skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone made a program that could reconstruct models of places from tons of automatically gathered photographs (http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosy...). Imagine creating an entire model of the world from pictures like this, as well as things like Google's streetview, and in the future tons of data from drones and robots.
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In many occupations there isn't much capital in the equation, though. And even where it is, it might be provided by the client still! For example, I know some people running a boutique metallurgy consulting firm. They do not own any metallurgy equipment: all such capital goods are owned by the client. They are just metallurgists working for an employer, in a sense, except instead of a little union of metallurgists working on W2, they're a little union of metallurgists billing on a 1099.
Sqwiggle does have a "do not disturb" button. I use it pretty frequently when I'm in the middle of something. I turn it off when I'm just checking emails or doing the rote work of updating information, catching up on logs or what-have-you.

The always-on camera can be an issue if you don't have a private work area separate from the rest of the house. I had that issue before I moved into a new home. My wife, daughter and I were all living in a two-bedroom apartment and my, "office," was in the living room. I'm sure there were a few awkward moments caught on camera. Things are better now with my own office and I hardly notice it's even on anymore.

That being said I'm a huge fan of sqwiggle. :)
Norway pays around $16.09 monthly and still has around the same amount of songs that are unavailable as well. It's getting better -- a year or so ago around 7-8% of the top 100 everywhere were unavailable to us. Still cost the same.

Same story with Netflix. Costs more here than in the US, but the content is waaay worse. It's often 2-3 years behind the original airing of the episodes in US, so it's not in any way useful to stay current.
Yep, or the voting against a bill you like in the Senate so you can bring it up again.

It saddens me that reporters don't explain the rules to people. The misreporting on what a vote means and why some voted Yeah to one vote and Nay to another really bugs me. Certain news outlets have actually lied about what was going on.

It is a bit hard to follow. Locally, one ND reporter followed the ND session on twitter and did a remarkably good job including explaining the reasons for the 1 vote in a 99-1 vote that looked correct but could have been horribly (and maliciously) misreported.

[edit] as to the "nuclear option" - very short-sited and makes one see that Pres. Clinton was a much better manager of the executive branch.
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Ask HN: What's your opinion of the dating/relationship nature depicted in "Her"?
What would be the pros and cons of such a scenario? Would it be better than the current dating scene? Alternatively, what would be the ideal dating scene if it were up to you?<p>For a trailer and more information about "Her":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
That kind of thinking is the product of availability bias: you think about NSA's foreign activity, because it's been leaked en masse. But it would be incredibly naive to think that major European countries --- not just the UK, but particularly France and Germany --- haven't been doing the exact same things for years. When we get to talking about "foreign intelligence", we are talking about pure SIGINT, of the sort that has been practiced since before the computer era --- in fact, the sort of SIGINT that presaged and motivated the computer era to begin with.
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I'd agree if we shared our knowledge with the NSA. But they keep it secret, in fact threaten to put a bag over your head and send you to Guantanamo if you tell anyone.

So what could be a healthy tension becomes a rigged game, with the NSA busting heads and breaking things all over the place.

Curious - what can it mean for the NSA not to be capturing resources? Surely they use competent engineers to do what they do - who could have been directed at improving software instead of subverting it?
Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
I found F# to be rather neat. This is a great way to see for yourself.
It's much larger than that http://kimonify.kimonolabs.com/favicon.ico
hn pages are not too hard, each story is a <tr>, title is in 'tr .title' and link is in 'tr .title a'.

There are some irregularities (i.e. YC announcements without score, more button, self posts) but it's not really structurally complicated (compare reddit, which has 3 "score" fields per link)
Thanks for the update. No worries, it's just a news message board and no businesses are hurt when it's down. I quite enjoy seeing how these things are solved and I'm sure all will be forgiven if you post a meaty post-mortem.
Very good advice. Be a good guy / good employee, not just a strong technical contributor.

Couple of qualifiers to: "Do a bit more if you can"

- don't over-reach, doing stuff no-one's asked for could be a negative, and

- don't be too pushy about "new ideas"; you might be right but as a new start you do not want to rub your colleagues up the wrong way until you've built a good track record and some respect within the org

Edit - plus buy the team cakes and chocolate sometimes :-)
See argonaut's excellent post above. He does a good job of explaining the risks vs. compensation.
I've never been a great fan of squatting, but I'm part of the London warehouse community which sits around its periphery and as such have met quite a few people who've spent years squatting... and I can't think of a single one who I'd consider a 'criminal scumbag'.

