skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Funny how we destroy file-formats and screw up the very HTML standard itself and muck up YouTube all to protect video and audio content, but nobody gives a crap about images and we're left with a Wild West. Look how many above-board publicly-run sites are based on the trading of copyrighted image content. Ask a webcomic author what they think of Funnyjunk and the like.

I don't know what the right solution is, but it seems absurd that one form of copyrighted content lives completely without protection because that's the content that's created by small businesses instead of global megacoporations.

That said, Google probably could at least protect your image content from being filched by other users within the Google platform if you could "register" your image with them as the original - they have image-matching algorithms to enforce that.
Or get dirty and cast it.

::floatval
That's only (arguably) true for issues of national or global importance. It is also important to be an informed citizen and voter on state and local issues, and many local news sources are woefully inadequate. Many states and towns have local referendums and elections held at times of no national election, counting on apathy, ignorance and low turnout to be able to more easily sway the vote.
> Why do people like having an app for this?

Cost. International availability.
Of course we can put our heads in the sand.

The problem is: if you do this, you should no longer be allowed to vote. Because democracy can only survive if the feedback cycle is encouraged, not sabotaged:

(Good|bad) news => critical thinking by the citizen => citizen votes accordingly => corruption (and other problems) are corrected.

If you stop reading news, you stop being a responsible citizen.

If you feel bad about the news, there's 1 thing you should do: Channel the anger and produce positive action. It will make you feel good and problems will vanish. That is how this works.
This is why professionals operate on "Naked In/Naked Out". Show up with nothing, acquire all your tooling in the country, execute your operational activities, dispose of the tooling, leave the country with nothing.

Expensive, but safe.

These sorts of harassment measures are only capable of catching amateurs making serious operational mistakes. They will not catch professionals or serious operatives. I can never understand how this passes for counter-terrorism when it is really just "counter-clumsy-terrorists", at best.
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>> He can work on whatever project he’s interested in, or create a new one if it has enough traction.

Just to play Devils Advocate here, but what happens if everybody wants to work on the same project? And this same developer doesn't have enough traction for other projects he would like to start?
Cyprus Central Bank warns about risks in use of Bitcoin
Thanks for the heads up, not sure what comment I made that would cause that but I don't participate here much so not a big deal.
That question that is now left unanswered is: "Do you trust yourself and your server enough to keep your bank account info?

oh wait... before that... do you trust your own bank? Sometimes I have my doubts.
and cost (at least in Europe)
That does restrain them a bit though - with a watermark, they can batch-change the nature or obtrusiveness of the watermark, they can resell the unmarked images, they can update their logo freely.

None of that can be done with the real-world-logo appearing on the product.
As someone who spent many years doing yoga to attempt to improve my 2 sigma godfawful flexibility (not very successfully alas), I saw all sorts of misbehavior going on. Some examples:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/bikram-yoga-lawsuit...

http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-news/santa-cruz...

And this not the first time IP Law has come into play here:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3200043
Agree, though, as someone who always loved the math, I do think the logical thinking required of math translates quite nicely to coding. I can't really say the same about science - and science is such a broad field.
Its possible they were both aware that this would be published in part or in full at some point. They may have speaking to an unknown audience as much as each other.
Had to double check to make sure I wasn't on The Onion.
> A good engineer can PM his own work,

A good engineer can do lots of things on their own, many of which are a poor use of their time.

Any engineer working on a sufficiently complex project will spend 100% of their time in meetings without a PM. Even if your average engineer is better at PMing than your average PM (a belief that requires some serious hubris), if the engineer is left with no time for building things then zero work gets done.
iOS doesn't save images people send you automatically. It will save pictures you send to others on your Camera Roll though.
I helped write the first version of it, which is mostly intact. I've included teuobk's changes.

https://github.com/tghw/macproxy
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Wow, that's so much material!
What is the problem in calling public people for what they really are? Vikram Pandit is overpaid [1], John Sculley was clearly unfit for the position, and although Tim Cook is talented as a supply chain expert, he is not the visionary that Steve Jobs was.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=vikram+pandit+bonuses
News is not the same thing as journalism. Journalism is worthwhile when it is the news, not when it covers it.
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That's a good idea. Instead of watermarking the images, silkscreen our logo on the backdrop. I wonder if that qualifies as "promotional text".
At other institutions with open-access policies, such as MIT and Harvard, faculty have requested waivers for about 5 percent of the total number of papers produced, usually to comply with the requirement of a few publishers that want a formal waiver <in order to even consider manuscripts> for publication.

