skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, how many joggers or cyclists are interested in spot-data during a run?

EDIT: to clarify: it's not just "hands busy, can't type". It's "hands busy, can't type, but would benefit from concurrent computing enough to justify the cost of a dedicated face-computer"

And in-car HUDs have been available for years and people don't seem to care. Putting GPS instructions up there might get more attention [1], but at the point that Glass is merely beaming data to a remote display, it loses any advantages of its form factor.

The API could be re-used but good luck getting car manufacturers to decide on a standard for such things, let alone a standard from an outside party.

[1] though suffering from the same problem of "browsing a street full of business": how often do most people really need GPS, that marginally-improved GPS access is worth a non-trivial cost?
I'm a bit tired of most of the taboos/problems of India being "mostly in villages". My entire family are city dwellers and every time there is an commercial for sanitary napkins on TV, the women have an expression of embarrassment and can't wait for it to get over (whereas scenes of violence from the movies are received perfectly fine).
Heh this is what bitcoinaverage.com used to look like.
I enjoy it enough that I consider it an expensive way to pass time during my commute. I still dislike the IAP model, though.
At large enough size, commission/trading costs are not necessarily a significant factor--individuals are just not great at stock picking and timing the market.
Well, in that case, carry on with all good speed, stout yeoman!
> I would like to see every elementary school have a math specialist, who knows advanced math, to help students with their overall understanding when they get off track.

Note: This response is US-centric.

These individuals are exceedingly rare (if they exist at all). In fact, I would be absolutely shocked if 100 such people existed. College students who go into Elementary Education are stereotypically terrified of mathematics, and they have (at most) one required math course. This course is a "general methods" course that essentially acts as a survey of the elementary school mathematics that they'll be teaching.
Great reply, thanks Chris
Nobody likes beets, Dwight.
I am sad. This is a violation of not only our constitution, democracy in general and our civically engaged friends to our south. The message this unequivocally sends is, "Hey Mexican people who are trying to change shit, we don't have your back, at all."
Not really madness... Theft prevention has been a mandate. I would love to see your foolproof proposal for preventing unauthorized users access while allowing authorized people access.
Sure but you would need to cut the motor immediately, otherwise you risk tangling the chute. Not to mention the point of this fail safe is to allow the pilot to get the quadcopter to a better spot for landing instead of crashing in to a tree or something terrible.
I'd be happy to help!

I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with over 13 years experience. I published my first app in the App Store in November, and tonight I'm giving a talk at the PDX iOS Meetup (Portland, OR) on asynchronous programming in iOS. I am reliable, easy to work with, quick to turn things around, and a good communicator. I can work solo or on a team, either as lead or a team member. I also have a strong background in Rails, Postgres, and Chef, so I'm great at collaborating with backend devs, or I can even build the back end myself.

You can see some of my recent work here:

http://littleboxespdx.com

https://github.com/pjungwir/ios-async-talk

http://illuminatedcomputing.com/portfolio

https://github.com/pjungwir

If you'd like to work together, I'd be happy to discuss your project!: pj@illuminatedcomputing.com
E.g. -

I personally prefer unchecked exceptions to error codes, but otherwise, compare C's "#include <stdio.h>" to Java's "import java.io....;". (markdown won't let me put in a star here for some reason)

The FILE * type is so much more compact an interface than the zoo in the Java io package. Select an appropriate fopen/popen "factory method call", and off you go.

Regarding exception types, the Java libs have too many exception types you either must catch in the wrong place, or redeclare as thrown, rather than how C# does it with unchecked exceptions.
>repo industry

When I saw the title, first think to cross my mind was "what the hell does GitHub have to gain from it?"
Design thinking and the egyptian startup scene
It's less shocking when you recognise that these are simply sites to tell patients when surgeries are open etc

The question is, do patients realise that, or will they tend to assume that because a site is part of the privileged .nhs.uk hierarchy, it is properly run by the NHS?

The real problem here is about trust, specifically about what should or should not appear trustworthy to patients because it is or isn't really. Given the increasing moves to do things like making appointments on-line, the much-reported efforts to share sensitive health data more widely, and the ever-changing sources of information and ways to contact the NHS, it seems to me that it is long past time these issues were resolved. IMHO it has to be done properly and from the top to have sufficient credibility and enforcement.
Parent's point was valid though, I can't imagine these devices to cost more than $170 in a couple of years, making this discussion quite relevant.
Back in the late 70's, when I was in grade school, I used to make maps with just about the same scale with rolls of my dad's thermal printer paper.
The issue is the new iOS 7 Activation Lock, not any content on the account. Unless "Find my <iPhone/iPad>" is turned off before wiping, the device's serial number is tied to the Apple ID that was previously signed into the device. Even after a complete wipe and reinstall of the OS image, you still cannot use the device without that account's password. The setup process will ask you for that login info and will go no further unless you have it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5818

The intent with this is that if you lost your device or had it stolen from you, even if you remotely wiped it, it would be worthless to anyone who may have found it.
The Lego Friends theme doesn't have firefighters because it is focused on social relationships, not overcoming conflict. It doesn't have to be a girl vs boy thing (although it is undoubtedly targeted toward girls to compete with other non--confrontational toys that have proved popular with girls), it is just part of the theme. Ninjago doesn't have firefighters either.

