skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I'm sure it's possible to fool their image hashing algorithm, I doubt this will. Image hashing algorithms are designed to be resistant to small changes in the image and more advanced ones can generate hashes that determine how similar one image is to another. I haven't tried this, but you can probably see a proof of this using google image search. Add some text to an image, and see if Google image search can find the original.
Elaborate Website Migration
It seems to me that entertainment without learning isn't possible. Indeed, the pleasure that entertainment affords is a straightforward signal that the brain is learning, without exception. Take humour. What was funny in the past is usually not funny now, because humour depends on our current state of knowledge and is a means of opening our minds to new ideas.

Even the pleasure that comes from addiction and drug use indicates that learning is taking place -- learning the context of the 'high' (more and more subtle detail concerning the smell of the coffee, the crackle of the cigarette paper, the label of the wine being poured, the faces of one's fellow drinkers, etc, and linking this information to the pleasure itself).

Contrariwise, if one is not entertained, if one cannot find some pleasurable feature in the situation, then one is learning nothing. So learning without entertainment is not possible either!
Ender's Game, for the 8th time or so, which I wanted to re-read again before watching the movie
FTTN will always be cheaper, and I've always looked at it as part of a 2 stage deployment, it gets fiber into residential neighborhoods where there is often no fiber, providing a jumping off point to hook it to the premises.
News media, such as The Economist, is also VERY different from what they talk about in the article:

>The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking.

Most of the news stories aren't really what I would call news anyway. The type of news that is apparently bad for me, is the same type of news that embodies everything that is wrong with most news media. The topics of you evening news broadcast is about as relevant as the sports scores.
Well, an appropriate solution would be to 'open, package and store' the email at the time of receipt, not reading - that may cost some resources of extra bandwidth and storage, but would provide a better functionality and permanence in case of opening that email two years later when the sending company and their servers may be out of business.
It seems the result is a complex number. Fiddled around with it a bit until I got lucky and got the plane to disappear.

http://vicapow.github.io/equation-plot-webgl/index.html#0.48...)
I bought a laptop recently.

The price was a little higher than if I had paid old fashioned money, about $700 instead of $680-690. But I needed one. I guessed the price of Bitcoin would be likely to go down temporarily, which was right. It was one way of taking some profits from the increase in value

I earn money in Bitcoin, so it is a closed loop for me.
"This is a very common viewpoint among technical people, sadly"

Really? The usual image is that techie geek types lap up scifi and fantasy, which when done properly are all about the human condition.
Just checked your profile. All the best for your Start up, do well. As with always its nice to know a fellow HN'er doing so well.
Best Mobile (VIDEO) ad networks?
I've been looking around at different mobile ad networks that are focused on video ads. It's hard to find specific numbers on CPMs for each ad network. Thus, I was wondering if anyone knew which ad network has the best CPM rates?

I've seen that millennial media has $10--$35 CPM for Video ads.

Other mobile video ad network's I've looked at:
Vdopia, AdColony, Vungle, YuMe, & MobFox.

Any help or guidance would be great!

Thanks,

CC
Not at all. What's stopping me from hashing the result with something else? The base of the work must be in changeable. That's the whole point of POW in this case. If you want to rewrite history you need to do the POW again, in your system that doesn't need to happen.
You obviously have no clue who anakata is. He's definitely the cracker type and was infamous long before The Pirate Bay.
Spotify is now free for mobile devices
So it seems like one important thing that Windows (or any OS) should do is to not display custom icons for untrusted executables.
Very slow (unusable) on a MacBook Air 1.4GHz 4GB RAM using Chromium 30.0.1589.0 (215899). I suppose it's the price of using an emscripten port.
In other words, being a business analyst, but without the experience to know that that's already a job.
All the three letter motions I tried don't work. Without them this is more vi then vim. caw ci" ca( all don't work.
http://dillinger.io/ you already can
Github is using the Ace editor, which has a VIM mode.
Modern desktop screens are too wide for efficient reading in a browser. We're long past the point where it makes sense to maximize the window. My browser viewport is approximately square in shape, and occupies about 66% of the screen area. To the left I have my tab-treeview, and to the left of that, various other windows cascaded.
If you actually watch the whole "greed is good" scene in Wall Street, this is what Gekko was getting at too. Unfortunately that one phrase is taken out of context.
We solved this problem with https://github.com/polleverywhere/sprockets_bower in a simpler way.

