skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anybody's interested, these license plate scanners can be publicly found on the Internet:

http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=atz+executive

And this is how the web interface for such a system looks like:

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/security/2013/05/01/...
Dang, I only have 3 age ranges left until kaput.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/186534
I'm actually hacking right now on a personal project that might be relevant. It eschews the 'sync' metaphor and focuses more on the 'share' metaphor, though - it is not so useful for files that change frequently, but pretty robust for sharing arbitrary sets of files or data between a group of users. (It will also include user and access management).

The whole thing currently sits on top of BitTorrent although I suspect I'll end up writing a forked implementation at some point to support some extensions I'm working on.

Active, dynamic syncing is great for some kind of data but not so important for others, and I feel like that's the hurdle that needs to be overcome. More interesting to me is painless, fast, robust, and configurable sharing of relatively static data. (Some versioning may be included but it won't be a first-class system.)
No. Mechanical farm equipment arguably replaced way more jobs than any modern technological movement. And just look at the human potential it unlocked.
Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th, it's the dawn of a new enlightenment.
That's very good to hear! Thank you. Certainly, the current OS X offering does look beautifully refined - as simple as it ought to be, for the user, despite all the magic underneath.
you can uncheck the other tabbed inboxes under "Configure Inbox" and everything will remain in the primary email. Seems to work for now...
I believe currently Yahoo Mail is the only one of the big three (Gmail, Outlook.com) that still puts the client computer's IP address in the message headers for messages sent from the webmail interface.
More "I passed a pointer to your function and it called free() on it, without documenting that it was taking ownership of the memory". Ownership contracts are an important part of the API of any function that does stuff with resources, whether memory, file descriptions, network connections, etc. If the API implies that it takes a pointer to a resource but will only read from or write to it, and then disposes of it, that's a bug.
It bothers me that neither fastmail or freron have full screenshots of their interface. What reason can they have to not put a tour/screenshots section on the site?
Why can't this API be fixed, isn't that the whole point of the 'go fix' command?
It's an estimate. It would add additional time to the search to calculate an exact number.
Yeah, that shit has been driving me crazy for a long time now. I imagine a batty old librarian riffling through a filing cabinet of my emails saying "ooh wait, I found more!"
It's a bit insidious since even if that situation is rare, just knowing that it's possible introduces a new dimension of doubt next time things go awry with any code you didn't write. Enter a "Seriously, No Groping" type modifier ;)
helloworld1. If that doesn't work, try capital H. I can't remember which I used.

The main assumptions to change are unlocked. I locked the rest so people don't screw up a formula without realizing it. All cells in blue are assumptions in the file that you can change.
New Android eyewear butts heads with Google Glass
Remind me, how many points of karma does it take to unlock the ability to downvote?
>edw519 ever making a post as low as you just did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529609
Because they estimate to save resources?
1. Click the arrow next to the "To". It'll give you the options for changing who it's sent to, or editing the subject. In the popup composition interface, clicking the word "To" gives you a nice recipient list editor.

2. Click the arrow next to the Inbox label. Select your preferred inbox type. http://cl.ly/image/1Z2M0c1z3T1B
Is success an accident or pursued?
I am just wondering whether you can write your own wrapper class that implements (exposes) the read method and doesn't expose a close method (or expose a close method that does nothing) and pass that in?

I am not suggesting this is a good solution, just curious.
http://golang.org/doc/go1compat.html

'go fix' was mainly used before Go 1, but it would be useful again for e.g. a Go 2.
NSA confirmed to be running an as-yet unnamed geolocation collection program...
I'm 45, each time this kind of voting scares me, I'm indeed too old for this IT thing, but what else can I do? what are those 40s/50s doing? all managers/bosses? or out of work? I'm curious.
If you feel you can reliably judge this, you should open a VC fund.
First, where is your evidence of this opinion, I provided links to two sources describing the modern state of Executive powers and you basically call me naive without specifically refuting my evidence or points.

Second, the ACA (AKA Obamacare) does not specify specific deadlines except when reports to congress must be made. I googled for the deadline extension you were referring too, there were many, so please be more specific. Here is the text of the bill to read it for yourself (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590/text). In general it says the the secretary of HHS shall set deadlines as reasonable, and hence giving the Administration the power to change their own deadline.

Third, I generally base my opinion off of personal anecdote since I have a family member serving as an elected politician in an executive office. Their job requires them to execute laws very specifically, often requiring them to consult lawyers regularly (even though they are a lawyer!). Laws can be tricky, and while I am not knowledgeable of government law I would be willing to bet the President is basically required to use section 702 of FISA whenever he can in regards to terrorism. But then again, my personal anecdote is from a county position.

