skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to say the same thing. You wouldn't even need to search first down, just watch any football footage from the last decade. The first down line is going to be in pretty much every shot. Note that it isn't always yellow. Sometimes it's orange, and there are also other lines, namely the line of scrimmage, that are marked as well.
> For instance, when choosing between cable and DSL for your house do you ever ask the carrier for its latency SLA?

So they could lie to me about that too? I'm lucky to get the bandwidth they promise at peak hours.
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested in Sweden to Serve Copyright Violation Sentence
Thank you.

I get "Not currently available on BBC iPlayer" when I try to play it, but I did find the same video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E4P...

I linked to the time when the balloon crosses over Everest (40 minutes 56 seconds).

It's still not close enough to give a real feel of how big the summit is.
That's my number too, with a conservative rate of return you could make $200k a year on interest alone. Probably not enough money to live in crazy expensive areas or go jet-setting around the globe, but certainly enough to do whatever you want.
The theoretical answer is that they are a government agency and therefore answerable to us. If we tell them not to drive down even numbered streets they supposedly are supposed to obey that. Of course, we've gone beyond the point where anyone thinks they answer to anybody.
It's always seemed odd to me that we send kids through 12 or 13 years of school, then say that it's university where they're expected to get their critical thinking skills, exposure to new ideas, and other "mind-expanding" experiences.

It's kind of silly, really. For one, it seems an awful waste to not take advantage of 12 or 13 years of opportunity to expose kids to these elements. Secondly, compressing such important experiences into only 4 years seems insufficient, especially given that they are supposed to also be preparing for a vocation during this time and not just "mind expansion".

Finally, it's a very expensive time in a kid's educational career. Why wait until then to impart these "soft skills"? Economically (i.e. from an "ROI" perspective), it makes more sense for such an expensive education to focus solely on the skills that would make them viable in the labor market.
We could do this right now and sell it as an app http://www.mimisbrunnr.net/~munin/blog/apps-for-privacy.html
Google Selling a Desktop PC for $350?
$1M. I could live off for the rest of my life with this number here in Mexico. Simpler life, side on projects, maybe doing open source, not worring too much about the money.
In the page you linked to, it mentions that Mathis formula does not apply if packet loss is low. In that case, you want the formula above: throughput <= RWIN / RTT. If your window is large enough, then round trip time isn't a big deal (unless you have a really big connection)

RTT is a large factor in throughput at the beginning of the connection, when tcp slow start is restricting the opening of the receive window.
The N.S.A. collects iris scans of foreigners through other means.

No way that ordinary snapshots have enough resolution for iris scans. What "other means" could there be?
Admit that it's at least slightly better than seeing E=mc^2 tagged on everything though...
I'm with you up to the last sentence. Agreed that 5m including the house would be enough for level 2, but I don't think it'd reliably afford 20k/month, at least not if you're talking real dollars (which you'd have to to account for maintaining your lifestyle for the remainder of your life). If we assume a $500k house, 20k/month is 240k/year, which is over 5% of your remaining 4.5M. Even at standard retirement age the rule of thumb is a 4% real withdrawal rate, and many people think that's optimistic in this low interest rate environment. Assuming you're relatively young I wouldn't want to go more than 3% real withdrawal rate, ideally less.

Fortunately, my family's current lifestyle is nowhere near 20k/month! :) My level 2 number is 3M, not including the paid-off house (which unfortunately is rather more than 500k here...), which should afford 90k/year real (before taxes) at 3% withdrawal rate.
Of course not, that wouldn't be good business, but we're not concerned with that here. The parent comment asks what is evil about it, which is to ask whether it is moral to spend millions on an advertising campaign that implies job security, and less than a year later turn those same jobs into a fire sale.

There is a huge continuum of possibilities for how the Motorola sale should play out, but when the reality is an extremely profitable corporation pulling the rug from under 700 low wage contractors with minimal notice, despite explicitly claiming the contrary less than a year previous, just setting fire to the building and walking away somehow strikes me as a particularly immoral outcome.
The right answer here is not a single correct number, but a handful of correct technique or methodology. Counting the number of rainy days in the last x days would be one possible method of prediction. There are many wrong ones too, like "rain has four letters, so it's 4%" or "there are two choices, so it's 50%."

I hope the teacher taught the students which answers were right and which were wrong. If they did then I retract my criticism, even though that wasn't clear in the article.
I think you are right. Taking on several dozen thousand dollars of debt right after highschool to backpack around Europe for 4 years would nearly universally be seen as wildly irresponsible, but at the same time doing the same to get a degree with low economic value is somehow seen as not irresponsible. However when we call it irresponsible, people freak out and act like that is wildly unreasonable.

