skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice. Many years ago I built a machine vision system to inspect Playskool ABC blocks with the same method. I added some erosion to the images of the parts and some dilation to the template images. That way there's a little wiggle room to account for different temperatures of the branding iron and the press that made the embossed letters.

The thing worked pretty well, unfortunately production moved overseas and the company that made the blocks is gone now.
Or very right, see the discussion on that same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636090

Depends on what your view of success and right/wrong is.
The bossless office trend
Hold up one second, if you click on the pdf in the article http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/06/17/rel7a.pdf and turn to page 5, you see "Government surveillance of U.S. citizens" - 61% Disapprove, 35% Approve, and 4% no opinion.
API Crafting Secrets: Into TrueCaller API
My little side project supports points 1 - 4. It has a neat disposable cover letter system built in.

I'll continue to slowly bootstrap MightyCV, it's a resume creation app with hacker leanings. It has integrations with HN, github and StackOverflow along with some other cool features. You can see an example of what one looks like here:

http://robeastham.mightycv.com

If you like the look of it you can sign up for a beta invite at:

http://www.mightycv.com

I'm hoping to redo the management interface over the next few months and push out a largish update to the service along with some bug fixes.
Stop using livestock in agriculture? What do you mean?
goodbye :( you will me missed
Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly system
How does this address the concern though? Since a user only needs a password to access past sent messages, the security is only as strong as that password... and Apple can pretty easily circumvent any password related security since they are the ones verifying it.
> Regardless of autonomous cars, proximity and density will always be a decisive feature of cities, which is what allows humanity to thrive and innovate.

Population density is correlated with increased rates of mental illness.
MightyCV is a London based venture too!
Why we need to simplify our corporate tax system
I work for a non-profit organisation and I'm considerably below the median income. There are jobs going, doing what I do for wages that are quite a bit higher - but they're all in London. An absolutely ideal job came up last week, but it's in Southwark. I just couldn't do it... so I stay here, where I'm reasonably settled and happy.
Solve all problems for x, where we hope x is the comfort and continued meaningful existence of humanity and not, say, the maximisation of paperclips.
AngularJS vs Ember
I find it incredibly annoying that laptop lights blink when they're on standby - I often put my laptop on standby when I sleep and then I have a light either blinking or "waxing/waning" in my face (I like to sleep in complete darkness). My improvised solution is to throw an item of clothing over the laptop now.
Right, it is but it isn't. The whole point of the piece is that because of HK's complicated relationship with China it makes extradition possible, just very hard. I guess my point is, why not Shanghai? I'm sure the PRC would love the opportunity to grand asylum to an Internet freedom activist.
Presumably because that's all the government authorized them to say.
I don't think American should get any preference here. Nothing gives the US to force its might onto other countries, but while we're at it regardless of my non-voting voice, drone strikes are better than the carpet bombings of civilians that Nixon/Kissinger ordered in Laos and Cambodia [1] during the Vietnam War, not to mention the other things American troops did to flush out guerrilla fighters (killing entire villages). The violence is at least starting to have less unintended casualties (I don't think the drone program has many casualties that were not known before the order). In the big picture, I'm more worried about how to control the state in a world whose infrastructure enables mass surveillance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu
Back in 2009 (when the decision first came to light, although we didn't know what company it applied to), Russ Feingold had some scathing things to say about it:

The decision placed the burden of proof on the company to identify problems related to the implementation of the law, information to which the company did not have access.... Senator Feingold, who has repeatedly raised concerns about the implementation of the PAA and its successor, the FISA Amendments Act (“FAA”), in classified communications with the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General, has stated that the court’s analysis would have been fundamentally altered had the company had access to this information and been able to bring it before the court.

In the absence of specific complaints from the company, the court relied on the good faith of the government. As the court concluded, “[w]ithout something more than a purely speculative set of imaginings, we cannot infer that the purpose of the directives (and, thus, of the surveillance) is other than their stated purpose....” One example of the court’s deference to the government concerns minimization procedures, which require the government to limit the dissemination of information about Americans that it collects in the course of its surveillance. Because the company did not raise concerns about minimization, the court “s[aw] no reason to question the adequacy of the minimization protocol.” And yet, the existence of adequate minimization procedures, as applied in this case, was central to the court’s constitutional analysis.

More at
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/14/feingold-yahoo-blind/
The Tarsnap client code isn't Open Source, but the source code is available, which means it can be audited.

s1kx's caveat ("Of course you will have to trust CloudBerry not to put a backdoor in their Software") therefore doesn't apply (as strongly, anyway) to Tarsnap.
It's almost as if he's looking to be able to claim he's driving innovation in the face of any real growth policy and grab a few cheap headlines in the process.