Finally, it isn't a question of constitutionality. Congress said it was legal, therefore it's legal until the supreme court (or a lesser court that doesn't get appealed) says it is unconstitutional. I agree that the law is unconstitutional, but the executive branch does not get the luxury to exercise their opinions on laws like that.
I'm not sure you read the article. What timescale are you making your assertions from, and what numbers are we talking about?
Golden Age For Smartphones Ends As Upgrade Rates Tumble
Depends.

First, there is the issue that here in Brazil previously we had a government monopoly on telephony, and the breakup was made along geographic lines, those are not strictly enforced anymore, but carriers sometimes still don't work at all in certain states, while other carriers work in those states (And don't work in other states), thus people that travel a lot have no choice but to own multiple lines.

Also, carriers here tend to have wildly different packages, that are advantageous in different situations.

And yes, sometimes people DO put several phones on their cards, usually whoever deals directly with sales (ie: salesmen, marketing, or CEO of small companies)
There are only a few things I want from a Gmail competitor, whether it be a webapp or desktop app:

- Search. Good, fast search over 7 GB of email.

- Speed.

- Undo send.

- Multiple aliases on the same email account.

It's definitely possible to beat Gmail in the first two, these days, but importing all that email into another service takes a while, so there had better be a good case that I'll get equal or superior functionality. A demo would be nice.

Until then, I'll stick with the old compose, and probably find or write a user script to make the new one work like the old one once it goes away.

(Incidentally, Mail.app comes quite close to meeting the first two, but its search is a bit wonky, and there's no undo send.)
I think this is a false analogy.

GitHub did not create Git, nor is their code open source.
Without context, the PRISM references somewhat are abstract, although it's a remarkable coincidence if not reference to the same program. What was striking for me was the 10X markups for equipment provided under contract to the US government. Where is the governance in government?!
Things Happy People Never Do
All your points are really great! I do need to work on writing additional docs / examples of how specific use cases would be handled.

Also you are correct that I have not anticipated your set of problems and I would love to get some time with you (phone / email or chat) and learn what your problems and pain points are around deployments and figure out if distelli is a good fit.

Distelli can be used to automate compiling a new python on the server (eg. I already have an example where NodeJS is built from source) as well as installing postfix or a kernel mod.

Lastly having an example that integrated with docker.io is a great idea. I'll add that to the list.

Thanks for your feedback and please contact me if you're available to share details of your pain points around deployments and help me improve my product for you.
A problem seems to be that the state of open source plate recognition software isn't that great. There are a few projects around but none seem to be ready for production.
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. It means a lot! You're right about the blog. Its still new and I will work on opening it up with more topics or even trying to get a guest blogger or two.
I feel bad that I am not tracking anyone. It's so popular you see it every day now.
I think the short version of the hypothesis is that teams composed of brilliant individuals working on hyper-focused projects under conditions of high motivation perform exceedingly well without using any identifiable process.

Not discussed is how this applies to the rest of us regular schmoes working on middle-of-the-road projects with ordinary levels of emotional arousal.

One of my professors actually had "anarchy" as one of the software development methodologies. No kidding, it was there on the slide along with stuff like CMMI, Lean, Agile and a few others. He wasn't using it as a rhetorical foil, he meant anarchy in the sense of "no central governor".

He'd consulted for dozens of companies over several decades. He said that most of them practice some form of anarchy. And he'd seen it work ... once. It was a team composed of brilliant individuals, working on a hyper-focused project, under conditions of high motivation.
Think of how quickly you'd end up in handcuffs if you created a website which tracked every NYPD vehicle in real-time.

The laws apply to us, not them.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll iterate on the design.
I would love to connect and get your feedback and help. I'll send you an email later tonight.
Plenty of people still brag about buying $2 chargers... It's good to remind them WHY one doesn't do that without homework first.
That's a very generous definition of "job creation". Don't get me wrong, I'm not lamenting mechanized agriculture, but there's no way the inventor of combine harvester can look at modern civilization and go "I created that".
I've read enough science fiction based on this principle that I'm semi-comfortable with kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds (roughly a quarter hour, a tenday, and a third of a century, respectively). I'm not sure what the "myria-" prefix really adds to the mix.

The people that are objecting on the grounds that it doesn't fit the "natural" unit of the day (or month, or year) are missing the point: metric is all about picking units regardless of any convenient lineup to anything, and then applying them to everything anyway. As a matter of usage, most people take this concept even further and always count from the next smaller unit even if the larger one is closer: thus you rarely hear of "half litre" but rather "500 mL", not "quarter metre" but "25 cm" or "250 mm". Basing metric time on seconds makes vastly more sense from this perspective.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'll send you an email later tonight with details on how to get setup with an account. Looking forward to your feedback.
That is (Gear icon) -> Mail Options -> General -> "Turn on SSL"... Four mouse clicks through menus is obscure enough, and then you have to do the same on every browser. It should be enabled by default.
The high probability-low gain situations would actually lower the value of the options. This model was very generous to the right-skewed data. Low gain situations will typically be worthless because of VC liquidation preferences. Also, these acquisitions are typically unannounced, so it's impossible to guess their value.

