skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is very probably that using GIMP "curves" they would be able to bring a lot of details on 5MP and 10MP "blind" images. The digital cams lack dynamic range. A "blind" dark image is very possibly somthing like this rough simplified illustration - 0 where black and 1 [out of 255] where white. To us both values look black, ie. very close to 0 vs. 255. Using a tool like "curves" one can remap 1 to say 100 while 0 is still 0 and this will frequently make a reasonable, though somewhat noisy image.

Or in other words, they judged performance of camera vs. eyes by using human eyes. It would be interesting if they send the images to, for example, OCR.
Amusingly enough, Wayland is already developing backwards-compatibility cruft even though it's not shipping anywhere yet. The core Wayland support for window creation and management cannot support minimizing windows, so it's being essentially obsoleted by an extension called xdg_shell, but xdg_shell isn't mandatory so applications and Wayland compositors will wind up having to support both.
Can't throw in Gravity Force but I can do some Dungeon Master... Maybe some Xenon if we need to keep it spaceship-like
Isn't this what stops a lot of suits against broad surveillence-type actity - that since court proceedings are public the suit is rejected because it would reveal classified information?
I find it amusing that my real email address are not compromised but all of my fake ones for signing up for various things are compromised.
> and not some lump of soulless plastic farted out of a tellytubby.

You are certainly aware of the latest line of cheap plastic iphones in primary colors?
In what? In being able to study the thousands of dramatically different ways humans can communicate.

Preserving languages is about preserving data for linguistics (and other fields). We preserve a lot of things with no "real value". We preserve fossils, species (any species with fewer than 100 remaining specimens isn't contributing to any ecosystem), books (even ones that are outdated and no one is ever likely to read), websites... I could go on all day. We preserve this stuff because we can learn by studying it.

Languages don't just have different nuances, they have completely different ways of putting human thought into words. They have grammars so different that a word for word translation would be no more readable than an untranslated text. They have such a huge variety of sounds that encoding them into IPA stretches the limits of Unicode's variants of the Latin alphabet, relying on many diacritic marks on top of regular characters.

It's not about preserving something that gives some greater ability to communicate. It's about preserving a database of linguistic evolution and the bounds of how human thought can be encoded orally.
OMG.

I was just looking at one of my children's books earlier and came up with exactly this idea. Two hours later, sit down on HN and someone has already done it.

Awesome work whoever did this!
Same here. I used my throw-away email to sign up at Adobe, along with my weak throw-away password. I don't have any Adobe licenses or such. The only Adobe product I use is the Flash plugin.

The email account is on Hotmail and currently has about 54k messages in its in-box, 99.9% unread. I use it to create accounts on news sites and annoying fora and such, always with the same weak password. About the only time I log into is to respond to password confirmation requests generated during account creations.

Originally, the weak password was also my email password. However, a few years ago, the email account got hacked severely, such that MSFT wouldn't let me in until I reset the password. It now has a strong password.
If they are really hiring, the interviewee should do it. If he can't sense whether they are really hiring, he shouldn't do it. But it should be preceded by something else first, such as fizzbuzz.

And that said, it should be shorter than a day, but still, if they're hiring he's there because he wants the position, and this is an excellent test.
Your link is broke. Here it is fixed: https://modules.ceylon-lang.org/modules/ceylon.language/1.0....

Very cool type annotations. As a mostly Java developer, I wish API's had this level of documentation, to have it built into the language and type system is wonderful. As a curiosity, is there any tooling to infer or generate the type annotations for methods? I imagine that would make it easier to learn for those who have never worked with a powerful type system before (as you say, even Java's can be confusing).
I can't read the economist article "reached your reading limit" :(

77 accidents- I assume that's injuries, not deaths, right?

I would consider the OSHA count as incomplete for the reason you say- but I doubt there is more accurate data.

Right now I'd say the numbers look reasonable to not justify preventing the entertainment industry from using robot automation in movie making alongside actors (I think that's what was being suggested?).
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Not anymore. Deposit a few checks into your bank account that are just under $10k, and you've committed a felony for structuring your deposits. It should be "intent," but that's too hard to prove.
>Yes, this will suck if you're 50 years old and get laid off the assembly line, but we've been automating jobs out of existence for a few centuries now and the overall consequences have not been particularly terrifying.

