skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pleasure :)

I find it all very interesting so I try to learn where I can, but I leave the security stuff to our resident Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts (Jeff in the blog post). He's the guy who understands all of the security implications. He talks and I listen and try to absorb everything I can.

I figured that article was at least worth mentioning here.

Kyle

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I have seen videos of normal gasoline car fires that behave the same way.
I'm pretty certain if they would've name it Banana Phone or xPhone or AnythingButWindows Phone, their market share would be much better than what it is now.

Windows Phone 7 came out grabbing the tail of the disaster that was Windows Mobile 6.1 did not do them any marketing good.

I'm not so sure a dual OS booting phone will be a mainstream success.
rdio works in Canada... Though the App for Windows 7.5 sucks so I have accounts for both and use XBox music on my phone.
Dude, I'm an iOS fan, but you sound kind of like Baghdad Bob.

Absent a major schism between Samsung and Google, or the sudden rise of a competitor (Amazon?) who competes very hard at the low end, Android/GooglePlay is here to stay - it's Google's second major platform (other being Adwords/Adsense)

What is more likely is that the talk about iOS going the way of Mac because Cook != Jobs will dissipate, as Apple continues to successfully compete.
The reason it is such a big deal is of course that we're standing before a major disruption of the whole industry everybody is curious whether or not this new tech is viable or not.
I agree with you. My disposable income is not enough to buy a Tesla, but it is enough for a MINI Cooper. I drive it like I stole it, to quote my mechanic.
"The fact that they’re “so cheap to make,” she added, means they will only have to reach 7.5 per cent efficiency before they will be commercially competitive with conventional energy sources such as coal-electric generation."

How does that make sense? If I have to cover my entire yard with this stuff to get a decent amount of power that doesn't compete well.
I've been running affiliate links on the book reviews on my blog. Stats here: https://gist.github.com/swanson/4711006

It makes about $20/yr.
Why do you believe a larger sample is needed? At what sample size would you believe that the Tesla averages less fires than other cars?

Here's a question (for anyone in this thread arguing statistics) that has an actual numerical answer: given the information in the article, what is the probability that Tesla's indeed experience less fires per mile than other cars? If someone doesn't know how to calculate the answer to that question, he shouldn't be arguing here.
'Hobbit' trilogy costs $561M so far
The plugin details seems easiest but they are say "packet" and not http request and not necessarily by a browser. Presuming they have compromised the machine this staining will be affecting the network stack somehow most likely at an IP level.
It seems like you're loading it with the Sean Hannity inane view that its basically no big deal though, right?
I wish Elon would do a supersonic point to point transpacific service next, maybe through spacex. Going to space is nice, but flying from SF to China in 30 minutes would actually be useful.
The assets you presume him to have are the proceeds of a massive online narcotics market. Or is there some other source of income you're saying were seized?
Do you mean, you are pirating it? No good, mate. No good.
> ...new technologies – such as application programming interfaces...

In what world are APIs new?
I'm curious:

Why does Solidworks justify the price tag but Altium doesn't? They are in the same pricing ballpark. Your description of Solidworks sounds very much like why I would choose Altium over Eagle.
This is a smart move and it is the sort of answer to the question, "do you want a big piece of a small pie or a small piece of a huge pie?" that every founder must decide for themselves. Ultimately the best thing is to put yourself where you can do what is best for your business, but sometimes that means not being in charge.
You can use https://www.hnsearch.com
There have absolutely been genocides that can be compared to the Holocaust. I probably mis-emphasized my above post.

What I mean is that statements comparing incidents to the Holocaust lack utility if the situation has escalated to the level of brutal genocide. Any sort of statement delivered with words is useless at that point, that isn't the sort of situation that you can talk yourself or somebody else out of. If you want words to have an effect, you need to use them before the situation ever escalates that far.

A house-fire can be prevented with a stern lesson about deep-frying turkeys indoors, but once that actually starts happening, your lecture is of no use. At that point, you need to call in the fire fighters.

