skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it's not even newsworthy. This is very similar to the live coverage of car chases that have no real news value - it is sensationalist journalism at it's worst. There are much bigger problems in the world. Heck, car accidents killed far more people in the US alone since this story began than were on that plane (30k/year means 82/day). And this is ignoring new revelations about technology companies being complicit in NSA spying - which is very Hacker News worthy.

The Crimean crisis is a good example of a news-worthy story that is absolutely not Hacker News-worthy.
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On these multi-decade projects, it always seemed to me like
investors would be more interested if a few of the decades were
accomplished in advance of trying to achieve funding.

If your life's work was geared toward making money for investors someday
in case you encounter capital,
and you were not going to let a lack of capital keep you from starting your pressing
research anyway,
a number of decades would be expected to have elapsed before you had
the most attractive technology you could offer up for investment into.

For those things that truly require decades before maximum fruition,
there is no substitute for decades, just do it.

-Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability....
We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

-Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits.

--TAEdison
It's not because of some practical reasons, just university policies.
for something to remain floating after 12 days?

maybe a wing with an empty fuel tank.
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So you redefine missing features due to language problems as 'bug' to defend your point of view?
Nope. I had to search the internet, article and finally this thread, trying to find out what it meant.

As far as I can tell, the other answer on your comment seem to be the only place on the internet where this usage of this acronym is documented.
Depends on what you call 'quite easy'. In the terminology of http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2007/07/17/understanding_engine... , it's still a 'hard' problem. There are tens of thousands if not an order of magnitude more objects and reflections of that size in the ocean.

It certainly is not a 'computer vision 101' project. 'Computer vision 101' is 'do edge detection using opencv', not 'build a complete system that interfaces near-realtime with satellite imagery sources that can do very detailed analysis, but without a real definition of what we're looking for, on huge amounts of data'.
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Hey Guys. I'm a system administrator that loves outdoor activities. Unfortunately these two aspects of my life seems to be in constant conflict as companies require me to be reachable most of the time. Specially I have some personal customers where I'm the only point of contact so suggesting having another person is not an option. I was wondering if you guys have experienced similar situations and find technology to sort this out. I've taken a look at the Iridium 9555 satellite phone but it looks big and unpractical. I'm obviously looking for options where mobile signal is not available. I couldn't find any SMS "receive only" satellite device though
Thanks!

Juan
If you can't see the UXer in the room, you are the UXer.
Not sure if this could help you, but the graph migration in the south ORM for django might be a useful starting point if you can code in python. Basically it outputs an image representing the relations in a database. If you took the part above the database out it might fit your needs.

http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/commands.html#graphmi...
I saw a comment just saying in the thousands of metres.
Possibly. We don't really have a dataset of "images of crashed planes" for it to train on though. Perhaps you could use unsupervised learning to find images and image segments that are anomalous. However I expect you'd mostly get pictures of boats, planes, small islands, weird waves, floating garbage, etc. But that does significantly narrow down your search at least.
Australia Says It May Have Spotted Two Pieces of MH370 Debris
As I mentioned in a previous thread:

Distance between: 43:58:34S 090:57:37E 44:03:02S 091:13:27E
is 22.72km according to WolframAlpha

Images are from DigitalGlobe. A commercial satellite imagery / spatial data provider who provide a lot of imagery that powers Google Earth / Map. Also providing the imagery for the crowd-sourced effort for the search.

More info on their satellites on their wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalGlobe
Not so weird I think - without wanting to start an 'moral objeectivism vs relativism' discussion, I think we can all agree that there are, between people, wildly varying interpretations of what 'morally good' means.
Yeah, I read that bit of news after posting my comment. I guess they do account for something when you add radar reflections of solid objects.
Let's not groupthink our way into believing we are anything more than drivers who have slowed down in the opposite lane to rubberneck at a car crash at this point.
"P-8 has arrived in Indian Ocean area; US 7th Fleet spokesperson confirms they have located the debris identified by Australia"

Awaiting confirm on just what it is...
Did they find the malaysian plane yet
The thing is, there is no Netflix here. Neither is HBO by the way (yes, we _can't_ subscribe to HBO in Germany). There is currently no way for me to give them any money directly and the indirect methods are all horribly unattractive, as described above.

HBO is making money over here with licensing deals that cater to old-money television channels. This is short-sighted, since there are only two options regarding what can happen:

a) Everybody pirates GoT

b) There is long-term brand damage (to the GoT brand, not HBO), since the entire country is de-coupled from the viral GoT-hype.
Thanks for the suggestions! I think that being able to build on standard free texlive installations would be a wonderful feature, but this the first time I've heard of the microtype package. Are you saying I can just turn it on and it'd be better? I've skimmed the CTAN entry and it suggests that it'd work with most fonts; does that include the ones I'm using now? (If so, does that mean that "use free fonts" and "use microtype" are two different tickets?)

