skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is cool: you can also see the 3D image without any aids; just by crossing your eyes while looking at the 2 images. This way you can see the tracking in action.

Their appears a 3th image in the middle which you need to focus on and on both sides a non-depth "ghost" image.

Takes a bit of practice! (Not sure if this is damaging to your eye sight; try at your own risk)
Building Wix Competitor
I'll repost this once again. Why you should never use a CAPTCHA:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/02/why-you-should-never-...
I think that I read a long while back that there was a cluster of PlayStation 3's, all running Linux that was pretty fast too.

Edit: Here is one of the articles: http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercompute...
I learned bash using tldp years ago, never had any major issues.
You're right that the discussion on page 21 of the opinion suggests that the Court would find a privacy right in documents held in the cloud. Indeed, the government seemed to have conceded that point! "The United States concedes that the search incident to arrest exception may not be stretched to cover a search of files accessed remotely—that is, a search of files stored in the cloud." Slip. Op. at 21. Incidentally, I strongly suggest that anyone who says "the Court doesn't understand computers" read pages 19-21 of the opinion. It's a very cogent, if layman's description of the technical aspects of the case.

However, I don't think the opinion contradicts Smith v. Maryland. There are two aspects to that case: 1) the user has knowingly exposed the phone number to the phone company; 2) the phone company doesn't just have access to the phone number, but actively processes it for billing purposes. I think the second prong distinguishes this case from a typical cloud service, which the court analogizes as being an extension of the local storage of the device.

Still, I'm quite astounded at the direction of the discussion on page 21, and interested to see how the court will draw the contours. I think the "right answer" is to extend 4th amendment protection to documents in the cloud when "the third party has undertaken to keep the documents private" but not, e.g., when it mines those documents for commercial purposes. This is straightforwardly analogous to a safe deposit box, where the bank holds the box, but doesn't open it up and make use of its contents.
> "I'm genuinely confused about the legality about building a business whose sole purpose is to scrape the web, repackage and sell that information"

Like Google?
Nooo! Mistake #0 about shell scripting is thinking [ is syntax. It makes it way more weird and inexplicable. [ is a command, just like any other. That's why there needs to be a space between it and the next thing, and why you have to use weird looking flags and such. This is why I prefer the command `test`. It does the same thing as `[`, but is more obviously a command. And when you see it as a command, it's obvious that any command can be used in an if directly; if is just checking the exit code. (Whenever I see someone doing `if [ $? -ne 0 ]`, it makes me cry.)
The thing that strikes me is that this isn't new. There is a famous story of Steve Jobs and his group abusing some guy who had shown up to an interview in a suit. DeMarco and Lister in Peopleware can be read as justifying aspects of this (see chapter 22).
Hot off the presses! Google just released the latest future ex-api they will get bored of in a couple/few years and kill, along with any company that depends on it. #rememberthiscommentthen
This is cool but...you've got courses listed as free but when I go to the course they're asking for money (https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-bootstrap-3/?affcode=E...)
I just recently got this email from AWS:

Dear Amazon S3 Customer,

Amazon S3 now supports server side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C), a new encryption option for Amazon S3. When using SSE-C, Amazon S3 encrypts your objects with the custom encryption keys that you provide. Since Amazon S3 performs the encryption for you, you get the benefits of using your encryption keys without the cost of writing or executing your own encryption code.
> In the case of DropBox, you stipulate that you have the legal right to view the file, so that answers the question.

I have the legal right to accept OTA broadcasts in New York. I also have the right to store personal copies for time shifting (see Cablevision). It is exactly an analogous situation to using Dropbox to store copyrighted material solely for your own use.
It was a snoozefest
6 Best Software Programs For Hassle-Free A/B Testing
Google Lawyer evicting third-grade teacher
This article is apparently about the elementary school teacher who interrupted I/O protesting her eviction by Google Lawyer Jack Halprin.
No. Just trying to avoid something that is completely stupid on many levels.
Surpreme court rules police need warrants to search cellphones
Not that I know of. I haven't come across many that are thoroughly documented for the sake of people that come later and furthermore many come with the baggage of the decisions made early on that are difficult if not impossible to change. No one wants a "so so package manager" that supports plugins.

Furthermore, writing a package manager is usually one of the first large scale projects common to most language ecosystems that really exercise what a language is capable of. Other tools for working with the language, such as parsers, interpreters and compilers are among the first projects in any ecosystem.
Why does this difference between art and science justify art's comparatively hostile attitude toward "derivative" works?

Because science is engaged in a search for truth, new actionable information. Art is expressive, so copying someone else's work (for display rather than to develop one's technique,of course) is a sort of freeloading.

