably know how I feel about them after the article haha
Not necessarily, those statements aren't exactly new: http://www.womendontask.com/ Just because someone posted something similar on reddit does not mean that the article responded to that.
No, not vapor at all:

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* http://university.rubymendicant.com/resources/core_projects....
(Repost from original thread.)

Tax legislation is the domain of national parliaments, not the EU (except for aspects of VAT, anything else?). Tax harmonisation requires a treaty change and agreement from all 27 member states.

On unfriendly legislation --- is this national legislation or EU-wide legislation?

On terrible payment gateways --- why do you think that is? Imperfect implementation of the common market (e.g. unharmonised regulations)? Insufficient competition generally? Something else?
the article is "Why Women Don't Negotiate" _with men_. Or do women also treat negotiating women badly?

Btw, i also don't negotiate. I just take best offer (last time i refused 2 before much better one came) and change job when i feel the market can offer a better one.
> You're claiming that an LA degree has some "roundedness" value.

I think I understand our point of disagreement.

I don't mean to claim LA majors have a "roundedness" value. I'm claiming that the collective average of STEM and LA leads to a rounded group, assuming "roundedness" in this case is considered to mean equally proficient in the diverse areas of knowledge.

As a metaphor, assume we have a bag full of red, purple, and blue marbles, where the purple is equivalent to roundedness (having equal amounts of red and blue). Replacing all of the red marbles with perfectly-purple ones actually decreases the purpleness of the bag -- it shifts the average color towards blue. Even if we give the blue ones with "a bit more 'rounded'" purple, to echo your call, the average remains shifted more towards blue than it was when there was red to balance it out.

LA majors don't have a roundedness value -- pure-LA is as unrounded as pure-STEM. I'm generally working under the assumption that "roundedness" means that you're knowledgeable in many areas, instead of only knowledgeable in a single one. Replacing a specific set of specialists with jacks-of-all-trades leaves the group with less average knowledge in the direction of the replaced specialists' knowledge base.

You could be arguing to make everyone completely and equally rounded/purple -- replacing both the blues and the reds, so that everyone would graduate with both a full LA degree and a full STEM degree. But your call for adding "a bit more 'rounded' to STEM majors" instead of having LA majors didn't sound like that, and making everyone be dual-degree seems a bit infeasible.
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That's alarming. From a technical viewpoint, I wonder how they can make sure a person has indeed upvoted the article.
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> unfriendly tax and small business legislation

In France though the tax situation and small business legislation is far from ideal, it has gotten much much better over the last few years, with things like the JEI (Jeune Entreprise Innovante), or the auto-entrepreneur status. Not perfect though, and something coming from Bruxelles could certainly do much better.

> terrible payment gateways

There you are. I have no idea how to fix this other than creating my own company and start doing it right. Except that I'm doing something else, so I don't have time (or ressources) to scratch this itch.

But it's itching enough that I'm seriously contemplating spawning a LLC in the United States.
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Depends on how many credits you have already "banked" from your previous studies, if you are just looking to finish the degree the fastest way possible or looking for coursework, etc.

There is an excellent forum which has been around for over 10 years, that has really competent users who helped me a lot finding the right degree for myself: http://www.degreeinfo.com/computer-related-degrees/
We are aiming at intermediate developers who are proficient in Ruby. While I have a fair bit of Ruby expertise, I still consider myself an intermediate software developer at best, because there is so much to learn!

It's true that Mendicant University doesn't do much right now to serve the beginner to advanced beginner crowd. We had hoped that some combination of Hackety Hack and P2PU would have done that, but it just hasn't happened. Our resources are limited and so the strategy we are taking is to teach students who have some degree of Ruby experience how to get stronger, with the hope that they will turn around and help out others. Many have done so already, but in small scale efforts.

We do have a beginner's course in the works, but it may be another six months to a year before we're ready to try it out. If you are seriously thinking of starting a school for Ruby programmers which is completely free but aimed more towards beginners, please do get in touch with us. We'd love it if someone else could focus on that, because it's a real community need.
How secure are these Haskell web frameworks? (snap, happstack, etc.). Without a django and rails level of exposure, presumably they have quite a few holes still?
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I voted no, I don't want more legislation.

More and more, the EU is taking away liberties of people and countries in name of a 'common good' and a 'better europe'. A good example is the now credit crisis which was mostly a problem with EU interfering with countries. For example production "Ok, you stop producing X and we will pay you Y for you to buy X from us" which short sighted politicians were all too happy to accept since it meant money coming to countries and reelection was easier.

It is hard to get payment gateways ala feefighters and others, sure, but you can go to a normal bank, get a merchant account and accept those payments yourself.

About taxes, it isn't that complicated to be honest. VAT is charged at the rate your business as a presence in (usually your home country) when selling to someone in EU. Corporate taxes is dependent on country but UK isn't that bad. Most countries that have bad corporate tax structures are usually riddled with corruption.

Most countries now are also trying to offer a better environment for new companies. UK is lowering taxes for small business if I'm not mistaken. Portugal decreased the minimal capital from 5000 euros to 1 euro. Some countries are decreasing taxes to companies that export alot(by giving them tax incentives) Most EU small business have access to programs that offer them line of credit and sometimes free money for projects (in portugal it is called QREN no idea what is called elsewhere) that comes from EU.

And maybe it is just me, but whenever I see lobbying mentioned, I shriek! Trying to do this on the EU scale would probably involved a lot of money under the tables.
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Part of the charm of Smalltalk (or, more objectively, the uniqueness in a Perlis-language sense) is its image-based nature. Smalltalk is the image.

A Smalltalk IDE is unlike any other. The integration of language and 'operating system' changes the way you look at most other languages; it's not just an OO thing. You lose all that if you go running to the familiar, comfortable 'standard' of a text editor.

Personally, I'd suggest Pharo Smalltalk as an ideal starting point: it's clean, modern and under vigorous development, with a thriving community.

Also, I strongly disagree with 'unwieldy class libraries' - I've found the libraries a joy to use. Clear, logical, and very easy to explore even without reams of documentation.
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Is that perfect specimen of corporate incompetence still going? I thought they were losing their monopoly? Hardly seems worth them migrating their servers just before they lose the only thing that keeps viable...
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I don't know about their maturity, but I think Haskell's type system and purity would help with security.

It doesn't have anything like `eval` and is much less tolerant of weird input by default than dynamically typed languages (at least in my experience). Having no or limited state also helps--bad input and other mistakes tend to be more localized when they can't possibly change anything else in the program.

If you're really crazy about security, then I suspect the Haskell code would also be much easier to analyze and verify.
"Most apps I worked on required only querying and events."

Well, that's not really quite the background to call the dojo widgets useless. They are a really useful set of _programmable_ widgets.

Aye, they _might_ appear to be useless to developers used to cut & paste, but if you delve a little deeper you will discover a world of useful UI widgets that can fulfill most of your needs for rich web applications.

If your needs aren't fulfilled with the provided widgets you can always make your own or modify the existing ones with the tools provided, that I must say are great at it.
The bit about having a public consultation round before drafting legislation I think is a step forward.
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My understanding of Google's program is that it runs your ad across its DoubleClick exchange. We run our clients ads across DoubleClick just like them... as well as the rest of the ad networks... plus our publisher partner inventory. Google's DoubleClick inventory is a part of our overall inventory.
Only 70 from China?

I wander if they have their own HN, along with Baidu and Weibo :)
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