skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common tactic as far as I can tell, other companies do the same thing. eg: My Blizzard account that I can't sign in to because it's cancelled has somehow been 'compromised' multiple times.
I don't care for two-factor authentication because I use a password manager. What I'd like is the option to use a one-time-password when I'm sitting at a computer I don't trust.
I should have know about that meetup the last time I was in Hong Kong.

We have also revived the FP meetup in Singapore. Drop me a line, if you are interested, dear reader. (Email in profile.)
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That stackexchange post is very, very good. Points just for bring that out.
New FCC chair. Fresh off the job as a lobbyist for ISPs.
"Avoid HN"
can you elaborate?
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> There are thousands of great entrepreneurs all over the world who could turn 150k into a profitable little company.

Alas, VCs are not after profitable little companies. They just plainly would not allow you to become a little company, profitable or not.
Copyright's a complicated issue, to be sure, but I make things, and I believe that the things I make are mine. If I open source those things, as I often do, that's a different conversation -- cause when I don't open source them, then I'm not giving them away.

If somebody owns something, it's not mine to take from them, even if I want it really badly.

On the flip side of the conversation, if someone posts something on one of my websites, it isn't my place to tell them "No, you can't do that". The only exceptions to that are for obviously spam messages and attempts at breaking the site (whether phishing, hacking or whatever).

The easy answer for me, that I made long ago, was to just not allow self-image hosting, which at least defers some of the harder decisions to somebody else, and thus far has saved me from having to deal with lawyers or cops, except for one situation, which was... awkward.

Thankfully, I haven't run into any issues of plagiarism to my knowledge, because those would be obviously infringing, and I wouldn't be able to pass the buck to anyone but me.

Edit: Oh, and thanks. That was all I meant to type originally, but for some reason, I'm exceptionally wordy tonight.
It's not that terribly hard. Tungsten is ferromagnetic, gold is weakly dimagnetic. If you have quite a strong magnet (like a large permanent magnet) and a fine scale, you can detect the presence of ferromagnetic materials even if present in low quantities.

The weakly dimagnetic effect of gold will exert almost no force, and what little it does will weakly repel the magnet. The ferromagnetic tungsten on the other hand will be strongly attracted to the magnet and so can be detected already in trace quantities.

You can in fact buy machines for a few thousand bucks that'll perform a barrage of non invasive physical tests on gold to verify that it's actually solid gold. Of course you can't expect banks and gold merchants to go the eye watering expense of actually getting one of those.
"Faux snow" Ski and board park in Silicon Valley?
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Isn't this more or less a problem of the past?

Today with tools like Unity3d, UDK, CryEngine, Shiva Engine, MonoGame etc, game developers are at a point where they can pretty much stop worrying about the OpenGL/DirectX layer beneath their engines. Those Engines have become so powerful and affordable that it hardly makes any sense to roll your own. In fact, imo you would need a very strong reason to build your own engine these days instead of focusing on your product.

Soon all of these will support WebGL/HTML5 as a target and even render most of the (still very basic) WebGL engines obsolete.

Now if you were in the business of creating your own tools or engine, you would need to support both of OpenGL and DirectX to be able to support all the major platforms anyway.
Two-factor authentication might partially be the answer to that. You still provide your own password, except that a second password is generated when you request to be logged in. At least that how I think it works.
It is a joke, and an indicator of how little we really know. In the same vein, that text has:

Number of neurons in the brain in 1974: 10 billion

Number of neurons in the brain in 1994: 100 billion

(Wikipedia gives 85 billion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_ne...)
This is a great demonstration of how bad Play Iteratees are. One of the most impenetrable and frustrating API's I've ever used. Invariably I'd end up using the Concurrent._ imperative APIs to work around them.
What about phone calls, personal conversations? If the First Lady decides to hint to her husband that she's, hum, in the mood for some married people activities, does that become part of the Presidential Record? What if the President thinks aloud, to himself, in the shower. What if, water running, soap in hand, he wonders aloud "I wonder what really killed Yasser." Does that become part of the Presidential Record?

What if he wants to watch a little, hum, adult entertainment, to relax after a long day at the office, does that become part of the Presidential Record?

What if he decides to, hum, read a little science fiction, and he says to his wife: Michelle, in this book they talk about the end of the world, and how the United States turns into an Empire and tries to win WWIII, and it's fairly convincing, and Michelle replies "put the book down and go to sleep". Does that become part of the Presidential Record?

So what if the President, midday, wants to see the score of his favorite basketball team as they are playing, but he's in a phone call with some union lobbyist/fundraiser/golfbuddy, can he not look at his cell phone like the rest of us and just click refresh? And does that too become part of the Presidential Record?

If the President of the United States has to live with so little privacy, and if he's frustrated (who wouldn't?), then does it not make sense, in perhaps a perverse way, that the privacy of the common American be of so little value?