This is the one caveat. It would be great to out these journals. Seems likely is public/501c money going into the research on these, too.
it's coming. soon.
Or the Anglosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglosphere
The last place I want my personal finance details is in "the cloud".
Thanks!
OSH Park isn't a great deal for keyboard production. my keyboards are on the order of 60 square inches. Ordering from Seeed, I get 10 copies of my board for $200 in about a week.
Yeah, I use it purely for discovery, not for bibliographic management. I usually just type in BibTeX data myself rather than importing it from anywhere. Often PDFs have the needed info (authors/title/venue/pages/year) inside the document itself, and if not, you can usually search for the article's title and find the info on the publisher's site. In CS, DBLP also has reasonably good curated bibliographic data, but lower coverage and no full-text search.
The same author published a similar article back in September on the same subject. Very intriguing!

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-...
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"Instagram for Android" is the name of the app, the version is now 5.0.
I think of this stuff like a the search for an energy function. you have gradiant decent or greedy alogrithems which find local minimums but to find global or to get off the current peak you need to add entropy. Redistribution of wealth is entropy. but you probably shouldn't listen to me because I advotcate randomly picking large companys and breaking them apart just so we have different solutions.
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I haven't, mostly because this is all out of pocket and I've been operating with the assumption that larger vendors aren't going to be willing to work for peanuts for an 'unstartup'

I'd love to find out I'm wrong. If you want to point your salesfolks at me, I'd be happy to chat. I'm jesse at keyboard.io
I'm a fully recovered Digg, Reddit, Huffington Post, & Perez Hilton junkie. I've been clean since 2009. It really is an addiction that takes over your life. It's like a stimulation that you always have to have. I quit cold by banning the offending websites using my linksys router:

● Go to http:192.168.1.1 using your browser, the default name and password is "admin" and "admin" (please change the password to a REALLY long one and write it down on a sticky note next to the router (if you haven't already)

● Click the "Access Restrictions" tab | Enter a policy name and select "Enable" | ignore "applied PCs"'s edit list | Set Access Restriction to "Allow" | Make sure the Schedule portion has "everyday" checked and "24 hours" selected | Enter the URLs of the 4 websites you'd like to block | and click "save settings" at the bottom.

● Sure you can come back here and disable the access restrictions, but it requires extra steps, requires you to get up, requires you to type in a long password. And by that time you'll have realized what you're doing isn't good and stopped yourself. The whole point is to stop the bad habit of subconsciously typing in Reddit.com every 5 minutes. It took me a month and after whatever chemical high I had in my brain that was addicting me to Reddit/HuffPo/etc. wore off I just disabled the bans and haven't been a Redditor ever since. I've visited Reddit months later maybe twice but didn't care and haven't been back since. I'm free.
I've checked back with Mint many times over the years, but they have never added support for any of my banks and never responded with more than a form email to requests.
After quite a bit of back and forth with Wave and their backend provider (yodlee?), I was able to get connected.

It does squick me out to share my credentials and grant full access to my bank account, but I was hoping for some smart transaction categorization. Wave does a pretty good job there.

I'm still likely to just disconnect and reset all of my passwords though. It's just too worrisome leaving that out there.
Let's start with the fact that if that entry got 9 votes without anyone asking these questions it might means that most people got it and you were the only one not to understand the purpose of that website - that alone would be completely legitimate.

However what I find disturbing is the way you chose to phrase your questions. It's the kind of unconstructive feedback that serve no purpose other than criticize a website or its author.
MMS is horrendous and the picture quality is poor, plus you can't view it off of one's mobile.
You should drop Kinesis a line. They're amazing at standing by their products.
Over-eager permissions like this are especially bad if you have access to private work repos. Github's oauth scopes are based solely on the public/private nature of the repo, no way to restrict access to a subset you'd actually like to use for a service.
For one thing, blockchain will never need any bailout, unlike many other ledgers out there.
Thanks Peter! Let me know if you happen to visit SF. It would be nice to catch up.
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Yeah. Red ink.
China Independently Develops Its First Cloud Computer
Interesting, I've not heard of this. How do I get started with this? (I'm using Android).
The split design is..not great in my lap, which is usually where I rest my keyboard. With better mechanical design, that could be better. But no, it's mostly about manufacturability and simplicity for what will be my first physical 'product'
Photographs have a copyright automatically attached to them when created. You could use a copyright enforcement action against your competitors. Look at the DMCA.
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First water plume seen firing from Jupiter moon Europa
If you attach a negative connotation to news then you're obviously trying to make people hate it. Essentially this article equates reading the daily news to a quick fix of heroin. But we aren't feeding an addiction when we read the news. On a high level, we are trying to stay informed. But you must recognize the deeper connection our minds make with new information.

