skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the (brief and possibly outdated) Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotopedia they support CC licenses so that the photography can be used on e.g. Wikipedia and vice-versa.

And public posts in a public forum are usually considered fair game, especially for non-profit archives. Archive.org has a long history of legally defending this, although they do respect polite takedown requests and robots.txt. http://www.fotopedia.com/robots.txt
You aren't addressing programmers who want to know why their side projects and startup ideas are never getting off the ground. "Maybe it's because you're playing too many video games" would be a reasonable thing to say to that audience.

You are instead addressing any and all programmers, and are assuming they all want what you want. I hope you realize how off-putting this is to the people who are just fine with working in a "safe" job and chipping away at their 401k and playing with their kids/TVs/Xbox for 15 hours a week.
Is this the stuff Miklos Borbas was working on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbOc6R-95kk
Sorry for the confusion. It's not in beta yet. No one is using it and it's not quite ready. The list is for when that opens up, and we will be liberal about letting people in.
Amazon Appstore Expands into 41 New Countries
Makemove – Thinkers and makers matchmaking
I know conservatives don't like Krugman, but the man didn't win a Nobel for nothing, and linking a two year old article is simply misleading.
Volcanoes, Tree Rings, and Climate Models: This is how science works
Two months ago I decided to change the status quo with regard to the access to message encryption using the OpenPGP open protocol in iPhone...
>two independent organisations

Sorry, but one of them being Chinese, I would say that there is only one reliable source, and the chances that they made a mistake are high.
The goal of speeding tickets is revenue generation not lowering speeds. It's essentially random taxation on people who drive quickly.

Because of that they need mobile, disguisable, hand held units. Video from a handheld unit wouldn't be great for determining speed.

Now, they could easily create combination LIDAR-Video boxes and mount them above traffic for clear speed calculations. But then people would learn where they are and drive slowly at that location so it wouldn't generate any revenue.

In fact it might actually cause accidents because drivers might slam on the breaks when they get close.
Already talking to Jason/ArchiveTeam about it.
Why should the price I paid for the bond give me different incentives? It's only the future cash flows scenarios which are relevant to my decision-making. What I paid is a sunk cost, and doesn't affect my possible actions or payoffs in the future.

(I'm assuming that I wasn't bankrupted due to the price I paid, and that I am a professional investor rather than an emotional gambler)
So they're put off. So what? The strong impression I have is that they aren't the people whom the author is addressing, in any case.
Who is this article really for? If you want to work for a "safe" company and bring in a good salary and benefits, then go for it. If you want to take the risk and work for a startup, you can do that too! We all value different things and we will seek what interests us the most.

> A fulfilled life is inherently a risky one

Is it really? Is that necessarily true for everyone?
> a way that's as fair as possible to everyone involved, rather than going by the strict letter of every contract document.

Presumably, this is in place to keep colluding with judges who will interpret your claim "fairly", for a fee, to a minimum, as well as mitigate the hedge against those who defend contract discrepancies with "Well, that's what we meant", when in fact, that was neither what was meant or ever said.

The Halbig decision bears on this matter. There's a law, which is effectively a contract, and the IRS attempted to interpret it how they needed to to make the ACA work. What this means now is, right or wrong, that we have a group of Senators and Representatives who voted on a law to be enacted as it was written, and when that was no longer viable, they simply 'interpreted' the text of the law to mean something new so that it could work.

Ignoring who's right or who is wrong, some additional lawyering up front would have prevented this, but that was not done because it would not have been politically expedient. Contracts are a way of keeping people fair. If the contract is written in a way that isn't fair, then it would be unenforceable regardless of how well it was written, so that 'fairness' is built in to contract law already.
In the context of a sovereign debt default, this is trivial.
The fundamental reason is because drivers feel entitled to speed and most voters are drivers. People with expensive cars further believe they've paid for the privilege of violating more laws more often, and those people are also more influential in policy setting.

There are lots of expressions of this fundamental reason, such as people throwing a fit about automated license plate reading in the name of privacy. But our all boils down to the fact that a person turns into a sociopathic scofflaw as soon as he gets behind the wheel.
I think the issue is, I disagree with the morality of the bondholder's cause and the negative impact it creates on other bondholders.