If the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces does not have privacy, why should anybody else?

Think about that for a second.

Now, I think that if some foreign state is trying to assassinate the President of the United States, I don't think their plan will be foiled just because he's not carrying an iPhone.
Yelp, Facebook and Google are members of ALEC. Hopefully this latest development will provide the public attention needed for them to drop their support, although I'm not particularly hopeful.

For those who are unaware, ALEC is well known for their lobbying efforts in:

Stand Your Ground laws
Voter ID
Anti-Abortion choice
Privatization of Education
Privatization of Prisons
Killing renewable energy adoption
The Keystone XL Pipeline
Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law
Stopping the EPA from regulating the coal industry
Pushing against bans on cigarette branding outside the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_C...
My statement was overly general; when something affects your mind, that's a whole other area - life advice is necessarily useful only to those who can act on it, unfortunately. There are also those who have been so forgotten by society that they have no dignity left, and that's our failing collectively.

However, with something like disease that leaves your mind unharmed, I suppose the dignified way to go is assisted suicide, though honestly I probably wouldn't choose to act with dignity in that situation. Though it's clear that many people do, since assisted suicide is even a topic.
We could get into and endless debate about SLA's, their meaning, and their value. I don't think our bar for GA and the SLA are correlated. nknighthb's interpretation is correct. The bar has to do with a wide variety of other factors including our commitment to the business, how we are focusing on customer support, view of go to market and investments there, technical aspects like performance consistency, data throughput, peering, private backbones, encryption at rest, hardware, and so many other layers. We could have just said "GA" in May at IO when we also had an SLA of 99.95% but the SLA isn't even close to enough. It's just a factor and definitely not the most important one.

Hope this helps clarify :)

-Brian
I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for, but TinEye reverse image search might be what you are after?

https://tineye.com/
I rememver Overgrowth, I was looking at the development back when I was still using Linux... Still hasn't released. Nice credibility for OpenGL - use OpenGL for vaporware!
(Not read the article yet, just answering to the question for myself.)

I sometimes use stackexchange network (more precisely: tex.stackexchange.com) to provide many, many answers and I have spent hours over hours there, mainly to procrastinate. So, before reading the article, I'd say it evens out. But stackoverflow really helps me a lot.
Er, yeah, I feel like a lot of the outdated comments are regarding the sexually negative or blatantly sexist maxims. And honestly, I don't mind an echo chamber of treating ourselves and others right.
>>And don't even get me started about the nonsense that a GET doesn't modify anything

It is not nonsense. It is a very useful convention. If you stick to it, you get some system properties ... for example, you can very easily put a caching layer (nginx, varnish, etc ...) which can reduce a huge amount of load to your backends, without worrying that it will change the behaviour of your backend.
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Mitch now works for AWS, and he probably can barely keep up with adding all of the new features that AWS releases plus the exiting boto bugs, so I'm guessing GCE support on top of that is out of scope and the project is just focused on supporting any and all AWS features?
I only see a blank page with the title, footer and "Refresh List". Tried it in Safari and Chrome.
If 23andMe marketed their service purely for, say, genealogical purposes, there wouldn't be an obvious problem. Instead, they not only report on disease-related SNPs, but try to interpret those into a coherent diagnostic message.

In my opinion, this is stepping into the FDA's realm of regulation.
A similar quote is commonly (mis?)attributed to Rommel.
This is one good stuff. Although I think hybrid is the best of both worlds, we often get into a debate about it. THe article puts things into the right perspective.
Not really 'legacy' per se either... good luck running OpenGL on Microsoft's consoles or as a ModernUI application! DirectX being a broader and, in my opinion, better designed API certainly doesn't hurt it's adoption either.
Creating a new repo from a subdirectory while preserving history (GIT)
This articles is from 2010 and is really dated.

Even Microsoft supports WebGL (based OpenGL ES 2) in Internet Explorer 11.

Beside that the article doesn't mention that OpenGL 2 came late (and 1.x is way outdated). And to bootstrap OpenGL 2+ on Windows you still need a OpenGL 1.4 context to create an OpenGL 2+ context. So not so trivial at all :/

As the article is pre-smartphone era: the future for OpenGL/WebGL is very good now. You can run WebGL on every device/OS (beside Windows, OpenGL 2/3 but no ES driver).
Thanks Vaibhav :) Appreciate it
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Like Amazon.com and AWS, Google.com doesn't share the same infrastructure as GCE. So while the employee experience and expertise may carry over, the infrastructure doesn't. EC2 had serious outages even though Amazon.com stayed up and running. And GCE only offers 3 data centers compared to the 13 that they have for their core. I'm not even sure the 3 they offer intersect with the 13.

