skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the web site and block a little light on details. As in, there were none at all. It's not clear what benefit the Evergreen digital currency has over any other currency. Is it centralized? What does "secure" mean? What is it backed by?
The Five Characteristics of An Ideal SaaS Company
I've discovered a common theme in Business Insider headlines
A very simple way to explain it: imagine you are on a playground and there is a merry go round right in front of you. A kid jumps in it and it starts spinning. At the same time you start to slowly walk away in a straight line. If you keep looking at him, you will see that the distance between you two varies (he gets closer, then farther, then closer back again) due to the rotation of the merry go round. In this example, the merry go round is the solar system, the Sun is at its center, fixed in this frame of reference, the kid is the Earth and you are the Voyager probe. Hope it helps!
Just tried this in the office with my phone. Impressive! You should submit this as a Show HN - really deserves to get some reviews.

Good fun for those with kids and even mucking around in the office demoing to friends.

You should throw some more money at this to get a few dozen more models/pages going. I can't think of a 1-5 yo that wouldn't like this. Colleague with children said "My kids are going to lose their shit when they see this."
An Explosion of Ad Supported Video on the Horizon
This isn't new, and it certainly isn't specific to JPGs. It's quite frequent for people to embed malicious code into files masquerading as images. There has also been instances where hacked WordPress instances[1] hide code inside images so they aren't so obviously found ready for execution at a later date

The most common way to exploit this however is by uploading an image with a valid magic number (e.g. GIF89a) which will any mime type checks and then finding a way to rename that file to one with an executable extension, or finding a way to include it through an LFI vuln.

A simple solution is to simply load the image up in ImageMagick (or GraphicsMagick, GD) and re-write the image to disk.

Disclaimer: Former lead developer of an image hosting service

[1] https://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Be'ery/bh-eu-12-Be'ery-F...
2,000 year old organization with 1.2 billion members incorporates social media into its gamification strategy.

Talk about mainstream.
But presumably you could let cash accumulate, and add a bank account later. I think probably passing the money through to a charity is the safest.
Some things I'd look at:

Stop isolating people in class rooms, and get them out, at least part of the day, involved with their interests with companies pursuing them.

Shift some of the responsibility for paying for highly skilled workers back to where it used to be, companies that use them.

Invest more money in education, and reap the benefits in lower crime rates and less unemployment.

Stop punishing boys, especially minorities, with suspensions for class room disruption when they aren't able to sit quietly at their desks. Instead provide opportunities for them to engage actively with their learning.

Smaller classroom sizes, which have been linked with higher grades.

Restore funding for the arts and sciences, both of which have been cut in favor of increased support for reading, composition and math because of standardized tests.

Or maybe you want to talk about College?

Require colleges to give preferences for merit based scholarships to those with actual financial hardship, instead of the current practice of subsidizing middle class students because it's more lucrative to give 20k at 4 people who's parents can pay the rest, instead of 80k to one person.

Again, connect classroom content with actual work, and actual research.

Provide a no cost college education to any citizen that wants it, like many countries in europe. Have college applications be based on the best school a kid can get into, instead of the best they can afford.
This position results from confirmation bias. You know of the big sales of patents, but everyday there are patents filed, generally costing $10,000+ to the filers, that may not even sell at a profit to acquire. Everyday startups fail with ideas that noone really cares about.
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Audio eavesdropping could be pretty easily defeated with a challenge/response system. And if the speech recognition system is powerful enough, the response to the challenge could simply be to repeat the challenge in your own voice - which would be really user friendly.
They ought to head mount that thing so it follows wherever you are looking.
Idea... Let's come up with some semi-standard language to include in contacts for client projects to request an optional fee to pass along to open-source projects used. Something like, "we recommend 1% of the development budget be allocated for contribution to open-source projects (blah, blah, blah)." It's easy to expense fees for software licenses, but there is no mechanism for open-source contributions. There should be.
Do you ever plan on being involved in the business side of a transaction for a b2b business? If so, yes you NEED to... if not you can probably get away not doing it.
Given that we have 7 billion people on the planet and climbing, we definitely do need to figure out what's causing the infertility so we can promote it throughout the world.
Don't forget the possibility that collaboration is on a "need-to-know" basis internally within Microsoft, and/or that the data is being captured by agents or coercion at the data center level.
I have used the Rollbar Clojure client library and I found it to be adequate FWIW
"google's business strategy is to steadily erode the privacy of all human beings and monetize it at each step"

I wonder if most Googlers have faced up to this reality yet?

