skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Data from cameras will be purged every 30 days"
...
"the NYPD can not only track a suspect’s car in the city, but also determine where the vehicle might have been the preceding days, weeks and even months"

So, which is it?

Also, radiation detectors?! Surely they've just been thrown in as a bit of a joke/toy. Gun shot detectors would perhaps be a more sensible addition.

Putting the privacy considerations aside there's a lot of potential utility in systems like this. Robust person recognition and tracking from camera to camera could be really useful.
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This comment comes across as pretty sexist, by the way. Taking experiences with a small set of people and generalizing them to all people based on their gender is basically the definition of sexism.
Why? It's not like 4K TVs are everywhere.

Sure, it might be able to run 1080p games faster with a few more effects.

A TV console, however, doesn't need to incrementally improve as fast as a gaming computer, because the TV gamers aren't constantly upgrading to higher resolution monitors.
He was talking about 'in my notes and todos'. I guess his passwords end up in his notes, not in his todos.

Then, I think it all boils down to personal preference. In the limit, you have diehard emacs users, who store everything (notes, todos, spreadsheets, word processing aka TeX documents, playlists (http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/), encryption utilities, etc) in 'emacs files' :-)
I kind of crashed the awards ceremony where they introduced all the fellows and I ended up meeting a bunch of them.

I was surprised how many were straight out of high school (no college). They generally struck me as bright but immature (not in an obnoxious way--more in a "what do you expect, they're 17!" kind of way.) Most of the businesses didn't strike me as businesses so much as super ambitious senior projects.

I really do agree with the general idea behind the program--college is a ripoff because you can learn the same stuff and build a strong network without going. I think the program's aims might have been better served by having these kids work for a startup (maybe one of thiels?) with an investment guarantee after 3-5 years or something.
When someone takes the time to help me with a problem. I will thank them.

SO is powered by people and people appreciate appreciation.
Your other submitted questions may answer this for you.. for instance: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455292

' I have no growth strategy to be honest, and I just feel like living a Tim Ferriss 4-hour-work-week for the entire year ahead.'
Look at this cell phone: http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/cellphone_design/...

Can you imagine a world where everyone has one of these in their pockets? That's ridiculous! it's the size of my forearm. It's a neat idea and it may enable faster communication - but it's not going to replace land line phones 100%: not even close.
ha! Just realised I did the same thing unconsciously.
We just got access to Founder Dating in Las Vegas. It's a great resource. I enjoy not getting pitched by biz people looking for developers, but instead have meaningful conversations about starting up businesses.

And long walks on the beach.
Well, the chipset has 'em, right? The "old" ('05) Intel network processors also had them.
Based on history, the way NASA tends to improve missions via software rather than hardware. For example, stitching lower resolution images together rather than developing a higher pixel count camera.

Getting a camera there is far more important than its spec sheet, and given that the lifetime of nuclear powered instruments can exceed 30 years (e.g. Pioneer and Voyeger) any over-achieving mission is going to be dependent on obsolescent hardware for a very long time. When Curiosity was developed, the choice of a four megapixel camera would still be quaint by today's consumer expectations.
It's worth pointing out that a "reserve" is fuel that is economic to extract. Even without technology improving, a simple hike in the price of fuel raises the reserves of it.
"Data from cameras will be purged every 30 days unless there is a reason to keep it longer."
Textmate 2 on Github
Not to mention, his question was answered and he got what he wanted. He's just unhappy for getting downvoted and doesn't want to comply with what SO wants out of how questions are asked.
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Something to do with the regulations for credit card payments? IIRC you can't 'pre-pay' for goods on a credit card: the merchant agreement says that you can only be charged when you actually ship the goods.

This makes crowdfunding projects like this a little tricky, since they doesn't map well to the legal agreements that make up the existing payment systems.
I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't take this as a chance to try out cobbling up a "radiation box" and put commercial equipment in that. Surely, that would be a good experiment data point that could be used in future endeavors.
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TextMate 2 is now open source
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Why is it a grey area? Which regulations?

Seems like a pretty straightforward transaction to me.
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Amazon making it up as they go? I used their payments to support a couple of Kickstarter projects. Maybe Unglueit is seen as competitor to Kickst?
I think the problem is that, if you are going to make a second launch, it's nearly always better to land some place different. We will accumulate a bunch of data on Gale Crater over the next several years, but we have essentially zero data on a whole bunch of very interesting parts of Mars.
I recommend http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ to anyone who lived through that time. Not sure how interesting it is to people that weren't involved, but I loved it.
The first time I watched Apollo 13 with my son, he was about five. I explained what was happening as "You can't call a tow truck in space."

