skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that's the perspective of the author.

For those not interested in installing themselves we offer a hosted solution at https://openphoto.me
PS: In case you are unsure about attending: Do attend. Lots of new things to learn, great mentors, and great conversations among participants.
(I attended the first edition in Pune (COEP). One of the best events I've been to).
I was quite disappointed with Jekyll/Octopress - output was ok, but trying to dig into it was just a rabbits hole - so I started my own tool (still early in dev but I'm going to be working on it over Christmas) - https://npmjs.org/package/hyde
"If a new technology is going to give you the edge to push the competition out of the market, it’s a no brainer."

Superior technology (as distinct from new technology) almost always gives you an edge. The edge maybe a small one, but it exists, assuming other things are equal (quality of your devs, say). Isn't this the whole point of pg's "Beating the Averages" essay? [1]

But then, I guess you need some real hands on experience to distinguish superior tech from 'the latest buzzword' tech. For most apps, node.js is probably an example of the latter than the former. So the OP's point holds.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Actually, no. I meant it. The author is a programmer and writer who has received attention for her work in both areas, and I absolutely respect that. I simply disagree with her offering design advice.
That wasn't the first time they cooperated with law enforcement.

One thing it's a "private communications" service and other a bulletproof one.
I'm assuming the OP posted a link to Slate instead of the Wall Street Journal because the article is gated at the latter. In which case, let me show you a little trick (in case you haven't come across it).

Just Google the full title of the WSJ article and the WSJ link in the search results will let you read the whole thing.
"By their nature, measures like this annoy people."

You know what annoys me? How many tax dollars are spent on a full body scanner, when the airport bar right on the other side is full of breakable glass. Nevermind the tests that showed that a knife, gun, or even high explosive could be snuck through the checkpoint; a determined attacker could just make their weapons after passing through security. This is not to mention the large, densely-packed crowd of people waiting to go through the checkpoint, a prime target for terrorists.

"If this was the 12th of September 2001 would your opinion be different and if so, why?"

People were talking about terrorists making their weapons after passing through airport security in 2001. People were talking about the crowd of people waiting to pass through security being a target. People were talking about the corruption, the friendly contracts that pour tax money into well-connected companies' coffers, in 2001.
The author is a programmer and writer, and I absolutely respect that. All due respect for her accomplishments, but I don't think she should be writing about design.
Sorry about that. It's back up.
Root exploit on Exynos
It's a great piece of chat none-the less
As a mediocre designer, I'm threatened by great designers, not awful ones. Nice shot, though.
No. If you are aware that you are thinking deeply, or 'surrendering' to a stream of thoughts (so thus not quite a true surrender), that is mindfulness. It takes practice.
Smart TVs can spy on their owners
Many people, not only in science, first want obedience and predictability.

If you have any "extracurricular activity", you are categorized as a threat because it demonstrates both a) that you have a free spirit, and b) that you have the capability to achieve the same most people do in a given time, only in less time and with other thoughts on your mind - ie that you are a strong competitor.

Some people don't want competition from people more able than them - especially if they could also easily use their free spirit to see the obvious failings. Usually these are not the brightest bulbs around (and they know it, but you don't!)

In the government, public sector and large companies, they seem to be more concentrated.

The article poster learned this difference exists, but not how to spot it yet. He learned he can present himself differently based on the bias of his interlocutor.

I would like to suggest the alternative - do not pretend to be someone else, because you can then use that as a signalling strategy to filter out poor work environments.
http://www.liveperson.com/experts
It works so well for us because nobody, and I literally mean no other state in the world speaks THE LANGUAGE.

When you grow up here you get used to being around all kinds that you previously never fully visualized as actual, walking-talking flesh-and-blood people. There's the Russian-speaking section to which I belong, the local Palestinians, the Ethiopian section, quite a lot of the Moroccan people, as well as many small _Iraqi / Druzi / some part of Europe that speaks not-quite-Russian_ escapees. They all have their quirky chains of characteristic behaviours and you sort of learn to place people in those groups pretty fast.

And yes, all of them have children that've grown up here, and fuck all knows what group any of them belong to (unless they look and act like their parents).

