skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but in this case they use the same term and button as when they sell a physical book so to me its deceptive that its not the same transaction.
I think this is a really cool idea, but it's still about 2 or 3 times too big for me to wear it. It's big enough that people will notice it and ask about it, which is enough to discourage me from wanting one.
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I don't understand your question . . . that blog post is a year and just short of a month old.
"I love metro version of Skype!"

I doubt that, "metro" is used.
This is so funny, it was actually a good brand for the new interface. Now they try it with Windows 8....
The images could naturally degrade over time too. Ie, older photos are compressed more. Although the process of fetching an image, compressing it, and replacing it, might be more trouble than the storage saving is worth. Could keep every nth photo as full resolution maybe.
You don't get to choose if the people around you are using it.
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Here's some context for British papers from 25 years ago (Yes Minister. "Hacker" is the minister, not an actual hacker.)

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Yeah, this is a really cool idea, but only if you have full control of your data. Ironic that they should mention "full control" as an argument in favor of storing the data on someone else's server.

You're only a subpoena away from having every intimate detail of your life revealed to the authorities, unless you manage to turn the camera off whenever something potentially suspicious happens (this is also called circumstantial evidence).
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I don't think so,

The Daily Mail generally likes to make you feel scared.

The Guardian generally likes to make you feel outraged.

They're just playing on different emotions to sell papers.

As regards quality, fact checking, bias, they're all very similar.
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That's fantastic!
But they are bigots.

Listen, I'm sorry that their feelings are hurt when I point out that their mantain a policy of bigotry against LGB people, but tough. That's how democracy works. You have the right to say what you want, but not the right to say what you want without people pointing it out.

Y'know what hurts me more? The fact that I can't get married.

Marriage has been redefined many times since 1984. In my country (Ireland), divorce was impossible/illegal. Times change, adapt.
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A quote: "Undeterred by the fact that some of the finest minds in history, including Isaac Newton hadn't solved the three-body problem, Minovitch became focused on cracking it."

This is misleading. The three-body problem is known to be insoluble in closed form, but anyone cam model it numerically. The person being describes was one of the first to do this, but the comparison with Newton is misleading.

Many kinds of problems are soluble through numerical modeling that aren't remotely soluble in closed form, and it is important to distinguish between the two kinds of solution.

On reading the article, it occurs to me that the author simply doesn't understand the math well enough to grasp the difference between an analytical and a numerical solution.
Torvalds was not referring to nVidia's video support for Linux when he made that statement; he was referring to their reluctance to cooperate with development efforts on their mobile chips, Tegra. nVidia has been far and away the best provider of first-class video driver support for free POSIX systems.

The X11 and Linux display landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years. I think that nVidia chose the wise strategy of "wait and see" to pinpoint what stabilizes and have since been working on porting pieces of their proprietary driver. The recent addition of XRandR 1.2+ support probably has more to do with the announcement of Optimus development than anything else, and this work is probably a precursor to a version that supports KMS and the other technologies that will be required for compatibility into the next five years of Linux desktop.
I would think this is actionable in the US. Her being in Norway complicates things.

I've spent more than $1k on ebooks for my kindle. If Amazon did this to me they'd definitely have a lawsuit on their hands. Not because I would win in court, but because I could use it as a springboard to do millions of dollars in damage to their reputation.
It would be an interesting experiment to have a random selection of citizens formulate a hypothetical new constitution.
Honestly, I haven't looked into it too much. However I have seen several references to it not supporting same sex marriage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM#Support_for_varying_defi... ).
I think the best to hope for is the opposite: that all the databases are publicly available, so at least we have equal access, and high-ranking politicians are just as exposed as everyone else.

The world is changing. When it's this easy and cheap to record everything that happens in public and put it in a searchable database, people will do it. You can't stop the tide.
Bought it on impulse because I love the aesthetics of it (both sound and imagery).
Never thought that these processors are somewhat the result of Chinese subsidies gone wild. Really worth reading, thanks for this.
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I am Italian. Sense does not understand how things work around here, Poetry does.
Galileo could have been jailed 2 years ago.
As a fledgling phd entrepreneur, at 28, I am leaving Italy.
> continues to be one of the best cross plattform dev frameworks

If you don't care about performance or quality of interface
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The life recorder is inevitable. I mean full video and audio. I've been talking about it for decades. The social and psychological shift is going to be huge. Are you self conscious when somebody is following you around taking pictures ? This thing will bug everybody out. The first adopters will be security and police (who already do it with their car based video). Then narcissists and people who want to have their own vanity tv show 247. And annoying tech dudes who wear it at parties.

many people will realize how boring their lives look from the outside and they will stop wearing it because it's depressing.

