skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lazy Highcharts has been available for quite some time: https://github.com/michelson/lazy_high_charts

I highly recommend it over writing JS for your highcharts, esp if you push a lot of data into the chart.
Elliptic curve cryptography can also be broken with Shor's algorithm.
More Evidence: Increased Housing Supply Leads to Lower Prices
http://www.tholons.com/TholonsTop100/pdf/Tholons%20Top%20100...

Look at those rankings for outsourcing. Also, we should look outside of outsourcing: there is a reason why the top research labs of IBM, MSFT, HP, GE etc have labs in India and not in those countries. More Indians will move out of business process outsourcing and into hard core technology and research outsourcing.
I remember reading this in the ACB many years ago. Thanks for digging this up.
I looked at Vega, but couldn't see much benefit in it. My implementation isn't too crazy.

- The data must be on the scope containing the directive.
- There's a scope.$watch('bind', function(newVal){}) in the directive's link function which will call an update() function that contains the d3 calls.
- The directive template is something like <div class="visualization directiveName"><svg></svg></div> (when starting, I do scope.vis = d3.select(element.find('svg')[0]) . Since there's a class on the template, I use that to define styles via css. You can also put a class in the directive tag itself to target css style more specifically.)
- Handling interactions (ex: specifying what happens when double clicking a node) is done by specifying an attribute and setting it to a function on the parent controller's scope (ex: dbl-click-node="handleDblClickFunction"). In the directive's d3 code, I add a listener for double clicks on a node and have the attached function call scope.handleDblClickFunction with the event arguments.

Hope that helps,
Matt
I'm disappointed that he left out the stylophone.
500 startups: risk v reward. Do VCs Execute?
Personally I don't see a single clear line where you should stop so I think that it should probably be spelled out in the competition rules.

I think it's fairly easy to describe either side of the line even if the line itself is a little blurry.

When post-production edits of a documentary photograph change the time and location of relevant people and objects, the journalist has some responsibility to disclose those edits to the viewer/judge.

When post-production edits merely enhance the clarity of the image, or the image is clearly not meant to be documentary, there is less need for such disclosure. Even though bias is present at all stages of the process, that includes even shot selection to begin with so presence of bias alone is not an indicator of which side of the line a particular image might be.

Obviously the first step is to determine whether an image is being passed off as a documentary photograph or an art photograph. Almost no one cares whether a photo of Sheryl Sandberg in TIME is heavily doctored (i.imgur.com/lFwMNia.png). Presumably, the photos in the contest were. This was a photographic report of a real and notable event.

Then the question is whether the modified elements of the photograph are relevant to the associated story. In most cases, filters and contrast are not relevant; although they could be in some edge cases. For touch-ups and smudging, the question is what are you touching up and smudging? A minor blemish on someone's face might not be relevant, but replacing a rifle with flowers could be substantial. A composite to eliminate someone's eyes being closed doesn't change the substance, but eliminating someone's presence entirely would be substantial.

Of course, a competition might have even stricter standards but from a consumer standpoint, that's where the line should be. An artistic collage photo meant to concisely tell the story of an event is fine, even if it LOOKS like it's almost real, but the nature of the photo should be disclosed. It shouldn't be passed off as a documentary photo.
My argument is that there are some limits to what can be exposed to the public. You won't show on tv pictures of abused children to fight against children abuse. As a father, each time I see dead children I can't stop imagining it could be my kids, it hurts deeply, striking very intimate chords. I don't think it is ethical to strike these chords. These kind of pictures can be used as proofs if needed, but should not be public.
I have to say that HTML::TreeBuilder saved our bacon a couple of years ago. But as far as XML goes, Python's implementation of Expat is perfectly usable
What is required to host?
You could have been a "hero" to some stranger. Broke but a hero :)

I agree 100% with your attitude by the way. Now you have time and resources to do nothing or to do the next thing.
As a Canadian I am a bit uncomfortable with the constant nationalizing of Hadfield (never by Hadfield himself, but instead by people who want to make something of it online).

The I in ISS is about international cooperation, and Hadfield's adventure was made possible by many great people in many great nations. He is a great person, but the fact that he's a great person doesn't make me a better person beyond that we share a world.
I feel really bad that I recommended the Nexus 4 to a friend, and then he promptly ran into serious wifi bugs (no notifications when the phone goes to sleep). The bug is one that Google has known about for months (when he got the phone) and it was fixed trivially in the mod community, which goes to show that Google could have released a fix for it, but they didn't care.

I used to think the Nexus line was where I would get the best support--I've had two Galaxy Nexus phones (first Verizon, then T Mobile), and the whole experience with 4.2 lag issues have made me rethink this.
Highcharts, Google Chart, groupdate, jQuery (for AJAX), and iso8601.js (date parsing) definitely do the heavy lifting.

