skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe only dominates the photo editing / print sector. They are not the industry standard neither in motion graphics nor video editing. They are losing the web developper market and they could be losing the web and game graphics market too ( ince they killed Fireworks ).
True, but I'm pretty sure that setting up your laptop behind the steering wheel is already illegal.
Apparently unconstrained by resources, they decided to attack from multiple angles.
HealthCare.gov had a glaring security flaw that wasn’t patched until last week
It's not a purely semantic question - "in what way is announcing that you're distributing better than visibly distributing?" - I can think of a couple.
Thinly Veiled Blackmail on Twitter IPO
I think the interesting lesson here is that even marketplaces should be competitively constructed - i.e., there should be significant price-competitive pressure to deliver goods and services; just letting the government to facilitate marketplaces removes price competition from the marketplace itself.

I'm not suggesting that the government create a meta-marketplace for health insurance marketplaces. Just that it isn't as efficient as some people think to introduce a powerful federal competitor with 'unfair advantages' like public funding into the health insurance selection market.
I cannot imagine Germany closing the US Embassy.
They deserve to have their brands damaged.

They didn't do their due diligence in encrypting data going through leased fibers -- they should have had the foresight to realize what a phenomenally bad thing this was. They didn't, hence why I'll never trust them again.
I don't disagree. However, investment banking is a relatively low risk way to a multi-million dollar salary. You stand a far greater chance of surviving the up-or-out than striking it rich through a start-up.
This looks cool, but I would really hate to have to always have the device on me for this to work. I can just as easily hit Control+Shift+Eject to lock the screen when I get up.
There's a difference between assuming the worst, and having evidence on your desk that refutes your own assumptions.
By the same reasoning you should impeach the majority of Congress (the same people who would vote for such an impeachment of the President).
One should add: secret contracts (laws, for germans), that the population isn't being allowed to know about.
I appreciate Black MIDI not really as a "cool gimmick" but more as a genre of music. In my opinion, its main function and appeal is to embody music that is still pleasing to the ear, even if it would be impossible in practice.

The majority of the pieces linked to in this thread probably aren't the best example of this, but I think Dream Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzy_WrH8v7U) is quite good in this regard. The piece itself is just a normal piece -- it only happens to be unplayable, and since it is unplayable, there are a number of Black-MIDI-specific "extended techniques" that can be employed (as you'll see).
Actually I hope she sues and loses.
While that is an egregious amount of requests, it's not the reason the site is broken. Based on my experience as a user and poking around quickly in Firebug, the issues are largely server-side.
And yet we civilians are still liable for receiving stolen goods.
To quote form an earlier thread -

you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Is it irony that when that pompous asshat traitor Keith Alexander testified before Congress yesterday, after lying to Congress several weeks ago, started off by saying that no matter what they do is justified because they would rather destroy America from within than suffer another blow and attack.

The enemy is within, the enemy is the state, the enemy is us. These traitorous officials since the Bush administration have caused America more damage than any terrorist could ever even have a hallucinogen induced lucid wet dream about.
The government should have had specified the APIs and see what vendors created the best implementations.
I've built this and have used it for years. Initially I decided never to make a product out of it so that I could allow myself to experiment and really just solve my own problems.

Its exactly focused on insight and de-cluttering the mind and finding focus. Being happier and more creative.

It really works and lead me to significant periods of peace and contentment and working on meaningful things.

In the last year I did a lot of work to turn it into a proper business, but got caught up in another startup which took up all my time.

I am planning on making it into a product with great design.

That's really the primary work now: crafting a design that is communicates the data in a clear way.

Some messy bells and whistles thing with all the data and graphs and features.... nope. Not interested. I want clarity.
From poster with similar project above:

https://github.com/int3/doppio/wiki/Successes

> We're also making progress on others, but we're not quite there yet: JRuby, Clojure, Scala REPL

I think I just had a micro heart attack reading that.
Imagine you come into possession of tens of thousands of documents covering material and terminology that you barely understand. That is going to take months to work through, even before you consider that you would want to keep access to the documents/information limited to a small group of people that could help you work through it.
Current generation ? Look at the amount of old gen people with unserviced leased cars.
Well, it was about 20 years ago and I was a self taught programmer pre-Internet days. I actually downloaded it from a BBS and had no outside references to work with.

