skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends
I'm going to murder your family.

Don't worry, I'm probably just provoking a response from you, but to be sure, you can send me $1,000 and I promise I won't murder you, if I was going to.
If you haven't already, you guys should absolutely get some inspiration from Baidu's amazing 3D city maps. http://j.map.baidu.com/m8vSh
My company sells fine jewelry on amazon, eBay, buy.com marketplace, Newegg marketplace, shop.com and more. We connect to all of them automatically through Channel Advisor, as do many large fashion companies. If you connect to CA, you will have a world of sellers you can select from who wouldn't bother with your small site otherwise. We all pay $10000 or more a year to use it so it's serious businesses.
I'd suggest improving the colour scheme of the code window, dark green on dark grey background is not very legible. Maybe steal some colors from the Sphinx doc colour scheme?
Kororaa 17: What Fedora should be
Could you share the name of the author or the ISBN of the "War of the Beams" book? I guess the title is different but I could not find it anyways.
Not me.

We mostly know the solutions to fixing the most oppressed or otherwise defective parts of the world; we just don't find it worthwhile to implement those solutions. I could solve 90% Equatorial Guinea's problems for <$10mm and a promise of immunity from prosecution or extradition by major world powers (i.e. places I'd actually be, afterward). Scaling that up for other countries is possible, too. For problems not requiring a ballistic solution, Bill Gates is doing a seriously effective job of solving the polio problem, and major headway into malaria.

The solutions to the most defective countries are all pretty straightforward and widely known; it's figuring out how to turn decent but not ideal countries like Pakistan into really stable first-world countries which would be hard, or figuring out how to stem the long-term decline in the US. (Yes, there are implementation difficulties in a place like Somalia, but it's because the benefit isn't worth the expense in blood/treasure. The cheap solution is to let the 1% of people who could make their lives a lot better by leaving do so.)

The skills required to solve the harder sociological problems don't really have much overlap with the skills to send people to Mars.

Bringing those places up to standard doesn't really give you anything new, although it does help those people. Putting humans on Mars is something we've never done before, and could lead to amazing technologies and opportunities for humanity. Just like I'd rather be a medical researcher than a family practice doctor, I'd rather push the limits of what's possible vs. contribute to more widespread adequacy, although both bring up the mean. I'm glad there exist both kinds of people, though.
I don't like it. Let's go all the way and make bringing the crew back safely part of the challenge. It will be more rewarding because it's more difficult.

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth."

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things -- not because they are easy; but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills; because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept; one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win -- and the others, too."
Web based technologies will play a vital role in standardizing at-least primary care and routine procedures. Will also help doctors provide more quality and personalized medicine.

Lack of data and transparency are the two huge factors holding back health care.

You can find a doctor and book an appointment but if you need a surgeon what matters is the Complication Rate and not the no of reviews of office visits.

This kind of decision making data is simply lacking or un-avialble to the public.

there is a lot of depth to this discussion as always with health care but simply put in the current state of affairs Health Care is too fragmented and non-communicative in itself.

We need to create a single platform of interconnected technologies the communicate among each other to solve this and use patient engagement to help doctors provide more personalized medicine.
Ask HN: What should I build?
That pretty much what I wanna ask you guys. What should I build? I am bored to my bones. Suggest a project, if you will.

EDIT: I am Python/Erlang/C dev who has done a bit of Android and iOS dev. My email is my username at gmail. Dont ask me to make beautiful games, I am sure I wont be able to do that.
This really makes no sense. How will you seek out a product or solution that you don't know exists?
It kind of does, "dress to impress", "fake it til you make it", are different ways of trying to manipulate other peoples perception of your abilities.

Instead people should dress to make themselves feel good about themselves, childen wearing a superhero cape aren't trying to make you think they're super heros, they wear it because it makes them feel like super heros, because when they look in a mirror, they think they look awesome.

When you find the perfect hat that makes you look awesome, there's a moment where all that matters is that bad ass person looking back at you in the mirror, who for that moment looks like the you that exceeds every standard you've ever set for yourself, who can do anything. You know other people would never think the same thing about the same person in that mirror, that's fine, this is your moment, not theirs. Every time you wear that hat, you get to experience a little bit more of that moment, even if everybody insists the hat looks ridiculous on you. They call you stubborn for wearing it, but the reality is in this case, you have transcended caring about what they think about you, when you wear that hat.
How the world would be different if an 18-month old called the shots
Feeling like a loser/winner is counterproductive.

The first step is to understand that social labels are bullshit, and the only truth is that we are all going to die. Look up, pretend you have purpose, that's "hope". People with hope attract other people, they glow.

The second step is to understand that there is not such thing as obligations in the universe. They don't exist. There are only actions, consequences and how you feel about yourself. The only other people that matter are the ones that also care about you.

