skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have they made the Android app excellent yet? Last I checked it was still nowhere as good as MX Player performance wise. I'm just saying they might want to fix that before venturing into other platforms, especially platforms that have been very hostile towards them in the past.
1 year from now: "Why I'm Returning To Google Glass"
Yes, humidity makes a big difference. Google for air conditioning capital of the world. Houston was a widespread early adopter for a good reason!
I'm guessing his Nobel Peace Prize medal is being used as a coaster in the White House right now.
Check the account-specific settings within the app.
> Metro is notorious for out of service escalators,

That's what I meant. And unless i'm mistaken, most (if not all) stations have stairs for the street-level escalators, at one of the station's entrances.

The funny thing is the initial escalators aren't an issue; people hear you clanking your way down the escalator and they'll usually turn around and get out of your way. It's the stairs from the ticket gates to the trains where people decide to become sloths, and when there are stairs there I take them. (I seem to recall that being intermittent as well...)
I think that his doctrine was influenced by what happened to Germany in WW2: they had a tremendous war machine, but were hobbled by a lack of oil. The U.S. had enough domestic oil to wage any war they needed to, but diverting that oil to war would have wrecked havoc on the global and domestic economy. That's was the state of the Cold War and the state of things today: a strategy of maintaining economic levels while simultaneously waging war.
I had the unique experience of borrowing a pair of Google Glass for a multi-day hackathon. The very first thing I did was figure out how to develop and install actual Android apps on it, because the "card" system isn't conducive to developing interesting applications. Frankly I'd rather go with a smart watch if cards are all I could do.

During my time with Glass I prototyped 3D interactive software where you could load up models of human body parts, physical structures, etc, and swipe the side to rotate them around and view from all angles. This ran pretty well on the embedded processor, and I was importing relatively large 3D models.

As well, I tried running computer vision algorithms on the device. This did not go so well. I could not run a basic Canny edge detection algorithm at more than 1 FPS. FYI this algorithm - and similarly complex ones - are fundamental to doing anything remotely useful in image processing. The alternative is doing all your image processing offline, which may be fine in the future as internet becomes super fast. Some people are doing facial recognition like this, at a whopping 2 FPS.

About the product. There's the issue of the screen size. Small, hard to focus on, and up to the right. Not really conducive to augmenting your vision. I think it's fair to say that Glass was meant as an information retrieval device - which again, makes me wonder, why not just use a smart watch? Frankly I think the screen quality could be better on the watch too.

All in all, the platform is an interesting foray into wearable computing but I reckon it will take multiple iterations (and years) to get it to the point where I can run more interesting CV and AR applications. In the meantime, I've been building my own wearable computing hardware to enable the types of software I want to build. The Alan Kay quote, and all that.
Build custom directives with AngularJS
It's permanently damaged in the sense that a bridge is permanently damaged by people walking over it -- simply put, hearing sound erodes your ear drums regardless of how minute it is. Now, whether listening to really loud things escalates the hearing loss is probably what you were asking.

If a million people were shuffling along a bridge and they all walked gently then the bridge will be damaged minimally, but if a hundred trucks that weigh several tons drive across the bridge then that damage would be quite severe. A million people regularly shuffling every day would be quite damaging over a long period of time, but the effect of a thousand large trucks is far more damaging.

My point is, listening to really loud low frequency sounds isn't as damaging as listening to really loud high frequency sounds.

Now, my comparison is really poor and heavy trucks cause far more damage than people, but the comparison between 'low frequency' and 'high frequency' is apt -- high damage to roads comes from high weight concentrated on a small point of impact in the same way that high damage to hearing comes from high frequency sound.
yes, going the way of the Segway, this is exactly how people rationalized their use too.
Are you using Sublime Text 3 on linux? ST3 on linux ships with a broken SSL module. We work around it for our own plugin, but I don't think Package Control does.

If you're curious how the work-around code works, see https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...

