skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On our blog we try to show how these outfits can be combined with other wearables. I think we need to step this up a bit more (so thanks for the feedback here). The quality is good (feedback has been positive but again it's always relative especially in fashion). We hand source all the fabrics and own our process end-to-end - so that helps wrt quality assurance. Hope that helps!
I'm super interested -- do you guys offer notifications/setting reminders on messages for later (like Mailbox.app)? I really need that, because I'm disorganized and forgetful and it saves my ass constantly.
Don’t just do one thing
The way I can think of is using IAM credentials to allow modification of a Route53 record using the AWS CLI from the newly spun server. You will need to write a short script that you could push to the new instance either through EC2 MetaData or UserData fields.

If there is a demand I could try whipping up a CloudFormation template to do it.
Marines shoot down Internet story on Obama’s alleged push for ‘girly hats’
My opinion is that it's significantly more difficult for a startup to sell to military/fire departments/etc than to the general public. What could likely happen is that some big company with "good connections" will end up developing a similar product and get the market.
I may checkout inky.
At SIGGRAPH 2010, Microsoft Research showed off a technique [1] where they attached an IMU (measures acceleration/rotation) to a DSLR. They recorded motion and used it to deblur the image.

A ball flying and spinning through the air should have a fairly simple blur, though of a potentially much higher magnitude. I'm not familiar enough with the state-of-the-art, but my gut tells me that post-facto image processing could yield impressive results.

This also doesn't have to be extremely high-res sensors. A lower-resolution sensor with larger pixels would collect more light, allowing for a faster shutter speed, meaning less blur.

[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/im...
That would be a bummer.

You could still find a place close by where you could rinse off and clean up quick before heading into the office.

There are an innumerable number of ways you could make it work if you actually wanted to.

I can respect that it's far more inconvenient for you than it is others, and that may be enough of a hurdle to just never make it worthwhile.

As far as the humidity and high 90s, the Land of 10,000 Lakes gets our share of shitty weather. It takes a real commitment to continue through it.
Very disappointing that this isn't available via Maven. Is Facebook expecting wide adoption of their libraries even not supporting the standard tooling?

I suppose someone could fork the project and put it together in a more useful way.
In regards to the first one: Sounds like a cool idea.

Might I also suggest an overall fuzzing engine? Sulley and Peach Fuzzer both have fairly ugly APIs and config formats, in my opinion.

A pretty DSL that lets you describe a template, also with the ability to add custom Python functions and integrate them on the fly, would be great.
That's not my opinion, it's that of Justice Kagan.

"The judges who sit on the US Supreme Court have little knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, email, or other modern capabilities, despite society's widespread use of such technology, according to Justice Elena Kagan.

“I think we’re going to have to be doing a lot of thinking about that,” she replied, adding that the judges often seek out younger clerks to assist with questions about technology. “It’s a challenge for us.”"

This is why I think there is a huge role to play for leaders in the tech field in this debate.
Not yet, but it's on the roadmap. Snoozing emails and related features are obviously requirements these days.

At this point we're mainly focusing on getting the core solid and performing well.

Probably another few months on that; more new features will come in 2014.
Their complaint is valid imho. They can use PHP to learn the basics of programming, and after this, as the next logical step, learn to structure their code. PHP is a bad language to get started with to learn programming for a number of different reasons (much worse than Python or Javascript), and this is why it would be cool to have the "PHP way" but based on a different language.

...now, I first learned coding by solving algorithmic math problems in C, but if someone would've tried to make me learn C++ or Java and OOP at that point I would've had the same complaint your newbies are having about "why learn so much just to 'structure' my code?!" :)
They just need to scan once to find the port speaking SSH, then brute force as usual.

If you want actual more protection run a bogus SSH (with no login allowed) on 22 and a thousand unused ports... then they have to try them all or guess which port is actually able to log in.
Aiming to have about 3-4 looks per month (our November collection will be Movember themed)
I finally got a chance to visit a couple roundabout heavy countries this past year and absolutely love them.

Growing up in the U.S. 4-way stops are terrible congestion sources, nobody follows the rules (right of way), and it's generally an irritating experience with all the stopping and going. In my local area there are two interesting stretches of road, on the first there are three close proximity 4-way stops. Traffic is always messed up on them.

In the other stretch, there used to be an intersection with only a stop on the access road and then a 4-way lighted stop. In the evenings, traffic heading towards the intersection would back up for 10 miles or more and take an hour to cross the intersection. They decided to replace both intersections with three roundabouts and poof, they haven't had a traffic issue in years despite more than tripling the number of cars on the same road.

