skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do, but no surprise that they do.

Had a really interesting conversation the other night about sites that offer consumers an honest ranking of things such as a place to eat. When they monetise through businesses that care little for the honest rankings and only desire strength for their own personal ranking, there is a conflict of interest. When power is placed completely in hands of consumer, power corrupts them too as they demand a free meal otherwise leaving a bad comment despite recieving good service. I have talked to hotel managers who have been threatened with bad comments despite no problem in service and had no choice but to not charge for the room due to the dishonesty.

The big question here is how do sites generate a site that is honest providing a good service that can be monetised successfully and cannot be gamed by either business or consumer. Any good examples?
Yes, MS has very close tight links with Cambridge university.

> I remember talking to PHD students having to live on $20K a year

The spooks recruit before PHD if the person is good enough.
This reminds me very much of what [Bug Labs] (http://buglabs.net/products/blocks) is doing. Building modular hardware components for rapid prototyping and development. Cool stuff.
> Is going to such an extreme... really necessary?

Since Schneier's now doing analysis of unreleased Snowden documents for the Guardian, he now has reason to believe that the NSA has a strong motive to see what documents he's working on.

Seems to me that the level of tin-foil-hattery that's reasonable to protect against an organisation likely to be targeting you specifically needs to be an order of magnitude greater than that which is reasonable to protect against a general-population surveillance dragnet.
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The sole proprietor simply files, via his/her income tax return for the withheld income at the end of the year. This is merely one aspect of the panoply of issues to consider on incorporating.
This is an awesome list. I have a daughter turning 5 this december. I've been planning and making a list of to-do to introduce her to computers by next year.

Like most other kids of her generation, she is comfortable with touch devices (phones, tablets) since her 2nd birthday (I saved and gifted her an iPad-1). Now, she navigates Youtube with ease on the Mac's Trackpad and can type her name on the Keyboard. It's time to get on to real computers, and eventually programming. I'm excited.
Has anyone tested the tech this is based on recently?

I tested it last year and it didn't work too well, but would be very interested to hear if they've ironed out the bugs since then.
What's the technical reason that Firefox (and presumably other browsers) can't just read the JPEG EXIF data to obtain the proper orientation?

This CSS tag could still be marginally useful: you could store only one corner and one side of a custom border, and flip the image for the other three. Once the tag is ubiquitous, of course.
Apple: The Beginning of a Long Decline?
There are no cropped images on the internet?
Well, I'm saying that I've very much seen it, even in the moderately sized projects I've been working on recently. And yes, they get fully built regardless of which way I'm building them.

"Even looking at my own examples where I was somewhat proud of the amount of information that was in the type system, I can not honestly claim that the product was more bug free than loosely typed version, and it certainly wasn't more clearly communicated to my peers. (Including my future self.)"

I find even in my C code that setting things up to better leverage the type system (even as limited as it is) has been a tremendous win. I'm a much stronger proponent of strong and expressive types than I am of functional programming (though I think that both provide wins in most cases).

"In the end, smaller more directed pieces using whichever styling makes the most sense for that section seems to be the clearest win."

No argument there.

"I am also struck by just how well the "literate" programs I have ever read actually worked at communicating what was going on. Shame that seems to have stalled to death."

Yeah, genuine literate programming tools are fascinating, and it's a little sad how a lot of the ideas have kind of dropped away from a core of "automatically generate docs from inline comments", which seems to have been a small part of the original. I've been toying with the notion of adding some similar functionality to some tooling I've been building, but no concrete plans yet...
It is unethical or illicit for me to tap someone's phone or install malware on their computer. That doesn't mean it's illicit or unethical for the FBI to do so. The whole point of having a state is to trust it with powers that individuals should not exercise on their own authority.
This does mean kicking is out of the question.
In 2008? Guess you weren't around in 2003?
EXIF rotation tags exists because it was way more simple for camera manufacturer than actually move the pixels around depending on orientation sensor on camera.

That said, what I don't understand myself is software devs that thinks it's ok to rotate the pixels and saving the image with EXIF tags without updating the rotation one.
> Phillip Hallam-Baker, Comodo Group Inc.

That would be this Comodo Group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#2011_breach_incide...
It's dead in the "Microsoft is Dead" sense, which means that it's not actually out of business, but that it has ceased to be exciting, innovative or useful. Microsoft is still in business, but no one finds it very interesting anymore.

The VC-funded game that has taken over the Valley is now just a way for those who were preselected to win at birth to launder their inherited connections and make it look like they built something. It's for legacy rich kids to make the appearance that they created something, when the hard work was done by hired-gun software engineers getting 0.05% equity slices.
University of Bristol makes quantum chip programming available over the net
"The whole point of having a state is to trust it with powers that individuals should not exercise on their own authority."