The psychologist Gary Klein has written about how people make decisions. His most recent book provides several pieces of evidence that we have good insights because we can connect irrelevant information/ideas to the problems we see everyday (whether these problems are at work, at school, in the laboratory, or on the toilet).

Learning is healthy. Reading is necessary. The news is irreplaceable: not because of its pertinence but because its insightful value.
From Kickstart to commerical release: Camera Lucida
The neolucida is now selling to the general public at amazon, limited supply 3k:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G1SYTZM

See the original kickstarter project here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neolucida/neolucida-a-portable-camera-lucida-for-the-21st-ce

The camera lucida is a key component behind David Hockney's book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
see also:

Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823528

Later on, once costs are covered, the makers are intending on releasing the plans and info under an open source hardware license..

--Does anybody know of any other open source hardware success stories? Please post info here.

Thanks,

Todd
this is C++. now all javascript folks need to learn C and C++.
Perhaps not in the greater world. However, the only way what you're suggesting would work in my anecdotal world is if everyone was 100% open (civil disobedience). That won't happen without a significant critical mass of people; people are, in general, sheep and cowards.
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If the number is sufficiently large, it can be a form of social proof. If the number is small, though, probably better to just have a few examples, quotes, case studies.
Solid cubicle quite often is a better financial investment than a shaky board :)
But I would give my bank credentials to Zuckerberg (say we meet at a restaurant in Palo Alto and he asks for it). The asymmetry of the situation means that he will lose much more than the meager amount in my account if he steals the money. So that questions is rather silly.

I understand that the question really means "give you credentials to Facebook", where Facebook is proxy to any big company. This is a harder question, but one that I face often in practice, giving out bank account info, SSID number, credit card numbers, etc. The answer, evidently (since I and millions of other people do give this information out) is yes. The above answer still applies, these companies still stand to lose more than me if this information leaks or they mismanage it.

In summary, the richer and visible an entity (real or corporate) is the better I feel about providing sensitive information, if it should be provided. This means that teh sort of main message used here ("would you give your account info to") is irrelevant. Being open source is a huge step up, but for the general public either it doesn't mean much or else is a detriment, since the thinking is that, if it's open, "hackers" can also see the code and find ways to exploit it.

So how can a small startup ever compete with large established companies, since this creates a chicken and egg problem?
That's about 29,000 bitcoins at today's price.
I use 'ergonomic' to describe the general category of keyboard. I wouldn't even begin to claim that my keyboards (or ANY keyboard) will protect you from getting RSI.

If you have recommendations for better buzzwords, I'm all ears.
Subjunctives are considered to be unclear in patent claims. Both claims can be lost by finding a citation that only has the system, or only the method.

The system here is basically a normal video presence system. But the claims specify the camera is at ~3 feet (whilst a normal video presence system will have the camera at average eye-level). That's the only part that might be hard to find a good citation against [in the allowed time] IMO.

The yoga parts are all non-technical elements so they add nothing.

Given the system is all well-known tech the method is all you've got.

That said the claims have a ring about them of not having been done by a highly skilled patent attorney.
It works really well and I'm glad to see more of this happening. Being able to share games over the web that run at near-native performance levels without plugins has a lot of potential both for end-users and creators. Really cool stuff.
The gun camera video at http://www.collateralmurder.com/ is 39mins long and is described as 'unedited' - it looks continuous to me - are you saying this is untrue?

'Carefully edited' does not appear to be an accurate description.
> having limited formal reasoning skills is a defining feature of being female

Where does she say this, even implicitly? Questioning the axioms of logical theories is just as much practiced by men, and has a large historical precedent.
I have stopped reading mainstream news for last 3 years and its the best mind-hack I ever did.

http://neurographs.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/news-diet/
Huh? MMS itself is completely irrelevant to the quality of the photo you send over it. If your phone's camera is good, the photo quality will be good also.
This news article summarises nicely why I went on an extreme news diet over the last 4 months. I broke that streak today by reading the article on the guardian about why I shouldn't be reading the news. I couldn't resist because of the articles obvious reflexivity.
OK, I had missed that piece of context. Also, even though I think I am generally more familiar with British than with American English usage, I did not know this meaning of the word benefit.
I was just mulling over this same problem last week. This approach is a big improvement over giving Mint or Wave (or their scraping partners) my credentials.

