skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do you find our idea interesting?
so much of the experience we record through pictures, videos, audio, etc. are lost in private silos such as private streams to facebook friends. But many of those things are relavent to everyone in the world. For example, if I take a video of the pyrymid and upload to facebook, my friends will see it but soon it will be buried under tons of new posts and lost even though this video is relavent for everyone in the world to see. We are builing an app that allow you to take videos, audio, picture, comments and seamlessly and easily upload to a public map so that everyone in the world can see them. There are services such as google panoramio but it only does pictures and no mobile app for easy upload. Instagram has a way to upload to only a private map. No one is doing it right. We are creating the alpha version of this app and here is a demo scribbleeverywhere.com any suggestions, feedbacks, comments are greatly appreciated!
I translated your comment to Galician:

Eu odio iso, cada vez que un artigo menciona un servizo ou cae dun
enlace de afiliado e veredicto de alguén é que o artigo parece
publicidade. Prefire o seu contido de lectura a ser desprovisto de
mencionar os produtos ou marcas? Se bloggers nunca facer un centavo
off ligazóns afiliados?
Estar preocupado co contido e só o contido. O artigo ten iso, é
lexítimo.

If you are curious about other languages, I encourage you to test it out on your own! You can sign-up for a demo account at https://translate-o-rama.io/
Thanks for the link to nycopendata. There is a plethora of interesting NYC geospatial data there that I was unaware of.
Some recent writeups:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/like-us-network-a-pacemaker...

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2665589821001/buy-soda-at-ven...!
There is inherently nothing wrong with those jobs; both give you adequate skills one needs to not only survive in a company, but also strike out on one's own. In addition, both are positions that will always and forever be needed for as long as women have long hair that clog drains and men build houses with electricity without killing themselves.

However, both jobs are stigmatized against by major corporations and government precisely because how necessary yet independent they are. People with money and power are constantly in need of more peons to help them maintain stability and so brazenly flaunt their fabulous wealth in front of us, alluring us with the hope that we too can become like them if only we'd go submit ourselves to their devices. Blinded by this hope and seeing only so many other young brilliant people doing the same, we find ourselves pursuing careers in finance, STEM, business, etc., oblivious to the fact we're playing right into the hands of the corporations.

Oh no doubt they'll treat us well, the people at the top are generally good kind folk, but the fabulous wealth, dazzling fame, etc., that they seeded into our imaginations will never materialize in our realities... and before you know it, you're 30+, married with children, and you've come to accept the fact you'll only ever live an (upper) middle class life and the only thing still meaningful in your life is watching your kids grow up and providing for them.
Since it's trivial to show whether or not that is true, I would not advise making such a thing. It is highly inadvisable to lie to the police or courts.
"Any time you catch yourself saying, “Well look at how X big company does it.” or “Well X big company tried that and it didn’t work for them,” please smack yourself in the face."

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
There are lots of services that generate traffic on your behalf. A very general rule is that you should have to send at least as many bytes as the service does, lest you become a DDOS multiplier.

I don't see a .doc file getting small enough to outsize a HTTP request inside of it, even if you used some funky compression, but I'm willing to hear otherwise.

One question would be if you could upload the document once and then somehow trigger a very tiny edit that causes them to rescan it.
Ask HN: What alternatives to floppy disks exist?
For a long time, floppy disks where the best way to cheaply share data with other people on a hardware basis. It was good for plenty reasons: floppy disks don't cost much, they're reusable, are arguably good at keeping their data (as long as you keep them away from anything magnetic), and had a reasonably long life expectancy, at least considering the materials they're made of.

Nowadays, the best thing that would come close to floppy disks are SD cards and usb sticks. And even though both sd cards and usbsticks are becoming cheaper every day, they're still nowhere near as cheap as floppy disks. And I can't think of anyone who would be hoarding hundreds of USB sticks, just to give them away never to be seen again. Additionally, and more obviously, floppy disks can no longer keep up with modern technology: they don't allow to store much information at all (roughly 2MB is less than peanuts nowadays. Most of my PDF documents are twice the size), and hardly anyone I know of even has a floppy disk drive anymore.

Of course I know about CDroms -- but the thing about CDs is, they require a CDburner, and the process requires a while. Certainly not as much as it used to, but this factor persists. Also, unless you use CDRW, the data is permanently stored onto it, and if you no longer need it, it just becomes a pice of worthless, non-resuable plastic.

So what alternatives are there, alternatives that don't involve cloud sharing? What hardware-based mediums do we have that allows sharing data in a cheap, disposable way, that doesn't require me to store data on the internet?

What is there to expect in the future?
IPhone 5c/5s Thoughts
The future of Cancer therapy could exist today! But why are do we still rely on decades old medical technologies? I cannot say.

