skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the cost to buying bitcoins to begin with. You need to use a credit card I imagine, which will say have a 2.9%+ fee associated with it?
Really useful! Thanks.
Have you seen http://regex.info/exif.cgi
> I can usually process the information to the point where I'm writing my current understanding in my own words.

Can you explain what you mean by this?
Yeah, I've kept a close eye on this since I own an S3 and run CM and he's definitely still working on it from what I've seen. That might be related to Samsung saying they'd be more open going forward though
Ahh. Tesla coils. The one I built in 8th grade took out radio & TV reception for a block around.
If your app directly accesses the camera with AVFoundation, saving photos is a lot less automatic than you might expect. It's easy to save the raw image data but you have to generate and add just about any interesting metadata (EXIF, GPS, TIFF, etc.) explicitly. It's hard to do right--as the rather many discussions on StackOverflow suggest--and definitely a steep price to pay for a customized camera interface.
Yeah and that 8GB max heap (due to GC pauses) of the JVM is to DIE FOR~
I'm still using 3.5.7. What more could you want?
I get the snark, but their NY HQ is in Chelsea, so why not start there? Google also offers free Cellular inside some area subway stations.
Except Samsung promised they would work with developers, whereas Nintendo did no such thing.

Samsung is becoming very big and powerful, and seems to be acting very different than they have in the past, just like other big companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Google.
VirginMedia in the UK has it enabled. You have to opt out
Ten Companies (Including Logitech) Team Up To Create The Internet..
Wow, nicely done Lego. Watching the evolution of this from Dr. Martin's "smart brick" to today has been quite interesting. I've got one of the original Mindstorms kits, this always struck me as an awesome way to get started in embedded systems work, I hope Lego continues a tradition of being 'hacker friendly' in the sense of allowing direct coding to the device.
Voicent Broadcast by Phone Hack
there is a product made by voicent called broadcast by phone. its a software engine that enables you to utilize your current pbx or elastix system to make voip calls. The software is crazy expensive and i heard there customer service sucks.. they allow you to install basically a fully functional version of the sftware except they have embedded somewhere in the code software to only play a specific recording when dialing out. Is there anyway to hack the software so you can replace the automated recording set to default by the company?? to me i think that might be the easiest hack... unless theres something else out there.. let me say this.. I do want to inverst int he company and software if i can make some sales with it.. Let me know if anyone can help me.

thanks.
This assumes a pretty full-featured app. I'm curious on how the data was collected
I'm confused. How exactly is the nonce to be used if without a link?

I was under the impression that best practice was a link with a randomly generated key that has an expiration date (and is expired as soon as it is used). The only security hole here is if the email is intercepted (and you've got other problems at that point).
It's probably a good idea to tErminate, kIll, Sync, and remoUnt-ro before hitting Off or reBoot.
You are correct. It's simply another advertising portal. I completely ignore QR codes for the reasons you mentioned. I think of them as hyperlinks in another form that must be "clicked" with an app.
Rheinmetall demos laser that can shoot down drones
Perhaps, but again, I'm not arguing that corporations should or shouldn't be able to do X, only that they have no 'rights' as such. If a group of people want to retain those rights, they can always act collectively without first asking the state for special treatment. And, of course they retain their rights as individual persons, no matter what.

Oh, and I totally read the article? Is this kind of snarky reply just sort of a default thing to do when you disagree with someone now? In that case: if you read the article, you will not find that it addresses these points I have made at all.
Yes, I liked the challenge I'll take another shot tonight.
Those are essentially the last two things of Deleuze's that I haven't read yet, so that would be awesome, thank you. :)
HN traffic took it down? all I get is "Error establishing a database connection"
There's a lot of discussion of what's behind this issue in the Mozilla feature request at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298619, and more at the corresponding webkit (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19688) and chromium (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56845) bug trackers.

The concern is essentially that there may be many images on the web that have EXIF tags that don't match how those images are being used, specifically because the sites were tested in browsers that ignore the tags. So changing browser behavior now could suddenly break lots of sites that previously looked fine. It sounds like nobody has come up with a good solution yet.
At least HTC is profitable, along with a host of other OEMs that target China, India, and Europe. The reason that other OEMs like LG and Motorola are not profitable (but they aren't losing anywhere as much as Nokia is) is less to do with picking Android and more to do with the fact that they were doing very poorly before Android came around and Android was the main reason they are still relevant today.