Last I looked GnuCash didn't support any online banking except HCBI (Germany). So beyond the simple online finance manager functions, maybe it would be worth thinking of re-purposing this as a banking transaction aggregator that could feed GnuCash or Ledger or whatever. That would give it a better focus on the value for me, at least.

What I would really like to see is a startup or open source project that can sell banks on a standard API with granular OAUTH and drive that difficult adoption cycle. Something in the spirit of the German HCBI, but built on REST with the ability to limit an app's access to read-only, get balance and get transaction options.
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Does coinbase have any intention to switch to a smaller bitcoin denomination at any bitcoin price?
Have your sales folks reach out to me? jesse at keyboard.io
Why do you want the watermarks to be visible? ig1's suggestion of invisible ones should work just as well for proving that a particular image got copied from you.
I think they'd just threaten to keep the laptop instead. Once they've taken the laptop from you, presuming that's the only reason they're stopping you, they should no longer have cause to prevent you from continuing.
Hangouts is pretty tasty now, too.
While I really see potential of asm.js couple of things about execution (including this title)

1. Brings my browser to its knees (Firefox here)

2. Security. They seem to open themselves up to a whole lot of potential hacks (I hope their code deals with cookie jacking, csrf, sniffing, etc). While this would be a problem with closed source, this is made worse by running it in browser

3. Cheaters. How would they deal with people injecting code and creating bots?
The "Show" button in "Answers and Discussions" should really switch to a "Hide" button when the text is revealed. The current toggled state, which is the down-state of the "Show" button, is too subtle and I couldn't tell that it was toggled to the down-state. I thought it was a bug at first.
Comparing investment with "real transactions" is like comparing kilograms with decibels.

Anyone who holds bitcoins (you, merchant, or bitpay) is a speculative investor. Everyone has different time preference. Someone holds for short time, someone for long. But what ultimately gives Bitcoin any value is all hands willing to hold it right now, this very moment. Only "speculative investment" creates value which you can then transfer in a "real transaction". If you don't want to hold you BTC, you need a merchant, or someone else willing to hold it (yes, speculatively), so you can transfer it. Transfer only happens as a result of speculative desire to hold asset.

Same with dollars. You don't buy cars and houses, but keep some cash balance in a speculation that it'd be more useful this way some day in the future. It's called "reservation demand", and only it gives money value. Otherwise money is worthless pieces of paper (or bits).
This implies that people are getting less smug about not owning a television since 2000, I don't see any evidence to support that.

Note: I gave up my television in 2000, and I am a bit smug about it.
I didn't know Android did that. If you're texting tons of photos I can see it getting out of control
Manufacturability. Something curved/contoured would be better, but I would rather make something good than fail to make something better.
Am I the only one that fears what this kind of technology will do to social interaction in the future?
Just create a practically invisible watermark of your photos by, for example, subtly altering only one of the RGB channels

http://www.psdbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/4-blue-chan...
> I'm having some trouble finding the Nearing.

In my first post here, I misspelled the name. As in
my first response to your post, the correct spelling
is Nering.

> Also, what background do you think is necessary
for these texts?

The background to get started in linear algebra is
essentially just high school algebra. In college,
linear algebra is commonly the next course after
calculus.

For more, after linear algebra, commonly there is a
course in 'analysis' such as Rudin's 'Principles' in
my list. Without a good course, this book would be
tough reading.

The applications of linear algebra are so broad that
for a good sampling of those applications the
prerequisites in total are essentially at least a
good undergraduate major in mathematics.
Making Gmail a little more secure
Fill it with whatever analogy works for you then, you know what I mean.
Air.

I bought the Pro for web development and I think it was a bit overkill. I don't really use the Pro-ness of it ever. I think the Air is a better deal.
I'm glad to see this. It's hard to explain to non-techies just how pathetic the patent system has become with regards to Apple v. Samsung and WiFi patent trolls, but everyone can see how absurd this patent is.
Gmail’s Recent Image Handling Changes
How is fiat currency based on the real economy? It isn't. Some bloke at a central bank decides to create more or less money.

How do you think bitcoin works? Instead of the central bank deciding, an algorithm does.
I used this (dokku on DigitalOcean as described) in production for several months for NodeJS - unfortunately some of the containers crashed every now and then and did NOT restart - a manual intervention was necessary. It does, however, work perfectly for PHP & Ruby. And if you know a bit of nginx-config-magic, you can even use multiple domains on the system :)
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