skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Monitoring license plates don't track people. They track vehicles.

Nope, they track people, too. According to the article, "just four randomly selected geospatial datapoints (location + time)" can uniquely identify an individual person 95% of the time. When you live in a place where cars are the only practical way of getting around (like the LA area), then this is de facto person tracking.
Can Google's Dart Hit Its Target?
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Thinking Fast and Slow is one of those books that changes your life by permanently altering your worldview. On some level it makes you resent yourself as you start learning how to identify your own biases (and even worse, just how many there are! Good God!) but once the bruises on your ego start fading you'll find that you're a far better person for it.
APOD: 2013 May 5 - A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana
the first time they did the Humble Weekly deals, they had a physical reward for buying just Bastion.
Crafting a Great Design Resume
#5 "Echo their name back at them"

That is literally a specific advice to write low-quality "porn" content that stimulates superficially and then trigger an anger/betrayal reaction.

These "tricks" are copied straight from a used car sales lot, and we hated them there too.
Raleigh was battling with food trucks when I moved

They ultimately approved a new regulation that, while probably not perfect, seems to be a compromise most sides could live with.

http://www.raleighnc.gov/home/content/Inspections/Articles/F...

and am unsure how it ultimately turned out in terms of variety.

Not sure about that bit. I live "next door" to Raleigh in Chapel Hill, but rarely have much reason to venture into Raleigh during the day, so I haven't had much chance to partake of their food trucks. But the Triangle, as a whole, seems to have a thriving food-truck scene.

http://www.crankydiners.com/food-trucks/

http://www.wral.com/triangle-food-truck-rodeos-planned-this-...
Anyone even thinking about taking an actuarial exam brace for a world of hurt.
I visited San Fran last week and with each visit I'm shocked by the plight of the homeless there.

I've lived(NYC, Philly & more)in and been in many cities across the US and never witnessed this on such a scale/epidemic.

It made me wonder what the government is doing there to help with what I see as an epidemic?
Get your Geek on - Mario within Zelda Easter Eggs
Check out hidden Mario easter eggs in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
We supply running commentary to show you exactly where, and how to find these hidden gems within OoT.
Music used from www.zreomusic.com under their distribution license. Be sure to check them and their awesome work out! Project Zreo to live on!
Unfortunately Kinetic is (and probably always will be) canvas-based, which is already a limiting factor. Which is unfortunate as it's API is really rather nice and I wish I could combine it with WebGL!
When I read stories about "CEO"s in startups I mentally compare the description to my CEO Meg Whitman. I think it just doesn't make a lot of sense to use the same label for a founder trying to get a startup off the ground and someone running a large company.

Maybe it makes more sense to have different names for the early positions and ask the question when's the right time to hire a CEO.
OK, thanks for the pointer to Leontief's model. I'll pile that on my reading backlog :)
Promote from within.
Probably you could just bunch census tracts within a certain distance of any stop and count them as being part of their nearest stop and then average them. (Weighing correctly for population differences.) If you wanted to do it better, you could have the weight for each census tract fall off with distance from the stop.
The quality of the image notwithstanding (and there were good reasons for that with the bandwidth of the time), this page looks remarkably good, and holds up far better than sites half its age. Just goes to show yet again that with design less really is more.
Could be a bridge loop, where switches route packets in a circular ring. Spanning-tree-protocol is designed to detect and avoid that problem, but it's not always enabled.
That's partly true, though the area right around the Redood City Caltrain (this uses census tracts, not the whole city) makes the difference much larger than if data for Redwood City as a whole was juxtaposed with Atherton as a whole. The area right around the Redwood City Caltrain is a bit sketchy, particularly on El Camino (the downtown on the other side is nicer). Not too sure why it hasn't gotten nicer, since it's so convenient to train service (30 mins from SoMA on the baby bullet Caltrain).
78K people have signed up for a one-way trip to Mars
This was a great read, and for the most part it is the exact attitude you should take. YC is a great experience but it is not the end all be all, and if you really should go in to an interview with the mindset "If we don't get in, screw it". Mass rejection is the norm when starting a new company with a new team.

One note though: I really give a lot of credit to YC for thinking outside the box in the interview process, I would consider myself far from the typical tech founder archetype and our company sits in an industry that is typically not that interesting to the startup community. They took a chance on my team and me and we strive to prove them right.
Cinema lost a true visionary today. RIP Mr. Harryhausen and thanks for bringing magic to the movies.
Summary: Cloud66 is a provisioning service for Ruby on Rails (it installs the servers, databases etc onto your AWS/Rackspace/DigitalOcean server). It seems Cloud66 has started destroying some virtual servers without permission.
I love it. Founders sending fake-sincere emails to collect user data. Founder sending fake-sincere replies to collect business data.
This isn't that surprising, Bayshore is not like most SF neighborhoods and has some interesting patterns.
Ask HN: A novice programmer asks you for one educational resource
You can point them to a book, a website, an online course, a screencast series, etc. The novice has no preference for a particular language or platform.