You don't seem to realize that is why I'm complaining. >.>
In Ireland we have a system where you can contest any of these automated fines in court. The problem is that the fines and penalty points double should you contest and lose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_points_in_Ireland
Sigh. Argentina is currently a democracy and has been one since the early 80s after our last military dictatorship. We are not a warlike country. Any issue with the Malvinas Islands is being handled via diplomacy. Please stop spreading mindless FUD.
That's a pretty short summary of a 44 page document. Can you elaborate a little more?
To answer your first question: There exists a great number of programmable keyboards that are, frankly, awesome. I used to use a Fingerworks TouchStream LP keyboard that let you program the hell out of it. It was great... I had macros that would auto-type all sorts of handy things like my username, email address, etc. You could also program mouse movements into the thing.

It supported ten finger gestures so basically the sky was the limit in terms of what you could program it to do. It had only one flaw: There was no tactile feedback so it was easy for your hands to get out-of-alignment resulting in incorrect characters being typed pretty often. On the other hand it was much faster to move the cursor around than a regular keyboard so correcting mistakes was less of a hassle.
I think more developers should "have a spine" by telling their employers that they refuse to work more than 40 hours a week. That's where the industry needs to grow a spine. You started off on the right track with this line "I hope it includes the people you helped, the children you raised, the spouse you loved dearly," and I was rooting for this article. But then you completely derailed and made the whole article about developers being spineless by not taking on more work at a greater risk. Maybe you will make something great at work and maybe it will out last your life, but most likely, it will not. Do what you enjoy all the time and try to give happiness to others whenever you can. If you don't want to take a job because it is too risky, then don't. But the real problem with spineless developers are those that take on 60-80-100 hour weeks when they really don't want to because they are too spineless to say no.
Should Yelp Really Be Complaining About Google?
Well, I personally just read a lot of stuff over this summer and found certain things that interested me. When I found something cool, I read more about it, and tried to think of some stuff to build in that language/framework/toolkit.

You should do the same. Just read about what's out there, and you'll find something that you really think is awesome. Then you'll be motivated to do some coding!

There's tangible benefits to this too - for me, I reached out to a professor to help out with his research in an area that I found particularly interesting (computer graphics). Just ask around!
>If I should instead shape every contract with a 20% hedge that assumes the counter party will not keep their word, doesn't that introduce a significant amount of inefficiency in the entire system.

Of course it does and it should, because there is real risks involved. Banks make their money by evaluating risks correctly.

>For systemic risk to be properly moderated, the individuals or even individual counties must suffer the consequences of their actions. You can opt to not allow this, but you ultimately suffer as a whole when you do.

This would only work if the parties involved would be fully rational. As long as you have imperfect actors with limited information that have limited ability to learn lessons, optimum way to limit the risk for borrower is by bankruptcy laws and procedures so that everyone involved knows the risks.

There was solid international effort to deal with the situation during the Argentine Great Depression and IMF was involved in making the deal. Because there is no bankruptcy law for countries, it was impossible to negotiate bankruptcy deal for Argentine that would bind everyone. These hedge funds are exploiting this. Going forward, we should make example of them. If majority of debtors agree, better to take the deal. This would generate de facto bankruptcy procedure.
I'm not a programmer, but I do know that there's a reason people watch TV and do other "useless" things, and that is because it's not work. People need balance. Personally I prefer going for a walk or writing, but hey, each their thing.
I know in Bangkok, its a lot of tourists that ride the Tuk Tuks, maybe its the same thing in rickshaws?
The default outcome of a lifestyle business is a lot closer to this than a patio11 style runaway success.

Maybe this is a matter of perspective, but I don't consider my business a runaway freight train. There exist many, many, many businesses in your town which make more than I do.

I know literally hundreds of people who have businesses which are roughly similar (consultancies / SaaS shops / infoproducts / etc, created without substantial non-founder investment), and believe me when I say this, I neither optimize for nor have achieved an unattainably high watermark.
DBpedia appears to have historical data extracted from Wikipedia, not sure how usable it is: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1205/1205.4138.pdf

Found a UI demo & thesis project for DBpedia GIS: http://latemar.science.unitn.it/spacetime/usecase.html &
http://latemar.science.unitn.it/spacetime/FabioValsecchi-the...
The Mobile Web should just work for everyone
I have so many angry thoughts running in my head, but I can only sum them up by saying that the author very clearly has a hole somewhere in his life that he needs to fill by projecting his narrow viewpoint on others, and that subsequently this blog post is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
Well, not passing judgement for or against, but these holdouts _also_ bought the bonds at less than face value.
Of coz, i am not saying it is bad to have it built. And all the advantage of local workforce you mention. I am just not getting the business and technical / tactical advantage of it.
Because they already defaulted in 2001 and got into a spat with the IMF and various investors from western nations who tried to capitalize on their misfortune.