Thank you very much in advance. I've created two tickets for this: https://github.com/crypto101/book/issues/60 and https://github.com/crypto101/book/issues/61.
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Si bien hoy en dia se pueden encontrar ofertas de trabajo en redes sociales como Twitter o LinkedIn, existen plataformas, como http://herefreelancer.com/ dedicadas a potenciar las opciones de un trabajador libre. Ser freelance no sólo significa trabajar en distintos lugares, sino que es una posibilidad de ser dueño de los proyectos en los que se colabora, vivir a través de oportunidades que van surgiendo, trabajar en lo que le gusta a cada persona y potenciar capacidades
Absolutely! All the stuff is on Github, website and book (and source code for the exercises which I'm still hacking on): https://www.github.com/crypto101

Thanks in advance for your contributions!
I didn't want to link it since it's a pretty uncanny clone and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but here it is: http://e-go.com/

They're for sale now, whereas boosted is still a month away from the 2nd batch preorder that I made.

On the weight-range-performance triangle, boosted picked weight and performance, where as this company picked weight and range. This board seems like a better setup for commuting, whereas boosted might be better for the "sport" of longboarding with its 2kw dual-motors.
25% pay cut indeed is a crazy idea.

There's a chapter in Tim Ferriss' book "The 4 Hour Work Week" about just that (employee wanting to work remotely, how to pitch it, etc).

Good luck and glad you're going where you belong.
Yeah... and dropping bombs from robot airplanes is still a thing. I'm sorry for a lot of people who are missing their traveling loved ones, but this missing plane thing seems like a crazy distraction.
They already pay far far more than everyone else, in total amount, percent of income, and even percent of income relative to total income. By wide margins

well I think the are morally obliged to pay more anyway - which is the spirit of the OP's idea. It's not like the government completely wastes every single tax penny. And even if they would, the more you have the more you can miss.

Furthermore, not only does this depend on the country you live in, I know from first hand experience tax avoidance is real, and mainly with richer people because they can pay others to do it for them. Now if they try to avoid taxes n order to give that money to the poor, I'm all good with it. But chances are they don't, in which case I'd rather let the government have it instead of it resting on the bank or being used to buy an environmental disaster like a speedboat :P
Saaay... is there an app for that yet?

(I don't know if I'm kidding)
I have it. I pay about $500/year in premiums for it. Mine is professional-based (I forget the exact terminology) but if I were unable to do programming anymore, I could get another job while still keeping the insurance payout.

I got it because I read a financial book that said you have a surprisingly high chance of being disabled for more than 6 months at some point in your life.

Look into it more. RSI is quite common amongst programmers so it's not without its risks.
Remember "Ultra High Frequency"?
What will USB27.0 be called, "AbnormalSpeed"? ;)
"and part of it is the backend is really really really resource hungry."

hmmm ... we are serving our topic pages in 83ms median in 6 hours I can count 4 times it took us a second to serve a topic page. This is across MANY sites.

so I am sorry going to have to call bullshit on perf issues caused by server perf. Server perf is fine.

Client perf can improve and we are constantly working on improving it.

That said:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140320_HJ_923/

First view 3.255
Repeat view 2.075

Is pretty good, and it is actually faster than that when navigating between pages.
Thanks. Very useful
Democracy mode needs a chat to scream about the occasional horribly stupid moves voted (merge a mid-value pair that prevents a win because it blocks in a low value cell between the 256's)
the big underlying question: why does financial data cost so much? why does it cost 20.000$/year to subscribe to the NYSE feed? because banks and exchange build their own network and profited from standing in between. this will change. new structures will replace large parts of banks and exchanges. it starts with payments but it doesn't stop there.
It's interesting. 99% of the things on hacker news are insignificant and have little impact on the world. No one is saying that this plane is significant.
Ask HN: Why do I need server code in 2014?
Hi,

I am building a web app looking to sharpen my skills and do my dissertation. Can someone explain to me why do I need server side ruby/java/node.js when I can have a db with a restful api automagically and angular? Am I missing something?
Is authentication the only issue?
This is spot on. Most geointelligence is not based on a single photo, but a series of captures (multiple passes, wavelengths, angles, etc) and looking at what has or has not changed.

