skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the author explains, and I agree, Motorola gave Google a large amount of patents and a way to enter the phone market. The latter lets Google have more influence in how that market expands, in order to tie it even more with their existing services.

Nest doesn't offer either of these, I see the potential to tie in with Google devices and services, but not the other way around; drastically different to acquiring a phone company. We'll definitely see Google Now cards saying "Heaters turned on at Home, expecting your arrival", I very much doubt we'll be seeing articles about thermostats posting feed updates to G+.

...or will we?
Hey, Brendan from Awesomebox here - I've actually never used Bugherd before (though I've heard great things!), so I don't know what it looks like enough to copy. As toast76 says, we also do very different things.
HDD + time machine + 2x yearly DVD (one stored offsite at sisters). photos are all we have from years of life - friends don't let friends @#$#@ around with back ups.
Given that the NSA's mission is to do surveillance against foreign targets ("There is no evidence that the N.S.A. has implanted its software or used its radio frequency technology inside the United States.")...the techniques described here actually seem to be in line of what you imagine the NSA is supposed to be doing. At least it's surveillance that requires them to have a physical targeted presence, rather than just drinking from the telecommunications firehose.
Fair enough points.

The NXDOMAIN interception is actually why I wounded up at OpenDNS, myself. It was back during the time that Comcast started to force it on users. I work with mega-enterprise-level email servers, among other things, and having my NXDOMAIN response screwed with is unacceptable. Between that and the occasional outages I had with their DNS over the years, I decided it was time to shift away.

Regardless, I think the good takeaway is that we live in a world where we have choices and I hope we keep that (and get more). You get to dislike OpenDNS and prefer your ISP and I get to dislike my ISP and opt for OpenDNS. :D
The encouragement aspect seems to be the most promising I won't deny that. I hated brushing as a kid, and tricked my parents into thinking I did. Kids are smart, if they don't want to brush and know all they have to do is shake the thing to make it look like they are brushing, they will.

Comes down to playing a more active role in their life instead of just tracking their activities.
Why does Nest need to store data on a server? I could understand an optional network connection to download weather reports, but what user state needs to be stored on a server instead of the thermostat itself?
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> But that's an issue to complain to the people who write the laws, not the content providers who take advantage of them.

that works when the law makers are ethical and neutral. When the "content providers" get in bed with law makers to create laws favourable to themselves, then what?

I want to participate in culture by creating a derivative work based on the disney micky mouse figure. But i m disallowed, because of the said laws, unless i paid disney some amount of money. Do you think disney deserves this money?
Say you live in Portland, OR. Canada is less than 300 miles away, an easy drive. Oregon doesn't offer any type of "enhanced" license valid for border crossings. (I'm not sure their licenses even meet all of the standards for domestic air travel). If you only ever travel to Canada, the passport card might make sense.
> The technology, which has been used by the agency since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards

Obviously if someone has physical access to a machine it can be compromised. Replace "USB Cards" with "USB WiFi stick" and you've achieved the same thing.

This is just FUD. Machines that are air-gapped from the Internet with tight physical security are as secure as ever.
I agree completely. I have been programming on the 54inch 4k samsung tv for the last two weeks and while its been fun. I think I like my old 3 27 inch hd monitor setup better. It is very difficult for me to make out details at the corners of the display. However I agree with the other child post that a curved 50in 4k would be ideal.
This is by one of the users of the startup @Finbarr and I are working on, giveit100.com
This is incredibly well articulated. Fear is the number one issue to overcome for most people, not how to construct their presentation. If you have A LOT of fear going into speaking, this is the essential blockage which must be understood and overcome before anything meaningful can proceed. There are a lot of patterns of thought that go into the construction of a phobia-level fear of speaking which might be so strongly habituated that they simply take time and exposure to overcome.

Meditation with observation of narcissistic personality reflections will slowly start to ease the internal dialogue that generally contributes to this state. Like most people, when you are natural (like around your best friend) your creativity and gifts naturally come out. You don't need to be trained on them (though sometimes that can help a bit too)
It surprises me that there's a unique 12 digit answer to this. If you bet proportion f of your income every round, then if you win n coin flips, shouldn't you have (1+2f)^n (1-f)^(1000-n) £? For a given f, it takes a certain number of heads for this value to exceed 1B£, but I'd expect a range of f values that all require the same minimal number of heads results to break 1B£. Unless there's a value of f that produces exactly 1B£ for the minimal needed number of heads (or the set of such f differ only after 12 digits). That seems unlikely...

EDIT: Just realized that the problem asks for the odds of being a billionaire, not f. So there are probably a good number of f that work, but they all produce the same odds.
Clearly Paul Graham must take steps to change this. I'm not saying he is to blame, but if he does not act he is obviously sexist and a part of the problem.
Is this a practical, answerable question based on an actual problem that you face?

