skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) is universal in the UK and most of Europe. Motorway gantries and other devices monitor the motorway system and report the presence of any cars which are 'on the list'. They might get there through being stolen, not having insurance or test certificate, because they hit someone and drove away, and so on. Police throughout the country park up with their in-car number plate scanners and get told if a listed car goes past. They will often pursue and apprehend anyone that crops up on this basis. It seems very effective, which is presumably why the Alexandria PD are doing it too. I'm surprised it's not universal in the US as it saves everyone a lot of trouble.
Seconded. I've been using XPrivacy for quite a while now, very stable, very useful. It also shows you the last time a call was made, so you can see e.g. that a variety of apps try to access your contacts after asking you if you want to allow it, even when you say "no" (which is not necessarily shady behavior, but still frowny-face inducing).
the CIO resigned in March
With how archaeology evolved as a field and the current black market, it is not surprising to have an anonymous source for an historical artifact.
https://github.com/ninjudd/drip

http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/

http://leiningen.org/grench.html

All 3 not perfect, but have a look :)
I don't really know (I don't have that in depth knowledge of javascript) but it is probably like you said, because you are doing a sum, it treats null as 0, so (0 + 0 === 0) is true.

You can do the same with false: (false + false === 0)

And also (true + true === 2) is true

Edit: The same way as if you do "" + 1 you get "1" because it assumes + as string concatenation
Why I Want To Leave My Venture-Backed Startup
Great. Any ETA on phpng stable release?
This is why I ride a bike. That way no one can take a picture of it!
South San Francisco, CA
Hiring FT - Software Engineers and Automation Engineers (Mechatronics/Robotics)

What is Counsyl?
Counsyl is a health technology startup building a software platform that is revolutionizing the the healthcare industry. Our end goal is to build a scalable, consumer web facing product that helps people worldwide gain critical information about their bodies and plan for their futures. We offer an engineers the unique opportunity to not only build these meaningful software solutions but also get firsthand exposure to robotics within our own in-house wetlab!

What does a Software Engineer do at Counsyl?
Our engineers build custom software from scratch based on a Python/Django/Postgres stack. They build new tools, workflows, and infrastructure when it comes to patient, physician, and internal communication. Some of the challenges they tackle daily are related to:
◦	Tracking samples, inventory, billing, interactive applications in real time
◦	Using complex algorithms and machine learning to target gene mutations that lead to the main causes of different diseases
◦	Create software that connects lab robotics and patient samples for high throughput

What does an Automation Engineer do at Counsyl?
Our Automation Engineers are handling all aspects of software design that goes into our robots. They are tackling everything from high-level software implementation to mechatronics systems design to electrical circuits drawing to custom robotics parts development. These areas affect our lab processes when it comes to:
◦	DNA extraction
◦	Controls software
◦	Overall sample management
◦	Sensor software

A lot of companies can't do custom hardware robotics stuff because it takes a lot of software. We are tackling this problem by taking nothing and turning it into full stack software. We are developing algorithms, using 3D printing for functional prototyping, and leveraging 2 decades worth of robotics to help people make effective health decisions on a macro scale. Come be a part it!

To apply, go to:
https://www.counsyl.com/careers/software-engineer/

https://www.counsyl.com/careers/automation-engineer/
Question for the OP, YC, PG, dang, or anyone else.

YC owns both startupschool.com and startupschool.org but you have the .com redirecting to the .org

While .org can be (and often is used) for anything it is typically associated with organizations and more specifically non-profits [1]. So I'm curious why you don't simply have this info under the .com since obviously the overwhelming majority of your involvement is on a for profit basis (the companies you fund are almost always for profit) and the school, while free, is really a marketing feeder for YC which is for profit.

[1] Source: Me, I've been doing this "domain thing" since the mid 90's.
Oups sorry about that. What is your device config? Because so far I tested only on a Nexus 5.
> One of little secret of Clojure is that you almost never use Java based library. Because it forces you not to use idiomatic Clojure. So, most library you'll use in Clojure are in fact Clojure made. From this point of view of number of libraries, Haskell and Clojure are in fact at the same level.

This isn't really true.

Yes, directly using a Java library forces you to use Clojure that is not idiomatic but 1) this isn't always the case 2) there are idiomatic wrappers over some libraries already.

