skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But here's Amazon review:

"I was threatened with legal action and personal attacks via email from the president of the Silicon Valley Historical Association over the above review (which is against not only the 1st Amendment, but also Amazon's policies), and then my review was removed. Therefore I am posting this review again (...)

In my opinion, if you are looking for a film about Steve Jobs, this is NOT it. In this hour-long film, there is only 15 minutes and 57 seconds of interview footage of Jobs. The rest is footage of the filmmaker himself, some cheesy stock video clips, interviews with other Silicon Valley founders, and historians/academics talking about the growth of Silicon Valley and comparing it to the Renaissance era and the invention of the Gutenberg printing press. After about 40 minutes into the film, there is hardly any discussion about Jobs at all. There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "Nah, it's not like the Renaissance AT ALL." The film is wrapped up quickly with no real conclusion leaving the viewer wondering what the hell they just watched. And to make the whole thing worse, every interview has really annoying music (think screeching saxophones) playing behind it, which becomes so distracting that you stop listening to what the interviewee is even saying.

The one good thing I can say is that it is very interesting to hear what Steve Jobs has to say in these interviews...."

And it's $15 for video, $5 for audio.
> Microsoft does not have the in-house expertise to feed exploits to anyone.

I agree with you everywhere else in this thread, but you are clearly not up to speed on who works there if you believe that to be accurate. Some of the best exploit writers, who have pioneered new classes of techniques, work at Microsoft (because Microsoft went on a recruiting spree to target them).
No: -12 million + 9 million = -3 million.
Which browser specifically? Proof (screen shot)?
I'm not sure if this is evidence of cognitive dissonance or the fact that people have a nuanced view of what's going on. For example, I was channeling my inner Thomas Friedman and talking with a cab driver about the spying last night, and he was glad that Snowden revealed the program, but didn't consider him a hero (because Snowden fled to Hong Kong).
Solution: anonymous buyers.
Right, I don't know much about Haskell (not actively programming in it), but I know that Haskell was not designed with OOP in mind and things like polymorphic nominal subclassing are not first-class there. There are also some things that Haskell's type system can't do e.g. the nice thing that Scala does with fold/map/reduce always returning the right type, even if it has to be a different type than the type of the source collection. I'd like to be proven wrong, Haskell is on my list of next languages to learn well ;)
>As he moves across town, he says, "I really only want to meet with entrepreneurs under 25. I mean, if you're 30, what are you doing at South by?"

Oh, that's nice. Is this Logan's Run or something?
Mental disorders are caused in large part by lack of access to jobs and housing[]. Do you not think that a lack of access to jobs and housing contribute to a lack of access to sanitation and hygiene?

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.ht...
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Thanks for posting that. I haven't seen that one in a while but built a few. I'd recommend if anyone uses it to not expose it directly to the internet, once someone malicious sees all the sizes in the URL they may try hitting 1..n X 1..M which is a big hard on the servers.

We used specifically named sizes to avoid that problem although whitelisting in the edge servers would also work.
The multiplane camera
Reporter tells how the Police brutality marked the latest protest in Brazil
Okay, you do recognize it's not useful as a means of determining policy and legislation (practical).

That's fine. The world needs idealists, but you have to understand when you don't get your way.
I smell an identity crisis in his future in 5 years' time... especially if he's replaced by someone 5 years his junior at that point.
>Fares bring in a lot of money, but they cost money to collect—6% of the MTA's budget

"A lot of money" is awfully vague. Especially for a publication called The Economist.

Turns out farebox revenue is 41% of the MTA's operating revenue. That is indeed a lot of money to be giving up. Here is a breakdown, via http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/Adopted_Budget_Feb_Financ...

Operating revenue, 2013, projected
-Farebox revenue 41%
-Dedicated taxes 35%
-Toll revenue 12%
-State and local subsidies 7%

Total operating revenue is $13.5 billion. Budget (expenditures) is basically the same according to the above link.

So dropping fares will cost about $4.7 billion after accounting for fare collection savings but before accounting for any extra costs associated with increased ridership (35% of 13.5b). The total NYC city budget is about $69 billion, in comparison(http://www.nyc.gov/html/omb/downloads/pdf/fp6_12.pdf), so maybe it's possible, but I'd hate to be the financial planner asked to come up with ways to cover the shortfall.
Seriously? Facebook has to allow you to connect with Tor even if they're constantly having to mitigate attackers using it?

Are you entitled to demand that free websites cater to you because you have some sort of moral authority?

You make it sound like all morally superior people (which I'm presuming is decided by you?) should have the right to get whatever they want and companies can't deny you service for any reason because... big companies are evil because they're big and being rich makes you a bad person? Is it okay to infringe on someone else's rights to exercise your own because you believe your motives are morally superior? What people like you always seem to forget is that there are others who don't feel the same way as you and your rights aren't the only ones that matter. It's basically fundamentalism.

