skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only comparing the developer offering here.

Our main product, the video creation API, differs from Animoto API in a zillion ways that can be summed up by flexibility. Also, access is $30/mo, instead of I believe $30k upfront - OH, not public.

Then the 15 new APIs covered in the Forbes article are completely new and do not exist at Animoto or anywhere else as an ensemble of web services. Things like extrating a frame from video, detecting faces in photos, stabilizing videos, detecting beat in music. Our goal is to address the broader spectrum of developers and offer a complete toolkit of services to quickly build apps that process UGC.

Some of the new services exist as standalone APIs from some great folks like encoding.com zencoder.com (transcode), cloudinary imgix (photo serving), lambda labs (face detection), neospeech (TTS).
There is indeed something magical about what you eliminate. By eliminating carbs you stabilize your blood sugar. Thats the magic. Sleep, drink water, don't eat (white) bread and its ilk. I lost 100 lbs in 2003 and 10 years later I have a very low body fat (low carbs and weight training). Body builders know their stuff.
Google's lobbyists go big on climate change denial
Should you get a business loan? When and how is ok?
>Although mind-control waves still aren't, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, a thing.

knowing that you're under constant surveilance and your every step/action is recorded makes wonders in the way of shaping and controlling your behavior.
There is every possibility, however, that there is open-source code in the Linux kernel that, at runtime, interacts with specific microcode instructions that can backdoor a system. Runtime remote backdoor triggers are more useful anyway, because the one thing the NSA can't do is hide from network sniffers. (Of course the best way to hide would be piggybacking on something like automatic software update requests - which I happen to disable, as a nod to my tinfoil wearing brethren.)
It most likely falls under the FBI's legal wiretapping abilities.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel apologizes for decades of police torture
Moving to Agile and Tracking Success at Roambi: The Tectonic Shift
A lot of 'rouge' ssh traffic comes from hacked machines. If you contact the abuse department of a provider, they may get in touch with the owner of the machine to let them know that their box has been compromised.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals: WiFi not radio comms because you can't hear it
Might take away - Louis CK's Mexican-American.
Since OJ can render server side it should come down to people as the HTML/CSS screen readers know and love. One way to think about OJ is as a fancy new Jade-like templating system. If screen readers work off of Jade (and I believe they do) then they should work off of OJ as well.
I'm going to say the surveyed opinion is wrong and is furthermore asking the wrong question.

1) There is a welfare trap, and it is real. The more needy you are, the more your welfare programs are robbed with each wage increase. The marginal rate is very high and in some situations can exceed 100%.

Here's what the welfare trap looks like for low-wage families, in one graph: https://lh3.ggpht.com/-_-6Fsycanmw/ULO_5kk3fxI/AAAAAAAAAU4/y...

taken from: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2012/11/taxes-and-cliffs.h...

If you follow economics there is an astonishing difference in the quality of discourse between the two sides--the pro minimum-wage crowd does not seem aware of the data working against them.

2) There is furthermore research suggesting employers respond to minimum wage by scaling back future employment plans and by causing workers to work harder. Part of the reason minimum wage jobs are so awful is if they weren't, they would not be worth the money.

3) People think of minimum wage as a redistribution of wealth from evil corporate employers and rich consumers to the poor and needy. Notwithstanding who is evil and who is good, that is basically the effect. You can accomplish the same thing in a much simpler, market-friendly fashion: pay the poor for working. A minor version of this program exists--the earned income tax credit. It does the same thing as minimum wage--redistribution of wealth--without the overhead, without reducing workers' negotiating power, and without pricing new low-skill workers out. It can be done in a fashion that greatly reduces the welfare trap. For a while, this idea had broad bipartisan support, from Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman among others.

But now economists argue about minimum wage because it's an attractive political issue. Famously, Paul Krugman's opinion on minimum wage changes depending on who is president.

Bleh. Imagine if climate scientists or evolutionary biologists made political compromises. Worse yet, imagine if they started believing their own compromises.

4) Surveys are not of particularly high interest when it comes to discussing economics. Talking about theory, data, and consequences is a better use of time. Surveys are only social proof--backup evidence--when there is not a confident consensus.
If the pessimists are correct, death due to climage changes will be a mass extinction like the end of the Cretaceous period.
E.g., http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/06/lulzsec-sa...

Check the timelines. Some of Lulzsec's most dramatic attacks were carried out with an FBI agent literally looking over Sabu's shoulder.

'Opdarknet' in particular seemed quite a bit different from the rest, in the MO (basically the same as the FBI used against Freedom Hosting) and the wording of their release.
> The general principle is that an employee has to cost less than the money they bring in.

