skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I haven't really dug into this schema in detail yet, but I'm guessing that XSD is expressive enough, and that - worst case - somebody could define an equivalent schema in $WHATEVER, and mirror the data after tranforming it. It's not a perfect setup, but at least it might make the content more usable for some purposes.

I'm kinda curious to see what can be done with it in terms of transforming to RDF triples myself, but time will tell...
Reminds me of this Twitter feed spoiling bait-ish headline tweets: https://twitter.com/MamamiaSpoilers
I was aware of their efforts to implement a Code of Conduct as early as November 2012, around the same time I began work on the Python CoC.
Room 641A?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138355
It is interesting on slide 17 that the NSA can decrypt all VPN traffic.

Does this indicate that they have broken HTTPS, or simply that they own VPN companies like Private Internet Access?
oh god, how many billions did this program cost? I wonder what the dollar figure on cost per capture is, even assuming all 300 were legitimate. of course in reality they could just as easily have been thought crimes. no way to know.
I don't understand this argument. I know there were in fact no WMDs found in Iraq, but I believed the government when they said that they had reason to think there were.

So it turns out there weren't, and going in was a big mistake. Great, lets all viciously attack (I'm not saying you did this, but definitely many others with your same opinion have) the government for making a mistake.

And now we wonder why they try to lie and completely cover-up/distort reality. Because we as voting citizens are totally unwilling to forgive our elected officials for making mistakes.

Obviously that mistake was massive, tragic, and deadly. But it still was, I believe a, mistake. Maybe there's something to this issue that I don't know yet, but to me "according to the government" does not immediately correspond to "the government's blatant double-speaking lie".
Conquered the internet?

I don't think so.
I've never clicked on any of those ads, and I'm sure that millions of other users of Ad Block, etc, have never even seen these ads.

Of interest to me was the author's reluctance to click on links due to malware threats.

Even when I used WinXP, years ago, I never have been infected with any malware, but then, I'm not the average PC user.
This letter by Feynman may help clarify your search for purpose: http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/pr...
I'm on Medium, but truthfully I'm waiting for Ghost.
Yes, it seems like they have broken VPN or SSL in some way.

Perhaps they own or subsidize many of the cheaper VPN like has been rumoured for Private Internet Access?
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
ExtJS is widely used on government systems and has been for years. If you want to deploy a rich web application that can handle large data tables with infinite scroll, filtering, sorting, etc., and run it all on IE >= 6 ExtJS is your only feasible choice.
What would be the ideal language to compile to this?
Europe, and Asia do. Why is it we see all those Germans rallying and we stateside do not?
Talking to a friend of mine who works there, they haven't moved away from it at all really.

They've been optimizing the heck out of it, and as much as my kneejerk reaction to their infrastructure is "a collage of rubberbands and paperclips waiting to break in unexpected and unpredictable ways", I've gotta hand it to them for not giving in to the temptation to prematurely optimize. Clearly it's been working really well for them, and so I guess it's worth not "fixing" it until it starts breaking.
There's similar app on Android for years

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spritefish...

The claimed speed is 30 fps, the moar RAM the better I think.
can you give some context on it?
If this manages to summarize well, including explanation of complex long technical articles, and top comments - SUATMM
Wordpress is a CMS.
The No True Scotsman fallacy is a fallacy because "Scotsman" is an artificial category. There is no phenomenological consequence of being a "Scotsman"; therefore, its properties can be assigned arbitrarily, based on first assigning someone to the set (by marriage, say), and then remarking on the thing all the members of the new, expanded set have in common. (A clear parallel would be a "No True HN Member" fallacy.)

However, if you believe that there is any empirically-detectable property that makes a someone a better programmer when they have more of it, then "programmer" is a natural category, not an artificial one. It's something where, if we washed away the word for it, we'd end up re-creating the word, as a handle to describe that obvious cluster of things which are unlike other things but like one-another. Being a programmer has phenomenological consequences--you can determine who is or isn't a programmer using games or tests which don't have anything to do with programming trivia, and without mentioning that "potential for ability to program" is what you're testing for.

In any natural category, you'll have false negatives and false positives: things that are identified as X but don't have the property that puts them in the X natural-category, and things that aren't identified as X, but which do have the property.

There are many False Programmers. There are also False Not-Programmers: people who don't think, or know, that they're programmers, but who are nevertheless. This is true of every natural category. There are people who think they can sing but can't, and people who think they can't sing but can.

There are professional singers who can't sing, even though they "are" singing. When we say "can sing", we imply the edifice of a market, and competition; we really mean "can sing to a level where we'd pay them more for their singing than a randomly-selected member of the population." In other words, they "can sing objectively-well."

