skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point in my life I worked for a third tier search engine provider with 160-210 million unqualified identities.

Basic search term aggregation was illuminating. If Ray K. can go another step beyond statistical analysis, the results could be fascinating... or it could just be "People aren't wearing enough hats" of a let down.

edit: identities, not impressions
It's a good question, discussed a bit in the PETS paper: https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/flashproxy.pdf (section 6). The short answer is that communicating a small amount of information outside of the censored region to a blocked facilitator is an easier problem than full connectivity.
South Carolina: Greenville Librarian Discusses Decision to Ban Graphic Novel
Scaling culture is harder than scaling users
Some people actually suggest running A/A/B tests just to gauge how much noise is in their numbers, though that requires even more visitors to achieve statistical confidence since they're spread out among more options.
does it bother you that cigarette companies are required to put warning labels on their products. is it a problem that the font-size, contrast, element size are also monitored.

would it be ok for cigarette companies to put their warning messages in size-4 font in light grey inside the package?
I hope "weekend project" is just a thing people say these days and this really took longer than a weekend, or I wish I could create something this awesome in a few days :/
I'm not sure I understand this part:

"Normally, most particles have average or near-average energies, with only a few particles zipping around at higher energies. In theory, if the situation is reversed, with more particles having higher, rather than lower, energies, the plot would flip over and the sign of the temperature would change from a positive to a negative absolute temperature."

If more particles have higher energy, then wouldn't the average energy increase as well? And if the average energy increases, then shouldn't that still keep things in positive, rather than negative, territory?
This seems like a pretty obvious toe-in-the-water test for a distinctive Facebook Phone feature.
A general presumption of FTC inaction has probably long been baked into the markets.
Kickstarter: $100 Million Pledged to Independent Films
Is your project similar to Leanpub? Is your goal to be an alternative to Leanpub? I'd love to see some competition in this space. It's a big space, a big market.
I'd have to write a book, it's a long and complex case. (If you do want to read a book, Conrad Black's own book on it is very good.)

Perhaps start with some of Mark Steyn's writing for the Canadian news magazine Macleans?

http://www.macleans.ca/columnists/article.jsp?content=200707...
Have they fixed re-clocking yet?

Last I knew nouveau couldn't change the clock speed on many GPUs leaving them either locked at a very low clock, performing poorly, or locked at max clock, chewing through power.
I run http://openyou.org, a site dedicated to reversing as many medical devices as we (or, well, at the moment, mostly I) can get our (my) hands on.

So far, we've put out Emokit (emotiv epoc headset), libfitbit, libomron, and have started libfuelband and libsensewear. The main problem is just time and lack of people resources. We need more people aware that USB/Bluetooth reversing, while somewhat complex, is not all that inherently difficult. 2 or 3 people working together can easily open up a device and protocol format with a minimal amount of [insert language that supports libusb or hidapi] code. However, not many people are interested in learning that, as they just wanna get the data and run. Understandable, but that means you're waiting on one or two people to finish something that they may lose interest in.

I've been contemplating trying to teach a usb/bt reversing workshop for years now, I should really get around to trying that soon.
"I wanted to improve my life skills in some other fashion
than programming ... I needed a way to train myself since
there are many rules to learn. So, what do I do? I break my
rule of no more programming and write my own training
software."

Things like this confirm for me that I am in the right profession :)
The original post really highlights the "problem with computer vision" - finding the coke can is fairly easy (SIFT), although the author goes off on some other random approach that I doubt would work very well. The field certainly has its share of Do-It-Yourselfers, plus it's also quite common to outsource labour overseas.

As for fees, it's entirely reflective of a) how much money the problem is costing the client and b) your ability to prove to them your value to the client. Clients do not always respect the complexity of the problems they're facing, so it's easier to work with those who have tried for themselves.

For what it's worth, we're hiring right now in this space (computer vision software development), located in Ottawa, Canada: http://ca.indeed.com/job/software-engineer-71a851096a104223
radeon driver is OK on single head, but has broken power management on multi-head. Hot, noisy and power hungry. Ironically, faster card---bigger problems :-) [1].

Proprietary AMD driver used to have serious issues with gnome-shell, but sometime last year they finally got fixed.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49981
The first time was a couple of years ago and it was a demonstration with a Windows Mobile phone fanning out with contacts. This was given by a marketing type person, and could have been completely a sham.

The second time was about three years ago during St. Patrick's day at the Hilton. I was able to use most of the applications described above.
Totally agree. This might be very cool (didn't read comments) but without knowing what I'm signing up for I can't grant access to my GMail... The value proposition is unknown.
"take a random photo" might be NSFW
If you'll allow a car analogy - isn't this like saying backing up is slower than being parked?

