skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget Battery Swapping: Tesla Aims to Charge Electric Cars in Five Minutes
Wow, the demo video is really remarkable! I will try it out with the office iPad tomorrow. Really great job! The video speaks a thousand words even without any spoken words. =) How do you align the coloring book pages from the camera feed? Do you detect the corners of the printer paper or is there some printed, hidden marker on the page?
> A more appropriate one would be to say you didn't trust anything Obama said on the subject of drug policy because he used cocaine etc.

How would that modification to the analogy change the outcome? You can't dismiss every insightful statement or independently verifiable piece of factual information someone says about drug policy just because that person is a crackhead. That's just the ad hominem fallacy.
the set of similarly weird peaches is the only one that ticked me off.
The Pros and Cons of a Surveillance Society
The interconnection of Trayvon Martin, Prism & Google Glass in a surveillance society.
Is it possible to use such radiation for plant breeding purposes? Some of those modifications (like gigantism) could be useful.

Yes. "Chemical mutagens like EMS and DMS, radiation and transposons are used to generate mutants with desirable traits to be bred with other cultivars - a process known as Mutation Breeding." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_breeding
Another part of the patent game.

I'm just trying to understand the incentives to play. Why care about other technology companies, unless they've patented what you're doing?
Why are all web browsers so bad?
Those like me that went "Oh cool" or "interesting" and figured it out and kept using, don't really feel the need to open up a comment box and say "OMG! This is pretty OK!" so well you never hear from us.

It first had its kinks but it never bothered me. Yeah I don't know who is really that bothered by Unity.
Took them long enough to come out with a letter. Only after other companies stepped out.

Unfortunate for MSoft as I used to be a fanboy, but no more.
This is similar to some of the AR games on Nintendo 3DS, with the exception that you don't need to look through a screen to get the effect. You can imagine this on Google Glass too, viewable only by those wearing the HUD.
Without a meaningful control and in the absence of any other information, it's impossible to make a meaningful conclusion.
In the field, what you are referring to is described as "cognitive reserve". People with higher educations levels or who have a more active lifestyle suffer less from the earlier stages of dementia, because they are better able to develop coping strategies.

So, it is similar to exercise in the way that if you are fitter, then you can better weather adverse events. However, cognitive reserve doesn't delay the underlying progress of Alzheimer's disease.
How La Costa Resort Increased Revenue from Social Media by 65%
A liar looking for attention or a hero?

I'm not sure. The facts are the government has reacted quite defensively (not in the way you would expect one who is not participating in these activities to some extent).

It's an open book, and as usual, the whole internet is getting into a hoo-haa because they generally don't have anything better to do with their time. Is it important? Yes. Does voicing false or circumstantial evidence to the ends of the earth do anything? No. Especially from the intelligence level that I would expect from around here.

I'm personally tired of seeing the continuation of this story on HN - I am used to more engaging content.
Don't be naive. There are plenty of real benefits too, and it's all about weighing them. Hopefully if you get an opportunity at BigCo, you can remain open-minded and actually explore the opportunity before dismissing it immediately.
Great, MSN journalism :"It might be wise to steer clear of vegetables from Japan's Fukushima area for, oh, say a few hundred years. ".

Yeah, like you know what you are talking about. The radiation levels in Fukushima are lower than in some other parts of the world where natural radioactivity occurs.

These pictures don't prove anything. When you grow vegetables you always get abnormalities. I have seen tons of discolorations, deformations, and other freaky products of nature when I was a kid. You don't need a nuclear incident to get that.
It appears to only work on certain pre-defined coloring pages.
I'm not sure what this proves. 5 minutes with /r/pics finds me all sorts of weird carrots:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/d17jf/i_grow_some_weir...

http://imgur.com/7T7g3

http://imgur.com/TULjm

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/da7t6/carrots_have_evo...

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rjxkf/i_found_a_double...

