skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been pondering this for some time - sousveillance is arguably better than surveillance, in that it potentially allows people to shine a light on many more troubling situations - and keep evidence - and to some extent it reduces the 'surveillance disparity' between police/law enforcement and everyday citizens. That said, there are a lot of caveats with the road we're on just now.

One of these is that Google is driving this forward as a single player, and - have no doubt - that's where they want to be. If we place all of our sousveillance content with one organization, then we place a lot of trust in that organization to keep it safe, not censor it against our wishes, and so forth.

I trust Google a lot more than many, many other companies, but ultimately it is still possible for it to be strong-armed and pressured into doing things behind the scenes which may or may not be to everyone's benefit - or more typically, are to a specific cause's benefit, or for pure business reasons.

For a truly open, transparent future we'd need some kind of distributed, reliable shared fabric into which sousveillance content could be stored - and also potentially analyzed if we want to make use of the additional benefits of image/video/audio recognition, tagging etc.

And that's when the challenges of bandwidth, latency, availability of technical expertise, infrastructure cost, etc all come into play, so I think at least in the near term we are still looking at placing our trust in one of a few providers.

PS: Also I'd add that sousveillance isn't a magical fix-all; if you have a recording of someone taking a swing at you with a weapon, that isn't evidence that you weren't spending the previous few hours tormenting them - there will be situations of selective editing and misrepresentation, just as there are in other forms of media.
I'd be interested in knowing about people doing that too :) I am bit tired of Google these days...
It would have the potential to be valuable in the future, if nefarious acts came to light via some other method, because it would potentially show that possibly illegal actions were taken to hide the information. However, if nothing actionable is ever discovered about this case, then the redacted documents would be completely worthless. Only time will tell.
Memcache?
This is already possible with phone cams. Apps like QIK and Livestream, even the ACLU has their own. May or may not be possible with the severely underpowered system that's in the dev edition of glass, but that'll only be refined over time :)
It'd be quite easy for Google to lock these down. For example, don't allow a new account to be used on the device until the previous account has been deactivated by the owner. If you don't have the owner's password, it's worthless.

In short: make a proper anti-theft system and publicize it loudly. Word will get around, and there will be few thefts.
Exactly.

Been there, done that, got a billion t-shirts and switched away from Linux to get away from this.
I'm curious—does it still look like absolute shit if you rotate the screen?
>> ("an attractive young woman"), it comes across as misogynistic

No, it doesn't.

I think you should invest in a good dictionary. You're walking on very, very thin ice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
This is a cool implementation, but the idea is not new. In fact, the majority of front-end JavaScript libraries right now are more or less aiming to do the same thing in their own way: AngularJS, Meteor, Ember, KnockoutJS, Bacon ... even d3js. The list goes on. These are all attempts at implementing reactive programming in the web, but they have different data and data binding models, and they may have different front-end goals (e.g., Ember tries to keep a 1-1 correspondence between document state and URLs).

There's also Elm, which implements a variant of reactive programming known as FRP.
Why You Have To Empty Your Mac's Trash For Things You Delete From Your SD Card
Indeed, and if it's about saving on duplicating libraries, that's less important to me than saving on installation time. I don't care if it loads up 20 megs of duplicated libraries because you had to hard-link them in. I have loads of RAM, very little time to set things up.
Microsoft's Products Need More Horsepower
I think there are many reasons, some more rational than others.

1 - everyone is long housing, and sfbay has had major price swings. Buying a house caps what you'll pay. I lived in a neighborhood in sf where market rents for my apartment went from $2200 to at least $2700/mo in a little over a year and a half.

2 - the US, via mortgage interest deduction, privileges home ownership

3 - california in particular privileges home ownership by basically freezing property taxes

4 - rental stock in california is often complete shit. If you don't want to hear your neighbors walking or running the bathroom fan or etc... you probably need to buy a home.

5 - good luck finding a 3 bedroom rental, which is highly desirable if you have 2 kids

6 - if you have good credit, a $1mm house in the peninsula costs roughly (within $700/mo) what rent does on a similar apartment

7 - want to have a dog? Good luck with that in a rental.

8 - want to not have to ask permission for X, Y, or Z while paying $3500+/mo? Don't live in a rental.
Or you can use google. When the referral is google sites can't have a paywall on the first page.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fthecable.fo...
Maybe Twitter would indeed be better off using a smaller number of more beefy servers. But at the software level, I wonder if the architecture would be very different.