Yes, it's a negative number in the context of a forward velocity vector, but it's a higher energy state.
When people say "weekend project" on HN, is it implied that it's multiple weekends worth of effort, or just one?
What Is a Consensus?
Hmm, is there some sort of reverse Poe's law where you confuse parody for a good idea? I may have entirely misinterpreted this thread.
Hey guys - we're hoping to launch in a few weeks with the vision of providing a micro publishing platform for businesses & organizations.

The original vision was to create a platform that made it easy for delivering a pre/post sales response in an attractive and engaging method. Basically, I wanted to deliver whatever the prospect asked with video, files, images, etc. I hated boiling everything down to a 5 paragraph email with 4 attachments.

Over the past few years, I noticed a trend towards 1 page websites - they were easier to create and easier to consume. As I explored this 'micro publishing' concept, I started to see new sites appear like http://Pen.io, http://OneSheet.com, etc

Even in the past year, consumer driven sites like http://CheckThis.com, http://Smore.com, and http://Tackk.com have emerged thus underscoring this trend towards tight one page publishing.

I've called this pages POPs for a long time (Published One Pager or Public/Private One Pager). The idea, for me at least, is that if you could empower people to create POPs that looked nice & allowed you to easily share/track... perhaps they could alter how we communicate online.

Since we've launched our alpha, we've seen over 40+ ways users are communicating with POPs - well beyond sales.

So, thoughts?

Here are some inspirations we've made based on what the alpha group has uncovered.

http://inspiration.populr.me

Cheers,

NLH

Questions are welcome. I'm trying to figure out the best way to position this. Is it a simpler Wordpress? A sales communication tool? Simple CMS?
One would think quite the opposite, since presumably you'd be sitting at a desk while reading them.
I think it's been quite encouraging that, while they are talking about a whole load of features that they'd like to include in the future, they're being pretty clear about the things that they won't support in the first release (landing on planets and so on) and that the pledgers will only influence the game, rather than dictate that any feature must be done a particular way.

The things that I worry about are things that were not a part of previous Elite games like networking, the multiplayer element and, above all else, making the economics and politics work. If other massively multiplayer games are anything to go by, a few large alliances will figure out how to game the rules so as to be able to dominate the game and I bet that the developers will always be playing catch up to that.
pki in it's current form is broken which is why a lot of enterprise customers use SecureAuth (whom I work for) which prevents any type of mitm attacks, even on mobile deviecs
If C and Smalltalk were to have a baby, Obj-C would be it. You can see both of the influences in the language quite heavily.
The flip side of net neutrality issues.

Don't tamper with my Internet please.
thanks. We will be starting to give out a few invites early next week. I will look for yours and add you to the top of the list.
Verify magazine print subscriptions through Google Play
simple idea, beautifully made, love it!
"The main reason, I've heard, is that even if the Kindle format and reader app are reasonable (and I can't vouch for them), it's on publishers to put their books in the right format. "

This is akin to terrible apps on any App Store. It's up to the App Store guidelines to raise the standards and only allow certain books of quality.

Here is my experience based on building ebook-related products:

Amazon: Will allow almost any book of any kind, any formatting. Their singles publishing program is a little stricter since you're giving an exclusive to them and they plan to use those for marketing.

Apple: Strictest store in the business. Humans review every submittal and will kick back your book even if they deem the subject 'not wide enough for a large audience'. IF your book is 51% French, 49% english content but submitted in English, it'll get kicked back and so on.

I don't agree with Apples purview that you can only submit books that are for a large audience - who are they to judge that? Therefore people head to the wild world of Amazon and fight it out at the free or 0.99 level.
Yes they have families and dogs. But it's pretty much one group of people who are on corporate boards, in high-level appointed government positions, and working as lobbyists. Each person may rotate among all these areas, and most of them came up through the same prep schools and Ivy Leagues. These people have a lot of political influence.

For details, see the famous book Who Rules America, written by a sociologist who did a census of the people in all these positions and analyzed the results. Five or six editions have come out by now as he's continued his research and updated the results.

(Most elected politicians, meanwhile, just want to stay out of trouble and get reelected with minimum fuss, whatever that takes. Fortunately that gives grassroots organizations a way to pressure them.)
Preparing for Coding Questions in Software Engineering Interview
mej10 you sound like someone singinst associated : ]

also not being able to keep git etc. running is some evidence about skill level
My 2012: Thoughts and Data
> I have no idea why THIS vulnerability is getting so much attention

Its getting attention because its the third SQL vulnerability in 7 months. It just feels like Rails is mature enough at this point that it shouldn't have to be going through this now
If you were the defensive coordinator on the opposing team, knowing the answer to "run or pass" with a high degree of certainty would give you a pretty large advantage.
Punishing CAs is a laudable goal, but just immediately revoking a CA will result in worse security.

