skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a done deal: everywhere your car with a license plate goes is and will be tracked, and stored forever.

It's already happening, it is already cheap, and there's no way to stop it short of a massive swell of public support for enacting laws to limit it -- in the USA, that seems very unlikely.

What I think is important to extrapolate from this stuff is that everything we can do with license plate recognition now will soon be doable with facial recognition.

Tracking everywhere your car has been and storing the record forever is one thing. It's very hard to imagine that tracking everywhere your face has been isn't the next step.
I found this video (made in May) of Unity Next running on Mir on a Retina MBP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9AzRxsnfTE

It does look snappy, compared to X11...

EDIT: this one is more recent and taken with screen capture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGcFkJtCJgQ
Next feature ideas would be interesting
| Some will decry FBSD's support for
| suspend/hibernate, but since I never
| use those features it's a non issue for me.

This is how most people use a laptop. While that may be perfectly fine for you, that doesn't work for a lot of people.
Port bitmessage to Android then release it alpha and then wait 2-3 years to see if anything goes wrong. Then release it beta with gigantic warnings.

I hope this isn't another Jabber/OTR implementation because those would be full of metadata the NSA wants in order to identify social networks. Once identified, and if they look interesting enough they want to listen in, they would then go to town on your device, car, or home with surveillance equip to read your screen as you type, or just sneak inside the project's servers using nginx shell exploits or linux/bsd exploits none of us know about yet to inject code into the apk for download which will still pass signature tests. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/512362/proof-of-concep...

Another problem is most devices are carrier built so can't be trusted not to have a new CarrierIQ-like rootkit, and they can just send an OTA update that can basically do whatever it is they want it to do including recording the screen whenever this app get's turned on. Maybe these carriers leave their build keys lying around and the NSA gets a hold of them and sends you their own OTA update. Or maybe their agents volunteer to work on this project and sabotage it like the NIST Special Publication 800-90 that recommended an inferior deterministic random bit generator that researchers assumed were deliberately made standard so a federal skeleton key could determine the random numbers and unlock the encryption.

The best NSA proof cell accessory is thermite to melt your phone so you stop using it to communicate stuff the NSA might want to find out. If you're not a terrorist, Snowden, or Assange then you can use Gibberbot only with a .onion jabber server because of SSL problems, and even then your device is still wide open, and Tor sacrifices traffic analysis timing prevention for usability so technically still vuln to metadata analysis by gigantic spy agencies like the NSA
If you retread my comment, I specifically said I have no respect for the people at the NSA (and USG in general) who have worked to create a global surveillance state.

Your question about the "janitor" is ridiculous. While he's the lowest on the pawn totem, I am specifically talking a out those who know that they have created the systems designed to spy on every man woman and child on the planet.

If you cannot separate these people from those in a janitorial position, then you're clearly attempting to sideline the discussion.
They are planning on releasing the source "later when it's stable and good enough".

Souce: https://twitter.com/brokep/status/354608029242626048

Edit: But they will still control the server. (It's audited by third parties, but... yeah)
On x86, Wayland and Mir both use the same KMS drivers.
Doesn't work on Firefox either. It's just a see-through iPhone at the top.
how do you unit-test a PRNG to ensure the output is uniformly random?

NIST standard test suite @ http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documentation_sof...

How do you ensure you don't have collisions in a hash function?

All hash functions have collisions, by definition, since they represent a unique checksum of a large amount of data in a smaller keyspace. What you are really asking is probably "how do you prove that you have difficult to predict collisions"? I don't know. (I assume that the mechanisms for doing that are based upon statistical analysis of the propagation breadth and speed of various single bit changes in the input stream over varying numbers of rounds?)

How can you ensure that there's no replay attack on your protocol?

A combination of session keys and message sequencing? (eg. Each message must include a hash of the last.)

How can you use unit-testing to demonstrate that there is no hole in your protocol like, say, when the Germans repeated the key twice at the beginning of the message while using Enigma?