My favorite part about the library is you don't need to worry about getting the data in correct format. It just works with existing Rails methods, like ActiveRecord's count.

Also, Google Charts look a lot better with a little bit of custom styling.
> Or try convincing college students that staying up all night to get a project done isn't going to impress anyone

Who cares fundamentally what other students/peers are doing? Focus on yourself, your own goals/aspirations, go out and achieve it. Stop worrying about what other people think or do.
shameless plug! Yeah, I go there for Bootstrap Business Club and it's a good space.
Thank! I use both fairly often. I have a strong preference for Foundation, but bootstrap has a lot more components, which is useful when I'm building web apps. Foundation is great for websites.
Writing Real Python for the Web - start to finish
The only thing Chris Hadfield can't do is not be awesome. Even clipping his nails in space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xICkLB3vAeU) is interesting.
Sort of like a column store? ;)
This is also rather how Reddit uses it I believe.
Instead of one sentence about why LinkedIn went native, here's a link to the whole chat:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/linkedin-mobile-web-breaku...
Universal's Audible Watermark
You'd be better of with hstore than json.
French proposal would tax smartphones and tablets to fund cultural projects
I think you're confused. An original digital photograph is no more intrinsically "edited" than a photograph taken on film. Would you say a film photo is edited just because of the limits of the film grain? Because the limitations of a digital sensor's pixels are really no different.

So no. Not all digital photos can accurately be said to be edited; there is such a thing as an original digital file, and a distinction to be drawn between that file and an edited version of the original.
I am simply a mine from which some smart business guy with some capital leverage can delve and extract value.

You've gotta flip your situation around. Try to be someone they can't do without. That's the acquihire game. Instead of being a resume monkey, go make something (useful? popular? at least popular with useful people.) then sell yourself (and n employees) to a company for $30 million dollars (you, as founder, of course keep about $20 million, $10 million goes to investors (?), and your employees each get nice $30k "retention packages" at the new employer).

People end up making $875 million dollars because they become symbols. They become seen as giant symphony conductors forcing the unwashed masses to act harmoniously — without them, there would be no Success, therefore they deserve most of the reward. We all know Success is foresight and direction, not physical labor. All labor is replaceable cogs and should be priced to the floor. Executed Vision has infinite demand and severely limited supply.

Our birthright, if we can state it so audaciously, is understanding how things work and building new solutions the general public can't make on their own. These days, normal brilliant tech people get squeezed out of economic validity from two sides. On on side, there's an influx of strong personality tech people who want all the glory for themselves and they end up exploiting the quiet brilliant tech people. On the other side, there's strong personality non-tech people who swoop in and think they can "control" or "manage" or "direct" quiet brilliant tech people towards greatness (because they have Vision and quiet brilliant tech people just sit around staring at little colored dots all day long).

But, in actual non-HN-everybody-is-a-change-the-world-founder reality, most quiet brilliant tech people are, on balance, not interested in organizing and building crush-the-world corporations. They're sitting around spewing off enough wasted potential to fuel six entire earth economies until they are picked up and organized together into a coherent operation. But, they will be paid 1/10th to 1/1000th of their actual value to the corporation, economy, and world.

(also amusing, if you paste this into google (no quotes) you get a pg article ("How to Make Wealth") as the second result: I am simply a mine from which some smart business guy with some capital leverage can delve and extract value.)
What's more despicable about killing children than about killing people of other ages?
Yet it's the children that are frequently used for political arguments. And that is disgusting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_interests_%28rheto...
It's his company, he was the CEO. It's his fault.
What is "amaon"?
I think tech people just have to get used to the fact that politics contains a lot of strange bedfellows...not necessarily because politicians are corrupt, but because they, in theory, represent hundreds of thousands of people to tens of millions (such as a Californian Senator)...chances are, some of those constituents have diametrically opposing viewpoints to many of the other constituents.

For example...FWIW, Lindsey Graham was a key supporter of PIPA, the Senate version of SOPA:
http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/G000359
I don't see any obvious such thing (at least on that part) and I've been doing Photoshop work for 10+ years.

Things to keep in mind:

1) Error Level Analysis is extremely unreliable. Especially if an image has had several saves and editing passes (and given that he did it on a small jpg, not the full image).

2) Sharp edges can also come from the sharpen tool, which can be manually applied selectively on different areas (instead of in the whole image).

3) Lighting changing and artifacts can also some from sloppy dodging and burning work. Both artifacts introduced by (2) and (3) also show up on ELA.