Also to address collective-action problems (like defense).
>> Higher margin will eventually lead to lower prices.

As long as countries don't have large economic areas based on corporativism, oligopolies and regulatory capture.

More work against that is needed from economic liberals in e.g. my native Sweden. (You won't see much criticism from media and politicians in such a situation.)
Did you even read the thread? That's not a good example of what we're talking about at all.
Kinect: is basically an optical sensor so it requires line of sight. It utilizes computer vision and a 3d depth map (generated by using an IR projector and receiver) to make an educated guess as to your bodies orientation.
Line of sight (needs to see you), Field of View (need to be within range), Body orientation (need to look humanoid, i.e. upright with 2 arms and legs), movement speed (not faster than the optical sensor or IR projector), clothing (not too baggy), lighting (low IR), etc, can all effect the (limited) accuracy of the kinect.

PrioVR: A system like this provides accurate positioning of all necessary joints in your body to form a true 3d representation of your skeletal orientation without any of the optical limitations or guesswork of the kinect. You could also use it outside, walking down the street, with a laptop in a backpack. i.e. it could be used for augmented reality in any situation.

In the future, I would expect a HMD (some kind of visor - an oculus with a camera in the short-term maybe), a full body suit (like this), and some gloves (the next project these guys will be working on) to be how we augment reality. I don't think we can let this opportunity slide, which is why i'm being so vocal about it!
Online simulator: http://cnotmz.appspot.com/
I do not think that this would ever work. If it does, I'll take three.
it ain't the programming language, it's the idea :)
I agree, but I think it's mostly mutual - there are lots of opportunities for part time jobs but most people prefer full time employment.

In fact, in Sweden there's a law that allows parents of children under 8 to work 75% of fulltime (30 hrs/week), but very few make use of it. I suspect that part of the reason is a fear of annoying the employer though.
It has become harder to edit the subject when replying or forwarding. It'd be nice if this was easy like it was before the change.
I meant DNS like in the sense of distributed key value database. It should integrate authentication, remote modification capability, etc. I wouldn't use the DNS as is because it wasn't design for that. Such a distributed key value database is easy to implement. The problem are the associated indexes that would be needed. How do we make them distributed and secure ?
If history is the judge then it is more likely that we will end up in a situation where 10-20% of the people have everything and everyone else lives in super poverty relative to them.

The key word here is "relative to them". On the other hand, if history is the judge, then the people living in relative poverty will still be vastly richer than most people alive today.

Dystopia? That depends on how strongly one feels envy. Personally, I can enjoy driving my flying car and stem cell therapy until age 100, even if some rich guy has nanotech rejuvenation allowing him to live to 1000 on his spaceship.
God damn it Jony.
> Point out God

God is an idea that makes people feel better about themselves and to put themselves on a moral high ground over others.

What makes the Steelers the Steelers is not the roster, it is the paid position of the Coach and the owner of a legal entity and a defined goal and purpose. Anonymous is none of that.

Anonymous is anyone. It could be a bunch of people protesting Wall Street today. Tomorrow a group could call themselves Anonymous and protest Westboro Baptist. The day after a group calling itself Anonymous might break into Sony's systems. They might be all the same people, some of the same people or none of the same people. Each group might be made of people that agree with the others or vehemently disagree. It is not a specific group of people, it is not eve a coherent group of people.
Ew.

shuf -n 4 /usr/share/dict/words | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9'
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That and (realistic) jumping seem to be the main limitations of the omni at this stage.

I wonder if the omni harness was more like a baby bouncer than a fixed support if this would solve those issues:

http://static.toysrus.co.uk//medias/sys_master/8609611006271...
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Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong – lies typographers tell about history
Isn't it possible that there might be different types of advertising each with its own goals? Billboards are probably about mindshare, but what about when I search Google for a model of TV and there's all these retailers trying to sell me that model?
You're correct. I was actually going to add an edit to this effect but it was too late by the time I thought of doing it.
Once an image is cropped it's not going to be losslessly saved. You can crop images in some cameras, but I suspect they maintain multiples of 8.
A specific event doesn't have to have >50% probability to work as an evocative example. For Christ's sake, you're missing the forest for a quarter square inch of bark on one particular tree.
> Passive attacks are however limited in the information they can reveal

Of course they are limited in the information they can reveal. They can only reveal as much information as is there to reveal. That in itself is a limit. That is a non-informational, misleading statement.

> ... and easily defeated with relatively simple cryptographic techniques.

While some cryptographic techniques are "relatively simple" to use, those same techniques can be undermined. In the current case, the attacker was involved in developing that technique and/or has the overwhelming power to make the technique worthless (acres of server farms, able to churn on any of it).