If TURKTRUST is immediately revoked, then all existing sites using it are toast, despite them not being compromised. That just tells users that SSL errors are not to be trusted, that you should just click through.

Hopefully, they remove TURKTRUST from signing future certificates. That way existing customers continue to work, but they can't do more damage, and the lesson is taught. Although, I don't think that's built-in to the cert system, it'd be a decent addition.
It's not whether I think Turkey is "West" or "East", it's more than I just don't interact with Turkish websites - so why should I broaden the attack surface of my browser unnecessarily? I realise that the CA -> domain mapping is a poor approximation, but it's the best we've got.
Show HN: I made a stupid/fun website, now what?
http://www.infinitepoppedmolly.com/

Based on the line "I pop a molly, I'm sweating" by Trinidad James - this song's currently pretty popular among college and high school kids, and that line is the catchphrase.

So last night, I decided to see if I could make an infinite looping site in a couple of hours (turned out to be pretty easy with video.js), and this was the result. Now that I have this built, any ideas about what to do? Obviously this is just a fun/silly idea but it'd be cool to spread it around and see it getting some publicity!
where is the gallery?
The fact that a factually correct and relevant comment does not fit into your particular conspiracy theory does not warrant a downvote.
>>I'll decide who I trust as and when I have to.

Check out Convergence, which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. http://convergence.io/index.html
If they do massive amounts of market research then I would say the response to Kickstarter projects and the indie titles shows that they suck at it. It may be a niche game that I want to play but if there's enough buzz out there for a game in that genre then there's profit to be made if one can be bothered to make a game that meets what the market wants.

The rest of your statement seems to support what I was saying about their needs of showing quarterly profits which prevents risky projects.

There's nothing stopping them from going into niche markets if they wanted, just budget accordingly. There is money to be made in the long tail but the large publishers are just unable to see it that way. But the thing is, some of the "niche" markets are potentially huge but they'll never know because they'd rather push out the upteenth version of sports games and military shooters. A number of genres are stagnating right now not because no one wants to play them but because no one is making them.
Clickable: http://www.infinitepoppedmolly.com/
Client side HTML/JS to detect dominant colors in an image
Or submit it to thedailywtf
You're wrong. There are at least three full-featured FOSS GSM stacks: Qtopia (discontinued by Nokia, but forked by Openmoko community as QtMoko), freesmartphone.org (with two iterations - first one written in Python, and second one written in Vala; I'm using it on my phone) and oFono.

You can't use non-certified firmware for modems, like OsmocomBB for TI Calypso, on public networks (yes, there is even free software GSM modem firmware!), but GSM stacks in user space are possible and legal.
Temperature is not really the average kinetic energy any more. The temperature of a system says something about how much the entropy increases as you add energy. Negative temperature simply means that the entropy decreases as you add energy.

This is possible if the number of high energy states is small, because then adding energy will result in the system being in one of a smaller number of high energy states, thus having lower entropy (the entropy of a system is basically the logarithm of the number of states we think the system could be in, so if the number of states is lower, then the entropy is lower). Another way of saying this is that is as follows. For positive temperatures our knowledge of the state of the system would decrease if we added energy (think about a box full of neatly arranged balls and giving it a kick). For negative temperatures our knowledge of the system would increase if we added energy. In the extreme case if the number of possible high energy states is 1, then adding energy can force the system into exactly that state, thus we would know all you can know about the system.

In particular in the experiment described in the article, if you removed energy from the system the particles would not be in the lattice arrangement and instead would go around randomly. Thus the entropy would increase if you removed energy.
It will be interesting to see where the energy market will be in the next ten years. I do believe that at some point people will need new forms of energy since the forms we currently have are too expensive (or getting to expensive) for the average person to afford. Since the market needs the majority of people (in the popular cases) to need their energy, maybe it will adapt. I would like to see some more competition in the market of energy; in most small cities in the midwest and some of the larger ones there are virtual monopolies allowed by the cities. This is sad, and I think the business sector can do a lot better. Warren Buffet paying into solar is a promising sign, however I think there needs to be a lot invested in brand new technologies that havent been created yet.
Eh, "western world" is a nebulous term. For example, most people would implicitly refer to Australia as a western country, despite geographically being about as east as Japan (a fully industrialized and modern society).

From my relatively uninformed perspective, I would say that Turkey kind of straddles the line between east and west. They are not a primarily English speaking country, they are not (yet?) in the EU nor would I normally think of them as particularly "Europey" (as I would Switzerland; "Europey" is probably just a measure of how "western Europe" a country is.).