And tomatoes:

http://imgur.com/a/AeNuC

http://imgur.com/a/5luwR/mutant_tomatoe

http://i.imgur.com/WGjZQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NrUh0jH.jpg

A search for "peach" finds me primarily princess peach, primarily in cosplay form.
Ask: Everyone criticizes our education system, but what could be done to fix it?
Yes, it's very common. ~75% of rice grown in California descends from seeds exposed to gamma radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
Naturally. Those 2D print pages must have 3D models in the app (right?). I'm wondering how the app does feature detection from the camera feed.
I've self-published 2 editions of C++11 Rocks (for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012): http://cpprocks.com

I wrote a post about some of the things I learned from it: http://korban.net/2013/04/10000-in-sales-of-my-c-book-easier...

Two things I can say (also discussed in the post above): I wouldn't go with a traditional publisher now (with the exception of Pragmatic Programmers), and marketing isn't as hard as I thought, but it's definitely a long term effort.
maybe he's simply bluffing. If you have nothing, you can't give up even if they torture your mother in front of you.
Apply rapid skill acquisition principles.
https://convertkit.com/app/rkcudjoe/rapid-skill-acquisition
No, I never did. It just seemed to be an accepted part of the institutional culture, and I felt like fighting against it would have only made me look like a complainer. Maybe someone with more status could have tried it, but I was just a newbie and nobody seemed to care what I thought.

I think the project I worked on was worse than average because it was the sort of cross-cutting change that affected a lot of different teams - six different products, I think? There were a lot of PMs involved.
He would probably have 'resisted arrest' at some point.
Incredible skill of old-fashioned fairground signwriter
> Truly collaborative music could be really cool.

Oh, the irony...
Note in my comment that I said that some people will reject his insult and try harder next time, which potentially adds another good contributor to the project. Just telling them to go away and never come back doesn't do that, and is probably more hurtful to boot.
firebase. Just beginning to use angular.
I installed it yesterday. It fails at the point of Jasmin:

jasmin QR.j
QR.j:2: Warning - Syntax error.

^
QR.j:2: Error - Couldn't repair and continue parse.

^
QR.j: Found 2 errors

And then completely craps out at the badly generated Java. Any idea of what goes?
They care about privacy... but they care about staying in business more.† They are in the business of providing web services (i.e., things you ask their servers to do to your data.) If they can't do anything with your files besides store them, they don't have a business.

† (To assume otherwise would be odd, wouldn't it? It's like taking someone saying "I like ice-cream" to mean "I would allow you to shoot me in exchange for some ice-cream." We assume people have an implicit preference for staying living. We should probably assume companies do too.)
I don't agree. How far do you take this? Would it be okay for the spell checker in LibreOffice and Microsoft Word to not bother correcting mistakes because they're deemed to be too 'sensitive'?
In the 1950's, seeds were exposed to Cobalt-60 and then sold for people to plant and grow into whatever they were mutated into. It was called "atomic gardening". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
I don't want to be critical of what is a small step in the right direction, but it does feel like such a very small donation. $5/week is, well, nothing. A developer at Khan probably earns $2000/week, and has an over cost to Khan of probably $2500/week at least.

I bring this up because I feel that if gittip optimizes towards that, then people will follow their lead. The right amount for a company with a wage bill of $3m/yr (back of the envelope based on figures in the article) to give back to OSS cannot be $6k/yr.

So one step in the right direction, and thanks Khan for doing that, and I'd love to see the next step being companies donating about 10x that each.
This raise an interesting point.

The guy is risking his life, and no one even wonder who is the branch/person in government that should be responsible for what he says is going on.

Who should be taken accountable for this? why people is not on the streets? ...well people are on the streets, but for the wrong reasons. media is transforming a, sadly, commonplace killing in hate/race crime. Any conspiracy theorist already linked the time they scheduled the trial with the snowden thing? didn't another army whistle blower was on trial on the very same day as the zimmerman one?
It isn't an exploit, but rather a code obfuscation technique.

