skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting for the record that the photos were not taken from the same vantage point. The parallax seems to indicate that the camera position was higher in elevation in the second photo. Just something to keep in mind when examining the photos closely for very small differences.
"no to open-plans"

And best of luck to small startups looking for affordable and scalable office space without open floor plans, especially in the Bay Area. I'm as opposed to open plans as anyone. But they're usually a necessary evil for a company trying to keep its burn rate under control. Doubly so for a company trying to keep burn under control while simultaneously growing quickly.
Can you provide a link to the SD card you're using? I have the exact same Air and would love to do what you're doing with the card...
Everything I've seen has been a consistent effort by the NSA to eviscerate the intent of fundamental laws through clever loopholes of various implementations and rulings, often from completely different contexts.

They covered their asses to keep from going down for actual criminal activity, but I'm not willing to say that they seem to have placed any emphasis on the fundamental liberties or protections that the Constitution is supposed to afford.

Even their secret court has pointed out that they're crossing the line (likely, more than once).

I mean, it's at the point that they're having to lie to a secret, relatively unaccountable court because even that won't buy their bullshit.
related: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart
Yes, that's why they refer to the balance between privacy and security instead of all-or-nothing concepts.

No one is asking for omniscience, so feel free to hang the strawman back in the barn. On the other hand, many are asking not to be left completely defenseless.
The federal phone facility is a lot cheaper than local or state facilities which uses a collect call system with an intermediate company that gouges terribly. If you get a Google Voice phone number in the area code of the prison for the inmate to call it is very reasonable, 90 cents for 15 minutes, and easily supported from outside.

The rate to do email is only a nickle a minute.
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I really want to like Balanced, and we signed up a few weeks ago. Before signing up, I contacted them on the IRC channel and asked if there were any other requirements to get started and send out payments. We would be sending out approximately $160k on our first batch that we'd have to fund through a bank and I wanted to make sure there would be no delays.

I was assured that this would be fine, and no additional information would be required. Well, reality turned out to be different. After sending the funding requests from our bank account, nothing happened for a few days. I didn't want to be impatient annoying customer so I waited till day 3 and shot them an email.

Turned out the transactions were flagged by their risk management team, and that they just made a mistake by not contacting us. They did process the withdrawals that day, and while the funds have now left the bank account, our Balanced account is still not funded and we can still not send out the payments.

My customers were expecting to be paid by today. Now, due to the bank holiday, if I am lucky, they will be paid by Wednesday. These are people's mortgage and rent payments. Completely unacceptable.

Balanced did apologize but did not attempt in any way to speed up the payment process. I even offered to wire the funds as it was essential that things would go through on time.

I completely understand that there is risk management involved, which is why I contacted them to begin with. I also understand that mistakes can be made, and I'll cut them slack for that. But the fact is that I now have 100s of very pissed off customers (understandably so) and that I think Balanced could have made more of an effort to help getting this batch out on time.

Hopefully this was just a glitch and the rest will go smoothly. Like I said, I want to like them but if you are like us and are already somewhat established, make sure you are not on a tight deadline and pro-actively follow-up.
Yes, releasing an API for a feature that essentially has never been in an approved app is pretty risky.
My problem is that I don't really have patterns. Sometimes work from home, sometimes don't. Do a lot of traveling. Hours vary quite a bit. The only thing that would tempt me about Nest other than general coolness is that I could remotely turn down heat when traveling if I forgot before leaving. But that's not worth $250.
The trouble with this is that he suggests all these things that are imitations of what big companies do. How about doing something that there's no way a company like google would do?

- Close the company. Maybe your company just isn't open for two weeks in December or nobody has to work on Fridays during the summer. Nobody feels like they're falling behind and everybody gets a break from each other.

- REALLY flexible working arrangements. There was a story on HN about a small broadcaster that allowed an employee to go surfing whenever the waves were really great. Maybe somebody is really into Phish and gets a day off every time Phish plays a show within 500 miles or gets time off to go to March Madness if their favorite team gets in.

-Real choice in offices. Small companies often move several times in their early history. Look for opportunities to involve employees in office decision-making and let them arrange and decorate their own work areas.

-Real support of their outside lives. This one is two-fold: 1) make sure your employees have time to have lives outside of work, and 2) support those activities. Sponsor the your employee's kid's boy scout troop or let your employees use the office for gaming after hours. (Don't be creepy about it if they don't want company involvement, though.)
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I've noticed the local news stations have all moved their anchor contact methods to Twitter. So it is not far behind.