Israel is a sort of an ISLAND, and as anyone who visited Japan will tell you islanders are WEIRD. And sensitive to foreigners.
I have to wonder if they actually expect people to be honest about that. You paid a lot for that plane ticket, and these people can turn you away for what amounts to any arbitrary reason. Would you really want to tell them about how "undesirable" you are?
I just tried it in a terminal on my Galaxy S2. It has a completely custom rom (F1Nexus), and the output of ls -l /dev/exynos-mem is

crw-rw-rw- system graphics 1, 14 2012-12-09 07:59 exynos-mem

Clearly, Samsung has completely dropped the ball here.
the second page, whatever second page there is at this time. this would mean that it might shows me stuff that I read earlier, but isn't that better then getting an error page?
Design is not easy to learn, for anyone, and the article did little to teach design. It offered sources for finding fonts, and finding textures, with little advice about what makes a good or poor font choice, or when and why textures work.
Volunteer at your local homeless shelter, they don't contact you, you contact them.

Get away from people for a while, unplug from the internet, depression is a psychological process where you determine you have a problem that needs to be fixed, and processing time is needed away from the daily stimulus to figure out what to do to fix it.
It is excellent. He now has a follow-up book,
Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory guide to Deeper States of Meditation
that I've just started. It promises to take much more time to practice via the book's techniques.
Having gotten myself out of a startup-induced depression I feel for you. Getting out of a depression is never easy, you simply cannot spot the right paths to take you out of there while in it. I can only give you some advice which helped me greatly:

1) Get opinionated. Try to form opinions about everything around you. What do you like or dislike about that lamp post? Which one is your favorite fruit and why? These type of silly exercises is a good way of building up an image of what you want in life. When you know what you want, you can figure out how to achieve it. Being passive is horribly depression-inducing.

2) Participate in life coaching, preferably both individually and in groups. This helped me getting a more objective view of what type of individual I am, how other people see me. But also what other type of personalities there are and how they interact. Knowing all this has helped me view disagreements and conflicts in a new light. I don't have to take myself and everything around me so seriously, since I can see more clearly why things happen as they do.

I wish you all the best.
Is there a better one?
I don't think your argument about "traditional means of compression" holds.

The existence of redundant data can be proven by the ability to store the same information with less data.

Pi's information density is in fact no larger than the small function that generates Pi's digits -- even if traditional compressors fail to identify it.
Ask HN: looking for advice for a children's books online store
Dear HN,

I am settled to help my friend, whose small offline store of children's books is shutting down, and create a small online store for him. I have a clear vision of my "ideal" online store for children's books. One thing that makes me worry is that I haven't seen such "specialized" (or niche) online book stores. It's either Amazon-type or nothing. Have you seen, or shopped in, any book store that concentrates on only one type of books? Or is it completely hopeless? (I'm going to make it anyway though :-)

P.S. We're located in the coldest part of Russia.

Thanks!
I'm going to sound like a dick for saying this, but I'm okay with it: most people's "creativity" shouldn't be expressed in a public way. Breaking away from Bootstrap and making it "less stereotypical" is probably a bad idea unless you know what you're doing. It's like putting a bejeweled, glittery case on an iPhone; yeah, it's "your creativity", but please don't.
It's always a good thing when the government gets involved. Let's do more of that!
Part II:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/12/...
This is a useful article http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_...
Without Babies, Can Japan Survive?
I do not understand why they are still in the business. It seems their reputation is destroyed, yet they are still here.
How can I unit test a GUI?
Whatever "Tor" is.
"She ended up with something that didn't look like Bootstrap at the end..."

That's not a good thing.

If you're a designer building an MVP prototype, use Bootstrap as-is or with a pre-made theme. If you're building a real product, hire a designer.
HushHushMail
Some time ago I took the "Developing iPad Applications for Visualization and Insight" course from CMU [1]. Honestly, I do not remember much from the "visualization theory" part. I have learned more about the tools needed to build those visualizations (programming the iPad).

I think it is one of the instances, where you learn by doing and reflecting your work with theory and users. It is not a linear process, you must be willing to build stuff, then go back to the theory again and improve. Without that, the message of these courses will be reduced to mantras like "good design should be simple".

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ipad-applicati...
Adding to this. Many secondary (high) schools in England have a strict uniform policy. Dark blue trousers when black is the rule would get you sent home.
For me when I find something to be angry at I feel great for a while and it turns out to frustration and then it starts to depress me and I am now even more depressed about something which I most likely can not help.

Though I have learned to live with the depressing stuff without any kind of medication. Mostly I do this by shifting my thoughts about the depressing stuff to something which I find nice. Though too often it is a good movie, but still that is almost two hours break from thinking about the depressive stuff.
No, but they could've extended that instead of creating a new monster?
Hygienotronics : The SanHackathon Demo
function.length is certainy a PITA dus to the `arguments` issue that was mentioned. In particular, function.length doesn't work on functions returned by our own combinators, a big no-no!

In the end I adopted a convention where every function that depends on the number of arguments of something else receives that number sa a first parameter:

maybe(2, function(a,b){ ... })
>Is it wrong that they want to put in all in place?

