skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the NSA having this tech can be worrisome, there is zero chance they are going to blow their load by revealing they have it to catch someone doing copyright infringement, no matter how much control you think the maFIAA exerts.
The exciting stuff?

Augmented reality, location based anything, multiplayer gaming, Bump, filtered photography, CPU intensive stuff like iPhoto, iMovie, etc.

>> iphone was launched and sold on the basis of these so called unexciting stuff and this is how apple disrupted phone market.

Well, that's not so much the case today. Today, it's all about showing off all the wizzy apps in the app store.
The more I hear about and see pictures of this "Curiosity Rover" the more I start to think it is just
one big hoax, how can one really find out if this isn't really fake ?

the images look really "earthy" to me and it looks very similar to what they did with the "Moon Landing" and "Voyager Recording"

I'm not an expert but perhaps some expert can give us some insights on this ?
I'd like to put in a word for "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" a superb piece of speculative fiction and possibly the first Steampunk novel.

(also more boringly called "Tunnel Through the Deeps")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Through_the_Deeps
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As _delerium posted above, much of the data is publically available thanks to Google.

http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFe...
With iOS 6, Apple released Transit APIs that let third party devs (read: public transit providers) add public transit data themselves.

“The new Transit APIs, referred to by Scott Forstall at 108:58 in Monday's keynote, allow developers to register their app as a directions provider for routing directions for a particular set of coordinates. It will then be displayed in the list of available third-party apps for transit. Clicking a transit app launches that app, passing the start and end values to the app. Contrary to other analysis, transit routes can't be displayed inline from the Maps app.”

This seems to me like a clever move, this way Apple won't have to collect all the data.

http://waxy.org/2012/06/busting_the_ios_6_transit_map_myths/
You say that, but we here on HN all know that what people say and what they actually do are rarely correlated. Maybe they could A/B test this at different conferences and find out.
It doesn't actually illustrate anything because the app's only been out for a week.
Got fed up with lack of way of changing the number of months displayed by Emacs' calendar, and after a fruitless web search for a solution, wrote the fix myself. So, I decided to share.

FYI:

* Adds the new function 'calendar-set-num-months' to the built-in emacs
calendar, which changes the number of months displayed in the calendar

* Number of months defaults to 3 (as per original calendar) but can be
set to e.g. 6 or 12 months using 'calendar-set-num-months'.

* Alternatively, you can change the default number of months by editing
the value of 'calendar-num-months' in this file.
Oatmeal starts IndieGoGo fundraiser to save the Tesla Tower
Honestly, I don't care how common it is at bars generally. If it's my community, then I want this shit stopped.

Do you think some of those women would be willing to post here? There's nothing that says that women can't hand out these cards. Or that they can't be handed out to dudes harassing dudes.
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Or many people would just go "meh, guess I'll use something else then". Facebook is just not that big of a deal to most people, it's pretty easy to provide a similar service. Facebook knows this and wouldn't take a chance alienating the whole European population, many of whom are already itching to switch to something else, just looking for an excuse.
A Programmer’s Advice to Startup Founders
So what your saying is her post is false and she is just trying to drive traffic to her YT account/Blog? I'm sorry I am reading between the lines and I think that's what your saying. Innocent question, no offense intended.
And because I'm a content-management geek: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/wxytJ
Are you just looking to pick a fight?

I don't disagree with the parent post's point. I disagree with the way they are arguing it.

I can fully, 1000% get behind the statement that "Rape-culture and patriarchy are definitely major society-wide issues", but if they want to make the casual accusation that "they undeniably find a special welcoming home within geek culture", I'm going to fucking call you on it unless you can bring some proof.

Again, I'm not disagreeing that there is a problem, I'm disagreeing with the assertation that the hacker community "prides itself on merit and intelligence at first". That's it.

Again, I'm not saying that assault at defcon isn't a problem, what I am saying is that labeling a huge swath of people as "men's right's advocates and evopsych true-believers and other terrible terrible people", is in fact counter-productive. I was at defcon and wasn't even aware that sexual conduct there was a problem until I talked with a goon that saturday night. Does that make me a men's right advocate? Or a evopsych?

