skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fantastic explanation. I did a Physics undergrad and masters, and somehow I never heard this particular metaphor for it, but using a velocity vector through spacetime makes for a very clear image of what's going on. Is that from general relativity? (I only did special relativity)
Two things that would make this work for me, as opposed to my home grown old Linux laptop + webcam setup.

1. Make these devices cost < $100, so getting 2-5 of them makes sense. 720p HD webcams are ~$17 retail. Raspberry Pis are ~$35 retail.

2. Encrypt everything on the device, upload to your hosting solution (but let me use my own location if I want), and then make the client do decryption using my key. No one but the user should be able to decrypt/view anything.

But what I really want is for someone to create a "base station" that handles all the fancy stuff with little wireless(/encrypted) webcams that are (optionally) battery powered and tiny so you can stick them everywhere. To save power they could have a motion detection sensor and only start transmitting video wirelessly when there's motion.

$120 for the base station + $40/wireless "agent" cams would sell like hotcakes.
The discussion on the forum is interesting, especially this post:

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/18229...

(However, it's incorrect regarding patents, as stated later.)
The concept of a "Utility Class" is normally a sign that there is something else going on!

What are the utilities contained in this module?
One good thing about his passing, at least Josef Desimone doesn't have to worry about Zuckerberg helping the NSA spy on him anymore.
I would like to know what the "air quality sensor" does. A lot of the places I would want an air sensor are locations in the house where many of the other features would be useless and/or unwelcome. The placement/howmany guide suggests that the use case is largely entrances. Entrances are the last place I would want to put a air sensor, thermometer and/or hygrometer.
You just agreed with the headline though. You want to end the war on drugs and make it a public health concern.

Unless you want to do that but still call it a war. Which would seem odd, but then again there is apparently already a war against obesity according to the press, which seems unfair on the face of it and just sounds like the army bullying fat kids. Perhaps that's what it is, I haven't checked.

But anyway, the war on drugs is definitely a shooting war at this point, so perhaps we could say that we need a cold war on drugs. Although I think we recently had one of those and everybody nearly got nuked from what I hear, so perhaps that is a bad idea as well.
If You Don't Have Permission, Don't "Test"
I was skeptical when Nate Silver first got picked up by the NY Times; I was an avid follower of his site when it was independent (during campaign years).

But, the Times really did a great job of supporting his work. The infographics and visualizations and interactive graphs that they produced -- typically with D3.js, which was cool to see -- were really second-to-none. (Who can forget http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/pa... ?)

Visualizations don't seem to be Nate Silver's bailiwick, so that leaves me feeling a little disappointed to see him leaving.

Nate's a clever fellow though, I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with ESPN.
While I don't dispute your analyzes of the legal system, it do paint a rather grim picture. Evidence in this case can then only ever be used in one direction.

Had the handwriting and name been that of the suspect, it would without doubt be used as evidence to crucify the suspect. However, if the handwriting and name is about someone else, then the evidence is regarded as confusing and thus discarded.

It looks to me as a realistic, maybe a bit cynical view of the legal system. Is this really how empirical evidence should be used?
Could you expand on that please?

You had a set of modules and compiled them into one file and did not use a module system - I am still naive on modern JavaScript work so any guidance gratefully etc.
Perhaps I am just lacking some perspective here and someone could better inform me, and I don't mean to be "that guy" right now, but how does this really relate to the guideline of:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I can understand when someone like Douglas Engelbart dies and HN is filled with stories about him, but what exactly has this chef done that makes him noteworthy on HN?
The Central Bank is a red herring. It's totally irrelevant here. The central federal government is obviously what allows the NSA to overreach, but centralized defense is one of the primary purposes of government in nearly any philosophical framework. The problem is that any government powerful enough to beat back China or Russia in a shooting war is going to be powerful enough to spy on you.
Jesus...that's a nice phone, but $32 million?

Is this just a group of fan boi's or is this a valid group of people really attempting something?
This is just special relativity (space need not be curved for this description to work).

Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Cosmos" gives a good layman's exposition of this idea, using a loaf-of-bread metaphor (this was the first time I saw it explained this way and it made a huge impact on my way of thinking about SR)
This is particularly great news for me. I live with firewalls both at work and at home. Now I can reach through into my linux machine over the web using something like tty.js - Thank you very much for improving the development and documentation. I am just a hobbyist web developer and I'm sure there are many others like me who will benefit from the combination of both projects.
I switched to Arch a long while ago. I also prefer the KDE app suite, systemd, and pacman. I still like where Ubuntu is going, but KDE just has feature density I like. I just put relatives on Opensuse because tumbleweed is really solid.

I value that Canonical can bring people to *nix, but I like my customization and a lot of the magic that KDE can pull off. Also, I love writing QML + C++, though with Ubuntu transitioning to be qt focused I could get that anywhere.

I hope this means, more than anything, the year of qt is 2014, because I'd really like to get employed working in qml / qt projects.
Howard Dean had an impeccable record with the NRA, back when he was running for the nominee in 2004, at least.
Inherent reason to me would be that the skills of food vendors are more common and easily acquired than those of game developers. I have a BSc in CS and over 10 years experience. This guy learned to make bread from his girlfriend and opened a stand shortly after. You're probably unfamiliar with the game industry beyond popular articles and headlines, but I can assure you tha demand for qualified engineers is very high. At least in the parts of the industry that are profitable. i.e not the millions of bedroom coders or cheap labour that pump out mediocre games.
> In OCaml, objects can contain mutable values but they must be explicitly marked as such.

Or in Scala, you have to mark object's variables either as `val` (immutable) or `var` (mutable).

Like /u/Fishkins said, the Scala course in Coursera gives some examples of the use of immutable objects ( https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun ). I am sure they are used in a lot of places in Scala code, not only in Odersky's course.
Re (2): In 1924, legendary federal judge Learned Hand [0] remarked that "the antlike persistency [sic] of [patent] solicitors has overcome, and I suppose will continue to overcome, the patience of examiners, and there is apparently always but one outcome."

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand

[1] Lyon v. Boh, 1 F.2d 48, 50 (S.D.N.Y.1924), copy available at http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9696597566965196....
The ability to have a "tone profile picture" -- where you can have several pics and then pick the tone of a post....
If you're trying to get things done in Racket, just learn define-syntax-rule [1] and syntax/parse [2].

You also picked as your example the one thing unhygienic macros are good at. Even in arc.arc, most macros start with (w/uniq (let boilerplate like:

(mac or args
(and args
(w/uniq g
`(let ,g ,(car args)
(if ,g ,g (or ,@(cdr args)))))))

In my code breaking hygiene is the exception, not the common case, and my Racket macros are usually shorter than the equivalent arc macros.

[1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/pattern-macros.html
[2]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html
Probably because nobody other than a narrow subset of the nerd community uses the word 'frob' or expects anyone else to search on it.

At least one firm has already decided it's cheaper to give away schematics for certain parts than to manufacture and ship them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4568043
They already have...

it's the Amash Conyers bill.

I think that the one idea that the [ideologue] liberals and conservatives pretty much agree on, is that the government is full of jack booted thugs who are not to be trusted.

The problem is... ironically... the law and order types in both parties, as well as the majority of the people in the general population. They believe the American Government acts in an essentially "good" fashion. These are the, "Well... if you have nothing to hide, you don't have anything to worry about." -types.
I have a treadmill desk at work but chose this for my home...
http://www.focaluprightfurniture.com/

I like it but only need use it a few hours per day. I don't think I'd stand all day long with any desk.
Off topic, but do you have any books, websites or other recommendations you would suggest for getting into antivirus/malware part of programming?
not to argue, but you can open an fd for reads and writes on unix on a normal file. A socket is not logically 2 file descriptors.
Sell any NYT stock you are holding. Nate was one of the last honest things at the increasingly craven, frumpy NYT, where Occupy didn't merit coverage until the third month, and the Iraq war got the greased-rails treatment.

Don't forget who has forsaken their credibility. Never forget that. It is only by remembering who has lied that we avoid future lies.

Would you lend money to a bankrupt company? No? Why then do you read the NYT?
This rings true for me as well. Just Friday night I was at a concert watching the epic Peter Murphy play nothing but Bauhaus tunes. I was recording it with my phone for a few minutes, then started to feel like I was really missing out on the experience. I was watching Peter Murphy through my phone, something I could do any time, instead of enjoying the experience live. I immediately put my phone away and didn't take it out again for the rest of the show. Then I found that I was quickly annoyed with everyone else that was holding up their phone to record the event.

