skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be possible to do something like that for "normal" cars too, using the ODB2 interface (that, by law, car makers have to include since years).

Use an ODB2 Bluetooth adapter to read the car data onto a cellphone (Obviously you won't get as much stuff as the Tesla offer, but at least you should be able to get the current speed/gas left), then send this data from your phone to the Glass.

I'm not sure if the phone can send data directly to the Glass, otherwise you would probably have to send this data to a server, and then retrieve it using the Mirror API. Slower and dumber, but it should work.

Anyway, very cool project. I wish I had Glass and a Tesla to try it out.
It is a good career move, the salaries tend to be about 50% more than the those for great programmers. However, be prepared to spend at least ten years getting to the point where you are as comfortable as you are now. There's a whole lot to learn.
The US government may or may not start a congressional investigation into these programs. PRISM may or may not be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. But even if both things happen, the US will do everything they can to get Snowden, convict him, and put him in jail for the rest of his life.
To be fair, a lot of his complaints about Medium don't copy over to Svbtle, even if they seem very similar to readers. The page has Google Analytics running, and links only to writing by the same author.

It'll be interesting to see which platform does better. They've both got the beautiful reading pages, so it'll come down to who can get the writers.
Show HN: Turn Dropbox in a CMS
The majority of CMS's are overkill for a simple 10 page website. Deploying with Cloud Cannon takes a few steps.

* Drag static website files into Dropbox to deploy

* Add class of "editable" to any div in the HTML to setup CMS

* Simple content editor for your clients with no branding and requires no registration

* All websites are automatically compressed periodically (CSS & Javascript minified, all assets served from CDN).

Static websites are becoming super powerful with 3rd party applications such as Firebase, Disqus and Wufoo. We want to be a big part of this static website ecosystem.

All feedback is welcome.

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Yes, holding, which takes a hand (or two) off the wheel. Wearing Glass does no such thing.
This phone predates the Google purchase by 2 months. It was released in June, Google purchased Motorola Mobility in August.
Decrypt to Any Message
"Without any judicial order,"
The federal arrest warrant gives the State Department the ability to revoke passports it isn't 'unilateral' nor can the
'administration' revoke a passport for any reason.
What version of CUDA are you talking about. I though the latest version supported indirect function pointers (finally).
What I'm saying is that the head is an element in the set of parts called the body. The head is a body part. It isn't separate from the body, it is intertwined with it. Identity isn't totally centered in the brain (at least from what we can tell so far).
I visit sometimes, mainly on /g/.

For a computer enthusiast, a lot of /g/ is terrible. Going there with no knowledge as to why people would tell you to "install gentoo" or that "nvidia causes housefires" or that "ATI/AMD has no drivers" will confuse you very quickly. Everything on 4chan should be taken with a grain of salt, much like everything really.

However, once you are cluey enough to disregard the silly-ness of some people, you'll find some good resources. I found the logical increments PC Buying guide there a while ago and now that is the first point of call for when I'm helping a friend build a PC. Obviously I use it only as a guide and do more research myself, but its good to see such a high quality guide someone has created to help build a custom PC for an enthusiast. The Falcon, if you are also a hacker news reader, thanks for making such an awesome guide.

The anonymity of 4chan is both a blessing and a curse, Everyone is on the same level, with the same credibility until they open their mouth. If you want to put your words to a name you can (with a tripcode) but be prepared for the backlash of not being anonymous. All you have to go by is what a message says.
Those silly Georgians who decided to have a little genocide in South Osetia, they are so represed by scumbag Russia.
Doesn't any attempt to capture an international fugitive necessarily infringe that person's right to seek asylum?
> Bitcoin is bitcoin. Unless you want to say that you are starting an ETF that represents a diverse amount of exchanges and in so doing lowers spread risk, then there is really no technical reason for this ETF being founded.

There is _tremendous_ non-market risk in ALL of buying, holding, and selling bitcoin right now.

We're talking about the kind of risk that makes price speculating in a one-of-a-kind virtual internet cryptocurrency look like t-bills by comparison. It vastly outweighs the volatility inherent in the asset.

Your money can be seized by feds on the way to the exchange. The exchange could shut down or get DDoSed. The coins could get stolen out of the exchange before you pull them out.

Ok, dodged all that. Now you've got bitcoins. Your computer could get compromised, rendering your encrypted USB keyfiles or QR printouts unhelpful. Your keys could end up on the security footage of the bank's safety deposit vault camera. Your computer could get backdoored in the months of holding, waiting for the day you load your keys back in to send the coins back to the exchange.

Selling time. You manage to keep your keys private and sign a transaction, sending your bitcoins to the exchange. Maybe they get hacked, maybe they shut down, maybe they don't presently have a partner bank in the US to send transfers out...