Can you explain the error with summing? I did sum the expected value of an acquisition and an IPO. Is that wrong? I'd like to fix it for others.
Have you read the article? The article actually says:

>In 1900, 41 percent of Americans worked in agriculture; by 2000, it was only 2 percent.
Social and Promotions should basically just contain the "unimportant crap". If something is mis-categorized, you can drag it to the correct section and Gmail should learn from its mistake.

Also, as mentioned below, you can revert to the un-tabbed inbox by going to the Inbox section of the settings and disabling all tabs other than Primary, or by selecting one of the split inboxes (Unread first, Priority, etc).

Disclaimer: I'm a Gmail engineer.
That'll be because it's only been in the docs since they reported their issue.
We do have digital ocean support. http://www.distelli.com/docs/digital-ocean-setup.html

I'll send you details later tonight with details on how to get set up.
Yea, great so you complain about that and then they solve just that narrow case.

Doing so reduces some fringe harassment risks, but actually makes the power inversion worse since then only a privileged minority has access to the data.

In practice the stalking/harassment stuff isn't actually happening with any great frequency: The mentally ill people who would do this are generally not competent enough to go on a big data data mining exercise. Complaining about that just creates an excuse to remove access to the public to data they're paying to create while leaving access to it to authorities and commercial interests who might use it against them.
It doesn't destroy jobs, it obviates the ones it replaces (and sometimes creates new ones). Which is a good thing, right? It makes it so that no one has to do those jobs to receive the same productivity. Thus freeing up our time for either leisure or something else productive.

Also it should be noted that technology is a double edged sword and can also make things worse. An example: a big farming corporation decides to improve profits by using new chemicals to preserve their food longer. Of course this may seem like a productive decision on paper, but it could actually be unproductive to society as a whole if the chemical has subtle but negative side effects that take a bigger toll.
http://sourcefednews.com/xbox-one-is-watching-you/
we have a fundamental legal doctrine, enshrined in the 4th Amendment

You need a constitutional amendment specifically for privacy and data retention. The 4th amendment does not do what you think it does.

Meanwhile, the argument is not lost in countries like the UK, but very much alive in terms of people invoking EU law via the charter of fundamental rights.
Such hate for ping pong tables. I can't think of a better way to get a bit of energetic competitive sport in to relax you and break up the day, all without leaving the office.

Sure if you spent $50k on a games room I can see where you are coming from. Ping pong table for a few hundred doesn't seem to be a real sign of startup excess.
3) Fisa's 3-hops rule just means that you have to have an acquaintance that has an acquaintance that has an acquaintance that is on some investigative list for said warrant to apply to you.
Yes, easily:

var rc io.ReadCloser // a file, whatever
readerOnly := struct{io.Reader}{rc} // only a Reader
Thanks for the example.

Playing with the example a little bit left me with a nice feeling about Go's structural typing:

- Passing a ReaderCloser reference to a function that expects a Reader is possible: http://play.golang.org/p/PZCKvmp5Sj

- Composing interfaces, though very useful, is not required in order to make one a proper subtype of the other: http://play.golang.org/p/fXn0zzM60D
If google handles the communications channel, and the "encryption" software, they still have access to everything.
For random dice generation:
http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
From user qz10 (who seems to have been hellbanned absed on IP):

It should be no surprise that this is happening. Give anyone unlimited surveillance power and it will always be abused.

I live in a western EU country and have a friend in law enforcement. Last year, he brought me to see our city's traffic surveillance 'control room'. Almost every street corner and traffic junction here has a pole-mounted police camera transmitting video data back to servers accessible from this room and elsewhere.

To summarize the demo: He was able to type a vehicle registration plate into this system, and instantly see every journey the car has taken plotted on a map, as well as the thousands of raw video clips of this vehicle that were used to generate the map.
- I cannot get 1920x1080 monitor on a laptop. It would defeat the purpose.

My problem is this:

http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png

* top posting is useless when you have long e-mail with 6-10 points to address in it.
* being able to see 7 lines at a time is my real problem
* the other real problem is when I have a 100-line email with 10 points to address in it and 10th point ends on line 34, I want to be able to easily cut the remaining 66 lines that come before the signature. I know that people using GMail won't see them anyway, but there are other people not using Google Mail and they will have to look through 66 lines to see if I replied to something else as well.