There are people who "can program objectively-well." They are, in the terms of the natural category, both the True Programmers, and the False Not-Programmers. There is no fallacy at work.
Snowden/Greenwald are doing a great job keeping this issue alive. Much like if you tell a lie enough times people believe it: if you tell the truth enough times people remember it.

Everyone who cares about this issue should do what they can to make sure as many people as possible understand what is going one. Just keep bringing it up like this reporter did today. Otherwise it will just slip into the background and we will be stuck with it for a very long time.
A space surveillance system with six inch ground resolution
if you take as given that the NSA has prevented 300 9/11 attacks from occurring, you may feel it is justified.

surely you don't believe the premise, but as a thought experiment pretend it were true. would the NSA actions be justified?
That's really interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I'll have a look at it once social sharing is out the door.

I did consider getting into other aspects of iPhoneography, like HDR, etc. The trouble with HDR in particular is that there's no API access to direct the sensor into each of the bracketing modes.

In the case of HDR, it might be more fruitful to attempt some kind of image signal processing, similar to "Clarity" on Camera+.

I looked into that for a while, and I figured that Camera+ might be using some version of the Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) algorithm. In any case, what they've done is really neat from a DSP perspective. :D
I do a bit of freelance marketing, copywriting, conversion optimization and the such. I'd be glad to chat if you want to email me. Address is in my profile.
The post is more about why one should join medium...
It takes time and lots of effort, and ill argue is easier on a quasi standard platform (processor wise) but apps like this show how much juice can be squeezed out of the existing hardware by handcrafting the code.

Kudos, I just bought the app!
You really want it both ways don't you. Ignore that Stallman was right AND continue to paint him as a crackpot. You just don't get it do you? You're drawing a completely arbitrary line. Who are you to say that he has no thought behind avoiding proprietary software as a matter of principle? I am willing to bet he could enumerate far more reasons for his position than you could.
This. CBT helped me a lot. It's real, it works, and it works because it's realistic and asks you to observe yourself, understand yourself, and only then can you "change yourself".

It's amazing just a few days ago there was an article on the front page about how tripping on LSD or Magic Mushrooms was life changing for the better.

Sometimes depression is caused by lack of sunlight, exercise, poor diet, bad environment (stressful) and other times it's caused by seeing the world for what it really is: A depressing cesspool of suffering, death, meaninglessness, and no purpose or hope. Sometimes all it takes is realizing that the universe and laws of nature are "evil", rewarding the most violent and aggressive species while punishing the weak or passive with miserable deaths, is all it takes to fall into a subtle depression. CBT teaches you to recognize the pattern of thinking that leads to those thoughts and training yourself to stop before you reach that state of mind.
That discussion is full of the usual run-arounds.

The man scored a major point, and Mozilla has chosen to run away from it. The DNT flag, so far, looks just like the worthless piece of promotional fluff and 3-card Monte it is. ESPECIALLY if Mozilla chooses to run away from it.

We're going to need laws to protect us from the continual government AND corporate riot of people-tracking. The People don't like it, and once they get done with NSA in Congress, they might as well get busy on making tracking OPT-IN. Including cookies, browser finger-printing, stashing stuff in browser cache (disk AND memory), and the hundreds of other ways these geniuses have evolved to invade the social communication space to promote their bottom line. We badly need to have this discussion as a nation. Because its starting to run over our boot-tops.

Tracking could be limited to dot-coms. Then let the People decide whether to keep dot-coms in their bookmarks, or leave the rats to go down with their ship of fools.
Totally agree with everything you've said. I wasn't trying to equate helping the NSA build spy tools with building equipment for the Nazis -- just how doing so can be a slippery slope because it scales to such awful things as well.

I guess I felt the need to comment because it sounded like you were saying, "Hey, I get why they're doing it. Sounds like it'd be fun!", and I feel like having that attitude (even if I trust someone like you to know to stop before things get truly out of control) is dangerous.
access.

any citizen can go out and listen to public conversations, but we are not all invited to put our e-stethoscopes up to the internet backbone.
Thanks for the download! Let me know if you've got any feedback, I can be easily contacted through the app. :D

I'd just like to add that in addition to handcrafted code, choosing the right algorithm and always trying to "do less work" (less cycles, less data IO, better use of registers) makes a big difference.
But couldn't optimizing advertising on some website for a shitload of money lead one to develop a novel algorithm or modeling framework that had applicability to diverse fields including alleviating starvation?

Is culture important? Is The Big Lebowski frivolous? Is Old Navy Performance Fleece is a waste of time? Should the cast of SNL all quit and start learning R? Do those folks not pay taxes and thus support most academic research?