US intelligence agencies already have software that does multi-capture analysis like this, and I suspect it was the original source of this "discovery." Usually it is ran on small areas of the ocean (near military seaports or choke points in waterways) or is done at lower resolution to find big objects (aircraft carriers or cargo ships). The computational workload to find a sub-60 foot object in an entire ocean is mind blowing.
I was in an identical position 3 weeks ago and I shared some of your concerns as well. I can tell you that it seems scarier than it really is once you're in it. You shouldn't be worried about getting 'stuck', I did a number of times and quite often would get hints and directions from the interviewer. Never give up, even if what you know you don't know the answer right away, let the interviewer see that you're thinking and try to engage a discussion.

And really just try to take it easy. I was also under a bit of pressure, but think of it like an experience, even if you end up not passing. It's just another company and the feedback of 5 random people.
Hi! Thanks for your comments. I feel that a more detailed reading would most likely address your concerns.

The book explicitly addresses why modes of operation (and their related bits, like padding) are in the stream cipher section. I've flip-flopped between putting them in one or the other a few times now, but I'm increasingly convinced that doing it this way (and having the book explicitly say that I'm doing it this way) makes the storyline, similar to the one I tried to keep in the talk, work better.

The password storage section talks about a lot of broken password stores, as a subsection of the chapter on hash functions. It explicitly refers to the key derivation function section at the end. This pattern comes back through the entire book: "we want to do X, and it may look like we can do X already with the tools P and Q we have already, but you actually still need R and S; here's why".
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alternative implementations would mean you need consensus between different groups of developers holding the keys to the software. unlikely to be a good idea.
I assumed it was a js lib when I saw it. Made me kind of confused when there were no live examples, only videos.
Thanks for the feedback

There are plenty of retail investors who want to do their own fundamental analysis which is our target market for now. If it works out well then probably we would think of scaling up.

> (something that is very difficult right now)

I agree, our parsers sometimes have a tough time extracting the data so we have to modify the parsers accordingly. Our data acquisition expenses are ridiculously low since we don't have to buy it from third parties.

We already have the service up and running for Indian retail investors with paying customers (craytheon.com). Some of those customers asked us if we can start a similar service for US markets.
Couldn't you just launch off the top of a mountain?
What's the purpose of the tower? It seems like an incredible waste of resources.
The US is working on the northern tract. Australia + Indonesia got the southern one.
It was accepted in India for some time and then suddenly the apex court reversed the ruling saying "unnatural sex" (same gender sex) is prohibited by the constitution. This was odd as our apex court doesn't really take such steps. Then it dawned upon me that it was merely interpreting the constitution. That part of the constitution is a legacy law from the time of the British occupation. Unfortunately we have not yet changed it. I don't see it being changed in the near future either, because the party that is supposed to gain majority in this general election is a "conservative" party basing most of their policy off religion.

> why is it that this is rarely mentioned in western news media

It is mentioned in Western media. Also in India you are not prosecuted for being a gay or homosexual unless you bring to the out in the open (I am not defending the culture). Which means you can't usually do girl-girl/guy-guy making out in the public. Hell, you can't even do girl-guy making out in the open. This is covered by some "indecency laws". So, basically it's like there's no witch-hunt on for gays and lesbians even though you declare that you are a homosexual.

Now when someone says this country has a lot lot bigger issues to fix before fixing issues of homosexuality, please don't pounce on him/her because that's true (IMO).
We also do had a memory leak because of socket.io 0.9.6

take a look at this discussion https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/1303#issuecom...
Yes, you basically render the particles as metaballs for that sort of effect. Should be doable in glsl, though I haven't personally done it.

Edit: here's a video showing the technique: http://vimeo.com/4391370
I don't know about most startup founders, but I think YC might be okay with a fifty-year time horizon given that Sam said that they invest with an "infinite time horizon" and that needing to raise a billion dollars over the course of a company's lifetime is a "plus".
They should be because they are trying to play very smart and face the heat, It's not a good idea to sniff inside my emails. Very bad Google.
What is a free country?

You can pick your criteria but please try to make it adequate and generic Then name one free country on this planet.
China working on uranium-free nuclear plants in attempt to combat smog
Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
Nope! I just started drawing some stuff and it stuck. I had never even heard of ipe. How's it compare to TikZ? (That seems like the closest thing I have played with.)
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I'd so love to work on nuclear energy, making Thorium approchable for the masses.

Checklist:
- find a superstar physics team
- get 0.5B in funding.

Seriously, Thorium rocks. Look it up.
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Do you have any more info on that technique? The wikipedia article is a little scarce.
I disagree that the rational actor would never do anything at all. He has needs for food, protection and shelter and these cannot be met without action. So he balances the low risk of a bear against the 100% chance of starving and finds it best to open the door.
If it comes to being an ally and India has to choose between US and Russia, is it that hard to guess who it will choose? You can also sample the latest example.
The Jindalee over-the-horizon backscatter radar in Western Australia has the reach and resolution for detecting a chunk of metal that size on the surface.