The attacker compromised the site first (the exploit used isn't disclosed in the article), and then tried to conceal the malware they installed on the compromised system by putting most of the malware in an EXIF header.

The malware code used a hardcoded image path, so for someone else to replace the code to be executed, they would need to have access replace the particular image file that contains the malware.

One interesting aspect is that the malware images are public, and probably already referenced to from the site (since the attacker used an existing image), so it might be possible to write a spider (or something based on Common Crawl perhaps) that finds many compromised sites.
Bay Area Rally Sends Rents Soaring
"team foundation as source control versus git"

How much experience do you have with TFS? It's a different animal than Git, but my TFS-using colleagues really, really like it.
Study finds iPhone won't auto-correct sensitive words like abortion and suicide
There is no "right to privacy" per se in the U.S. There is a right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures (4th amendment), there is a right to refuse to testify against yourself at trial (5th amendment), etc. These protect certain aspects of a right to privacy, but if you read writings from the founding generation, they didn't have the kind of well-developed "right to privacy" concept many people have today.

As a result, these protections exist next to mechanisms that cut in the other direction. One of those mechanisms is the almost unlimited power of common law courts to compel people to furnish information, through subpoenas and warrants. And that power is especially strong when the information is about someone else. So for example, while a court cannot force you to testify against yourself (5th amendment), they can force you to testify against someone else. They can force you to furnish information or copies of documents relevant to an investigation or ongoing litigation. Indeed, in a civil litigation, often one of the lawyers will be able to issue subpoenas forcing parties to turn over documents in the name of the court. In the Anglo-American system, there is really no "right of privacy" as against the right of a court to gather all the evidence necessary in a civil or criminal litigation.

So corporations do have 4th amendment rights. The NSA doesn't come to their offices and take the information. But that doesn't protect them against court orders to furnish information about other people.
Because I'm a nobody from nowhere and I will take what advantages I can get (patentability) to ameliorate advantages I don't currently enjoy (connections, pedigree, experience).
The CIA's New Black Bag Is Digital
it was wholly devoid of intellectual merit...

I think the notion that purpose and intent behind art is far more important than the amount of effort involved in its creation has considerable amount of intellectual merit. Even more so considering how unpopular it is. Whether people choose to read the whole comment, or prefer to see "bla, bla, bla, garbage!" is a different matter.
86400s is one day, not one year.
Probably "need" could be better replaced with "can and likely will gain loads of experience that is hard to get outside of big companies, that can illuminate and improve you work life (and sometimes personal life) for your benefit"

So, if your only gripe is the word "need," I agree. Your tone I think is a little reactionary though. There are legitimately valuable things to learn in an "enterprisey" environment (even if many of them are around what _NOT_ to do - you still learn something best by experience, not reading blog posts or books or chatting with friends or whatnot), and there are some surprising benefits, depending on your personality type (stability, sometimes pay, etc).

Just my two cents, YMMV
I work for a University, and albeit having a slightly lower starting income than some private industry, my starting vacation time is incredible. I accrue just about 2 days per month paid vacation time. Besides regular holidays, I also get school holidays off too. 10 work days for Christmas paid. 5 work days for Spring Break paid. And I get 1 full day of sick leave per month that gets accrued too. It's fairly gravy.

I make iOS apps, and contribute to fairly large state-wide systems. Besides rote governmental/enterprise work, I also get to fool around and make interesting things because my role is also technically a "research" position. Did I mention I see/talk with my supervisor about 4 times a month, and he trusts me totally?

All that's awesome and everything, but there are downsides too. I am considered Junior, and will be for the next year (been there a year already). I make less than some of my coworkers despite being able to code circles around them (and architect systems better). Others are really, really damn good, so that's not always the case either Part of the problem is my degree - I have a Bachelor's in Art (of Arts too, but you see my point). This means that I'm fixed for at least the next year below my actual value, which sucks. My direct coworkers on the Mobile team are awesome, my age, share liked interests and we share a camaraderie that is probably absent at a lot of big companies and startups alike. Tradeoffs abound, but personal happiness and autonomous professional development are what I'm taking for the time being.