I just have to challenge the assumption that it is obvious which things are important, moral, and noble and which things are frivolous. Perhaps in hindsight those things are clear. History will be the judge, as a wise man once said. Or maybe he wasn't wise. Or maybe he made some unwise decisions and learned from them. Or maybe it doesn't matter, and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because the secret to happiness is thinking happy thoughts.
Awesome! Drop me a line, would love to see how you go. :-)
It's too bad you got downvoted. Your first question was pretty good.
Yes, exactly--if assessing teacher performance was simple, then we'd be doing it, wouldn't we? :)
of course not. but i would not think it weird if you rewarded me for finding you and telling you your door was open.

more to the point, there is a social expectation that large companies will be grateful for vulnerability reports, and reward the reporter accordingly; the poster is well within his rights to be disappointed that they did not.
I wonder if we'll be able to harvest all ambient sound one day.
I thought the app was pretty cool, just super slow to save out the JPEGs.

That's one of the reasons I spent a lot of time to make sure SnappyCam could compress these images, thumbnails and Exif metadata included, at a ridiculous speed.
Wow, I'm usually pretty skeptical about these new niche social networks, but I've gotta say that is really really cool.

Great work on the "living photo" idea -- that kind of adds this magical sort of feeling to it, which, I've gotta say, I felt.

I hope your hard work pays off. You've built something special here :)
Worse than that, you have probably (as I have) reported plainly-obvious security vulnerabilities with at least a faint twitch of nervousness that the recipient is going to flip out and start suing or something. Worse than no expectation of reward from a utility point of view!
bringing up lost kids is misleading because people care about other people in a manner that they do not care about faceless companies.
Got an account on a site like Github? Hackers may know your e-mail address
That real estate court was headed by someone more like an administrative law judge. Some states allow that sort of thing. In New York, towns and villages have elected justices who go to judge school for 60 hours. They preside over minor cases like traffic and "police court" type matters.

One of the more serious issues with the FISA court is that they appear to be only nominally distinct from the Executive. The staff seems to come from the DoJ, for example. I think this reflects the fact that this was until recently a sleepy backwater of the court system.

I wouldn't focus too much on the Chief Justice's ability to appoint the judges. Federal judges are very powerful people, and that power (and the permanence of their position) gives them more independence in terms of judgement than just about anyone.
Threat to freedom, eh? Isn't that what we used to invade Iraq?
In the "lost child" scenario, it seems to me there's some ranking like:

1) helping out 'cause it's the right thing to do.

2) helping out with some hope there'll be a reward.

3) not helping out, 'cause there's probably nothing in it for you.

4) helping out with an expectation of a reward.

5) helping out with an expectation of reward then complaining publicly 'cause it's "not enough"

…

VERY_LARGE_INT) Abducting the child.

While there's a long way between 1-5 and the biottom of that list - there's no doubt in my mind that 1 & 2 speak significantly better of the "helper" than 3, 4, & 5. (and interestingly, there's no "outside" difference between 1 and 2 or 4, unless you choose to admit your mercenary inclinations to onlookers.)

Things are a bit murkier in the guy in the article's case, since "bug bounties" are known about and perhaps "expected", and I think Bit Torrent handled this badly, but further down the thread he admits "This was all 100% accidental, truth! At the end of the day If I wanted to 'hack' BitTorrent I wouldn't even know where to begin. I mean, there is no real skill or talent involved in what I did to find the information on BitTorrent." That makes it hard for me to feel sympathy for him failing to get a windfall "bug bounty".
Thanks mate---comments like yours make my day. :-)

I'm not actually planning on creating a new niche social network. I think, given the vastness of some of the ones that've emerged of late, it would be more fruitful to leverage the ones that exist today.

Can't wait for you to see it!
I think that the 3rd party doctrine is flawed in that the 4th Amendment specifically states that we are to be secure in our "persons, papers, and effects," which equates to the communications medium of the era of the Constitution's authors, and a parallel can be drawn with the US Postal Service, as our mail is supposed to be secure against external perusal except when the final provision of the 4th Amendment is met by issuance of a warrant describing the things to be seized or inspected.

The wiretap law should be revised to include other forms of electronic communications in order to thwart such applications of the feeble 3rd party doctrine.

I find it reprehensible that in the "Land of the Free" we allow our government to circumvent the letter and intent of the Bill of Rights in the name of "security" when these very circumventions are the antithesis of freedom.
They don't have to buy the medallions for one thing...
The roadways are almost certainly not public. Even if they were, the city could pass an ordinance making this completely illegal, just the same way that it's illegal to scalp a ticket within a certain range of the stadium. If the city/county's revenue stream is on the line you can be sure that it's in their best interest to do that.
Advertising pays for a lot of very legitimate content-focused blogs/news organizations as well.

