skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
250fps seems pretty high for this use case
a car doing 100kmh is about 30m per sec.

Measured over 10m capture zone 24fps is more than adequate

focal length, durability, weather proofing etc all seem more likely to be the cost - but really that's just housing.
Like WhatsApp, Viber is free to use and has no advertising model. If they are not making money off me directly i have to wonder how safe my data actually is with this service.
Chrome doesn't need admin privileges to install.
There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and computer models.
Let's see, I am 100% self taught, let me see what I'm lacking...

1. nope, I know that.

2. you got me there. looks like I need to study.

3. nope, I know that.

4. nope, I know that also.

5. nope, I know that, it's been one of my favorite subjects.
Ahh, very cool. That makes a lot of sense to me. Basically you're using PE as a proxy for a measurement of attractiveness.
For contacts, I have been using a CardDAV server called Davical (OSS). This is supported on iOS and Macs since it implements the CardDAV standard. With 1000+ contacts, it is a more robust solution than scripts for every new phone.

On a similar vein, I also use CalDAV which does the same thing for calendars.
Or you can just google for the instructions. Preferably, before you buy the phone.
It would be great if you could open-source some of the non-GH-specific setup scripts.
But is it more secure?
Tax increases and spending cuts didn't pull us out of recession? Huh!
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The best way to use DTrace is by writing your own DTrace scripts rather than using dtruss or another wrapper.

Also, OS X does have a command similar to 'strace' called 'trace'. The simplest way to use it is like this:

$ sudo trace -L <filename>
<terminate with ^C>
$ trace -R <filename> /usr/share/misc/trace.codes

That will print out a formatted list of events with timestamps, etc. BSD system calls are formatted with the 'BSC_' prefix, and Mach system calls are formatted with the 'MSC_' prefix.

If you run 'trace -h' it will tell you about more options for filtering, tracing for a fixed period of time, etc.
Funny, the article didn't mention the minimum wage, which was raised 20% by Nancy Pelosi in 2007, the start of our unemployment woes.

The law of supply and demand states that if you raise the cost of something, you will get less of it. Raise the minimum wage 20%, and you will get less jobs. Elementary.
So just because 99 percent of SMSs don't contain sensitive information, it's OK to leave the remaining 1 percent insecure?
Install Chrome or Chrome Frame. Problem solved.
I was surprised to see that this lawsuit seems to be about copy protection, specifically Android app signing, not anything specific to flight simulators.

The specifics of the suit were two clicks away from the linked page:
http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/lawsuit/details/

This seems strange; does android app signing even use "communication with a server to perform a license check"? That sounds more like serial/license number verification.
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I want to duplicate the current line, not just put it in the killring.
At risk of starting a flamewar, I'm starting to like Microsoft more and more these days. They have a 100% predictable support lifecycle and don't pull the rug out from under people with virtually no notice.

We've literally just got rid of our IE6 support a couple of months back and have IE8 as minimum spec (IE7 is irrelevant as any platform that can run it can take IE8). I doubt we'll see the end of IE8 for a few years which is not a problem for us.
I've only seen BoMs publicized for Apple products. Are these often done for competitors?
Most of that corporate world is still using Office and Outlook, though.
Tell me more. I wasn't aware app piracy was a major problem in either store.
Atari ST. A beautiful machine.

In Apple's failings, there is immense opportunity.

Follow the bouncing beach ball...
neither chrome nor chrome frame require admin permissions.
On a corporate network, it won't install anyway as it won't go through the firewall and I doubt the IT department will let it be installed.

If you do get it through the firewall, you'll probably be removed from the office instantly.

Corporates are very protective of their infrastructure and rightfully so.
That doesn't mean you're allowed to install it.
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Your last point is the key point.

Any organization progressive enough to be using Google Apps for anything is unlikely a locked-down IE8/XP environment.

i.e. a venn diagram between Google App using orgs and IE8/XP lockdown orgs will have very little overlap.
One qualifier: Apple only sells one NEW model of iPhone per year
My point is that most of the threats exposed don't take elite hacker, or even "l33t hax0rz", skills to discover. A hugely greater percentage of people are going to hear about this and say, "oh, I should switch to something else" or "oh, I shouldn't say sensitive things" than are going to fail to hear about this and be snooped on by someone who did and wouldn't have figured it out anyway.
It isn't the information they can view, it is the things they can do impersonating you. Any application installed on your phone can probably access the two authenticating pieces of information. Then they can impersonate you in messages to, say, your parents and say something like "Hey mom, I need to order something, can you send me your credit card?" and then your mom, under the illusion that WhatsApp is secure, will send it right over.
The whole point is that you didn't have to be a skilled attacker to figure out anything mentioned in the post. If the author had discovered an obscure security hole that allowed him to access sensitive information, then yes he's only going to make the problem worse by distributing that information online.