American's still don't do them quite right, they're usually too tight or we put lights all over them defeating the purpose. In a proper roundabout country, they're amazing, traffic moves pretty steady, everybody knows what's going on, they don't really ever feel threatening and if you miss your exit it's a pretty easy trip round back to it.

I think at some scale level, they start not to work as well as the American solution though (big highway exits and interchanges). Some of the really large ones I drove through were more problematic in terms of getting traffic through, even if navigating was still better. The American method moves more traffic, but at a loss of driver clarity in many cases.
That path dependence is really an important concept to consider when reflecting about technical standarts, programming languages and frameworks.
"What does a billionaire do after buying"

True and people conveniently ignore that the money not given to the government in taxes buys goods and makes investments which create jobs.

There is an entire economy built around the wealthy spending boatloads of money on luxury goods, cars, 2nd and 3rd homes, vacations, renovations and the like.
That they're going to use this for illegal purposes, just like all of their other equipment.
When you bring someone's professional reputation into a discussion that has nothing to do with that person's profession and then make the claim that their comments risk impacting that professional reputation, that's bullying. It also signals a carelessness about professionalism on your part: when you say that your opinions about someone's professional reputation depends in some way on their politics, you are implicitly warning your peers that information they get about professionals from you is tainted by your own political opinions. It's a bad rhetorical strategy and you should reconsider ever using it again.

As for your summary of the conversation, here is what actually happened:

* The story is about DOJ adopting a policy of providing notice when evidence in a case is derived from surveillance intelligence.

* The top of the thread suggests that this was a politically good move for Obama, who is (according to that commenter) essentially required to execute surveillance policies set up by Congress.

* The comment I replied to refuted that argument by suggesting that the Obama administration has little respect for the laws of Congress to begin with.

* I replied by suggesting that refutation conflated a lack of transparency in an area of law specifically designed by Congress not to be transparent with a general contempt for the laws of Congress, which contempt is not actually in evidence. I also, as you pointedly refused to acknowledge, expressed dissatisfaction with that state of affairs.

* Various commenters cited evidence of a lack of respect for the laws of Congress which were, to my eyes, all further evidence of the former point (opaqueness and "flexibility" in an area of law that was designed to be opaque and open-ended) and not the latter. I then refined my comment to be about criminal law, which is the subject of the story the thread is based on.

* Along comes 'swombat to tell me that I'm an apologist for the state, a not-credible human being, and at risk of putting my professional reputation in doubt.

I think a close reading of the thread will bear my interpretation out, and, more importantly, show how different that interpretation is from the one you provided.
Bernie Madoff, who got away with massive fraud for decades.

And, oh yes, that former Goldman Sachs high-frequency-trading programmer (who may have only taken open source code).
The guide appears to assume one is on Mac OS X or Linux without explicitly stating as such (unless I missed it, in which case my bad). That's not good for a world where most people programming on a desktop are on Windows (Mac user myself).
Your gut feeling will simply let you realize when something doesn't line up with your predefined societal, cultural, familial and personal beliefs. Relying on your gut as some universal ethical and moral thermometer is extremely flawed.

There have been plenty of people throughout history that had no problem subjugating other people for their own gain, and I do not believe they all knew at some level that it was wrong and chose to ignore it.

The point of both rational and passionate discussion is to change personal beliefs. If enough people are swayed, then changes in familial, cultural and societal beleif structures may follow.

In other words, many people may implicitly trust the government, and their gut feeling may be that all is well.
BabyDigest (https://www.getbabydigest.com) - Share baby pictures safely

My baby's timeline/Demo: https://www.getbabydigest.com/timeline/santiago

It's cool because:

* It solves a key problem for parents: How do I easily share my baby's pictures & videos privately without requiring my friends and family to sign up or install something?

* It automatically finds pictures of your baby on your Facebook feed and pulls them into your baby's timeline, so that your grandmother can see them.

* Built in SF with my buddy and I using Django/Python, MongoDB, AngularJS
Samsung files patent for Google Glass-like specs
Well, I could construct a complicated theory in which his actions do not reflect who he "truly is"... but why would I? It's his actions that matter, and his actions on these matters have been pretty much unremittingly in favor of government power, no matter what curtain of glittering words he tries to draw over it.

If his "true self" doesn't match his actions... frankly, that's hardly even a "defense", that's just further damnation.
Isn't this the exact same approach taken by Mailboxapp, proxying your IMAP server?
Extremely unsafe? Care to explain why?
From the article:

>And yet the very idea of drones unsettles. They’re too easy a placeholder or avatar for all of our technological anxieties—the creeping sense that screens and cameras have taken some piece of our souls, that we’ve slipped into a dystopia of disconnection. Maybe it’s too soon to know what drones mean, what unconsidered moral and ethical burdens they carry. Even their shape is sinister: the blunt and featureless nose cone, like some eyeless creature that has evolved in darkness.