The third step is to see the narratives in society. There are entrepeneurs from all walks of life, but some get promoted because they fit the current narrative, they sell news articles (for example, the dropout hacker with the social media company).

The fourth step is formalizing your objectives. Lists. Be realistic.

The fifth step is formalizing your assets. Lists. Be realistic.

The sixth is fiding a vector. In which direction you have to push to get where you feel you need to be.

The seventh is start pushing without doubt. Don't doubt, be clinical, get "feedback" and respond.

Remember there is no "failure", only changing pathways and goals.
I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve.

I have a similar opinion, although I don't usually stick to defaults.

Apparently this is targeted to teams of developers, so there might be more of a need to "modularize" things.
Is the chap proposing this willing to go off there himself?
Yea, but the write-up failed to mention a few of the other advantages, most notably, comprehensions. Every time I do a for, map, filter, etc. in js, I wish I was writing coffee. Having said that, if the verbosity of array ops aren't a sticking point, then I say don't bother. I'd probably be just fine with js if I'd never typed

dog.praise() for dog in dogs when dog.type is 'pet'

I have gotten into the habit of singing these, so its probably just an oddity I have. Carry on and ignore.
Well, you come up with a way to identify "indefensibly stupid" comments, and then I'll get behind it.
> I wonder how many people are willing to take on the real adventure of living in any of the twenty poorest countries in the world, or twenty most tyrannical countries of the world (there is overlap between the two sets) to try to change those from the inside.

That kind of paternalistic nonsense is what got those countries into the terrible shape they're in to begin with. Continuing it isn't going to fix anything.
Is PHP the Windows of web development?
Ahh, that might be nice to get to someday.
You should add an email to your profile, that way people can reach you :)
This is the problem... regular users (that aren't brand experts) cannot tell the difference. So on eBay, the counterfeits sell for about the same price as authentic items.
Let's start with comments that start with "XXX is a jerk and YYY is a talentless shill".
sold out politicians
Alright, so I wanted to see how this played out. So I paid to see if my number was in the "database". I got to the checkout, paid, and dead ended.

No return link, no anything. No instructions on the site how to continue.

So, for anyone else wondering, that's what happens when you search.
Yes it is. A bit more worse.
Receipt from PayPal: http://ss.vim.ae/r3Vgx.png
Name your preferred domains and interest areas. BTW it's best to scratch your own itch.

Maybe you should build sumting that relives you of your boredom. Maybe the next angry birds ?
up there with the mugshot sites and their paid removal.
I may be wrong but this and GP seem to assume that watching / surveillance will always yield some power over others. This seems untrue especially if lots of other people can see the same feeds too.

So mostly it's going to be social structures and conventions affected.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Next question: did the process feel like "art" to you?
No, dude. Let's call it pure coincidence. Once in a billions.
It's probably doable, but not without a whole bag of dirty tricks, and a group of well trained supporters... but you'd end up being like a secret agency manipulating foreign countries' politics, nothing new here, and if you were to succeed you'd give in to the temptation of using your "great benefactor, savior from poverty..." power for more one-sided goals.

If you want to change a foreign country for the better and not make a bloody (literally) mess of it, stay away from politics (ok, bribe who you need to to keep you humanitarian organization afloat if needed) and work to improve education, basic healthcare and economic growth by means of bringing foreign investments to businesses in a poor country or things like that. Any other way to do it and you'll probably end up on "the dark side" sooner or later :)
Some of the maps for China are stunning, we've definitely been using few of them for inspiration.
Those are very destructive thought patterns. If you are not already depressed you will be soon if you keep thinking like that, and depression makes achieving your goals near impossible.
What helped me was the realization that depression is only a hallucination triggered by the brain, after that realization there was nothing left to feed that depression and it deflated.
Seems as if I have to hang on to my T410s or wait for someone to build proper notebooks with complete keyboards, trackpoints, displays that don’t randomly open and at least remotely acceptable aspect ratios. Stupid new world.
My first instinct was that this appeared to be a very low volume industry and a really small niche market of people that are buying second hand and desire expert verification.

Then I thought about it for a while, and I can see where you're coming from. A percentage fee seems like it could work with lower volumes.

I'm curious about the site's design, though. Why did you choose to organize the auction the way you did, scrolling down one item at a time? It seems a bit disorganized; are you planning on adding more categorization?

I notice you only accept three brands. Is there a legal or a verification bottleneck that prevents you from covering others?
Here are some annotated screenshots of the design on my mobile devices: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B2Fy-Q78JeVpV3UyOGpnSVZ0UV...