But it does not take a skilled attacker to "hack" a system where messages are being sent in plain text.
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Do speed cameras really make that much money?

Parking fines certainly do - the London borough of Westminster rakes in nearly 100m pa iirr over a couple of square miles. But speeding fines seem in the UK at least to be a tiny fraction of the annoyance of parking
huh. clever thought.
Yes they do. They require the permission of your system administrator.
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Thanks for your reply. Talked with some more informed friends about the situation in Sweden and their conclusion is that work like TaskRabbit probably could exist in some kind of grey area (especially when it's one private individual working for another private individual for a small amount). However when the service grows the unions will try everything to make your workers "unionized" implying that either the service company (e.g. TaskRabbit) or the buyer needs to pay insurance and minimum-wage for the work being performed - basically hiring the individual.

I guess this is not interesting for must of you US readers but it could be telling of what could happen to your TaskRabbiters.
Some hotels do something similar -- chains sell the mattresses that they use in their hotels to consumers.[1]

[1] http://www.whotelsthestore.com/item.asp?curr_item_id=5
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Is it so bad that an industry has high margins? $500-1000 doesn't seem that expensive for a once every 10 years purchase. Mattress salesman gotta make a living! Seems very hypocritical while we make 90% margins on software.
When looking into unused IPv4 /8 blocks besides private companies, could somebody please explain how much of the 201,326,592 addresses (12x /8) allocated to the US DoD have ever been used
to be fair, this would only really be an issue for companies that use google apps /and/ XP. Therefore, it would behove the company to do what @MatthewPhillips was suggesting.
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The ruling is very interesting, thanks for posting.

It seems the main issue is whether the defendant has the right to sue to intervene when Twitter is subpoenaed to turn his information over to third party (the People). That is a bit different than the way most of the media coverage is framing the issue.
Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
On a seperate note, would anyone actually visit a website that had a private non fine generating camera over the freeway you take to work, and would pop up the speed and time you passed when u enter a license plate

just thought it might be a fun thing to learn opencv on - thoughts?
> I did happen to say things like "this lookup is O(n^2), you should use some other structure here". It's useful when that conversation ends with an "OK", rather than a wide eyes stare...

If you'd have said "this lookup is very inefficient and slow" you wouldn't have had a wide eyed stare, and it would have had the same effect.
The only way to fix the economy is to make stuff which people will buy. So lets all just get back to work and do that :)
A quick Google search shows there are still some methods by which an admin can prevent users from installing Chrome. Chrome Frame on the other hand, at first glance, appears much more difficult to detect/block from an admin perspective.
Because the people that wrote the article believed that children were helpless. Intrinsically motivated people will almost always find a way to overcome obstacles. Those extrinsically motivated need help to overcome obstacles. Government school promotes extrinsic motivation (go to school, get a good job. Get that A on that test!).
Lyft's marketing has been pretty impressive to watch. Just this morning on my MUNI train I overheard a conversation where a guy was excitedly describing the service to another passenger, describing it as "way cheaper than uber". And the mustache branding is brilliant. Once I found out what it meant, I started seeing them everywhere. All around, a brilliant launch.
structured data is actually something i'm really into. what sort of metadata or tags do you think might be useful to add in automatically? i don't want to make the user do any more work than necessary.
WhatsApp is not free to use. iOS users are charged a flat 99c fee while Android users are charged 1$ a year from the second year onwards.

I do not know how secure Viber is but they have been steadilu acquiring good user base. If I was Viber, I would cash on this opportunity to write a blog or advertise their security models.
I got the iOS app when it was free, didn't know that they decided to start charging for it.
Shouldn't every other phone cost a similar amount? Also the other phones sell for similar prices as well (unlocked ones). So what is special/interesting about knowing the BOM estimates for the iPhone?
To start, vector icons don't look as good at 16x16 or 32x32 as they do at higher resolutions. Pretty much every desktop environment that supports both large and small icons (whether with a native vector format or many scaled versions of large "master" icon) features separate, hand-edited icons for the lower resolutions, and often a completely redrawn simpler icon for the lowest (usually 16x16).

The Tango Icon Theme Guidelines state this explicitly:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines\
With soundtrack:
http://tinyurl.com/924zl5u
(youtubedoubler, john murphy - surface of the sun and the above video)
In fact, OS X is a certified Unix system (while Linux isn't, officially, but close enough).
How we sidestepped an App Store catastrophe
I'm sure this is a completely data-driven decision

A = Requests to G Apps from IE 8

B = Cost of supporting IE 8

AXE = A<<B
As a remarkable coincidence, another hack that Ka-Ping Yee did once was writing a nonstandard clock for his Palm. He spent a summer living 28-hour days: six 28-hour days per normal week, going in and out of phase with the sun once a week. So he needed a way to remember when to go to sleep, when to wake up, when to eat dinner, and so on. When it's 25:00, what do you do? We have a lifetime of intuition built up around clock times on a 24-hour clock.