Musicians, artists, digital media designers, programmers and TV-types - someone who is now a producer at the BBC doing wonderful things - actors, writers, some of the more politically-involved people I've met - a fairly broad swathe of not-entirely-negative character types.

Sure, some of these character types might personally irritate me from time to time, but Goddamn if this city wouldn't be culturally poorer without them...

Whereas - the boors and hooligans, the litterers and asocial egoist vandals I've met in my time are typically what you'd presumably consider 'normal' people - generally middle class, some from the lower tracts, some from the higher - mostly employed, mostly bemonied and self-satisifed. There's a higher catchment of people in this demographic who appear to feel little social compunction, little value in the world they find themselves in, little incentive to invest in others or in society.

Squatters at the very least appear to have considered their place in society and what society means to them and those around them - not something I'd say for the vast lump of the placated population.

imho, naturally.
I don't know. Threre are numerous examples of a consent being given after squatters move in. In most cases the owner has nothing to loose, so a consent makes perfect sense if you want to keep good comunication with those who are using your property.
for the first course Intro to Data Science, the only access you will have are the videos. You can't see other resources like homeworks and other stuff. What to do about this?
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The NSA very likely have secret information to blackmail President Obama and other important political figures. Daniel Ellsberg agrees with this sentiment (which he mentions in his recent reddit AMA), and Russell Tice confirmed this possibility when becoming an NSA whistleblower in 2006:

"On June 19, 2013, Tice claimed while being interviewed that the NSA had spied on Barack Obama while he was a senator, along with monitoring federal judges, ranking military officials, and other members of Congress, saying he himself had seen and held papers ordering such actions.[12][13] He went on to say, "This thing is incredible what NSA has done. They've basically turned themselves—in my opinion—into a rogue agency that has J. Edgar Hoover capabilities on a monstrous scale on steroids"."

Remember, this has already happened very recently in our nation's history, during J. Edgar Hoover's direction of the FBI:

"Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI.[1] He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[3] Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting Presidents.[4]"

This part of american history needs to be shouted from the mountain tops. "The Burglary" and COINTELPRO need to be mandatory teaching subjects in our schools. It's not a conspiracy theory to suspect NSA of controlling politics and activism through blackmail and coercion. This is exactly what has happened before with Hoover's FBI, and there's every reason to believe this is happening again with the NSA.
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i like this. good job.
Http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/why-we-procrastinate
I don't understand what this comment means.

Once again: it's fine if NSA is discovering exploits, as long as they aren't also paying off commercial researchers not to disclose flaws to vendors. A private NSA exploit development capability merely puts them in competition with commercial industry, and industry has the upper hand, because they can actually fix whole bug classes all at once, and NSA has to find them piecemeal.
To all the people who call this irrational, theft, etc. This is a "free" world. You are also able to work your way to the COO level and get such bonuses.
He is not merely "famous", he is "in-famous". ;)
Fascinating, but how is that at all relevant? I didn't call 2008 a black swan, I called Black Monday in 1987 a "Black Swan", using Taleb's own descriptor for it. So what is the issue?

A different discussion concerns the fact that Taleb's possible luck in 1987 makes him a prescient seer for things like the financial crisis. But he isn't, and a tremendous number of things he has said have simply been wrong (most notably, and importantly, everything he said about government intervention. He was 100% wrong in every way).

People ask why people get the heckles up about Taleb, and it isn't actually about Taleb at all. It's about the, for lack of a better phrase, Taleb "fan boys". Bizarre that such a thing exists, but people like having their prophet.
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Still very much active.
Any time the outcome of a vote is overdetermined there is room for manipulation of one's voting record. I'm not sure what to think about, in particular, the practice of voting for cloture and against the bill. In principle, one could consistently hold the position that denying cloture should be reserved for cases of strong rejection (or similar). I am not convinced "use every procedural opportunity to push your agenda, regardless of anything else" is what we want (though I'm not entirely convinced that it isn't, either).
there is a certain amount of overhead from Codeship, it's around 200-300M. the memory usage also includes all running services inside the build (eg. Postgres, MySQL, etc.)

i think most developer don't optimize their tests for minimal memory usage. we observed that C/C++/Java projects consume a bigger amount of memory during the compilation step.
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Malaysia is MYR 14.90, about USD 4.5.

Or with a data bundle with a mobile carrier, MYR 10, about USD 3.