It's a new line of business, and expect some serious rough patches. Google's brand will immediately step it up to a top-tier provider, but how they handle outages and deliver innovation will really dictate how well it plays out in the marketplace.
I think this comment is conflating "regulation" with "shutting down".

As a society, in the USA, we have created the FDA and empowered it to cast a watchful eye over certain types of marketing and manufacture. Regulation limits the rate of innovation in exchange for attempting to limit harm.
It'd be nice if I could upload 10 PNG files so as to not be bound by the 256 color limitation of GIFs.
Couldn't agree more, the moment I looked at the FAQ and the fifth one down is "Is it fair that Mastercoin early investors are richly rewarded, considering the short issuing period of one month?", I was like seriously? If Mastercoin is such a big improvement on bitcoin, why did you choose to address that of all things right away. Also all of the currency is pre-mined over the course of a single month? Wat?
From the author:
http://skysurvey.org/blog/2011/2/17/for-all-the-nights-stars

I was surprised to find that this wasn't a compilation of Sloan images, or one of the larger sky survey collaborations. This appears to be a one-person project.
PG: When a startup has good news, it usually contains numbers.
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This did the rounds in the Python community. package management in Python is the community's blue touch paper - it's broken enough that everyone wants to fix it, workable enough that we can manage and no one can agree what exactly needs fixing.

In this case I don't think either tool is needed - pip-sync is really trying to avoid tearing down and rebuilding cleanly a virtual env - which is the whole point of virtual environments anyway.

Anyway - yes we need to fix python package management. No there is not a clear solution. But then apt-get, Tuesday updates and gems don't work "right" either.
Ask HN: What would you like in the next theme marketplace for designers?
Hi All,

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Here I would like to know what need to be improved in the theme marketplace for both seller and buyer's point of view.

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My first thought was "Holy cow, this would make an amazing card!" followed by "Holy cow, that's a lot of money, forget about it!"

Even now, I'm skeptically thinking "'Larger runs' probably means at least a thousand... who has three grand to drop on cards?"
Yes, but thanks to their HumbleBundle.com success, over the years Overgrowth looks more like a engine tech demo and vaporware.
Under that reasoning genocide of a minority is just fine as long as it's supported by a majority.
"ShareThis has 30 day cookies on 95% of the US Internet population, so I was able to easily run an Insight Report of a couple of hundred social actions around relevant terms like "coin," "coin wallet" and "credit card""
Ok, first, yikes! I figured AdBlock would block 3rd party scripts like ShareThis. And second, how do these cookies enable you to run Insight Reports - what data source are they using - just interactions done via ShareaThis, common public social Apis (open-graph), or is there other data these cookies give you access to?
> The comparison is that Scala is to Java what C++ is to C.

Which is pure opinion/speculation.
I was under the impression that banal grammar corrections are frowned upon here on HN, because they do nothing to further the topic or encourage interesting discussion. It's one of the reasons why Reddit is so tedious.
I would take the battery out of my phone, but ... is my desktop / laptop innocent? How about my television? Or should I call it: tele-screen ...
> Looks like I got caught up in the adobe breach.

I knew I was, but I was delighted by what Dreamhost did: they have cross-checked their users' e-mails with the Adobe leaked database and sent a message [1] to affected users explaining the situation and advising to change the passowrd, reminding to not re-use passwords and suggesting password vaults.

I think it's a great thing to do by third-parties when leaks of this magnitude happen.

[1] Full text: http://pastebin.com/2AkU0v98
In particular, he explains why he requires the attribution and link to originals. To prevent downstream infringement.

It should be obvious from these letters that drive-by "lift it from the web, slap on own product" infringement is unpleasantly common. A person I knew in university has had book reviews lifted word-for-word from her site and used elsewhere for endorsement/advertising purposes. At least with text it's relatively easy to find identical snippets.

Without any attribution, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to track down an original photo once it has passed through a dozen different image sites.
That's just not true. Personality traits are pretty well studies, and you don't just get monsters and the timid.

There's plenty of people who mean well, and are "doers".

Personality traits tend to be normally distributed. There's a few heroes, a few monsters, and a lot of in-betweeners; even if you're just looking at people with low anxiety and low agreeableness.

And there's a reason why a lot of those "in between" movers and shakers don't try to take down the assholes - it's because these assholes generally go down in flames, eventually. It's generally not from some Batman figure taking them on, but a quantum of their peers going "nope, fuck that guy" when they temporarily hit a wall, and need someone to throw them a line.
But why don't they follow up that fuzzy matching with human inspection? Is that no fly list so long that that isn't feasible?
Orwell summed up this philosophy in only three words: Freedom is Slavery.
Well, it's difficult to explain why something isn't antiquated, but on the points you raised:

1. You misunderstood the full-screen thing. X11 does have proper full screen. The trouble is that it's a bit too proper: the full screen app receives all the keyboard instructions, so how do you switch to a different app? The app needs to release some keys to you, or you need to exit or kill it. This isn't so good for games where you might have a chat program running in the background.