There's an entire field of computer science around formal proofs; I don't know enough about it to really comment, however a partial answer may lay in there. Essentially that means adopting a design-time proof strategy in your testing rather than a post-facto unit-testing proof strategy, though.
Oh, the dials would drive me crazy.

The best microwave UI I've used has several functions above the number pad, all of them completely optional. Typing a time on the number pad and pausing made the microwave start -- to rephrase, if you press 4 5 and didn't press anything for 3 seconds, the microwave would begin and operate for 45 seconds. Pressing 1 3 0 and walking away would run it for 1 minute 30 seconds. When it was done it beeped 3 times, then once every 10 minutes, until you open the door or press a button. At the bottom was a Power button which you could press to change the power level at any time, and a Start / +30 sec button which would add 30 seconds to the amount of time on the timer. And if the clock wasn't set, it would just display 00:00 solidly, not blinking.

Maybe this is a mis-remembered mix of the best UI elements from several microwaves, but to me it's ideal.
Online Spaced Repetition software that actually looks and feels good: http://cardflashapp.com (or at least that's the plan)
I don't mean to offend you, nor was it my intention to insinuate that you've been brainwashed, which implies malice, but rather inadvertently indoctrinated, through nobody's fault, to take the "you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it" mantra to it's logical extreme. My personal opinion (take it or leave it) is that if one is unable to pursue an activity without the use of drugs, then likely that is not an appropriate use of one's time. If you really want to get in to a lengthy discussion on my view of how modern society forces us into homogenous units and leads to things like drug use, anorexia, consumerism, etc to make us fit the mould presented for us, please feel free to email me at the address in my profile.
"People haven't lived with someone with actual/bad ADHD if they think drugs don't work."

Or they actually read books. All of the research shows that ADD drugs actually make ability to concentrate worse in the long term, and in the short term they increase the ability to concentrate but not the actual rate of learning. This study has zero new information, this is all stuff we've known for decades.
If OPer or anyone wants to get serious about going into a "websites for vertical" like law firms, let me know.

I have literally millions of qualified contacts that span over several dozen verticals.
Ask HN: ARM micro server colocation in U.S.?
I would like to buy an ARM based micro server that has a cable ethernet port and a 64GB SD slot and colocate it in the U.S.

Can anyone suggest such a machine (not a Raspberry PI please, I would like something with a case), and also if there are any companies that do colocation of micro servers?

thanks
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Thank you. Without exaggeration, I would be homeless without my medication. When people argue against ADHD medication, I take it personally.
"Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules."
I build video processing and streaming systems, currently back at Apple. And while it can present singularly frustrating problems, it's also really cool. I love it.
Simple! Teach yourself to code, and earn 6 figures in an office chair!
Isn't most of the cost in clinical trials in manufacturing the drugs, finding and paying investigators, paying for legal services, recruitment of patients, getting informed consent, etc? Does Comprehend help with that stuff?
If memory serves, it might have been a "Quadro NVS 110M", which is equivalent to the super-old "GeForce Go 7300". It was an old laptop.
' It's not a good idea for everyone, everywhere, all the time.'

Well yeah that would be a bit crazy.
Mandarin.
I like that old adage. I actually had never heard it.

I think BSD's success with i386 has brought the stark pragmatism of the "server" to the PC. The dream of BSDI. The reliability, robustness and the uniformity. Maybe BSD UNIX is not as "fun" as MS and Apple, but it _works_ the best. Relatively minimal bloat. And things can be removed relatively easily. Getting small is not frowned upon or ignored as a worthy objective. "The hero is the negative coder." (credit: Doug McIlroy, one of the original UNIX developers)

Linux OTOH (a horde of wannabe kernel hackers and a gazillion idiosyncratic GNU programs) has brought the chaos of the PC[1] to the idea of "UNIX". There is bloat and endless tweaking around every corner. The vigilance and skill it takes to make your Linux small and simple and actually keep it that way is, IME, quite the burden. The respect for the user also differs. Man pages? I guess the assumption is we'll just read the code when we have a question. But then there's also an expectation we'll use binary packages. Linux just makes my head spin. I'm just not smart enough to use it. I wish I was... because they have better hardware support.