A sure sign Twitter's death spiral has begun?
People will recommend "testing" to you but I would advise against it... My path was: stable->testing->stable, because while on testing random stuff would break (laptop wouldn't sleep when I shut the lid, UI glitches, etc.). Plus, on testing I had to frequently update packages I didn't care about updating.
I use stable now and when I need a recent package I now instead: compile from source/find backports/use a vm/vagrant

It's the price I pay for a stable system. Vagrant for my dev environments makes "stable" a much easier choice.
> Plenty of criminals have been caught using traditional detective work.

Yes, but that's on the other side of time's arrow. The whole point to counter-terrorism is to detect it and stop it before (not after) it has happened.
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It might go against the business' interests to lowball a hire beyond the base salary, and in many places it is illegal to pay someone a lesser salary than somebody else in the same position. I've heard of the "we were thinking +$xx" happening a few times; I guess both sides end up very happy.
Perhaps not when it was Nest as opposed to Google. I'd have quite liked the Nest Protect but I don't want to have even more of my life depending on Google. Diversification is a good thing.

Of course, I might be wrong and had Nest actually been a Google product from day 1, then it might have been even bigger. Who knows.
> You'd be laughed out of court, and rightfully so.

I included the last sentence of my comment since you apparently missed it the first time.
odesk? I thought that was realistically only for low-cost overseas outsourcing.
I don't think pwg was implying civil servants are politicians, rather merely pointing out that the text reads like a political speech.
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I think that interpretation is very weak, but as far as I can tell, it's not the basis for any of their programs, just an explanation offered to support their minimization procedures, which are probably inadequate. Legally, that seems to be the issue: they have procedures in place to try and only collect foreign data, but American data gets caught up in the net too and their procedures for filtering out American data aren't good enough. That's bad, but I don't think it evinces an intent to actively ignore the law.
patrickmay: "The data shouldn't be collected in the first place."

Nor should the tools that collected the data continue to exist. They should be disconnected and destroyed. All data, archives and logs, upstream and down, should be destroyed. All copies should be destroyed.

Any and all specifications of how the system is built should be gathered and destroyed.

Those persons who managed, conceived, designed and built the systems and wrote the software should be terminated w/o pension and tried for crimes against the state. I'm talking top to bottom of NSA.

They should be, regardless of conviction, forever banned from re-implementing any similar systems forever. They should also be marked someway in the public record as having participated in the creation of these systems so that we can track them all their lives and ensure that they do not repeat what they have done. A federal agency should be created to track them and check periodically that they are not violating these terms. In other words, they should serve a permanent "parole", with their civil rights reduced(as they have reduced those of millions of Americans), the remainder of their lives. They have forfeited their civil rights by participating in the NSA's offenses and should pay dearly for it.
Let me give a facetious answer: Is terrorism the only thing that can harm the American people in the international world?

NSA has a much wider remit than counter-terrorism, and for good reason.

It was not that long ago when European companies were routinely using bribery to land contracts at the expense of American companies, bribes which were sometimes detected and revealed to the world thanks to NSA. When the contract was re-competed without the bribe the American company often won, funny that...
How Kafka’s The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state
The site is broken on mobile (Safari). An autoplay video pops up and keeps reopening when closed.
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Unlike other projects built using the WTF Engine, this one actually produces sound ideas because the wearables sector is such an opportunity right now.

PAIR OF TRAINERS THAT CHIMES WHEN YOU BURN 100 CALORIES

WATCH THAT TREMBLES WHEN YOU LEAVE THE IRON ON

PAIR OF SHOES THAT FLASHES WHEN IT'S SUNNY OUTSIDE
Did a custom kernel under RHEL beta on this Thinkpad x61s core duo 2 laptop. Took 3 hours and used 16Gb of hard drive space. Compiling R takes about 20 minutes. Binaries are quicker.
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> How do you get probable cause without any information? How do you even get alerted to the idea that you should be opening an investigation into something, without any information?

You're missing the fundamental point that we don't think the government should have this power.

The police should have to have an explainable reason, backed by some kind of evidence besides "I just feel that way" to use state power to infringe on the privacy or rights of a citizen even if that means some criminals get away with their crimes.

The potential abuses of unchecked investigative ability (and other law enforcement powers) is far, far more dangerous than a few mobsters.
I'd like to see this across other sports too.
I know he has America's best interest at heart because of all the flags. Had he just had one or two flags, I would have been skeptical. But five! And they are large ones too. Plus a lapel pin for good measure.
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Something weird is going on with rawgithub.com. Here's an updated version: http://jsfiddle.net/Ut2X6/8/
Reading the link felt like watching a movie that gets interesting and stops midway. I wanted a bit more, i hope the author expands on the article & turns it into a longform one.
I do run into this fairly regularly. The mb_ functions are solid, but I was hitting something the other day where a character, I think it was NBSP, was causing a string to output empty in 5.4 (but was working fine in 5.3).