4) The time metadata he mentions in the article is useless. For one, the camera time could be totally wrong depending on the timezone settings. When I did some photo work, I always forgot to set mine when changing timezones frequently.
Ah, ok. I somehow got the impression from your comments that you were the Olav mentioned in the blog post.
That was Charleston Needsahug I believe.
Nope. That's a good idea, but not sure whether I'll add it. I will definitely be adding archive functionality within the next week or two though. So you can archive a file/project, which gets it out of your way until you want to see it again.
The recent history of conflict photography in this region is worth digging into. I believe there was an HN discussion of the following documentary, but I can't find it:

http://www.rubensalvadori.com/index.php/project/photojournal...

"an auto-critical photo essay showing the paradoxes of conflict-image production and considering the role of the photographer in the events"
Former required a lot of thought and consideration, synchronizing various actors of W3C, while the latter didn't. Also latter group has more money.

I'm sad really. This makes any open source Web Browser a second class citizen of the WWW.(@W3C) Great job, guys, great job. Seems like a big step on the road to fragmentation.
I don't believe hstore supports nested structures, which would make it less than a drop in replacement for many NoSQL use cases. Native JSON support should fix that though, so good news everyone!

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-json.h...
The article states:

“Android grew to the world’s most popular mobile OS (it’s now on 750 million devices worldwide, with 1.5 million new activations every day)”

Given how it’s phrased, it must be referring to Android installed base. 8 months a go, Eric Schmidt announced[1] that Android has an installed base of 480 million users and that 1.3 million Android devices are activated per day. So it’s entirely possible that Wired’s figures are correct, and that Android is the most ‘popular’ mobile OS, in the literal sense of the word (lots of people use Android devices).

‘Popular’ also has other meanings, like ‘regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general’. For that, it’s more useful to look at surveys measuring user satisfaction and consumer purchase planning. Those surveys tell a different story: consumers are far more satisfied with iPhones than with other smartphones, and more Android users switch to iOS than vice versa.

[1] http://www.androidcentral.com/google-reaches-13-million-devi...
Yeah, I've seen various people use these types of methods to prove a point, and each of them were able to come to their own conclusions based on the results. Ultimately you can manipulate any photo to look like this in the end, and some photos even just naturally look this way when processed even if they are the real deal. I think we're putting too much credence into one-click web-based tools and unreliable Photoshop methodologies.
Seems to me the IRS is just doing their job. They are responsible for ensuring people don't take advantage of non-profit exemptions by spending their tax-free donations on political campaigns. Which seems like something one might expect from "Tea Party" groups, whose goal is to elect politicians they support. Besides, if you follow the IRS rules like a good citizen, what do you have to worry about? Aren't you already paying for attorneys and tax advisors, specifically for situations like these?
The postgresql.org docs are a great starting point: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ for example. (They also serve as a good reference when you're forgetting some finer point of syntax or admin later... the manual's nicely "phased" in terms of introductory and reference content.)

I'm lucky enough to work at a company that tends to use Pg as our default RDBMS; speaking strictly as a dev it's a heck of a lot more ergonomic and sophisticated than some of the things I've dealt with.
"These non-profits are called 501(c) organizations, and are given IRS exemption from taxes. In return, theoretically, they are supposed to be non-political."

No, no a thousand times no; per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#Types:

There are 27 types of 501(c) organizations, ranging from the familiar "501(c)(3) — Religious, Educational, Charitable, Scientific, Literary, Testing for Public Safety, to Foster National or International Amateur Sports Competition, or Prevention of Cruelty to Children or Animals Organizations" to the obscure "01(c)(27) — State-Sponsored Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Organization".

The fuss here, to my knowledge, is about 501(c)(4) organizations, "Civic Leagues, Social Welfare Organizations, and Local Associations of Employees". Quoting Wikipedia:

"501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes. 501(c)(4) organizations may lobby for legislation, and unlike 501(c)(3) organizations they may also participate in political campaigns and elections, as long as its primary activity is the promotion of social welfare. The tax exemption for 501(c)(4) organizations applies to most of their operations, but contributions may be subject to gift tax, and income spent on political activities - generally the advocacy of a particular candidate in an election - is taxable.
Contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations are usually not deductible as charitable contributions for U.S. federal income tax, with a few exceptions. 501(c)(4) organizations are not required to disclose their donors publicly."

So, everyone, please, recognize that these are not the theoretically apolitical 501(c)(3) organizations you may be most familiar with (Wikipedia goes into some detail on this) but organizations that are explicitly allowed to engage in political activity, with corresponding disadvantages in losing tax deductibility for it.