The only tecnique to guard data against passive attacks is to destroy the data, all its copies, and all who ever saw the data.
Orwell in 1984 addresses this subject extensively. People working less or not working are a problem for the government.
In the book they invented a perpetual war to burn the surplus which would allow us to work less.
In real life consumerism seems to to a pretty good job in keeping us busy instead.
Basically we need some good competition from the very start. Good for any tech.
Is it the top foundry? It depends on what sectors you look at, I believe. It's definitely still top in web technology. But in other areas I'm less sure.

One slice of the successful startup market is looking at tech IPOs, which are on the upswing again. This probably downplays the Valley scene, which focuses more on quick smallish exits (acquihires and other kinds of acquisitions), but does give a view of where the next-gen of large tech companies is coming from.

According to PWC's Q2 2013 tech IPO report [1], there were 13 North American tech IPOs:

EVERTEC: $505m, Puerto Rico
CDW: $395m, Chicagoland
Tableau Software: $254m, Seattle
Blackhawk Network: $230m, SF Bay Area
Gogo: $187m, Chicagoland
Gigamon: $128m, SF Bay Area
Cyan: $88m, SF Bay Area
Rally Software: $84m, Boulder CO
ChannelAdvisor: $81m, Research Triangle NC
Marketo: $79m, SF Bay Area
Tremor Video: $75m, NYC
Textura: $75m, Chicagoland
Halogen Software: $55m, Ottawa Canada

The SF Bay Area is still the largest single source, with 4/13, but not in a dominating sort of way.

[1] http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/technology/publications/assets/ipo-...

edit: Oops, those are millions, not billions; fixed. Nobody is raising a half-trillion dollars in an IPO...
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Plus encasing every component in its own plastic capsule with high quality metal interconnects won't exactly save materials.
Launcher8 free is the one I'm using. Very smooth. I wish there were more launchers with vertical and seamless home screens (like on Windows Phone).
Well one alternative could be something like kinect, if you're willing to stay in one room. Although that might be harder to make really low latency?
Thats cool but still, what do you when you hit a wall in real life but could still go on in the direction in the virtual world ? That would need some confusing repositioning i would guess
Thank you for the list. I've found the Arduino to be a great platform for learning. Less abstraction … A little code gets a lot of real world wow.
I'm disappointed in you, O'Church. I was a single "VC-istan" away from bingo.
Kroes launches her attack on net neutrality in Europe
I can't figure out the relation between the third one and first two.
I think you could compare this to sports or other game-like activities where success is by nature relative. There's no 'need' per se for athletes to practice 40 hours a week, but they do it in order to win. And the amount of time needed to win will almost always be right around the theoretical limit of how much a human can physically practice. There's an equilibrium in competitive practice that is very tough to regulate.
Generating a private key I can trust
Using Grunt & the ES6 Module Transpiler: an alternative to AMD + RequireJS
> What's the technical reason that Firefox (and presumably other browsers) can't just read the JPEG EXIF data to obtain the proper orientation?

It's what `image-orientation: from-image` does.

But it can't be done automatically (you have to explicitly use this property), that would break the web: until now, images were not rotated automatically, so developers might have rotated their images in CSS (`transform:rotate(90deg)`). If Firefox were to rotate automatically the images according to the exif data, you'd get a double rotation, or unexpected image rotations.
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Overlooking the optical limitations of the kinect, think of the potential uses for equipment like this.

Accurate motion capture anywhere (think of what we already achieve with GPS and limited device gyroscopic data alone), full body augmented reality (your body is the controller, lol) while walking down the street, the obvious VR and gaming implications, etc.

This is so much bigger than the ability to hit a ball around or wiggle your booty on a TV screen IMHO.
I may be wrong and this may be more fueled by my own insecurities about not having gone to a top school, but this attitude that The End of The Degree as the next phase of education shows a real two-faced side to Silicon Valley.

You have investors and startup founders who firmly believe that soon degrees won't matter, that credentials and pedigree shouldn't be a reflection of your skill and talent. They write blog posts, they invest and start companies. And yet, when you go look at the biographies of many of the rising stars, you'll notice that the majority of them do have pedigree. When watching TC Disrupt last weekend, I tried looking up the background of every investor and founder that stepped on to the stage, and it became obvious just how many of them have a strong pedigree. You can't help but think that it actually does go a long way in Silicon Valley, despite what's said.

Maybe people with those pedigrees on average are more intelligent than those who aren't, but nevertheless it's a pattern you can't ignore, and one that makes me doubt the Valley's conviction to topple formal education.
People did just fine developing applications for PC with the huge variety of possible hardware, and for web where target hardware differs in size and power by multiple orders of magnitude.
Scheme is usually used as a scripting language, but the fact that it is licensed under the GPL will prevent most companies from using it.
video.js v4.1 cdn version is compromised
http://vjs.zencdn.net/4.1/video.js

At the bottom, there is a snippet for some adbar.
Are there any instructions?
Those darn classified governments.
Probably needs robot turtles: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles...
I would expect the game itself to modify its virtual world to account for my physical boundaries.
Phonebloks : The Future Of Mobile Phone
Let's look at a counter example : amazon. Is it using technology to help online sellers ? or is it using technology to kill retail businesses ? It may well be that the end goal of amazon is to own and automate all retail, and even if it remains as a 3rd party platform, it could have so much power that sellers would make almost nothing.