I think there's something that needs to be fixed at a core level, maybe with PHP 6, that just guts how the language deals with multibyte. Even if it means making it backwards incompatible. I'd probably take the opportunity to drop the mb_ functions, namespace the entire language, and make it multibyte by default. Needs doing eventually!
Love the concept and platform, also thinking about how now with NJ allowing legal gambling online, a raspberry pi serer farm grinding out winnings, just a thought.

Great stuff - will take a look this weekend and see if I can put something together :)
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Headline correction: NASA'S MARS STUDIO PLACES "MYSTERY ROCK" IN FRONT OF ROVER TO DUM UP EXTRA OBAMADOLLA FUNDING
Are you a recruiting agency? You dont even know what stack the developer uses...
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And there are costs too if everyone's on their own OS and language, in integration and testing and support if the one guy who wrote some critical piece of code in FORTRAN77 on OpenVMS decides to leave...
It is no strawman. You're advocating that the government be given unfettered access to information that would normally require a warrant in order to be given permission to get a warrant.
Its a post beautifier. - not sure where the storytelling engine aspect of it comes in to play.
Stability is another one.

I don't make nearly as much as my SF counterparts (midwest US), however factoring in for my insanely good health benefits and the ability to walk to work makes this almost too good.

Health insurance combined with a bureaucratic system that makes work oddly relaxing is a little too much to leave right now. I'm 26 with better benefits than my father had when he retired.
It's why investors put so much weight on the team. Execution is 90%. We've all heard this endless times. But it really hits you in the face when you actually do a startup. A team that can't execute will probably f*ck up a great idea, whereas a team that can execute can do wonders with a mediocre idea
Yecch.

Everyone knows (or ought to know) that the value of most of those perks has to be offset against something in the company's budget. (Namely: your paycheck[1]).

(New) startups shouldn't try to compete 1-1 with the handful of already stupendously successful startups on these items.

Far better to offer something the big boys can't: like actual responsibility (the kind that by definition, always comes with the act of taking on substantial risk); real challenge; and an opportunity (and expectation) to not only see, but contribute strategically to the whole picture -- including things like business strategy, shaping the company's hiring & general social culture, etc. Not to mention things like decent office space, lack of bureaucracy that's inevitable in any large organization, etc.

Those are what I call real perks -- not free massages, a treacly beer keg, or mediocre sushi (half price after 4p!)

[1] Actual benefits, like health insurance and paid training, are an entirely different matter of course. In these areas, the employer contribution (at scale) has a decisive leveraging benefit (i.e. generally providing more than what the employer could for herself out of pocket, dollar for dollar). But most of these fashionable "perks" out in startupland have dubious benefit at best -- and most of them I'd happily trade for the (implicit) negative offset in walking around money that goes with them.
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Screenshots are fine as long as they reliably show the last thing the user saw before switching from the app. It's up to the user to shut down the app or ensure it's not in a sensitive state if they need to. If your browser is resting on a page with your social security number on it, then that's the problem right there --- not that there also happens to be a screenshot of this on the switcher.

Some niche apps might benefit from employing a scheme like this to bolster security (I'm thinking for example a password manager which requires its own passcode whenever you switch to it), but the potential minor security drawback for these niche situations is definitely not sufficient to require this across all apps.
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It's a common misconception. Many people don't understand that the normal string functions are perfectly safe on UTF-8, as long as you don't use hardcoded lengths or offsets. I.e. substr($str, 0, 50) is not safe due to the explicit "50" in there, but substr($str, 0, strpos($str, "foo")) will work correctly on any well-formed UTF-8.

If people have encoding issues in PHP it usually just means that they didn't manage to set up their database properly (you know, finding which one of the 10 encoding options in MySQL is the right one ;)

From my personal experience I've had a lot more issues with encoding in Python than I had in PHP - exactly because PHP ignores encoding and lets me deal with it.
Smith v. Maryland squarely says that your privacy interest in your phone calls ends to the extent that your phone call metadata is exposed to third parties. That's not a "loophole" it's a delineation of the boundary of the right. And leveraging Smith v. Maryland isn't taking advantage of a loophole in a "completely different context" but rather applying the reasoning of the case in the same context in which the case arose: is it a search to collect the meta-data of a phone call from the phone company? You may think Smith v. Maryland needs to be overturned, but for now, the NSA is entitled to rely on it.