That's not strictly true. If you have two programmers, one produces $80 in value per hour and the other only $40 in value per hour you can still afford to pay both $60/hr each. This happens all the time because worker productivity is uneven and some jobs are more important/impactful than others. The requirement that revenue exceed costs is only true in aggregate, so the effect of increasing low-wage employee cost is to reduce profits.
> he web can serve up both types of data: document-based (e.g. Wikipedia) and application-based (e.g. Gmail).

an email message is a document too.
It's interesting, I'm actually studying trigonometry at the moment. I have found that the biggest gap is actually understanding what sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant and cotangent are. Once you realise they are lines on a circle, and the reason for the names, things clicked into place for me!
Here in NZ there's a minimum wage of $13.75 but there's also a starting out rate of $11 for people under 20 who are in training. So there is an incentive for companies to hire teens and get them started in the workforce.
I don't think that would help much. Let's say you have 7$ minimum wage in one state and 10$ minimum wage in a neighboring state. I would think it's very likely that more low end jobs get created in the 7$ state compared to the other.

However, if all states have a 10$ minimum wage then there's no easy substitute, except for going to another country, but that's much more complex.
He brings up the contrast of using a black shirt later, so I would say yes it does.
http://www.google.com/patents/US3951134
In particular, why do we want to benefit workers on the minimum wage?

Maybe because they need the money?
lack of access to contraceptives or family planning services?
as long as I don't need to login on facebook to use it
I'd add setting these too:

LoginGraceTime 30
MaxAuthTries 3

Also consider using AllowUsers to govern from where a valid connection can originate if you know that in advance.
Hmm, I think that's right. Heh.
> 2600.com probably runs forums, and Sabu probably posted to those forums from his home IP address like an idiot.

sounds very plausible :)
It was reported the exploit was inserted on all Freedomhosting sites. Freedomhosting hosted far more than just child pornography, so just because someone got dinged by their exploit DOES NOT mean that they were perusing child pornography sites.
Maybe you should have read past the sentence you quoted?
What does it mean to wear a black t-shirt?

It's the least ugly color you can wear, on the most basic article of clothing you can wear besides jeans. And they're wearing jeans.

You can certainly wear better clothing! But all things being considered, it's the laziest possible option of clothing to wear that still looks "decent". They wanted to be comfortable and not have to think about how they look. And Jobs rolled up the sleeves because it would have awkward/ugly not to.
Well, we're probably just a few short decades away from us being able to influence things around us (and possibly even animals) with mind control. At that point you'd have to believe the government would be already working on ways to get into people's heads.
CFPB's data-mining on consumer credit cards challenged in heated House hearing
>Now watch teen unemployment jump

Not even an iota.

Businesses need those employees anyway. And the impact of an increased minimum wages is minimal. They pay them less not because paying them more would drive them out of business or really eat into their margins, but just because they can.

And it's not just teens. TONS of people work on minimum wage jobs that are older, including over fifty.
> What if their name uses non-unicode characters?

Learn to fix the problems you can fix, and only the problems you can fix. Ignore the problems you cannot fix because, as per hypothesis, you cannot do anything about them.

In other words, what if you get hit by a micrometeorite on your way to the bathroom tomorrow?
The answer is "love", you robots.
However, this does not catch all exceptional conditions

You say that as if it is a bad thing. If you are catching Throwables, and hence Errors, you are likely doing something very wrong.
> In real life, many of the people who are inclined to use an ad blocker are not the sort to click on ads anyway and are not providing advertisers with any significant revenue to lose.

This. I recently had an opportunity to chat with the CEO of a well-known blogging platform company and his attitude was that, first, the number of people who actually use ad blockers is much smaller than you'd think, and second, for the type of person who uses an ad blocker, you're not doing yourself any good by doggedly trying to put ads in front of them. If getting people to look at your site is one of your core goals, the fact that some of those people aren't necessarily going to benefit you directly via ad revenue is just a given. They can still benefit you indirectly by helping your site's popularity: enjoying it, linking to it, sharing from it, etc. In effect, "don't worry about it."

I don't think we'll ever get anywhere near 100% ad-blockers. I've never bothered with one and I'm perfectly happy with it. It's a somewhat self-limiting problem because I just end up avoiding sites whose ads are too obnoxious, so it's in the advertisers' best interest to reel it in to the point of tolerability. I suspect a lot of people are like me in that the ads are not enough of an annoyance to want to do anything about them.
Additionally, the floor on wages affects the floor on hirable skillset. Employee A is someone who understands how to work effectively and can handle 40 clients per hour. Employee B is someone who can only handle 20 clients per hour. In this example, the only reason to hire Employee B is if you can pay them half as much as you pay Employee A. If you pay Employee A $15/hour and you pay Employee B $7.5/hour, then all is well. However, if you have to start paying Employee B $10/hour, then you are better off hiring someone who can handle 27 clients an hour and paying them $10/hour.

This is a simplistic example and assumes unlimited supply of labor, but it illustrates the point.