I'm not sure how to feel about drone warfare myself but I think the media spinning narratives like the above (note that this comes from the author and not the subject of the article) only serves to legitimize disliking drone warfare on emotional grounds. That is an undesirable thing, if only because it discourages people from even considering the downsides to the alternatives.

This satirical piece titled What if drone warfare had come first? might serve as a counterpoint: https://squid314.livejournal.com/338607.html (scroll down to the italicized description the scene). It may seem way over the top, especially in contrast with the OP article, but I think it gets the point across pretty well.
Of course. But compared to actually spending money directly on goods that are produced by the average person, they may as well be stuffing it under their mattress.
Then the individuals reaping the rewards of automation (the owners) see greater taxes as a function of those increased returns.
The linked leiningen page includes detailed installation instructions for all platforms, including a windows installer.
@julien_c - broken nearly immediately.
Interactive visualizations and instruction in mathematics and physics. We can do so much more than what is usually presented for online learning. For example a catalog of visualizations, http://www.vizitsolutions.com/portfolio/catalog/, and a more complete lesson experiment http://www.vizitsolutions.com/portfolio/gausslaw/.

The goal is for the student to interact with, to play with, the models. Of course almost all of this is open sourced :) The visualizations can even be easily embedded in any online content with just a few lines of HTML provided in the catalog.
If you missed it, the "animation" video is spectacular:

http://vimeo.com/74490099#

I've been looking into creating a video for my own project and after looking at dozens of ways to do it this one was hilarious.
Roundabouts also become more efficient when you add additional lanes like they do in Australia. Stop signs work best only on single lanes of traffic and things break down if there is more one lane per side.
Genuinely curious: when you want a "cross-browser extension", why wouldn't a web-app do? Isn't an extension specifically something that requires non-standard browser APIs and hence can't be made part of a website?
If by non-engineers you mean totally untrained people, then no, but that's not what OP mentioned. Many engineers, myself included, believe involving engineering technicians/tradespeople/whatever you want to call them in the design process can add a lot of value. I work on high-power electrical equipment and I find the input of qualified electricians and utility tradespeople invaluable.

In fact, many jobs that are done by professional engineers can quite easily be done by certified tradespeople or even non-technical people. OP does not suggest that nurses should do open heart surgery (the medical equivalent, perhaps, of designing an airplane). It would not unreasonable to have non-engineers do many of the project management tasks typically done by engineers in large corporations, or to have tradespeople do detailed design work in their areas of expertise.
Blog spam. Here are the videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/vide...
Sure, but presumably these devices (and included sensors to measure things like temperature, oxygen/CO/CO2 levels, etc) could be much more useful if they would survive being thrown into the building, bouncing around, and coming to rest, and then being able to still provide useful telemetry. They might slowly melt in a fire, but in other scenarios (e.g. a HAZMAT situation), they wouldn't be terribly useful if they couldn't survive long enough to come to rest.
I don't think it is as simple as a liberal versus conservative. The cases you mention had specific issues (standing with Amnesty, transit safety with Skinner) and a general right to privacy is controversial (abortion) and not clearly defined. This is very different from the specific protections in the Forth Amendment and it's application to criminal evidence in particular.

It will be interesting to see what happens but I would expect a narrow decision on admissibility of evidence that says nothing about the legality of the NSA programs themselves after a long delay. Sigh...

BTW - RT is not a reliable source of information as it is a Russian propaganda operation. The linked article seems fine.
Jumpshare (https://jumpshare.com) - Real-time file sharing service that allows you to view over 200 file formats right inside the browser.

It's cool because:

* People can now share and view the contents of the files online without having to download and view them using 3rd party desktop apps.

* People can collaborate around content while on the go.

* No need to sign up for multiple services to upload multiple file types, YouTube, Scribd, Slideshare, Flickr, etc. Just upload any file on Jumpshare and view it online, beautifully.

* Files shared can be viewed by the recipients without having to sign up for an account.

* Kills folder hierarchy and introduces a new type of folder organization to speed up file sharing.

* Bootstrapped and developed by 8 people.
or when everyone sets up corporations, take a dollar salary, and run all of their expenses through petty cash?
5000 Best Things (http://5000best.com/) - feature-rich lists of best movies, books, websites, Youtube videos, web tools & services, Imgur pictures.
After reading original announcement and this follow up post, and comments here. I find my self looking at it in a binary scenario - do they think they did a better job securing intro after the account breach - possibly, is the risk of letting one MORE entity (in addition to gmail with recent developments in mind) read thru your mails for marginal - at least for me - gain worth it? A solid NO.
I'm sure no one ever thought of this before, and the IRS certainly does not have extensive experience in putting a quick stop to this.
How do you implement it in browser?
Whither Intelligence Research? [pdf]
I think in this case Scalia strongly leans to that position. He himself said: “The consequence of that is that whether the NSA can do the stuff it’s been doing ... which used to be a question for the people ... will now be resolved by the branch of government that knows the least about the issues in question, the branch that knows the least about the extent of the threat against which the wiretapping is directed,” Scalia said.