I spent probably 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a week for a couple of months. Most of that was probably adding features to my interpreter and coding the game itself. I recall it being extremely clear to me, even without any sort of formal CS. Even things like working with the stack and recursion were clear to me at the time.
True, but it's not like minifying and serving from a CDN will make anything worse, and it could improve things quite a bit.
Really like this idea. There's been a deficit of anonymous messaging services in the college market since JuicyCampus went down.
I wouldn't be quite so pessimistic. We can capture a large part of neuronal variability using Hodgkin Huxley type models (like the one they use in the paper). Dendritic spikes have been hypothesized to be involved in computations for quite a while we just haven't had evidence in vivo. My take home from the paper is that the voltage dependent active properties of the dendritic tree act as an amplifier for synaptic events.

This doesn't fundamentally change how we think neurons work, it just fills in one of the major gaps in our understanding of how relatively few synaptic events could lead to a somatic action potential--something that is very hard to explain if dendrites only passively integrate incoming synaptic events. To give an example, there are connections in the brain between excitatory neurons and inhibitory neurons that are known to basically be 1:1 with virtually no failure rate, one spike in the excitatory neuron will evoke a spike in the inhibitory neuron pretty much every single time. Based on what we know about synaptic failure rates and the total number of synaptic events we think are required to generate and action potential, this phenomena is difficult to explain. Active dendritic properties as described in the paper provide a possible mechanism.

edit: I should say that dendritic spikes probably act as a kind of conditional amplifier for synaptic events. The conditions that come to mind are spatial and temporal proximity. This does complicate the idea that relief of the NMDA Mg2+ block is used to detect coincidence of somatic action potentials with presynaptic glutamate release, suggesting that the Mg2+ block may also be used to detect coincidence of a single synaptic event with other nearby synaptic events.
Good comments.

Here's a photograph of fitbit next to Sesame. They're about the same size.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55147661@N03/10578659116/
Rhino is the opposite of this.
>there is such a thing as an assumption of innocence.

in a court.

If you want to try out that assumption while driving, make sure to always drive with an open bottle of Jack Daniels in the passenger seat.
A speedometer is designed so it can be read at a glance at high speed. (and, in addition, if people on this form are not regularly checking their mirrors as well they should reconsider their driving habits).
Yep.

A friend brought up another scenario, where you have to get up fast. If the Hot Corner is not fast enough, you can always just close the lid.

On the other hand, a fob like that seems unreliable in comparison. Aside from "steal the fob" (which, arguably, is similar to "steal the Mac, get info from Mac"), what is the operating envelope? At what range will it shut it down? At what range will it reactivate? How reliable is it?
Although I do agree with your final point, serving static files is no issue for modern web servers.
Entry-level engineers in NY or CA with a relevant degree make more than entry-level investment bankers on Wall Street..
Is soul the imprecision of notes not being perfectly uniform in duration and velocity? That's what your above comment seems to imply.

For instance: Consider a recording from a piano played by a human and a computer-generated MIDI file of the same musical piece with included variation/noise in BPM, note duration, velocity, timing etc.

This would result in at least single-blind test for `soul' if you were to listen to it. You could tell us which piece you think has more, or any (I'm not sure if soul is quantifiable or just a binary existence) soul.
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You don't need full homomorphic encryption to do encrypted search, look up PKES systems, there's tons of papers on it now (http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/encsearch.html). It's possible to encrypted keyword search with trapdoor functions in such a way that the server can't learn anything about what you're searching on, nor what is stored.
Is that better or worse than cars on a windy mountain road?
With governments around the world (see Brazil and India) now banning Google products for official government use, I can imagine overall usage of Google products will decline outside of the U.S.

This is a threat to Google's international business. They have a vested financial interest in reducing the hacking against their systems.
The denials over Prism never squared with the size and capability of the system that were outlined in the documents, unless I'm missing something here. Is it not possible that the court-ordered data releases were just one small part of the Prism program, with MUSCULAR and others filling the data that could not be obtained through the legal system? Prism is just the query interface, which is not necessarily tied to one dataset.
Solid checklist. Thanks for sharing!
Show HN: https://yayaid.com 
Last year when I was looking for a job myself. I wrote an algorithm to find jobs matched to my profile and only needs to apply the jobs that match from the web after that I thought of creating web application based on that algorithm. Looking for a valuable input from the HN community
Sometimes, DNS will break for me (someone's DNS server will get hit by a DDOS, say), and I'll add the appropriate records to my /etc/hosts to work around it. I may not notice that I've done this until several years later when it stops working because their IP address changed.
Ypocat/gfms - node powered github flavor markdown server
My favorite one was "Supermarket catastrophe".

Been wondering about where I can get a physics engine to simulate wind. I want to create a wind turbine simulator.
There is a class about compilers on coursera [1] which should be pretty good and more up to date.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
Or played too much rogue/hack once upon a time?
This presumes that those developers are building these systems to go after "our basic rights", instead of believing that they are helping to target terrorists and enemy states.