This reminds me that bundler could handle dependency resolution beyond gems. Imagine:

gem "rails"
gem "coffeescript"
bower "jquery"
bower "backbone"

Run bundle and all the dependencies get mapped out and installed.
Palmer choose Brendan as his partner to help transform Oculus from a project into co-founding a company because they wanted to work together. To characterize him as an "investor" seems strange since he is an entrepreneur. And suffice to say Brendan, Palmer, and Carmack are voting with their time.
http://www.perfectlearn.com
Topic map-based personal learning environment with extensive semantic web integration (for both web and mobile).
It sounds almost as bad as what's going on in the UK. The current "superfast broadband" contracts have been offered to BT (former state run telecoms monopoly) across England and Wales and local projects for innovation have been turned away. [0]

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24919148
In general Command-Left/Right-arrow should work as well unless it's been taken out of Safari.
I wonder what does this mean to the Kickstarter backers. Sure, by legal means they donate to the cause rather than investing in it, but I think it's not really fair if they get nothing from this VC funds.
Very cool, but also depressing because it seems to be rather complex and a lot of work. I suppose if I would find myself stuck in the jungle somewhere, I would have to do without electricity...
Good riddance, Google!
i've spent well over an hour in the latest prototype with no sickness, and in the dev units I can last 5 minutes tops.
Doesn't this contradict your theory that people should start a startup so they get a lifetimes worth of work done in a few years?
How is the camera shaking like that not going to make you sick?

That would be my number one fear about occulus. If it makes you motion sick, it would be a damn shame to know something like VR exists but you cannot play it unless you are fine with feeling like a dog for hours after a session longer than 30 minutes.
37Signals' Suggested "SJR" Pattern Considered Harmful
Backed that on Kickstarter.
Seems that the project is going well. Can't wait for the release.
Clinkle App Teardown and Screenshots
Graceful Shutdown of Go net.Listeners
This basically boils down to You can't measure productivity for programmers. Hope some managers are reading this !
Amazon RDS now supports PGSQL
Perhaps, it's all as grand as you say. But if you were small enough to not be noticeable, now you'll catch their eye. Best of luck.

Either way free market is nothing to be idealized. It's not that great on its own. Free market never existed in its pure form and from a theoretical standpoint its not that great.

Note: I patronize for your naive belief in the free markets.
Do PMs seriously make $250k+?
I may have to reconsider the career change.
yeah i was wondering that as well. if they tested 'around the office' as the post seems to indicate they might have missed the effect that for every extra person that opens an email the picture is coming from google's cache and thus the open is not counted.
This is speculative, but it seems to me like 99% of the motion sickness that happens in the Rift is because there's only rotation tracking--no motion tracking.

When we look around, we move our head subtly side to side and forward and back. The Rift dev kit doesn't do that--it just tracks what direction you're pointed in. My feeling is that causes a big chunk of the motion sickness.

The production unit will include motion tracking. As long as game titles take advantage of it, and don't do stuff like shake the camera, or move it too much, or do too many cuts, then I think 99% of people will be fine.

There will still be craz
This is speculative, but it seems to me like 99% of the motion sickness that happens in the Rift is because there's only rotation tracking--no motion tracking.

When we look around, we move our head subtly side to side and forward and back. The Rift dev kit doesn't do that--it just tracks what direction you're pointed in. My feeling is that causes a big chunk of the motion sickness.

The production unit will include motion tracking. As long as game titles take advantage of it, and don't do stuff like shake the camera, or move it too much, or do too many cuts, then I think 99% of people will be fine. For those titles at least. Other titles will push the limits.
tumblr is down for me. What is up with Yahoo?
Dropbox is an ironic example, because Drew applied right before the deadline with a video, a string-and-wires prototype, and no cofounder. He'd been working on it 3 months and had just barely quit his day job.
In defense of non-fiction readers, it seems that one could make the statement quoted above in order to say "this is my intent in reading, so it leads me to read these types of books because they aim to serve that purpose"; it does not necessarily deny fiction the ability to teach one about the world and more than a good non-fictional work.

However, choosing to read fiction puts no lower bound on the amount of real information you will get nor the amount you will learn about the world, yourself, or humanity. Meanwhile, a non-fictional piece will at least have a reasonable guarantee to contain information of some kind.
Contributing to GitHub Projects is easy indeed, but finding a project to contribute to is very hard. Unless you spot a project you like at random and decide to help out it's ok, but if you just wanted to find one on GitHub you can go shoot yourself.
For those who don't know, Fallout 2 is probably one of the best RPG for the computer ever. With the proper mods and fixes it's really playable and enjoyable on a recent computer (I really recommend the hi-res patch http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout2_High_Resolution_P... for starters).

Fallout 3 New Vegas came close to Fallout 2 in terms of ambiance and game play, but not close enough (mainly because of the combat system).