What would you recommend and why?
Concordances: Inverted indexes from 500 years ago
The cable was probably already plugged into the same switch. You caused a hard-loop.

It was probably an unmanaged switch. An unmanaged switch cannot participate in spanning-tree, and therefore cannot detect the hard loop. Because the loop wasn't detected it caused a broadcast storm, bringing down the network.
> "This statement is phrased to sound authoritative, but has no evidence, and I think it's wrong, and I'm willing to be persuaded by evidence".

That is just so damned smug. Why doesn't that person have any of these lofty responsibilities about making a perfectly articulated argument? It's acceptable for them to literally type two words as their contribution to the "discourse," and the onus is pushed back onto the person who actually put some effort into it? Discourse does not mean "you will go on at length, and I will offer a simple rejection until I am satisfied with your argument."

> Why would fearless reason with your unjustified and implausible claim?

Because it's a community, it's a two-way street. If he wants to push the conversation that way, he can help it get there with an actual contribution.

edit: On second thought, removed some unnecessary snark. Others have covered my point anyway, just got a bit riled.
I really hope they finally fix the MD5 signatures on the Psychonauts FLAC soundtracks. The game and soundtracks were already included in the HIB4 with mismatching signatures and they haven't fixed it yet :(
Yeah, I thought the image map was hilarious.

The second link in the menu, "Cool" goes through at least 4 redirects before winding up back on the www.yahoo.com home page :)
Note: they're all redeemed.
FWIW "invading parasites" is a phrase that one should avoid in American English if he or she wants to avoid sounding racist. Many people will read "too much" into it whether intended or not, so it's best to avoid it.
Most variables in math are unknown until you are given enough information to solve them.

Suppose I gave you J(log y) and then told you that you have to solve for it. What does it mean, how do you calculate it, how does it work, cowboy up and do it man!

What do you mean what are the values of J and y? It is math, just do it! Write down what you think J and y signifies. You will be 3/4th the way to the answer instead of part way. Nobody can learn it but you. Only you can put forth the effort.
“I was really delighted to see ‘to give’ there,” Pagel said. “Human society is characterized by a degree of cooperation and reciprocity that you simply don’t see in any other animal. Verbs tend to change fairly quickly, but that one hasn’t.”
Stupid app. Tap built in Maps app -> Search for 'Pizza'
Hayes Valley is arguably _in_ the Western Addition which, in turn, is not an extremely high-crime area, even in relation to the rest of SF.

The visualization does show drastic transitions but the majority of them seem to be the buses crossing the seedier areas of downtown which are, indeed, quite seedy.
I love that they're including a repository. Looking at the code history is the best way to learn.
Plenty of people died (directly or indirectly) due to the cold war.
Cleveland Missing Teen Hero - Charles Ramsey
There are few student loan totals large enough to make what is otherwise considered "high income" not wealthy.

The difference in lifetime earning between two people, both of whom have a high five figure or low six figure income and good growth potential, one of whom has $150,000 in student loan debt, is not very large.

Housing debt isn't relevant unless to wealth unless the house in question is underwater.
Former economic consultant here. Speaking as a lowly analyst with a BA, I got to work with many PhDs in Economics/Finance.

Companies are always looking for ways to back up their economic damages/projections with data provided by a third party aka an economic consulting firm. I got to work on some very cool projects like defending a pricing fixing case in the consumer electronics industry and calculating the number of jobs created if the company injected $35B in the US economy.

These reports were not cheap and PhDs could bill ranging from $600 to $1,200 per hour. A 15 min phone call costed $150 to $250 and we billed EVERYTHING. As long as you had a good reputation and played both sides of the fence (Plaintiff/Defense) you always had a job.

I could have gone on to get my PhD, but I wanted to dream bigger. It's still a salary job and the hours you put in is what you get out.
I have a slight tweak on this. I stopped using an audible alarm clock. I've used a light-only alarm clock for years now--

The real value is that the light rises slowly and your body eventually wakes up when it's ready.
Opendyslexic.org
A demo spawns a Xen instance for each database query. In under 1sec.
Udacity.com - Design of Computer Programs, Web Applications Engineering, Social Network Analysis (algorithms), and many more

Coursera.com - too many courses to list.
It's just warmer in SF comparing to NYC/Philly, so to me at comes as no surprise.
d3 is tightly modeled after data visualization, is SVG-only (though you can do your own drawing if you want to) and doesn't have a scene graph.
I tend to say, and this has not worked well for me, "Uh, I would google it, and see what other people have done, and learn from their experiences, and either use their license appropriate code, and or their knowledge and experience and consider that and how it would fit into our architecture and start from there".