More importantly, at least you have the option of using Java libraries. Having to use Clojure code that is not idiomatic still will be much more productive than writing the library yourself in Haskell.
Not quite what you asked, but I found people recommending this.

https://github.com/ninjudd/drip
When it comes to the State, we have to actively limit its activities. Especially when it comes to indiscriminate information gathering. Don't you find it odd that there's no record of the real crimes -- homeless people fighting, gunshots, attempted burglary -- but there's the time and location information of this man's vehicle? Seems like the Alexandria PD has a clear bias in the types of information that they're interested in collecting and retaining.
I sure wasn't expecting replies to my (angry) rant.

To start, I later realised my tone was angrier than it should. For that, I apologise. The "out of the norm" comment really ticked me in a weird way. (I don't know why, but it just did).

Now, to answer you, as this is a reply to your post.

What I really wanted to convey is that I don't need facebook. I don't think Facebook is bad. I don't hate it. But I don't like it either. I respect it as a product, and understand the impact it had in society. But don't think I don't use it only for the bad stuff I said earlier. I just don't see any use for it.

So, for a tl,dr: I don't think those reason are enough for me not to be on facebook. I'm not on facebook because I don't see enough reasons to use it. It's not "too much bad", it's "too few good".
It ends up being on its own. You get introduced to it during geometry, but I don't think that it really gets taught until college.

I took BC calculus as a junior, so we got left with about a month between the seniors' leaving and the end of the year. My teacher said, "Okay, we're gonna learn number theory." Oh fuck, that was hard. It was completely unlike anything that we'd done before, and it required the development of completely different skills. I wasn't bad at it, but I definitely wasn't good at it either.

I'm glad that I got a taste of it, as that thought process has helped me in countless situations, but you're definitely correct in that it doesn't fit with the rest of the traditional curriculum.
Open-Source Software for College Administrators Reaches ‘Tipping Point’
Eh, with such a small fragment, couldn't the article have given a translation of what it says?
Can't wait to play around with this once they support a few more extensions!
Regardless of how much you have, you have to stretch that money for a longer runway than 6 months, especially in B2B. Even if you were selling stuff that turns everything it touches into gold, after 6 months you still wouldn't have gotten through all the sales processes to actual cash in bank, the B2B sales process simply doesn't work that fast.
Well look at it from the spammer's side, you just made things easy for them, now instead of blasting out millions of spam, they can now concentrate on people who actually spend money online (and may have an impulse nature given they are shopping from twitter). I used to have random bots follow me and then include me when they tweet a spam link. Now if they were to know I purchased X, they could spam with

"@ACME I have been using X but I love this product Y more, what do you think? bit.ly/1234"

Sure most techies might not fall for it but there are plenty of others who will.
Bayesian Draft Analysis Tool
This is like a law that forbid me from disguising myself (like wearing a mask) in a public places.

I can complain about such law, but can't really complain about others remembering my face - that would be unfair to others.
> Wouldn't the CIO be more liable for such faults as a massive data breach?

Two thoughts:

1. The outgoing CIO, Beth Jacobs, was also their Chief Content Officer. Given her background [1], and the fallout, I'd suggest she was hired for the content side of her job, not the traditional technology-centric CIO skill set. She was promoted in 2008, the same hear the now outgoing CEO came in. I didn't find a connection, but my guess is the CEO brought in the CIO. If so, he's responsible for the mis-hire.

2. Beyond that, I think we'll see more of this: CEOs wouldn't be able to pass the buck on poor technology decisions as easily as they might have 10 or 15 years ago.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/05/business/la-fi-mo-ta...
Rather than emitting, she'd be reflecting the light in a beautiful way.
The optical and internal quality data were then merged and a PLS regression analysis was conducted using the NSAS software package (NSAS, 1990).

My comment wasn't that you couldn't test the ripeness of fruit using near-IR, it was that you could reliably doing it using a handheld consumer product.

There is a BIG difference between running a lab analysis using near-IR and making a consumer friendly product that can accurately produce the same data.
The initial learning curve is a bit steep -- but once you are over it, usage is quite smooth. If you are using a lot of AJAX and dynamic stuff it's another story.
TextSecure's Private Group Messaging
I read recently that some startups are collecting this data and providing it back to police departments. So you could search on a license plate number and receive hits on every where and every time it was used. Of course, it's only available for LE and they have to promise not to talk about where they got the data from.

Just imagine a similar system using facial recognition and Google glass/FB/G+/Instagram/etc.
What CISO?

http://www.ianetsec.com/blogs/ians-perspective/target-proves...
The comment you replied to said that it "should" be possible to work more without being taxed more, not that it "is". So what's your point?
Clicking on the images darken the whole page. Looks like they have a broken implementation of an image gallery. The page dims but the larger image doesn't appear.
There is an inherent conflict in the demands of the citizens. We all want to be kept safe from crime and have law enforcement and state protection actually keep us safe, vindicate us when falsely accused and resolve our case when we are hurt. We also don't want them to have data that they could misuse.