As others have stated, there's nothing wrong with Nokia building out Windows Phone phones. The issue is exclusivity, which is understandable given the $1 billion a year Microsoft is paying them. I suppose we will see which way Nokia turns once that contract ends (whenever it does end).
Imprisoned Arma II developer helping DayZ map design from behind bars
> Lightsquared's even more awful attempt to make a quick buck whilst breaking GPS in the process

I think I missed this, do you have a link?
Have you (or anyone on HN) had a look at the random data linked in the article?

Brainstorming I came up with some ideas but those fail at first glance. "Convert it to unicode and utilise all those 0s!", "Find the sequence in Pi, give a Pi generation algo and an offset!"

It'd be interesting to see what people on HN come up with, even if their approaches do not 'win' this challenge.
I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. The way I would do it is to submit it individually to each of the checks (e.g. W3C validator) and scrape the results. There may be APIs available for some, I've not looked into that.
The problem isn't getting a user to recognize that they need to scan something... it's that the user needs to scan something! We need to get things automatically scanning other things.
I'm not paying the treadmill a wage. The lecture has a code of practice they need to follow. Not saying make it not boring is part of this but to make the class engaging I believe is one.
Aren't they out of money? Microsoft is doing the marketing spend for them at this point in the US, so I'm just not sure how they could afford this.
Well, photographs are two dimensional.
Firegram is gaming Instagram and getting you more Likes
Think Outside The Box, Design Within The Framework
Chelsea is becoming quite a tech hub: Google, Apple and Microsoft, eBay and many start-ups. This is a great move by Google and a great way to test out urban wifi in a tech-savvy neighborhood.
I hope they fork it. Big Enterprises like VMWARE shoudnt do this, they should open source it, and they can thrive more. Look what happened to Hudson.
French Gov Stopped One ISP’s Plans To ‘Jeopardize The Digital Ecosystem..
I agree, it's not uncommon for a programming book to be 600 pages long. I wonder what book the OP is reading.
Oh, sorry, my mistake.

I've been looking around to see if ImageMagick could do rotation without degrading quality. (I'd also asked a question about that elsewhere in this thread.) So I assumed that most devices use something similar even for displaying on the screen. It appears I assumed wrong. :)

I saw your other comment about axis-aligned rotation not being too computationally expensive. In that case, why aren't iPhones doing it by default? Wouldn't their computation power be comparable to that of most of the cameras that rotate the images? Or are cameras better equipped to handle such transformations?
Sometimes when people say "Linux is a kernel, not an operating system" it's an important distinction being made.
By decoding the jpeg, rotating the pixels and saving the jpeg again. I'm not even sure it makes sense to talk about lossy and losses when displaying images.
I don't see this as a rant. I think this is a genuine problem/complaint with recent programming books.

I am not sure what started the trend or why it continues. Exercises are where the learning happens for me. Perhaps well crafted exercises are more difficult to write than programming language documentation/cookbook style books? (which is what most of these books are)

There is less focus on books as a teaching method, and rather just a collection of manicured examples and well ordered documentation. (which are also valuable, but not a great way for me (and others, I suspect) to truly learn a language or technology)
Yes, with heavily customized UIs. Rather distinct from the standard Android experience. Personally, I find it annoying, and it doesn't add that much value for me. I liken it to the bloatware installed on Windows machines in the past.
For anyone reading to acquire knowledge, or to learn new things, may I recommend How To Read A Book by Charles Van Doren, Mortimer Adler.
But when browsing through already stored pictures, a bit of delay is totally ok. Not so much when quickly showing some information overlaid over the picture you've just taken.
Perhaps you should switch tracks or switch schools.
Somebody covered this further up, but in more detail:

It is not the rotation itself that is the problem, but saving the resultant file. If you're working directly with the pixel buffer you only do a lossless JPG rotation if the image height and width are multiples of 8 (or 16, in some situations). This is because once you've performed the rotation you'll need to save the resulting output as a JPG, and unless your dimensions factor into the block size you'll need to recompute. This SO answer covers it in more detail[1].

However, if you're not working with the pixel buffer this doesn't apply. You can use jpegtran (part of libjpeg), for example, which manipulates the JPG file directly and never decodes it. Many basic image viewers and editors (like the Windows Picture Viewer, and probably the iOS Photos app but I'm not sure) don't use this approach though.

[1]: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/12361/are-windows-p...
Correct, which is why Mozilla themselves removed most of the version numbers from their website, and you have to go digging in sub-menus to find out which version you're running.
You should receive a welcome email shortly if not already, respond to that with any updates. You can always email support@trypitchbox.com too
Been reading in http://antijingoist.github.com/AlphaSymbolic/.