So he wrote a digital clock that used standard-length seconds, but 70 of them per minute, 60 of those minutes per hour, and 24 of those hours per day. So when it was 10:30:59 by his nonstandard clock, he was at the phase of his nonstandard day that corresponds to 10:30 or so of the standard day --- but the clock would then roll over to 10:30:60, 10:30:61, ... 10:30:69, 10:31:00.

It was very amusing to see people's reactions upon watching the clock for a little while, especially at the time of week that it was more or less in phase with normal time.
Since this is made from splicing together all the photos, I assume then that the sounds are just being faked?
I wouldn't consider Skype secure when all traffic for Skype goes through private servers run by Microsoft and there is as far as I am aware no end to end encryption between end users.

Also, Skype's protocol and entire stack is entirely opaque and thus hasn't been nearly as checked for security issues as something like XMPP with SSL for example.
This could be mitigated by TaskRabbit cooperating with an insurance provider and selling "insured" work. There are great margins on insurance as we all know. In their TOS TaskRabbit basically says "TaskRabbit.com Only Provides a Venue" (check it out: http://www.taskrabbit.com/tos). Why don't some retail-insurance megacorp approach them? This could be TaskRabbits no1 source of income instead of their no1 problem...
I'm no SMS engineer, but I'm pretty sure SMS is stuffed in one of the ping packets used to keep the phone connected to the cell towers.
There are vastly better UNIX implementations (from which Apple has borrowed copiously) that will never be certified.

Like who? And what has Apple copied from them?
Sadly, I deleted the app from my iPhone without ever having a chance to test it. Chronos presented only one portal to Nirvana: through Facebook.
Enough already, we get it. If there's such a pent up demand for such a service, why hasn't someone launched a similar service like, yesterday?
The really insidious thing about these cameras in many if not most cities is that they are owned and operated by a private corporation and then the government splits the profits. In some cases the private company is paid per ticket issued which doesn't take much thought to realize how to maximize profit. http://washingtonexaminer.com/court-md.-drivers-cant-get-spe...

I've gotten tickets from these things before simply because my car was the only license plate visible in the frame even though the little yellow triangle designating the vehicle speeding marked a car on the opposite side of the road traveling in the other direction. The highway guard rail was obscuring the speeders plate though so they just sent it to me instead.

Speed cameras are akin to a lottery tax system where by motorists are randomly chosen to pay an extra tax and it's justified by the fact that some of them may have been speeding.
No way to know. The way I see it I have two otions in te worst case scenario

Option1 - Use an insecure paid app
Option2 - Use an insecure free app

I am not sure about you but I will choose Option2 gien the constraints and restrict my use to communications which have no privacy problems.
At one point UBS rogue trader racked up $12B losses
When we were doing Comet in Netscape 4 and IE4 at KnowNow (in 2000, although Rohit, Adam, and Peyman got the technique working in 1999), we used an endless HTML frame, which simply never stopped loading. We'd spit out a <script> tag whenever there was a new message to deliver. There was an annoying clicking noise in IE, but only when the frame did finish loading because you'd lost your network connection or restarted the server.

This eventually got open-sourced as "mod_pubsub".
The observation that a lot of the conflict comes about because of the "functional" language employed in patents, where the end result of the invention is described, rather than the "technical" language which describes the method to achieve the desired function, is an important one.

It still seems that abandoning software patents altogether would be a more reasonable solution. There are exceedingly few software inventions that are significantly different from their technical predecessors that would require patent protection and could not be instead served by copyright protection or by being kept a trade secret.
I'm pretty sure you can add any number of users to google analytics?
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This is a vast, vast oversimplification.

By your logic, Canada should be seeing massive unemployment as our minimum wage is 20%-30% higher in most provinces than most states.

The reality is that Canada's unemployment rate sits at about 7.3% in August compared to the 8.1% rate in the United States.
I think getting a new pair of glasses would still be better after two years, just because of the wear and tear on the lenses alone degrades your vision.
I think they're taken off NASA's animation of the landing process. The rover has no microphone on board.
If the link doesn't work type http://beta.usatoday.com manually in your browser and then hit cancel on the authentication. Not sure why it doesn't work coming from HN.
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> Or a superconducting sleeping bag for those hot mosquito nights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_net works pretty well...
Yes, the sound is fake. There is sound on Mars, though very quiet from our perspective, but the rover (and especially the lander) doesn't have a microphone.