Well, in this case it seems the actual problem... is your face.
I promise this isn't a trojan horse! Trojan is actually an npm module that allows you to compile down nodejs code so that you can package it all as a single downloadable.

Check out trojan here: https://github.com/mattinsler/trojan

This helps with managing download times for all the transpiling code that we use for things like coffeescript and less and ejs.

At the time I wrote this module I thought it'd be funny to name one of the files horse to continue the joke. Definitely time to change that filename. =-)

I'd be happy to walk you through how all the code works if you're interested.
I do have some experience through several internships, I would say like 15 months, give or take. And I learned a lot like you said, especially on every non-technical aspects.

I don't really focus on startup. I'm not looking for my dream job right away (I mean I am but I don't expect to find it), I'm basically looking for a job overseas so I can get better in technical skills, get good at english and discover new cultures, and go from there.

I also heard for everyone who'd been there that Canada is a fine country. :D
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=markhacker

Also travelhacker and travelstacker. Probably more.

Tagged URLs. See the /101?
> I'm a little surprised Google aren't going for the huge-value business model that the linked blog overlooks: being the on-line distributor/middle man. This position typically rakes in much of the profit while taking on relatively little risk and doing relatively little work to create the underlying value

Google has the platform to implement something like Gumroad, but Google hasn't had much luck with consumer services like Checkout.
Sure, all of that makes sense, but I don't see why the CEO of an unprofitable company should be making six figures, pulling out 7 figures and getting a ton of equity. Aren't the employees taking a risk too?
I do understand that it is now the status quo to disavow everything the NSA is, but foreign intelligence gathering is their mission and releasing these details simply doesn't help the cause of fixing the NSA's less savoury incursions.

While arguably any foreign intelligence agency of note isn't going to be caught off guard by these leaks, leaking these details does offer political ammunition to the very people who stand to gain from the expansion of the NSA's mission into civilian data gathering. It helps to make the case that the leaks aren't such a good thing after all and are compromising the intelligence gathering apparatus of the US of A. Add a bit of spin and you can quickly use this to get back to business as usual and people will actually support them as now it'll become a matter of identity instead of what it should be - a surgical exploration of a cancer afflicting a nation state.
Er, don't you mean the Joker?
Personally I think winging it is very difficult to do well. If you know the content very well you can get away with it, but if it is new content, I think it is important to prepare. The best speakers I know spend a lot of time on prep.
How to fairly split a sandwich amongst -three- people
I think this a great way of presenting type features that interact! props to the author for cooking it up
Transmit as far as "EIGHT Miles". Does anyone know what type of power this would take? I imagine if they used a less noisy frequency combined with sensitive receiving equipment, it would not take much. I used to play with CB radios which has a cap at 4W, with a good antenna, one could transmit 7+ miles in good situations.
> In other words, a hugely disproportionate bunch of white guys took the test.

I wondered how many white male students took the test, so I downloaded the Excel spreadsheet.

One student took the AP CS exam in Mississippi. One. And the spreadsheet doesn't seem to indicate whether he passed or failed. (What does an asterisk there indicate?)

This is sad for Mississippi in general, but this particular headline seems to have zero insights on women in tech.

(The number was 11 for Montana, all of them presumably white males, but this is also not super interesting considering that over 95% of Montana is either caucasian or native american. If you barely have any hispanics students in your state, you're barely going to have any hispanic students taking any exam.)

If you want to have a look at the data yourself, follow the link in the article to http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/556
I've been using DO for about 6 months now, mainly as a OpenVPN server, and the odd bit of work from a tablet via a terminal. Since I usually use a tmux terminal, I can't say that I've seen downtime in that time.

If you're looking for possible alternatives though, these guys were posted here a while ago: http://cloudatcost.com/

I got one of the $35 VPSs (which are still available, it seems), and have done minimal playing with it, but seems to be ok.
> What part of facial recognition relies on the lack of a smile?

If current facial recognition software can't handle smiles, then you just have to remember to plaster on a creepy politician-rictus-smile while walking through airports. I also wonder how some pols get passports...
Between grad school (teaching, seminar talks, etc) and other occasions, I've spoken in front of groups of 3-300 people hundreds of times. I have no idea if I'm all that good at it, but at least I'm comfortable with it. :-)

The biggest trick for me is realizing that talking in front of a group is different from talking to one person, but talking in front of a small group is not that different from talking in front of a medium or large group. Under 5 or so people is still pretty much an intimate/conversational atmosphere in my experience, but going from 5 or 10 up to 50, 100, or 300 is pretty much all the same. The only real difference is the amount and type of projection equipment involved.