It's also worth considering the economic incentives for science and art are also pretty different. For good or ill, there are few scientists who labor unrewarded out of compulsion, not least because there isn't a whole lot of science you can do without a budget, although I can think of a few mathematicians who fit that bill, eg Grigori Perelman. However, by mentioning the economic side of things I wouldn't want to give the impression that I support existing copyright regimes, which I think are actually economically destructive to individual artists in many respects - it's just that I don't support the opposite position either, of nothing being truly original and therefore nothing being deserving of copyright protection.

I do think testability, or rather falsifiability, is important in science insofar as it makes the differences between conjecture and theorem. But I see where you're coming from; there can be a lot of value in an elegant theory even if it turns out to be superficially wrong, because it can open up new vistas of intellectual inquiry - Riemannian geometry springs to mind, where the failure of [many previous mathematicians] to prove Euclid's parallel postulate by reductio ad absurdum opened up a whole class of non-Euclidean geometrical perspectives even though such geometries were 'wrong' in the Cartesian context.

But to get back to the main point, with science your aiming for results of some sort, whose value lies in their explanatory power (even if that opens up a host of new questions, like some empirical observation that points out a natural phenomenon does not behave as we thought it did, without offering any theory as to why that should be the case). Art, by contrast, is inherently subjective, and might as easily be constructed to alienate or frustrate analysis, or be indifferent to the possibility thereof.

I think there's a tendency today to see art as an accretion of communicatory techniques, but I'm deeply at odds with this view, and feel that it reduces artistic endeavor to the level of marketing. (This is a very personal perspective, obviously.) If you're working creatively you're often asked/advised 'tell a story' or 'articulate what you want to say' or 'identify your point of view'. In a postmodern world, art is treated as a lens through which to view the artist, and there's a great emphasis on context and explanation, such that 'artist's statements' are considered essential to the presentation of art. To my mind this is an awful state of affairs, reducing art from the trancendental to the transactional. Self-consciously derivative and combinatorial art exacerbates this.
One of them was in the press area and one of them had a paid badge around their neck.
Node.js, The Bad Parts
Congrats Paras! New dashboard is looking nice, and I especially like the ability to retroactively segment results based on different customer dimensions and discover new opportunities for personalization.

One thing that I've noticed is that traditional A/B testing is a pretty sub-optimal way of answering the question: 'What works better, A or B?'

In the most basic example of an A/B test, you have a variation A and a variation B each shown to 50% of your user base. By definition, this approach will be sending half of your users to a worse performing version during the entire duration of the test!

The automated approach is based on a bandit algorithm that dynamically updates the proportion of users shown a given variation. With each new piece of data that you collect on the test variations' conversion rates and confidence, the algorithm adjusts the percentages automatically so that better performing variations are promoted and worse performers are pruned away.

This leads to:

1) faster results, because your directing test resources (i.e.: users and their data) to validate what you actually care about (i.e.: confidence in the best variation’s performance)

2) a higher average conversion rate during the test itself, because relatively more users are being sent to the better performing variation automatically, and

3) less time and effort required to actively manage your experiments.

Though the math behind this approach is slightly more complex than a traditional A/B test, it’s a no-brainer for those that are really interested in making data-driven decisions because of how much better the results are that it produces.

For anyone interested, here’s a post we put together on how it works: http://splitforce.com/resources/auto-optimization/
This is background to the elementary school teacher who interrupted I/O today protesting her eviction by Google Lawyer Jack Halprin.
Hmm ya, I could certainly see a positive feedback loop developing. Out of curiosity, do you regularly log into a google account and/or use services like gmail? I'm guessing not, since presumably that would give it plenty of data. (Unless you actually are a spammer... ;) ) Also, are you connecting from a location that Google might see as more likely to produce spam? (I would guess any non-"western" country to some extent, with Nigeria likely being at the far end of the scale.)
Make a portfolio of your work. Use that portfolio in your resume/CV and give links so perspective employers can access your sites and play with them.

Also doesn't hurt to publish on something like Github (open source software) since that gives even more access to your work (and shows that you can get far enough to publish something useful).

There are definitely companies who will hire someone with a proven track record but no academic qualifications. You won't get hired by Google or Microsoft Research since they're super academically obsessed, but a lot of medium-small businesses would love to have you.
Hey Paras, congratulations on launch. Minor comment on your pricing table - the comma separator in the lakh position is uncommon everywhere but India. Made me double to a double take after I initially read it as a million users instead of 100,000.
Demo version somewhere?
Just did an impulsive amazon checkout. All this frictionless online shopping is getting dangerous.