It might be symptomatic of a cross wiring of people's sense of what should be, and what is. They believe that a college education should be free, so they behave as though it is. Where a college education free, then getting a relatively worthless degree would be perfectly fine. However since college is currently very expensive, getting a worthless degree is a very poor decision unless you are already wealthy.

Asking people to separate their beliefs about how reality should be from their knowledge of how reality currently is, tends to make them angry.
$10k+ MRR (actually monthly recurring take home) with little to no work on my part (ie: 4hrs/wk ish)

It's much more likely than me magically getting $5mm+, so I'm going to go with that.
About $500k-600k would mean I would not need to work for pay for the rest of my life. Doing whatever I please doesn't cost much money.

If I'm only taking one year off, I'd want $20-50k so I could travel, but ~$12k would be more than sufficient for me to drop a job without worry.
3 million.

The safe withdrawal rate is between 2-3%, tbh. You've got to eat inflation, down turns, etc.

I could live off of 60-90k/year [depending on the market], and not worry too much.

However, if you throw in a wife [that brings you to 6 million] and the expectation of kids...its probably like 7-8 million.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you did not invent the idea of reducing the good behavior of programs to first-order logic properties and to apply an SMT solver to these. You are not even at the point where you might compare your false-positive rate to their false-positive rate, but if someone was going to change the future with that idea, the future of 20 years ago would have been changed.

And perhaps it was. But if SPARK83, to take one system amongst others, did not prevent Heartbleed, I don't see how your system “can prevent Heartbleed”. It can't, because Heartbleed is not written in the language at https://github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems/blob/master/refi...

Describing your github repository with the words “can prevent Heartbleed” is disingenuous and unscientific. You should keep the dramatic hyperbole for the grant proposals.
>>And however much they do use them will be their definition of "sparingly."

Sparingly = Almost never used in affluent neighborhoods... but any that are of low income or high diversity? Those folks will never see the clouds or the sun again... just a blanket of drones. Then those people will begin shooting them down, then the police will start to patrol more to catch the people destroying them, then local residents get arrested, then a police officer will be hurt, then the police will increase their force to "protect" themselves... then the local residents will complain about being profiled and stopped "randomly" on the streets without cause, then they'll all start wearing hoodies & hats to cover their faces, then they'll all "look suspicious", then the police will "accidentally" kill one of the residents - a person of color I'm sure, then a leaked email/voicemail of an LAPD officer making a racist comment will surface, then they'll apologize, then the drones will be limited again... maybe...
Thanks for sharing and congratulations !!

As a Uruguayan soccer fan, I'll have to download it to see what Easter Egg you put in it :P

I've seen very similar apps my coworkers use, so it's not exactly virgin territory (they don't have some of your features though).

Edit: a classmate of mine is testing his software with the Uruguay team, they have a company that does realtime analytics, AZsportech (http://www.azsportech.com/), formerly Kizanaro.
> what we've consistently not seen is a bunch of people trying to subvert democracy, not even according to the very documents NSA and their managers thought would be safest from ever being publically disclosed.

In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are actually based on NSA warrantless surveillance. [1] The use of illegally-obtained evidence is generally inadmissible under the Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine. [2]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
I just tried translating Lithuanian -> English. Yup Google Translate is that good. Even for not wide spread languages like Lithuanian.
You know, I don't really mind that the NSA is collecting this information. What bothers me is that it's not being released to the public. What good are their efforts if no one else can build off of their work?
As if they care about the common good. Hilarious.
$8M. This is based on personal experience - that's the number where it started to feel different.
$1m
For those looking for examples of actually used languages designed specifically for optimization problems, there are several out there.

AMPL is one such language [1]

[1] http://www.ampl.com/EXAMPLES/
The employees probably aren't, though.
In tools & home, a search for ryobi or milwaukee yields results 1/2 full of DeWalt tools. Just as I suspected.
Ya, that would work. I'd just worry whatever gravy train generated that would fail after 3-5 years.
> Actually no, what I'm saying is that what I choose to say to a friend should not be subject to a third party that demands to listen in.

So when you're "saying something" to a friend that is gigabytes of an exact copy of a movie that somebody else created, why should you be the only one having complete control over it? Trust me, the "third party" has no interest in listening in to what you have to say if you are "saying" stuff that is of no interest to them. But when you intermingle "somebody else's" information with "your" own, obviously that somebody else will feel entitled to, at the least, "listen in".

> And to me, the answer that settles that question is physics ...

Not sure what the point is, but note that all the encryption in the world (allegedly) didn't keep your information out of the NSA's fingers. All the NSA-rage that gets poured on HN on a daily basis, and nobody realizes that they've been doing the same to the music, movie and game industries since the dawn of computers?