There is no way to simply select those 66 lines and cut them. If I press shift+end, it selects to the end of the line. If I press shift+PageDown it scrolls the GMail page in the browser down, and I also lose sight of the cursor. Selecting it with mouse is also not straightforward, because of some weird scrolling. The text entry box is simply too small. They shouldn't have tried to fix something that was working perfectly.

I understand Google engineers are not using Firefox and they are not replying to people who use products other than GMail and they have large screens. That is precisely why they lost sight of UX issues their users have. They believe everyone uses Google products only, and maybe they just don't care about those that don't, I really don't know.

- I don't want to have Undo Send. I don't want to wait when I send an e-mail. I don't have time for that.

- So, when you are searching for next flight, you should open GMail. I thought it should be used for e-mail, not search. ;)

- Firefox. Are you implying that I should only use Chrome and GMail is not usable from other browsers?
Our biggest differentiator is that we do not run your servers like a PaaS would. You start and run your own server and distelli enables you to deploy your application and code to that server. We do not access, login or control your server.

edit: Also Distelli works with any server whether its a cloud server (AWS, Rackspace, Digital Ocean) or a private server (private datacenter, under your desk etc) and lastly distelli does not need your cloud credentials if you do run a cloud server
I have a personal experience with the harm that ubiquitous recording of location data can bring, even when you don't do anything wrong.

When I was in college, I was called to the police station and accused of breaking a glass door in the dorms. I knew NOTHING about this. I told the police I knew nothing about the event, but they continued to press me. They asked me details about where I was that night (many weeks prior), and I had difficulty remembering where I had been. To make matters worse, I originally thought the day in question was another day, so I ended up giving information about my location that was incorrect. If the police decided they didn't like me, they could have easily pressed charges for lying, even though I thought I was telling the truth. Luckily, they eventually believed me and I was let go.

How is this related to license plate readers? Well, the only reason they suspected I was the person who broke the door was because my ID card had been swiped at around the same time the door was broken. Simply because I was present near the time and location of a crime committed weeks prior, I was accused of a crime and nearly accidentally perjured myself. (Don't worry; I know now to never talk to the police!)

If we start tracking everyone's movements, this sort of thing will happen more and more often. You will EVENTUALLY have driven by a place where a crime was committed. You may be called to account for your being nearby, even weeks or months later. When the police ask you why you were there, will you remember? Will your answers satisfy them? Will your general unease at being questioned make you appear suspicious? Will you fumble, and say things that contradict yourself, making you appear even more suspicious?
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Guardian's take:

"....."The statute says 'collection'," congressman Jerrold Nadler told Cole. "You're trying to confuse us by talking use."

"...One senior member of the panel, congressman James Sensenbrenner, the author of the 2001 Patriot Act, warned the officials that unless they rein in the scope of their surveillance on Americans' phone records, "There are not the votes in the House of Representatives" to renew the provision after its 2015 expiration."

"You're going to lose it entirely," Sensenbrenner said.

NSA warned to rein in surveillance as agency reveals even greater scope

NSA officials testify to angry House panel that agency can perform 'three-hop queries' through Americans' data and records

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/17/nsa-surveillance...
Aaron's Law and the Future of CFAA Reform (SF event at CNET)
>Would this pattern hold if you saw another 100 years into the past?

Yes. In the 1700s The Earth was just beginning to emerge from 'the little ice age'. There is some controversy over whether the medieval warm period may have been as hot, or hotter than present.

Caldeira has apparently used the GISTEMP LOTI Global mean series, but this seems to have been smoothed to remove any peaks. I tried plotting this particular series at.

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/

The pattern he describes in his tweet is not so clear with higher resolution data. In particular, there is a pronounced spike in the late 1930s, and another in the mid 1950s:

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp-dts/from:1880/to:2013

Furthermore, this does not seem to be replicable using other available temperature series. For instance HADCRUT4 global mean series from 1880 to 2013 seems to have a peak in the late 1940's that is not present in Caldeira's graph.

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1880/to:2013

It is even less visible in the earlier HADCRUT3 variance adj. global mean:

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1880/to:2013

Or the CRUTEM4 variance-adj land global mean

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/crutem4vgl/from:1880/to:2013

Similar for BEST global land mean (preliminary)

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/best/from:1880/to:2013

In short, unless I am missing something, his claim is based on the one outlier among temperature series which can be made to support it (if you squint your eyes real hard, I suppose).
They do offer a free trial although that isn't made obvious. Here is a screenshot I took on sign up: http://i.imgur.com/f7bhNVE.png
Not to mention the fact that Yahoo! actually cares about their users' privacy:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-...