I'm not exactly sure what the best strategy is for applying AS to programming languages since it has no "uppercase" glyphs.
It's DRY, applied over the entire industry.
Sorry, should be back now.
FBI "most wanted" bank hacker arrested in Bangkok
If the courses are boring you, take different courses. Take a course in statistics or biochemistry or microelectronics or geology or economics or history or psychology or anything else that sounds even vaguely interesting to you. See if there is something else out there that inspires you. Knowing X and programming will make you much more employable for almost any value of X.

Or if you're really absolutely sick and tired of university take a year off and work whatever job you can lay your hands on and then go back, maybe to a different school.
Other cameras don't usually rotate the photos (I've had to fix this same bug myself before the iPhone existed). My guess is that they didn't notice it earlier because photos from cameras are more likely to go through some post processing that on the final export saves the image with the data already rotated.
Cool cool, thanks.
"Tiny sachets of salt an pepper. Created in their millions. Given away for free the world over. Each stamped with a unique ID which can be recognised easily by a computer."

Um, do we really need every salt packet to have a unique ID?

If we really do, then the cost is NOT trivial. What machinery are you going to have in place to assign and track IDs? What server is going to hold all those IDs and respond to queries about when/where/what the salt packet is? What high-speed ink printers do you have in place on the assembly line to print these codes?
As an MBA and actor, I'd advise an improv comedy course! Stand-up is great, but, doesn't teach you the importance of listening and playing off of others, which is pretty critical to speaking well, imho.
Is it? It seems like it's an argument used exclusively to derail conversations it's tangentially related to like the piracy equivalent of a grammar nazi.
Yes, everyone I've ever known who made explosives was a geek. Why is that?
Does it need saving? I don't really care if it dies.

I have currently installed Adblock Plus, Flashblock and Ghostery. I was one of the last people in my friend group to use such stuff, but the full screen adds, adds with sound and especially the spying made me use this. If ads where only a bunch of banners I would never have installed all of this stuff.
Because JPEG files don't store a value for every pixel in the image: the information is encoded very differently. By good fortune, lossless 90 and 180 degree rotations are possible for the JPEG format, but only for certain image dimensions (multiples of 8 or maybe 16, as I understand it). Some notes on what is possible can be found at http://jpegclub.org/ .
It depends on your learning style. If you know any trained psychologists, they may have more to say on this, but I found a decent little article on it [1]. Reading a book 3 times and processing it differently each time probably is engaging a number of different memorization tips.

[1] http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/09/03/8-tips-for-...
That's an inane reason to throw out something that MAY have value to you. You might as well as never send out a resume or CV because there may be a mistake. Or you could just double check your dates... it's not rocket science.

I think Michael O Church may have more complex reasons to avoid linkedin.
An Updated Gaming Library written in Python.
Probably not gonna happen
http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-categorically-denies-android-ru...
- Go to [1] (our CI)

- Find a green "B" on a Win opt line (meaning that a build has succeeded for a Windows Optimized build), click on it, a panel appears at the bottom

- On the bottom left of the page, you can see a link named "go to build directory". Click on it, that sends you to the location where the CI stores the build

- In the list, there is an installer executable, that you can use to install this particular Firefox build (for examples: "firefox-20.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe").

Please keep in mind this is very much a work in progress, and it is likely to break horribly, maybe destroying your computer in the process (you never know :D). No warranties, blah blah blah. If you find bugs, it would be much appreciated to have them filed on bugzila.mozilla.org.

[1]: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Elm
They knew where to find a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook.
can we confirm if anyone ever said, "3,000,000,000K of memory is enough for anyone"?
This system didn't use a nonce or a key referenced against a database. It simply base-64 encoded the email address.
For me I would do it if the salary field was optional, I think the employer should decide what value to place on a specific candidate based on his or her past experience.

Companies who can afford to pay for someone with an expansive background will do so, but certain candidates might also be more interested in working with local startups who don't have Silicon Valley or NYC budgets, but allow for more flexible positions (i.e. Telework, like others have mentioned).

Not to mention certain people thrive in a small team environment versus a large corporate culture, and there's a chance to get meaningful equity to build something new and exciting.
I used to work retail. Well, during Bush the 1st. Anyway there are multiple markets. Its not like on the internet where there's pretty much ebay and nothing else. Locality and physicality breeds multiple markets.