You seem to be operating under the assumption that there is a definitive answer here. There isn't, and this is completely subjective. The idea that 300M+ people will agree on such a question, to me, is ridiculous. It is really a matter of 2 questions:

1) How many false positives are acceptable?

2) Are we willing to accept the consequences if this information falls into the wrong hands?

Reasonable people will disagree on the answers, and I believe the U.S. was the last country founded (granted, on the lands of others') upon the idea that freedom and individual rights (over the collective) should be maximized. More and more, as the U.S. has matured we've seen and continue to see the collective rights being prioritized.

To be clear, I am not sure where I stand personally, but I am simply trying to objectively point out what I see.
Wow, great resource, very valuable. Inspirational at every level : workflow and tools, tech choices, nice slides...
IMAP supports push through IDLE.

Works perfectly well for me on Thunderbird and K9(on Android).
> Only each and every hosting solution one might pick for OpenPhoto (S3, DropBox, their hosting company, whatever) is just as ephemeral as Flickr and Picassa.

That's the benefit of de-coupling the data storage from the application logic. If you are using Dropbox and they announce they're shutting down you can seamlessly migrate your photos to another provider and experience no disruption in service.

The way it's done today is you have to export your photos from one service to another.
Grammar police and literary priviledge
RhodeCode 1.5.1 Released
No videos. Also, while D3 is the "official framework" of CS448B, most of the lectures are not about D3; there was one tutorial on the topic and the rest is mostly theory. (Also, this was probably the last year the course will be run in its current form, since Heer is leaving Stanford university.)
Talk to family, they're always there for you. Go running or biking for ultra long distances. Listen to mongol throat singing.
"Anger is more useful than despair" - Terminator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeIy2MHZ0xE
I'm betting on that you are completely wrong about that. That the signs were completely obvious to everyone around these guys. People knew that they were some deeply fucked up kids with huge mental problems long before they went on their killing sprees.

But mental illness is something incredibly shameful around the world and maybe even moreso in the US. Almost no parent will ever be able to admit that there might be something wrong with their children. And for the people around them, the most convenient path is to ignore the problem and say it's "a phase" they are going through.
College is wasted on the college aged. I don't think I was ready at 18 and neither were most of the people I went to college with. I suspect a few years of work or national service would do a lot to help young people.
Doesn't this screw over iPhones users too? I'm currently using EAS with my free Google Apps account in order to get mail, contacts and calendar. Mail is easy through IMAP, but calendar and contacts are difficult to do otherwise, at least last I tried it in 2008. (Unless Google or Apple changed how those things work on the iPhone recently)

With the recent Google Apps announcement and this, looks like the bean counters have taken over at Google.
The Samaritans provide a great service, I've used them when going through a few rough spots.

Quick note though, the Samaritans definitely do not give advice. Mostly they help you work through your own feelings and figure out what to do on your own.
I see this sometimes in my field (software dev) when it comes to job applicants; they say that they want someone who "thinks outside the box" but for whatever reason they weed out applicants that do.

I've seen the opposite as well. At one place I interviewed with at, the first question in an interview was "Tell us about Porsches!" - that was a great place to work.
That name is already taken by a Python port of Jekyll, that is actually endorsed by Mojombo. You should probably change it.
Yes, encrypt all your mails using PGP.
"(nowhere else in the world are young children medicated for being kids to such an extent as in the US, BTW)."

Virtually every single school shooter has been on SSRIs, and many people think these drugs have been the cause of the shootings. Already WaPo has reported that the CT shooter was on psychiatric medication, so we'll know for sure in a couple weeks when we get the tox screen back.

http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school

It's perhaps also worth noting that these sorts of mass school shootings were non-existent until after 1988, the year that Prozac came out.
"As long as they are simply gathering all information that is legally knowable"

The law is out-of-date. When the law was written, constructing a dossier on a person required effort -- officers in the field, following the target around, interviewing people, etc. Today, the dossier can be rapidly assembled, assuming it has not been already by some private company that "specializes" in constructing such things.

We need an update to the law, to protect our rights from government use of new technologies.

"Phone records. Addresses. Aliases. Friends. Fingerprints. Is it wrong that they want to put in all in place? Would we be happier if they had to run around to 25 different government agencies / 25 private corporations to get the information?"