Talking about genocides can conceivably prevent a genocide, but talk about genocides can never stop a genocide.
> You can't use the proceeds of crime to fund your defense.

And how is it determined (beyond a reasonable doubt, with a vigorous defense) that you committed a crime to yield those proceeds?
Why Burger King's 'Fries King' Rebrand Could Be A Total Waste Of Time
> In what world are APIs new?

Well, if you consider the whole history of human civilization, they're fairly new.
"You can't compare the browser situation however many years ago and the Maps calamity."

Actually I just did.

"Google's app was hardly a "shitty" alternative ... How many iOS users rejoiced when Google Maps got rereleased?"

'Rereleased' he says... you mean with turn-by-turn which was never there in the original app. Which is why the original was shitty compared to Maps for Android. QED.
The lines for the Razor made me think the pundits who thought the iPhone was overpriced were crazy or not watching what was going on in the cell market.
My interpretation of the article was that they identify prior to attacking.

I suppose they could use a "spray and pray" attack on anyone using Tor, but that would be easily detected.
"Bad" is subjective, when I personally think Marketing, I mean putting a spin on things and presenting it in a more favorable light for the company.

This is not a dry facts page, but a public relations communication that is intended to sell you on the fact that Tesla Model S is a safe vehicle. Nothing wrong with that and nothing "bad" as you seemed to imply.
If the author chooses to do this, absolutely get rid of the log scale. The chart makes it look like 95% of the DoD civilians are on furlough. Its 50%. The author is simply trying to show too much on that chart, and s/he is inadvertently making it look way worse to the average person (who doesn't know what a log scale is) than is intended.

I may lose my salary because of this shutdown (this thing affects way more than direct govt employees), so I am probably biased towards making this seem as bad as possible. But I can't stand charts that are misleading.
Ask HN: What would you do if you could detect objects in video?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6497579

Regarding the above..

If there were some way to detect objects instances in video (that is I show the algorithm what I want to detect before hand, so I only care if it detects 'my' chair, not 'all chairs'), how would you use it?

It seems like this technology is inevitable..
> Google's app

The pre-iOS6 app wasn't "Google's app".

It was Apple's Maps app which used Google-licensed data. Insofar as it was neglected, it was neglected because Apple neglected to improve it and declined to license additional uses of the data (like for turn-by-turn nav).
Raw slide source: https://github.com/bodil/hipster
I think it can rotate only around single axis, other blocks can rotate axis of that block if they themselves can rotate around different axes.
NSA Tracked US Cell Phone Locations For Two Years
Not being among the richest people you know does not make you middle class.
Because it's a Windows PC and it's not in my living room.

Maybe (probably) I'm just biased, but I spent a few years trying to get MythTV, Satellite PCs, Silverstone chassis, Mediacenter, XBMC on a modded 1st gen XBox, etc etc working smoothly.

It was a nightmare. I don't ever ever never want to have to think about overscan again as long as I live.

For me to be interested it needs to be flawlessly plug & play.

This was a few years before HDMI output was available on videocards, so maybe that has already solved the problem.

But as a ~8 year Mac user who converted from Windows XP for Ruby I will never, ever buy another Windows PC. Ever. Never. I mean, my wife still has to occasionally open network settings to get her work laptop onto the network. And because it's an Airport Extreme, that never has to be rebooted (unlike the dozen other WAPs I had previously), it's never the network. Just her laptop. That's crazy. No way I'm letting that into my living room.

Pitch me a box and out of the box experience that is guaranteed to work as long as I keep it vanilla (which is all I want) and is otherwise a PS4 I have the ability to upgrade piecemeal... Yeah. I'm totally on board with that.

And if the price of entry is pushing $600+, I'm probably OK with that too. That's what I paid for an 80GB PS3 on release day after all. I don't think I could make the mental leap past $999 though. ;-)

Price isn't my primary concern. Plug & Play access to a top-notch gaming environment is.