Likewise, there are no camera shops on Mars.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't saying this is why we can call them dropouts. I was trying to say here's more reason why they shouldn't be considered dropouts. And specifically, I was adding to the refutation for the "college he didn't miss thing".
The only way to reliably save your subscriptions (so that you can open pulse and see them instantly) is the have an account and save it on our servers.
Much more likely SEC/investment regulations.
I'm surprised he didn't just kick in his own funding. Is $10 million enough? $20 million? What's the price of going from being a director to a legend?
The point is, it's not a "do my work/homework for me" site.

It's a "I tried to solve the problem this way, but it doesn't quite work; can you show me what I'm doing wrong?" or a "I solved the problem this way, but it seems really bad; is there a better way?"

I agree, asking a question without demonstrating an earnest attempt at solving or understanding it shows to me that you didn't care enough about it to even attempt it. Given that, why should I care enough about it to attempt it?

Btw, I added a downvote to your question. It really is in poor form.
Btw, there are no extra buttons on a Nexus 7. The front of the Nexus 7 looks almost exactly like an iPad down to nearly every last subtle detail: The color and texture of the brushed aluminum trim, the black and proportions of the frame around the screen, the location of the forward-facing camera, the lack of any text or logo. Even the location of most of the connectors and switches is remarkably similar to the iPad. The only differences are that the headphone connector has been moved to the bottom, and the power button has been moved from the top edge to the right edge. But it is located where there is a button on the iPad.

From looking at the front of the Nexus 7, the only noticeable difference from an iPad is the lack of the round Home button that every iPad has.

To say that this is the only conceivable way for a tablet to look indicates either profound rationalization, or a true lack of imagination and knowledge of history. To assert that Google has such lack of imagination and knowledge of history is even more absurd. History is replete with examples of tablet computers that don't closely resemble the iPad. Even the Kindle Fire is noticeably different.
What is the motivation for this? Is the developer losing steam / is support for it not strong enough? Either way, this is pretty cool.
The UI gets in the way of an interesting product. Nothing a little user testing couldn't solve, though!

I thought I'd suggest that you remove the underline from all of the lines at the top of the page, as it makes them all appear to be links and reduces readability. They will be just as prominent without that decoration, and it will actually make your sign up link more visible.

You may want to consider moving the sign up link to the entire phrase: "save your meal plans and make a grocery list ". People will probably click on that more often than the non-descriptive phrase "Sign Up". The latter phrase requires additional effort on the part of the user to read to text next to it, remember the sign up link, and make the decision to go back to the sign up link at the beginning of the phrase. It's worth a/b testing.

Interesting site!
Blog post explaining why: http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/
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Shades of Google Desktop (their local search application). Only now, it's not a matter of whether or not you install it -- you're dependent upon Google providing and properly managing an "opt out" option.

Yes, the information is already on their servers. This is a reminder that, once that is the case, you may or may not be or remain in control of how it is blended.

I'm not going to make an argument for "good or bad", here. Just the reminder that we've seen this before.
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Its interesting I never got into computer hacking until later when I was in college. In high school, I had a neighbor who was really big into phone phreaking. We had hours of fun building black and blue boxes, getting free long distance and calling people in random countries.

Probably the coolest thing was my neighbor somehow managed to get his hands on two master keys for the high school. He had a buddy at a local hardware store duplicate them (highly illegal) and we spent many nights prowling the high school, opening doors nobody could and exploring every inch of that place. Thankfully we never got caught, but I look back fondly at it as the start of my career hacking stuff.
> They do read your emails.

And then promptly ignore them. Yes, that's beneficial.

Stack Overflow is a great site in very many ways, but these criticism are well founded and they do make it less than what it could be. But face it, Joel and Jeff, et al. have their minds made up about how things work and they aren't terribly interested in what any of us think.

That is, of course, their right, since it's their site. But let's not pretend that they're actually interested in, or responsive to, community feedback.
Could you give examples of some of these questions that are marked "closed as not constructive"? Otherwise, we have no idea what questions in particular you are talking about. I've had completely positive experiences with StackOverflow, so I can't personally imagine questions that might be useful to someone and not worthwhile to keep open. Except duplicate questions.
Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more
Awesome! Can someone comment on how probable it would be to port it to linux (and windows)?
A Russian scientist revisited these recently and became convinced that there could be life on Venus. A fun read: http://io9.com/5878554/russian-scientist-claims-to-have-disc...
I think the "Pos" side should be discounted as it is obviously Thiel centered PR from an employee. I think the "Neg" side should be the default, since one should not presume value until value is demonstrated. That we are still in a sense "early stage" indicates that we don't have a full picture yet and so shouldn't presume that we do.