Then again, many songs are unavailable due to licensing.
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I am pretty sure he meant 2600Hz anyway

Besides everyone knows, nobody whistles 2600Hz, they just get the toy out of the Cap'n Crunch box to do it for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper#Phreaking
No. Because any action you take would endanger your whole family. This I think is the fundamental difference between North korean police state and other Stalinist regimes that crashed and burned in the 90's.
I've never considered myself to have a particularly special eye for architecture and design, but that doesn't mean I'm incapable of recognizing good design when I see it (subjectively, of course).

When I looked at these picture, I made most of the same observations that you made, but I think I made them subconsciously without "appreciating" them to their fullest extent.

I went back and looked at the pictures again after reading your comment, and some subtle details in the pictures were much more apparent and pleasing to me.

Thanks for helping me realize my daily lesson (i.e., notice and appreciate the small things more often)!
Nice project! Will users be limited to a single exchange?
Why not Raid 60 with Btrfs? It'll tolerate two disk loss with pro-active parity protection via btrfs and be faster and provide you with more disk space.
Like a train-wreck happening, meme usage also 'incorrect', red indicates the 'positive' part of, blue the awkward juxtaposition.
I'd love to show you how HybridCluster, which automates ZFS replication and failover (FreeBSD + ZFS + jails), might be able to help. Relatedly, we've just announced free non-commercial licences which would be perfect for HN: http://www.hybridcluster.com/blog/containers-distributed-sto...
After making all his Nobel prize winning promises, all Obama has done is systematically break nearly every one of them.
Tomorrow is just going to be one more in a long series of disappointments.
again squatting != theft. Those are sepperate issues. Just because there are evil squatters out there, it doesn't make squatting evil.
I noticed that the third photo has a couple of people sitting in the hall. Is the photo from back when the building was still inhabited?
Happy bday TCL!

As I spend my time more and more in clojure these days I can't help but be reminded of some of the cool stuff you could do with TCL, which isn't surprising given its lisp heritage. Any language that cleanly lets you add new constructs is ok in my book!

Aolserver, that was fun too :) It's always amazing to me how TCL didn't stay more prominent. When Blizzard scripted WoW with TCL I was like "finally, someone gets it!" but that was more an anomaly than anything else.
Really? Can anyone argue that what the NSA is doing resembles anything that ever went before? Using (subverting) the entire power of the internet and its major commercial inventors/backbone to capture petabytes of personal data on everyone everywhere?

Since our European friends have lesser resources, I cannot imagine they have done/would even conceive of doing anything so cold-blooded as our NSA has done. Which internet authorities are centered in Germany? Any?

In fact, I imagine a new Internet rule will have to be created, where invoking the NSA as hyperbole ends a thread in much the same way as NAZIs or Hitler do now.
That's so last millenium thinking.... http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679811/rise-of-the-olds-adverti...
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One of the things that Tcl - and also to some degree Perl and Python got right is that they are 'promiscuous' in that they are happy to integrate with the rest of the world. Languages like Lisp and Forth tend to have more 'turtles all the way down' philosophies.

Tcl's C is very clean and pleasant code to read, by the way.
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Awesome. These guys are located 20 km away from me! Glad to see something interesting come out of our small country.
Read "The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future" for a better run-down of how NK came to be.

It only has one chapter on the 'holy crap look how terrible it is.' The rest of the book is about the history, NK's placement in world politics, and really how the nation came to be.

Fascinating, and avoids the stereotypical conversations about North Korea.
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I like the macronap concept
Seriously. If this company was surprised to discover the use of cron for the malware, imagine what kind of stuff they might have missed.

Here's a particularly creative technique I recently came across:
https://gist.github.com/dergachev/7916152
I must have misunderstood then; I apologize for putting words into your mouth.
Could you elaborate on why that's a factor at all? Given that YC's core business has nothing to do with HN, I wonder if the idiosyncrasies of HN aren't actually contributing something like intermittent reinforcement training to community members.
So you're saying we should grade him on a curve? I think an objective list of necessities, leaving our experience with Obama (or any previous presidents) out of it, is the only way to look at this reasonably without getting all political about it.
- I tried with your search but the result is not too impressive

- I'm not sure if you are "one of the biggest Python shops in NYC"

- Could not find any open source contribution from Moat
Sounds like selection bias. Or are they actually not there. If you travel in artistic circles, then yes you'd meet quite a few artist-squatters. But that doesn't mean the other kind aren't there.