Anyway, the tech isn't the hard problem, it's the analysis, information overload and personal search engine industry. Many companies including my own are skating towards that puck.
Not to mention unless you have very unusual traffic patterns (spin up lots of servers for short periods of time), colo/dedicated servers will usually be vastly cheaper than EC2, especially because with a little bit of thought you can get servers that are substantially better fit for your use.

E.g. I'm currently about to install a new 2U chassis in one of our racks. It holds 4 independent servers each with with dual 6 core 2.6GHz Intel CPUs, 32GB RAM and a SSD RAID subsystem that easily gives a 500MB/sec throughput.

Total leasing cost + cost of a half rack in that data centre + 100Mbps of bandwidth is ~ $2500/month. Oh, and that leaves us with 20U of space for other servers, so every additional one adds $1500/month for the next 7-8 or so of them (when counting some space for switches and PDU's). Amortized cost of putting 2U with 100Mbps in that data centra is more like $1700/month.

Amazon doesn't have anything remotely comparable in terms of performance. To be charitable to EC2, at the low end we'd be looking at 4 x High Mem Quadruple Extra Large instances + 4 x EBS volumes + bandwidth and end up in the $6k region (adding the extra memory to our servers would cost us an extra $100-$200/month in leasing cost, but we don't need it), but the EBS IO capacity is simply nowhere near what we see from a local high end RAID setup with high end SSD's, and disk IO is usually our limiting factor. More likely we'd be looking at $8k-$10k to get anything comparable through a higher number of smaller instances).

I get that developers like the apparent simplicity of deploying to AWS. But I don't get companies that stick with it for their base load once they grow enough that the cost overhead could easily fund a substantial ops team... Handling spikes or bulk jobs that are needed now and again, sure. As it is, our operations cost in man hours spent, for 20+ chassis across two colo's is ~$120k/year. $10k/month or $500/per chassis. So consider our fully loaded cost per box at ~$2200k/month for quad-server chassis of the level mentioned above with reasonably full racks. Lets say $2500 again to be charitable to EC2...

This is with operational support far beyond what Amazon provides, as it includes time from me and other members of staff that knows the specifics of our applications, handles backups, handles configuration and deployment etc.

I've so far not worked on anything where I could justify the cost of EC2 for production use for base load, and I don't think that'll change anytime soon...
Us-west-2 is about the same cost as us-east these days. And latency is only ~10ms more than us-west-1. I'm puzzled that people aren't flocking to us-west-2. I can't the last time there was an outage there either.
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Maybe we need an industry that is the opposite of the search engine : the hide engine

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Can you remember exactly what you were doing on Sunday Sept 30th at 5pm?

That's what this is for. Remembering the inbetweens. The moments you forgot to photograph because you were too busy living them.

Most of it will be junk, but so are most emails. The data is still worth having, for some people anyway.
I remember a post from another thread saying that our experience of being able to go out anonymously in a crowd is basically a blip in human history. When you live in a village it's impossible to go anywhere (you still have privacy when you're actually in private) without all your neighbours knowing, and it'll be the same when this technology becomes widespread.
I believe people are going crazy. This kind of self privacy violations can not be true.
“To recharge the camera’s batteries, you connect the camera to your computer; at the same time the photos are automatically uploaded to Memoto’s servers”

What? I can’t just keep the photos without putting them on Memoto’s servers ??
How could any unix user conceive that remoting is not important. 99% of the gui I launch are remote. In fact I do not even know where are half the workstation I use.

Regularly, I have to give support to portugal or italia, they open a internet connection, so that I can log on their system. With a simple ssh -Y, I can perform all the investigations I need.
Unfortunately you are right.

I was born and still live in Veneto and the amount of racism against immigrants (lately it's common to blame the Chinese, North Africans and Romanian for everything wrong in society or economics) is depressing.
Yes. Although it wouldn't surprise me that the Daily Mail altered the figures, it doesn't change much of anything to the overall shape of the graph. Therefore it's probably safe to attribute to stupidity rather than malice.