What gets lost in a lot of the (justifiable) NSA outrage is the fact that they want all of this technology to enable surveillance of terrorists who use the Internet just like ordinary Americans do. There is really no evidence so far that this massive surveillance apparatus is being used in a widespread way to abusively target Americans.

Being able to intercept online communication between terrorists and foreign governments in a way that collects zero communications of Americans seems like a really, really hard task.
Google is so good. Such a great concept. So much fun to use. A romper room. Such a bastion of talent and good people. Which is why this whole business is such a crappy disappointment. A guy sitting in a renovated girl's bathroom in London told us some time back that this was the case, that Google had dropped its original stance against "evil," but nobody took him seriously.
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It is, however more than just a smell: a front end of such an egregious turditude doesn't just uninspire confidence in any of the system - these poor practices demonstrate that whoever is in charge of the checks and balances hasn't done their job.
It's the Web cam, not Skype.
clickable link: https://yayaid.com
If you live in a country which doesn't recognize software patents you should just have the superior x264 codec compiled into Firefox.
Looking at a mobile phone, or talking on one, is really freaking dangerous, and the police do enforce it.
Even just a fresh coat of paint would prevent those tram cabins from rusting. Even the mining company, who I assume has cash, does not bother.
To me, it's more of a convenience factor. You could walk away and have it lock automatically and come back to your computer and have it unlock automatically. The manual option is always there.

I have looked for a solution do doing this before but they haven't worked exactly the way I had expected.
On Mavericks: Just tap the 'shutdown' button. That will turn of the screen and lock your laptop. Problem solved.
It's a conspiracy of course to try and hide this information from the public. That's the answer you were looking for, right?
I don't have an eject key on my Mac. No DVD drive, no eject.

It goes on the same keyring as my house key.
You don't build or defend with a site like Chatroulette, and that are very popular.
Screenshot has a typo "...with people within in a 1-mile..."
True, it is just an additional data point. You have to wonder, if they can't minify their JS or even run the pages through the Yahoo YSlow tool, what is the quality of the backend?
I'm not sure why you think that's so easy to do. You need a person who:

1. Has the technical credentials and interviewing skills to get hired at Google (not easy).
2. Has a security clearance.
3. Wants to be a spy.
4. Can get themselves assigned to the team working on datacenter interconnects.
5. Can set up a tap on the interconnect without getting caught.

That sounds both hard and expensive to me.
This is being disputed by the government, AFAIK.
Yeah, it's not like the German people are at all sensitive about the topic of having a secret, unaccountable organisation spying on them.
You pay them lower but fair salary while you are training them and then pay them a fair salary when they are trained. If you train them, you've increased their value and you're expected to pay for that additional value even if you are the one that did the training. Training an employee is a capital investment with a much greater cost of maintenance, you just need to factor that in when hiring.

Just because you paid for the training, does not entitle you to keep paying someone in perpetuity at their salary before being trained.
an android alternative - anyone?
> The government outright tortured people for years, and nothing has come of it.

I am not saying it's OK, but in that case, most US citizens aren't even affected. In the case of surveillance, data from US citizens is being directly compromised. Their attempt to do what they want to foreign individuals with surveillance actually causes some collateral damage to US citizens.
3D Photography: Capturing light fields with an iPhone.
waiting for my location to be unlocked, i.e. midtown Manhattan
Do you also blame your car company when a thief breaks into it? Do you never trust banks again if a bank robbery happens? They were working on it, but full-on encryption everywhere within your internal network is expensive, and one tends to not imagine that buried dark fiber is dug up and tapped by one's own government.

Let's say that they encrypted everything, and then you learn the NSA had kidnapped the children of one of their network engineers and forced him to turn over some keys. Again, whose brand deserves to be damaged here, the company, or the immoral nation state with vast military industrial resources at its disposal?

Why do I sometimes get the feeling that people specifically want to hate on these companies when the real outrage should be for the government spooks.
Who uses Stripe for payments? Beware, they seem to not validate cards.
How hard is it to write a JVM? I'd think it pretty easy, as it's intended to be small and easily portable.

You could even write one in Java (and I'm sure it's been done, many times). EDIT e.g. http://igormaznitsa.com/projects/mjvm/index.html

Of course, doing all the tricky JIT etc of the JVM is a different story...
Facebook marketing works. But I think you have to look at it from a different approach. Social media is about building human-to-human relationships. That's why ads don't work too well. But there are companies who do get good conversions with FB ads. Depending on the creative, the product and demographic.

There are 3 things that I've done to make social media work for me.