I think it is great that Lego has developed a theme that isn't focused on physical confrontation. I have three girls who play with Lego and they request a mix of sets. For Christmas, they requested sets from Friends, Lord of the Rings, and Ninjago. My four year old got a Chima set. They don't see it as a girl vs boy thing.
Well, they would, if they weren't fiercely denying any fact that might undercut the pitch that got them on board: "fiat currency bad. mathematically-enforced deflation good!"
Yep, I've made similar arrangements. After helping friends after the death of family members it became obvious that I needed to put something in place.
You are reading too much into my remark. I have seen cases where senior faculty members (within or without the department) with experience in finding funding have mentored junior ones and helped them with their peer networks. The bottom-line when it comes to academia and funding is this: You have to play the game or opt out of it. The funding system is far from perfect, but you can work it. In some ways, it is similar to the importance of 'soft skills' in an industry setting. Your best work will not always get you promoted because there are several other considerations that matter to your bosses. Some times, the skills required to get promoted (especially for advanced stages of promotion) are different from those required to be innovative/build a great product/service.

I am in electrical engineering. DoD is by far the largest source of funds. Admittedly, hunting for research funds involves a different set of skills than 'doing great research'. But these skills are learn-able and can go a long way in helping one's career.
Is it better than Predator?
Decide if you need to watch that film by comparing it to Predator. Open source Angular JS app.
An iPhone camera isn't really good enough to OCR vehicles as you move past them in a parking lot. You get skew from rolling shutter effects, plus it's going to be shaking violently when attached to an automobile without proper dampening.

The cameras used for OCR on license plates need to have a fairly high resolution, fast shutter speed, and a number of other little additions which make it more expensive than an iPhone camera. Granted, $10,000 is really expensive for such a device, and the real cost for something like that is probably a few hundred dollars, but after you add in software and radio communication (probably a cell plan if I had to guess), you're looking at an expensive device.

Of course, we could build one ourselves for a fraction of that, but that's why we don't drive tow-trucks or license plate scanner cars for a living.
What sort of regulation are you envisioning?
If this were absolutely, positively, easily provably true...

So what?
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Not quite, it says you have had to have. Meaning if you're past the age where it is required, and you did not to it, you're out of luck.
Previously Apple was getting static for their devices being too easy a target for thieves.
> Stay the hell away unless you have some privileged information on the the company (and even then, stay away 90% of the time).

You may not want to trade based on "privileged information" either... if it's insider information you can get in trouble.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading
Correct, these work in inclement weather, in various lighting conditions, at high speeds (60 mph down the highway), and include computers that OCR, extract the plate number, match against a large database, and notify on a dashboard laptop if a hit occurs. They also often include multiple cameras (e.g. to capture cars parked on the left and the right of a street.)

One of these companies does in fact have an iPhone app that police officers can use to query a national database, but it can't scan 1800 plates per minute as you cruise down a highway.

Here's an example large manufacturer of these: http://elsag.com/mobile.htm

Also note that they help local and state agencies obtain grant funding from federal sources, so I'm sure there's a bit of cost-cutting that could occur in a less bureaucratic and funded market. Also, these were like $30k 10 years ago, so prices are falling.
Not quite. The description on iTunes specifically notes that the receiver can take a screenshot: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapchat/id447188370?mt=8
Frustrated Cities Take High-Speed Internet Into Their Own Hands
You know, I remember perusing Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read" in the early 2000s and thinking "this is all extremely unlikely and way too pessimistic, this stuff will never happen like this" — http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html — and here we are, one step at a time, inching towards trapping our knowledge on devices that only one person can ever use.
Which will be kind of like the olden days of a hundred or two hundred years ago, when every state issued its own currency, or every bank, or every goldsmith.

Which is to say that it will fly in the face of the general trend of development of these things, which has been towards fewer currencies, not more. More currencies means more friction in trade and commerce, since it makes price comparisons harder and forces buyer and seller to constantly be making conversions; this in turn means less commerce happens, which makes everyone poorer. That's a bad thing, not a good thing.
You can 'factory reset' iOS devices through iTunes [https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414].

This would be the same as google not providing the users google credentials.
I'm no control theory expert, but I have a hard time imagining how you could control a quadcopter in 3+ degrees of freedom with only a single input (the speed of your single remaining motor) no matter how fancy your algorithms get.