2. The client-server architecture is not really relevant since it uses sockets when it's on localhost.

3. Ugly hacks? Anything more specific?

X11 is a modular architecture and the very fact it's still in use suggests it's an effective one. Look at the difficulty Microsoft had getting compositing working (XP -> Vista), but it was added to X11 without having to invent a brand new windowing system.

I'm not quite as passionate about X11 as you might think. It's not so long ago that I was arguing that I'm excited to see what Wayland and Mir can produce. But it's not because X11 is bad, it's because I think things can be even better.
What my mother taught me about computer vision
"On top of being a copyright violation, the use of a potentially endangered insect to sell an insect-killing product is both inappropriate and offensive."

rofld
> Isn't this more or less a problem of the past?

Yes and no.

If you want to be writing a typical 3d game like an FPS, and RTS or 3rd person platformer, you can and probably should use an off the shelf 3d engine and stay away from the lower level APIs, OpenGL and d3d.

However, if you want to do something more exotic, say processing your webcam input stream with your GPU, or write a space scale render of the solar system or do anything that diverges from the use cases you typically use 3d engines for, you might still be better off using D3D or
OpenGL directly.

Then there are aspiring future game engine programmers and hobbyists who want to use OpenGL directly. It's arguably more interesting than paying for a 3d engine but it's more work of course.

So most people do not need to touch D3D and OpenGL, in the same way that most people do not need to write C. But some people must and some people want to.
<Get of my lawn rant>

Tell that to the millions of companies that don't have the money/means to update their os/stack every year and still rely on software written in the 90s

</Get of my lawn rant>
Yeah, I mean, I downvote someone if they say "lol grammer stfu", but if it's part of a larger post, I don't think it's a bad thing.

I guess I see a blatant mis-gendering as not 'banal.'
iPad / iPhone version not available? Come on.
Which maxims, specifically, did you think were sexist?
I really enjoyed http://www.wolfire.com/receiver . It was done as a part of a 7 day FPS game jam and was a minor hit when it was released.

If you ask me, these guys should have realized the opportunity and work more on Receiver at the time since it had the traction and enough sales to show up on Steam store charts. But there will always be guys who will insist on working their Magnum Opus, and consequentially, there will be vaporware.
Among the countless benefits, one I've noticed is an increased ability to handle roadblocks and detours. If I haven't worked out in a while, when I run into one, I get more upset and hopeless. If I have been working out, I usually just soldier through it easier.
Indeed, singular "they" has been used in English for over four hundred years.
'World's most frustrating' tongue twister
How about max arbitrated transaction? It at least requires significant capital to be a scammer.
> Many AAA studios don't even develop for all platforms, rather target a main one, leaving the port to subcontractors.

AAAs are one thing and are mostly based on engine technology that has been in development for years. For them D3D vs. OpenGL is a non-issue that was solved a decade ago. Or they stick to being Windows only. And they have the budget to port (or hire a subcontractor to port) one way or another.

For indies, on the other hand, the most money these days is (probably, don't have any stats at hand) coming from Android and iOS, which both use OpenGL (ES). Using off the shelf game engines is a very popular option but a lot of developers roll their own tech.
Sure, they are some edge cases where it might make sense, but even then i would analyze requirements very carefully. I have quite a bit of experience with Unity3D and besides being really simple to use you can basically extend it with any C#/C++ library that you see fit. Support for Webcam input streams is there out of the box and id argue theres hardly anything it cant do.

Of course, if you want to be (or are) an engine programmer, go for it and get your feet wet using OpenGL/DirectX, but for the broad mass of game developers, these aren't issues anymore.

Playing with it directly can be fun yes, but it can also be frustrating if all you want is so much easier with a game engine.
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Aggressive wars and war profiteering (not saying US soldiers themselves benefit from it, but that's what they're being used for). The US is not alone in this, but it's in it, too.
There are times when I wish pip was slightly better, but it gets the job done pretty well.

Right at this moment, with Docker coming to the fore, it's easy to imagine a world where it doesn't matter anymore.
I don't buy the atlantis "they're all under the sea" theory at all. We are expected to believe that they only built cities by the coast and none at all along rivers or round lakes? None of these civilizations spread to areas where the sea level has not risen so much? Far too contrived for my tastes.

Il flip your arrogance accusation around. These people developed agriculture and even cities tens of thousands of years ago, yet none of them managed to put together a sustainable survivable civilization? None of them managed to go from basic agriculture to even slightly more advanced agriculture that would have launched them on the track to specialization, even given hundreds of thousands of years in which to try? Why not? What was wrong with them?

To a hunter-gatherer, which is a nomadic lifestyle, cultivation in a fixed area for long enough to both sow and later reap a crop is not at all obvious.
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