Based on what I've seen, I doubt many a Linux developer would think "The hero is the negative coder." Linux just keeps growing and becoming more complex and unwieldy. And so by comparison, IMO, Linux less embodies the idea of UNIX than BSD.

1. The Windows experience of constantly searching for some non-MS program to do some task that base Windows itself can't even begin to handle... and you end up with an ad hoc mess of programs that barely do what you need, and most of them poorly written by who knows who.
Does Mir's existence have anything to do with Wayland's slow development? I read (source unavailable, sorry) that Canonical grew frustrated with Wayland's crawl and decided to make their own.

Again, not sure if this is the case.
Show HN: FileTurn - Convert files with online API (demo included)
GTK+ has also worked fine on Windows for ages with support for native Windows widgets.
Slowly, Google is transforming into Apple faster than Apple can transform into Google.
I guess I strongly disagree.

Just because diagnostic conditions are not always clear, or overdiagnose, does not make it any less of a disease.

A lot of things mental disorders are based on subjective factors.

Would you disagree that schizophrenia is a disease?

At least 3 of the factors (and you only need two) are highly subjective.

If you wanted to argue that DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria for a lot of things have a tendency to overdiagnose or not be objective enough, I would heartily agree.

That does not make something any less of a disease, it only means our diagnostic criteria suck.

Alzheimers had very broad, subjective, diagnostic criteria once as well, right up until they made various breakthroughs in neuropathology.

Yet you seem willing to class that as a disease?
DARPA's Atlas Robot Unveiled
This product will use unencrypted communications?
Dear HN: please don't become Reddit.
Political debates where there's a right way to think, or the downvotes grey out your post.

Downvotes for factual data that is inconvenient according to what the people who hang out here too much think is "true."

The same debates come up time and again, never resolved.

Are you becoming Reddit, HN?

You need to give more of a voice to the thinkers, and less to the people who are using the internet as a TV substitute and/or ersatz psychological care.
Nokia, Please Stop
Such a wonderful metaphor.
MS has been profitable for almost every quarter. Just being able to maintain the Windows Eco system is a huge source of revenue. The real problem is that his leadership style isn't sexy, which affects our ability as shareholders to speculate on the stock price. MSFT stock has hovered around $25,30 for the last few years, which makes it hard to stomach for my investment scale. I am looking for a jump from $25 to $50.

Just imagine if he made a reckless but well advertized decision! The stock would rise and I would short that so hard they would name a cake after me.
The Perils Of Parallax Design For SEO
"Heml.is would be the first secure mobile messaging system."

Heh... I don't think so!
This is a fine hypothesis but, without data, it's hard to see why it's probable. In the USA, two-thirds of grocery shopping is done by women. There are studies:

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2011/in-u-s-men-are-sh...

...which suggest that men make 38% of retail grocery shopping trips. So, if you're going to envision a representative person who is looking for a grocery item, you should probably start out by envisioning a woman.

It is, unsurprisingly, difficult to find more specific information online for free. Instead, by googling "market analysis salad dressing", I find approximately six market research organizations that offer to sell me a report. Perhaps the OP has bought such a thing, but none of the rest of us are likely to bother.

Of course, what actually matters when trying to convert website visitors is not the demographics of the universe, or of US grocery buyers, or even of US buyers of balsamic vinegar, but the behavior of the people who are actually reaching the website. About whom we really know nothing.
The Typewriter Is Back — to Save Privacy
HN on StoryLine – historic news browser
Google Will Shut Down Alfred, The Local Recommendations App, July 19
Cant' you use open stack as part of a virtual private cloud that includes AWS?
It seems like a false economy to bother with the hassle of setting up your own CA, whose certificates will raise alerts in most browsers, considering that you can get an SSL certificate for $9 from cheapssls.com.
Writing Computer Programs Using Ordinary Language
DefCon Hacker Conference to Feds: 'We Need Some Time Apart'
Yes, looks like it's commonly but wrong attributed to him.