Go ahead and be pissed off when Facebook or Twitter or some other company does something that makes it harder for you to use their services in a way it was never intended to be used for. Be pissed when actions that cater to their target market leave you out in the cold. But don't come back and act like they owed you something. Your cause isn't their problem. You're trying to make your way through life like they are and you can't just go around demanding that everyone you encounter owes you something because of some believe that you have moral superiority.

Give me a fucking break. There's a whole world wide web of tools that you suit you better. Rather than demand a tool not made for your purposes bend to your will, why not go use something else?

And I come from privilege? How would you know? Because if someone disagrees with your views it must mean they're the enemy and in your case it seems your "enemy" is anyone who comes from privilege. That's silly. I could just as easily say "anyone who would think what you think must come from a background of laziness and wanting a handout from everyone". I might come from privilege. I might not. Even if I did, that fact alone doesn't make me wrong. That's just another way to write someone off and make yourself feel better. It's the same as calling someone a fanboy when they praise a product you dislike.
Beards and sunglasses also tend to cause problems. It's also nice to allow manual setting of where faces in some web editor to override what OpenCV might find.
Finding a Person of Interest in pi
Venture capital is literally all about taking big risks...
I found the relevant section in my copy of Traffic:

...congestion pricing can help reverse a long-standing
vicious cycle of traffic, one that removes the incentives
to take public transportation. The more people who choose
to drive to work, the worse the traffic. This raises the
time the buses must spend in traffic, which raises the
cost for bus companies, who raise the fares for bus
commuters -- who are being penalized despite their own
efforts to reduce total traffic. As the bus becomes less
of a good deal, more people defect to cars, making things
worse for the bus riders, who have even less incentive to
ride the bus. (p. 167)

The author cites congestion pricing as the solution, with money raised going to pay for buses.

And this brings us full-circle to the argument that those buses should be free for riders. If a city charged cars to drive during congested times and subsidized bus fares with that money, this might be a solution to ease up congestion.
Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers
Reminds me of those monks that spend weeks making beautiful, meticulous sand mandalas, who then destroy them immediately upon completion.
Thanks for the citations! It seems this isn't new information then--just that a lot of the current news hasn't even gotten to this point. In most of what I read, I see the perception that writers think most orders from the court are like the Verizon order in that they ask a certain company for certain information.
Pretty sure South By is more for the 21+ crowd to begin with...
I was a long time user of Imo.im (used it with Facebook, G+, and more) and never had any issues such as this.

It's possible it's a bug, and I'd like to see what imo says about it.
Could be this just a PR move ? Cost of few modele Recall is not even close to the quant of marketing budget.
Men's Wearhouse fires founder George Zimmer [video]
In the example given "listen 80;" is completely unnecessary since it's a default.
Kim Dotcom: Petabytes of MegaUpload users' data has been destroyed
So put your money where your mouth is and build a consortium that will pay researchers to release them publicly.
You're absolutely right. Steve Jobs was not right on this. To quote him:

>This is a field where one does one's work and in 10 years it's obsolete and really will not be usable in 10 to 20 years.

There are many, many examples of technologies that have been around several decades and will be around for several more.

I also disagree with:

>You can't go back and use an Apple I...You won't be able to even fire it up and see what it was like

In the last year I've used emulators for a Commodore 64, an Apple II and arcade computers from the late 70s / early 80s.

With the other examples you gave of things that have been around for several decades, I think Steve really missed the mark on this.
Imagine success for today's startups in 20 years
Sure, that's exactly why nobody innocent landed on the no-fly list. Ever. Because government knows best!
Google cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=cach...
Spark goes much more beyond just in-memory caching. It features a more advanced scheduler and a higher level programming abstraction.

The programming abstraction treats all data as collections (RDD in Spark terminology), and allow programmers to apply bulk transformation on these collections. Some examples of operations you can apply include the traditional map and reduce, the relational filter, join, outerJoin, and more advanced ones like sample. This abstraction makes it much easier to write distributed programs. As the Wired article mentioned, a distributed program written in Spark often looks identical to a single node program. This substantially reduces the amount of code one needs to write for distributed programs, and the best part is the code really expresses the algorithm (rather than cluttered with JobConf setup).

And the scheduler and the engine itself are aware of the general DAG of operators, so they can schedule and run those operators better. For example, if you have multiple maps, the execution gets pipelined; if you are joining two collections that are partitioned the same way, the execution avoids an expensive shuffle step.

There are many other benefits too. I'd encourage you to give a try. Thanks!

Disclaimer: I am on the Spark team at UC Berkeley.
yep. thats pretty true
But I suppose, similarly to USA, most cool jobs are left for their citizens.