There is growing demand for secure and convenient access to the bitcoin market's growth. Right now it's terrible and insecure and fragmented and illiquid and risky, and that's not changing anytime soon - but it will, eventually. It must.

I don't think this ETF is that, though.
Well, I received lots of good information here. I appreciate everyone's opinions on this matter. I have been busy bookmarking the sites people here pointed me toward, and copying email addresses. Also just to clarify, I am not necessarily looking to be a "web developer" I figured it was a place to start with HTML/CSS on into Python, Ruby, jQuery etc. I figured it wouldn't hurt. But with your help and links like learncodethehardway.org, I have some good places to go and dig in.

Thanks again.

No Halo tonight...
You seem awfully sure about this. Being a US citizen myself I would certainly hope you're correct, but given the excesses that the government has already hidden or excused with "but... terrorists!!! fear!!!" I think there is an outside chance that he has legitimate cause for concern.
Selling a subscription service for something like this would be a great strategy for the USPS, but it's a giant bureaucracy employing 8 million people. Change happens slowly.
It has influenced the creation of laws much like many other documents that lay out rights have. It itself does not carry legal force, though there are laws that implement ideas laid out by it that do.
If you're interested in getting up and running with a full development environment, I created a minimal LAMP stack utilizing the deliciousness of Vagrant and Chef. It's available on GitHub https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack

There has been a lot of discussions about which provisioner to use, but at the end of the day they all achieve the same goal. I would personally just use one that you feel comfortable with, in the sense of configuration system and structure.
>Google doesn't have a monopoly on quality data when it comes to search.

LOL

>lol it's funny how upset you are about all these.

Nah, I'm laughing at how clueless and misinformed you are on basically everything in the thread so far.

"U mad" is the standard response for trolls that can't help themselves. I don't even see how what I wrote is construed as "mad".

Here, tell me more about how Apple can just screen scrape Google. I want to laugh some more.

>Another wannabe-knee-jerk-lets-copy-Apple product from Google. Why am I not surprised.

Wow. Just read through your comments, I shouldn't even be typing out these letters. You're obviously a little shit troll. Accusing a company of copying a product that hasn't even been leaked or announced or hinted at by the company. What a fucking poor persecution complex you've got.

A sad little troll that pines for Apple, laments that geeks can't get girlfriends and runs circular logic about "big government"; just shoot me.
Of course he broke the law. So did Tank Man.
I accuse you of being a pedo!

Please report yourself to the authorities. For the next 5 years I would like you to reflect on the logical flaw of the argument.
Accused rapist != rapist
> "If you don't like it, leave"
>
> I didn't just leave Google.
>
> I quit.

Congrats on the decision, it is hard to make the jump, even when in a state of comfortable dissatisfaction. But the content of the post does nothing to illustrate (to anyone who's not the OP) the difference between "leave" and "quit".
Fighter pilots fly with HUDs and helmet mounted displays quite safely. The reason why texting is so dangerous is because its a heads-down activity.
I was actually just about to ask... how do we know Snowden had anything to do with this statement at all? It's not as if he's likely to publically challenge Wikileaks if they decide to make a sockpuppet out of him for their own ends.
Would you like to see all accused rapists in prison?
Where did you get from "self-driving" to "safe, clean, efficient and fast"?

Cars, unless we go with the monorail-pod-car concept, will always have particulate pollution due to tires (even EVs like the Tesla). Furthermore, all the self-driving cars right now are also gas-powered (hybrid, IIRC). It's not clear how the intersection of mass-market self-driving cars and human drivers will result, safety-wise, leaving alone pedestrians. I won't contest the "fast" claim you put out there, but given safety concerns, it's likely not going to be much faster than non-automated car results.

Public transport is a poor solution, but it's simply the safest, most efficient that exists unless you're simply unconcerned with reality or don't care about scale. When Musk shows up with a working pod-car concept (he's hinted at it), then I'm on board. Until then, I'm a champion of least suck transport model that exists.
If the ETF grows in size and its net asset value must assume a large fraction of the outstanding bitcoin stash or towers over the daily trade volume, we could have some issues here...
Putting the under/over on people not knowing who this is and making silly comments at 14.5.
>> If Snowden really felt beforehand that the civilian justice system was so completely inequitable it seems weird that he'd have been so insistent on its involvement elsewhere.

The 'justice' system fulfils what power requires from it. It will be as inequitable with a trial as it has been with this whole fiasco.
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There is a subreddit devoted to beating women. What is your definition of PC?
Right - I'm off to write my "email stored steganographically in cat videos" service...
That's a fair point, but how can we verify that Snowden actually endorsed this statement or not? How does Wikileaks have access to him while no other media outlets do?
There you go, let's all get caught up in the endless distractions.