Depending on the specific scenario, there are other things I try to keep in mind (e.g. I found that between 0.5 and 1.5 slides per minute worked well for a seminar talk in grad school), but abstracting away the size of the audience in my mind is the one that's paid me the biggest returns in reduced anxiety. Now if I just had a way to make sure the A/V equipment always worked, I could make a crapload of money. ;)
Sorry about that! Offhand I think that's a unicode issue that I need to fix. Thank you for the heads up. Will work on a fix tonight.

As far as pricing, we're not sure yet, but we want to make it as free and accessible to developers and designers as we can, and charge companies, not people - kind of like how Github is free for open-source projects.
Thanks goodness. My life was hell when I was working for an Indian outsourcing giant where they made web application like an assembly line.

The designer were hired from school which taught only print media design. They made PSD mockups which arrived at frontend developers who would then make HTML out of it with dummy data.

For example say you are designing a charting app for a banking company, They would create pie chart in PSD and then ask the frontend devs to convert into HTML. So these people use to put those charts as image. When it arrived with us the backend team, we use to realize that this graph needs to be dynamic. If we use any other charting library it use to look ugly with overall design.

Not to mention if the webpage does not look pixel perfect in FF and IE it would go as a bug. Countless human hours were wasted in making corners round in IE.

The real interesting part was that, the baking giant did not give a shit about the design in first place neither about the browser compatibility. It was meant for their say 30-40 employees who could simply switch to FF if they did not like sharp edges in IE.

In the battle of egos between the designer and testers we were screwed.
You should never have run "Trojan Horse.exe"
Looking closer, the figures (for 2013) are:

State girls total
Mississippi 0 1
Montana 0 11
California 1074 4964
What I was really getting at was more like who would be the one wanting to enforce this; customers and drivers alike wouldn't want to follow it.
I noticed this on the lock screen. Often you'd have to tap multiple times on caps lock before it even turns on. I assume it's to prevent accidental caps locking, but it can be rather irritating
I used to be some kind of techno-optimist which is why I chose the software-based career path that I did. But now I'm realizing that governments and corporations are actually building The Matrix, and we are all getting plugged into it whether we want it or not.

I'm having a crisis of conscience. Even things like the open source movement end up contributing to these scary bureaucracies that are destroying our freedoms. I fear for what will become of humanity over the next few decades.
> I completely agree. In fact, this is part of the reason new freelancers often regret setting their hourly rate too low. It's important that you set a high enough rate that you can throw in unbillable work now and then without destroying your earnings. The best freelancers consistently under-promise and over-deliver.

I agree with your agreement, but... it's hard for new clients to understand that you will not nickel and dime them. My rate is rather high for my market, but I do not nickel and dime. But it takes people a while to learn that, no, I don't bill for that 10 minute phone call. No, I don't itemize parking costs when I come to a meeting downtown. No, I don't charge them double time for tackling an emergency on the weekend.

And... some times clients end up going with someone else with a 'cheaper' rate, and I know they end up paying probably just about as much as I'd be charging them with an hourly or daily rate (I have both, but most people still prefer hourly, and I don't turn them down yet because of that).

EDIT: "nickel and diming" on things I outlined above I don't do. Full on changes - "we need 3 new forms" - still get charged for.
Also, all of the code for Awesomebox is completely open source. Please check it out if you'd like.

The CLI client is here: https://github.com/awesomebox/awesomebox

The rendering core is here: https://github.com/awesomebox/awesomebox-core

Also, lots of the modules used in both the CLI and backend of the product are available here: https://github.com/mattinsler?tab=repositories
It is for facial recognition software.

I know nothing about the field, but my assumption would be that you need a plain base to work from. That way you start with a known value and you compare from the base to the image you're trying to match.

If you had a smiling photo as the base, and you're trying to match a photo where the person is frowning, that must be that much harder to work out.

Remember that smiling changes not on the mouth but the eyes as well. I would guess that eye shape is a key factor in making facial recognition work.

For the record, I am favor of facial recognition for identity checks with passports. It means I can use the automated immigration processing queues, which are much, much faster than standing in a line waiting for a guy to ask you a couple of benign questions and stamp your passport.
Yale Daily News reporting:
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/14/yale-shuts-down-yal...
“Open Internet” Rules Rejected -- ISPs Win
Sounds like an update to The Thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device)
No, no iPhone for you - Why my parents rock.
Offline world > Online World.
> 1.9. Coverings, hair, headdress, hats, scarfs, head bands, bandanas or facial ornamentation which obscure the face, are not permitted (except for religious […] reasons).