The shared objects that code tries to load are all in https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/tree/master/lib
I would donate to something like this.
Surprised? No. Offended? Sure.
UberX is becoming a taxi
> Chemist here. We use centrifuging to separate components of a suspension by weight. Pitch is a suspension.

The last bit is puzzling: Are all suspensions fluids? And all fluids are viscous (even non-newtonian)?

If so, why do we need an experiment to prove that pitch --a suspension-- is a fluid and is viscous?

On the point of using a centrifuge. Is there something particularly special about gravity on earth that does not affect pitch? In other words, if we exposed pitch to 0.1x, 1x, 10x, 100x and 1000x g, at what point would the fundamental characteristics of the material invalidate the experiment. Are fluids and their viscosity only defined on earth (ignoring thermal and other non-gravitational effects)? Perhaps pitch is a viscous fluid on earth but a solid on the moon, where gravity is 1/6 of ours?

Is this experiment only valid at 9.8 m/s^2 then? What's the tolerance based on the substance under test?
Anyone else kind of creeped out by this? Mourning that people don't cleverly commit a particular (victimful) crime anymore?

What if I wrote an article about the lost art of child molestation, talking about how children are now much better prepared against being lured away by strangers? And then sagely asked if "we should miss" the decline of child predation?
So what's the fix for this? Wrap the object in another that only defines Read? Or is there another way?
Yes, definitely something that became a mainstream product less than five years ago is The Final Innovation.
Whoops, thanks. I'll update the profile now. Because I'm not seeking work, I've been a little lazy with my CV.
I think it's a false dichotomy to either use kid gloves for citizens or secret hit lists. To compare with the recent Snowden extradition attempt, charges were filed and authorities were notified. Why should Snowden & Anwar be apprehended any differently? To quote Wikipedia,

> Yemeni authorities offered guarantees they would not turn al-Awlaki over to the U.S. or let him be questioned.

This demands explanation from the State Dept why they didn't pressure Yemen like they recently did to countries offering relief to Snowden. US-Yemen relations cannot be evinced in an Internet comment, but it appears to me the US was quick to pull the trigger when other options were not fully exercised. The least they could have done was charge him, right?
Hacking Obamacare
So, if you're going to say that about otakus then can you explain why your choices are superior?
Yes, but as far as backups and backup security is concerned -- a time capsule is fairly proprietary, and a Mac on your home network is susceptible to local catastrophe.
Aww, really though this was about Loon.
Is web scraping illegal? Depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
We need more than page load times
Along those lines, someone's making a tick-killing robot: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-10/local/40575624...
Free ice cream, delivered by Uber
Pickpocketing used to be romanticized, and requires some skill to carry off. That's the difference.
Bradley Kuhn (who has worked for FSF for license stuff) says LGPL does not help. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/11/22/vlc-lgpl.html
How to succeed with your IT department
Does Go not provide method overloading? Couldn't they have 3 versions of the copy method?
Ask HN: What's the best way to detect similarity in images with PHP?
I am aware of OpenCV but I am looking for something more robust.

Ideally, I should be able to detect similarity in images using certain thresholds.
Heathrow fire on Boeing Dreamliner 'started in battery component'
They're not even reinventing Unix poorly - they're reinventing the Windows event logger badly, and I'm not aware of anyone that ever really liked that in the first place, especially Windows admins.
> #1 Be a broken record.
...
> #5 Stop talking, already.

Also, 42 rules? Would of been nicer to have just the few important ones perhaps.
I was at kiss within the last two weeks and you didn't hear the music, you felt it as your hearing slowly failed. I forgot to bring earplugs, something I would never recommend, and I could hear not a thing at the end of the concert.

Thinking of something so loud that it makes objects move.... nope.
Let's not fall into hyperbole: there's a few places that have banned Glass, out of well, the entire world. That's a long way from "most of the time" or "many places."