Suppose you implemented something like Twitter as a single large application, running in a single process. Maybe run the RDBMS in its own process. The app server stores a lot of stuff in its own in-process memory, instead of using Redis or the like. Now, what happens when you have to deploy a new version of the code? If I'm not mistaken, the app would immediately lose everything it had stored in memory for super-fast access. Whereas if you use Redis, all that data is still in RAM, where it can be accessed just as fast as before the app was restarted.
All in all, if the installation procedure is the main complaint, I'm happy (not really, but you get the point) because that means that actually _using_ the plugin is a good experience (I hope). The installation you go through once and forget about; you use the plugin every day.

Except, I don't. I haven't installed it because I have a feeling this will be way more hassle than it looks (a feeling validated by several comments in this thread) and I don't have the time to do that kind of stuff.
I like $('#TB_window, #TB_overlay').hide() better :P
I wonder if it would be legal for them to throw on a few extra all-black pages as "padding".

Not worth it obviously, but it would be an amusing hack.
If you didn't mix your acidity into the content, this issue would never have come up. Hopefully this can be some kind of teachable moment for you and others who feel that extreme bluntness or rudeness have no effect on the bandwidth of a conversation. In fact, they are noise, and if you've read anything about signals processing, you know what effect this has.
A bitvector: []bool

Most of the time, you would use map[key]value rather than your own hash table or BST.

If you need an implicit linked list, there is one in the standard library: http://golang.org/pkg/container/list/
What's interesting to me is that the CBS reporter who has done much of the reporting in question on the State Department (Sharyl Attkisson) recently had her computers hacked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5885212
When two of your 2,000 servers die, your load balancers etc kick in and route around the problem.

When two of your two servers die, you ... um, well, you lose money and reputation. Quickly.
I left Javascript disabled and didn't notice anything.
Alameda is a nice, quiet place with a ferry to SF (and the Lucky JuJu pinball joint aka Pacific Pinball Museum). I looked for houses there, but my friends are concerned that Alameda's low, flat land area will be flooded in ~50 years by sea level rise from global warming.. :\
As far as i know the glasses are just one part, and there's a fairly bulky computer you'll have to have in your pocket, connected via bluetooth or similar.
Tideland Common Go Library
Lol, sorry, did you just call willow glen affordable?
Maybe visualize, but understand? Doubtful. I don't think the computational overhead justifies a complex subsystem instead of just something like "x = cos(theta)" without some fancy rotating control.
You had better be joking.
There's no LCD subpixel smoothing in iOS, so it shouldn't make a difference.
One word: bubble. This mobile/cloud/social dream will end soon.
The last time a young lady asked me what I did for a living I did the Old Spice guy impersonation and mentioned I was getting flown abroad to do it for an audience. She married me, so I now have the luxury of not caring anymore what people think of my answers, but they're generally some flavor of "I run a company which does X", where X is one thing I think they'll find interesting. Possible Xes include "helped teach Y00,000 kids to read last year", "gets patients in to see their doctors", or "makes shedloads of money for software companies like Y" if they look like they swing that way.

You'll note the pointed absence of "I am a poor peon working in the Ruby on Rails salt mines." (And heck, even when I was a Japanese salaryman, I got better results with "I am in charge of administration of X university's admissions exam" rather than "I write unit tests and XML files, please tune out of this conversation.")
For dilution information, smartasset has a decent calculator that lets you play with it.
https://www.smartasset.com/infographic/startup
Ask HN: Simplest way to sell and deliver a written research assessment?
I'm looking to:<p>- Allow a buyer to select the type of instrument and quantity (shopping cart)
- Present a license agreement for them to agree to
- Accept payment
- Auto-ship the instrument by email or possibly let them download if that's better<p>I recognize that eCommerce is a thorny bush that can get very complicated and require a lot of work and some expertise to set up. I'm wondering if there's a relatively simple service provider or set of providers that makes this possible for someone with limited resources and limited technical ability.<p>Thanks!
Lots of good links in there. Thanks!
I've really enjoyed using stumpwm: not only is it a tiling WM like ratpoison (in fact, stump's a successor to ratpoison, written by the same guy) or xmonad, but it also means that I always have a full Common Lisp running, which I can connect to in emacs via SLIME.