As this community knows well, you can't solve problems without data and data collection for policing historically was anecdotal and varied wildly by jurisdiction. beat cops would walk around and use their own internal sensors to take data and make correlations. This of course is subject to all the common human failings and would more often than not fail the community more than it helped - but it was rarely considered invasive.

So we have two options: Build and apply to our civic lives effective tools for persistent collection/analysis of public data and take the chance that oversight is improper or that the data will be misused. Or do we accept fewer resolved cases of homicide/speeding/kidnapping/parole etc... and have a higher probability that our PII is only kept within private companies?
Yeah but there is no possibility of running one of these on S40 platform as J2ME apps don't run in the background.
Would you be bothered if someone followed you daily on the sidewalk, noting your paths? I would.

Would it be any better if, rather than one person following you, it was one guy on every street corner, who collaborated to reconstruct the paths you walked, and kept a record?

For me, that would be just as offensive. Now consider that by collecting data points from every car, anywhere, the police can do this kind of tracking to everybody. I don't find that any better than hiring one stalker per citizen.

You remembering that you met me in a coffee shop wouldn't bother me. You following me everywhere certainly would.
In case you, like me, did not know what an IPython Notebook is: http://ipython.org/notebook.html
Multinational corporations have adopted the CEO firing as a customary response to major scandal. It lets them publicly demonstrate that they're changing, while simply replacing the CEO with a near-equivalent.
Debuggers are crutches for losers. I use an oscilloscope to debug.
Why is CocoaPods better than git submodules?
For me it was chrome's popup blocker. (or an extension). Once I allowed popups, the click + cmd worked fine. Still odd behaviour though.
> Where the funding goes for these web or mobile app companies?

Marketing/advertising and employees.
From the doc[0]:

The output file type is derived from the file name.
Supported types include .dot (graphviz dot file),
.png (png image), .svg (vector graphic)

[0] https://github.com/carlsborg/rcviz
How much did you guys pay for the 3 letter domain :)
I must have missed that; thanks for pointing it out.
The Effects of Backtest Overfitting on Out-of-Sample Performance [pdf]
That's right. Taxpayers money should be spent on a things that help taxpayers, not make problems for them.

But I feel that's only tangentially about the privacy - it's all about state-to-citizen relationships.
I could argue that for most people, it is only when they start bumping into the limits of the beginner's tool that they see the point of the more advanced tool.
Awesome! Just needed to log in to see it. I'll contribute. Nice work!
Stop using other people's bad metrics! Use my bad metrics!
As someone who recently implemented Phabricator at our company, it's really an amazing piece of technology. It's easy to install and configure, it does pretty much everything you might expect it to do and then some, and there's a lot of nice-to-haves (like closing tasks via commits, associating commits to tasks, connecting tasks together, etc).

Also, the ability to set up Herald rules to do any notifications you want, like 'add me to CC for any code review that touches this file path in any of these repositories', 'set up an audit whenever someone commits changes to the master branch of this repository', etc. It has a ton of flexibility for integrating with other services, like allowing people to authenticate through their Google account, GitHub, Twitter, JIRA, Disqus, Twitch.tv, Mozilla Persona, and obviously LDAP as well, or normal Phabricator-specific username/password authentication.

It's really insane how much integration there is, how rapidly the development is progressing (we found a bug on a Friday and it was fixed by Monday afternoon), and how responsive the dev team is (in #phabricator on Freenode).

All that for free. Pretty great.
/u/chosen you appear to be hellbanned.
There is a precedent for this in the United Kingdom[1]. The nationwide Automatic Number Plate Recognition system (ANPR) tracks vehicles in real time.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK
I'm surprised things like this aren't more common. Places like google strike me as great candidates for bare metal OS type setups to most effectively serve the billions of requests per days.
Are project managers needed?
The lines tend to be much shorter at the Target here, that's the prime reason I avoid the nearer Walmart. I'm not sure if it costs more or less in practice, they seem about the same to me really. Walmart does have a better selection of motor oil though and they take my old oil for recycling, so that's about the only reason I go to Walmart anymore, but it's annoying to wait in that long line with just 5qt of Castrol.
Nanoc would be another you can try http://nanoc.ws/
You're right, my mistake. Brain cramp :)
"The Literature of the Moment": a critique of Mother 2
That's assuming there was a traffic spike that resembles what compete.com is showing. They're not an accurate source for traffic stats.
All three examples you gave are consumer products that are either free or near-free. The level of support people expect from Instagram is very different to the support they expect from the company they pay to host their corporate web site.
Wow. This will be interesting to watch. :)
> My belief is - if one wants privacy - they should park in the backyard (i.e. area restricted to general public)

Old Town Alexandria (http://www.visitalexandriava.com/about-alexandria/old-town-a...) is a very dense, built-up historic district. Because space is at such a premium there, lots of residences there are not going to have backyard or garage parking available; it's on-street parking or nothing.