There's a lot more (and by that, I mean orders of magnitude more) places that ask you to not use cell phones than places that ban Glass (restaurants, movie theatres, coffee shop lines, airplanes, customs, etc). But nobody would claim that makes cell phones useless.
Complaining about it did get his blog to (at least) the top 4 on hacker news.
Looks great - any plans to offer self-hosted for those who want behind-the-firewall solutions?
I tried both ST2 and 3 (on linux).

Could it be that my system default python is 3 (not 2)?
I'm starting to think Elon has absolutely nothing planned, and just wanted to see what everyone thought he was doing, to help bring about all these awesome ideas for high speed travel :)
For one, the positioning of the display and camera. The display is elevated so you don't see it directly in front of you. You have to actively look at it. The camera isn't centered in your face so it doesn't line up with your vision.
no, if your database is hacked you still need to decrypt passwords in order to access to accounts, remember that 2-fact auth is just a extra-layer of protection, you still need to bypass traditional security schema
It's the old story: Crime and violence are on a multi-scale decline since the dawn of civilization, but nobody believes it.
Yes.

Source: This post's existence.
Is Uber going to turn into the next Kozmo?
I remember a pickpocket trying to pick my front pocket on the NYC subway in the late '80s. The subway car was packed since it was after the July 4th fireworks. What amazed me is that he realized were my cash was. Not in my wallet, but in my front left pocket.

I caught the pickpocket and wrapped my fingers over his and looked in his eyes. I didn't say anything since I knew thieves can roam in packs and my parents were not too far away. I was going to warn them (in a different language) when someone else caught the same pickpocket and started yelling at him and he finally left the train.

We were taught to wrap a rubber band around our wallets since it would create friction if someone tried to remove your wallets. Ah, the '80s.
and apparently so do 11 other companies.
Any support for private networks or networks not on the internet? Not everyone wants/can send their code through a third party.
Great article. Sheds a lot of light on directives, one of the more complicated parts of Angular.
I highly recomend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain

You can find there rich and poor, genetic modifications only rich can afford, one (lack of the need to sleep) so special that it reshapes world. You can find there universal income as payment for voting. You can find philosophy of exchange through voluntary mutually beneficial contracts promoted by such influential inventor that it raises to the same eminence buddism has. Awesome read.
SO has always had a very specific purpose in mind, and this has been advocated by Jeff Atwood, et al since the beginning. It was never meant to be a discussion based site. In fact, to quote the man himself,

"At Stack Exchange, one of the tricky things we learned about Q&A is that if your goal is to have an excellent signal to noise ratio, you must suppress discussion. Stack Exchange only supports the absolute minimum amount of discussion necessary to produce great questions and great answers. That's why answers get constantly re-ordered by votes, that's why comments have limited formatting and length and only a few display, and so forth. Almost every design decision we made was informed by our desire to push discussion down, to inhibit it in every way we could. Spare us the long-winded diatribe, just answer the damn question already." [0]

The entire point of StackOverflow is to answer questions as quickly, accurately, and efficiently as possible. You want more discussion? There's a chat room available. You want long, permanent discussion about (e.g.) the merits of various JavaScript frameworks? You're on the wrong site.

Plain and simple, SO is not (and never was) meant to be "a tool for developers who used it in many different ways". It was meant to be sued in one way: ask a concrete, specific, real-world question and get one specific answer that will always be correct.

Discussions about obsolete frameworks are fine. People still use them. If you are asking a question with a concrete answer that will not change, go for it. And by will not change, I mean that an answer about how to do something in Python 2.6 will never change, even though the version itself has been superseded by Python 2.7 and 3.x. That's still the right way to do the thing you want in Python 2.6.

Perhaps to most important point you are making is that "this judgement of what is good information and bad information is ... subjective. We have merely replaced flame wars with these debates." But the thing is, no one is really debating. This question was answered when the site began. Or certainly not long after. SO is a finely tuned machine, really, really good at one thing: answering practical questions in a practical way.