My perspective is probably being influenced by history quite a bit as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theodosius_I%27s_empire.pn...
Thanks. deck looks great and gives details, im passing this by my team. fyi the navbar doesn't work for me. Had to scroll manually.
Of course, you don't (can't) see the times where YAGNI has helped you.
Actually, I've thought about starting a "real" CA (read: get certified etc). I'm not sure the world needs another one though.

Your experience running a homebrew setup is exactly why I think CAs will continue to exist—even if self-signed certs would be widely supported via DANE. I doubt many businesses are going to run their own CA in order to save < $1000 a year.
Stop-and-frisk Florida: Here's how to avoid "consensual" police encounters
I keep Goodreader around for its crazy feature set (it can even force a PDF to reflow, making it readable on an iPhone) but I find that PDF Expert is a lot more pleasant to use.
Google Settles FTC Antitrust Probe
How do you determine the quality of your ideas?
I said that because I'm the CTO of a competitor (blekko) that some users think is a viable alternative.

It's true that we don't the bazillion clicks that google has logged. But google doesn't have our human curation, and brand new content on the Internet doesn't have a result click history yet.
Chrome (the browser) is super-paranoid about other people replacing google.com certificates. It knows exactly what they should be and anything else is cause for alarm. 'tptacek talks about it from time to time.
Having seen some of Dr Spiegelhalter's talks in person, he most certainly knows that the units are not based on a meaningful operation.

He is extremely passionate about explaining uncertainty and risk to ordinary people. As an example, plenty of people think that "you either get cancer or not, so it's 50-50, and might as well leave it to chance". In other cases, politicians ask scientists for the "worst possible outcome" of an event, and then react as if it was a certainty or at least 10% probability, while in reality the risk might be extremely small.

Most people have trouble with the very concept of uncertainty. Microlives, and their opposite, micromorts (1-in-1M chance of dying while doing something) are helpful in comparing improbable-but-terrible events in terms of certain-but-insignificant, easier to understand concepts.
For me too. Twice.
What does it mean to say that Kurzweil was "heavily involved" in those breakthroughs? Did he contribute in a significant way to the science? Did he commercialize pre-existing ideas from academia?
I think restaurants pre-authorize your card for some percentage over the actual tab, and then just capture the final amount including tips.
Me too. Is there a timeline for when the API will be retired? Will it come back in a different form?
I have a feeling that _firatto is Turkish ("Firat" is a common Turkish name - I know because I'm Turkish!) so he may have taken offense to what you inadvertently implied about Turkey not being part of "The West". :)
Create Bar charts online with couple clicks.
"The open source Linux drivers from AMD and Intel can also use the 3D capabilities of almost any graphics chip."

Does anyone know if this will be true for the Mali-400 GPU in the ARM branch?
I really really hope that Solar energy takes off and is affordable/feasible enough to be used by consumer households. Yes we still are not quite convinced by it and probably not there yet, but imagine if we did.
French ISP FREE turns on add-blocker by default in DSL modems
I've worked at companies that tried to do this before. It makes no sense and shows the people running the A/B tests don't really understand the statistics behind A/B testing.

If I'm running an A/A test at 95% confidence and a sufficient number of visitors for whatever effect size I'm interested in, then 1 in 20 A/A tests will register a false positive. That's what "95% confidence" means. It does not mean there is "too much noise."

Moreover, in a proper A/B test, the A group and B group need to be independent and identically distributed. So, in an A/A/B test, if the A/A disagree it shouldn't tell you anything about B. That's what "independent" means.

If you want to be more confident you just increase your alpha. alpha=0.05 is already too high for most consumer web apps anyhow, IMO, but go wild. 99% confidence! Woo!

As a rule you want higher confidence when the cost of a mistake is high, e.g., this medicine gives people brain tumors! Oops.
Same way you'd block downloading CP in general: only visit trusted sites.
This is most likely a tax play. Renewable energy projects are almost always financed through tax incentives that can be used to offset tax liabilities elsewhere. Could be seen as hypocritical of Buffet considering his recent musings that rich people should pay their fair share. Here he is trying to avoid taxes.
they froze the assets that he was accused of stealing. I see nothing wrong with the assets that were in dispute being frozen until it could be determined (by the court) who was the rightful owner of those funds.

In other words, the question is: should a person be permitted to use funds possibly acquired through illegal activity to defend themselves from a prosecution regarding that same activity?

If I break into your home and steal $10K from your safe, should I be permitted to use that $10K on my defense? Keeping in mind, that if I do so, the $10K will no longer be there... so if I lose, your $10K will be gone.