Or if they simply don't care, or think the money, perks, and "cool stuff" that they get to work on makes it all worth it?
I think the core challenge is convincing OSS developers to redirect their attention from asking for donations -- which empirically are not sufficient to sustain OSS developers -- to selling things which larger enterprises can buy.

As a (hypothetical) team lead at BigCo, it isn't within my discretion to award $500 to an OSS project, but I can put a $500 training course or software license on my purchasing card on my own authority.

As a (no-so-hypothetical) business owner, it is highly unlikely that I'll ever donate $10,000 to a computer programmer, but I can trivially write that check -- and expense it -- for e.g. a support contract for a technology core to my business.
This is an awesome idea! Will you expand to cats?
For books and many other print media however, it's just overkill. You can do it markerless just by tracking known content on the page.

It's great for tracking within the whitespace however - that's where it's a cunning solution!
"Mozilla, rightfully or wrongfully (let’s be honest, the latter) is tied to ethics or standards over delight. Boring. Firefox isn’t even in the game at this point."

Nothing to see here folks.
I've also seen ears of corn growing seeds of grass instead of kernels of corn, but sadly I don't have pictures. Mutations are fairly common in agriculture; the misshapen produce is usually removed before it gets to you at a store.
The difference is "recording". Or, more specifically, recording and never deleting the recording.

I guess it isn't so much the surveillance itself that bothers me, its three things: 1) the idea that technology now allows surveillance to be ubiquitous, 2) that the security guard's observations don't attempt to identify me and observations don't "persist" across multiple visits/venues, and 3)that all the surveillance data is archived forever - ready to be abused/sold/profited-from whenever somebody thins of a way to make a buck out of it (or, more paranoid/cynically, invents new retroactive laws then goes looking for past indiscretions…)
Congrats on the release Michael.
"Unfair competition" is a blanket term for various civil torts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_competition#Commercial_l.... It include things like spreading false information about a product or price fixing. I think copying technology could be fit into tort framework instead of a property framework as with patents. Instead of filing a suit saying: "I own this patent and he infringed," you'd have to file a suit along the lines of "he gained an unfair advantage by copying technology I spent a lot of time and money developing."

One of the nice things about torts is that they are very flexible. Common law judges have a lot of flexibility to look at actual controversies and tweek the rules to get the "right" results. Judges don't have any of this flexibility under the existing patent regime. The Patent Act says that basically anything is patentable, so judges have to follow the intent of Congress. Some important backstops against patentability, e.g. the exclusion of algorithms and laws of nature, are judicially-created, and moving patent law to a tort framework would give courts more leeway to create these sorts of exceptions in response to practical concerns.
I don't pay for any SaaS. This isn't any kind of judgment I'm passing, I'm not trying to say "noone should psy for SaaS" or anything like that, just weighing in my own preferences.
Privacy group calls for FTC investigation of Jay-Z app
I make mainly hiphop beats and some experimental stuff, as well as recording and mixing hiphop artists. I've also recorded acoustic stuff. I would generally say that Logic would be a better choice for recording (though Ableton does have that capability). It's mixing and routing capabilities are fairly easy to use in simple cases, but it's more difficult to create complex setups than in Logic.

Where Ableton really excels (other than for live performance) is in productivity of compositing and production when working entirely within the application. It could be compared to using digital painting applications to create a work of visual art entirely in software.
Your ideas are great, but I believe the implementation will be impossible, especially for free college education to every citizen who wants it. Or maybe it is possible, but the quality will drop.

I wonder why we focus on education. It is a good thing, valuable for far more than monetary purposes, but my primary concern is the character of the students. As great as education is, I believe character is more important.
Creating Universal IOS framework from scratch
The people in charge of buying software and services buy what they are told to buy by their bosses. The bosses making those decisions oftentimes are uninformed and unconcerned with the things you might imagine that they would be.
Huh. I find that if you have a short cython script, you can just hack aruond in the IPython Notebook. Evaluating a 200-line cython script takes under a second for me, which is fine for my purposes.
How often do you talk to your close friends?
I'm transitioning to adulthood right now, and I've found that one of the hardest parts is that I don't talk to my close friends as often anymore (or I just don't have close friends).
In high school and college, I usually talked with close friends a few times a week about various life issues. Now, I talk to them once every couple of months (and we might hang out a few times a year).

Is this normal? My friends and I don't have much in common anymore. While I'm not depressed, I miss having meaningful conversations with people.

How do adults deal with this? Apart from a significant other, do people usually have a few close friends that they can talk to about important things? I'm otherwise in a decent place mentally, but everyday interactions tend to be shallow and it gets lonely. Thanks for any perspective or advice.
If you wish to dispute the GP comment, it would be more productive to pick a specific item you believe to be inaccurate and give your reasons for believing it to be inaccurate.
Reading the comments all of you have written has made me very excited as all of you have neat and helpful ideas. Perhaps the best motivator is hearing a bit of advice and receiving support from a wonderful community!