In fact, read up on the Coding Horror article referenced above[0]. Jeff Atwood talks about Discourse, a framework he and some other folks are trying to put together to address the need for a really good discussion-based environment. He makes the point that forums are the place where these discussions happen and are saved for posterity, and that's how it should be. When talking about the option of Stack Exchange as an online community for discussion, he refers to it as "quite frankly, terrible", because "We only do strict, focused Q&A there."

That really should put the issue to rest. SO is not a place to have open ended discussions. That's what forums are for.

[0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/02/civilized-discourse...
Pretty different use case, IMO. Streaming is far less useful on the go than playing locally stored files.

(and I can only assume you are involved with Tonido, given that half your HN posts are promoting using it)
The full source code is provided and all the build script, see the beginning of 6.a. Any user can rebuild it.
Biometric touchscreen recognises fingerprints for first time
Steam + Revel Framework + Go
> To this day, I much prefer to sleep with
> the windows open than run the air-conditioning.

The problem that I have with this statement is that sometimes just opening the windows isn't enough. I've lived without A/C since ~2005, and just bought an A/C unit for the bedroom due to the current Toronto heat wave. It just wasn't getting cool enough at night even with:

* windows open

* 6 fans running in the house to get air moving

* sleeping without any clothes on

Sleeping still meant being drenched in sweat and waking up multiple times in the night.

[ At one point in the past we took to sleeping in the basement if it was too hot, but that's not possible right now. ]
Not yet, but its on our radar.
The "good cop, bad cop" one is pretty transparent and I think will only serve to irritate the person you're trying to deal with. I've been on the receiving end of this several times and it doesn't reflect well on the sender.
Researchers Able to Turn Off the Genes That Cause Down's Syndrome
> It's permanently damaged in the sense that a bridge is permanently damaged by people walking over it -- simply put, hearing sound erodes your ear drums regardless of how minute it is.

Except that bridges aren't self-repairing organisms, so the analogy is flawed in that sense too.
Creating a Dashboard for Flurry Analytics
> most common infectious disease in New England

More common than flu, or the common cold? Really?

Perhaps you need to add a modifier such as "chronic" to your statement?
> #1 Be a broken record. ... > #5 Stop talking, already.

Heh, I was going to comment on that as well. I think this shows something about the merit of taking advice at "face value" and not applying your own discretion and judgment to its application.

I also disagree to some extent with #10 and #13. What he calls "bustling" and "energetic" I call "distracting" and "annoying". And while I'm a big believer in the value of face-to-face communication, I think working-from-home has a role to play as well. The problem, in my mind (and I don't pretend to have a definite answer to this) is how to find the right balance between expecting people to be in the office, and allowing them the flexibility to work from home.
This would be a valid comparison if the bridge healed itself. Similarly, walking damages your leg bones due to the impact / stress of gravity - but your bones actually strengthen due to use, as they are continuously being rebuilt, and they adapt to such changes. Too much can definitely cause permanent damage, but below that point it's not necessarily cumulative.
Not when you lose to Canada.
Why not cancel your cable? Watch shows once you can get them through iTunes or amazon?
#31 Consider the customer.

Seems google has gotten away from that. The Nexus 4 has a couple of very bad bugs that have gone unfixed for a long time. I feel really bad that I recommended a good friend get it, because these bugs have really damaged his enjoyment of the phone.
As I understand, VLC is unable to leverage the hardware codecs of the iPhone, because it doesn't use the official media frameworks, so it has to run stuff less efficiently in software.
Why wouldn't more surveillance have solved his specific problem? His specific problem arose because nobody knew the truth about where he was or what he was doing. Imperfect information caused him to be falsely accused.

Here's a though experience. If you believed in an all-knowing God, do you think He would know that the OP was innocent? If yes, then that's because the God knows and sees everything right?

Again, I'm not saying more surveillance is good in any way. One of the problems is that it's a lot of concentrated power and whoever gets a hold of it could abuse it. However, one way to ameliorate this would be to implement lots of surveillance, and make it all public data. A more open society would probably be a good thing though.
Also, Obama said that he won't abuse it but he didn't say when... maybe he won't abuse it yesterday. And I bet that his description of abuse is very different then ours.
Why would the US want to kill Snowden?