(Source: I live in Alexandria, though not in Old Town -- that neighborhood is crazy expensive. Like, SF expensive.)

> If you don't emit anything, there's nothing to receive thus nothing to store - privacy problem ultimately solved

We've assigned Officer Smith here to follow you around and make notes about what buildings you enter and exit, and when. He won't follow you into the buildings, of course -- we respect your privacy! He'll just be waiting there for you outside whenever you step out a door.

If this makes you uncomfortable, you are free to cover yourself in a tarp or plastic garbage bag whenever you go outside. Problem solved.

Right?
Sounds fair. Isn't advertising on the blog an advertising and the user doesn't disclose anywhere that he will earn money when you click on the ad. Even though its obvious, shouldn't he be disclosing that? If he has referral link in a post, its same right? We now know that all ads earn the blogger money because its the norm. So, even if people don't complain, mediocre blog posts never have a lot of readers. so, should we be having a practice where the user has an asterisk near the link and the asterisk should point to small unreadable text at the bottom of the page? Im not saying you are wrong, but Im trying to make a argument so I can have a better understanding.
We do have some foreign QA & Development positions.
IOS 7 doesn't encrypt email attachments.
> Getting the actual real requirements nailed down

Wherein the programmer plays the role of social worker. Seriously though, the skill sets are very similar. The client is typically the ultimate source of the requirements, but it's never a simple case of asking the client "what should I build? More often than not, the client doesn't know what s/he wants, wants something that will actually hurt him/her, is actually seven different people who want opposite things, wants the roses simultaneously painted white and red, etc. Which is why I find requirements collection the most challenging part of the job.
I think of it more as exception driven:

1. Am I happy now? If so, keep doing what you're doing.

2. If not, is what's making me unhappy really important in the scheme of things? If not, goto 1.

3. Focus on changing your situation, or your reaction to it.

If you get to #3, ideally try to find meaning in the process of change itself rather than focusing too much on the end state.
The author claims this is the "original":

> ElectroPortis is a Windows version of ElectroPaint, the only screensaver. This is the real deal. It is not a clone, nor a reimplementation, nor a product of manual reverse engineering. It was made by running the original binary through a custom MIPS to C decompiler.

but later, says that it's the OpenGL version and links to these words:

> During my time at SGI I rewrote Electropaint to use OpenGL instead of IrisGL and it wasn't quite the same afterwards (I removed the control UI since the panels toolkit wasn't making the journey and I must have broken the random seed...).

Wouldn't be such a pedant normally, but if you're going to make such a fuss about it being the "original," don't contradict yourself on the same page...
This is actually a problem with capitalism in general. Integrity costs money. It's the tragedy of the commons writ large.
How much do your meetings actually cost?
Brad McQuaid takes 30% of the crowd-sourced Pantheon funds for himself
The idea of not being able to express what your company is about was kind of covered in silicon valley episode 4 haha
It is the central problem in the software development community right now that we have no good objective way to measure software quality. Without that measure we can't judge software methodologies (thus the TDD flame wars) and we can't judge software developers (thus the interview flame wars).

So in each case we come up with proxies for this measure. Having done the interview side of the fence a lot, my strong intuition is that nearly everything people try to measure in developer acquisition strategies either don't correlate or negatively correlate to hiring good developers.

At this point, the only advice I give people about this is figure out a repeatable, measurable process for your organization and measure every single filter you use during hiring. Test the measures on just hired applicants, applicants a few months out, and applicants a few years out. It is time consuming and fraught with problems but there is no magic bullet out of this morass.
Show HN: I'm writing a book on finding a startup name
I'm writing a book for finding a startup/product name, aptly titled "The Book of Naming."

http://kcovia.com/thebookofnaming.html

It's pretty much a complete walkthrough to the whole process. I take a 4-part approach: create a ton of names, analyze them, test them, then compare them for a final decision.

Any feedback would be awesome!

(Also, I've posted on HN for years under keiferski but actually changed my _real_ name because it's extremely Polish and doesn't work well for English speakers.)
"WordPress.com parent" is correct, though. "WordPress parent" wouldn't.
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