Maybe Snowden's words were run past an editor (as are most journalist's words) of British public-school extraction, who applied reflexively what he'd been taught?

This kind of over-parsing is typical of the kind of intensive derailing of Snowden's message that's been going on. ANYTHING to distract us from the Naked Exercise of Unlimited Power of Questionable Legality that's been uncovered.
Saying "we don't care who the 10 people are" is a world of difference from "there are no restrictions on the 10 people you can share with." It is not implementation details that are defined in a contract. It is not information.

And again, Spencer was talking about "lending in a digital ecosystem." The thing Microsoft did not have concrete plans for. Yes, he mentioned they have a plan for gifting games, they have a plan for reselling games, but he contrasted this with the difficulty of, and their lack of plan for lending games.

Yeah I guess it's moot now, but at this point I always interpret a lack of specifics when talking about a product as marketing speak. We have fact sheets, we have plenty of discreet, unambiguous information of other features; when somebody goes out of the way to hype up a feature of a product while painstakingly avoiding concrete, verifiable information about said feature, and verifiable information about said feature doesn't appear in the previously mentioned fact sheets, I assume the feature doesn't actually exist yet. Especially when an executive goes on to literally say the feature doesn't exist.
The wiki explicitly says (under “Is that the final word?”):

> No. The Pidgin developers are generally open to, and would encourage integration with keyrings (KeyringSupport).

and then goes on to state that this is difficult to do, since Pidgin runs on so many different platforms, then stating again that they will happily accept such patches.

However, I find it understandable, that the devs don’t go out of their way to support use-cases they don’t feel necessary to support. On their systems, they trust the filesystem and are happy with that, if others don’t have that level of trust in their computer, that’s fine, but not necessarily their problem.

My point about the logfiles was that to store these in the keyring (rather than a key to the encrypted files) would probably annoy the keyring somewhat (at least the poorer implementations thereof), given that it is intended for use with few-byte passwords and not multi-megabyte logfiles.
Thank you, reading these comments and the OP makes me cringe with the sexism. I'd like some fundamental science proving possessing a Y chromosome and the male hormone tract in utero makes you behave so radically different socially at such an immature age.

My experiences with children in general (note, I'm in no way professional here) is that the domestication of girls is tremendously cultural from birth and up in how radically different people will treat a female child from a male one, even if they are physically indistinguishable (except the inherent physical differences) until they are 8 or older.

As a male who didn't have trouble in school and realized early on that just faking obedience and getting the grades would best enable me for long term success and didn't have some innate testosterone powered need to beat things up or break stuff I did not see some fundamental split between having a second X or a Y chromosome and your behavioral profile. People are different. There are boys and girls that will want to investigate and explore, just like there are boys and girls that like to memorize and convey information formulaically. Different people are different. Factory compulsory public education in prison like settings suits a very limited personality profile.
How does this work - is it rendered server side or client side? Very cool! Reminds me of the 2d historgrams and contour maps you can generate with R.
While it's not exactly evidence that they haven't fabricated this statement, I think the damage that would do to the organization and its reputation, were it to come out, is a pretty compelling reason to think it's not a fake.

The risk-adjusted return on making a fake Snowden statement just doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

YMMV.
Exactly my thought when I read that. I figured if I was them, I'd be saying, "Well, at least I've already got the yachts and vacation homes."
Did they ever write any essays or letters on why they didn't make voting compulsory? Was it a feeling that such compulsion impinged on freedoms, or that it wouldn't help fix the problem of apathy? Or did they just think it would be absurd if people voluntarily turned down their chance to pick their representation in government?
"better known as aaronsw's brother"
A bully's actions are detrimental to his own self as well as others and to awaken a bully has no implicit cause to harm the bully. On the contrary, it is motivated by love.

Under the guidance of those who are in power currently, the US will be run into the ground. Do you know why that will be the result? It's because of falsehood that our society is being ruined. It will never happen that revealing the truth will ruin a society.

So our efforts to reveal the facts of what is happening in reality are not to the detriment of the country - it is to save it from destruction.

That's why I demand evidence of your words.

How has the US been hurt by this? You said it is fact, so please show us something we can confirm.
> This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes

Anyway, it really doesn't make sense to talk about asylum in relation to the country being fled. The declaration is a statement of what the destination state should do when it recognizes a case of persecution. 'Persecution' is inherently a subjective concept.
Could also have something to do with Mt. Gox registering with the US Treasury Dept as a money services business.

http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-registers-with-fincen-as-a-mo...
To reply to myself, it looks like it's rendered client side - the json just returns a bunch of points and the heatmap must be canvas.

See the json here: http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/wordmap/2/words/sf/dim-sum.j...
Barack Obama seeks to limit EU fallout over US spying claims
Are you aware that neither victim alleges rape?
A quick google search confirms that yes, Polanski could be said to have been in "exile" in France, according to numerous news organizations. Great example.
While I (as an American) resent the implication, it is unfortunately very true.