HackNews -> Amazon -> Paypal -> Gmail (confirmation) in less then 1 minute.
The new API specifically recommends using IMAP for building a "full-fledged email client." I think you are misreading that statement.
Is Monopoly money the largest virtual currency?
I was looking at new regulations regarding virtual currencies and wondering is monopoly money virtual currency? is Hasbro running an illegal money transmitter business?
Thanks for catching this. We are constantly scraping like 30 course providers on a weekly basis. A lot of Udemy courses start out free to attract attention, then start charging. I'll get this fixed!
I'd highly recommend reading the ruling. It's a good read and the points are made more eloquently than I can put them. I'm not speaking as to whether or not the law is a good law, but this interpretation of the law seems pretty solid. Your hypothetical Dropbox scenario is actually addressed at the bottom of page 16, but you need context from earlier parts of the ruling to understand the "public" argument.

It's not really worth me repeating the argument here, as it would take 16 pages to do, and the Supreme Court has already done the work. After reading it I'd love to see your arguments with specific parts of the text.
Supreme Court rules against streaming service Aereo
Get the computer to read old entries to you while you're doing the dishes (or stretching). The Mac OS computer voices are not bad at all. You can set the speed to medium-fast and it becomes quite good.

I practically don't read any text anymore---it's so much easier when the computer reads to me... also easier on the eyes.
Actually re-reading the article, I see this:

Currently not optimizable:

Generator functions
Functions that contain a for-of statement
Functions that contain a try-catch statement
Functions that contain a try-finally statement
Functions that contain a compound let assignment
Functions that contain a compound const assignment
Functions that contain object literals that contain __proto__, or get or set declarations.

Likely never optimizable:

Functions that contain a debugger statement
Functions that call literally eval()
Functions that contain a with statement

Which I now realize is sort of what I'm looking for.
Android 4.4.4 is rolling out to devices; contains OpenSSL fix
From the article: Google has generally been a strong advocate of net neutrality but the OccupyGoogle protestors argue the company could be doing more to champion the cause at this critical moment – hence their occupation of Mountain View HQ.

I'm confused. Is it smart to find someone who is generally on your side and then set up camps on their campus and disrupt them... calling for them to do more? Isn't the Occupy movement traditionally where you occupy the space of entities you oppose and try to make them suffer until they change? It doesn't makes sense to do that to someone you want on your side. I don't get it.
if you plan to grow with it, i strongly advise you to battle-test it...
Isn't reasonable audio integration most of the win?

There's lots of nice things to do around navigation, but they don't seem to matter a lot, especially if the audio integration is working well (because then just use the navigation on the phone).
This raises the interesting question of whether you can have an app that detects (say by GPS) that you have been taken to a police station and auto-deletes the contents of your phone without breaking laws governing destruction of evidence.
For people here experienced with graph databases, do you typically use the graph db as your primary data store or do you use it in combination with something like postgresql? If you're using both, can you talk about how that works and if it's been successful for you?

I'm curious because I've had a couple situations where I thought using neo4j (or some graph db) would be a natural fit for something I wanted to do, but otherwise I thought most of my other data fit into postgresql just fine. My instinct is that if I'm doing this in a web app then querying from two different databases is going to slow down my responses a lot.
I find him to be like a child in all of the best ways. So many master programmers never seem to stray far enough outside of their comfort zones to have to ask basic questions about anything. Armstrong always seems to be operating at the edges, trying to come up with something that's never been done before, but definitely doing something that he personally hasn't done before.

All of the old Ericsson Erlang guys seem a bit like that, though:) The right people were in the same place at the same time.
The question I have is are the local broadcasters prevented from making deals with Aereo, is it too expensive for Aereo? Or rather did Aereo just choose to not deal with them in the first place?
If they had won, could they 'install cable' or a dish in their data center? (For example, could I rent a cable contract through Aereo and then get internet at my home, my office and then my condo in the mountains and share the same content between the three?)

Seems to me that they should just start making deals with the locals, Dish network charges something like $5 a month for access to it so it seems like Aereo could ink a deal with a similar cost.
It's annoying because it's not always present.

Ex: I look up my favorite pizza place and it's 15 minutes away. Now I want to see traffic. How? It's impossible to view both.
SkyTran: Personal Rapid Transit via Magnetic Levitation [pdf]
275 Million games sold. $15,140 in each bank. 4.2 trillion?
> Given the Chicago reference (fellow Chicagoan here), do you view this as a Midwest problem?

I view it as a Chicago problem. There are two types of Chicago startups: Bootstrapped (no cash, sweat of the brow, all equity) and amateur VC/angel.