I see that you're just looking to pick a fight, I should have never taken the bait.
That's fine, but the author explicitly stated that the article was written because "the vast majority of developers react to all these things." My point was that this statement seems to me to be untrue.
Is there something about these cards that prevents them from being used regardless of the gender of the participants?
Relevant terms are "brace expansion" and "range". And, um, at least for me, the command I wrote works verbatim in zsh. (I think zsh is supposed to be bash-compatible like that.) Brace expansion works like this (in zsh and bash):

% echo {1..5}
1 2 3 4 5
% echo meh{1..5}
meh1 meh2 meh3 meh4 meh5
% echo {1..5}{1..5}
11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 31 32 33 34 35 41 42 43 44 45 51 52 53 54 55
% echo {1,2,4}{1,3,9}
11 13 19 21 23 29 41 43 49

I have observed one difference in brace expansion: {a..f} -> "a b c d e f" in bash, but "{a..f}" in zsh. Curious. Oh well.
iPad in Pure CSS
That's exactly what the title says. It doesn't say Google has one million more public transit stops.
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The reason why people are reporting incidents where a harasser gets away with it is because most of the time they are getting away with it. Conferences are organized in a way that doesn't allow people to get help and stop this kind of behavior when it happens. As the article mentions, often there is no clear policy against harassment and security may even be in on the harassing behavior. Coupled with a lack of peers calling people out, its not a surprise that we see people relating their experiences of assault and harassment and explaining why they won't be going back to particular conferences.

I totally agree with you that as a community we need to call out our peers firmly and clearly when we feel safe to do so. As of right now that isn't happening and hacker conferences are not safe spaces for women. We are not creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of harassment by letting people share their experiences of those incidents. The only way we can combat the problem is to acknowledge its existence and listen to the experiences of those who suffered such behavior and attitudes. People should be absolutely free to relate their stories of calling people out and addressing such behavior, but let's not kid ourselves about the reality of what is going on at these conferences for women.
And the thing that they also missed is that most of the Top Grossing free IAP games don't have a ceiling for IAP spending. This is very important, as spending follows power law curve, which is very well known fact among free-to-play game developers ("rich oil sheiks subsidizing the game for poor kids")

It's requires a bit of a game design
ingenuity to make it work so that you can't just buy your way to victory, especially in multiplayer setting, but is doable.
For the record, my comment was facetious while making the point the article is more than 2 yrs old.

I think the article's next line has it right: the tested algorithm might have been for a future computer from space.
Exactly! $5-$20 was the peak! And the market hasn't settled at $1.99. The market has settled at $ZERO.

I quote from http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/ :

Over 500,000 apps.

For work, play, and everything in between.

The apps that come with your iPhone are just the beginning. Browse the App Store to find hundreds of thousands more. The more apps you download, the more you realize there’s almost no limit to what your iPhone can do.

There's no limit to what the iPhone can do because we don't even need to tell developers how to price their apps.

There are hordes of 20-somethings subsidised by VCs to extend our platform for free forever. No wait. They pay us 100 bucks a head for the privilege. Every year. And there are thousands others who follow suit, even without funding, because they have selectively read all the chapters of Steve's biography talking about the importance of beautiful typography and minimal furniture.

There's no limit to what the iPhone can do because we don't even need to tell developers how to price their apps.

I'm going to stop now. This is too painful to write about.
Personally I'll only ever allow flash to load and watch a video if a product page has sufficiently grabbed my attention first. Doubly so if I'm at work.

They should focus more on the real time nature of the updates and why I should care if my ipad gets a update in real time when I make an change on my iphone. I'm sure there's some scenarios where real time is useful and even more so once they start supporting more platforms but users are unlikely to try and come up with these scenarios for long before they move along to something else.
We have successfully used Lua on a Blackfin processor in one embedded project. It worked just fine as long as you did not use it for real-time tasks.
It really depends on the dynamic of the relationship and how supporting of each other both of you are. That said I only have a finance so I really can't say how marriage will be (although I've lived with her for nearly 3 years so I guess I have a general idea).

I have to say it's kind of like how PG goes on about how startups should have more than one founder so that they'll be able to carry the load together... I would not be where I am today without her continued support and I'd like to think vise versa.

That said I've dated other women who got mad if I didn't unplug for a weekend entirely and would go out dancing and drinking every night at a club. Honestly I don't know how things would have been if we had got married -- I think the relationship wouldn't be able to stand the pressures of life. It took me a long time (likely longer than it should have) to find the right person to counter balance my own weaknesses and encourage me to keep striving toward my goals.

The key isn't waiting for a time when life's pressures disappear but finding something who has the tenacity to tackle them with you.

Be good to each other and I think you'll be fine.
Snapjoy (YC S11) launches one-click importers and Windows uploader
Canadian tech accelerator announces farm team
Downvoted because your posts are unnecessarily hostile to people who are posting innocent questions/observations.
I don't want to start out my presence on Hacker News by being a complainer, but I have to say... I've looked at the website for 10 minutes and I still have little idea what SendHub DOES.

I spent 10 minutes, and even watched the video (a last ditch effort), because I have a niggling feeling in my mind that it does something very cool. With cell phones. And numbers. And messages (of some kind). But without actually creating an account, I still have minimal idea what.