It's more interesting in the context of Lincoln's suspension of Habeus corpus in the Civil War than as an unpopular dissenting opinion in a free speech case, though.
Maybe because true is defined as anything that's not false?
Okay, I apologize for misuse of better. What service would you use to build an alternative of YouTube, but yet have advertising features like Hulu?
> Solar would be able to deliver over 1 _million_ horsepower (unless I'm goofing my math badly here).

It's actually 21.7 kHp. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=776+m+*+%28100+m*Pi%29+...

That's still enough to power the ship, but not with the margins you were suggesting.

(What is 1.4mW? 1.4 milliwatt? mega watt? None of those match 1.8 million HP.)
For anyone looking for a todo + calendar style app, http://weekplan.net is inspired by the 7 habits of Highly Effective People. (I am the developer of the app)
Well, they are partly for helping you choose your employer. Job interviews are 2 sided and I personally take the attitude that any employer who thinks otherwise has failed the interview process and is therefore ineligible for the position of employing me.
Interesting that you would say that. To me Haskell often feels like the most reads-like-English language; e.g. Parsec parsers written in applicative style, or function in pointfree style. Of course that is not true of all Haskell constructs...
Chinese move to gaming in the home, but don’t expect government to approve
The only downside I can think to that is what if you make a typo? "Stop/Clear" I assume?
How did you pick your specialty? I've toyed with the idea of freelancing, but I have no idea what my niche would be. I don't have any professional experience, so I suppose that makes the decision a bit more difficult, but only because it adds so many options.
The auto-playing video on this site is Flash, though ... ?

<object width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="big-video-vid_flash_api" name="big-video-vid_flash_api" class="vjs-tech" data="http://vjs.zencdn.net/3.0/video-js.swf" style="width: 1208px; height: 679.5px;"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><param name="flashvars" value="readyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFReady&amp;eventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFEvent&amp;errorEventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFErrorEvent&amp;autoplay=true&amp;preload=auto&amp;loop=false&amp;muted=false"></object>
Wait, WAT?
Sloppy Sasquatch 13.10!

They will break a lot of compatibility work, specifically in terms of hardware acceleration, meaning that a Linux user with a $500 GeForce 780 will be using software rendering.
Nokia Releases New Imaging SDK, With Yelp, Path, Oggl And Foursquare
This is one of the most succinct explanations of what my life was like before medication and after.

Thank you!
New web-based SVG editor Mondrian gets a text tool
The question of need aside, how will this work with the binary drivers provided by NVidia and AMD?
Create Striped Backgrounds With Gradients (and a Sass Function)
The iOS Dropbox app has an option that automatically copies new pictures from the Camera Roll into your dropbox.

This works with any app that dumps things into the camera roll: screen shots, PhotoSynth, actual camera pictures, ...
Everything You Know About Fitness Is Wrong
This isn't the first time the U.S. has faced a non-state organized group with worldwide ambitions killing innocents as a political tactic, the late 19th century anarchists were identical in all of these respects.
I'm glad you enjoyed. It is written by a LessWrongian, I believe. Also, it doesn't feel quite right to call either of these stories fan-fiction, as the word is usually correlated with mediocrity.

I thought Friendship is Optimal, although quite obviously suboptimal, wasn't that bad of a FOOM. For a much darker take on the subject, check out The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.

Warning: Extreme triggers.

http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/

"Lawrence had ordained that Prime Intellect could not, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. But he had not realized how much harm his super-intelligent creation could perceive, or what kind of action might be necessary to prevent it.