But that couldn't be it, could it?
Plumi: open source video platform, in the era of PRISM
Can one take a swim/use an inflatable at night undetected?
It's the 1% that can afford to move in. That's what's skewing the article. In Manhattan, there are very few buyers who make less than $400k/year as a couple. That's about the cutoff for the 1%.

This doom and gloom in the article is neither new, nor entirely accurate. The popular consensus (I wish I had the link handy!) in NYC is financial services employment rises and falls 1 to 1 with artistic employment. The causality is probably reversed though. The growth of one helps the other. Gentrification is nothing new.
Proving once again that people don't know what they think. I remember reading somewhere that researchers were able to phrase questions on a survey such that participants gave opposite answers to the same effective question (too bad I can't seem to find that article on google).
Of course they wouldn't do something like, certainly not after the rip-roaring success of the TechCity initiative.
Livestock produce methane which is a greenhouse gas and contributes significantly to global warming.
Elance and Odesk can actually pay pretty well. I regularly find jobs which I know exactly what's required but are quoted really high by people who don't really know what they are bidding on. I think what happens is that one bidder comes up with a number pulled out of thin air and then the rest of the bidders use that as a starting point and just bid a little lower. In this case I just bid the average of the top bids and then I'm usually able to get the job because I know the problem so well. A job under $500 is still a good one if you are able to knock it out quick and hit $100 / hour. The problem with this is that it takes more time to find the diamonds in the rough.
THE promise solution of blogging with Markdown (logdown.com)
THE promise solution of blogging with Markdown (logdown.com)
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The service is great for what it is. TL;DR - Someone please read the legal mumbo jumbo for me. I'm not a lawyer either. I could spend 2 hours reading the fine print and making a best guess, or someone else could read it for all of us. Highly efficient, and not even an ironic "If you follow our advice you can't hold us liable" comment. :-)
CO2 emissions for producing enough food to feed someone on a meat-based diet are significantly greater than on a vegetarian diet.

I may be wrong but I think the vegetarian diet needs to be close to vegan (or at least dairy free) to have a major impact though as cattle are a significant part of the issue.
> The rent for my 17th century cottage with garden in a Yorkshire village wouldn't get me a room in a shared house in an undesirable part of London.

Maybe I'm only confused because I've never lived in a village, but... You're paying significantly less than £700 pcm (including bills and council tax) for that?
The main developer James Bennett has discussed his reasons several times on multiple venues, but the FAQ in the Read the Docs for django-registration gives details in "Does django-registration come with any sample templates I can use right away?"

https://django-registration.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.ht...

Other people have provided good baselines to work from, the Djen of Django provides explanations with their samples:

http://agiliq.com/books/djenofdjango/chapter5.html#reusable-...

(note I haven't upgraded to 1.0 so not sure if there are any incompatibilities)
There is some truth in this article, and lots of great advice: read more, don't take shitty offers etc. But SV is changing the world, and some of other the articles listed here are, though maybe just for effect, superficial. Facebook and AirBnB have changed the world and are super valuable. Keeping in touch and creating new opportunities - Facebook has done both for me. AirBnB - I'm staying at someone's house in a small prefecture in Tokyo - this is money coming into the economy. This is change - the worldly kind.
Yes there are tons of shitty ideas and shady deals in the Valley, and we should work more efficiently not just more, and dedicate more time to our families and friends. But the point is, as with free speech, that nobody knows ahead of time what will be good and what will be waste - that's the whole point of startups. My invitation to the authors who mention Facebook as a useless tool - will you close your FB account and never use it again? Didn't think so.
Monetate is another
It's the capitalist mindset - capitalism is based upon the idea that money is a universal motivator. The idea that people can be productive for other reasons, such as pride, passion, joy, or compassion, is incompatible and would lead to the idea that systems other than capitalism could be successful on a grand scale.
I think we're within the margin of error here. All devices I've ever bought for Mac "just work." Call it anecdotal, but that's the case.

Good for Linux if it has also reached that point, but don't call OSX worse when it isn't.
> If you want to give me an actual reason, rather than making your argument about my person, feel free.

I did. Before I made this comment.

> You have only asserted that they need the rights, but you fail to say why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888581

This was in reply to your "questions."

> You'll notice I said "seems". That's an English word with connotations of uncertainty and doubt, do try to look it up in a dictionary some time.