In an automated economy, where businesses are easily scaled if you own capital, the amazon example could apply everywhere.
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Hello everyone,

I'm preparing my thesis and I felt I needed some kind of pressure and to track my progress. An Ariadne's thread of a sort.

It's about multiphase flow pattern recognition based on a time-series (of void fraction). I think it's interesting as the signal is non stationary (changing spectral characteristics), and I'll be working on time-frequency representations (Adaptive Optimal Kernel, S-Transforms, etc).

It's also interesting in the sense that I am a neophyte in the subject (worked more on microcontrollers and op amps), so I think it will benefit future students who will ask the same questions as myself, and the fact that you find very little information on a lot of things you have to learn. i.e: Most likely to find these things on Elsevier and Pergamon than Wikipedia.

If this is your field, or you're interested about its applications on another field (for example, I may be working on Bayesian Networks, Support Vector Machines, Statistical Inference, Hidden Markov Models, Gaussian Mixture Models, Kolmogorov Entropy, etc..) some apply these on spam or fraud detection.

I'll be working with MATLAB mainly, but I'm open to stuff in other languages.

I'll be updating it as I go.
I've sent YEI a message to inform them about this thread, so hopefully we will have some official response.
The point of the article isn't really "this can't be done"; but "if this is done, it's inferior to a non-modular phone".

Even perfectly functioning modular plugins take up extra space - a "classic" phone can instead either be smaller/thinner, or put in a bit extra battery in those cubicmillimetres; which both make the "same" phone better.

Modularity imposes a cost, it's a tradeoff - and even for laptops we're seeing that people tend to prefer a bit of size/weight/battery life rather than modularity.
All the Python 3 packages for Django in one place
Advice from Pedigree suprisingly on Topic :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3aP5Ks7e1s
> It is ripe for abuse, if a man just stares at a woman chances are she will call him a creep and then snap his picture and report it

There are entire tumblrs devoted to sharing the least charitable interpretation possible of what other people are doing: http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/men-taking-up-too-muc...

That's the tip of the iceberg: http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/
>Here's a hypothetical: we already know how to do noisy, shared-media device interconnects. It's called 802.11.

And leaking all of your secret data in the process.
That's ridiculous. Gotta give you props....
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The courses are absolutely great! There is also an audio version of these lectures, you could hear his students laugh when he'd give one of those witty Feynmanian remarks.
ROCI: Return On Click Investment
> If you don't trust Gmail, you shouldn't trust it any less if/when they deploy PGP for it.

The problem here might be that people (including Google, I guess) don't want users to trust anything MORE THAN THEY SHOULD, which is a major risk in a case like this. Sometimes security features can be counterproductive since they can lead to the users making bad assumptions and therefore bad decisions that they otherwise wouldn't have made. PGP in webmail implemented just in JS is likely one of these things that could make things worse due to how users treat them.
I used to work at NASA on space shuttle launches. My boss at the time had an old (50's? 60's?) era book that detailed the testing on what acceleration would do to a monkey.

I felt bad for the monkey. But yes, direction matters.
One theory some skeptics have is that the movement towards MOOCs/etc. isn't really about toppling formal education overall, but about toppling non-elite formal education, which would cement the dominance of a handful of top institutions. In that view, MOOCs become a kind of franchising for MIT/Stanford/Harvard, where they offer a lower-tier product that mainly aims at competitors, but doesn't really threaten their own top-tier product. If anything it might provide some advertising for the "real" university, by increasing name-recognition of their faculty.
A replaceable battery, SD card and easily replaceable screens were all features of phones available more than 5 years ago, yet these features disappeared because the iPhone showed that most consumers don't value those features over a sleek integrated lifestyle product.

Besides all points mentioned already, I just can't think of a way to protect the pin-connection from wear in daily use without adding an additional shell or individual screws, which would make it even more bulky. Simply haven't seen a single miniature socket yet that works well under constant external stress.

Regarding the proposed design, with all it's sharp edges and deep ridges I'm already looking forward to weekly lint removal sessions.

In terms of total energy waste it might be worth considering that there's not only one logistic process anymore but a mere 5 to 10(?) with each has it's own packaging, transportation and handling footprint. So it's debatable that the total environmental impact might be actually worse than that of a 2 year life cycle smartphone.
Reading through the source code, there's actually a reasonably well used goto (https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/blob/master/src...)