To use the example I'm most familiar with, the National Rifle Association, the NRA proper is a 501(c)(3), it runs target shooting, training, safety instruction, a whole lot of apolitical stuff. Their lobbying organization, the Institute for Legislative Action, is a 501(c)(4). They have a separate political action committee (PAC) that following the usual rules donates (now small, since the limits weren't inflation adjusted) sums directly to politicians (which I take to be mostly symbolic, not "buys the politician" ... if for no other reason than few if any stay "bought" :-). And PACs are a type of non-profit organization as well.
Photojournalism Behind the Scenes : Ruben Salvadori
I enjoyed scanning BellSouth's 780 oddball exchange (amongst others) as a kid. It was their exchange to provide services to customers as well as linemen. Sometimes you'd find a modem, sometimes an operator, sometimes an automated service like ringback or ANAC. Some of these numbers would allow you to control other lines or listen in, and abusing them resulted in jail time.

I would have a little black book with a number and what I found on the end of the line, with pages and pages filled with weird unknown uses. Here's a similar list of them compiled by someone else: http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/bigbossnms/exchange.html

Funny now that I look back on it; apparently they transitioned these to 1800 numbers. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0vLlaOY...
invitation?
PostgreSQL 9.3 adds functions for accessing JSON data without having to use plv8js.
> The performance is substantially different. The dispatch table is ~75% slower (in chrome).

Of course those are, they're doing very different things in that test case. Your first case is just returning a value, and the second is executing a function to return a value. Here's a better comparison, http://jsperf.com/switchvsdispatchtable/2

There's nothing inherently slow about dispatch tables, it all about how you implement them. As someone else mentioned, the OP should be using bind to reduce the # of function calls instead of executing a function which executes a function.
I wonder if it accepts counterfeit dollars. [edit:] to clarify, I don't mean this as a joke. It seems that they're not paying out cash (only taking in) because they don't trust the depositor and have to wait anywhere from 10 mins to a couple hours for a transaction. But how can they trust the incoming cash? It seems like a perfect venue for a counterfeiter.
Dropbox's First Marketer Shares About the Startup Stages of Growth
There's already at least one "beautiful self-hosted Basecamp alternative" out there: Collabtive

...and it's free (FOSS).
Why was the Industrial Revolution British?
Clean looks. I immediately checked out the task timer feature which does not work as expected. If you start the timer and then go to the dashboard (I should expect to see all "active" tasks here) and back the timer is stopped.

I currently use TaskCoach to keep track of all my tasks and invoice my clients on a hourly basis.
This is what i was looking for, just in time :) I had tried Highcharts but this is the most neat solution. Thanks.
Add in bonuses based on those numbers and its amazing any consistency exists in their calculation. Basically in practice you're only allowed a consistent and analytically defensible system if no ones bonus depends on the process being obfuscated. This is why a lot of "big data" is oriented around generating new ideas and new numbers, rather than fixing existing systems and data...
Very cool and I' definitely going to dig into this.

For my use (topographic maps) the ability to combine this on the client side with tiled raster data for thing where that makes sense (ie grey scale elevation, their satellite layers etc) would make this a killer platform.

I already have code to do slope angle overlays client side by applying an image transformation to elevation data in a canvass [1] which could be used for hill shading etc but the only available web services are slow, query (instead of tile) base, and use poorly defined encodings.

[1] The "Custom Slope Analysis" tool for identifying avalanche prone slopes on hillmap.com
The implication that the methods of analysis used in the article have similar or less predictive power than your intuition is dismissive, trivializes the hard work of others, and is probably false to boot (look for false positives by google image searching "HDR").

You did not make this implication but the parent post we are discussing certainly did.

To be fair, the implication was probably not made maliciously, and a more appropriate response would have been "This got past the pros because such lighting is possible to achieve in outdoor photography, although it requires a level of skill, equipment, luck, post-processing, and aesthetic risk that make it uncommon outside studio settings."
You know, the funny thing is, most scifi movies have something glass like for military applications as opposed to civilian. I could see militaries watching this with great anticipation for
friend or foe tags, navigation/waypointing even targeting systems.
Excited to play with this!

JFYI Chrome (26.0.1410.65) is bugging out all over the video element as I scroll: http://bit.ly/19iUieq. Firefox doesn't support the mime type. Safari/Canary etc are fine. I'd suggest just posting the video to YouTube and embedding it using the iframe player, as it's so captivating.
This seems made up to me. A bit too much like the movie Sneakers or something. Plus the resolution with the uncle being able to get the answer seemed too convenient. Is this a confirmed story?
When trying to access the demo in Firefox 20 it throws an error for LESS:

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: http://www.duetapp.com/demo/client/js/libs/less-1.3.0.min.js...
Materialized Views! Well, sort of; it appears they don't automatically refresh when data has been updated in the underlying tables ala Oracle's implementation, but this gets you rather close.
cool, looks like the strings() method in lego.py might work
Yes, you need to keep the task open for the timer to continue to run. You would want it to keep running in the background? It seems like it would be easy to forget about if it's implemented that way...