I did find this totally cool video that uses the status tones the lander sent back to earth, though: http://www.space.com/17110-screaming-down-to-mars-how-curios...
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Apple definitely does not put lots of money into R&D.

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/05/14/nokia-outspent-a...

Not that it is a BAD thing, or a good thing - the innovations from R&D past pays off years after, but they only spent 2.4 billion. They tried sueing Samsung for more than their total annual R&D costs.

Again, not science here, just an oberservation that they are indeed cheap with R&D.
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> I don't know why more web developers don't try it

I'll list my own reasons (beyond Linux "just working"):

- Unusable command line (unless you install Cygwin)

- Lack of tools (unless you install Cygwin)

- Case-insensitive filesystem (in 2012!)

- Drive letters (in 2012!)

- You can't delete open files (in 2012!)

- It's ugly - Windows 95 GUI elements often poke through everywhere

- No package management - I have to download software from sites all over the web

- If I'm deploying on Linux (or other Unix) why deliberately use the most different OS possible

Don't get me wrong. If you are developing for Windows or other Microsoft platforms, there is nothing better than Windows to develop on. It's just that it doesn't make sense in any other case.
No they don't.
See: http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-gett...

Thanks!
Ha, I guess that makes sense.
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Interesting read why the data is not measured properly and the customers get overcharged. I don't agree that a software fix (put software on phones to acknowledge data received, and thus improve the one digit % error margin) would solve this problem. It would be more beneficial to have real competition among carriers in the US to drive prices down. It strikes me every time to see how ATT charges 20x the price for 1/20th of the performance in data throughput & quality compared to many European carriers. To compare: in some European countries you would get 4GB wireless data with - speeds of 14.4 MBps on a pre-pay card (no monthly commitment) for a price of $6. Competition doesn't seem to really work here. Which is a more important problem, thatn the 1-digit % measurement error margin.
Does anyone know what sorts of speeds I can expect with throttling?
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Why is it obvious that memory foam is cheaper per cubic inch than a spring assembly?
"When we started exploring various options for our installer, we came up with some explicit goals: ...Allow users who are not administrators to install Google Chrome." http://blog.chromium.org/2009/01/google-chrome-installation-...

Non-admin Chrome Frame has been available for more than a year. http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/introducing-non-admin-chrom...
Do you know the difference between prisoners and slaves?
With strechy jersey sheets with deep sides, it doesn't matter if you apply them 90-degrees rotate.
Is it really? Frankly, I'd love to stop supporting IE8 in the product that I am managing. I can't, but I'd love to.
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Google Apps has been around for a while now. Its use is no longer all that 'progressive,' at least in my mind. I've worked with plenty of companies with FoxPro databases and ball mice that are using Google Apps.
Techically that'd be new revisions since the iPhone comes in multiple SKUs. I think there are 3 different storage capacities multiplied by 3 different radios (http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/) and 2 different colors so that makes it 18 different iPhone 5 configurations.
In this day and age this is like sending out a memo saying people can only use Bic pens in the office and anyone bringing a Parker in will be fired.

It is, frankly, ridiculous. This is doubly true as the people who want to install these browsers are obviously more computer literate than those without it.

You talk about a corporate network as if the people who have these draconian policies are competent, in my experience the very opposite is true, the more incompetent the IT department is, the stricter the policies will be.
I had take home exams (2000-2004) but they were rare. I think professors abstained from take home exams as a favor to the students -- a sit-down exam is only going to consume 2 hours of your week, whereas a take home exam will balloon to consume all of the time you have available to work on it, to the detriment of your other classes/activities.
Compared to this? Ridiculously hard. A5/1, while severely compromised, still requires heavy IOPS and computing power to break quickly with rainbow tables (see Kraken).

Even worse: this allows for trivial spoofing. You're far, far away from doing that with SMS.
I was seriously coming here to say the exact same thing. Right now I am a web developer, but I've been dreaming about starting a medium sized aquaponics farm. I'm currently building a system that will use my master bath as a fish tank to learn the ropes.
hey Phil,

Sorry to hear that Facebook Connect is a non-starter for you -- FWIW, we only use FB to to make adding friends easier; otherwise, people would have to manually enter email addresses, or select Twitter follows (which tends to be a less complete superset of one's real-world social graph). We never post to you or your friends' walls or anything annoying like that.

We're looking for ways to develop a solution that would both allow people to use it without a Facebook account but also seamlessly add friends, and trying to figure out if that's possible. Appreciate your feedback, and sorry that you weren't able to use the app.

-charlie
founder, chronos