I can't wait for someone to abuse this. I hear some tattoos tend to disrupt facial recognition…
Visualization of the poll results: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7059569

(and to compare, the TNW article's chart: http://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/01/... )
This is an unacceptable, naked abuse of power. Any education institution blocking any site on political or anticompetitive grounds flushes away any vestiges of ideals of free speech and open learning. The administration should have known better or it may find itself replaced for acting incompetently.
This is what happens when you screw up at the magnitude the NSA has, EVERYTHING will be released and scrutinized for the foreseeable future. Right or wrong they made the bed they now have to sleep in.
My man! I feel you. I burned out a while back. I'd made some bad choices, and I was really sick of coding. It was that way for several years, at least 5.

I turned to sales engineering. A few years ago I noticed that I'd gotten better at socializing and social interaction, and, more importantly, at the end of a day where I spent a lot of time with people, rather than my computer, I felt more energetic.

As a sales engineer you can make a similar salary and leverage all of your skills and your abilities. What do you think?
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Chrome's scrollbar changes or the non-native Aura UI itself?
This, I think the width of your mouth is a data-point which is stupid and exploitable, after all you can contort your mouth in a dozen ways without opening it or smiling (see my other post in this thread).

And that doesn't even take into account the use of things like lipstick to make your mouth seem wider ...
That's often true, but it's not nearly as simple as you imply. http://www.copyright.gov/reports/dbase.html

D&B and Lexis-Nexis have aggressively defended the copyright status of various aspects of their respective databases of facts, for example.
Employees are taking a risk. Employees can negotiate terms when they are hired. Employees can choose not to be employees and start their own companies.
From my experience working several times with a large state university, this is absolutely true. The managers and administrators in the university IT division tend to be lifetime employees, who have absolutely zero perspective on IT except what they've experienced internally. Nepotism is rampant, incompetence the norm, and the whole environment is incestuous, corrupt, and highly political.
Thank you.

This is such a sensationalistic title, especially given the sheer pathetic numbers we're dealing with here.

The title should be "Virtually no one took the AP Computer Science Test in Mississippi, Montana".

I know we have issues in the tech field, but extremist postmodern social justice like this is nauseating and idiotic. This really isn't any better than a white nationalist who sees absolutely everything as a matter of race.
ok, looked through the code, sorry to be alarming. maybe funny to you, but a tad frightening to someone not familiar with "trojaning" in node. also, not to be that guy, but naming files for jokes may seem funny at the time, but it only causes headaches down the road when you're looking for the file that does something and it's named after that thing you thought was funny when you named it.
Who's to say that American intelligence gathering is on the right 'side'?

Why should members of 'foreign' countries be held to a different standard?
and way, way buggier
There's at least two things that limit the range of this system, compared to the CB radio you mention:
- less power available via USB
- less impressive antenna
Since Firefox knows which tabs embed Flash content and whether the Flash plugin process is playing audio, Firefox might be able to guess which tab is playing Flash audio. For example, if there is only one tab with Flash content. :)
I think you may have a warped view of the problems that lack of Net Neutrality would bring. Content creation, and ... errr.. "participation in a two-way flow of information" is not particularly served by Net Neutrality. Writing and consuming blogs, IMs, twitter comments, emails, forum posts and reddit comments would be virtually unchanged since those are all bandwidth-cap friendly activities and don't particularly need a large pipe anyway ( A basic 5MB connection is more than enough ). Communication apps such as Skype and Hangouts may be affected (though they don't consume that much bandwidth and also don't require a particularly fat pipe). However most are controlled by big conglomerates who would be willing to pay the telecom toll and so may actually work better in a non-neutral internet.

HD Video streaming services and software downloads (e.g. via Steam or Xbox) are probably the things most affect by Net Neutrality, especially since telecoms have competing services and those types of services benefit immensely from unlimited caps and lots of bandwidth.

So I'm still confused as to what argument you're trying to make. You're hand-waving quite a bit trying to position it as a grave ethical issue and I just don't see it. Again, I think Net Neutrality should be the law of the land. It benefits everyone (except telecoms) and it's been a huge success so far. Let's keep it.
Illumina Claims It’s Reached $1,000-Genome Milestone
From what I've read they've also entered the defense industry through Boston Dynamics and are now (I guess) "officially" in the business of war.
I wonder if some form of traffic obfuscation would help in your endeavor? For instance, setup OpenVPN on a VPS or something, and tunnel to connect to Netflix. It would be a shame if you end up with better quality.
>In some philosophical traditions making everyone better off is the actual definition of ethical.

Everyone except telecoms (and possibly the big guys who could afford the telecom toll).
Hmmm ... advertising on HN? Do you get a cut of each new affiliate that signs up too?
Antibiotics are used in commercial farming because they increase weight. The tax simply needs to be enough that (weight(antibioticked cow) - weight(non-antibioticked cow))*(price of beef) < (cost of antibiotics). Maybe that's "on the order of 10,000% or more", but I'd like to see numbers.