I've added reading the Holstee Manifesto to my morning ritual, what a neat poster Alias1. Feynman is a personal hero and his desire to do what is "fun" is a great motivator, thanks jayrobin. Misiek, my girlfriend would love it if we had a child, though I suspect there a few steps before that happens...

Thanks again HN, I look forward to hear more from all of you!
I think the biggest fans of RAII are those who use it more academically -- in real life it is brittle and scopes are tricky. It is also just an idiom as compared to a compiler feature. And, IMHO, RAII tends to play poorly with others.
The article couldn't help but use the catchphrase of un-science, "You never know," twice.
Linus exercises authority over his project. He decides which contribution to take in and which to leave out. He is a boss of linux. But not the boss of people who contibute because he has no authority over them to exercise.
Nice looking site - except for the text/background contrast. Very pretty and I enjoyed the video. Evergreen looks like a polished app experience.

However, like the previous commenter, I too am curious about what the assets are and what kind of security measures it takes.
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It's sad when the best they can do is conjure up the twentieth consecutive year of "natural feeling video conferencing is right around the corner!" as an excuse for allowing marketeers to use techno-fetishism to push omnipresent corporatized surveillance in to society and public spaces. (The video conferencing argument is a failure and will remain such: people prefer telephones, and it never feels natural.)
> It means that the entirety of LT's functionality is described in a datastructure that you could reasonably modify by hand.

I'm confused. Emacs embraced this principle almost forty years ago. Would you mind explaining to me what's novel about LightTable's take on this old idea?

Is it "That, But Clojure!"? or "That, But With More Webkit!"? Each of these could be valuable in their own right... Or am I missing something more fundamental?
Wired article on Hyperloop
The Parbuckling Project
They've pretty much always been on the right side, except that during their stay in Washington they were too willing to compromise — with results like CALEA, which later got amended to remove the internet-exemption concessions the EFF had managed to extract.

Anyone who thought they were "driven by tin-foiled paranoia" was just naïve.
People just lean to their comfort. I am an Erlanger -- so I tend towards channels. As people start doing more concurrently and the problems get more complex, dividing work among simple actors (or microservers depending how you break it up) becomes a great way of keeping complexity under control.
Cool, but if I can (eventually) increase the amount I'm receiving on GitTip to $60/year, there's my playground instance on DigitalOcean paid for.
Everybody mentions the hardware support (which I think is fine for the most part), but no one is addressing the elephant in the room: no big vendors develop or port applications to the Linux platform. Valve is the odd one, and even then, it took some years to release something.
I think what he is saying is, that on a mobile device where A: the correction is automatic, and B: the user rarely checks to see that the auto correction is proper then it makes sense to ensure the device isn't primed to change a misspelling of an innocuous word to one that may not be.
PJ O'Rourke once observed that "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys".

No matter how noble the intentions, no matter how vociferously the teenage boys swear, swear that their motives are and shall remain unimpeachably pure ... it eventually goes wrong.

I'm what you might think of as an ex-libertarian, not quite so rule-bound as I used to be. But on the topic of continuously fighting the granting of powers and capabilities I think they're right: the historical examples just pile on top of each other. Governments can't resist mission creep. You need to prevent the rot before it starts.
If that is what started it off, then I feel she more or less either misinterpreted what was being discussed in that thread, or else is deliberately picking a fight.
I suspect you've been watching too many spy movies. If a Microsoft employee surreptitiously "captured" user data when asked by the NSA, he would be guilty of multiple federal felonies and subject to significant civil liability. I suppose if this were a movie, the president would secretly pardon him, or he'd get a new identity under the witness protection program or something, but, alas, this is not fiction.

Microsoft's deputy general counsel and VP John Frank has a top secret security clearance. So do at least three of its attorneys -- all those clearences were granted by FedGov precisely so the company could respond to legal requests.
Actually, some of my coworkers had tried it previously and couldn't get it working either. I just didn't know they had tried it, and they didn't ask me to play around with it to try and get it in shape (this may have been before I started working full time with Conformal).

So this was just me not being aware of it, but others of us at Conformal were, and due to the above issues we decided to do our own.
Ironically, slides are hosted on a JS implementation of presentation software.
I am a bit confused as to YC's thinking with encouraging a startup like this.

What are the revenue opportunities - not necessarily short-term, but even long-term - like?