Do you actually go up to and introduce yourself to the scumbags? If not, then I call hyperbole.
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again. Squatting != theft/vandalism.

plus I have no empathy towards folks that have property they don't use, and then actively engage in preventing others from using it, and then finally complain about how difficult it is to prevent other people to use their property they don't use in the first place.
The merger happened in 2006, the same year that the building closed and was sold. Wikipedia says [1] that the closure was a result of post-merger R&D restructuring.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex#Post_...
Thanks. The plan is to support most of the main ones (Mtgox, BTC-e, Bitstamp, etc).
Microsoft may score big coup with high-end Samsung Windows Phone
Perhaps that's why it's been reimplemented so many times :-) - see http://wiki.tcl.tk/17975
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Interesting. I knew a bit about Hoover, but not to that extent. Can you edit in your numbered sources?
The trend I'm noticing is people mentioning that if only HN was moved to <insert-cloud-provider>, problems would go away.

Instead of doing that, they probably dropped a bit more than a thousand dollars on a box, and are probably saving thousands in costs per year. This is money coming out of someone's pocket.

This site is here, and it's a charity, being provided free of cost, to you. Who cares if HN is down for a few hours? Seriously? Has anyone been hurt because of this, yet?
But they have one metric shit-ton of soldiers.

It's like ants; size of the individual doesn't matter when there's a million of you.
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Why shield them from the hardships of life? Put them to work early, like during summers or on the weekends. It's like most things in life, you can tell them "it's hard to [earn/do/learn] X," but the actual exposure to X develops a different level of appreciation.
Google injects Chrome OS into Windows
Probably not a great idea to comment on the minor weight variations of 11 year old girls; their weight is significantly influenced by hormones. I read the whole article (my kids, both disturbingly skinny, are 12 and 14) but couldn't shake off the weird lack of empathy from that opening graf.
W3C EME is not DRM (nor other fear-mongering TLAs)
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Tell HN: Moniker increased the price of .tc domains from $28 to $140
I've a couple of '.tc' domains bought through Moniker. Up until very recently the price for '.tc' domains were only $28. They increased the price of this domains from $28 to $140 without sending any notice. The domain was configured for auto-renewing, and I just got charged for $140.

I've nothing but bad experiences with Moniker for the last three years. One of my domains didn't get renewed and was about to get deleted, even though that they charged me and sent me a renewing confirmation. They later tried to charge me extra fees in order to retrieve my domain, despite the fact that it was their problem!

Just wanted to let you know about my experience. My advice is to be aware if you're a customer, and stay away if you're not.
http://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/

They were featured in this PBS Frontline special that also covered the balloon launch.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-nort...
From the looks of the "Eventful front page", they're looking to launch before Feb. 2, so we'll know soon enough.
Would you turn down a multi-million dollar offer from Microsoft? Rafi did...
he wasn't playing the long game, he is playing the same game now as then, politics. All his actions are weighed against the affect on the next election. There is no other concern with him or the others in power.

Promises made before elections are just phrases used to put the other side off balance or force the other side to react. They are never really meant to be acted upon if there is any political cost.

Playing the long game, nah just waiting out inevitability, as in it wasn't going to stand anyway and he had that luxury to rely on
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Containers and distributed storage are the future
One could argue that if one wanted to move the goalposts back to pretend that one was arguing with a point that nobody disagrees with. My understanding is that you were talking about foreign signals intelligence, and that was what I was commenting on.
Use it for app development test device too
PBS Frontline covered this event as well as other efforts to smuggle popular media into North Korea as well as getting documentary footage out. Well worth watching. It was pretty gut wrenching and uplifting.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-nort...
How can having two phones be an indicator that you are up to something? It is extremely common for working professionals to have both a personal mobile and a company mobile these days.
(Brief) HN discussion on this link from ~7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2725
The number of times I've wanted to scream that in my "security" classes is uncountable.
That's your fault for choosing Microsoft as your development platform. You've put them in the driver's seat of your business, which is never a good thing.
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> 4. National Security Letters need prior judicial review and should never be accompanied by a perpetual gag order.

See also 18 USC 2705(b):

> A governmental entity acting under [18 USC 2703(d)] [...] may apply to a court for an order commanding a provider of electronic communications service or remote computing service to whom a warrant, subpoena, or court order is directed, for such period as the court deems appropriate, not to notify any other person of the existence of the warrant, subpoena, or court order.

Note that 18 USC 2703 and 18 USC 2705 were part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
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I think he/she is talking about the shuffle feature available for free users on Mobile.
Not to discount the value of HackerNews, however there is great benefit to YCombinator being associated with it; They could let it go down and never host it again but they would lose value.
but i don't see any reasons for learning it.
I really wish for a browser that let's me nicely disable js, cookies, images etc per domain easily on Android.