Honestly the PS4 may be a better fit, but the ability to swap out circuit boards on a SteamMachine is appealing. And the game library. If I could play DOOM and System Shock on my TV without spending as much time getting it working as playing I'd be pretty stoked.
> Of course, the refrain I often hear is that as long as you pick the RIGHT 1,000 Americans, it's as good as polling all 319 million.

If it's a proper random sample, then it's far better than sampling all 319 million because it's 95% accurate with about a 3% margin of error and vastly cheaper and actually practical; you can't poll 319 million people.
I agree with you: at one point in time, Oracle probably was worth $1.2 billion. For all we know, MongoDB could grow into a company that spawns a lot of NoSQL middleware whatevers.
Watermarking is a great idea and I would really like to see it replace DRM snake-oil but I think the real point was simply that nobody has successfully commercialized such a service. I think there's a need but it'd require deep pockets and good negotiators to get off the ground unless you had some sort of solid all-indie play
What happens if I sell the content, then the purchaser distributes it? Do I then get blamed for copyright infringement?
Apple: Sizing Up the Critical Failure Points of the TV Industry
Alternate title;

"Man ignores IRS rules regarding money laundering, is shocked when that plan backfires."

Filing an 8300 is dead simple, takes seconds, is available free and online, and can be done in two-week batches. Is he honestly surprised to find out that ignoring the law has consequences?
Mark more scale points: I suggest {1,2,4,6,8}x10^n for each n. That way the visual texture of the scale lines will immediately suggest "log scale".
The budget process is also a law.
They're clearly referring to commercial energy production (i.e. solar farms) not DG applications like rooftop solar. People don't commonly have coal-fired thermal plants in their yards either.
I tried melatonin thanks to this article (thanks gwern!).

It does help me get to sleep. I've used it about 10 times now and only once did I still have trouble falling asleep, and even then I did within an hour or so.

Unfortunately, it does NOT stop me from waking at 4:30 or 5 AM and then having trouble falling back asleep. Still, this is less stressful than not falling asleep in the first place.

Note that the probable effective dose is much lower than what you're likely to get in one pill from the store. I couldn't remember the effective dose, got 5mg pills, ended up quartering them.

I don't have any hangover effects, and I wonder if you all that do are taking too much.

It's worth trying if you have sleep issues.
This seems like a total waste of time. The biggest problem for Windows Phone is the ecosystem. The OS is good and the hardware (Lumias) is good. They have phones in stores and with most carriers. Installing WP on more devices isn't going to solve the problem.
One iffy part I would like to add is government itself. It was generally thought that government would not keep security vulnerabilities hidden, prioritizing to protect citizens rather than having a minor advantage in hacking.

Together with the earlier leaks regarding sabotaged security standard, US government is the most damaging entity to computer security today. Anything they do need to be viewed under the understanding that NSA primary priority is to be able to hack other peoples computers. Be that a encryption algorithm, or a kernel module, NSA priority is 100% clear.

That used to be a tin-foil hat idea just a few months ago, and we know better now. If NSA comes carrying gifts, it warrant being very careful in accepting them from a party with such hostile priorities.
I don't think it either a "serious downmarket move" or a "token". I think it is the iPod mini for the iPhone generation. It is the hint at the iPod strategy moving to the iPhone after all this time. I would imagine we are a generation or two from the actual downmarket move.
In related PUA news: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/we-were-wrong
First, all of my design experience is in EagleCAD, so there is some vendor lock-in. If Altium had been available at a price I could afford when I was first starting work on electronics, it could have gone differently for sure. Additionally, when I was first getting into circuit board design (2004 or so) the people I knew using Altium constantly complained about how poorly it worked.

Mostly, I haven't run into a problem I couldn't solve with EagleCAD other than this MCAD/ECAD interoperability stuff. And I can live without that additional feature which makes it a luxury upgrade. On the other hand, without SolidWorks, I seriously doubt I could produce mechanical designs to send to machine shops for manufacturing.