I think this dead man's switch is deterrent against being taken into custody. If the US tries to incarcerate him, then the switch will trip and more secret documents will be leaked. Though maybe the US doesn't care.

I wonder how badly the US wants him at this point?
The best subreddits should remain non-defaults. The default subreddits are, quite frankly, shitholes, the absolute worst reddit has to offer. The comments sections are only slightly better than Youtube comments, filled with the same old, tired, predictable 'jokes,' pun threads, and godawful novelty accounts.

Despite the optimism I've seen from the new defaults' moderators, unless they moderate with the tenacity of /r/askscience I have little doubt they'll slowly descend to the same bottom of the barrel content the other defaults currently offer.
That's how it worked previous to BB10, but BB10 no longer uses BIS. This person disagrees with the original story:

http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?singlepost=3242...
Agreed, its a tough situation that Twilio is genuinely apologetic about. It happens but I'm sure it will be fixed.
I can explain difference between Loom and Dropbox. I am not affiliated to Loom, I am just a beta user. I am also a payed Dropbox customer.

Dropbox is great for general purpose files, and files you edit (doc's, pdf's, etc). Is just like a general purpose folder that is synced to the cloud.

Loom is focused only on media content (photos and videos). As opposed to Dropbox, were you navigate files and see pictures thumbnails, Loom organizes pictures in albums and displaying them etc is awesome. Also sharing pictures with other's is very well thought out, you can easily share 100+ pictures in an instant.

I would say Loom is like the iTunes of Pictures. Dropbox is like iCloud.
Been watching this for awhile, it's what we've wanted for years now (we thought about building this as dev offering for Bushido's platform).

Finally giving it a go in emacs, I just get a Floobits buffer that continually spits out "floobits agent says: ... select(): No socket." non-stop.

Edit: Trying it again a second time seems to have worked. Temporary bug, or pebkac perhaps?
> Does Go not provide method overloading?

Yes, it does not permit method overloading.
This makes no sense at all. The drugs that are having the most severe shortages are all generics (i.e. no patent, multiple suppliers).

One of the big reasons behind the drug shortages is that generics compete on price. Often the profit margins are razor thin on generic drugs. If you encounter a problem with manufacturing, often you'll end up losing money on the whole endeavor. The result is that manufacturers leave the market and focus on drugs where they can actually make money.

The brand name drugs have had very few supply issues. When they do, it's usually a manufacturing issue.
That speech reeks of spin.

The region which is now threatened by Soviet troops in Afghanistan is of great strategic importance: It contains more than two-thirds of the world's exportable oil.

The Soviet Union was in Afghanistan which has no oil. President Carter seems to making a very tenuous connection between Afghanistan and the Middle East.

The Soviet effort to dominate Afghanistan has brought Soviet military forces to within 300 miles of the Indian Ocean and close to the Straits of Hormuz, a waterway through which most of the world's oil must flow.

Looking at the Straits of Hormuz on Google Maps, it appears to be not even close to Afghanistan which isn't surprising considering Afghanistan is totally landlocked. Again, President Carter appears to be trying to link Afghanistan to the hot-button topic of the day. i.e. Stop the Soviet Union or they'll be able to stop the flow of oil!
"In those days, you had no relief."

I think a big draw of the some movies theaters back then was that some were air conditioned (in other words when their was ac but it was not typically in a home).

I've also see this in retail on, say, Market street in Philly. The stores blast their ac and leave the doors open in order to lure in hot customers who want to cool off.
I couldn't tell from the article: is there a way to stream files over afp?
ST2 and ST3 ship their own python for linux I believe. Unfortunately, it has been stripped of useful modules like ssl. We have attempted to add support (see https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/tree/master/lib) but this is something Sublime should do, not us.