What I mean by bootstrapped should be obvious. When I say "amateur" VC/angel, I mean someone doing a startup because they want to do a startup, not because they're looking to solve a problem. Or someone who has a pet project.

Its a real problem for Chicago tech, as I see most colleagues head of to the SFBA or NYC to where startups have not just the technical and financial resources they need, but the proper management (whether that's founders, advisors, or mentors) resources as well.

Feel free to get in touch; would love to chat over coffee (email in profile).

EDIT: My apologies for not reading your paper/data/results first; it appears you hit the nail on the head:

"Students view Chicago as an “entrepreneurial city”, but noted the Midwest needs to enhance access to capital and entrepreneurial support networks — through initiatives like ThinkChicago — in order to entice more entrepreneurs to start companies in the region."
This is a little bit spooky when reading through https://assemblymade.com/help/basics

From the FAQ:
Assembly owns the intellectual property on behalf of our members, because that’s the best way to protect your interests. However, Assembly also recognizes that our members should have the right to use their ideas in other contexts. As a result, we give our members a license back to their content to give them the flexibility to use their intellectual property in non-commercial ways.
Will code for food?
You could probably have your mail pass through a non-gmail server like http://www.mailgun.com/ first
Both HTTP Basic and Token Authentication are secure when used over HTTPS. I updated the article to include a note about this as well as updated the code examples to use HTTPS.
No, the NSA can be challenged in court. Actually, both my post and the Wikipedia article you cite in your reply refer to federal suits against the NSA. In the recent past, courts would throw out NSA lawsuits because plaintiffs couldn't prove they had been personally surveilled, which left them without standing to sue. (Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...). Since Edward Snowden's revelations showed that some NSA programs target every American, that has changed.

And in the future, anti-NSA plaintiffs will be able to use the Supreme Court's legal analysis of the inherent invasiveness of cell phone searches.
I like that they've released all resources. This means 3rd party apps could in turn apply these same layouts and principles, creating a consistent user interface where it won't matter as much how unintuitive it is.
yes, I think the same way. That was just an example.
really? I think ive got crop as muscle memory now. shift+c I think...

yup.
That drop down thing has an uncanny ability to do the opposite of what you expect in almost any situation. It's like the UI from hell.

I admire aspects of the technical execution, but the user flow is just so perfectly wrong it's astounding.
No take on the VR stuff. I was looking through the instructions and admiring how it seemed so plain and someone thought to do this (build this around your phone). Making the instructions easy for everyone etc.

Usually I hate the pages that use pictures and scroll this way and out of curiosity I grabbed the scrollbar and started up and down and it was awesome. I had expected it to jump between a set of images or something, like the scroll wheel had but it was really fluid.
Exactly. I am very much on the side of "If it's publicly available info, it's free to access and repackage" but a lot of companies and judges feel otherwise.
I think you could. Contrary to most comments on this page, I do think that you should be able to write high-level code with "if" and "while" and have the compiler generate the hardware for you. Actually, that's what we (Synflow) are doing with our language. So you don't have to spend so much time learning Verilog/VHDL and typing all those Finite State Machines and scheduling next state processes and so on. Take a look at our website www.synflow.com and let us know what you think!
I'm not a developer working on Helpful [I also don't plan to start since I'm focused on other things] so I don't really feel comfortable debating it and trying to lobby for change.

I mainly look at Assembly as a nice idea I hope works out well for everyone involved.

Since you asked:

You are basically charging $200/month per agent [assuming 160 hrs/month and 1 conversation completed per hour of agent-time].

Random Competitor: http://freshdesk.com/pricing [$70/agent/month for all the features]

Realistically, someone would probably only pay for the $25/agent/month plan.

It seems you've gone the "Well, metered pricing is good for developers" route without considering the competition is priced cheaper and has a real marketing budget. While competing on price is generally what you don't want to do, charging almost 300% to 800% more for a similar product isn't something I see as financially viable as a business model.

Here is to hoping I'm wrong. :)
I have gmail open most of the time, but it rarely asks me to log in. It's only when I try to use other services that use recaptcha, or the rare occasions where I have to relog into google and mistype my password more than once. Last time that happened it locked me out of my account for 24 hours because I couldn't solve the captcha (although I could still access gmail on my phone).
Ah, the comments section is solid gold. Someone drops the real cause of the hate: "Since owning property is theft the landlord is not entitled to his stolen property."
Can't wait for the Emacs Lisp client library! (Wish I had time to work on that.)
Is there a way to launch a specific run/debug configuration using hotkeys now? Someone knows?