In Krugman's mind, Argentina is disparaged because they don't really want to be part of the western "system" of investment in the national resources of South American nations by developed powers.
Same. They rapidly went from one of my favourite companies in the world (they were unbelievable in the late nineties into the early 2000s) to a total farce. Today we still use them as a secondary, mainly b/c we're working on other things, and their London data centre is beyond horrible, their customer service nonexistent, and everything is slow, expensive, and always breaking compared to others.
Their tone isn't working for them. Even worse, it looks like their target demographic is only males, which reinforces the stereotype that tech workers are not only all male, but also 'slobs'.
It depends how old the field is. Around villages you can see very irregular fields that are very old. But a lot of the larger fields have straighter boundaries as a result of intentional enclosure. In lowlying parts a lot of the land is drained, and smaller drainage channels will follow straight lines.
Preventing the Dogpile Effect – Problem and Solution
In the majority of physical experiments doing a blind test is not that helpful, since it will not change the physical data. It can happen that blind testing is helpful, but most of the time it is a sign that the protocol or equipment needs to improved.

Most of the time bias creeps in at the analysis stage. In my experience. Deciding what data to keep and what to reject, deciding which fitting algorithm is working correctly, etc.
Tea startup's Bitcoin stolen, then it got the hacker to return most of it
If the bar is loading a vulnerable driver, Linux has a lot of drivers for uncommon devices in-tree. Sure, they are open and largely not written by hardware manufacturers, but I bet some of them are vulnerable to malicious hardware.
This reminds me of the old "Good is the enemy to great" saying.

The author's thoughts rang very true to me. As programmers, it's true, times are good, salaries are high, employment is easy to come by. Sometimes I can't believe how much "easer" it is to live on compared to my non-tech friends & neighbors. But at the same time, that benefit it the worst drawback.

I am that programmer he is talking to. Even though, in the past I have started my own company, and have worked at "scary, early stage startups", I now have a good job, good pay, and I have been the one who has turned down interesting, challenging, fun-sounding opportunities because of "the risk", the "uncertainty".

I miss those days of being fully engaged in what you are building, waking up thinking about the problem, coming up with the solution while you are in the shower. and building it that day.

I guess if I am trying to say anything, it is that maybe we need to reassess the proper kind "risk" as being a plus instead of a negative. Certainly there are are dumb risks, and startups that might make a ton of money but would not be worth thinking about in the shower, or give you that "I'm making the world better" feeling. But the risk of doing something you love, having to give it all you've got, knowing that if you don't build this, no one else will, and that the world will be a better place with it? That's not risk, that's happiness, which is what I'd be spending my money on anyways.
Flagged, this is a shallow self-promo article.
I've never heard of that way of handling acronyms before.

The site is WIRED UK. Maybe it's a UK thing?

My first reaction was, "That's not how you write NASA; This author/editor is an idiot. How can I trust anything they've written here?" I doubt that's the reaction they want.

Now I just feel sorry for the author whose writing is forced to look weird to many readers.

Over time, maybe people will just come to recognize it as "a British thing" just like they recognize aluminium as the British spelling.
Snowden's temporary asylum status expires in Russia
> My argument is that you'll need better developers who cost more money.

Frankly I wouldn't want a developer who's too dumb to learn OCaml anywhere near my production code. Is this thing new? Yes. Will developers take time (=your money) to get up to speed on it? Yes. But do you need "better" developers, long-term? I don't think so.

> Not only that, but you're making the project more complicated. i.e if the project is to create x, then you have to also create y first and, it's harder to debug.

Maybe a valid concern, but I remember very similar arguments from C++ programmers in the early days of the JVM. Turns out the JVM is rock-solid and nowadays has better debugging tools than those for C++. There's no reason that couldn't be true for this approach. Or if it's easy to make a multi-target project that builds both a linux binary and a unikernel image, then debugging would be no harder than it is for existing OCaml code.