They as well specify that there is no relocation support.
JavaScript Amiga Emulator, with classic games and demos
That's one of the reasons I like Metafilter :).
Thanks Cristian, founder here, I think today people mostly go to craigslist or get referrals from friends, to find videographers. It's not a great experience and presents some of the same problems/risks we are trying to solve for post-production (ie: not knowing what's a fair price, not knowing what all the options are, not knowing if the fit will be good, not to mention the relative hassle of finding, communicating & paying the artist). But we get asked the question often, and I think you are absolutely right, we need a better solution to find/hire videographers.
$150 for mitigation bypass and a defensive solution? That's one way to make an annual salary.
Those are a gimmick. Completely non-scalable. Imagine the lines at gas stations if it took an hour to fill up.

The thing I keep coming back to is this: as we transition to EVs, we have a once-in-a-century chance to do it right. Look how badly we screwed ourselves during most of the twentieth century when gasoline-powered cars started to become popular. Lead in gasoline. No emissions or crash-safety regulations. Transportation planning driven by politics rather than logic.

We need to be a little smarter this time around. That means not allowing the market to evolve in a manner that leads to 20 different manufacturers selling us vehicles with hardwired proprietary batteries that we charge by plugging them into the same outlets that charge our electric toothbrushes. It's frustrating that nobody seems to understand how dumb that is.
There's a beautiful irony in a 20-year old so quickly dismissing any entrepreneurs above the age of 30 while also discussing fake IDs.

(This guy sounds amazing. I just wonder where he's going to end up in ten years.)
The two themes are not incompatible. Brave New World is about the carrot, 1984 is about the stick. In 1984, the upper classes which controlled big brother would've been true believers who led comfortable lives and had better things to do than mind the surveillance. In BNW, those who refused the distractions and instead put their energy into undermining the system would've been discovered and remedied somehow.
$150k
Yup. Anonymous buyers vs. MSFT.
Or else! Ballmer cannot dictate his own prices for hot commodity.

If he is smart enough to hire cheapo programmers and suppress creativity and initiative, he has to pay for his technical debt to clean the mess up.
I was referring to the fact that this was posted multiple times around HN after Steve Jobs passed away. It's definitely not "never before seen footage" of SJ.
At Facebook, we are using a similar technique to crop images. The part that is different is that instead of using the center of all the faces, we find the viewport that maximizes the number of faces to be displayed. http://blog.vjeux.com/2012/image/best-cropping-position.html
It's very exciting to see Dart reaching beta status. The project is definitely maturing, and hopefully this means that the 1.0 release will be in the next few months.

The Angular team recently announced[1] that they are going to start supporting the Dart project too. This means that if you're already familiar with writing Angular code but you want a language with some better semantics, better tooling, and a standard library, this may be a good time to start checking it out.

[1]: http://news.dartlang.org/2013/06/angularjs-announces-port-fo... , https://github.com/angular/angular.dart
> Homelessness and poverty are different issues: although some people might not want to ride with simply poor people, that's a miniscule group compared with those who don't want to be in a confined space with a homeless person who is likely unhygienic, drugged up, or (non-exclusive) mentally unstable.

Homelessness and poverty are related, but you are right in that stigma against the homeless and/or the poor makes a barrier in people's perception of taking mass transit. Some places with robust mass transit have better outcomes than others, so this is something that has to have available options to combat that in culture.

> Saying "free would work much better if there weren't homeless people" is probably true, but that is a pretty big supposition in lots of cities. Those cities without a homeless problem should feel free to experiment with free transit.

I'm not saying its a either or proposition, but making free mass transit needs to be coupled with other actions and policies that also help to deal with homeless by providing more stable shelter, facilities, economic opportunity, etc. Of course, there is no city in the US that does not have a homeless population, so that is always going to be a factor.
So, I take it you don't know much about research apparently ...
Okay, so if it isn't about the money, then what is the reason for losing so many developers to Google?

Or is the idea that Mozilla has been losing key people to Google (as mentioned in the OP) not legitimate?
> The point is that the free market creates less than an efficient amount of transit

I understand your point, but am providing a real world example in the form of a privately run railroad that was more efficient than its subsidized competitors.

> put the burden of paying for that infrastructure entirely on people who travel instead of all the people who benefit thereby

I agree with this part of the statement, but it's false to assume the free market can't utilize this payment model.