You also said: "Rights they shouldn't have." without any qualification.

And you'll note that "seems" has multiple definitions, as well as multiple meanings when placed in context.

Regardless, even if we take "seem" at face value, it's not the issue. The issue is that they are asking for those rights, but you don't understand why they are asking for those rights. And your conclusion is that they shouldn't be asking for those rights. That's the problem. Your use of the word "seems" is meaningless. It doesn't matter.
Some of us are on #startups on Freenode.
Outsourced data centres face a tough sell
I'm not hiding state secrets or anything! For me it's the principle. I want to move away from hosting things in American servers.
Well the article title is specific to the question about surveillance of non US persons but worded to imply all cases.

In other words, click bait or agenda.
Only I don't use Go that much and don't search for it -- have tried it for a couple of months back a year ago.

Also, I did the same in incognito mode, logged out from google account and with cookies turned off. Same results.
The history of NSA spying, from telegrams to email
As Linux currently is answer would be: No!
There are a lot things that are extremely wonky on Linux and few things that works extremely well, but for me positives don't out weight negatives on a desktop thou.

Would I ever pay for Linux distro? Quite possibly, but only if the software capabilities on the platform catches up with the competitors, for one I like playing games on my PC and as it currently stands I get sever performance losses and tons of graphical glitches which is a driver problem and as such not so much a distribution problem.

As for now I will continue running Linux on my laptop and servers, but my desktop will stay Windows for the foreseeable future.
We built a handheld device with only a few LEDs as a UI and found that people can easily tell solid from blinking and they can count groups of blinks up to maybe 3 or 4. Using blinking frequency did not work out well at all.

The WiFi LED was blue and there were lots of coverage problems at the customer sites . We wrote a blues song "The Blinking Blues" about it and performed it at our offsite. One of the lines was something like "I don't know if it's blinking fast or slow."
You couldn't recreate the traction, but imagine hearing the ideas in their infancy... "Wait you want to create another blogging service?"
Could we not harness the CO2 emissions and use them to create extremely dense forests (or other plants that need CO2 to grow), then pump the oxygen created by the plants and use it to feed the animals?
never say...
Or maybe oversized corporations and excessive lobbying of politicians to serve their interests. ..depending on your biases.
Heh, I was unaware of that. How odd...Thanks!
This has been a long awaited update for django-registration to make it compatible with Django 1.5's user model. To give some context, several people submitted pull requests over the last few months which were continually rejected. Glad to see this canonical Django package getting finally updated.

Note: The documentation[1] still describes 0.9 version.

[1]: https://django-registration.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Space weather and the global economy
The "lawful intercept" capability available for law enforcement in the telco infrastructure is designed so that sysops could not readily detect wiretap activity. That's part of the spec. That's also why the Athens Affair was so hard to detect.

PRISM (or whatever the actual intercept system is called) is different, but it's a good bet that the design goals are not lower than previously existing intercept systems.
It seems like it would be hard to find a jurisdiction where data is immune to the government breaking their own laws.
The main selling point of Dropbox is cross-platform support for umpteen platforms, so you'd need to find an encryption tool that will work on all platforms; say bye to iOS...
443 is a better outgoing port since https is rarely going to be blocked
Actually two of the 20 districts of inner Paris (the "arrondissements"), which you describe as a "historical preservation district writ large", are more densely populated than any districts in any Western city - except for Manhattan Community Board 8 and 2 districts in Spain [1].

The 11th and the 20th arrondissement both house more than 40,000 people per km2 (104,000 per sq mile), which is denser than any district of Tokyo by the way. If that's not dense, I don't know what is.

Incidentally, the 11th is not cheap in any way: buying a flat there will set you back 9000 to 9500€ per sqm ($1200 to $1270 per sqft) [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_city_districts_by_popul...

[2] http://parispropertygroup.com/blog/2012/real-estate-prices-p...
>Maybe Google is tailoring your results to bring back sites that include the programming language based on a) your past searching habits and b) the emerging trends for those specific search patterns. Google's results are highly tailored

Well, tried the same thing logged out from Google, in incognito mode and with cookies turned off. Same results.

I can also try to proxy my search to a remote VPS I never use and see what happens.