I really envy those who will discover this game.
I think a great many of astronomers were in fact "data scientists". For example, Kepler's life's work in the end amounts to finding the simplest possible model that could plausibly account for Tycho de Brahe's data. In fact, many of the most basic statistical modelling methods originated in the process of trying to find explanations for astronomical observations, like least squares:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_squares#History

In one sense science is just the outcome of correctly applying the scientific method to a given problem, and in that sense data science is perhaps a meta-science, in that it focuses on the part of the scientific method concerned with making inferences from data, and tries to improve it's effectiveness, using process that is itself scientific to some degree (applying mathematical reasoning to find more reliable ways of inference, introducing additional empirical experiments like cross-validation into the inference process itself for confirmation). I think comparing physics to statistics is a categorical error, and at the same time it's worth keeping in mind that modern physics, biology and chemistry certainly rely very heavily on probability theory and mathematical statistics, so those disciplines always brought up as "properly scientific" are in many respects only rigorous to the extent statistics is.
The great Linotype 202 typesetter jailbreak [video]
Norway says Bitcoins aren't real money
As a lesser thought: currently, when you publish a book in the US, you are legally required to send a copy to the Library of Congress. I could see the same thing working for software, requiring a submission of source code to some central publicly-accessible digital library. No licencing requirements beyond "people can read this," but that'd still be an unearthly boon to, say, security researchers.
you should check out Sharethrough
I've read comments here some years ago that told it's common for a locksmith to fool around the lock for few minutes with lockpicks and only then grab the gun-like device that does the job 99% of the time - because if they start with the gun, people don't want to pay for what is essentially a 30-second fix.
My concern is how they are calculating maintenance costs of the copper tail. Telstra's linesmen are some of the few equipped/trained to maintain these lines, and in areas > 30 years old much of the copper is in poor condition or direct buried (read: $$$ to replace). Flooded pits causing comms connectivity issues, radio interference, etc all impact copper performance too.

Speed is often the argument for FTTN vs FTTH, when reliability should be.
Alright, top valued then. Or the median/average from the top 10%. Shouldn't that give okay results?
To argue against the line "it's only natural that the corrupt seize power" look no further than the various cases where decency and enlightenment prevailed.

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Me three! `gem install t-time-tracker`

Helps to alias it to something shorter. I use "t".
Let's assume that you're right, and fraud causes more harm ot individuals than a punch to the face.

A prisoner has little opportunity to commit fraud. They don't need to be put into solitary confinement to restrict their access to the Internet.
Ask HN: Best Books read in 2013
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6898191

Let's share what are best books you have read in 2013
Let's say one of the most significant philanthropists. Carnegie and Rockefeller were extraordinary philanthropists and in inflation-adjusted dollars, Rockefeller gave away more.

What Gates has done that's unique is to pressure/induce other super-wealthy individuals to also donate their wealth to charity.
Julian Assange predicted bitcoin’s recent rise — and its problems — in 2011
I think MS in particular will only integrate Dart if they are forced to. And they will be forced if:

1. developers start using Dart as alternative

2. performance of the Dart VM greatly exceeds performance of JS

But you are right, choice is good for everyone!
Jewish Problems - hard math problems with simple solutions
don't know anything about fallout coming to mobile (though you'd think it'd just be a matter of time), but baldur's gate is already out on ipad and baldur's gate ii is coming soon.
> Here in Germany, losers pay and the cost for lawyers is calculated by the amount the argument is about.

Then I could be safe from lawsuits in Germany if I confined my evil acts to things that were about too little money for the lawyers to be interested in going after?
And this is not taking into account that modern GCs do most or all of the work either without stopping the mutator (CMS, C4) or incrementally (G1), in smaller chunks. Times of STW collectors are long gone.
The beta is out, and there is a set of three videos in this RPS article: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/12/lets-chatter-over...

Looks good so far.
So you have to send all the techs and teams out twice to dig up the road? The end-of-the-line has always been the most expensive part, that's why it made more economic and technical sense to do it all at the same time rather than double your work to save 25% cost. And with a projected finish date of 2020 (which is highly unlikely), you'll only begin to start rolling out the second stage at 2022, to replace technology that would be outdated if it were finished today.

And the second stage will never ever happen anyway, because it took us 30 years to replace the crappy copper network and even that could very well have been the straw the broke the camel's back for the government. In 2022 when everything is "finished" (shifted goalposts included) it will take another thirty years for the government to finally admit that 25 mbps in a 2gbps world isn't enough. And Australia will still stagnate as the anti-investment, anti-intellectual, FYGM backwater that it is today.

e: I'd love to see where those figures in the earlier link came from.

Revenue at completion date
AU$21.7 billion	AU$10 billion	AU$18 billion

That's, side by side, the FTTH, FTTH (revised), and the coalition's estimates.

Either the coalition is flat out lying through its teeth (and it could be lying about the whole thing to absolve itself of its responsibilities or to foreward any criticism -- its standard LNP/government policy to take over and make out that things were way worse than you could ever have dreamed)... or they're planning to sell a much worse service at a far higher cost, which means it doesn't even benefit the people who paid for it in the first place, the taxpayer.
Closer to Fallout & Fallout 2 is Wasteland 2, which has just gone into beta.
Australian sprinter clocks faster time than young Usain Bolt
Both Fallouts are very good, but don't reach the heights of Planescape Torment in terms of writing or character development.

