skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live stream video IP was developed and deployed for public safety as an m911 app www.GuardianWatch.com. Founder is looking to exit, transfer, build a new management team.
When will straight, white males finally hold positions of power and privilege !
It's strange, I've never been able to get into le Carre's novels, but I do quite enjoy his writing in that piece.
Is the iPad Era Already Drawing to a Close?
It's not perfect, but it's definitely an improvement.
Ah you're right, I was thinking TTY didn't buffer at all but it does line buffering. That is contrasted to regular buffering if it wasn't a TTY.
Food struck me as weirdly cheap in Moscow--restaurants were expensive, but street stalls and groceries were cheap, especially compared to markups on other consumer goods (I bought a webcam there for $70 that would have cost $30 in the US). Bread, at least, was always cheap as dirt, and available in better quality/variety than in American supermarkets.
Having never lost a phone or a laptop, I don't know.

While a phone is smaller, it's something most people check frequently, and typically notice if it's missing quickly.

Plus, don't most phones have email, which is almost as bad as the documents stored on a computer, because most of them are sent over email?
Can I ask in the language if the address points to the item constructed by the compiler in the static area?

The thing I miss most in C is the possibility for the some kind of"introspection" -- reaching out to the info that the compiler or linker has to know anyway. As far as I know D language is very good for such things.
The snark is the implication they didn't actually do anything particularly special or unique.
I'm Italian and I think I know something about good food: trust me, there are only exceptions in San Francisco. Most food is crap, or just average. And ALWAYS overpriced.

Take the "trendy" places: Flour + Water, Farina, Cocina, etc.
If you go there, you will hear Americans shouting "Sooo good! Delicious! Amazing! Soo tasty!", etc.

Reality is that if you take any random restaurant or trattoria in Rome, chances are you will eat something AMAZINGLY superior, for 1/3 or 1/4 of the cost.
(then there are some tourist traps, and they don't count, of course. They're just a scam).

My 0.02.
Different experience here. Definitely broke my zoom.

Page is absolutely beautiful though.
What on earth is a pull down?
I completely agree. Ostensibly the client should know more because he's the one ordering the product, but the reality is you often need to educate them.

But that just goes to show it's more stressful and difficult than an interview.
Very cool boat!

From the standpoint of being tsunami-proof. This thing is made of wood, so if a tsunami were to pick it up and throw it around with the other debris, wouldn't the hull get punctured and occupants drown?

Rubber (or something similar) would seem like a better material to withstand the beating. Not sure how the occupants would fair though.
I find the quality of my blog posts improve when I write them in Google Docs first rather than attempting to write them in Drupal's CKEditor.
I cannot stay silent here. The coffee in Portland is superior to SF. (Yes I've tried multiple options in both places). I'd say that even the food options are about par - with Portland being cheaper.
I'd prefer such code to actually be the part of compiler, simply, C headers directly readable by the compiler as soon as they are referenced from the code as C headers.
Given time everyone will come to realize that bitcoin is a very complex and elaborate ponzi scheme. One that will rewrite the books on scams.
But what's the point? Can I really tell the difference past "retina display" density?
More likely, it's easy to convince a teenager. "yeah, there may be a few rogues out in the middle of a war zone. There are hundreds of thousands that serve with honor, and those that don't will be punished. Please sign here.
I'm not entirely sure that's true. Consider the rapid advances in the mainstream acceptability of LGBT concerns over the past 20 years, and the number of people who have come to `a new understanding'. Similarly, the shift in perspective over the acceptability of racism; James Meredith, the student whose enrollment at Ole Miss sparked riots, is still alive as are many of his schoolmates. I'm reasonably sure that most of them have had their opinions regarding integration changed by public opinion and the subsequent years.
If I understand correctly, ROS development will continue and the core ROS team are being migrated over to the OSRF, another organization started by the same founder.

source: A friend works at the Open Source Robotics Foundation (osrfoundation.org)
So much auto tune.
If it is normal for women not to want to do programming then the corollary is that women who do enjoy programming are 'abnormal' and 'not like most women', perhaps you could call it 'unfeminine'. Given that attitude, readily demonstrated by half of HN here, how could girls possibly sense an external pressure not to be programmers?
Yeah. I like chicken; cheap and easy. I put dried chopped onions on mine before cooking, but yeah, that's a huge part of my own diet, along with salads, which are good for 'fill you up' bulk.

I've also started doing slow-cooker pork. I pan fry it when I'm done, and it comes out kind of somewhere between pulled pork and carnitas. I slow-cooked a bunch of boneless beef short ribs last night, I haven't tried them yet. more expensive per pound, but short ribs are so good.