The result is that the unskilled end of the spectrum are too expensive in relation to their productivity. These are the ones who end up unemployed.

I am not an economist, but that is how I understand it.
Mobile devices are inherently slutty.

After all, you never hear of a phone committing to just one outlet.

And consider how many people indiscriminately hookup with anonymous base stations at airports... That "Free Public Wifi" SSID is still being passed around.[^1]

[1]: http://www.npr.org/2010/10/09/130451369/the-zombie-network-b...
There's a problem starting such a collective (which is, in effect, what you are proposing): Housing. To have many people live together, you need square footage (or m², for metric people). This necessitates a large apartment or house. Such a thing, (if not bought outright, ha, ha, just kidding), will be expensive. The landlord will need a single legal person to be responsible for the paying of this rent, and own the lease. And I think we can assume from our premise that none of the individuals in question will have anything close to the sort of documented income or credit history to make any sensible landlord agree to the lease. “My friends will totally chip in to pay the rent!” is just not going to work.

So there's a bootstrapping problem which I think is mostly insurmountable. Which is a shame, because it's a good plan, otherwise.
> Where has adding women to a previous male bastion caused reduced performance? MDs? Parliamentarians? Senior corporate executives?

I made no positive claims, only negative ones.

>Imagine if we had had ibankers who stopped to think "Maybe CDSs are a bullshit kind of insurance, but with inadequate capital, so the first black swan that poops on a big CDS position is going to blow up the planet."

Doing my best to refrain from username-dropping here. If an iterated game rewards some strategy s, then the eventual adoption of strategy s is inevitable. Don't hate the player.

>Men have a tendency to bullshit their way past lack of knowledge.

I will assume you're referring to Chris Bart and Gregory McQueen here. ;)

But seriously, human beings, lacking omniscience, require strategies to work around their blind spots and keep moving forward. When/if we're lucky enough to be cognizant of our own ignorance, we can either notify the others in the room or we can not - both are real options; neither strategy is universally dominant. Obviously, I'm being nice; it is called 'bullshitting'. But if you have a nose for it, then who's to blame for letting it affect you?
> What is a "non-unicode character"?

A character with no representation in the latest Unicode standard.
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Thank you!
but why buy another cable, with all the fumbling and whoops I used the wrong cable, when you can buy something that you permanently "by default" keep on the end of the cable that you already have, and take off when you're ready to use the cable for serious.
I knew mobile subscriptions aren't cheap in the US, 50 GB is not a low limit, and it includes unlimited messages and minutes (with "No domestic roaming charges") but $530 per month?
Thanks for the response. I'll have a deeper look at the APIs. There might be something in there that's useful to us.

I think the promotional/brand/agency experiences is a really big market in need of ways to quickly build and deploy apps.
The article goes into plenty of detail about the commercial impact.
> I'm curious if there's something like SA, but dedicated to the discussion that SA avoids.

It's called HN.
Huh? Surely if they started killing innocent people you could arrest them.

The question is what gives them the authority to use these tactics? Wiretapping laws?
>Is 2600.com a honeypot for the FBI? How'd Sabu expose himself by merely visiting that site?

i guess they just ran the query in the NSA's internet traffic meta-info database.
minimum viable product first. Then iterate.
Mainstream media bombardment and constant advertising harassment do a pretty good job of mind control, though.

Also, culture is the best mind control. Raise people with a mind set the way you want it and you never have to do anything directly, because they already are siding with you even through cognative dissonance.
Yes I know that, but I'm not convinced that the cost/benefit really makes sense for complaining. Back in my more idealistic days I did report a lot of abuse. But it's so rare for the recipient to actually do anything about it, and the volume of scans so high, it's just not worth my time.
Instead of raising the minimum wage, I'm a proponent of increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Income_Tax_Credit

Rather than paying people more to flip burgers, I think it's better policy to top them off with cash and incentivize them to earn more money by getting better jobs.

The EIC is a form of Negative Income Tax that was originated by Milton Friedman.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/NegativeIncomeTax.html
During the Mars-500 experiment they ran a low-salt-diet test.

They found that the body cycle for salt is more complicated that thought before and "It is not only worthwhile reducing the amount of salt added to food for those who are ill - even the blood pressure in healthy individuals such as the Mars500 test subjects was reduced." [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500

[1] http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4329/lessons-from-mars-...
Creating new memories by direct cortical manipulation [UCI]
Oh, the malware!

What do they do about users who do not turn on Javascript?

Or users who do not use the popular browsers?

It seems like the malware authors here, government employees or contractors, are just like all the others that form the underbelly of the internet... they only focus on the least sophisticated users or the users who always follow the herd (not the Hurd): Windows and OSX/iOS users.

