skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How to Make an Ask"
Lessons learned from not making asks when I should have, and watching other entrepreneurs do the same.
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Project Tycho, decades of health data for researchers (with no restrictions)
Model aircraft flyer with no insider knowledge of Amazon's drone engineering comments critically w/out evidence on Amazon's drone engineering.
Google Maps does this. The only difference is that Google informs you before you turn on location services.
It doesn't have to get past spam filters. Normally spam is held in the spam bin for 30 days.
Layering on your end, yeah.

Per pages like http://www.microlens.com/pages/choosing_right_lens.htm different applications prefer different viewing angles.

If you can track down ideal lenses and give tips for capturing ideal photos that'd be awesome.

http://poppy3d.com/ is cute product shipping soon: they might be interested in partnering (they've had ~2900 backers on Kickstarter)
I read this comment 3 times and now I give up; I have no idea what you are trying to say.
The signer_keys_and_uids example can be much cleaner using Enumerator#with_object:

signers.map.with_object({}) { |signer, result| result[signer.key_id] = signer.uids }
Well, it is a not so wrong vulgarization.
If you have $30k worth of pre-orders on Amazon. Anyone. Bank Of America, Friends and Family, An Angel VC.
My gmail was fine but my yahoo mail is compromised, but i actually changed the password a couple weeks back because yahoo asked me, so worked out fine. I have not used adobes services for over a year now.
Hadoop to Neo4J
This was news back in 2011.
1. As others sugges, if you have a RAW setting on your cameras, you should use that. If you don't, you should probably get one that does.

2. I'm going to disagree with the naysayers who say this is useless. You can partially defang them by pointing out that while this doesn't fully test a camera against a human eye, it is a reasonable test on its own merits and generally answers the question that people are actually asking when they ask "what's the resolution of the human eye?" (After all, the difference in capabilities goes both ways; sure, human eyes are a great deal more sensitive on many measures, but would someone please show me their eye's 10x optical zoom? (Hello to the 2040s!))

A further observation that "megapixels" is not useful would be called for, though. We're really comparing angular resolution for a certain set of settings. But we can accept "megapixels" as a slang term if we also fix certain other camera parameters to ones common to consumer cameras in the market.

3. Using eye charts is a good idea, I think. I've seen comparisons that try to compare rod density on the human eye, but that's really hard. I'd consider adding a note that standardized eye charts measure what humans can really see rather than try to compare two extremely different hardware platforms directly.
Presumably you can open your password manager's web service and do it from there.
I think you're probably right. Disproportionate response only makes sense if it actually prevents future crimes.

I would like to clarify the blurring of two disproportionate costs.

The first is the cost to the criminal. Assume for the sake of argument that in this case we're talking a trip to the police station, a $50 fine, and 10 hours of community service. Absurd for a $0.05 theft of electricity, but a limited sort of absurdity. The criminal is made to pay a disproportionate amount in restitution for his crime.

The second is the cost to the society. The cost of having a police man arrest someone for a $0.05 theft, jail him, take him to court, and supervise the community service. Hell, the cost to cash the $50 check for the fine is probably more than $0.05. The society pays a disproportionate amount to prevent a $0.05 crime.

These two separate costs have two separate objections. The first violates our inherent notions of fairness; the second raises the question of cost effectiveness.
Heroku issue?
So the deal modern man was presented with was this: we'll give you instant global communication for pennies, but in return governments and corporations will closely monitor everyone on the planet: where they are, who they call, how long the call is, their texts, messages, and other communications -- basically their thoughts. We'll record this forever to use as we choose. Trust us.

As a global population, we seem to have made this deal, but I'm not aware of ever being consciously offered the choice. Can I change my mind now?
Explain what lenticular is on the home page, and maybe show a photo of an actual example?
Web Scraping As A URL
Here's the only useful answer you're going to get: "Get a lawyer."
It's so mind boggling to think that the "Homo Erectus" existed as far back as 1.8 million years ago, yet most of our recent (and known history) happened in the last 5000 years, and we see that as a huge evolution.

What the heck happened between 1 million years ago and now? The human race changed a lot and matured very much, but it's so incredible that such a big evolution only happened in the last few thousand years and the rest has taken hundreds of thousands of years.
A Review of Google Glass In the Operating Room
Yahoo acquires Ptch
That or use your phone. Most password managers have apps.
Why not print them out and put them in your wallet, like Google suggests. It's probably safer.
As another comment says, the author of this New York Times article, Carl Zimmer, is a very solid science writer who knows a lot about evolution. I have occasion to discuss human population genetics with psychologists who study behavior genetics, and when population genetics issues come up in those discussions, some of the new discoveries are surprising even to them. It's hard for reporters, us, and even the working researchers to keep up with the new findings in human population genetics. I'll share a finding here that surprised some researchers I discussed it with this week.