Because that's how I engineer. I try to stand on the shoulders of others. And Google provides such an excellent step-stool.

But as I've said, that doesn't seem to go over well.

Implement your favorite sort algorithm? I don't know that algorithm, I tend to use the sort algorithm that comes along with the libraries of the language I am using on the assumption that a) it's good enough until proven otherwise, b) it's well implemented and mostly bug free by the language designers, and c) schedule is paramount, the most bummed out, tweaked out, sort is not.
You Spoke, We Listened
You're missing an 'I worry' in there somewhere.
Giving people money to be homeless probably doesn't help.

"The city of San Francisco, California, due to its mild climate and its social programs that have provided cash payments for homeless individuals, is often considered the homelessness capital of the United States"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
I chatted with George at Straply at length at a startup event. He says they track the actual Apple App Store and Google Play searches and they have 2MM searched phrases in their database. The phrases that people are actually searching for with the misspelled words and all. As far as ranking keywords I'm pretty sure it's on the actual number of times phrases are really searched. No guess work. That being said, you might want to reach out to George. Seemed like a pretty good dude.
Thank you! I don't know much about networks so I'm glad you could answer the question
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Sorry maybe dumb it down one more level for me? What's a credit? why can't you cash them out, how do you get them?
Thanks for the note. We will look into this.
Size Matters: When Open Source Code Quality is Better than Proprietary Software
Ask HN: Experience with Mechanical Turk?
I have a large human compute taskthat conists of image segmenetation. I need people to outline features.

I was wondering if any of you folks had any experience with using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for this kind of job?
Keynes's Biggest Mistake
In case anyone is wondering, Meteor (http://meteor.com/) is a web framework which promises to make building real time web apps very easy. Its written in javascript and uses the node.js run time but doesn't play nicely with npm packages. Up until a recent version, it had no support but now you can write a wrapper to use a specific package.

Discover Meteor (formally known as "The Meteor Book") is a book that teaches how to build a social news reader called Microscope, a simplified version of Telescope (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840032).
I distinctly remember my "A-ha!" moment in understanding what CSS could do. It was while looking at Zen Garden. I spent hours just clicking "next" and examining the source code from each design.
www.markmyplace.com - I wrote this as an exercise to teach myself how to build an application from start to finish. This is the third iteration, and while a bit crude, it contains all of the resources I have found while learning programming and related topics. It also has a good deal of the random things in it that interest me. If it is related to programming and was useful to me in some way it is probably in there. Hit the tags and find some stuff. Any suggestions to improve it would be great too.
I'll take that as a "no."
"I barbecue with this dude"

Amazing
CrunchFund's Future
A Quick solution to gather information in time – Linux flavour
Information gathering in linux is the most difficult and time consuming part. Since we need to execute multiple commands and store output for each command and proceed for next one. Time is valuable and precious, So we have written a script called AllRounder. Have a look at https://github.com/learnsomuch/AllRounder

For detailed info, http://learnsomuch.com/updates/2013/05/07/a-quick-solution-to-gather-information-in-time-linux-flavour/
Nice, I didn't recognize you could use multiple default filter backends glancing at the 2.3 documentation. That would provide a means of addressing the main concern - creating a reusable object that could be applied to any api view that filters the queryset in a predefined way (eg: limit the queryset to objects owned by the current user). Another point for DRF.
This is definitely a challenge, but its also a challenge for engineers who are new to management as well. Rather than lead their team into becoming a problem solving group, they can jump in and just fix things to keep stuff moving along. The line between too 'hands off' and too 'hands on' is hard to navigate. Easier when there are other things taking your time but hard when you're in a hiring lull or there aren't any upper level things calling on you.
Ideas for happier Creative Cloud customers...
A lot of those people have mental illness and don't want to live in a home. And a lot of people go there with the intention of being homeless because they are treated fairly well by the city and there are lot of people to panhandle from or perform for.
Well I think a big part of this is that right now we have finally gotten to where the algorithms + the required computing power are starting to become more widely available. Cheap graphics cards or things like Intel's Phi + techniques like drop out to prevent overfitting are really enabling much more sophisticated things to be done in a reasonable wall time. Granted multilayer neural networks aren't a free lunch that will solve everything, but there are large classes of problems that are falling to these techniques all the time. We are also finding that Neural Networks scale very well to very large architectures, better than some of the other techniques. I understand we should be careful not to overhype since we have seen previous excitement cause a mass exodus from this research before. I however think people like Hinton were always right, and this was awesome stuff. We just couldn't really take advantage of it because we could never train it for long enough and we hadn't learned how to do things efficiently yet.
I agree. Twenty dollars feels like the sweet spot to me. And the $30 price is only with the launch discount! It's "retail" price is $39! I don't even pay that on Amazon for tech books. At that price I'll wait to pick this up.