But anyway, forget the "fitler bubble". Google is smarter that the naive "Go means the verb" in all contexts.
Well look at the questions:

"And for the past few years the Obama administration has reportedly been gathering and analyzing
information from major internet companies about audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails and
documents involving people in other countries in an attempt to locate suspected terrorists. The
government reportedly does not target internet usage by U.S. citizens and if such data is collected, it
is kept under strict controls. Do you think the Obama administration was right or wrong in
gathering and analyzing that internet data?"

vs

"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling:
Government surveillance of U.S. citizens:"

The question for government surveillance is a lot more strait forward. The other has a paragraph and has buzz words .
Very good advice. And the large noisy bar scene for parties is a pet peeve of mine too. But that could be a side effect of not being 21 any more. :-)
My opinion is that he didn't really think it through that far, but that seems to be an unpopular thing to say on HN.
Surely if you look at the root causes, the biggest issue is the failings of capitalism in that it creates a artificial scarcity on a grand scale in order to make people in other countries desperate enough to make things for us for pittance?
I've always considered personal hotspot default passwords to be insecure. Ironically, I've never changed my iPhones default password. Thank goodness for poor coverage on Australia's CityRail network, I suppose...
Another reason you should be doing TDD
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. Down voting someone that replied to you or that you replied to doesn't count. That being said, this comment of yours right here is the exact type of comment that should get down voted. It's meaningless and pointless. It's childish, and offers nothing to the conversation. I cannot down vote it precisely because I'm replying.

Anyways, it's the type of commentary that isn't welcome here.
The article calls out people for putting down Linux device support, and then adds this lovely disclaimer:

"If you use Linux and like to advocate for its use, it’s time to stop telling people they should try it and it’ll Just Work. Because it won’t. It’ll probably Mostly Work. And the remaining 5% of not-workiness will cause yet another person to start propagating the “Linux has bad hardware support” meme."

I'm sorry, but if 5% of devices don't just work, then you have no place writing this article, and you've just discovered exactly why that "Linux has no hardware support" meme exists.

"But make sure they know that for best experience, they will have to research and choose a known-good configuration. Just like they did when picking out their shiny Mac."

In other words, you have to do more work to get it to work. In other words, it does not "just work." In other words, Linux does not have better hardware support than OSX, OSX just has better hardware.

Don't you get it? That's exactly why people buy Macs: so they don't have to think about that. Start a company that makes preconfigured Linux desktops that "just work" if you want, but don't go decrying a whole platform for having it all figured out. If you're saying it's better "if only people would just do their research" then you really don't get it.
>No it's not, from the way it's presented, it's more like the world's first organism-enslavement-for-entertainment-kit.

Still a cyborg.

>Not that I understand that much about cockroaches, but it's hard to deny the ethical issues in taking over control of an otherwise autonomous organism.

Ethical issues of taking over control of an "organism" we usually stomp upon without second thought, or spray with poisonous gas to get rid of?
These are the times of miracle and wonder
I really need to try that some time, thanks!
How About an iOS App Idea Contest?
I am launching a new idea to hopefully bridge the gap between the "idea guys" and technical software developers.

People approach me all the time asking me to build their app, many of which are good ideas being presented by impressive people. The problem is that most people simply can't afford market rate for an iOS engineer, and an equity position simply is not a risk I'm willing to take.

Hence, I am launching (what is temporarily called) the M.V.P. (Minimum Viable Product) program. For a $25 application fee, anyone can submit an app idea. After 200 submissions have been received, we will pick one and develop it over the ensuing four weeks, no extra charges or fees. $25 could potentially develop your app. All submissions will receive, at the very least, our professional feedback covering potential costs, time frames, and technical challenges.

The website is located here at www.fullstack360.com

A blog post elaborating on the origin of the idea is here at www.fullstack360.wordpress.com

Please let me know any of your thoughts and suggestions, as I hope to iterate based on the response!
Edward Snowden Q&A
Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly
Please go back and read the NH comments on the article you're referring to - the article was misleading, and there's a good explanation. In short, Microsoft informs many different major partners (both government and private) of security vulnerabilities before an official patch is issued so that sysadmins can be better prepared.
Goodbye GR... won't miss you much due to http://multiplx.com.
Taiwan

Would that do? Yep, I think it would. Perhaps even just the substantial delay of new arms sales. It's meant as a black and white example, but it proves my point. There are countless things the US could give China that are worth a lot more to China than Snowden is.

Your comment is comical in its lack of realism. And that's comical because you're alluding to me being the unrealistic one. In reality, politics is a game of buying or trading favors. It's that simple, and it works that way locally or internationally.
Back in the 10.5 days, you had to install separate fan control daemons for OSX too, because it didn't do well enough. This has mostly been fixed.