Check out this gene therapy called Gendicine approved in China to reverse cancer.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Gendicine+p53

Apparently, the treatment has been available for years, and yet the product has failed to penetrate to the U.S. It would be funny if it were not true.
What surprised me most about the speed stats in your image is the file size of the pages. The medium.com page is half a megabyte! And yet it's a plain text page. What's causing the bloat? Are fonts being downloading? Even if they are, it's still feels excessive.
As others on that page have noted, it is a little suspicious that /u/falconer didn't post anything for 2 years before posting the question about IMAP.

Does indeed look at like a marketing ploy. Nothing wrong with that.
There are a lot of interesting outliers:

1834 - 56 Irving Place |
1800 - 30 East 13th Street |
1800 - 140 West 13th Street |
1830 - 28 Jane Street |

Just to name some. Inspecting them on google street view they don't appear to stand out from the buildings next to them.
But your job as a person is to not be an asshole to your friends. And one's job as a person is far more important as one's job as a CEO.
iCloud backups are encrypted so long as you have protection enabled on your phone. Apple has a white paper describing the process:

http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Oc...
There's really no need to attack him.
I think this is pretty interesting. I live in a city with two Universities and the city hall refuses to open source bus time data. Public transport could really be improved if people just had more visibility.

Depending on the setup required I'd be interested in replicating this for the buses between my local Universities.

Also, in the paid app could there be some kind of user sourced live updates option. Even if it's just displaying a tweet feed of a particular uni bus hashtag e.g " The B4 bus is at the Smith Street stop." Then you can see when your bus is a couple of stops away, you know it's en route.
"With today's announcement, we now have a richer email experience across devices and apps, including those not using EAS, such as Mac Mail and Thunderbird on a Mac."

LOL, they made sure to avoid mentioning Mail on Android...
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/Voyager_Science_Data.htm...
True, but the NSA snooping is different than Microsoft employees looking at your pictures to make sure they are "family friendly." I hope.
This is awesome stuff. Theoretically. But Sift doesn't actually make these functional/actionable right away through their service (even though they could). We signed up, love (LOVE!) the idea, but they keep asking for more data before returning meaningful results.

Their home page says, "Get going in minutes: Integrate in just three steps: paste a Javascript snippet onto your site, log transactions from your servers to our REST API, and send examples of banned users." But it isn't so. They require a long-term in-depth model of your site/usage including multiple fraudulent examples (what if you've mostly solved fraud?) before returning meaningful results.

According to this post and previous posts, they should be able to return meaningful results with very basic things: time of transaction, email address, etc. They should start off with: "Here's our recommendation, but it's based on limited information so we feel X strongly about it." Instead they say: "Give us more information, we can't help you yet."
Right. That's what I was using when I was playing with the pluto data in openGl. Unfortunately/Fortunately some of you other programmers are much better than me at displaying this stuff in web apps.
Phonebloks
Great Idea.
The only difference is that they brand it as a feature rather than something you have to put up with in exchange for a free service.
First, I want to say I have an amazing amount of respect for the skilled plumbers, electricians, mechanics, etc. I had to use someone's service recently and I had to tell him ... "I have a PhD but I am in awe of the total mastery you have of your craft. My skill in my field cannot compare to yours." He told how he'd been doing the same thing for 35 years and had seen every possible situation under the sun for that job. He also told me that he has a lot of physical pain to get over in his line of work. Anyways ... hats off!

One problem with both occupations is lack of enforced regulation. My impression (but don't have any supporting data) is that these occupations have a number of immigrants who may not be legal working in them. I've also heard of "cash discounts", which might mean taxes are not being paid. As a straight and narrow guy, I would hate working in such a profession - it would be impossible to compete.
Except this isn't a Facebook app - it's a browser extension - and so the Facebook api TOS doesn't apply.
My issue is this line: "Because their job is to organize a conference, not a party."

You are saying that conferences should not be like parties, because conferences are not like parties. You are just using your restricted definition of conference (not like a party) to support what you think a conference should be (not like a party). My take on it is that some conferences empirically do have many similarities to parties. This doesn't make them 'not conferences', so saying "their job is to organize a conference, not a party" is setting up a dichotomy that doesn't actually exist.

If that isn't your sort of conference, then no problem, not everything is for everybody. Personally I prefer more intimate technical conversations over a beer, a bar napkin, and a cellphone than sterile professional presentations in front of a whiteboard. Obviously you do not, and that is perfectly fine as well. There is room in this world for both; there is no reason to discourage one or the other from existing.
One more reason it's crap to be a waiter in America
>Take this hypothetical example coined by the Supreme Court: If the police demand that you give them the key to a lockbox that happens to contain incriminating evidence, turning over the key wouldn’t be testimonial if it’s just a physical act that doesn’t reveal anything you know. However, if the police try to force you to divulge the combination to a wall safe, your response would reveal the contents of your mind — and so would implicate the Fifth Amendment. (If you’ve written down the combination on a piece of paper and the police demand that you give it to them, that may be a different story.)