The bulk of the railways and roads that I cited were paid for not only with user fees but investments by businesses or entrepreneurs who rightly assumed that they'd reap benefits from railways and roads being constraucted in their districts.
LeaseWeb: Statement on former client MegaUpload
Startup Advice from David S. Kidder
Debugging the Stripe API using Runscope
Available public and semi public spaces are very directly related to homelessness and mass transit is such a space. I've lived in a variety of places and people still continue to use mass transit even if occupied by someone who is homeless. The issue is that doing something for members of society by undertaking free transit has to be coupled with tactics that address the inequalities that allow homelessness to be pervasive or to consume resources that aren't really meant to deal with homelessness.
Thanks for posting this! I need to find a new host for my blog that can handle traffic better. If anyone has suggestions let me know.
I must admit, I always interpreted the appendix to be a note from Orwell to the reader, not a document from a later date within the novel's world.
A Future Where Everyone Is a Startup
You're thinking of an artificial monopoly.
We had a fareless area in downtown Portland for many years. It was no sketchier than the routes going to the 'burbs, and it wouldn't have made sense as a "makeshift homeless shelter", since the free part was only a few miles. My understanding of why they started charging is that our country suddenly ran itself out of money paying for simultaneous stupid wars and giant tax cuts for wealthy people, and our city couldn't pick up the slack any other way.

You say "homeless people", I say "George Bush", I guess.
Wouldn't it be kind of trivial to right a function to would take a directory name as a parameter and symlink it from site-available to site-enabled?
I take it you've never received a knife stick blow to the head?
In fact all buyers needs to be anonymous and pay with bitcoins, including MSFT.
This is why America is making such huge strides in entrepreneurial ventures - because there are finally the old guys with all the money who aren't too proud to admit that there are people half their age with twice the talent. Going to a travel entrepreneur meet up yesterday in Paris really opened my eyes up to this cultural difference. (The French are too damn proud of their hierarchy!)
How English Majors Win in the End
Unlike linear regression with normally distributed residuals, it is not possible to find a closed-form expression for the coefficient values that maximizes the likelihood function, so an iterative process must be used instead.
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China and Russia would both disagree.
Do you have any support for that claim? My experience in Chicago and Baltimore is that homeless shelters are packed. People do the daily 4:30 line-up to get a bunk, and those who don't get in find a place in the alley to try again tomorrow. None of them seem particularly bothered by the smell of their neighbors, they're more interested in the smell of soup.
Excellent points. I fear we have totally lost price signalling in transportation in general.

Some will make the point that comparing the profitability of cars to buses isn't fair because cars still ride on subsidized roads. Very true. That trend began because it wasn't possible to charge a driver per road he used -- tons of toll booths just wouldn't work. But, times have changed. Things like EZ-Pass allow for totally automated toll collection.

I would like to see drivers charged per use of roads just like bus and train riders are charged per use. Then we can start comparing apples to apples on transit. Plus we can get the pricing right by charging enough to make each system un-subsidized. My guess is that cars will still be far and away more popular, but the consumer's choice would be the final proof.
> We need solutions, not platitudes. Dissolving the free-zone was a solution.

Dissolving the free-zone was a solution to the problem of having to deal with homeless people, not the problem of homelessness itself. I agree we need solutions and not platitudes, but we also have to be cognizant of how our "solutions" merely decrease the salience of pervasive ills rather than attempting to tackle them head-on.
Using, authoring, and publishing plugins is free. If you have a paid New Relic account, all this goodness costs $0 extra - same if you have a free New Relic account.
Gregg Caines’ “I used RSpec to Test a Node.js App today…”
Well he mentioned the Principia too...I bet most people who use calculus have never read that.
Truth. So in that case why aren't other VC firms bringing on young hustlers like Alex here to build relationships and scout out young founders?
Just joi hackdesign.org
FBI uses drones in U.S
If you had read carefully, you would notice that it said that right under ; )
Safety Act Designation
Spark is a wonderful project, I blogged about it just the other day: http://subprotocol.com/2013/06/17/spark-darling-of-big-data....

Spark make doing MR easy. I've used other frameworks on hadoop MR, but nothing compares with the ease with which you can express computations using it. And it does both batch and real-time/streaming. It is a very well thought-out project.
This seems to work really well in high-volume areas, particularly those with a lot of commercial activity, or for connector buses going from other public transit to office parks, etc.

The problem is the homeless; I tend to avoid most Muni buses for reasons including the population of homeless/crazy who seem to live on them already. If you could figure out a way to avoid becoming mobile homeless shelters, I'd be happy to increase vehicle registration or (property?) taxes to pay for free mass transit in some areas.
I read his blog post and wondered why he didn't just OAuth in. You're absolutely right. I just assumed he was on a Gmail account.
I'm waiting for next week's article about how the 9/11 attacks were really caused by the U.S. government due to a shadowy Zionist conspiracy. Unless I get disappeared first, that is.
It should be noted for anybody interested in reading up on the subject that psychometrics is a sub-field of quantitative psychology.
I hate to say it but, with 'Mega' in the title, I figured this was another Kim Dotcom offering. Not that it's a bad thing but that's instantly where my mind went.
This is great, I've been on the fence about firing up a VPS or two rather than use Heroku, this may be just what I need to get going.