People can't afford to pay for every single blog or bit of news they read and authors can't do anything substantial or meaningful without making it a job(and needing money to do it).
My first thought was "Huh, that sounds like an architecture that would map perfectly to LLVM's SSA IR". Can't wait to watch the video now!
So do gears basically help you distribute kinetic energy, or do they serve other purposes?
By that logic I should walk out of work tomorrow with as much of the Windows source I have or can get access to quickly and quit my job and ransom Microsoft for the money?

I have stumbled onto servers and data that I shouldn't have before. In each case I've reported it (Though I've begun reporting anonymously) and would not have accepted a reward in return unless they had an established bounty program.
The Backwater Gospel
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Yes, there are ways of making more secure hand scanners. The article links to the exact model, if you're interested. No, it probably isn't perfect. But it's part of a larger security system; remember, whatever you're bringing to "hack" this door, you must have also slipped past a physical inspection. I don't necessarily expect total brilliance from the security guards, but I suspect they would know enough to ask you some very pointed questions if you tried to sneak in a to-scale replica of somebody's hand.
Everyone on Hacker News is a Hedgehog
jpap, I don't quite fully understand the implementation (though I'd love to one day be proficient enough to). But maybe you can explain how the format compares to motion JPEG. Or maybe it's very similar? About 15 years ago I dabbled in live video recording on old Pentium II hardware with an old BT878 video input card. Motion JPEG was the only feasible option to obtain relatively high quality (for the time) results albeit at the cost of disk space.
Turning another incarnation of CSIRO's wireless research into a product, and still dreaming of the Free Space Optics stuff. Happy to buy you a beer if you are passing though SYD! Keep well.
Yup -- then the key players just make sure to insulate themselves with plenty of lower-tier traffickers.

Drugs will only be cheap when they are legal.
My favourite:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite
trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs,
and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac,
this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

I snorted audibly when I imagined explaining this approach to my non-techie colleagues.
nah it's a different thing. He says general purpose processor architectures have so many rename registers because of single assignments. He then proceed to talk about percentage of data being Single Assignment.

Therefore, it's better to use a statick-sized queue structure. Hence "belt" - it's like a conveyor belt.

I'm still watching it though. The topic is interesting but man, his voice is droning.
(Also, I should note, the usual thrust of the "Do What I Mean" button joke is that the person wants to press it because they're tired of having to make choices. What they really are asking for is a Coherent Extrapolated Volition (http://intelligence.org/files/CEV.pdf) button: to cause the machine to, perhaps, simulate a bunch of copies of you, showing you a result for each combinatoric set of responses in parallel, and then pick the result which simulated-you likes most, without having to bother real you with any more questions.)
Yes, SnappyCam has a faster algorithm advantage.

Android on the other hand, has more open and better hardware, e.g. larger full-res camera, much larger RAM, faster external storage or even OTG, more CPU/GPU cores. In theory if SnappyCam is full ported to Android you can make it faster than 8M pixels @ 20fps
Do you have a source for that? I tried googling and couldn't find a solid number on Taxi revenues by city.
When I read the title my first thought was "How can you write NSFW article about using redis?". After doing a quick google search and looking through youporns blog, I figured the title is just misleading and no NSFW version exists.
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RNG/PRNG output quality and the internals of the algorithms.
I always say a good programmer has to be "lazy"!

Some feedback, the default exposure settings showed my room as pitch black (I have it very dim now), the native iphone5 camera adjusted automatically. I was able to snap a shot by pointing to the light. Personally I prefer not to crank the gain on the sensor.
HN users have established a certain amount of trust in each other that lets us evaluate links in user's comments differently than links in other places, especially if the comment is upvoted. Your "technique" shows exactly that. If you would write anything like that on a thread NOT about advertising, you would just be downvoted and not get almost any clicks, so I don't agree that the same techniques work on everybody. Screening technique exists exactly for that - to screen people on who the techniques won't work.
The majority of PhDs will not obtain permanent careers in science. In the UK, it's less than 4% (0.45% professors) [1].

Most of your peers--and perhaps even you--will find themselves searching for careers in a new field at some point. Let's not badmouth them for taking a good opportunity.

[1] Figure 1.6 of http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/...
Or, they could hire a heckler (or manipulate a likely heckler in to being there) to make sure they get heckled, in just the right way, so they can respond and seem calm and win over some coverts to their cause, sow confusion and fracture the opposition.

In my mind, I imagine what I wrote above as being disinformation 101.
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