The first human genome to be sequenced was that of Craig Venter, who would be called a "white" man in the United States. The second human genome to be sequenced was that of James Watson, who is also regarded as "white" in either the United States or Britain. One of the first dozen or so human genomes to be sequenced was that of Korean scientist Seong-Jin Kim,[1] and his genome, even though "Asian," is more similar to Venter's than Venter's is to Watson's, and more similar to Watson's than Watson's is to Venter's.[2] Even though lineages are traceable in broad outlines by looking at human genes, there are quite a few human beings who resemble someone in someone else's group more than they resemble people in their own group. "The fact that, given enough genetic data, individuals can be correctly assigned to their populations of origin is compatible with the observation that most human genetic variation is found within populations, not between them. It is also compatible with our finding that, even when the most distinct populations are considered and hundreds of loci are used, individuals are frequently more similar to members of other populations than to members of their own population. Thus, caution should be used when using geographic or genetic ancestry to make inferences about individual phenotypes."[3]

So what's going in these studies of early hominid DNA is that we necessarily have tiny sample sizes, and we actually have no idea how much genetic variation there was in the population we call Neanderthal, how much in the population we call Denisovan, and so on. We will want to sequence as much ancient DNA as we can, and meanwhile sequence more modern human DNA from more people from more places around the world. But we won't be able to trace back the ancestry relationships unerringly, no matter what we do.

[1] http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2009/05/26/gr.092197.1...

[2] http://www2.webmatic.it/workO/s/113/pr-1611-file_it-Barbujan...

[3] http://www.genetics.org/content/176/1/351.full
If you want to really worry - think about all the Iraqui and Afgani insurgents that for the last 10 years have waged war against US and survived. They have worldclass IED making capabilities and it is not that hard to smuggle them in US to begin ground warfare.
You're right. This is political, and I should have just come out and embraced that. But I would also point out that being political and being scientific are not mutually exclusive, and being political and being relevant to HN are not mutually exclusive either, and just because past political discussions on HN have degenerated into chaos doesn't necessarily mean that all future such discussions are necessarily doomed to suffer the same fate.

It's like I said in my OP: if climate change is real, then it's the 20-30-somthing crowd that hangs out here that will be the first to feel the real pain. One of the mottos around here is supposed to be: build something people want, and tackle hard problems. Well, something that will avert planetary disaster seems to me like it ought to be something that people want, and figuring out what that thing might be seems like a pretty hard problem.
18 tea bags in a pint jar seems a bit much. Or even four. We've been making "sun tea" for decades this way: Five tea bags dangling from strings in a two-gallon jar left in a window for 24 hours. Makes a pleasant cold-brewed tea.
A startup has to be in the same place as its investors if they want to talk face to face, and empirically we've found this to be a necessity when talking about the subtle and complicated problems startups face. Email and Skype are such poor substitutes that they're a qualitatively different thing. Which means if a startup wants advice from its investors as well as money, they either have to raise money from local investors or one of them has to go to where the other is, at least temporarily.
Oracle's "fan base"?

Only a lawyer...
Both of those are great individual businesses, as is selling beef jerky, but they're not the next Facebook.

Who's to say that Startup Weekend is only for the "next Facebook"?
Funny/scary anecdote I experienced a few days ago: most Linux flavors check against the cracklib database when changing passwords, and as I typed in an account password, a brand-new cracklib said it was based on a dictionary word. Now, my passwords are alphanumerical jumble, and they're usually comprised of an alphanumerical jumble "core" that I memorize and then a site-based or computer-based pre- and suffix.

So, let's say for example, my current core is "kgA85kjF3". Then for example, I'd morph that for my Hacker News account to "ZkgA85kjF39!" and my fileserver as "UkgA85kjF3O2". I thought this was a good method of having reasonably long passwords but I'd have to memorize very little per site.

So imagine my surprise, when I created a new password "NkgA85kjF3T3", cracklib found a dictionary word in it. It got worse from there. Through experimentation, I determined that it was indeed the core that was compromised. Any password containing "kgA85kjF3" was compromised.

I have no idea how this happened. If this was not a big cosmic coincidence, if this is not just a random regex filter accident, that means data from at least two known password databases containing my cores has been correlated, and put into cracklib no less. There is really no limit to the imagination regarding what illegitimate databases might contain...
That's the wrong way to view it. The proper way is: will copyrighting APIs help our society? Will software developers have more of an incentive to make better APIs (assuming those benefit the general public) because of copyright?

Had there been strong copyrights, would Sun have made better date/time APIs? Would Microsoft not have ended up creating code that requires:

String.Split(s, new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)

To cut an unescaped CSV row?