As for the "intent of fundamental laws" the intent of the 4th amendment was to prevent customs officials from trespassing on private property. The founders never talked about the "right of privacy" as a coherent concept. The "right to privacy" was conjured from the "penumbras" of the Constitution (i.e. thin air) just a couple of decades before Smith v. Maryland was decided.
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My problem with these agencies being 'allowed to collect whatever foreign data they want', means that it means that governments can get any data they want on any person.

I don't live in the US, I'm currently in Australia. Australia has no law stopping them from gathering data on Americans, so what happens when the US says, 'hey, tell us about our citizens, we'll tell you about yours'.

You essentially have created the same mass surveillance, you've just outsourced it.
> Hence libertarians with such a view would oppose copyright and patents, like they oppose any other state-granted monopolies.

These libertarians would still see GPL as a non-libertarian license then. GPL, like other "copyleft" licenses, depends upon strong copyright law to work at all. GPL without copyright is just public domain, and not GPL at all.

BSD/MIT-style licenses, on the other hand, barely use copyright at all. Most of the verbiage is to disclaim warranty and ensure the license itself remains with the source, the only thing mentioned about copyright itself is a simple grant that modifications may be made.
Oh oh, while you are at it can you give us the "ticking bomb" justification of torture to? It's been a while since I've heard it; it's always worth a good laugh. I love ridiculous shit like this.
I like to pursue ideas enough to validate if they really are "easy" or "hard." That helps me think about if they are worth pursuing. If they are "easy" I try to figure out what the other people who had this idea got hung up on, if they are "hard" I try to figure out if the hardness is intrinsic to the problem or the approach. I think of this as sort of the 'minimum work' to do on any new idea. Just having an idea and writing it into my notebook doesn't count :-)
My personal theory is that if people don't work precisely 40 hours a weak, Suck Rays from the magnetosphere begin to interfere with performance.
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That is impressive but how many years of experience do you have in the cloud?
Sorry, I dropped a letter. It's:

http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/dub/DUB_CommList.p...
I think it's pretty funny how much gnashing of teeth there is over a $250 item that's installed in a house, given how expensive so many other things in a house are.
You should use public-key crypto for this case when possible. Any key you bake into the binary will be a publically-known password for anyone who gets access to that binary. With public-key crypto it's safe to include the public key and then make an ad hoc session key using secure key exchange.
This a good point, thus the +1 from me.

I know when I originally started frequenting HN, I felt enlightened, educated, and sometimes motivated by some of the posts I saw.

Nowadays, I feel overwhelmed and discouraged from everything going on and what I seem to be missing. But I think you're dead-on -- it's all an illusion.
I wonder how much demand there is for child care as a perk. At places I worked at -- admittedly, much larger companies -- childcare and transportation benefits were two of the biggest ones.
The reason is that $340k is not worth their time.
How did they come to be aware of them? The information was volunteered or investigations comissioned at the behest of victims.
He really doesn't like Malcolm Gladwell: "a journalist who recycles fake insights"
I use dropbox which I am happy with but I'd love more free space. I like that the app has a passcode on it. I also use G+ backup which honestly freaks me out a little bit. I know they upload private but I check quite often to make sure that they are infact private
Well, apparently you didn't look hard enough, then.

"The government further disclosed that, apart from this shared database, NSA analysts made it a general practice to disseminate to other agencies NSA intelligence reports containing U.S. person information [..] without obtaining the required determination." (Page 18)

"The government has provided no comprehensive explanation of how so substantial an overcollection occurred, only the conclusion that, [..] there was a failure to translate the technical requirements [..]" (Page 21)

"The history of material misstatements in prior applications and non-compliance with prior orders gives the Court pause before approving such an expanded collection." (Page 72)

(SPOILER ALERT: Of course they rubber stamped it anyway!)

All from http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/1118/CLEANEDPRTT%202.pdf
This is a warning. The first.
Part-time is easy to come by when you're doing consulting work, since you can work out the requisite hours with your clients. I did full-time remote consulting for about 5 years, dropped to part-time consulting for a year to concentrate on music.

Finding a client that we could be flexible on hours with was difficult, though. Many clients are tied to the ass-in-chair time cycle. We eventually found a small company that was made of people who were largely remote and worked really flexible hours themselves.

Eventually I found a job in SF that offered full-time and part-time, and you can move between the two. This has been really great since we started a family last August - I took a month off, then came back doing 4-day weeks.

If you're in SF, we're hiring -
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