However, as unwind mentions, the researchers in the article claim it's possible.
I don't see what the deals with not using WP is. Its proven, reliable, fairly secure, simple to install, and easy to extend via plug-ins. Who cares if it has some crappy PHP in it? It works, and gets the job done right.
I don't get the creepy either. It seems like an ok plan to judge volume[1] of traffic compared to sales. Might even do some analysis of what vehicle types are going to the store.

1) I am with other posters and would have put up security cameras and done my count that way
Will do. Do you use Twitter at all?
I came to Unity from a background as a professional engine and graphics programmer, and initially I also twisted my nose, always muttering 'i could do this better if i had the time'. But once I got over that and realized I'll never have the time by myself, I found Unity to be actually well designed, embracing the component based organization that has become an industry standard, with a well thought out API. Its not without bugs, but nothing I would call amateurish or embarrassing. These days they have (IMHO) some of the best engineers in the industry improving their engine. Thats how they extract money from mostly satisfied customers ever couple of years for upgrades.

There is good bit of overhead from the Mono .NET scripting runtime, which is never going to be as optimal as (hard to write correctly) native code, but then again its light years compared to most game scripting designs. I've also seen some in-house AAA engines, and expensive licensed engines with the same performance and memory issues. Thats why they hire people like AO to beat an engine into shape.

Do you have any links or references to substantiate "amateur mistakes, awful design choices and some truly embarrassing bugs"?

Granted, one embarrassing thing about Unity is the infamous and prolonged lack of any viable built-in UI solution.
Don't starve and Mark of the Ninja figures. AT LAST
I can't imagine a set of regulations that would be reasonable. I have friends who have completed all the levels of Candy Crush Saga without spending any money, yet it's probably the most successful example of this ever. According to the article 80% never paid.

For the example you cite I completely agree, taking a casino game and making it IAP is horrible and should be regulated like that. However you word that though, you're going to have horrible developers find a way around it. Anything short of banning IAPs is going to be worked around, and banning IAPs doesn't sound like a reasonable idea.

The other thing is 18+ as regulation, I'd be staggered if that was pulled off successfully. Lots of things on the internet are 18+ and not used exclusively by adults. That's an unworkable regulation by any precedent.

This is really horrible, but I don't see any way to regulate it successfully.
I would guess that's an issue even without the nhs.uk address, unfortunately. American doctors' websites don't have an 'official' domain they're under, but some people send information via their local doctor's website anyway. So if you compromise the Wordpress install (and it's likely that thousands of American doctors have a vulnerable Wordpress install) you could pull in some potentially sensitive information. The main mitigating factor in the U.S. would be that so much stuff is still done on paper and over the phone that many people wouldn't visit the site in the first place.

Like the NHS, American doctors usually don't store actual patient data on the generic CMS they use for hosting the website. If they have an online "patient portal" or "billing portal" it's usually a hosted solution that goes offsite, via a third-party company that provides such services. But it's nonetheless a huge phishing opportunity. Besides a fake contact form, you could also clone the portals, replacing the links from the main site, which are supposed to go off to places like medfusion.net or eclinicalweb.com, with ones that go off to medfusion.yourdomain.net or whatever, and most people will not think twice as long as your cloned site looks vaguely similar. I mean the genuine domains sound halfway like the domains of phishing sites to begin with...
A bit pricey but with the accessories :) And seems like a much better quality than crappy-painted-not-standing Double Fine Pshychonauts mini figs
The annoying thing about GnuTLS is that it normally might not be very widely used, except that the Debian project initiated a huge push to make software linkable with GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL, because of issues with the OpenSSL license[1]. So if you're a Debian or Ubuntu user, you're probably relying on GnuTLS a lot more than users of any other distribution, or people who compile the upstream sources themselves. (Not that OpenSSL is a panacea, but at least it gets more attention than GnuTLS).

[1] The OpenSSL license is incompatible with the GPL, making it technically illegal to distribute binaries of GPL programs linked with OpenSSL (so Debian refuses to do so), unless the GPL program has an OpenSSL license exception.
> I loath academic papers. Often I find I spend days or weeks deciphering mathematics in compsci papers only to find the underlying concept is intuitive and plain, but you're forced to learn it bottom up, constructing the authors original genius from the cryptic scrawlings they left in their paper...

I systematically ignore maths in CS papers. If the concept isn't described with code or pseudo-code at least, I will look at who cites the paper, and look for someone who has replicated enough in code. 90%+ of the time I can avoid dealing with the maths entirely, or get enough details that I can glean the rest without bothering trying to actually understand the maths properly.

Usually I find the maths tends to obscure vast amounts of missing details.