Don't sleep on BigCo or unusual positions just because it isn't sexy startup land in SV. There's a whole wide world out there too.
I can't help but think that giving generic coding advice by using a dynamically typed language is anathema to a book, because you see all these symbols in the source (customer, account, etc...) but you have no idea what methods they respond to and which ones are compatible with which other ones.

I hope that as a senior software engineer, you make your points using other languages than Ruby in your book.
I suspect you are operating under the misapprehension that anarchist means no structure. It doesn't. It means self-organizing. Newby anarchists tend to have more meetings than any other group I know, because they often have a hard time learning to delegate.

Experienced anarchists tend to have meetings because they get good at them and enjoy them.
RedBull being a drink is much more approachable to everyone. Anyone can aspire to Redbull simply by buying the drink and consuming it in the same way people can aspire to the NorthFace brand by going in an buying and wearing it.

However you can own a GoPro but if you aren't athletic or an outdoors type of person, it's much less useful and that much harder to connect with the brand.

RedBull has wider consumer appeal in that sense and less friction.
Greetings from Borneo rainforest, 23% Icaridin did the trick, no bites. Except on the areas that weren't sufficiently protected. Yes, this is also nasty stuff, it burns ons skin when you apply it, even if it's on top of sunscreen. Icaridin doesn't melt plastics like DEET does. I was surprised how well it protected me, even if I was sweating like a monkey. Btw, we were only ones on that hiking trip who used this stuff, most used citronella, because they didn't like these chemicals. Also some areas ban these chemicals for environmental reasons.
I think the virtual machine is vpned and the external machine is not. Then you can get all the traffic you need passed through the inner vm while still getting outside traffic on your main.
I'm not dismissing anything, but pointing out that the gp was comparing two unlike things.
Never work for someone else's lifestyle business, ever.
Don't know if this has been discussed already - have you considered a proximity-based sensor, where your device is locked when it's away from you?
I work in Philly - it is a great city! Very clean and lower crime compared to New York. Also the cost of living is much lower than California - not to mention the taxes!
We have a great startup scene as well, but if your real goal is Create your own startup, then the Valley or NY has more money and exposure. On the other hand, if you want to join a great company, we have some great ones- from DuckDuckGo to Comcast. GSI Commerce just got bought by eBay, so I guess they do not count as a startup, but it is a great company.
You can live in NJ and have the option to work either Philly or New York.
" … one of the men pulled out a disk and loaded some programs onto the resident's laptop computer while the other man kept watch at the window. The whole operation took less than two minutes, then the two trespassers fled the way they came, leaving no trace that they had ever been there.

It did not take long for the official to determine that the two men were, in fact, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives conducting what is known in the U.S. intelligence community as either a "black bag job" or a "surreptitious entry" operation."

I wonder how sophisticated that operation was (and how sophisticated today's equivalent is).

Would _you_ know if someone had loaded some new software onto your laptop? How would you protect against that? I wonder if running Tripwire on my OS X and Linux laptops as well as on servers might be smart? WOuld Tripwire be likely to be of any use against modern CIA-style "black bagging"?
Options Enable Consciousness
A well thought out article. Maybe the best I have read on this subject. +1
O right - my reply is disgusting ad hominem and out of place, but suggesting that you call your wife "ludicrously stupid" and "extremely dumb" is not?

Edit: Just saw your reply to the OP: "If she is dimwitted to a point that she doesn't understand even when it's explained, I'd try to find a new wife."