Put the phone down, experience life.

And watch Ryan Lewis's Fake Empire video. Seriously, it's all about what this article is trying to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdoliLNRlHo
I recall when a colleague I had worked with passed away suddenly and we were not yet connected on linkedin, and linkedin was sending me reminders to connect with her for months after she passed.

I emailed support at linkedin and told them of the passing - never got a response - but the alerts eventually stopped... though I do not attribute their stopping to my email to them.
I actually do like the Baltic states, and wouldn't mind moving. I don't speak Estonian, but I do know a bit of Finnish due to having a Finnish roommate in university. I've long dreamed of moving to several EU nations, but every one of the countries I could see myself living in makes it so hard to get a visa. I'm more used to American immigration policy, which is a lot more "open door" than the EU countries I adore.

From the little time I've spent in Finland though, I've seen a lot of this type of attitude. People are generally happy to see visitors as long as the visitors don't try to speak their language or talk about moving to the country. Tallinn seems like a nice place, though.
Yeah, I get you. I've had a ~150+ office for many years now, and I still think, man there is no one in here ;)
Perhaps he's fed (or knew), at one point, many of the folks here on HN.
NSA locates cell phones even when they are turned off
Ah, but I, and my friends didn't like it.

QED, right? ;)
He worked at both Facebook and Google, so aside from anything else I have to assume that a good number of HN readers have benefitted from his cooking.

Are developers now the only employees worth celebrating at tech companies?
tl;dr - this is about 'leaky abstractions'

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...

this was written about by Joel in 2002.

This article probably dates before that, but is last modified circa 2003 (see other comment on that)
I think there are a number of specific areas where Leap Motion can be interesting.

For example, there are some startups that use Kinect to let surgeon interact with a screen showing patient data during an operation.
Some researchers have also proposed the use of gesture recognition in the context of a worker having to follow precise instructions for some complex task. Leap motion + Google Glass could be an interesting combo for interactive training.

I'm sure there are other areas. But I agree with your comment and I fail to see the mass market use case. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong :-)
Can you give an example of a patent being helpful in producing innovation and prosperity in the last 20 years?

IE, a patent that was an original idea, someone else tried to duplicate in a blatantly rip-off way before the patent expired, and the ensuing lawsuit lets the patent creator (who has their patent to-market in a useful state) take the copycat off the market?
People outside the industry make these kind of generalisations all the time but in practise it's nonsense. Sure millions of kids may want to be video programmers, but very few are qualified (i.e: can program well enough and have sufficient CS background to cope with the job.

Where I work we have a good mix of veterans and recent graduates. Typically they are from top North American Universities including Stanford and Waterloo.
Having once had a catheter installed, it's about the very last thing that I would want to have printed out - I really can't conceive of a worse example. In that situation I'd rather 3d print a bucket and wait for the higher-quality manufactured part to arrive.
https://www.cityblis.com/ I implemented the <noscript> solution which actually shows the same content (without dynamic positioning) to the users and allows them to go to non-javascript versions of the pages. With JS on I serve dynamically positioned content and with scrolls.

I also have an implementation for the search, but it's not pushed yet. It doesn't paint the first page, but only provides pagination for the users without JS.

What do you think of this kind of a solution?
Maybe they got a special deal.
Where's Snapchat? Don't they read HN? What do they have to say for themselves? Have they finally spoken with an attorney?
And pass the previous frame state to the same functional pipeline, recursively... Now I need to make an OOP vs FP game loop/physics engine in javascript and compare and contrast the approaches! (Feel free to leave the votes alone on this one, or down vote to oblivion, because I am just using HN for note keeping so I leave the thought in context...)
Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
I wouldn't be surprised if Indiegogo offered Canonical incentives to use their platform, and I wouldn't be surprised if those incentives include a significant reduction in fees.

For the next 30 days, the Indiegogo brand will be mentioned nearly every time Ubuntu Edge is discussed. That publicity alone is worth something.

But if this campaign somehow succeeds, Indiegogo will receive more than just another dose of (outrageously positive) publicity—they'll be forever known as the platform used to launched Ubuntu Edge.
Snapchat your code is ‘unlawful’
Comparing MongoDB, MySQL, and TokuMX Data Layout
You can only review others when you code gets approved by at least one admin.
Of course there's no question of intentionally ignoring anything. My question is about the economics. Presumably, the economic significance of population decline has to do with its effect on GDP, growth, and the like. It's not obvious (is it?) which of these questions have answers that change depending on the ethnicity of who comes or goes.