Assumptions, assumptions, ...
The government charters and governs companies so if companies are out of control who do you blame?
I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

At this point in time I'm more interested in the experiences of living and learning. I don't care enough about "ultimate" questions or answers to accept or reject them. I don't need to be right about this; tomorrow I might decide to be a hardcore fundamentalist X, for any value of X. When I talk to friends and family who have beliefs (or not) of any sort, I try to emphasize the good parts of their systems: those parts that seem the most likely to help them in the ways they need help. I also critique those concepts that don't seem likely to help, but only for that reason, not because they're "true" or not.

I've probably said too much; this is really off-topic for HN.
> If an iterated game rewards some strategy s, then the eventual adoption of strategy s is inevitable. Don't hate the player.

When the players are also the people that spent considerable effort getting the rules of the game rewritten in a way that end up causing it to reward the strategy (replacing rules that had been put into place precisely to prevent the kind of collapse that happened after the rule change, after another instance of the same type of collapse), I'm not sure the "don't hate the player" argument applies.
While I've had a very liberal view regarding drugs and certainly not bought into any campaign stories, I've also become much more respectful about their potential consequences in the past years from firsthand experience. It would be interesting to see more about how prevalent drug use is. I do think you underestimate the negative consequences they can have. Drugs like meth and cocaine don't just cause the users to think more clearly, it can also cause some big behavioral changes. For instance, it's not far-fetched that the economic crisis has been at least partly been caused by overconfidence from drug use: http://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2013/apr/15/co...
Thursday is John Cheese Day on Cracked. His stuff is great.
That's also my impression. Groceries are about the same as the U.S., restaurants considerably more. It's not general inflation, but specifically an increase in the cost of goods/services where the difference between paying employees $8 or $20 equals a large proportion of the good/service's total costs.

For example, a typical 'premium lager' category beer (Heineken or Carlsberg or the like) typically costs $6-10 in a bar, which is somewhat higher than in the US, but a six-pack typically costs $4-7 in a grocery store (tax included), which is somewhat lower than in the US.

An interesting aspect is that you can get quality increments relatively cheaply, because you've already paid for the labor: a fancy meal costs maybe 50% more than a burger, and a microbrewed fancy beer in a bar costs maybe 20-30% more than a Carlsberg lager— versus in a store, where the microbrew might be 3-5x the cost of the Carlsberg.
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That CEPR paper is really the gold standard of "evidence-based" economics.

There's a wealth of real-life evidence that shows what actually happens when the minimum wage is increased. So put away all the theories about what should happen, and look at the extensive data on what does happen.

It turns out this is a lot more complex than just "higher price of labor = lower supply of jobs". Offsetting the higher cost per hour are lower turnover, lower training costs, upgraded skill levels, higher worker productivity, and higher demand when workers spend their bigger paychecks.

Believe it or not, the data shows that modest increases in the minimum wage do not reduce employment in any significant way.
... What?

That got to be some kind of business oriented shared plan, right?
Hah, awesome! I started in a similar build, and am down about 35 pounds mostly just through dietary changes (and stress, sadly). I've been biking everywhere this month and I can pretty clearly feel a difference. Congrats man.
Spreading terror.
With a good isolation amplifier between your antenna and local oscillator, you don't necessarily transmit much on the frequency you're listening to. (If you did, you'd interfere with other listeners.) Where you transmit also depends very much on the design of the radio you're using; it might be obvious to detect that a radio is being operated, but not detect what frequency it is tuned to.

And to be very pedantic, every conductive object in the universe plays some part in any antenna system.
This. Seriously, their algorithms and mathematics are public and under constant scrutiny from the entire crytographic community. The vulnerabilities in RSA are known, sha already has a third version ready if a systemic weakness in 128->512 bit sha1/2 is revealed, and AES may require 512 bit keys for guaranteed security in the future, but seems solid.

They can't backdoor a math function because all 3 have been implemented by dozens of libraries and programs independently.
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Friday the 13th brings in more AWS woes
you probably miss the point of a 2 caste system - one above the law and the other. USA has been significantly lagging (compare to many other countries) in development of such a system, yet it has made huge progress in that direction during the recent decade.
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The number of compounds that have significant and useful mind altering properties, are tasteless in water at their effective doses, don't cause severe adverse reactions in any large segment of the population, even at uncontrolled doses, and which also naturally occur in some water supplies to begin with is tiny.

If you narrow that search down further by adding the constraint of a simple and easily explained health benefit that has since been repeatedly validated by science, you should expect to find approximately zero compounds.

To look at it another way, suppose that studies had been done on fluoridation and found no benefit in terms of tooth decay. That would certainly be evidence in favor of the conspiracy theories. It is always the case that if E is evidence of H, then ¬E is evidence of ¬H, so the fact that fluoridation prevents tooth decay must be at least weak evidence that the conspiracy theories are false. The argument above gives one reason that it is not particularly weak evidence.