Caroline has been pulled from her deathbed into a brave new immortal Paradise where she can have anything she wants, except the sense that her life has meaning.

Now these two souls are headed for a confrontation which will force them to weigh matters of life and death before a machine that can remake — or destroy — the entire Universe."
Hope everything went well with your surgery and your recovery is speedy. I found HN because Slashdot changed their UI one too many times and programming.reddit didn't offer very high quality discussion.

I work as a software developer, mostly doing web apps (currently in RoR and node). In the past, I worked on simulations of vehicular networks in grad school. I found that far more interesting than web development, but only because of the problem domain and not necessarily because of the work itself. There's very little sense of "pushing the envelope" in most web development, and while the simulations I was writing and running weren't exactly doing that either, I had more sense that I was actually producing something than I get by burning through code to resell flights and hotel bookings.

I enjoy software development, but I feel conflicted about it at times. I used to be a professional landscaper, and I found my life much more intellectually fulfilling then when I compare it to now. There's something to be said for a job which only requires bodily presence but leaves your mind free to do whatever you want, and I really enjoyed that. I did not, however, enjoy working for subsistence level wages under constant threats of being replaced by immigrant labor - noone wants to work in an environment where they're treated as if $7 an hour is an outrageous wage.
Tiff -- a visual typeface diff tool
I had the idea of creating such a tool to help me compare two fonts while learning about typography. I hope it can be helpful to others as well.
"become a better fit"

How? Why?

I might better understand your perspective if you could elaborate on the details.

Why do we have to write resource hogging software _now_ for mobile if the devices are not yet ready to "brute force" their way through it? And if we wrote small, fast software _now_, what would be the downside fo this as devices get more powerful in the future?

Users complaining about lightening fast programs that lack the whiz-bang factor that would have been added if developers had used interpreted languages? I can't imagine it.
Tired of Apple and Google? Meet the dark horse mobile OSes you’ve never heard of
there's no fundamental design flaw in Wayland

Except that window management is tightly coupled to display management.

The Mir developers seem to at least seem to care about software modularity.
Google's statement, "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," doesn't describe any of their plans to achieve that goal either.
Mozilla’s Firefox OS Devices Finally Hit Store Shelves
Never take down a fence unless you understand why it was built.

OTOH

Things often improve when youngsters come in and break things older folks didn't realize weren't working.
I'd been wondering when the explosive kickstarter campaign that leverages the NSA news would appear.

My feelings about projects like these are always complicated. Even though it's encouraging to see that people are excited about building secure communication platforms, my initial reaction to announcements like these is typically extreme dread.

There is a small community of people who have been working on secure mobile messaging for years, and unfortunately newcomers to secure communication generally fuck it up. Not only is that bad for users, but it's bad for those of us who have put years of effort into this, because it sets a tone where users begin to assume that all apps which attempt to provide secure communication must have done it incorrectly, so it's not worth using any of them.

I think there are probably enough apps in this space now (TextSecure, ChatSecure, Gibberbot, Silent Circle) that these folks could have probably just partnered with or contributed to an existing project in order to meet their needs. Despite the article's subtitle, this will be far from "the first secure mobile messaging system."
Ubuntu is infected by the NIH syndrome.
Mir, upstart, Unity, you name it.
Isolated correlation?!
IPhone & iPad App Marketing Checklist
Google Android ‘Master Key’ Exploit Code Exposed
Bitinstant regularly provides a worse price to customers than they could possibly have obtained on any public exchange at any time between receiving payment and sending the coins. Users can apparently recover funds stolen by BitInstant by making noise in public places.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ccjgh/psa_bitinsta...
Sen. Wyden: "Administration is getting concerned about the bulk phone records"
Their bitcoin service to top up phones disappeared pretty quickly too and never came back, also their debit card service never happened. They used 'VouchX' which was run by a shady guy who disappeared after LR went pop so maybe that's why they can't afford staff.