> (PS. It's easier to have an honest debate when you don't knock down straw men with dismissive snide marks like 'Hilarious!'. You might even end up understanding a different point of view - and don't worry, that does not mean you need to agree with it.)

It's not a strawman, you just missed my point: It's always amusing that the same people who are so strongly pro-privacy -- essentially your right to control information that you deem to be your own -- are also so dismissive about others' rights to control what they deem to be their information. The irony is overwhelming.
All non-citizens are photographed & fingerprinted by cbp when entering the US. Maybe that?
I doubt Lenovo would appreciate a contract in a market they're not necessarily interested in pursuing.
My 1967 Calculus 1 by Apostol is going for $125 on Amazon. I kind of expected it to be one of the $.01 variety by now.

I bought it from an upperclassman for $5 or so back in 1975.

It's pretty much the same story for the other college textbooks of mine.
Every morning in the shower I think about dropping everything after 70 million and living great forever.
That's not an example of "subverting democracy" (though I'll admit I do find it distasteful).

Even that has rules, and the rules are on the whole followed.

Parallel construction is about finding evidence that can hold up in the court of law, without divulging classified intelligence "sources and methods" (you know, much the very things NSA is complaining about Snowden having done).

It starts from evidence legally collected by NSA (which is why "fruit of the poisonous tree" would not apply). The law permits the NSA to share that legally-collected information in some cases with law enforcement.

But law enforcement can't build a case on that without burning the NSA source, so NSA advises them on how to start a new trail that can lead to a prosecution without NSA having to close off that intelligence source.

Is it unfair? Perhaps, but then so is Google using legal tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes. Distasteful perhaps, but legally permissible.
we got wifi scanning instead of drones... http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/video-seattle-cops-can-mon...
I'm not following. Tax free munis or corporate bonds throw off a 5-6% tax adjusted yield. You can always plow anything you don't spend back into fixed income to make up for inflation. So unless you are expecting massive inflation you'll be good.
Sweden detains Pirate Bay founder, oppressive conditions without charges (2012)
Why can't you do that with $1M?
Vocational schools are stigmatized because they're generally shitty. If they pumped out out top-quality vocational grads -- mechanics, metal tooling, plumbing, construction, etc. -- people would be far less inclined to lump them all in together. There would be good and bad, just like the varying quality of state universities.
have no idea what "breaking and entering" has to do with this. My point is simply this: you feel very strongly that you should be able to control "your" information, yet you feel that others who feel they should control "their" information are wrong. (Here, by "you" I mean the strongly pro-privacy folks who are anti-IP. If you believe all information should be free, including your private data, well, at least you're being consistent.)

Note that contrary to your implicit belief, your information is not always locked away, undistributed, in a vault in your basement either; it's all over the place, in the form of every government record on you, every bank account you have, every financial transaction you make and every online account you have. Especially the latter: every move you make on the Internet is tracked by those who monetize it. You are not "sharing" your information, but it exists out there.

And yet you feel violated when somebody accesses it without your consent. Ask yourself why that is. It's simply because you left that information there with an implicit understanding that that information would be used only for purposes that you agree to.

And the same goes for content creators: they don't "voluntarily give away their information", they distribute it with the understanding that those who experience it would compensate for them for it. And they, similarly, feel violated when people access it without due recompense.

IP and privacy are both flip sides of the same coin. After all, the only thing the NSA has on you is a sequence of polarized magnetic splotches on a composite disk.
The U.S. military has long been conducting biometric scanning in Afghanistan, as it was very successful in Iraq in helping identify insurgents and terrorists [1]

I would assume this is a major source, possibly along with the attempts to gain covert access to other nations' similar counter-terrorism biometric databases.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/09/afghan-biometric-dragnet-could-...
Aftonbladet is one of the worst tabloids in Sweden a cant say i trust any details in their articles.
>>You know, I don't really mind that the NSA is collecting this information. What bothers me is that it's not being released to the public. What good are their efforts if no one else can build off of their work?

You don't mind because you think it'll only be used to catch "hardcore criminals & terrorist". Also, if everyone had the info the NSA has I'm sure all kinds of extortion, job dismissals and divorces would happen. Even those in power I'm sure don't want that info just out there on an API for any random person with interwebz.
Traveling is cheaper than living in the US/Canada.
$300k. This would be the perfect amount for me to stop working for someone else, take good care of my family, and have a very large runway to try out some audacious ideas. Then after a few years if I wasn't liking the direction it was taking, I would be in no hard spot and would have done some incredible things, both professionally and with the fam. (To clarify, $300k is the "quit today" amount.)