In the past we've mostly been replacing a few skilled workers with lots of unskilled ones. Automation does the opposite.
Well I for one freely admit I can't understand a word of it. But I do appreciate the implications if it's true, and look forward to more readable analysis by others more qualified than myself!
Not to mention outright lying to a judge. Isn't that a contempt of court issue?
Out of sight, Out of mind
The buried story here is that somebody is running e17 and there's no screenshot of the memory analyzer UI doing a backflip.
>It still baffles me that people would voluntarily work at implementing something like PRISM

It's almost like not everyone in the world shares your political views on privacy rights...

Seriously, you are baffled by this? The majority of the population doesn't value privacy at all.
Oops, thanks. Appreciated. How I wish hn supported markdown :-/
That scenario is only one of many possible explanations for why that happened.
It is the internet and www in general that enables people to be connected and share ideas. There's no reason to credit specific sites like Facebook or eBay with connecting people, because someone else would have done it (possibly better) if they had not.
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It's been like that since the beginning, makes reading their sites a real hassle.
More likely it had merely promoted the quick and easy pop culture, where people no longer take the time of reading a book. After all you can just use google and look up your next short fix.
I had no idea Usenet was like a community or something. I primarily use it to download stuff.
> “The surprising part is that Valleywag knowingly outed their own source. Valleywag actually knew the screenshot had identifying information of the individual leaker prior to them publishing this story,” Kalanick told TechCrunch in a statement. “We told Nitasha Tiku from Valleywag that we would protect her source from legal ramifications if they did not publish the document. Nitasha and Valleywag decided to publish anyways.

I've said it here before, and I'll say it again: ValleyWag/Gawker Media are scum. This is just another entry in a long list of terrible things they do to get pageviews.
what browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.
>It is their algorithms that determine what speech we come across.

Even without deliberate attempts to manipulate these algorithms to shape public discourse, I wonder what effect the algorithms themselves have. For example, a major feature of these algorithms is to show people what they want to see. The algorithms may determine this based on the individuals history, which already has implications for public discourse, but they could also take into account what similar individuals like.

They could also have a systematic bias. For example, they may consider links from external sites to be a positive indicator. This would prefer internet cultures where each participant has their own site over similar cultures where each participant has an account on a larger site.
This is from August of 2012. If there were actually a proof of P = NP posted on the arXiv, wouldn't we have heard about it by now?
Ideally an honest one.

Edit: here's a thought.

Thanks again for your support of Product since our launch. It means the world to us, and it's been a terrific ride for us. Unfortunately, we haven't seen the broad usage of our service necessary to sustain it and we'll be shutting it down in X months. Luckily, BigCo is acquiring our team, which means that we'll have jobs making their quasi-similar product even better.

Here's how you get your data: (blah)

Here are some similar services you may want to consider moving to: (blah)
The new world of electric travel may need not just new places to re-fuel, but new social rules for doing so.

It's interesting that plugging in to recharge a car would be different from, say, plugging in a phone or boombox (the latter two would likely not have resulted in an arrest). I would think that at most places, if a person is invited in, then it is assumed you have permission to plug in. You don't have to ask me if you can charge your phone if you come over for dinner, and I don't have to ask my boss if I can plug in my laptop at work. Plugging in a car should be fine to, as long as he was invited to the school.
> Mr. Obama, as President, has exhibited far more acceptance for the previous administration's policies than he had for said policies during his initial campaign for the Presidency.

Wasn't the previous administration from across the aisle? Don't you have to campaign against that status quo to get elected when you are the opposite party?
Knight Foundation report and visualization on the 'civic tech' ecosystem
Is it just me or is this worse than before? Slower, much less responsive, and harder to read.

Heck, one of their own graphics shows the issue with the responsive cover images. The "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" article's cover image almost completely crops out the woman on the left when viewed on an iPad or iPhone, which is to my eyes the most poignant part of the image.

I absolutely adored the old Medium design. I applaud them for continuing to innovate, but this one is going to have to grow on me.
It was quite an astonishing move to break 1Password (mine is still broken) when Apple released their own free product.
Yes entirely.

I actually went and played with one in the Apple Store a couple of days after release. At the time I was still using my Lumia 820. They feel about the same so I agree.

However consider the 4, 4s, 5, 5s. There's nothing like that for WP.

Premium devices are just more features.
Yeah, antidote. I can't believe how sloppy my writing is these days.

I'm not sure how religion plays into things. You can see on the thread a very strong example of how modernism still dominates a lot of our thinking. We want to be able to place 'moral issues' into rational epistemological frameworks or political theories. I have the same instincts. Does game theory work here? Can we tweak & changing the legal definition of corporations or encouraging limited partnerships to avoid this or that pathology?