I can't see any positive difference in the world by copyrighting APIs.
Mozilla Persona: Simple Sign-in for the Web
To be honest it just tells us what we already knew. This product has potential. Needs development
And that Google isn't limited by the Constitution in the ways that the Federal government supposedly is.
Cheers, Martin, thanks for the note, I appreciate it! Well, there's already a couple of things we learned from you guys: FTR, Scala was the first place I ever saw declaration-site variance, which rocks. It's also the language that influenced me and the others to take type inference seriously. Definitely hope it's a two-way street :-)
Debugging Production JavaScript with Source Maps
I totally agree that Google is a tech company, they are driven by tech, they build tons of hardware and software. There is no denying that, but the original parent comment was about how google is NOT an advertising company and is actually an AI tech company.

I agree that McDonalds is actually in the real estate biz more than the hamburger biz. Where I think the comparison falls down is that McDonalds restaurant biz is in service to building their real estate holdings and it's not always clear if ads are in support of tech or vice versa at Google.

In my business dealings with Google over the years, it's been very clear that Google skews pretty hard towards growing and supporting AdWords even at the expense of User Experience, customer desires, etc. Just look at how they are blending ads with organic results more and more or how they are forcing Google+ down everyone's throats or how they won't show keywords unless you are buying AdWords. In those cases, they aren't making tech decisions, they are making business decisions to support selling more ads.

Google obviously does a lot of tech and sells a lot of ads, but like a hydra, it's not exactly clear which head controls the beast. I would certainly skew towards ads, but you could argue that it's about the tech. It might be both or something completely different and non obvious.
Including patterns could be that next useful step up from being a bootstrap.
Nice explanation! An example comes to mind is sticking your thumb over the end of a hose.
That bit about total anonymity is just not true. Usually you would use your organization's news server (because every ISP/university had one), so you could be easily located. Plus, it was part of the netiquette to post using your real name / well known identity.

Thinking of the 90s internet makes me all sentimental.
I bet they are still making only $3/day in 2013
First question is, did you have a Contract? Secondly, surely there is paper trail if the e-commerce company was sold? In the UK for instance, all companies details are on publicly accessible register (Companies House), surely its the same in the USA (not 100% sure how it works in the states)? Either way, sounds like best to speak to a lawyer.

Edited to add: Having a non paying client is a problem that will affect most freelance developers at some point. It won't appear as whining but best not to name and shame. It could prejudice your case if you go to court. Speak to a lawyer.
What is this usenet?
I love the fact that people still use it ^^ Thanks for that you really made my day!
>brief resurgence distributing binaries - images, video, warez - but even that era faded

The author is clearly not sufficiently connected. Binaries are going stronger than ever.
That's actually a very unadvisable scheme. By doing this you make yourself a target. If any one of those are compromised, attackers will attempt to try that against a lot of popular sites (including banks). If you have your own domain (which I assume you do based on your scheme), I suggest not doing this. You would be better off coming up with a random account name for each and using a password manager to keep track of these.

FYI, I used to do this too. And this is how (in a similar fashion) Mat Honan got Gizmodo's Twitter and his iCloud and Gmail accounts hacked and also had his computer remotely wiped because he used his name in every domain/service as his account name or email account name.

Edited for more information.
You can have the password repository in dropbox to sync between different machines, and also use the app
Yes, just stop using the internet and phones.
It mostly deals with how to configure VLANs and IP routing on a Cisco device. But the book also covers theory well and pretty thoroughly.
> Google obviously does a lot of tech and sells a lot of ads, but like a hydra, it's not exactly clear which head controls the beast.

I see Google doing more things to add non-advertising means of monetizing technology than non-technology means of furthering advertising, which suggest, to me, that tech is the "head that controls the beast", and that advertising is just what has so far been the runaway success in how to monetize the technology.
I work for a home/building automation company. Primarily I write code for Zigbee wireless devices.
Ugh. Actually, 410k Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter passwords stolen:

318,000 Facebook accounts
70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts
22,000 Twitter accounts
The URL is plastered in the title of every picture post. Wasn't too hard to find. Looks interesting.
or Readability
You can at great personal and social cost. The new Don Quixote will be tilting at communication towers everywhere.
Sure you can! Join the 60% of the world's population that _don't use the internet at all_.

Or the 20% of the population of the _US_ that don't use the internet.

You can even still use a cell phone, if you want - just buy a prepaid mobile with cash.

And aside from awkwardness with your friends, you might even find such a life quite livable. You'll experience no material hardship.
Long March rocket blasts off with Chinese lunar rover
Discovery of non-explicit co-traveler networks is interesting. I'd read an article about co-traveler networks here:

Inferring High Quality Co-Travel Networks, 20 May, 2013:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4429
pdf here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.4429.pdf
Nothing of interest, really. Just grunts and horrible screams. And lots of f*cking, of course, to compensate for the massive losses due to disease, wild animals, and famine cycles (which, thankfully, modern age shields us from--well, not the f-ing, I mean the rest.)