That all said, I already have Solidworks available because my roomate is a professional mechanical designer. It's also readily available at the local hackerspace computer lab. I'd actually love to try Altium, and if my company ever makes enough money to justify it I would not hesitate to consider it. I'd be very excited to see what I'm missing actually!
Why Protein Deficiency is (Mostly) a Myth
It doesn't say "and" but the front end JS won't let you proceed without a special char. But if you put the special char at the end it fails without explanation b/c a different page says you can't do that.

In other words, the sign up page text, the sign up page JS validation, the back end database, and the trouble logging in page ALL have different requirements just for the username.
It looks like they're backing off the claim that the fire was contained to only one cell. It's unclear, but if the fire were contained to only one cell, it's likely they would mention it:

"A fire caused by the impact began in the front battery module – the battery pack has a total of 16 modules – but was contained to the front section of the car by internal firewalls within the pack."

If the fire was able to jump cells, does this make the battery pack "fundamentally unsound", as Elon has described the Boeing battery? Not necessarily. However, merely puncturing the gas tank of a ICE car in this way is not guaranteed to set the gasoline on fire. The ignition temperature of gasoline is over 500 F and the gas tank itself is plastic, most likely. Gasoline vapor is explosive, but the car was traveling fairly rapidly and a there's a fair amount of wind to dispel vapor. The ignition source would have to be heat from the metal of the debris self-striking metal of the debris, or though both layers of plastic to the auto frame itself, and that spark would have to find some gasoline, which is pooled at the bottom of the tank and not near the top. I suppose it's possible. Car crashes do produce burning gasoline, though usually it's a very severe crash that mixes gas vapor with the heat of the engine.
Forgetting about all of the (completely legitimate) concerns with this comparison aside from statistics, we can get a general idea from simple statistics how convincing having the first crash at 100 million miles should be.

For the purpose of our simple modeling, suppose that there is a constant risk per mile of the car catching fire, making an exponential model reasonable. Under this model, observing the first fire at 100 million miles would give a 95% confidence bound on the rate of fires of about one fire every 33 million miles.

If we're comfortable with the stated rate of about one fire every 20 million miles for other cars, then this would give a 95% confidence upper bound on the Tesla's rate of fires at about 60% of a normal car's rate. This isn't the 20% that Elon's statement would imply, but it does suggest a difference (which could just be due to other problems with the comparison).
Solar panels can be regularly gotten for under $0.80/watt these days.

You'll have to spring for over 150 watts to get that price range.
Google Vs. Facebook: A Map Of Global Conquest
Two things.

1. I have had my gasoline car catch on fire in my lifetime. (That was the end of the car.) However, it was having a lot of trouble at the time and we had just taken it to the mechanic. (That's right, it caught on fire at the mechanic's shop. We were still waiting to talk to the mechanic before going back home when it caught on fire.) This was not the only on-fire incident among our friends. One had his minivan catch on fire in a gas station.

But both of them were old cars. What is to say that most of the cars that catch on fire aren't much older than the Tesla? What is to say that the Tesla won't have more trouble as it gets older?

Oh yeah. The batteries will have to be replaced before the car is run down as much as our old beaters were. And Tesla owners will have the money to maintain their cars better than we did as teenagers.

So, what I'm saying is that the real test will be in a decade. More fires will probably happen, just like regular cars do.

Either way, it's probably not dangerous enough to be worth avoiding buying a new one.
I've seen people do this with a Kinect I think. Obviously that's more info than just a video stream but I don't know exactly what your limits on your solution are.
Given that it already has a completely unique domain name (si.edu), smithsonian.museum seems overkill.
Seconded--I like seeing my data on a linear scale.
No, I was disagreeing with you that the post was about "honesty and integrity in publishing".
Former Apple Engineer Gives Behind-the-Scenes Look at iPhone Introduction
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I made another chart to visualize percentage of furloughed. NASA, HUD, ED are among the hardest hitters:

http://vida.io/discussion/WgBMc4zDWF7YpqXGR

thatrailsguy, thanks for the data.
There's always a fundamental demand/supply problem. People won't buy a WP device until there are more apps. Devs won't make WP apps until there are more users. This is an interesting attempt at shortcutting that.
Most tech ads seem to be in "show, don't tell" mode, which is probably a good approach. I have to say, I like the tack they took, simply explaining up front the features of the watch.