Normally it searches for contacts in a programmed grid pattern, sort of a random-chance game of finding bad guys ( HF backscatter radars don't sweep like UHF radars with which we are more familiar ).

I'd hazard a guess that they programmed a radar search of the suspected area and when it found a contact they went and checked the satellite imagery. Spectroscopy from the image capture showed the object to be non-natural.
Wait, that number is "karma" ? I thought it was that Bitcoin thing...
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0
No need to pay cut. Just tell them you want to test this option and they will see the same results. Remote work isn't a new thing. Lots of companies do it, why they won't do it?

I arranged with an old job to do this: work from home, 1 day per week i go to the office. It worked well till the point i didn't have to go too much to office.
They say that this is an extension of Box2D, not a really new engine. This is kind of important, because the simulation of soft spherical particles is a much easier problem than the simulation of rigid bodies. (Unless they are doing some fancy things I'm not aware of). Maybe, there is some complexity in handling both soft and rigid bodies, but I don't think that there should be a problem.
I guess things like this can't be avoided. anyway, great idea, but I think you can add features that let's the flying tile hit numbered tile that can get the score higher. just suggesting. or not.
Right, the two images are off of two different sensors. Probably off the same satellite, one is a panchromatic image and one is probably one channel off of a multispectral sensor. The DTGs are the same (March 16th 2014, 4:16Zulu/12:16 Local).

For reference, DIGO is the Australian version of the U.S. NGA.

They probably have a bunch of analysts pulling long shifts staring at endless images of ocean along the suspected track.
Async/await for Node.js – my first OSS contribution. Feedback welcome!
The project is here: https://github.com/yortus/node-async-await

Background: I was looking for a way to write node.js asynchronous code in a synchronous-looking style (ie like C#'s async/await). As an additional constraint, it couldn't be based on ES6 generators, because I write in TypeScript which doesn't yet support them. So I wrote this tiny module based on node-fibers. It has made my node.js code much more maintainable. I hope it helps someone else!
It has $1.4B to invest, but what does Accel look like without Jim Breyer?
Just about the only two things I ever encountered from your list are threads and web server. I work on web applications, but details of TCP, ports and ethernet are simply too low to be of any practical use.
It's not binary. I'm considering a range of situations which explain both the denials and the NSA lawyer's report.

The CEOs might know, and think it safe to lie. (That's the "First" part of the topmost post.) They might not know because the NSA only approached targeted lower employees, and the combination of the law and the company's own structure prevents the full decision/compliance from every being told to the CEO. (That's the "Second" part of the topmost post.)

And the reason that the don't "know" could be that the NSA is really good at a targeted approach, or that the CEO has helped by making sure enough people to make the NSA happy are empowered and compartmentalized to do so, without it getting back to him. In such a case, he honestly doesn't "know" exactly whether or how much the NSA is poking around, but that's ignorance-by-design.

If the government were angry at a CEO engineering such ignorance to avoid criminal liability, they'd prosecute under the theory of willful blindness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_blindness

But since the CEO is in this case doing the government a favor, the government will "look the other way" about the CEO "looking the other way"...
Working at Google sounds like a Fun time, where you can
explore your inner child--and learn how to make money on
ads. I know all the Google employees are geniuses, but
a genius without the right guidance(Scientitists--who could
care less about advertising, just the scientific method) might end up just doing what Google rewards them for--making
money. I applaud Google for letting us use their API's, but
I feel restrictions are coming, along with fees. I'm not
a huge fan of google for one reason; they ruined my Privacy. By the way, you can get off Google street view by
telling them you have security concerns--at least for now. The minute DuckDuckGo gets a little better--bye to my back
stabbing friend--Google. And yes those Google glasses will
make some people angry(in kid's speak--you just might get
a drink thrown at you, and no--even if they start to make
them look like EMO Glasses, some people don't like their
picture taken without their permission.)
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Good luck, I hope that you achieve what you want. Probably you are a talented guy, so you will find a job in a company with a remote work culture quickly, if your current company doesn't want to give you that benefit.
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Indian Ocean garbage patch
60.9 meter wingspan, minus 5.8 meter cabin width, divided by two = 27.5 meters length of each wing. I'd say that computes.
+1 for MariaDB. I particularly like the new Aria table type which is blazingly fast - if you enjoy ligh-weight feature sets.
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How do you handle plaintext-only mails?

The article reads a bit like reinventing usenet in the most complicated and difficult to use way possible ...
never cited =/= never used
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