Of course, how well that works depends on the specific field.
How to Spot A Liar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6vDLq64gE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
How about buying the fire fighter set, if the girls want it, and just don't mention boy sets versus girl sets?

You know what "traditional" girl toys are? What previous generations, or "parents", say they are.
It looks more like the fov is 0.1 by 2 km (in this particular video).
An anonymous dev who interviewed there posted on reddit saying that they didn't use version control, and that all code changes had to go through Karpeles.
Absolutely true. However, individuals don't necessarily have enough money in their brokerage accounts to hit the point where trading costs become insignificant, especially if they're trying to diversify.
Isn't permitting info in the public domain? I wonder why they don't leverage that?
If you play your stereo loud enough to be heard on the next block, appending _nomap to it will not stop the police from coming to visit you.
Tulip bulbs are no better than Milo Minderbender's Egyptian cotton, but if you cover CryptoCurrency with chocolate, you can't even taste the CryptoCurrency.
The philosophy underpinning this framework seems sort of amazing to me. I'm trying to figure out why it seems to be so under-the-radar.
Show HN: Nutfund, Bounties for Progress. Startupbus, BTC = Charity: Water
It's a shame this is being upvoted so highly when it's factually incorrect. A rebuttal can be found here: http://nmav.gnutls.org/2011/05/is-really-gnutls-considered-h...

It's rather silly that the news of a critical bug in GnuTLS that was caused by a goto somehow makes non-news and factually wrong information from 5 years ago popular.
I don't have a problem with it. No one is making me buy this stuff.

I wouldn't even know that there's this much Angry Birds stuff out there unless I clicked on the link.
I used to as a student 13 years back. I preferred it. I have a proper job now so I don't. Slowed me down a bit, but I was also a bit more thorough, not making silly mistakes by rushing things. So overall, probably more productive.

I never tried drunk, but I doubt it would work for me.
Essay: On Being Awake
The purpose of most academic papers is not to explain (let alone teach!) ideas in an intuitive manner, but rather to express them in formal, correct, unambiguous terms -- that is, to make them as accurate and critique-proof as possible for publication in some journal.

In other words, the purpose is primarily tenure and advancement.

This may be a problem.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/wheels/2011/10/27/how-steve-...

Fuck everything about license plate tracking, storing and mining.

Facebook is required by the city of Menlo park to install plate trackers at their new campus building that will track all cars that drive by.
The Lego Movie inserted itself directly into my top five of all time. Every line of the script is brilliantly written, it is roll-on-the-ground hilarious, the comedic timing of the action is perfect, and it even hits philosophical points. It's like an older Pixar movie on speed.

However, I couldn't be less interested in what anybody thinks the 'message' is.
Yes. But from what I understand, this is because Lloyd's is a marketplace and not a traditional insurance company. They put wealthy entities in contact with people with peculiar insurance needs and let them work it out.
What does that have to do with the correctness of the statements?

And since when is publicly broadcast SSIDs are anyone's private data?

It's very unfortunate that zealots and hateful people are increasingly finding a home on HN.
Peter's theory of monitoring in the cloud
you would need to account for employee traffic then, plus customers who run back in on the occasional oops I forgot
I did not know about the "strings" command. I'm sure that there are plenty of binaries containing secret keys. I would assume that one way to protect against the easy prying ability of strings would be to use an integer array representing chars used to concatinate a string, but that does seem kind of hacky.
There are reasons why people aren't paid $100 for flipping burgers.

1: Strawman. The issue isn't "make a mint doing unskilled labor", it's "be paid enough to survive".

2: There are circumstances in which pay for mundane tasks (or goods) can be quite high. The all-in cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to an FOB in Afghanistan is about $400 (among the reasons the military are so interested in alternative energy and efficiency measures). A chef in an extreme environment might similarly make considerably more than market wages elsewhere, though that's not on the basis of cooking skills alone (thin market, risk premium, etc.).

3: Direct wealth transfers to the poor have been tried, and, in at least some cases, the results have been encouraging:

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2011/10/canadas-experim...

Try to imagine a town where the government paid each of the residents a living income, regardless of who they were and what they did, and a Soviet hamlet in the early 1980s may come to mind.

But this experiment happened much closer to home. For a four-year period in the ’70s, the poorest families in Dauphin, Manitoba, were granted a guaranteed minimum income by the federal and provincial governments. Thirty-five years later all that remains of the experiment are 2,000 boxes of documents that have gathered dust in the Canadian archives building in Winnipeg.

Cash transfers to the poor in India, Indonesia, and Ghana, Africa:

http://www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/international/policy_exch...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/transfer/countries/ghana

People are paid according to the value they produce to their employers, and the minimum wage simply does not affect those calculations.

No: People are paid the SUBSET of they value they produce for their employers they can claim under prevailing market conditions. Which, again as my citations from Smith note, favor employers and almost always will.