Especially if I cook something in sauce (like chili) I put it in little ziplock baggies and freeze it.
Everyone on this page who says something like 'I'm pretty sure that women don't normally like programming'.
Well, just don't make this mistake... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA
I see. From what I know about Cassandra, this is a much more expensive write than doing it as a new row.

To do this he has to be using dynamic columns, and those are stored as one serialized blob per row. So the more data you have in the row, the more expensive the deserialization/reserialization is with each column you add. For very large series this could be an issue.

But it sounds like this is tolerable for his app because the writes are distributed over time in a predictable fashion.

I am a little surprised though at the author's claim that fetching a single big row results in "huge IO efficiency" over a range of small rows. I'd expect a small amount of overhead, but isn't it more or less the same amount of data being retrieved? What am I missing?

EDIT: I see the author mentioned that it reduces disk seeks because it's all serialized together already. Sort of like you're defragging the series data on every write. I guess that makes sense.

Personally I would probably look at using SSDs and keep the schema more "sane" and have more scalable writes, but that's just me.
> And that's bullshit because in each of these cases, the person CHOSE to be there and CHOSE to undertake those risks. That doesn't mean we have the right to regulate what they choose to endure.

I'm honestly flabbergasted at your response. Your profile says you have been a program manager at Microsoft. I can't imagine you're stupid, how can you have such a naive view of people?

For someone fresh out of college, in a highly competitive environment (IB is more competitive than anything you've likely ever done), there is huge pressure to perform and succeed. You really expect a young kid to make rational choices about his well-being in that sort of situation?
IPhone uses more electricity than a fridge
Simply Amazing app with Audio Filters #Apple still beats #Android
You would do better to lay out the specific points you feel were distorting the truth. That would be more persuasive than name-calling.

If it's propaganda, I don't feel it's very effective as it reports serious wrong-doing within the government, and directly contradicts the president saying the NSA isn't “actually abusing” their powers. That's quite a serious allegation and not at all supporting the government position, which is that there's nothing to see here and no abuses have occurred.

I find it more likely it was written by a journalist with some sympathy to the government position and comfortable in their post at the wsj, who thus doesn't want to rock the boat too much, rather than one paid to distort the truth in the service of the government. I can't agree with lots of the conclusions and feel it is far too soft on the NSA, but it's hardly one-side propaganda beating the drum for the government.
Dear Miss Disruption
Another question for you:

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly did your work as an investment banker consist of? I see below that you mention "cranking out loads of monotonous pitch books that didn't require too much mental energy". Is there any reason work like this couldn't be delegated to a separate person? I guess my larger question is whether or not the 50+ hours of work you needed to do could trivially be split across multiple people, and if these people would have to be highly skilled.

I'm asking this because it seems to me that a lot of investment banking falls into either building models (could you clarify exactly what that means in the i-banking context) or making presentations to clients/other investment bankers. I could imagine these 2 things being split up in a way similar to what product managers and software engineers often do.
They announced all payments will be refunded by PayPal within 5 days.

> "We’ve been assured by Paypal that all refunds will be processed within five working days."[1]

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity#act...
You will never get to the truth by shouting down those that oppose your views. As long as someone is willing to engage in an open and robust discussion ... The minute "opinion, belief or faith" enter the equation, an intelligent conversation is dead. Otherwise, you should get to the truth.

I would hope you have more respect than 100% belief in just about anything. Look up the Socratic method for some good example of flaws in anything being 100% wrong, or 100% right.
Essentially everything is electrons flying in the brain. I see animal welfare as a relative value (it does not take precedence over human wellbeing in my opinion), but this particular argument is utterly unconvincing.
I'm looking into doing a preorder of Geeksphone Peak+, which is their third model.

Sure Geeksphone is more of a developer phone, but you also have ZTE Open as reidrac mentioned.

Can I by a phone with Ubuntu Touch preinstalled?

If Ubuntu Touch can make it, even better! I don't want that other Android crap.
> Or can I start posting blog posts about NSA developing super-AIDS since it has not proven that it is not?

I don't see why not. The same logic is used by the governments' war on terror. "We're going to detain you and put you on a 'no fly' list until you prove you aren't a terrorist".
Where to start learning about economics?
Sending Free Message without Internet
I and my friend make a symbian app a year back to send free message without internet . Any guesses how we are doing it?
> - Re-training the (I assume) 100,000+ users?

Whatever it was, it was well worth it since in the future everyone will use open source software.

What's the alternative? Keep paying more for Office software every year, while risking having NSA gathering all those documents?
Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea
The set of irrational numbers which can be defined algorithmically are programable, eg. they are defined by a program of finite length.
I am a state-level leader in a firearms education group that the SPLC characterizes as a militia. Every individual instructor I've worked with has spoken out against this overreach.
The drive of the hacker is to solve problems and find novel or efficient solutions to problems and the tools used to solve those problems.