Sadly, I must once more indicate that this post is sarcastic, for the humor-challenged ones.
How is this post technology or hacker related? Other forums exist for general political activism.
Your friends still can't wait with you at the gate
I know the tests were done by a company selling IP cameras but there are many cameras available which would make better competitors to the human eye. For instance the Leaf Aptus-II 12 which produces images with a size of 80 Megapixels.
Goodbye, Nokia.
If a persons fully realized talents, skills, creativity and intelligence are such that the most useful work they can do generates productivity levels below those of generally available robots then they will be displaced.

If the maximum work complexity a person can handle is assembling hamburgers, washing dishes, moping floors, sticking one part onto another part then they are in danger of being permanently displaced by robots from ALL job categories.

I don't know how many people this is but as robots improve this number grows. How large would this number have to be, when added to current chronic levels of high unemployment, disability, nonproductive elderly/young, before society breaks down. And if by some chance society did not collapse what would all these people be doing? The mind rapidly slides into what we have previously considered dystopian science fiction.
ck2, you've been around a long time so you know to put the year in the title. Stirring up anti US government sentiment again... Does this story really belong on HN?
You were offered this choice virtually through the official representative you or majority had chosen.

You changing your mind is irrelevant to global agenda and the way things will be executed. Most people "change" their mind by stopping to vote for one party (D) and changing to another (R). Example of spying on its citizens is a great example when your change of choice does not make a dent; it is President Bush (R) who signed Patroit Act/NSA spying into law, its is then President Obama (D) who said he will stop this only to continue and expand while elected. And people have short memory so now they will vote again on R. Nothing will change at the end and you can be sure those who come in place with continue or extend the abuse up to the point when system entirely collapse.
RISD President John Maeda Departs for Roles at Kleiner Perkins and eBay
A small leak on the side of a highway is different than the entire tank being ripped open in the lobby.
"a risk exists" does not really imply "precaution is required" - there is a risk that you'll be fatally struck by a lightning tomorrow, but it doesn't imply that you need to stay indoors as a precaution.

"Nearly zero" does not equal other "nearly zero" - most "nearly zero" effects are with very, very different nearness to zero. Me dying in a traffic accident tomorrow is a near-zero chance, and me dying of a lightning strike tomorrow is a near-zero chance, but they are very different chances.

The sole fact of you mentioning 0.1% indicates a problem with such comparisons - risk of dying in any terrorist attack is orders of magnitude different than 0.1% and thus deserves uncomparably smaller attention than a real 0.1% risk.

Your short trip from home to airport deserves more precautions than terrorists on the planes. Even taking into account 'hundreds or passengers', the risk is uncomparably much smaller than you simply dying on the street tomorrow - that's how the numbers work out in reality, even if it may feel otherwise emotionally.
Good case study, but wrong conclusion.

There is only profit if you always have volunteer workers.

I think that it would be false to say you were cash flow positive.

Since the revenue split between the team would not make minimum wage I can't even give you a "pass" on you all taking Minimum wage and the company being ahead the difference.

This is a nice proof of merchantability, but it doesn't equal profit.
Twitter Feed issue.
yeah, the problem with these kinds of discussions is that each of us has had their opinion coloured by their different experiences of software.

Overall, my experience of ref counting as implemented by the Apple frameworks has been very positive indeed.

My experience of ref counting in other contexts/frameworks has been patchy, usually depending upon the quality of the developers responsible for it.

The thing I really do like about ref counting is that it is deterministic, unlike other approaches, ie garbage collection.
Don't get me going about FidoNet[0] either... there are still good usenet servers out there[1].

Update added a link for those who are unfamiliar with FidoNet

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

[1] http://www.eternal-september.org/
That's the way that it worked when I first started using it, but am I the only person using the full Lastpass browser these days? It's far more convenient than the old Authenticator -> Lastpass -> Browser authentication workflow that I had to use before the upgrade.
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1. Yes it is.

2. The 576MP number comes from taking the resolution of the very center of the human eye and then extrapolating to the entire field of vision. It's the panorama you could get if you had someone sit in a single spot for minutes on end, examining every direction. This number deserves no better than a bad mention, being used so much in misleading contexts.
Thank you for this comment. It would be interesting to know, among all those embracing everyone speaking english, how many are native english speakers and how many are monolingual; that might put things in perspective.
In other words, it's easy to claim that everyone doing things your way with no effort on your part is the right way to go.
I'm still waiting on the limited edition multicolour vinyl release.