It's not quite as good as a Lisp Machine, but it's better than nothing.
it's a beautiful letter K. will they add it to Unicode?
Show HN: Share and discuss the stuff that matters to you in life
Peep: cryptographically guaranteed repeatable "pip install"
I've wondered this for a while, and a web search was not forthcoming, so I'll ask here:

How do you properly redact a physical paper document? I would imagine that black sharpie doesn't cut it.
It's a wrapper around LXC (and a couple other things) to make it usable for mere humans. With LXC there's still too much low-level fiddling work to do. Docker provides everything you need to create and use containers easily and quickly. It downloads images for you. It creates bind mounts for you. It sets up networking in the container for you. It sets up certain IP forwarding rules for you. Etcetera.
There's no such thing as 'mere options'. Options are the right to purchase shares as a certain price. The price is typically set at the current FMV of the shares to avoid any tax implications. Vesting schedules may apply. Make an 83(b) election.

Stock grants are possible, but you would owe regular income tax on the FMV regardless of whether the shares are actually liquid, or will most likely end up worthless.

Your shares (or options) dilute exactly as you would expect. The company can issue as many new shares as their Bylaws allow and their stockholders vote for, and your percentage goes down. More importantly, inquire about participation preferences of preferred shares, which will have a liquidation preference; you do not want participating preferred, only participation on a as-converted basis (these are the investors shares, not yours). That means in a sale investors either get their share of a liquidation preference, or the share price, but not both.
Ask HN: How to stay completely free from prying eyes? Like NSA, etc
If they monitor traffic at the ISP level and have backdoors to all major modes of communication, can anybody give a step-by-step, full on survival guide to staying clear? VPNs? Encryption? I want 100%, or as close to it as possible.
Looking at history it would seem that when law disappears from view, people disappearing isn't far behind.
I feel like I need to keep pointing this out because it keeps getting used in discussions, but the consumer edition of Glass is not going to be $1500.
I haven't worked for a start-up, but from hanging out on HN for a few years I can tell you that equity not necessarily common, but not really rare either.

One thing to keep in mind, is that most start-ups fail, and most successful start-ups don't turn the early employees into millionaires. I've often heard the advice that you should just look at any equity/options offered as a bonus, and negotiate for a fair wage. At the very least you should go in understanding that you are potentially giving up income for equity that may or may not ever be worth a lot of money.
Rockridge and Piedmont have crime, too. I live in Rockridge and follow the crime watch mailing lists. People get mugged in broad daylight at the BART station and just a couple years ago was a rash of restaurant "take-over" robberies. Crime follows the money.
Self host. Exim for SMTP, Dovecot for IMAP. I use a number of clients depending on circumstances, Evolution, Thunderbird, K-9 Mail and Mutt.
You should double-check that.
Black sharpie then photocopy?

Edit: actually, just put a black filter over the sensitive parts while photocopying. That way you don't damage the original and you can send the photocopy over.
actually, arguing that fraud filters must be private is interesting. Would you make the same argument about keeping encryption algorithms private? :) The two concepts are similar but not exactly the same. Unlike encryption algorithms, a fraud filter is not bullet proof. It is just an alert mechanism. So, yeah, it probably needs to be kept secret.
Highly qualified engineer working for the government on a highly sophisticated data-mining system ? Please don't be so naive or at least make a better attempt at finding an excuse.
That's not because of the attention to identity, though, it's because there aren't that many people there.
Look to the south bay - Campbell, West SJ, etc are far better commutes to MV than the city (though Google does have the bus lines from SF).
Potentially. I've been thinking recently about what keeps my company on Google Apps (roughly a dozen people) despite the appallingly bad customer support and several major nagging and unresolved bugs.

The single biggest factors are gmail filters and priority inbox. I get an extraordinary amount of ham, and rely on both of these to give me a fighting chance of keeping up. I'm confident I could probably find a replacement for filters, but am much less confident re priority inbox. If a standalone solution offered robust equivalents for both, I would seriously consider migrating, and would probably be willing to pay a 50% premium over what we currently pay Google.

One shop's opinion, FWIW.
It would be nice if we could try before we buy (globally). Also, $0.15 per lookup is really expensive.

Address verification is a pain; if I could get someone else to do that for me that would be nice.
Dude, relax. I am talking about the discussion, not the actual product itself.

>a discussion thread is made so that people can state whatever opinion they want to state.

Since when did stating opinion become bashing the developer/creator? If you have a problem, you should probably not get involved in the discussion in the first place.

>We all are bitching,the issue with you is you dont understand you are actually bitching.

Haha, you have absolutely no clue to what I am talking about here. That's alright.
Yes, in the form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_Stock_Unit

Signing up for a straight RSU/stock deal is rarely advantageous for a private company employee - stock grants are issued (and taxed) at vesting time, while ISOs are taxed at exercise time.

You control the latter, but not the former, and the risks of getting stuck with not very liquid private stock and pending tax bill with stock grants outweigh the benefits of not having to pay income taxes on their appreciated value. Generally the only companies even offering stock/RSU grants are those with either high liquidity in private markets or with public offering in pending mode.