You're right that even talking about morality feels religious. I think its a mistake to avoid dealing with morality as an independent thing. These attempts to get morality from amorality are a dead end, I think. I don't accept that politicians are inevitably amoral slaves to political expediency. That's bullshit. Even the US, with it "conservative" streak of libertarian-rationalism was built by people of moral virtue or at the very least a mythology of those people. Fuzzy as it is, morality is a central part of being human.
You can also use an algorithm. I do something like create a 'base' that is used for all sites. And then something like take the number of letters in the url google = 6 and add it the beginning. Then take the second letter from the right and last, 'o' and 'e' and add it to the end. In the end you get 6baseoe. Unique password for each website.
Yet he is unable to get an iPhone.

If I were him I would have made a sign that says "You're fired" on his desk and every time someone gives the wrong answer, I would just start to point toward the sign and watch whether the people change their tune.
My recollection was that the judge in this case pursued a very clever strategy. There were two questions to be decided: are APIs copyrightable and did Google infringe. The jury were asked to assume the API was copyrighted and then decide whether Google infringed that copyright. The jury found no infringement. Then the judge ruled that APIs were not copyrightable.

So even if the judge's decision is overturned the jury's decision still stands and there was no infringement.
Jolla is my only chance for a new N900-like phone. I loved that terrible goddamn device.

A Nexus 5 still feels restrictive by comparison.

I really really hope your prediction is correct but I just don't see it happening.
DARPA and others think probabilistic programming: http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home

You need to understand Bayesian statistics enough to understand this paper: http://www.stanford.edu/~ngoodman/papers/WSG-AIStats11.pdf
1. Get a lawyer.
2. Get a lawyer.
3. I'm not a lawyer.
4. Always have a bargaining chip

Unless you have something in place, it's probably not worth much a legal action. Maybe some threatening phone calls, and letters from a lawyer. If they are BIG they will attempt to drive you to the ground.

Watch the video posted from Mule Design and take this as a hard lesson learned.
> ADP is horrible, but their website can't change financial details

The article here says that the account information that was compromised can. I'm not sure if that is a result of bad reporting on the same level as that related to FTP in the article, or the accounts that were compromised are different than the ones for the website you are talking about.
First off I think doing Startup Weekends is awesome (I believe the author would approve of that descriptor), just focusing on turning a profit during them I do not see as a worthwhile focus(with exceptions of course), and it seemed to be the author's focus.

As per your point of recurring income. No, I am not taking into account recurring income, because the author does not make it clear what the '267 subscriptions sold' constitute.

For instance he says:
And when I say “what Noah did” I mean exactly what Noah did. Beef Jerky Subscription Service. Period. I “iterated” on the idea exactly zero. Just ‘stole it’ and executed like crazy for two days, along with the seven other people on my team.

However Noah http://www.appsumo.com/sumo-jerky/ required a 3 month minimum subscription with that 3 month period paid up front.

Now in the author's post they mention they sold 3 month subscriptions however the $5340 divides by 20 as exactly the number of subscriptions sold.

So did the author count the 3 month subscription as 3 subscriptions?

Did the author count it as 1 and not count $40 of the revenue?

Did the author do something else, there is not enough information for me at least to determine how the recurring income would be handled next month. So while you can estimate it would double, I do not feel safe making that estimate.
so many Scala language flame wars! it must be doing something right!
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I kind of have to agree with you. But I also don't think this is a bad thing. I'm glad I was there to see it all happen and despite the groans I may receive I think reddit (as mentioned by other commenters) is a perfect evolution of what was. It encourages small communities to exist in the form of sub-reddits which has allowed it to survive the several massive growth phases in the last several years.

Part of the reason that places like reddit and HN are still working is because, I believe, they follow that same attitude from the usenet days. It's more about the discussions and cross-pollination of thoughts (whether you agree or not). Most importantly, it helps to break through that filter bubble that looms over us all.

While I feel privileged to have seen the world pre and post internet, I'm excited to see how we will be communicating in the next 20 years.

As I get older it seems harder to keep an open mind (yes, I can be very sentimental when it comes to old computer tech, BBS The Documentary is my ideal nerd porn) but I have to keep reminding myself that many great things aren't recognized as such until after the fact.

If I'm honest with myself, I think I've read and participated in some of the most thought provoking and hilarious on-line discussion from the early 2000's onwards.

I'll stop blabbering now.
> don't collect all this data

So you don't want GMail to actually collect your email?