Do they charge a fee on each investment made? Or do their fees just come from exits? If so, then their cash flows will look even more ridiculous than a regular startup - if you assume they only admit 'early stage' startups for starters to their platform (because I guess that's where the most friction is from a fundraising point of view, and where the more deals are, etc.) then they could go 5 years with no cash flows from those deals?

Am I missing something here?

If they charge per deal, does the investor pay or do the startups pay (aside from a % of equity)?

Edit 1:

So I just did some digging through the FAQ [1] on their site and found this, that pretty much answers my questions and now I understand why YC invested. Makes sense.

Neither FundersClub Inc. nor any of its employees receive any compensation from the administrative fees or any other transaction-based fees for its single company funds. FundersClub will charge a performance based carried interest for most of its funds, which are expected to provide returns over time. Our immediate goal is to develop a compelling funding platform that will benefit both the most promising startups and investors. Over time, FundersClub has a number of additional ways in which it can make money. FundersClub may operate liquidity services for private companies, including employee liquidity program management for private companies, and eventually a trading platform for private companies that wish to provide ongoing private market liquidity to their shareholders. We may also participate in the investment funds, which can achieve returns for us along with other investors. We will continue to assess the opportunities within regulatory and legal guidelines, and are not providing any of those services currently.

[1] - https://fundersclub.com/site/faq/
Which of those offenses do you feel Raytheon, Rockwell, etc were guilty of?
"For every person who says their company failed because they didn't listen to customer feedback, there are the same amount of people who say their company failed because they did nothing but follow the demands of every single customer."

Very, VERY important point. Some years back I had the experience of designing, from scratch, several dozen web sites for some state government agencies. I used to tell people, "designing a web site is like decorating a room for 50 people and trying to make them all happy." And for sure, if you jerk and twitch from every customer comment, you'll crash and burn, like the proverbial hound dog in a whistle factory.

The real question is not just whether or not you listen to customer feedback, but how you process it.
Fair enough. Thanks for the links, and for giving Gittip a try. :-)
I have a dream of something like this working with Go's cross-compiling (http://dave.cheney.net/2013/07/09/an-introduction-to-cross-c...) allowing me to build native executables for windows from linux with GUIs.

From poking around, still a pipe dream for the moment.
The link to Github repo is under the "self-hosted server" section in the home page.
No. This isn't too surprising to anybody who knows how regular expressions work under the hood. The hand rolled parser is asymptotically faster than using regex. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the hand rolled parser were still faster for a complicated enough language and a large enough input file.

It's analogous to a hand optimized assembly language implementation of bubble sort being slower than quicksort in a slow, high level language. At some point the bubble sort will lose, simply because it's asymptotically worse.
And you can't mention jot and rs without lam:
http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/1/lam/
AI System Takes IQ Test, Smart as a 4 Year Old
Except it isn't: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/nsa-surveillan...
Alistair Cockburn (of the original Agile Manifesto) defined his Agile methodology "crystal clear" in similar terms - good people, conference room, white boards, leave them alone.

It's my favourite Agile method now :-)
Would some sort of active face verification be close to what you're looking for? Your webcam would always run, then when it sees you, it unlocks; when it no longer sees you, it would lock.
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> What's the difference between such surveillance and a security guard wondering around looking for suspicious activity and/or protecting shoppers/businesses?

Scale and awareness?

Scale, because if you ask that guard, who was buying what with whom, 742 days ago, chances are that guard won't be able to answer in any meaningful way. A database might (if eg: indexed on biometrics).

Awareness, because we come to ignore cameras, while if someone is actually there, looking at you, you are aware of being watched. (And also aware when their back is turned, so you can sneak a kiss from your mistress, or whatever you're not comfortable doing "on the permanent record" -- but might not be wrong).
Your comment is a bit like free jazz: it's all very impressive on the surface, but it doesn't really mean anything and ultimately one feels like it was just an exercise in ego massage.

all that should matter is whether the new features are meaningful to you, and whether it breaks anything you need at present.

It's all too rare that a person's conclusion directly contradicts their own thesis.
Where's the lie? PRISM is the name of an NSA software package used to collate data the agency receives under a well-known section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

But because of poor reporting and unintentional errors, the name of a software program used to analyze data has become transmorgrified into (1) a "government program" that companies (2) "participate in" that gives the NSA (3) "direct access" to their servers. Not one of those three assertions is true.
The Supreme Court is just another political body. If you have any doubt about this just look at the nomination hearings, as well as the huge number of 5-4 rulings. If the law were clear and it wasn't political, most of the rulings would be heavily slanted one way or another as it would be clear to the justices and there would be very little disagreement.

In short I agree: the Supreme Court is NOT The Voice of God.