(The higher-rez ones are from Chrome running on my Galaxy Note; the lower-rez ones are from the stock browser on a Galaxy Ace)
> I have heard that our grammar may be better than those of native speakers

Not better, just closer to an arbitrary standard that has been held up as 'correct' by some subset of academics (who are not, by the way, linguists, as linguists are too knowledgeable about language to try and define what 'correct' means).
So You Want To Be A Breaker, Part 1: Web Security
It's nice to learn from, but if you already know what you're doing and you just forgot the arguments to that one god damn method, it's pretty irritating to actually find the arguments to that one god damn method.
But you don't need to get into politics directly.

If you create a business that solves a local problem (local to the poor country of choice) good enough, and fairly enough, you can create ripple effects. Maybe not at national levels, but at regional and municipal levels.

Not easy, but not impossible.

(At least I hope so when I got my rose-tinted glasses on.)
Since when do you not get subsidized? Are you in the billionaires club and have you're own private roads, planes, police, etc? Even if you do, I think I'm still subsidizing you unless you live as a hermit.

Honestly, "chosen lifestyle," how quaint of you. You act as if people that live in rural areas are living some posh lifestyle of choice. That's just completely ridiculous.
It's interesting to me that in the comments at the bottom of their blog post, the Heroku guys are reaching out to people that voice objections. I'm not a Heroku customer, but I'd think they'd want to let all their customers know about their progress. Did this go out in an e-mail too?
Except that The biggest depositors, Russians, British and Greeks, wont even be on the island.
Yea, that's totally fair. Unless we're talking about Rush Limbaugh or Justin Bieber.
How software entpreneurs can build real world companies [video]
nice, and if you want to test it quickly, just paste it in the address bar:

data:text/html,<canvas id=q width=3000 height=3000 style=margin:-10><script>for(m=Math.random,p=[],i=0;i<256;p[i++]=1);setInterval('9Style="rgba(0,0,0,.05)"9Rect(0,0,3000,3000)9Style="#0F0";p.map(function(v,i){9Text(String.fromCharCode(3e4+m()*33),i*10,v);p[i]=v>758+m()*1e4?0:v+10})'.split(9).join(';q.getContext("2d").fill'),33)</script>
I just gave up the domain name bashrx.com which I held on to for about 2 years. It was going to be a site where you could save a bunch of check-boxed modules of aliases, exports, and utility functions. So maybe I liked Josh's git aliases and Eve's screen management functions; I could save these preferences and generate a big concatenated file that I could download to my home directory using https.

Anyone think that's still a cool idea?

edit: it looks like there a are a bunch of CLI versions of this which I'm going to try out! But my big beef has always been going to a new computer and not wanting to call `curl thisorthat.sh` 50 times, and remember everything.
> I could solve 90% Equatorial Guinea's problems for <$10mm and a promise of immunity from prosecution or extradition by major world powers (i.e. places I'd actually be, afterward).

How so? And why is immunity required?
https://github.com/ruckus/quickeebooks
> The good thing about google voice is that when it is finally axed, the US laws require them to give a way to port numbers.

Or what? What's the penalty if they don't?
Stop Whining About Google Reader
I understand the issues involved quite well, and think they are very important. Ultimately, though, it's politics, and does not belong here:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

We could easily fill the site with political stories that are more important than hacking and startups.
I was asked over the weekend if I knew someone who could build an app to run on Android and iPhone. Not a game, but a data-gathering, easy-to-use app.

My email is in my profile.
> I could solve 90% Equatorial Guinea's problems for <$10mm and a promise of immunity from prosecution or extradition by major world powers (i.e. places I'd actually be, afterward). Scaling that up for other countries is possible, too.

Oh really? What's your plan? How do you intend on ensuring that culture is preserved while you implement this plan? Or do you believe that Western culture is superior because it has been more successful in the last 100 years (forgetting that segregation ended less than 50 years ago, if you must include the eradication of entire populations as "successes," we can call it 500 years)? Even Bill Gates will admit that his solutions are imperfect at times.

The tricky part is a sustainable solution. Sure, you can throw money at problems, but how is the solution going to last? Like you said, there is already a lot of money involved (e.g. Bill Gates) in philanthropy, yet the problems haven't been solved yet. This indicates that the solution is trickier than you think. And if there is someone smart enough to engineer a solution, I would like to think Bill Gates is very qualified for such a position.

EDIT: Mainly, if you don't account for the culture of a place, a solution will likely not be popular enough to work (HIV prevention and treatment suffers from this problem).
eurozone - cyprus cannot devalue its currency.
Be aware that the word "loser" is loaded in modern culture, in a rather illegitimate way. I wish this were available in text format, but listen to this four minute essay and I feel sure you will have a different perspective on your situation:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3200029

As for making progress on some goals, I'd check out the literature on deliberate practice, and the strategies on the Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias blogs. (Your note is displaying a range of cognitive biases.)