It's not surprising that this can be taken to the extreme as we strive to continually optimize our tools, which are especially flexible since they are spun out of almost pure abstraction.

A healthy dose of perspective is helpful to reminds us that at the end of the day we solve problems and make cool things.

Though dealing with poorly designed man-made abstractions can be frustrating, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to improve our tools and environments and it's especially incredible how collaborative the effort is (open source) compared to some other industries.
Regulatory capture can take the form of outright corruption, but the more insidious form is cognitive capture. That's where the regulators simply don't have a sufficiently detached perspective from those they are regulating. They internalize the needs and thought patterns of the industry as there own.

A related phenomenon in foreign affairs circles is called "going native".
I didn't think of that, I suppose it would by the same standard. They aren't really 'free' but they are offers and information and so on, about 25% of my inbox is from them.
The truth will set us free, so long as we remember to challenge it
Wait.for: Sequential programming for Node.js (beta)
Simple, straightforward abstraction over Fibers.

By using wait.for, you can call any nodejs standard async function in sequential/Sync mode, waiting for result data, without blocking node's event loop (thanks to fibers)

I'm looking for real-world node apps, to test wait.for
This can be handled through key management. Give officers an option to switch on a privacy mode through a "key fob" which basically just manages encryption keys. "Privacy mode" time spans are just encrypted with an additional key. If a court proceeding wants something from a "privacy mode" time, they can still request it.

This would prevent officers using this feature to hide improper procedure while also preventing other officers from using the device to eavesdrop.
Because NASA is all about the bling.
> if gold could be synthesized, it wouldn't be selling for $1300/ounce.

That's not by itself true. If gold could be synthesized for less than $1300/ounce, then it wouldn't be selling for $1300/ounce. As noted in sibling comments, it is possible to synthesize. It's just unreasonable to actually do so in any meaningful quantity.
i actually would be happy to pay for content, no one has managed to build a seamless way of doing it though.
RedPhone (for Android) works fine without GSF installed. It just falls back to using SMS instead of GCM for the call signaling.

TextSecure, at least the current Android version, also works without GSF, because SMS is used as message transport.
A 50+ Mom Learning Web Development
This year will be remembered as the first year TechCrunch failed to break any major stories.
The best would never take gov jobs if they couldn't freely go back to private work after.
Indeed. I made a PR for the original poster: https://github.com/kasbah/nomech_mini-hw/pull/1
You may be underestimating the logical accuity of airport security.

Some years ago I used to regularly fly from London to Boston, see clients, take the Delta shuttle down to New York see more clients, then fly back from there to London.

Every single time I would be chosen for the "random" extra search going through security for the shuttle. And due to the sensitivity of the Boston-New York flight only a few years after 9/11, the extra checks were pretty thorough.

One time, while chatting to the security chap as he was metal-detecting my belt, I asked why I was stopped so often.
He told me that it was a combination of my being foreign (British but fair enough) and the fact that I was taking a one way trip. Apparently they had concluded that suicide bombers only buy singles. I did point out that, under the circumstances, they probably wouldn't be overly concerned about the money wasted on the return portion. However, my application of reason didn't prevent me from being searched on all subsequent flights.

As an aside, I never experienced anything like the trauma of the OP. The security people were always very polite and friendly. I'd like to think it's due to the bonhomie of the Bostonians. I suspect though that it's because I don't look archetypically Muslim.
This is wrong. The square root of two was identified as irrational by the ancient Greeks, when considering the length of the diagonal of the unit square. The proof has nothing to do with decimal fractions (they didn't use decimal fractions at all).
Words cannot convey what powerful feels like, these images were made from video filmed in a chaotic field hosptial: http://imgur.com/gallery/jFdBb

Some things I just cannot muster any bit of eloquence to describe. The best service I could think of was to help disseminate what others likely felt as they record.
Maybe there's ROT13 version of the GPL embedded in every Oracle product, and nobody noticed?
If you use LPG / Propane / Butane for anything in a vehicle other than propulsion:

- make sure it is periodically inspected

- keep a hawk eye and a dogs nose out for anything suspicious

- get a fire extinguisher and a fire blanket, learn how to use them

- make sure the vehicle is very well ventilated

- always ventilate for a few minutes before starting / igniting anything

- if you suspect something is wrong check with soap, not with a match

Gas explosions in RV's and mobile homes are unfortunately not rare at all.
I popularized this issue a few years ago:

http://arachnoid.com/wrong/#Dictionary

Now it's suddenly "big news".
> What if... Fibers and WaitFor were part of node core?