That said, I think the meteor platform looks like the "next big thing" and I'm excited to learn it from this book or elsewhere.
I can certainly believe it for one of the examples given, "to spit". The audio examples are clearly imitative, especially in the terminal syllable, which almost always uses a consonant like [p]. (Just like someone spitting.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/words-...
I think he is referring to abject failure. As he points out, failure to get a PhD, simply results in a MA or MS.

As for the work schedule, that 80 hours a week may be a case for a tenure track professor, but the bulk of economists are employed by the government. In government work, you rarely work beyond normal hours and getting a masters, let alone a PhD will automatically bump you up the GS payscale (GS11 for masters and GS14 for PhD, if I recall), to the point where you can get six figures simply working a 9 to 5 with ridiculous vacation and retirement benefits.

http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-...
I don't agree with retention limits.

Data is awesome. Tt is history and science. In 50 or 5000 years anthropologists will be salvilating over having the data we record today.

Maybe in 5 years hobbyist, startup or evil corporation will come up with novel use that beneficial.

The problem is not in the data or in the technology. It is with how it is used. It should be available to everyone free of restriction.
Considering the context: "a chattel currency that people use to purchase drugs and money with"

And the what turns up if you start looking around at what there is out there for "shadow currency":

"Shadow currency: how Bitcoin can finance terrorism" (from two days ago)

And from "The US Regulatory Vice Closes On Bitcoin" (from one day ago): "Chilton's remit to regulate this "shadow currency" is predicated on it becoming a basis for derivative contracts as opposed to purely transactional (akin to the monitoring of physical oil transactions that can influence crude futures.)"

...I would say you are correct with almost without any doubt.
Spock versus Spock
The bizarre rationalization of "a necessity to separate content and design" is false, but I understand if it helps graphic designers.

However it is bizarre. Rich-Text-Fields are what the customers want, and that combines text, audio and video and all text formatting.

Just make sure your website works without Javascript or CSS enabled.
Do not play the guitar if you can't afford a Marshall stack.
I like your prototype. Works well and looks clean. I have also been trying to work on something like this.
A quick observation: 14+ chapters in the book and nothing on testing? At least, I did not find anything that talked about it.

Is it because there are no standards defined about testing Meteor apps or is Meteor being presented as a framework that does not need testing (hence, should not be used in production)?
I disagree completely. I don't shoot professionally, and I've got a Nikon D40 with the lens it came with (body & lens cost less than $500 new). The photos I get from it are far far better than every point and shoot or smartphone camera I've ever owned.

I get needing better equipment if you're a pro photographer, or even if you're just somebody like Marco with disposable income, but the suggestion that you need to dump $1k+ into a setup to make owning an SLR worth it is absurd.
Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars
Ah cool. Yeah, I instantly thought of use cases like Forecast.io's weather animations for your library. I think this is a _major_ trend about to explode, and approaching it with a JS library instead of animated GIFs seems like it has big potential.

Check out www.forecast.io to see the UI polish I'm talking about.
"Econ is not as intellectually deep as some fields, like physics, math, or literature."

I took 2 years of Econ in my undergraduate, along with courses in each of those other fields. My memories of economics was that do the work, you get an A, but its so incredibly boring (especially in contrast to the 3 fields mentioned) that the biggest challenge was staying awake in class.
MBA Tuesdays: How To Tactfully Show Investors They Are Wrong
I've got a Panasonic Micro 4/3 camera for this very reason. As an amateur wanting better quality photos than an iPhone I find it has much of the quality of a DSLR in a fraction of the size and cost and gives you that arty blurry background depth of field effect.

Camera:
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMC-GX1-Compact-System-Camer...

Lens:
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-14mm-2-5-Aspherical-Intercha...
If the information in the book (regardless of page count) gives you insight into a new technology that you can use to expand your career, is $30 really too much? If you're a contractor billing at market rates in SF, $30 is one-third to one-fifth of a single hour's income.

Time to start valuing books based on knowledge contained rather than paper weight.
The problem is that the question is so vague as to put an interviewee on the defensive, requiring that they go down to as deep a level as possible and adding to the stress of the situation. Not to mention that the last time I saw that question in an interview it was on a written quiz that appeared to be xeroxed from a daisy-wheel printed page.

As we've seen repeatedly here on HN, interviewers often ask about things that do not pertain to the job itself. Therefore it's actually a pretty aggressive phrasing of a question meant to elicit the information you require, so I don't think you can necessarily chalk it up to a sense of humor.
My one comment would be, I wonder how the customer feels receiving a message from the Founder of the company. One of two possible reactions:

1) Wow I'm really special to receive personal attention from the founder.

2) This company must be small potatoes if the founder has time to be writing emails.

I wonder if you could follow up with an A/B test, same exact message from you and from a "Community Manager"
$1.5M doesn't really buy a lot of house in Atherton, at least more than a block or two from El Camino Real.