BS interpretations like these make the legal system a big bad joke.

The original intention clearly had nothing to do with whether it was something out of your mind or not, and all to do with not being forced to implicate yourself.
Yeah, except it already exists and it's called cash.
The pages don't do that.
Right for the job is very general. It's specifically the willingness to submit to abuse that makes someone right for the job. At least from the perspective of this kind of banking culture.

Personally I'd feel safer if deals involving lots of money were conducted by well-rested, sane people. These kind of insane hours do not help your judgement, analytical thinking or productivity.
>The way everyone's talking, you'd think Apple was taking away the four-digit PIN! But they're not...
The fingerprint ID is just another option, which you don't have to use.

That's never how it works. Today it's "just another option", a few years down the line it's mandatory.

And "not having to use" does not equal "people will not use it unless they are fully aware of possible consequences" anyway.
Interesting feature of the fingerprint lock... if you havent unlocked your phone in 48 hours, the fingerprint lock won't work anymore and you will need to use the PIN you had to set up.

Basically this issue is totally sidelined by this feature.
There is no way in hell that would work out for you.
The museum of natural history was not built post-1995. It's probably giving that as the date because they added the new planetarium in 2000. Which raises the question, is this true for other buildings -- is it showing the date of the most recent renovation of the building (as opposed to its construction date)?
You Can Meet Your Heroes
It will be interesting to see how difficult or how easy it is to fool Apple's fingerprint scanner. I suspect the security will not be high given the constraints of putting it in a button on a mobile phone and the preference for letting marginal scans authenticate the user so as not to frustrate or inconvenience them.

Personally, I'd trust a 4-digit pin with a lockout timer to stand up better than fingerprint authentication. It looks cool in the movies, but it's never been a very bright idea.

Of course, most won't care if it's insecure, and being able to set different functions to automatically execute based on scanning different fingers (an ability laptop scanners have had for years) is certainly a selling point.
It's not gone - just being bullied.
It sounds like the new system is a cluster with a single collection. So all writes to the other collections no longer occur, therefore the write locks decreased
Summary: vertical partition on collection. They wrote some new code to make moving a collection easier.
Fraunces Tavern[1], the oldest surviving building in Manhattan, built in 1671 should have been glowing red in the Financial District. In this visualization it is shaded blue for 1900. It was the first building I checked and it was spectacularly wrong; this does not bode well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern
More than 56,000 detained under counter-terrorism powers in year
More than 56,000 detained, just 23 convicted. That's 0.0004% success rate.
I would if I could. But either way I don't think the majority of people are misunderstanding it.
Unfortunately altering the FB experience, api or not is against their TOS.
The POST to /subscription informs the API server that there is a "webhook endpoint" that's available to respond to API events. This request happens only once.

The GET request represents the "webhook request", where the API server makes GET requests to the webhook endpoint. These requests are on-going and regularly occurring as a result of service events.

The dotted arrow at the bottom is the webhook endpoint responding to the webhook request, and many API services treat responses with 2XX code as successful, whereas 4xx and 5xx response codes are unsuccessful. In the event of an unsuccessful webhook request then the API service will make multiple attempts at sending the webhook request.

For example:

* HN comment gets posted

* webhook endpoint receives GET request with related information (eg: user id, username, comment date, comment body)

* webhook endpoint responds with 2XX indicating success
Honestly, I think it's because attacking Apple seems to be in vogue nowadays. Thus, if you have an article attacking Apple, you can guarantee higher click-thru rates.

It really makes no sense. Fingerprint sensors have been built into Android phones (Atrix 4G comes to mind) since 2011 and in Windows laptops for many, many years. The sheer amount of articles discussing the Touch ID is actually astounding when you remember that Google's Face Unlock was cracked originally by a _photo_ of the user and then cracked with _two_ photos of the person. There are real, actually implemented cracks for Android's lock screen but that's been grossly overshadowed by the conceptual idea of possibly cracking Apple's Touch ID.
I feel there is a very important difference between Google automatically scanning all of my emails, and Microsoft pointing out that a third-party service allows you to choose to have your inbox scanned now functions with Outlook.com.
> It would be better for the overall health of the web if more independent publishers moved to static content.

A CMS produces static content... Most sites use caching, serving static files... I think you are meaning that only static files should be put on the server because it's safer? I'd like to see that in action on anything other than a simple blog or site with more than a dozen pages.