The article is absolutely missing the point.
The 1997 slopes are repeated at 3 other times in the graph. Cutting them out makes little difference to the overall conclusion which is that this graph shows random variation and no long term trend.

If the blog author wanted to make some kind of point he should have included MUCH longer graphs, not just half a year.
For the very early stage, perhaps. Once you're dealing with more than a handful of instances, it is extremely likely you'd save a substantial amount of money moving your base load off EC2.
Meh. These days it's so hard to find an available .com name that any bootstrapped startup is probably going to find its name by spending quality time at a domain registrar.
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Why did you choose a quote from the comments rather than the more complete one from the article itself?

"The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Nino) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about 0.03°C/decade, amounting to a temperature increase of 0.05°C over that period, but equally we could calculate the linear trend from 1999, during the subsequent La Nina, and show a more substantial warming."
He sold zip2 for $300m before this and owns shares in the companies he founded subsequently; Tesla, Space X and Solar City
Same here. I've had extremely good experiences with Microsoft support - a particularly difficult issue was escalated 3 times so we ended up in contact with one of the original developers.

I worked for a Gold partner at the time. Now I work for a company that buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of Microsoft software, and while I'm not in contact with support, I hear they've also done well by us. They even do special patches if needed.

OTOH one of the biggest retail companies here tried a companywide rollout of Google Apps for businesses and discarded it mainly because of the lack of support.
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Looks like you were downvoted too...
> I remember a scene where they showed recordings of civil protection officials gloating about the disaster on the phone, right after it happened. They talked about the opportunity to make money

Actually they where enterpreneurs
Cameras facing outward will record everything but the person wearing them (unless they face a mirror).
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"Unable to connect"

well that was rather ironic..
>Anyway, if there was such a unique quantity, actual data shows a progression of IQ scores in time - therefore if the tests are considered accurate and unbiased, it must be a "quantity" that can evolve based on the society a person lives it. It should then be considered not as a value, but as a function depending on a variable called society.

Seriously? Couldn't it just be the subjects getting used to the tests? That's not the point though. It doesn't mean subjects are getting smarter. It just means they are learning, which is natural. However if we have two subjects and subject A gets 115 IQ points the first time while subject B gets 104, 111, 113, 115 IQ points after four consecutive test respectively, it's clear that subject A is superior intellectually in that they can achieve more in less time.
As simple as hackernews, a dropbox alternative
3ezy.net, a 4 year old image hosting provider launched dropbox like service (closed beta) a few days ago. With a fast growing membership it has mostly existing user fan following for reliable free service. Only available by invite as of now this free service can be requested at http://signup.3ezy.com. I got mine in 2 days. May not be available free to new users by end of month.

Currently it looks too simple, but it does take the work out of setting up cloud storage for files etc.
No SSL for upload interface yet, but support tells us sooooon.

Will have to wait and see how much progress they make in terms of features and usability.

have a dab at it.
this is $250 plus a monthly fee.

Though a programmer might be able to hack the software to intercept the photo uploads and just store locally.
"Always On" frightens me. Receiving a Skype call these days involves answering it on my laptop, then finding and silencing all my iPads and other mobile devices that continue to ring at me obnoxiously. "Hang on a second while I... [hop hop hop on one foot while headphoned to the laptop and slowly dragging it off the table while trying to grab that backpack in the corner witn my toes]... Got it. Anyway, what were you saying?"

The iOS version of Skype has no "quit" option at all. If you ever open it for any reason, it'll dingle at you incessantly from there on out until you hard reboot the device. It's my current top annoyance with Skype.

So when they start announcing that annoyance as the big feature of their new version, it doesn't exactly get me excited to try it.
One of those things that is hilarious but not actually funny.
They should send this open letter to Heroku as well :)
I read a post quite a while ago from the reddit admins bitching out EC2 after one of the last dramas, I remember they said it would be a huge migration to migrate all data across to a new provider so they would have to be solid.

I wonder how their current EC2 pricing would compare to Joyent?
This story actually seems to be more complex than most western media is reporting it, apparently the scientists issued false "everything is ok" messages possibly for political reasons, against what their data actually showed. At least that's what I picked up from the Reddit discussion.
Man made global warming is a PR invention carefully engineered to create more taxation, trading profits in 'indulgences', and to revive the public support for the nuclear industry.

Even if they persuaded you, you got to admit that these three things are the main tangible results and that they are happening.