Employee equity is diluted with each new financing event, as typically new stock is issued to support the round. Sometimes investors would insist on preferred stock with liquidation preferences, which doesn't necessarily dilute the employees, but creates interesting situations if the company is to be sold.
possibly oblique but not tangent: how is the email-as-todolist thing going? streak seems to be the closest to that but comments-with-state sounds closer... and how does this fit into your periodic table?
The Gospel According to John/You’re Not Sleeping
> Is it the case that everywhere people are yearning for more taxi service, or to own their own vehicles?

Everywhere? You can't make generalizations like that, because there isn't a global trend. In developing countries, demand for car ownership is up, because of increasing affluence and the poor state of infrastructure in those countries. In developed countries, demand for car ownership is down, because of halting suburbanization, increasing awareness of expenses and externalities of car ownership, and availability of comparable alternatives. This is most apparent in Europe, but the long-term trend is downward in North America as well.

As for your analogies, they do not seem very apt. A major benefit to cell phone ownership is the ability to be contacted by or to contact people at any time, which a payphone does not provide. A major benefit to washing machine ownership is the ability to do laundry without schlepping your heavy clothes three blocks to the laundromat. The major benefit to car ownership—point to point transportation, on demand—would be provided by a competent robotaxi service. It won't kill car ownership, but for a significant number of people, robotaxis would provide everything they need out of a transportation, at a fraction of the cost.

Contrary to what you've been stating, there is precedent for replacing goods with services. Quite recent precedent, in fact. How many people do you know who subscribe to a service like Netflix? Of those people, do you think their consumption of DVDs (and, prior to that, VHS tapes) went up or down once they got Netflix? What about music: How many people are buying physical CDs these days, do you think, compared to in 2000? Sometimes a centralized service is superior, sometimes it isn't. The market will decide.

Between car ownership and robotaxis, I know which one I'd choose. There are a lot of people in this thread who agree with me. I think your "I don't know, everyone?" is entirely unjustified and I think you're vastly underestimating the frustration and expense involved in car ownership for a large number of people.
With a razor blade and a photocopier.
Nothing wrong with South SJ...
You can. Email me...leore@lob.com and ill give you some credits. Happy to talk about pricing too.
For this reason I have a drawer full of hard drives, its just so much easier.
"First you need to know that your beliefs and the beliefs of your wife are the reason that jobs that actually pay well will never come to Georgia."

How do you claim know what we believe??? Our experience does not mean we believe, or endorse the current status quo of the situation on the ground. But it really is the situation here. A lot of black youth in single parent welfare section 8 households with little hope for the future. From seeing it first hand, I don't believe basic income via the government is the answer.
Ground Robots Communicate with AR Drone via LED
The first list is missing one bullet (at the bottom):

* Possibly get arrested
Here the discussion on reddit.com/r/haskell:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1htqi2/announce_has...

That's the place where most intensive discussion on this kind of news usually takes place... (which holds true for this piece of news too)

edit: The reddit discussion contains an well written overview of differences between haste, ghcjs and fay (the 3 main haskell-to-js projects).
Looks like it's not two different fonts, just that Neue Haas isn't recognized as a font name by OSX, so it falls back to the default font - a serif, in this case.
It piggy-backs off of your phone's data connection or wifi - there's no cell radio on it. Unless you're around open hotspots all the time, having a smartphone phone is going to be required.

I'd hardly call modern smartphones "bulky" though..
On the contrary, the article highlights the firms guess that it was an Obama or Hilary supporter, not the state department.
How did the laws get so complicated? Common sense would dictate that the best way to handle equity is to have people given equity retain the percentage in the company (that they were promised) and just multiply their shares to reflect any new shares that are issued. To a layman like myself it just seems like all of these additional ways to manipulate the stocks were created for the sole purpose of fucking people out of money. Am I right, or is there actually a reason for doing things like this?
Idea: A mind map for the 'Idea folks'
Renting has also become unbearable, unless you are ready to shack up with roommates to bear the $3-4K monthly rent.
Tor. I turned my raspberry pi into a Tor proxy to hide all traffic.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/06/18/onion-pi-pack-wsmall...
You also have to mess with the contrast levels or set it to "black and white" instead of grayscale. The default grayscale settings on photocopiers tend to leave the copies still somewhat legible (I probably wasn't using the "proper" sort of marker, one of those heavy duty aluminum-can permanent ones.)
lol, I was expecting a download elsewhere