Yes, I would be happier if the bureaucracy slowed the police down, as a basic protection against tyranny. We have far too many laws, and far too many prisoners -- anything that slows the expansion of our prison population and renders absurd laws unenforceable should be welcomed. Do you really think that these databases will be used solely to catch murderers and rapists? Most of people targeted by these sorts of programs will be nonviolent, non-dangerous offenders who will be charged with dozens of crimes and told to either take a plea bargain or risk a longer sentence if they exercise their right to a trial (and if even a tenth of them were to demand a trial, our court system would be overwhelmed by the case load -- yes, that is how extreme things have gotten).

"I'd like to know I have the freedom to do the same thing"

You do not. Go ahead, try to go around your town collecting these sorts of details -- you'll be arrested for harassing people, being a public nuisance, resisting arrest, and probably multiple other crimes.

"Should individuals have the power to control what others do with the information that is publically knowable about them?"

We are not talking about any other random people, we are talking about the police. The police are a special class of people. We let them arrest people, holding people against their will at gunpoint. We do this because some people pose a danger to society, but we must be careful with just how much power the police have, in both firepower, information collection, and budget (currently, the police can recycle the proceeds from certain kinds of arrest back into their budgets; unsurprisingly, such arrests are more common than any other, and our prisons are filled with people who were targeted for such arrests).
Also, it may a good idea to keep an eye open on elementary/luna : a linux distribution that has UI designers (that owns Apple devices, obviously).

That distro (currently in beta) comes with its own eye pleasing apps.

More info here : http://elementaryos.org/

Here a fancy ad : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCN_sbc1t4

PS : for those who were disappointed by elementary/jupiter, keep an open mind. This is something very different.
The distribution is actually
Book Review: Against Security
People who don't live to 60 generally would have regretted things they did rather than things they didn't.
yes, you can take part in social or charity commitment
How birds wings work
Let Five-Minute Mentoring Scale Your Productivity
I like the idea that some agents are regularly using Tor, whilst others are asking the Tor guy if he can track Tor users...
>I wallow in it for a while, enjoy feeling sorry for myself which may go on for days or weeks.

That's not really the way clinical depression works though. Letting yourself wallow in bona fide clinical depression is unhealthy because it reinforces neural structures that strengthen your depression, making it harder to get out of, and easier to relapse into later. There's also evidence that being depressed causes widespread cognitive impairment, and it's possible that those effects could linger (or at least ripple) after treatment.

In short, you want to stay depressed for as little time as possible. But if you're enjoying feeling sorry for youself, that may be something other than depression.
In 2010 a similar attack occurred in China, and over twenty were killed.
Music Industry Threatens to Bankrupt Pirate Party Members
<strike>Innocent until proven guilty.</strike>

<strike>Innocent until "terrorist".</strike>

<strike>Innocent until suspected "terrorist".</strike>

<strike>Innocent until surveillance indicates you use encryption, therefore "terrorist".</strike>

<strike>Innocent until our surveillance predicts you might commit some sort of crime, therefore "terrorist".</strike>

Innocent until we say so.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. From the WaPo article:

"Last year, economist Richard Florida dove deep into the correlations between gun deaths and other kinds of social indicators. Some of what he found was, perhaps, unexpected: Higher populations, more stress, more immigrants, and more mental illness were not correlated with more deaths from gun violence. But one thing he found was, perhaps, perfectly predictable: States with tighter gun control laws appear to have fewer gun-related deaths. The disclaimer here is that correlation is not causation. "

So the other things that are claimed as "the root cause" here aren't even correlated...yet somehow the one thing that does correlate closely...
In the USA, after 7 years, you can have past offenses removed from your record. In fact, you can have all public records removed. I know of a case where a person successfully petitioned a local newspaper to go back and remove the mention of her arrest from their web-accessible archive.
The problem with PGP is that while it keeps the content of your mail exchange secret, it does not protect the information that two persons exchanged emails. So if the investigators have a lead to person A that sells drugs and see that he's communicating with person B that accepts payments, the might just guess what relationship the two have.
Listen powatom, I think we aren't going to change each other's opinions. In my past life i lived in a war zone, been to the army and witnessed first hand what governments can do. Our country is no different, it can easily escalate in the same way here.

There is a clear pattern in history for tyrannical regimes. Every enlightened society in history thought the same as you do now, there is absolutely no difference except that today, citizens can trackback and view what happened in the past and maybe fight for there freedoms and prepare themselves. Gun control is the most frightening thing for me and for millions of Americans because we know that martial law will come soon after.

The only thing i can think of that would maybe make you look at it from a different angle is asking let's say, your grandparents (if they are alive) their thoughts about it. If you do that i bet you'd be very surprised by their input.
What's the big deal with downvoting heavily someone who tries to inform others of the reality of the fact? It's because people like me are ignored and suppressed that this problem is, at this point, pretty much guaranteed not to be solved.