> I would also say, WP is not a blogging platform

You're the first person I've heard say that, usually it is the opposite ("it's just a blogging platform"). Can you point to any development in the code base that has suddenly made WP less dedicated to blogging? WP is clearly very versatile, otherwise people wouldn't use it for everything. But there's nothing in the code base that has changed that de-emphasizes its blogging capabilities or focus.
This looks like a possibility: http://www.amazon.com/4GB-Metal-Key-Flash-Drive/dp/B005OP2JQ...

I honestly do not remember how much floppy disks used to cost; it's been... probably over a decade since I bought one. But $1.26 seems pretty reasonable for such a use.
What? How is cash relevant to a service that let's you make a donation but have a recipient choose where it goes?
Scarcity Captures Your Mind
How Did James Franco Become a Household Brand Name?
I believe the way PLUTO is organized is with 1) a value for when the building was first built, and 2) up to two most recent dates of building modification. The building modification data is itself worth exploring in some way, if anyone wants to give that a shot.

This map shows the 'first built' column, so it is strange that they would get the museum of natural history wrong.

See http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/bytes/pluto_datadictionary.p...
I'm a sales and marketing guy who loves technical companies, but I'm hardly technical. I just bought a RaspberryPi to get excited about programming so this is excellent. I'm putting this on a card now and can't wait to fire it up when I get home!
"Had 1,867,713 additions, 1,748,514 deletions and 4,923 project commits."

Damn you're persistent!

In hindsight, why did take so much longer than initially expected? Poor estimation of the initial target, or a large change from the initial target?
I would much, much rather be a plumber or (especially) an electrician than something like a dentist. I'm really grateful there are competent people willing to become dentists, because I could never do that.
Four Reasons Why Lockpicking is an Essential Skill in IT
Looking at the just the productivity aspect of sleeping less, I have yet to see a study that accounts for the extra waking time that people have when they sleep less.

How much you get done = rate of work * time working.

Many studies have shown that the rate at which people can "work" (which means something like respond to visual stimulus) decreases when people sleep less. I haven't seen a study that compares this decrease in rate to the increase in time available for work.

If I have to do a task 1000 times each day and each time takes me 2 seconds longer on 5 hours of sleep than it does on 8, it'll take me 2000s ~= 34 extra minutes to do the task 1000x when I'm on less sleep, but then I still have 2.5 hours left out of the 3 that I decided not to sleep. (Numbers from this inspired by [1])

I acknowledge the health issues of chronic sleep deprivation.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/sleep-deprivation-w...
We've Learned Nothing From the Financial Crisis
Yeah I immediately looked down there also.

I know in the PLUTO data a lot of the entries have a year build and a number of years renovated. Even then though it appears that the year built is being used throughout the map. Probably requires an inspection of the actual row in the PLUTO data containing Fraunces Tavern.
There are many other forensic acquisition products for iOS[1] as well as a number available to law enforcement only; I think it's safe to say that relying on your iPhone's PIN code for protection is probably not a good idea.

[1] http://www.appleexaminer.com/iPhoneiPad/iOSAnalysisTools/iOS...

EDIT: This device was found on the AppleExaminer page:

http://www.cellebrite.com/forensic-solutions/ios-forensics.h...

"Using UFED Physical Analyzer, physical and file system extractions, decoding and analysis can be performed on locked iOS devices with a simple or complex passcode.
Simple passcodes will be recovered during the physical extraction process and enable access to emails and keychain passwords. If a complex password is set on the device, physical extraction can be performed without access to emails and keychain. However, if the complex password is known, emails and keychain passwords will be available."
Also, 65 Jumel Terrace - 1765. Oldest one I've seen so far.
It's the same reason I don't exercise, eat right, pay my bills on time, finish work, plant my garden, and more: Self-Discipline. If you can solve that problem, you will improve humanity more than the wheel & fire together.
The patents are still on proposed implementations, not on the idea itself.
Are you familiar with ensemble methods and boosting algorithms?

How does Sift Science combine multiple signals like these (which individually are pretty weak) into one fraud detection system with a high level of predictive accuracy?
The future of smartphones.
You can purchase USB keys in bulk for around 1.50 U$D. How is this not a viable solution? Floppy disks today seem to cost only about half that price.
Trust me, I don't like loud noise as much as anybody. I pick my bars accordingly (Yelp is typically pretty good at reporting noise levels, but at an event you can just walk around until you find an appropriate location).
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28distance+from+sun+to...

Result: speed of universe expansion between sun and voyager 1 is about 43.74 µm/s. Small enough to ignore.
I've been taking an algorithms course on Coursera and I'm really enjoying it. It's taught by two professors from Princeton, Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick. Heres the link:

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI

I'm sure there are plenty of other online algorithms courses online too.
> Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die.

Go tell someone who has epilepsy that, douchebag...that's exactly what happened to the BoA guy.
That's concerning, the only two buildings I see in PLUTO built before 1700 are in Queens and Staten Island.