I also think that with that amount of capital it would be more plausible to create a business that would then generate the much higher numbers others are suggesting here.
Last time I checked, $4M would be enough.
Unfortunately it was an April Fools, but Trollius would've been a great name for it.
All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand to flaunt the great things that they're doing.
I've always thought somewhere around $4M would be enough, but I'd feel more comfortable with about $10M to allow for contingencies.
Does Go have unsafe blocks? I was under the impression that it was similar to Haskell, with the really bad functions just in an `unsafe` module (or something like that?).
The post from 1996 is relevant again because the same story is repeating itself over mobile connections. Note how the mobile networks never advertise latencies (round-trip-time) of the network, always the bandwidth.
I can't find the reference now but I've seen a rule of thumb that basically says that in all data transfer technologies (whether they be moving data between disk and memory, DRAM and CPU or between two nodes on the internet), the advancements in bandwidth go approximately as square of the advances in latency. E.g., a newer radio protocol for mobile networks might have quadruple the bandwidth of the previous technology but will most likely only improve the round-trip time by a factor of 2. (Subject to of course the fundamental speed-of-light limitation on propagation of signal... you're never going to get a 2x improvement in coast-to-coast ping latency over fiber optics cable over what's already achievable (something like .6c )
Have had this tested recently. I was at a startup that got acquired early by a company I didn't love. Salary, equity vesting + retention package package came to about a little less than $1M/year for 4 years. Took one year and decided it was enough to say "fuck you." So did most of the rest of the team. (Not sure exactly what their #s were.)

It was interesting -- if you'd asked me a couple years ago how I would've acted in that situation, I think I'd've told you that for that kind of money I'd be stupid not to stick out four years. But when it actually happened I barely even considered it.
I'm curious, what is the security advantage of BSD jails over Linux containers?
About 10m. Invest that into 'safe' assets that only produce 3% a year, but do so with low risk and low overheard.

300k a year is about the right number to do everything you want to do if you are a family. Buy whatever cars you want (within reason) - travel when you want, eat what you want, live where you want.
Thats the definition of FU money.

You can do it for less, but its not FU money if you have to worry about possibly losing your fortune.

Kids/family increases the number obviously, if they go to private school/college- Add 50k/yr per kid to that figure above.
However much Dan Bilzerian has.
Robotic Raptor at 40km/h
Perhaps not general shots on Instagram, but a larger face picture might have a 80x80 pixel area on one eye. Not enough for a real iris scan maybe, but quite possibly enough to identity an individual?

And as high-DPI screens get more common, ordinary snapshots online will probably move up from the low resolutions they are now.
The Army:

"Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan" http://www.wired.com/2010/09/afghan-biometric-dragnet-could-...

"Could Iris Scans Stop a New Iraq Insurgency?" http://www.wired.com/2008/08/maliki-vs-sois/

And probably by infiltrating other countries' iris-scanning of undesirables like refugees:

http://jordantimes.com/iris-scanning-technology-streamlines-...
Neovim Plugin UI architecture
At 22 years old it's probably around $800k with no wife or kids. According to an annuity calculator I found online, that's about $1100 a month for the next 60 years adjusted for inflation. More than enough to retire outside Europe/NA.
I've always ballparked that if things fell into place with a project and I walked away with 10M or more I'd be out of the game.

However the reality is that people who are ok with cashing out and walking away from the table seem to seldom be the ones getting the payoff.

EDIT: I don't think a lot of you all know what FU money is. Its enough that you can say "FU" to anyone on the planet and not have any worries about doing so as you no longer need anything from anyone.
Remarkjs – Browser based slideshows with Markdown
Why would he sign with them if they provided him no value? Your reply doesn't disprove the point.
That would be an interesting analysis to see- any chance you could get a copy and post it?

"...school buses are also used for things such as transporting athletic teams, bands, orchestras, etc..."

I don't think many schools need their entire fleet to be able to transport students long distances. They could convert some, or maybe even most, of the buses to electric, depending on the circumstances.
While not defending it in any sense, this STILL shows what the grandparent poster is saying:
The folks THINK they're doing the RIGHT thing. They're giving extra evidence of crimes to convict criminals!
$75,070 + however much taxes needed to purchase a Tesla Model S.

I literally would not need anything else. I could go wherever I wanted whenever I wanted. I wouldn't have to pay for gas. I'd use Uber to drive people around with zero expenses. I'd sleep in the spacious back seat.
That's about how I would define FU money, but with taxes and a margin of safety I'd put the actual number at 20M.
> You don't mind because you think it'll only be used to catch "hardcore criminals & terrorist".

Please don't speak for me. I was talking about the information collection, not what they're doing with that information.