The recent book on Mastery by Robert Greene lays out a lot of tactics. The good and bad news for you is that almost all approaches to mastery require becoming more involved with other people. The Mixergy interview with Robert Greene is excellent. I don't remember ever hearing Andrew Warner as excited about a book. This interview is not behind the paywall yet, so enjoy it while you can:

http://mixergy.com/robert-greene-mastery-interview/
You are underestimating the number of people who are interested in both a morally and socially acceptable suicide method and a claim to fame in science.
I see that Mars One will be using the SpaceX vehicles. I wonder if Elon Musk will be fine with this, because as far as I see it, it is actually undermining the competitive spirit of the race for Mars which is more about building the better technology than actually setting the foot there first just to get your name on the history books. For someone as devoted to offering real technological innovation, as Elon Musk is, it would probably smack a bit of cheating.
Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone
AppDotNetPHP - PHP Library for the App.net API
Interview with Ted Irvine, Vox Media Director of Design
Isn't this just western paternalism phrased to sound noble?

Here we come, with our advanced ways, to fix problems you might not even consider problems.
A few misc. observations:

* Too much of this page is spent on navigation and link lists. It's the landing page, but we don't need to link to every single sub-section of the site.

* I don't think having a whole sub-menu on the bottom of the page with various download architectures is a good idea. A single "Downloads" link would be much better, breaking out by distro on the downloads page.

* Ditto for a lot of the other stuff in the bottom menus. I understand we're trying to make things discoverable, but feel that you went too far in the other direction (information overload).

* The mobile style is pretty disappointing. There is a ton of wasted vertical space, and the vast majority of my scrolling is spent getting through all of the various menu levels. This could be trimmed down a ton, there's just too much. Strip out all of the ancillary links, stick to the core content, and make it easy to digest.

I make these comments because I genuinely care. I want to see the new python.org blow our socks off.
While I am skeptical of the Mars One project, for many reason which others have covered very well, I would happily die on Mars.

I'm in my early 20's and I have big plans and dreams here on Earth. I would drop them instantly for the chance to go to Mars, one way trip or no.
People do that frequently?
got an error page too , my confirmatin link is http://www.cibarsi.com/attiva?token=s1d4dkZy
This really doesn't seem analogous to me.

>>>For the veterans, the Red Cross went from being a little like Mom, to being the corner store.

Who really thinks of Google, for example, as Mom?
Thanks for posting this, OP. I'm saving this to read in detail later because we share much of the same frustrations (though I would never call myself a loser). I reached the same epiphany a few times, but have always been too comfortable in my situation at the time to make the necessary change. Last summer, while recovering from a motorcycle accident and working in a well-paying but soul-sucking job, I made a few do-or-die decisions. Since then, I've started grad school for Software Engineering and I'm on the job market, hoping to pull in a career, rather than just another paycheck. I've still got the same habits that have held me back from getting my ideas made tangible, but I'm learning the tools that I need to turn that around.
I can well imagine that Cyprus made the controversial decision (to haircut the "insured" depositors) themselves, for political reasons. It's exactly the decision I'd make in Mr Anastasiades' place if I was being strong-armed by a German delegation. The simple reasoning (for me) would be to increase the risk of contagion above and beyond what Germany can accept, so as to maximize the likelihood of Berlin folding and offering better terms.
I firmly believe that art is subjective. However, I also think that art should be a communication of a thought to others through a non-standard medium.

The only thing that was communicated during this process was a loud, unsurprised sigh when nothing came to fruition, as many had predicted.

Remember folks, There is no better way to over power a trickle of doubt than a flood of naked truth.
I feel like you are not very educated in these matters. You act as if rent is never subsidized?

Honestly, and I don't want to be mean, but you have a stupid argument. Rent is actually subsidized in certain cases if certain qualifications are met. The same is true for post office. It's not like someone like you, apparently of the same intellectual level, who would build a house at the top of a volcano could (since you want to play the silly examples game) can expect the USPS to deliver mail to you.

You think you are being logical but honestly you are just silly and not educated about these matters.
I've never designed large-scale systems however I'm still fascinated. I wonder if LBs could learn over time which requests will probably take a while and which have large probability of being fast? Then the requests could be uniformly distributed amongst the servers.

A system like this could have all sorts of knobs to turn. Requests could be partitioned into two groups: "probably fast" and "probably slow". Or three, four, n groups etc. Then the way in which the LBs distribute the requests could be tweaked. For example a ratio of 1/5 slow/fast requests per server.

This does require some feedback from the servers to the LBs. However it doesn't have to be fast. The servers could push some (request, time) pairs to some aggregating system at their leisure. Then the response time prediction algorithms used by the LBs are updated at some point. Probably doesn't have to be immediate.