That seems to indicate a certain degree of deferral to both legislative and executive branches in this matter.

As for garbage law in, garbage decision out, Scalia can't be counted on to rely on his own purported originalist thinking, lest we forget that the Voting Rights Act overwhelmingly re-approved by Congress had Section 4 knocked down by an opinion Scalia joined.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/scalia-doma-...
As bad publicity is publicity too; what is Buffer if I may ask? First time I heard of it.
How is this different from the .onion.to and tor2web clearnet-to-onionnet services?
some extensions allow you to hook into browser chrome.

while the actual work of the extension may be done in a web app, extensions get more access to the interface of a browser than a normal web app

example: the Buffer extension could probably just be a button that simply loads a JS file from their servers that does all the real work. WIthout being an extension, you wouldn't have the convenience of having the button on every page you view.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6422824
I'm guessing French unions don't want unpaid students doing real work because they want the real work to be done by employed people.
My twitter account seems unaffected - I've disabled the app in setting for now though.

(I will be re-enabling ASAP - I use this app a lot!)
Github-like trending for rails
Punching Bag is a hit tracking plugin for Ruby on Rails that specializes in simple trending.
My 1Password replacement using the shell:

https://github.com/opyate/1Bashword

Suggestions very welcome!
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6618915.
That said, HN pathologically overestimates the impact of mistakes that companies make. It probably won't be as bad as people say here.
I work on AWS DynamoDB Storage Engine. AWS DynamoDB is an infinitely scalable / infinitely provisionable / hosted low latency key value store. It is growing beyond the basic key value store definition rapidly with indexing etc.

Building and keeping a storage engine that runs on a ton of machines with high performance requirements / changing hardware / a bunch of new feature work etc. is truly hard. Add in other complexities such as live deployment of new software, monitoring for issues, testing the upgrade downgrade scenarios etc. you are looking at a super complex and fluid system. Very few people in the world get to be in the middle of such massive e-machinery, So it is a great place to be. Tough, but great.

If that sounds interesting to you, and you are looking to work on the bleeding edge of database technology used by a lot of customers, PM me! We are hiring in Palo Alto, Seattle and Dublin!
If Steve Sinofsky is to be believed, this is the natural order of things:

http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/10/25/on-the-exploit...
>Accounting for how much spam actually reaches the inbox,
we estimate that only about 1 in 25,000 people needs to succumb to the temptation to make a
grey-market purchase to make it pro table for spammers to inundate everyone with advertisements
at current levels.

http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.pdf
LaunchCrew - Make things happen
Wouldn't the $65k raise your basis in the now $165k company by $65k?, and so it would have affect on your recognized gains?
Would you help me understand something?

The doctrine of mutually assured destruction is what keeps countries from launching nukes at each other. In order to have that doctrine in place, we need people in the military who are willing to launch nukes, and that military needs to be firmly under the control of the civilian government.

In that context, was your objection to fire any nuke a personal decision, i.e. you personally wouldn't be comfortable with ending so many lives (who would?) or was it a wider objection, i.e. you feel it's immoral for any military personnel to be willing to launch nukes? If it's the former, then I totally understand. But if it's the latter, would you help me understand how to reconcile that belief with the necessity of mutually assured destruction? They seem to be at odds.
mot windows users wouldn't go that far. As soon as they try the "wget ..." command and nothing happened, they quit the "from the ground up" guide.
Can you submit youtube videos on HN? I'd rather have this in the main stories list than the blog spam
And kindle android can't install many apps because it lacks Google Maps among other things.

Amazon Android is not the same thing as Android
A basic income should be implemented eventually, in my opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
I thought (from the headlines) that this was going to be like Summerhill School. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School)

> It is run as a democratic community; the running of the school is conducted in the school meetings, which anyone, staff or pupil, may attend, and at which everyone has an equal vote. These meetings serve as both a legislative and judicial body. Members of the community are free to do as they please, so long as their actions do not cause any harm to others, according to Neill's principle "Freedom, not Licence." This extends to the freedom for pupils to choose which lessons, if any, they attend.
Nice guide! Is there more coming? I also loved your explorations on network partitions, keep up the good work!
Boosting aggregate demand will not solve the unemployment issue when you consider that one person with automation can produce enough goods to satisfy the demand more than one person.
Sorry about this. Still in alpha, explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619284