I didn't play Fallout 3, but Fallout New Vegas' combat was abysmal. I actually liked the idea of wandering around in the wastelands, as opposed to traveling via the map (that's what Bethesda has been doing all along: exploration games with bad combat and NPCs-as-banks of informations), but I wouldn't want to sacrifice combat to it. They also tried to incorporate some survival elements, but it's not enforced enough to play much of a role in practice.

There was an interesting discussion on RPS about Pillars of Eternity, a Baldur's Gate spiritual successor, about how leaving isometric 3D behind was a step backward in terms of graphics, and I tend to agree. I'm glad to see it coming back.
Hopefully that helps them to launch the long-awaited 1.0 version of their open-sourced client-side MVC framework, Batman.js.
My mom ended up with a locked AT&T Moto X that she bought "off-contract" from the Moto Maker website. She was pretty pissed when she found out she couldn't put it on T-Mobile.
Throw the baby out with the bathwater.
On the other hand, you got to have your guts probed without anesthesia. How fun is that?
vp8 is as free as this.

just replace mpegla with google.
Why would you need to explain anything at all?

"Has anyone given you anything to carry for them?"

No.
Answer: learn to do it the right way and you'll end up coding faster.
Bulls At Dominos
Slap The Bull's 2nd song and it's goes out to all the Party Animals out there!
Bulls At Dominos (not Dominoes) a.k.a B.A.D, is apparently the name of this shot we stirred up, that gives you a night to remember, lol.
Show HN: Social Crawlytics helps you identify popular content
> You rollout fiber to the home where it is more economical (dense areas, new developments) you roll fiber to the curb where it is more economical and faster (apartment buildings) and you roll the fiber to a cabinet where it is more economical and faster (existing suburban areas).

This new reports says that if you have HFC available (or near you) that's your only option. FTTP is being offered for new developments, or already areas where construction has already started. What this essentially means is dense, dense suburban areas will be on HFC cable.

What the report does not elaborate on is how the government will get access to the HFC cable, as it's privately owned by (predominantly) Telstra and Optus, or how much it will cost.

Additionally the report has some wonderful wording regarding previously guaranteed 25Mb/s speed:

> NBN Co will be designing the new-look NBN to provide these speeds to NBN Co's wholesale customers (internet service providers). End-user experience, including the speeds actually achieved over the NBN, will continue to depend on a number of factors outside our control including end-user equipment quality, software, broadband plans and how each service provider designs its network.

I think a big issue that some Australian's have is that after we spend $44b on this NBN, to upgrade the remaining 69% premises on HFC/FTTN we need to start this all over again and deploy FTTP.
No, not really. Its certain areas where there are broad band black spots. Your post implies is a UK thing.

On top of that, the idea is to get it done, as opposed to mucking around waiting for "innovation", which was happening to fill the gap. That gap is being closed. People in BB black spots want a decent connection at a reasonable price, not innovation. And frankly they want and need it ASAP.

As for the innovators, they can still innovate if they like. Just not off the premium backs of people in black spots.
An old video (vhs) to digital conversion project with a nice little app that lets you share old memories with friends and family as well as add in a bunch of "digital" memories, and do cool albums with a TaskRabbit-esque video editing/media management service.

Law firm brokerage website

I've got an idea for a cool photo management organization tool that I haven't started working on yet.
How are people still talking about manually deploying bricks? Amazon Wall Services has solved this problem!
The teaser and the idea of a gigantic dungeon hearken back to Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale much more than PST. Still look like something I'd want to play.

The "true" PST successor is Torment: Tides of Numenara [1]. Though it's not set in the same universe (Wotc being too busy not doing anything with the Planescape setting to license it), it will be more focused on existential questions than dragon-slaying. As a bonus, it won't feature adapted 2nd edition D&D rules.

1: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...
Looks cool, might have to play around with it / fork it. I know that company I worked for wanted to do move away from the IRC channel hosted by one of our contractors to a system we controlled.
really impressive work; i like how you guys (apparently) began with a blank page, and set aside at least a few stale assumptions that most consider inviolate principles in DW design--eg, denormalization, star/snowflake schema.
moz would have to foot the 6mi.

cisco pays 6mi, and them mpegla returns 3mi to them for their patents in the pool. and if the format becomes ubiquitous, they get any few billions from this same pool from their competitors when they also license it.

they are still the bad guy in this.
I loved the multiplayer team tactics of this game, possibly my favorite multiplayer game experience ever. It was limited to a few good maps, and, as far as I remember, only a few different weapon types, but worked very well. I never even bothered to play the larger single player game because multiplayer was so good (although I did play Fallout 1 and 2 to death).