This is common to many startup websites - not just SendHub. I'm just tired enough of it, and frustrated enough on this probably-cool app, to mention it this time.
Ah, I see someone else mentioned this since I last refreshed the page.
I'd like to see some evidence before believing such a tale. If such punch cards did exist, then I'm sure that there would be a picture of one online. In other words: Screenshot, or it didn't happen.
Facebook has offices in a number of EU countries, including (but not limited to) offices in London (UK), Hamburg (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), and Stockholm (Sweden).
Sure, specialised hardware tends to be more efficient than general purpose hardware but it's not so much "special-purpose hardware is magic" as it is "the general purpose hardware doesn't take advantage of certain properties". As far as I understand the GPU's advantage over CPU (again, graphics is not my area of expertise) it's largely that graphics processes are massively parallel and the GPU is specifically set up to handle massively parallel things. Like I said, I know nearly nothing about video encoding/decoding so I was hoping someone who did could explain things for me. My only guess for how specialised hardware could dramatically save power for video decoding is that it might be comprised of massively parallelisable simple operations.
I can see how that can be quite cumbersome. I guess we just navigate websites in a different manner. Navigating to the homepage via the URL field is always my first instinct.

Different strokes for different folks.
Nope. Kim Dotcom was arrested by NZ police to face extradition hearings. He's been released on bail and hasn't even left New Zealand, much less been spirited away to CIA black sites or detained at Guantanamo Bay or declared an illegal enemy combatant or brought before a military tribunal or denied access to legal counsel. Whatever problems there are with his arrest and the searches and seizures that took place with it, they're following the exact same procedures they would for any extradition case, nothing like the procedures used for terror suspects.
Well said.

Developers are severly exploited. Even the ones who become millionaires. Hello VC.

The way out of this situation is quite simple but not obvious to many. And of those who recognise it, they get it wrong.

I'm talking about platform development.

Platforms, the kind that let everyone benefit, need to be simple, low level (ultra reliable) and flexible.

Few people can get this right. Because the lure of complexity (features) and lock-in (greed) is so great.

An OS is not such a platform.

A website is not such a platform.

A protocol, that anyone can implement just by reading the spec, is a platform.

IP (Internet Protocol) is a platform.

It's dead simple. It's free. It's old! And you are all using it.

What can you subtract from IP? Not much.

What features does it have? Not many.

And that's the beauty of it.

True platforms in this sense do not require you to jump through hoops.
We couldn't agree more! One of the things we're very excited about is the amount of data viaCycle's system can collect and organize. And because we're not tied to permanent infrastructure we can be flexible; adjusting to usage on demand, etc. Some of it may work, some of it may not, but we're looking forward to pushing the traditionally slow-moving transit world into the future.
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released
The NSA aren't covered by EU privacy law, however.
It never ceases to amaze me how much privacy people expect to have when they are out in public.
I couldn't tell if this site was a demonstration of the GeoCities example, then I saw it was in fact not.
Hot damn.

I love the in-context video ads instead of pre-rolls, so this could be a great solution for our needs.
Additionally there is a bup backend target for git-annex. Bup is targetted as a rsync-like backup service that can do incremental backups and ought work OK with large binary files.
https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/

It was through Bup that I originally discovered git-annex.
>> So their first game sold for $2.99 up front and earned them $20k-$40k for two years. I would call that successful.

Depends on the context, especially considering the opportunity costs of having a higher paid job.

The problem is that everyone thinks that you have to price games low to sell them. I regularly pay more than $5 for iPhone/iPad games if I know they're good. Hell, after years of paying through the nose for handheld console cartridges, even $15 is cheap to me.
One of the the last part about Warcraft's bright color palette is very fascinating. Especially the insight that you have to consider the actual environment that many of your users will be in.

I would argue, the bright color palette served the visual design of the warcraft games very well --all the way up to the mega-blockbuster, World of Warcraft.
The article also notes another reason why the arrival of the TSA coincided with an increase:

"The arrival of the TSA, which should have heightened security throughout airports, actually created an opportunity for petty thievery, he says. “When you have the TSA and local law enforcement watching for terrorists, this takes the priority off of thieves stealing luggage from the carousel.”
yeah, hardly a good approach in a world of lawyers and lets face it, there will be alot of geeks there who would gladly like to be red carded and I suspect somebody will make up some teashirts saying "red carding welcome".

Still I'm sure some people will abuse this system like any system and lets face it the audience will not exactly be angels in not abusing any form of system. Lets face it, in Football it's not exactly perfect. Unless all events are video'd to death and can be verified then it is abusable. That said how long until somebody does a erect nipple/penis video recognition system, scary thoughts on many levels.

Today red cards, tomorrow video survalence and full location tracking with all your comminications monitored so you can be at a event were people complain about privacy.