> stop cooperating with the NSA

Ah, you mean they should start breaking the US law?
I can't read anything on medium on my Nexus 5 with the latest version of Chrome. When I stop scrolling the page, it hiccups and jumps 2-3 lines so I lose my place.

Looks like I'll have to wait for 2.0 to see if I am interested in the content.
What the hell happened two weeks ago when revenue was 33% of the other weeks...
Is this a trap to build a mailing list?

I tried a bunch of fake hotmail emails and 90% of them are "pwned". Very suspicious to say the least.
Pawned on Adobe's website 2.

My spam url and my real one, goddamned.
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npm will translate the git branch to its commit sha when you `npm shrinkwrap` so you're pretty well covered.
It says I haven't, yet if I google my email and an older password I used to use, I find it listed on some Russian forum.
I miss it dearly, as I do miss PJ's apt but still readable analysis of complex lawsuits. It was especially powerful against paid shills or any other articles that valued money over facts.

I always hoped it'd resume someday, or rise as a phoenix from its ashes. Where did the community go after the sign-off?
Healthcare is a major change that this President achieved. That is far more than a figurehead could have accomplished.

When you emerge from the bubble of security (though those concerns are valid), you'll see many changes that Obama pushed forward.

Yes, he has many policies in place that he campaigned against but he also changed this country in many other areas (for better or worse). To call him a figurehead is ridiculous.

Edit: took out opinion
Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57, internet explorer 10 and Firefox 25.01 on Windows 7 do not support keyboard navigation.

It also fails to work on a Samsung Chromebook.

What version of firefox and os are you using?
I like https://oneshallpass.com/ better since it lets you change some attributes about the passwords generated. So if a site is compromised you can just increment the generation field and get a totally new hash.
It looks like that period is not reflecting a full week (hence the final "last 7 days" column).
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Spark (http://spark.incubator.apache.org/), which is part of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS - https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/software/), will likely emerge as Hadoop's successor (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466222).

Graph databases and graph analytics is an emerging space (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786563).
When you answer questions and get points though you teach and that is the best training. Many times when I answer questions I find out more details and learn as well. Anytime a question is answered this is training investment for free really. It is also something that helps your programmer brand.

With open source and sites like stackoverflow, a single programmer can become a team of programmers/knowledge very quickly. It is part of what has made each programmer better I believe. On the flip it has also made programmers more lazy possibly. Finding an answer and being able to solve and provide an answer to the question are two key pillars to providing solutions. So I'd say question answerers and associated companies are getting more out of it.
A note -- when linking to arXiv, please link to the abstract[1], not directly to the PDF. The abstract has other information about the paper, and one can see different versions of the paper, and of course one can click through to the actual paper. Going the other way requires manually editing the URL.

[1]http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0954
You cut it off a little early:

Editor John Cook told us that the screenshots did not, in fact, have any identifying information.

“We didn't publish any identifying information about the source of the screengrab,” Cook says. “We don't know who sent us that shot, and neither does Uber.

Now, I can't say which one of the two is telling the truth, but at least give both sides of the story. Looking at the shots, I'm not sure what is personally identifiable, though the bookmarks bar could give some clues.

And Travis's threat of legal action might just be hot air from him (which isn't exactly unprecedented). After all, these numbers look very good for Uber. I wouldn't want to be one of their competitors trying to raise a round of funding right now.
The passengers of the fourth plane knew that other planes had been hijacked and crashed that same day. They made the assumption that these multiple hijackings in such a short period of time were all related and concluded that their plane would likely crash.

The probability that a random hijacking would be done with the intent of crashing the plane is far lower in general than on a day where you know another 3 hijackings did result in that. Especially when you consider how unlikely simultaneous hijackings are.
This sounds as much of a trap as do the websites that tells "how secure is your password" to use them to build dictionaries for brute force.
Where did you see that it's from August 2012? I recall a claim in August 2010 by Vinay Deolalikar of the opposing view, but haven't seen much public attention since.

Ah - I see now. Gotcha.
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Posts with NSA in the title are heavily penalized here. Keep that in mind when submitting an important story.

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The key motivation is not security, but if any account starts receiving spam, I will have a good idea where it is coming from. It also lets me shut off mail from any source.

Some services will use that as the username, others allow me to pick my own. Using a password manager helps this whole scheme. Now that I do that, I could go to random email addresses and usernames.
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This is probably a stupid question but why can't someone make an X11 version that speeds up and optimizes everything but breaks backwards compatibility?
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