One is a kid can probably walk out of his parents basement with a bottle of tide and mom and dad probably won't notice quite as obviously as if the kid walked off with a $20 bill. So at least some Tide is from unemployed teens smoking up via mom's walmart bill. Obviously not terribly high volume, but...

Another is there is already a booming market in turning high value food stamp food into money for "whatever". Our food store was surrounded by bars where a cold steak presented at the bar resulted in maybe half price in cash being returned, more or less. Also you can buy a steak OTC, cooked even, from the bar, for cheaper than we sold them. Whatever drug market operating in steaks is parallel or in competition with the existing food stamp market in steaks. This also explains the anecdote WRT food stamp corruption the crooks are always buying stacks of steaks with food stamps... they're the universal currency, not doritos or rice bags or whatever. If you're trying to turn stamps into cash you buy steaks. (yes I'm old, and I'm well aware its a debit card like scheme now, but nothing really changes with the market)
Not using Xcode's iOS PNG compression allows for faster PNG loading.
Cisco Wants Your Video to Find You
I am applying this methodology to Knuth's TAOCP. So far so good, as I am actually getting through the book this time, because I am just doing the initial read through. TAOCP always used to stump me when I've tried to go through it before because I normally try to understand everything I read before continuing a book. This way at least I am building up an understanding of what I need to learn to be able to understand the book.
Python has been around since the early 90s, the website is run by the python foundation - not sure how this could ever work.
Subtractable values are torsors
Apple rejects game that explores the ongoing Syrian civil war
Links to essays in Best Software Writing I
Peroni is in the UK and doesn't have a good perspective on US recruitment.
Strength? Sure. Volume? No.

The only hope for OMAP in the open-source/AOSP world is if maybe Amazon picks it up. Or, as a longshot, maybe someone making automotive systems (although Freescale is doing better there).

If Qualcomm or Broadcom happens to want it, um, I wouldn't hold out for any new releases.
Lenovo announces first table, not tablet, computer
I believe MIT's Scratch also ships on the Raspberry PI. So if you wanted you could give him his own little computer with the software on it.
"They consider the internet a fool's playground"

... Well, to be fair, it is.
The concept of code as poetry - or the hidden elegance capable behind it is something that obviously piques ones interest - if it were just for the aww factor it wouldn't get as many up votes. Code is an art, and it's nice to see it sometimes used for something other than the norm.
> relevant search results

I hate it when a ISP does that. If I mistype an URL I want to get a 404 or server not found. Not ads which are certainly not relevant in that case.

To me this article is on the same sympathy level as SEOs complaining about Google updates.
I don't see consumers developing any loyalty to the "exclusive interface."

OTOH, I do see consumers developing loyalty to good hardware. SII users that will buy the SIII (or SIV). You carry a phone around, so what it looks and feels like physically is important.
Great service. I hope they start charging for the service soon.
Well, it's unique to that brand of salt packets, or SKU.

Still, it's not like we'll run out of IPv6 addresses, is it :-)
He means he's taking notes.

Rather than painstaikingly writing down everything the lecturer says. Which would be stupid anyway, that's what audio recorders are for.
$10 ticket for Macworld 2013 (Jan 31-Feb 2, San Francisco)
Too bad FBI doesn't have a "most wanted banker".
Google to offer free Wifi in NYC neighborhood
Microsoft says no to Halo branded bullets
MIT + HUGWARE = my new favorite license. Thanks for the clarification.
that's the original

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes
Your comment, although I partly agree, makes me angry. Education is fantastically expensive, and it's hard to change between different providers and so the market isn't quite free.

I realise you're not asking for everywhere to be a party college. But, and I say this as politely as I can: You have immense privilege. People in many parts of the world risk death to get education.

Here are two photos.

(http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Details/201102171228410821/A-g...)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Details/201104041243130656/A-c...)
Riding the Epic (EMR) Wave
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I've had these guys loads of times.

"We're from Windows"

Pretending you are partially deaf and old keeps them on the line a while. 6 minutes is my record so far :)
The book was published in 2005.

In the Introduction, Joel said there would be yearly volumes. I think that is a fantastic idea! ...but it doesn't look like that happened.

Is there anything similar for the last several years?
I couldn't care less about programming exercises, but I'd love to have some mini project ideas or examples at the end of every chapter so you can put in practice what you've just learn. I've found that I learn stuff better when I try to adapt code examples to some domain of my own, but sometimes you just lack the drive or are tired of working on the same set of personal "hello world" projects.

In this regard Practical Common Lisp is a killer book. Definitely one of my favorites. It's really a pity that there aren't many other books mimicking its style (recommendations are welcome).