If the watch weren't so ugly and taking your phone out of your pocket so easy, I might even entertain buying one.
On innovation, change, and women: Karl Marx & Leo Tolstoy
"highway speed" is a fairly common term for the general 55-70mph range. For example, apparently the instructions to have the emissions testing system on my car become "ready" after a battery disconnect involve "at highway speed" for a half an hour or so (I learned that one last week. Fun times.)
I have a feeling when/if Apple make an iwatch, it will be first and foremost a really nice watch.
This is great. It's also why I think "fuck you money" is BS. Just as he says in the poem - you'll create even if you're on welfare.

I hear so many people saying once they get enough money they'll finally have the time for the things they really want to do. Just do it now, you only live once.
I can't wait to hear more about how they'll lessen the "fragmentation" confusion with different Steam Machines. Perhaps they'll do a tier system like "Steam Machine Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum" and then games can be rated "Gold+" or something.

Or maybe they'll have a minimum spec that gets bumped every 2 years, so a game can say "runs on all Steam Machines (2014+)".

But it's clear there's going to have to be some way of "tranching" the different hardware levels, because nothing will kill this idea faster than a general public who's heard that you can never be quite sure if a game you buy will run on your particular Steam Machine.

But then I realize something: where do people get Steam games from? The Steam store online! I'm pretty sure they'll build in the equivalent of the windows performance score that can be sent to Steam's servers, and they'll simply be able to show you the games that will run best on your machine and hide games that simply won't run at all.

Thoughts? I think that, as with the controller, this is a really important aspect of getting this whole big idea to work.
Question: Is it really that unusual to have 25 tons of force applied to a point of the underside of the car in an accident? Does anyone know?

My conjecture: The Model S is a heavy car. Hit something pokey at speed and you've got an awful lot of forces channeled to a point.

I also thought it a bit much that Musk tried to compare this to severing "fuel supply lines" in a gas car. The likelihood of a 3 inch puncture severing a fuel line or entering the gas tank is vastly lower than compromising a battery pack that runs the length of the underside of the car.

The Tesla's underbelly vulnerability zone is vastly larger than fuel tanks and lines.. and a punctured battery doesn't need an ignition source to start a fire, either.
>You can't use the proceeds of crime to fund your defense.

Alleged crime, but you're right. In this country, the gov't can seize your assets and deprive you of them prior to proving that you are a criminal, or that the assets have any relation to criminal conduct.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is terrible reasoning with such a large, complex legal code poorly understood by most.

Why would a small business owner expect that depositing money into the bank every few days before it exceeded his on-premises insurance be a problem?
IMO, your book is far too expensive. As a casual interested in dev-ops (surely your target market), I'm completely turned off by you asking old-academia style prices of an ebook. I appreciate you're charging to cover the opportunity cost of your consulting, but presumably you're also aware that pricing it on your perceived value is a suboptimal strategy. Have you considered reducing the price to open up a larger market, and if you have, what is your justification for not doing so?
Curious as to your reasoning on saying that the batteries will have to be replaced before the car is as run down as your old cars. So far evidence is pointing towards batteries lasting much longer than originally thought. How old were your cars?
Virgin Galatic is probably closer to getting that done. IIRC, Space Ship Three is suppose to be for exactly that.
Because Android isn't necessarily a great OS to fork from. In my experience, the cheap, low powered Windows Phone devices work much, much better than the cheap Android ones.
It's most likely just an error in terminology. They likely mean request instead of packet as the user-agent isn't in every packet.

If it was packet level it would likely be in the IP headers, I don't imagine it would be that difficult to rewrite the packets with optional fields and then put a token in the optional headers.