There's also the question of whether the outflow does in fact consist mostly of Russians. Is there data on this? No one has presented any here, and the various comments in the thread contradict one another.
There are skills involved, and I wouldn't say they were lesser than those needed for programming. But in the same vein, I'd say spending a few days learning to make bread to sell in a cart does not compare to the years it takes to become a competent programmer.
Presentation Prof. Murry Salby in Hamburg on 18 April 2013
See my other replies. Many less people can make video games than want to.
Maybe you don't like the disclosure style.

Maybe you don't like the place of the heart where he was born.

Maybe you wouldn't like to be him, neither his procedures.

Meh, even I dislike the O.S. he uses.

But anyway, the fact is there. And I will not be the one who kills the messenger.

Bravo, "Turkish security researcher".
Anybody knows if there is an alternative to NFS, VBox's shared folders and Samba? The first doesn't exist in Windows, and the other two are slow and buggy.
This is the main problem. Thieves watch TV and have facebook accounts. They will see the Canary and be on alert. Thieves aren't that clueless, contrary to other types of criminals. The premeditated nature of robbing someone's house allows the provisions for obstacles like pets, alarms, cameras (e.g. masks), time for police to arrive (i.e. 3 minutes), canaries (unplug, toss into trash), etc. At best, the Canary will tell you, a masked intruder unplugged me and tossed me in a closet; or in a bag with the rest of the stolen goods ;) lol.

Just kidding.
I'd posit that the only reason for the existence of agencies such as the NSA is exactly what Eisenhower warned us about on his way out the door (sorry for textwall but its all relevant to my point):

"...Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."

> http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

The Federal Reserve, the central bank, is the engine of the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower wanted to call it the military-industrial-congressional complex but his speechwriters advised against it) and is the core reason for the imposition of this complex in our lives.

It's a private bank run along the lines of a public utility, which ensures that the worst parts of both the public and the private sector will be emphasized. Until we remove private interests from the middle of government, ain't nothing gonna change.

Always follow The Money.
First, it looks great.

When I went to install the app the permissions were kind of onerous: Modify your contacts, Read phone status and identity, reroute outgoing calls, etc. Can you give some color as to why these are necessary?
It looks pretty nice. How is it not compatible with a Nexus 10 (and is compatible with Galaxy Note II and an HP Touchpad running CM 10)?
Yes, you've got it exactly. I speculate that the reason lawyers aren't involved is lawyers cost money, and the Snapchat board has already decided that Schaffer flies off the handle at innocuous bullshit too often. That's why he's allowed to send out this special form letter, and not allowed to approve legal invoices.
Mermaids: SCUBA gear

Magic: Any sufficiently advanced technology

The halting problem: I got nothing for this

ESP: neural interfaces

Religion: given the above our descendants are destined to practically become gods, assuming they exist
I wonder if the strengthening paywall at NYTimes was a factor.

I hit the ESPN 'premium' wall far less often than at NYTimes. 'Grantland' has been mentioned as a model for the Silver subbrand at ESPN; are any 'Grantland' stories premium-only?
Maybe I'm just coming from a different perspective having only ever worked for a small company, but I don't exactly find a chef to be noteworthy, at least not in any technical sense.

Let me put it another way, aside from the employees of Google or Facebook, what has this man done that would make him interesting to the rest of the people on this site? What did he do that makes him noteworthy? I'm sure he was a good man and all, but what does he matter to me? By all means, if there is something noteworthy, please let me know, otherwise why was this posted?
That, and the potential for damage to space-time in general, were explored in Start Trek TNG. That's one of the things I liked about the series: the things that were invented as plot conveniences often had implications that themselves later became plot drivers. (Not always, of course. It was entertainment, not science. But often enough.)
Reposting a comment by the author from the article:

> Upton depends on Nokogiri, which is basically the BeautifulSoup port for Ruby.

> If you just used vanilla Nokogiri, you'd be responsible for writing code to fetch, save (maybe), debug and sew together all the pieces of your web scraper. Upton does a lot of that work for you, so you can skip the boilerplate.