The support for the nuclear industry was seriously flagging exactly at the time when the 'global warming' suddenly started getting pushed by certain prominent VIPs and the main stream media. Now many new nuclear reactors are planned, despite Fukushima. This would never have been accepted before 'global warming'.

If you are not convinced, look for example into the background of Sir John Bebbington (made into the UK's chief scientific advisor) and his pronouncements on Fukushima: 'No question, absolutely no danger whatsoever. No comparison with Chernobyl.... etc.'. Made at the time when the reactors were exploding and melting, one after another.

0.03 C per decade means that this trend would have to continue unbroken for a thousand years to achieve a noticeable warming of 3C.
Use your common sense, please?
The Daily Mail is one of the few newspapers that treat their online and paper offerings as essentially two different products. The paper edition is aimed at an older market, as described, while the online edition is aimed at a younger market with a much heavier focus on lifestyle, celebrity and gossip stories and, I get the feeling, doesn't take itself as seriously.
I have a Lenovo S220, a China only phone not appreciably smaller than a Samsung Note. It fits just fine into the front pockets of all of my jeans and cost 2000 Yuan which is a little over $250. If you're male you should not have any problems finding a phone that fits your criteria unless you demand a “free” phone. Even some women's clothes have suitable pockets.
You can backup your kindle ebooks easliy.
just look at this article.

http://www.epubsoft.com/how-to-copy-or-backup-kindle-books.h...
Soon everyone will be able to see you having sex.
If it's very thin (which it could be due to little battery drain and low-tech), the standard Blackberry format could be rather nice.
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This kind of idea is already used quite extensively in video conferencing (at the UDP layer), known as "forward error correction". If enabled, every n packets are XORed together, allowing the receiver to recover from a single lost packet in that group, at the cost of a 1/n increase in bandwidth.

I am interested in the size of the gains as well, and hope more details come out.
I don't think that's quite fair. I see as much criticism of the Mail by right wing folk as left wing. The Times reader doesn't like the Mail much either in my experience.

The right comparison to the Mail on the left would be the Mirror I think - not the Guardian.
From Mormons I have spoken to, although you can be posthumously baptised, if you don't want to be, it won't have any affect.

I made the point that its my decision an I don't want someone making it for me after I die. Apparently that wouldn't work, so I'm 'safe'.
Scientists using hair analysis to map life's journeys
What is your company working on?

As far as I know, no academic research or even rumored corporate research is going into useful, consumer-oriented (meaning able to provide meaningful value to the user with minimal curation and/or improving their quality of life), management of life-recording amounts of video. Most aren't even touching audio.

Audio recording is usually legally restricted under wiretapping laws. Video recording is even dicier, not just with laws varying wildly from state to state, but also with individual privacy and image rights laws coming into play. It's why all the researchers are sticking to photography, unless you're the military, when the rules don't apply to you.

The only researcher who's done any work, as far as I know, into handling that much video and audio is Deb Roy, with his timeworms visualizations, and that's only because it was his own household that he was able to clear an IRB. And it's still not useful by my previous definition.

You've been able to do all-day life-recording for under $1000 since the mid-2000s: http://www.eyetap.org/wearables/wear-hard-06/2006420.html and http://www.eyetap.org/wearables/wear-hard-06/2006423.html for mailing list posts I wrote on the subject.

You can do it today for around $200, but the six years since I wrote those posts, we still don't have the tools to process that much data.

I'd be interested in learning more about your work, and may be able to share some of my own.
Yeah, my friends love the constant ONLINE! OFFLINE! ONLINE! OFFLINE! When I go in and out of wifi range on my iPhone. Have had to set it to appear offline...
A UK .NET developer? A rarity on here... are you looking to hire anyone?
Uptime comes from how you design and build a system, not which IaaS provider you choose.
If this is gloating about the EC2 outage, then ugh. I can't find out if it is because the whole of joyent.com is actually down for me (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT)
In a sentence, what they are doing right and wrong is selling entertainment as news.
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As I remember it, it was to the 'Femail' section of the site primarily, but that also the who site had a female skew across all sections and age ranges - I wonder if the 'traditional' male reader is more likely to be a technophobe that his female counterpart?

I don't remember what the younger section did for the average earnings of the readership - but I remember that as a whole the household earnings of their readers is above the UK average.

Media Packs here: http://www.mailconnected.com/audience and http://www.mailconnected.co.uk/stats/media-packs
So if your IaaS goes down, that's your fault?