Words fail me.
Fuck yeah, MicroSoft. Fuck. Yeah!
When it does get bad it can be mistaken for ALS.
That's pretty fucking bad.
It’s possible to wire the LED directly to the power of the camera. That way if the camera receives power the LED is also on. There is no way to change this behaviour in software. (This is how the indicator lights on Macs and presumably many other indicator lights are wired up.)
I think at the end of the day, there has to be some protection against unfair competition

Would you define "unfair competition"?
Or south enough. Bonus is that in south you'll also get denque, yellow fever and malaria from bites.
Show HN: Finding Rover, facial recognition for finding lost dogs
AGH. I was going to use this to make IP-free drugs.
I am a programmer, process manager, development manager, project manager, and former business owner. I've pretty much done everything.
The perfect anti-Google Glass device: http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/21/ir-leds-used-to-defeat-s...
As dschleef said, the epoch span is one day. You will notice that dist_1_v1 is less than dist_0_v1. This fixes the problem you noticed, leading to a reasonably correct, shrinking value for the distance between Voyager and the Earth.
A new documentary 'Sign Painters' is out and touring around North America.http://signpaintermovie.blogspot.ca
I think it is likely. I was under the impression that space programs try to keep identical subsystems on Earth so they can use them to debug in-mission issues. Hard to attach a JTAG debugger when your device under test is 34 lighthours away! =)
As one of the other replies to your comment touched on, I am of the belief that it is very difficult to optimise a complex interface for all skill levels (while maintaining the same level of productivity for users at the high end).

You seem to be taking the term 'amateur' as dismissive or even insulting. I absolutely do not mean any offence by it, simply that it represents a shifting of focus of the application to a different group of users with a different set of needs. However, I see this group as already being served by something such as Garageband (perhaps with just a few additions of functionality).

I lament a truly great tool for high end users becoming watered down and less efficient for its established base, who know what they're doing and just need the interface to get out of the way as much as possible.

Regardless, I was attempting to express my genuine sadness and disappointment in one of my favourite tools becoming a bit less useful to users such as myself, I certainly didn't intend it to come across as an 'ego massage'.
Microsoft Hints That Skype Calls May Be Fair Game for NSA
Wouldn't that presumably be implementation specific?
That line between a scheme and a business is getting blurrier.

By the by, Rebecca Grant, when you add financial incentives to referral marketing then it turns into something else. That's called affiliate marketing. And sometimes it creates pretty scummy situations and circumstances.
I suspect it's a way of hiding backdoors in "free" themes/plugins. It's a technique that's not the usual obvious eval(base64decode("0xabad1dea")) that people might scan for (either by eye or with automated tools).

That means this exploit might well be _in_ the "canonical source" - where the user doesn't suspect the "Super awesome social shopping comparison plugin" they downloaded is likely to be trojaned.

(I wonder if anyone's running a scan over the WordPress.org plugins/themes librarys looking for unexplainable exif_read_data() and preg_replace() calls?)
Realistically the smaller than department sized organizations still need to talk to each other.

FBI-DoD still looks like FBI-NSA, FBI-Army CIS, FBI-Navy CIS, FBI-Army Intelligence, FBI-DIA, FBI-... etc. etc. and on and on.

Within DHS, I'd wager FBI till has to talk to TSA separate from SS.
Sentry on heroku, https://github.com/dmishe/sentry-on-heroku or any fork
Rather than buy a (most likely) generic template on WordPress, since the site is a single page, take the first 10 or 20 sales and invest that money in paying a designer to design that single page site as good as possible for further conversions.

Also, don't link in the same tab to your blog posts, you are taking people away from the chance to purchase, and they will typically not be back (there is probably a little higher chance because the market is developers that they will remember to come back and purchase). You should at a minimum, open the links in a new tab.

I definitely second the email list, sit down and write up 52(? more/less?) short "tips" and put people that sign up on an autoresponder that emails out every week, that includes a way to come back and purchase in each email. Obviously leave a way to unsubscribe, and keep track of who purchases and put people who have purchased on a slightly different list (can still send the tips, just don't push the sale anymore).
With: peach fruit double

Siamese Twin Peaches; Double and Triple Peach Fruits: http://xtremehorticulture.blogspot.com/2012/04/siamese-twin-...