Actively sharing content - I use a combination of Feedly/Buffer to post content. So it automatically posts 5 times a day. My followers like, re-share, and comment.

Be engaging - If people message me or comment, I always respond. I believe having a high quality one-to-one relationship is important above all else. I NEVER ask them to try out my product on the first conversation. NEVER. Most of the time I get turned off when businesses do that to me.

Audience building - I think this is the hardest and most important part. If you have no audience there's nobody there to read the content you're posting. And in turn there's nobody there buy the products you're selling. You need to actively find people to engage with.
Awesome concept.

But i wonder what if it went into a cave with icicles/sharp thin sticks that can perhaps go through the holes of the protection.
As long as you agree to make hitting someone while wearing glass == 2nd degree murder.
The stage is being set for a giant conflict between the intelligence community and the political class in DC.
Running windows on a netbook is faster than running it in a virtual machine on a macbook pro? That doesn't seem right.
Mozilla has implemented WebM playback, but WebM hasn't gained enough traction to matter.

> But google, with its control of youtube and Android, can make a serious dent in that.

Uninstall Flash and try using a browser without H.264 codec. I have, and it sucks.

YouTube is the only major site that supports WebM, and even there WebM it's a second-class citizen (videos with ads are not allowed to use HTML5 player, and not all videos are transcoded to WebM).

Google dropped the ball here. Android still has better support for H.264 than WebM. YouTube is half-broken with WebM. Chrome broke promise of dropping H.264 — they know that a browser cannot survive without it.
Hi guys, I'm a PhD student at MIT and I turned my research into a free iOS app called Caperture. I hope some of you will like it. Cheers!
Oh wow, been so long since I've seen the actual homepage I didn't even know Joy was there. You may just want to bookmark https://launchpad.37signals.com/ and you'll never have to see that page again.
The Power of the Death Star
At least now in java things are going from XML to annotations :)
I refer to existing dash mounted radio-nav systems found in virtually every vehicle.
Cisco owns WebEx. Along with Microsoft (Skype), and Nokia, they are fighting WebM in WebRTC as a mandatory to implement codec, so I am deeply skeptical of this move.

This seems basically about preserving investments in WebEx and Skype IMHO.

I also feel a tinge of Mozilla trying to kill WebM/VP8 to favor their own vaporware codec. Are we being told, forget VP8, use H264 for now until Daala?
I should probably mention that I have put quite a bit of work into developing a similar system myself. I even prototyped and pitched it a couple years ago, but basically got shut down by judges who were offended by the kinds of data I suggested tracking (i.e., everything).

I am quite cynical about companies that extract revenue from personal data (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, etc.), and I recognize that most people probably aren't. I suppose I am more of an idealist and would have trouble sleeping if I inadvertently created Big Brother, which is why I would risk hamstringing such a startup to try to ensure that it stays honest.
Ask HN: Is there an OSS web app for file sharing backed with s3?
I'm looking for a web-based file server that I can deploy to heroku or elsewhere. It would ideally have accounts so uploads would be visible/accessible to them.

I can throw something together if it doesn't exist but I'm hoping that there's something already out there. I've tried googling but I'm not getting very far with the discovery.

Thanks
Ask HN (Answered): Cannot remember name of sci-fi short story
There was a link posted roughly 6 months ago referencing a sci-fi short story about a woman who is a technophobe. Then, through a series of events, gradually embraces technology and eventually becomes a spokesperson for humanity long in the future. Does anyone know the name of this short-story?

Update: Found original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367235
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-enc...

“It’s an arms race,” said Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering at Google, based in Mountain View, Calif. “We see these government agencies as among the most skilled players in this game.”
You can't delete your registered device on Google Play
Once you registered your device on google play, there is no option to delete it therefrom.
You're right, I misread the top end of that range. Top trading firms get close to that, (e.g. Jane Street), but $225k is probably pushing unlikely until your 3rd year.
Very good idea this solve one of the biggest problems of this type of robots. However currently flying time rates are too short, so we need more power in order to use them in practical applications.i hope the graphene super capacitors can deliver that boost in power that can overcome this issue.
> How is it any worse than wearing normal glasses?

Because normal glasses help you see?
>Interestingly, no mention of VP9.

He alludes to it (obliquely), I think, with the "competitive" here:

>Like Opus, Daala is a novel approach to codec design. It aims not to be competitive, but to win outright.
Really? It's kind of usable but it requires being really close to the monitor. I find 1920*1200 more comfortable.
* begin remote working

* begin traveling more often

* live in 13 cities over the span of 12 months

* start a blog

* take up photography

* learn at least one other language (spoken, not coding)

* get better at javascript