There again I thought sexual harrasment was a against the law and that carries more weight than any token scoring system that trivialises the offence.
I was actually coming to HN to say the exact same thing. I assumed the link to "Cheddar" in the blog post would give me some information -- also assumed that the logo would take me a top page that would have information about the product.

What I have learned:
* Cheddar is out for Mac
* Cheddar is opensource for iOS
* Sam is the creator of Cheddar
* Archiving is not supported

What I have no learned:
* What Cheddar is
* Why I should care
I kind of hate it when people link to autoplay videos on hackernews. I open a bunch of tabs for interesting stories (and discussions), then go back and read them, and there's always the annoying task of finding the one playing audio when someone links an autoplay video.
I am referring to the title that is generated and displayed on HN for the link (I don't know if it's done through scraping). Twitter has proper title tags on status pages by the way (e.g. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/235818483588407296)
"Compatible" is actually a kind of strong word to use. You may actually be able to play these on a phone, the UI elements are just REALLY TINY.

I just tried Spacechem on my SGS3. It does at least run, but you better have tiny, tiny fingers to hit some of those UI elements. :)
Unlivable Cities
No. These are just a bunch of guys predictably derailing the discussion of how women are harassed at tech conferences with, "But sometimes it's a guy, too! Ergo, we shouldn't get anywhere in this discussion!"
Your imagined scenario has him waiting for the bags, though!

The pilot has to know what's happening with his plane (e.g. are all the bags loaded or not) and is the final authority on everything that happens with the plane, so it all just comes out of that.
I too yearn for the good old days when I had a chance to approve every photo uploaded to Flickr.
It may be true that FB is making more use of the data than you might have anticipated, but you can argue that's also the risk you take when you use a free service (do you ever really know the full extent a service will use your information, despite what they say in their lengthy EULA?). The funny thing is that in many cases, the user gains more value from the system than originally expected too, due to novel applications of existing data (e.g. timeline).
I only skimmed the page, but i didn't find any references or stats to back up any claims in the text?
Clicking the logo just goes to the blog homepage.
I can't talk for the rest of the EU but in Germany privacy issues tend to get blown out of proportion - the media coverage during the street view controversy was rather ridiculous. Average, non-technical people almost thought Google would drive through their backyards.

It's ok to disagree with Google's and Facebook's behaviour and it's ok to take measures but I wish the media would focus on balanced and objective coverage, educating people rather than calling for drama and hysteria.
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They quietly removed that option and now only allow you to restrict it from your timeline (requires you to approve). You still need to manually remove the tag. Annoying.
I don't expect privacy, just a reasonable degree of anonymity.
I just don't see how FB currently gets that much value out of its facial recognition DB. As far as I can tell, as an end-user, it makes it easier to tag people because FB will suggest named tags (sometimes hilariously wrong).

But this is a minor convenience. If I really do want to tag a photo, then I'm already in a curation mindset and willing to put up with the precious second it takes to type in the first two-three characters of a friend's name.

At this point, FB, with those two characters, has enough information to make a 95% accurate guess...because it also has my entire history of interactions with friends, including all past tagging behavior. It obviously can derive a prediction that weights more recent tagging behavior (on the premise that I'm likely to have hung out with the same friends as I did last week)...and bingo, by the time I've typed the third character, Facebook has it narrowed down to the right person.

So why even bother keeping the facial recognition data?

...I'm not so naive to think that there aren't other applications of this facial-recognition data. I'm just pointing out that FB has nearly all the non-visual data needed to guess who is in a photo without applying any computer-vision techniques.

And that non-visual data (the history of a user's interactions) has way more predictive value on behavior than a facial-recognition DB... So given that the general public is more disturbed by things relating to physical appearance, if I were FB, I'd just give up this fight and carry on collecting all the non-visual data that they have so far.

* edit:

Along the same lines...this decision seems to be based on how FB collected this data without users explicit consent. Well, under this argument, doesn't FB collect interaction data without user consent?

Say my friend Bob continually posts on my wall, pokes me, sends me direct messages, etc. FB, without my consent, will have enough interaction data to peg me as Bob's special confidante...without any interaction on my part.

Isn't this the complaint with the face data? That my friends can tag my face and thus give FB a decent idea of my appearance? Well, my friends can also give FB a decent idea of my preferences in a variety of arenas by how they converse and interact with me...so if opt-in is the issue, isn't all of FB data up for destruction?
Astronomers have found a galaxy cluster that is breaking several cosmic records
> at a bar, no one has the right to not be hit on.

Sometimes, people like to go to bars to hang out with their friends or significant others. Believe it or not, entering a bar does not give you the right to run around groping people.

The sexual assault apology in this thread is unbelievable.