I have mixed feelings about the program in general. Entrepreneurship programs maybe useful for promoting excited entrepreneurs, but by no means are an adequate replacement for researchers or higher ed in general. In many of these cases, the entire premise is hogwash. Technical innovation comes from depth in a subject area, and you actually have to study something before you can innovate in the context of it.

This is most obvious in the case of the Uncollege movement -- the person and movement are exceedingly shallow and provide nothing of value except as a publicist for other trends in online education. I'd hate to think that his applies across the board, but suspect that it is more true than not.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361390
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Money laundering is the first giant red flag that should come to mind.
This is an app I've been working on for the past couple of months (see [1] for some background). A lot of us listen to music while coding or designing and I wanted to build something that makes it as pain-free as possible. I'd love to know what you guys think!

[1] http://amirmalik.net/2012/08/09/cloudplay-a-music-player-for...
This doesn't really explain much.

The way TextMate2 was going, I'd bet it's something like, it wasn't getting done, and the author was too busy or uninterested to continue, so open sourcing it probably is a way that it may actually ever get finished.
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I implore you to use feature detection instead of UA sniffing.
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Modern ain't what it used to be.
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At least for Kickstarter, a lot of people seem to think of their payments as part of a transaction ... while they aren't. My understanding is that there are a number of Kickstarters which never produced the promised rewards / end output, and that they have no legal obligation to do so.
The fact that Amazon payments powers Kickstarter led me to think that Amazon would allow other crowdfunding sites such as unglue.it.
I think this would be even better if it were integrated with podcasts as well.
The second !

Imagine firefox, but as a website. I log on to firefox.com (imaginary) and get access to all my inboxes
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Well it's all in Obj-C, so either a non-OS X Obj-C compilation tool or rewrite it out all out of Obj-C.

Doable, but I don't think many people will be queuing up for the task.
I can't explain how fucking weird it is that people take time to remove the word 'Thanks' from a website they don't even own.

And I can't explain how fucking weird it is that some people collect thimbles or attend dog shows.
You may not be able to teach climate science without Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics but the converse isn't true. We aren't going to produce better engineers and physicists because we threw in a few weeks on thermohaline circulation.
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Mars has a very thin atmosphere, so a microphone would capture very little data if any. Star Wars aside, there isn't much sound in the universe.
Currently it uses whatever is in your iTunes library, so you can play any downloaded podcasts, but you're right, a podcast directory/download feature would be great!
I look forward to that moment. I can remember trying to look up a simpleton's explanation back when I first heard of it, but I gave up and figured I'd understand one day when I got a bit better at programming.
Yeah, that is definitely a pain point with it. I have a list of things I would like to change, but it is pretty low on my list. Also the code isn't exactly how I would've built the app, so it is a little discouraging to work on in my free time.
Most of the problems people face with PayPal are because they ran afoul of fraud concerns. In many cases (though not all), these issues could have been avoided if PayPal had been alerted before big changes happened at the account.
>> Compared to computer games today the PS3 is incapable.

It's seems like there are very two distinct paths that gamers come from: 1) arcade/old-school consoles and 2) computer FPS, RTS, MMOs.

Coming from #1 myself, I find it interesting that the majority of people from #2 really only consider their path to be "true gaming". They're the ones who are always demanding more CPU power, more memory, etc, and basically seem to ignore that there are games that are not FPS, RTS or MMOs.

Coming from #1, I don't have any complaints about underpowered consoles, and I play plenty of games running off 3D engines like Street Fighter IV, Tekken, Burnout, etc. I don't even touch FPS, RTS or MMOs. While I'm sure #1's are in the minority these days, there are still large numbers of us who buy consoles to play games that aren't best played with PCs, keyboards and mice.
> since one should not presume value until value is demonstrated. That we are still in a sense "early stage" indicates that we don't have a full picture yet and so shouldn't presume that we do.

Couldn't agree more. Until evidence is confirmed by multiple neutral third parties the negative (random) hypothesis holds precedence until such a time as evidence falsifies it. No presumption - merely rational scepticism there.

> I have mixed feelings about the program in general. Entrepreneurship programs maybe useful for promoting excited entrepreneurs, but by no means are an adequate replacement for researchers or higher ed in general. In many of these cases, the entire premise is hogwash. Technical innovation comes from depth in a subject area, and you actually have to study something before you can innovate in the context of it.

You perfectly illustrate the problem with one minded thought (as in capitalism > socialism || libertarianism > socialism).