I hear arguments daily on the subject of the new Xbox and M$'s latest privacy invasion, but most everyone has no clue who Ed Snowden is or what NSA/PRISM are all about.
If anybody's buying, I'd consider selling out my fellow man for $490K (with suitable benefits). ;-)
Online tracking explained with puppets [video]
Well done Sina. Glad someone is piping up about this stuff.
I used to think this, but the truth is more complex. Facebook makes it easy for a lot of people to manage very large number of friends. If you're not using Facebook but most people around you are using it, even though your close friends would probably care enough about you to communicate with you through some other means, you will probably be missing out on a large number of distant acquaintances.

The usual counter-argument to this is that it isn't worth it to care about such relationships anyway, and that you should only be concerned about close friends. It is true that close friends are important, but it might not be true that the optimal strategy is to care only about them. It may be useful to keeping distant connections with old friends in case you ever run into them again, or to have a large distant social circle with diverse backgrounds and physical locations to get more diverse recommendations, opinions, help, etc. More dramatically, say you arrive in a new city where you don't know anyone and no one knows you, but most people use Facebook: if you insist that people that don't initially know you should use your favorite communication medium rather than Facebook to interact with you online, it might be harder to get things started.

This isn't to say that you should use Facebook: I never used it and discourage people from using it. This is to argue that you should be conscious that not using Facebook may come at a personal disadvantage. I personally still think that it is more important to stick to my principles and make an insignificant effort to improve things by not being on Facebook, but I can understand that other people might think differently (though I disapprove their choice).
Sure. But let's call a spade a spade.

He broke the law, and fled to avoid justice. All quite reasonable, from his perspective.

But why is he trying to claim something different? He claims the U.S. pursuit of him is somehow extralegal or some kind of perversion of justice. It's neither.

Snowden decided that the need of the public to know about PRISM was more important than the loss of national security value that would come from revealing the details about it. While that's his decision to make, it's not weird that there are laws in place to protect national security. His father acknowledges that. Hell, even Putin acknowledges that; why can't Snowden now? If you're going to go on the lam then hey, I see why.... but don't act like the government did anything weird in that regard.
I have no problem saying I have no idea who this is. But I have no silly comment.
I took the references to the "notebook and disks" in the critical section of that interview to be implication of physical disc trading/lending but I understand what you're saying.

Still. I mean, this is what they published to the world as their official feature list: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s-KgYAn... before they published the update in response to the butthurt backlash.

"Give your family access to your entire games library anytime, anywhere: Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family can log in and play from your shared games library on any Xbox One. Just like today, a family member can play your copy of Forza Motorsport at a friend’s house. Only now, they will see not just Forza, but all of your shared games. You can always play your games, and any one of your family members can be playing from your shared library at a given time."
Right. So who is it?
Then there was never a reason to involve the 'justice' system in surveillance measures at all, was there?
I guess I'm special: most of my engagements drop me on-site without real connectivity (even 3g is often poor).

But yeah, I see your point. As a company, we're a bit behind on the whole AWS thing, mostly because of fear of ungodly bills at the end of the month. Funnily enough, I'm the only one here trying to actually use it.
I have no idea how Yelp has implemented this but I've done Heatmaps before.

Basic process I built relied on caching map tiles.

Pre-compute your raw data by lat/long. Build that into map tiles you overlay on the map by determining map area and converting lat/long to pixels on the tile. Load new tiles as the map is panned. Do it quickly if you want users to be happy. Cache everything.
That makes no sense. 'Asylum' is a negotiation between the victim and the destination state. The origin state (USA) isn't a relevant party to the decision-making process. That's the whole point of the concept.
Extraordinary claims... as summarized by some guy's foundation's website.
On one hand, it's good to analogize and metaphorize brain functions with computers. But I think it's also not very wise to bet the whole farm on the whole thing being directly parallel.
> Doesn't any attempt to capture an international fugitive necessarily infringe that person's right to seek asylum?

Yes. This is what's wrong with this line of reasoning.
I don't know who he is, you can add me to the count.

Now, will someone fill me in on the details?
"the whole public BTC order book on MtGox can be had right now for under $2mm USD"

No it cannot. Some people have placed sell orders at $1000, $10k, $100k, etc. To the point it would take trillion and trillion of dollars to buy up all BTC.

But you can be sure that if you tried to do this, a lot of other sell orders would pop up, making it effectively impossible to buy up all bitcoins.
... because everyone is using it. It says nothing about the difference in social utility between the current state of the world and an alternate state of the world in which everyone would be using a federated social network. Facebook is a local optimum from which it will be hard to move away.