> then you can deprecate almost half the functions at: http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html (clue: the Sync versions)

Not quite. I use the Sync versions not to avoid callbacks, but to ensure that nothing else happens while I'm doing the operation. For example, take a look at the Database.reload function from this project (a NoSQL database written in Node): https://github.com/phusion/zangetsu/blob/master/lib/zangetsu....
Reloading the database contents involves traversing multiple directories and reading multiple files. While reloading the database contents, I do not want the database to be modified. With asynchrony, the amount of different states that I have to be aware of rises so quickly that it's much, MUCH easier to use sync calls and tell the user "reloading is not concurrent, deal with it; at least it's correct". Wait.for does not solve this problem.

It seems people believe that you can't run into concurrency problems or race conditions because Node is single threaded. This is false. I even had to write my own locks (https://github.com/phusion/zangetsu/blob/master/lib/zangetsu...) because Node doesn't provide one.
Programming languages list, by Ian Hickson
I cannot access the article as the server is down right now, but saw a summary on a forum. [0] Was this not one of the first major no-no's of computer law in the user, starting with cases like Specht vs. Netscape? [1]

[0] http://inagist.com/all/370801094563467264/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specht_v._Netscape_Communicati....
I completely agree with this! But these aren't my kids, they're other peoples... ;) I can't knowingly allow a child in my care to view sexually explicit images, whether I consider it to be healthy or not.
The dialect of Indian English takes some grammatical structure from other Indian languages. Some sentences may not be considered technically correct by British English or American English speakers, but are perfectly acceptable by Indian English standards. Some words or terms may have different usages, and pronunciation may differ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English#Divergent_usage
I wrote the extension for Udacity before they offered downloads. I agree that it is pretty useless now. I should see if it even works still, thanks for reminding me :) I should probably put a note to that effect in the readme.

I wrote this thing in one evening because I prefer to watch these videos on a big screen. What surprised me was how popular this quick hack became. There were people using it to download videos and share them with others in countries that blocked YouTube. I think at its peak there were a few thousand installs.
I attribute it to a misunderstanding of what authority is.

People believe, and thusly treat, authorities as prescribers. As people who tell you what to do. That's not what an authority is. An authority is a heuristic. It's someone who has heard the question before and can answer it faster than reinventing the wheel.

That's what a dictionary is. Someone else went and surveyed all the uses of a word and documented it so that you don't have to do it yourself.

An authority is a search engine. Being authoritative is being a good search engine.
Apparently that was earlier this morning. It's been intermittent for hours since. One seller I spoke to has been unable to log in to their account until a few minutes ago, (though access to various features is still intermittent). In fact, it simply told him his password was incorrect. I don't think this was intended behaviour.
Yay! This is fun. Finally a company foolish enough to pick a fight with an expert in copyright that's been waiting for one for years.
Let's just hope the courts show a bit of common sense.
Go solves a completely different problem to Erlang. Erlang is built for fault-tolerance and its dependence on concurrency stems from the want of having fault tolerance.

Go does not strive to be Erlang, it doesn't even strive to be fault tolerant. Hell, you can deference a null pointer in Go!

What Go is, is an incredibly simplistic language which can be picked up very easily by even mediocre developers. The language looks and feels like an updated and refreshed C.

Whilst Erlang has a much more rich computation model when it comes to using the concurrent actor system, it also comes at a higher price of complexity. I'm an Erlang developer myself and even I wouldn't like to bestow OTP on a complete newbie. Go doesn't have this, the concurrency features are simple, they're not perfect but they work for their intended use-case.

I'm thoroughly enthralled with Erlang as a language but I know that it has some extremely rough edges. You would know what these are yourself and so I won't enumerate them. Go doesn't (yet) have a lot of rough edges as it feels a lot of careful thought and planning has gone into every feature change. Does this mean that you don't have whizzbang features? Yes. Does it reduce the complexity by a huge factor? Yes!
I think if "Controlled by Microsoft" is going to be a "notable failing" for C#, "Controlled by Google" has to be a negative for Go, and "Controlled by Oracle" has to be one for Java.
Yes, my first thought when reading the headline was that it would be about LXML.

However, while LXML can do this, and makes it easy, the documentation does not stress this way of using LXML. I like this project's emphasis on simplicity and doing one thing. It's the difference between "You can use LXML to get a dict" vs "Here is how to use xmltodict to get a dict". And it's right there in the name. Emphasis and naming are important when getting started.
No, I don't think it's OS sniffing since downloading the windows version of for example Filezilla doesn't allow you to change mirror and as the article explained, downloads from some other url than Sourceforge (or a mirror).

I'm on OSX and when downloading the windows version from the repository, I get the same file as the author. Try it yourself here and download the .exe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/files/FileZilla_Cl...
It appears to be some opt in program called DevShare.

Here's a link to the filezilla forums where the dev team appears to be justifying its use: https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3024...

http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s...

http://sourceforge.net/devshare/why