As usual a rationally weighted mix is usually best under complex situations.
Is it wrong of me to be a little miffed that I paid $50, admittedly a long time ago, for Textmate?
The martian atmosphere is extremely thin. Sound probably carries very poorly, so all you would realistically hear is the vibration from mechanisms on the rover itself.
You are comparing the very first initial images from Curiosity with the final processed images from Viking. Also, the haz-cams on Curiosity are there only to help Curiosity see where it is going. Whatever design trade-offs they make, they need to make the priority be "don't break the 2.5 billion dollar rover that is supposed to last for over a decade."

If you use a low-res camera to take 1000 images of the same thing, you can use software to make a high-res image from those.
Author of the featured blog post here, and a long-time HN member.

I would like to share a few observations about the nature of the independent author community, based on the Internet discussions that preceded the suspension of LendInk (see https://www.facebook.com/pages/LendInk/124974504234948 and check out the threads and comments from August 2), as well as my own experience as an ebook author:

* Even though indie authors are using the Kindle platform to publish their work, many are not aware of the "fine print" governing their participation in the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program or KDP Select.

* Technology skills are very focused in this community. Authors are generally very good at using Internet discussion boards and other Web channels to promote their work. But not everyone understands the differences between reading devices (which are significant) or how secondary software features work.

* On the production side, many authors are turning to services like Smashwords or freelancers to handle the conversion of Word files to the formats that Amazon/Sony/BN/etc. accept for upload.

* There is a lot of sensitivity around price (see the comment thread starting here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/03/barry-joe-scott-turow.... ) and free giveaways (like KDP Select, http://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/KDPSelect ). This translates to intense worry about whether authors are losing out or getting cheated in some way.

In my opinion, the factors listed above as well as the general reluctance of people to read through EULAs and long FAQs disassociates authors from the processes and policies that govern how their work is distributed, marketed, and sold. This, in turn, can lead to serious misunderstandings.

I am not excusing the witch hunt that took place, but am simply trying to identify the factors that led to LendInk being suspended.
I'm going to channel Harry Reid on this one and ask that my claims are disproved. Let's see the logs. Let's see the communications with "The Hacker".
If Visa and other card processors much higher up the value chain can do it (e.g., Wikileaks), Amazon certainly has the same option.
if you actually understand why a mass spectrometer works then climate change is obvious

Please elaborate.
Did Textmate come with a promise that your money would help fund the development of Textmate2?
Illusion of girl painted on street to make drivers slow down.
Being nice doesn't cost one anything, though. So why not do it? Being rude, obnoxious, overly pedantic, etc. just make one a dick. Since it takes the same amount of effort to show a little consideration and common courtesy, as it does to be a dick, why would anybody prefer the latter?

And it's not like being "nice" precludes one from being direct, honest, or straightforward. I'm really not seeing the advantage of failing to show at least a baseline level of common courtesy and kindness to people, even if it is just a discussion board.
I agree, I've just heard enough people making arguments about situations like this that I thought I'd share the reasoning they offer, and then followed it up with why it's flawed.

For instance, I have a coworker who keeps insisting that Apple should have been hit with an anti-trust suit like MS since they only allowed the Safari browser on iOS (for a time). He was dead serious (for some reason he truly hates Apple and wants to see the corporation fail, still owns an iPhone though). It was based off a flawed understanding of the laws and the markets the laws apply to. A lot of people seem to jump to the legality of the actions of the group in charge of a particular platform without considering whether that platform is one of a larger marketplace.
And you got Textmate a long time ago. And yes, your upgrade to Textmate 2 was free.

So it's a bit wrong of you to think you were bamboozled.
I like the design. Neat. Coming from a large corporate environment, i cannot even start to tell how bad of help desk systems we have to use. Anyway, one thing that confuses me is a pricing tier with more than 3 options. May be you can combine it into 3: FREE, small business, large business (something like this).
Only if that version of Textmate didn't satisfy your requirements for a text editor.
So will the google car be more or less affected by this than humans?

My first order guess is the google car will not be affected at all, which would say something about robot drivers actually being safer because they only see what's "really there".
I can't recall ever seeing something like this. Can you link an example?
I paid for Textmate too, for Textmate I. That being said, I'm sad that the development of Textmate has come to an end. Switching to another editor sooner or later won't be easy.
I am cloning it right now before it is too late!
I wrote a Qt Creator plugin a while ago that does code completion, tooltips, navigation, etc. for Python source code. I never did anything specifically for PySide but it might be fun to try: https://github.com/davidsansome/pyqtc