> and you've also got the added overhead of running xen.

If you're already running linux-in-xen then this is reducing overhead. Even if you're not, it could still improve overall performance by reducing context switching, in the same way as user-mode networking stacks.

> it's a nice trick, but it's not very practical, because if it was practice we'd all be using dos for our vms

This sounds rather like "this can't be a good idea because if it was we'd have it already". It's only in the last few years that xen and the "cloud" approach have become so popular, so a lot of new ideas and approaches are still being found.
With all due respect, these arguments belie the law.

If this were a case of leders screwing over the people by having governments re-write laws (see: student loans) perhaps more sympathy would be in order.

This is a case where the borrowers have tried to disregard US law, in its entirety.

In that respect, I'm not sure there is anything bad to imply about the hedge funds who simply made bets on the integrity of US Law.

The president of Argentina obviously has her own view and interest at stake, as well.
Yeah, I read this I hope you didn’t work a safe job, at a safe company, in a safe industry for your entire life. And just thought "Thanks, fuck you too." Maybe I don't feel like screwing up after taking on ridiculous amounts of risk and then being a burden on society cause I don't have any money.
And I got downvoted for asking a valid question.
Are you saying that no good science can be made in China purely because it's China? USSR sometimes lied about their results,but they had scientists just as good as the US did. I have little doubt that good science can be done in China too.
He starts by chastising all developers, coders, and programmers that aren't into the idea of being entrepreneurs.

The thesis of the article is basically:

1. You're wrong to be happy with your non-entreprenuereal career

2. You're wrong if you aren't trying really hard to become an entrepreneur

This is a very dickish piece.
They are assigned names and numbers. You have as much ownership over a domain as you do over the name of the street your home is on. Given the importance of assigned names and numbers to business, similar to trademarks, you have a certain amount of administrative control and protection against arbitrary reassignment.

Think about this: (800) 588-2300. Some of you reading this will automatically and involuntarily hear the end of the jingle: "Empiiiire." That number is not owned. It has just been continuously in use by the same company for decades.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That address is not owned. It's just how the USPS identifies the White House mailbox.

Changing assignments for a TLD makes about as much sense as renaming the postal code for California from CA to QM, or assigning the 777 area code to any place in the US other than the Las Vegas Strip. That code isn't even in use yet.

It's not about ownership, its about making sense and being intuitive for people trying to find the information they need. Purposefully ruining the addressing system for information is as much a dick move as heading to the public library and demolishing their card catalog terminals with a fireman's axe just because you don't want people to be able to check out any copies of a certain book.
I think all he way trying to say that there are ways that a LIDAR gun could give a false reading, and there's no current incentive for law enforcement/manufacturers to ensure accuracy. In fact there's an incentive for both the manufacturer to emphasise accuracy based on successful prosecutions, and for police to emphasise accuracy to prevent large-scale contesting of tickets.

They are used for law-enforcement, but presumably aren't available for public scrutiny, especially around 'proprietary' algorithms. As mentioned, they can get firmware updates that change behaviour, yet that doesn't make it out into "does this mean it was mis-behaving before, therefore I should dismiss tickets issued in situation X".

It's similar in some ways to vote counting machines. If they are used in public elections, then the inner workings should be available for introspection to ensure correctness.
Its just extortion, not even law enforcement.

"We saw you do this, pay us $50 and it goes away. No insurance report, no evidence, nobody knows."

Law enforcement does this all the time, so does the mob. Its not even worth it to fight it (economic speaking), the time you'll spend out of work, stressed, etc. Then if you get a lawyer involved. You'll end up spending >$300 in time and money to not spend $50.
Ah, that makes better sense, but that's probably not a remote capability, just a check on the milage in the charger.
I know him as the author of the awesome "Effective Java"
"I hope you took some risks. I hope you tried something new. I hope you learned much more than what college taught you".

I was deeply impressed by Paddy Ashdown's biography (former leader of UK's Liberal Democrats). He joined the Royal Marines at 18, served as an officer seeing combat in Malaya and the Middle East, joined the SBS, spent 2 and half years learning Chinese in Hong Kong "immersed" in the local culture, joined MI6, spent 7 years of immensely hard effort (some of it while scraping through while unemployed or dead end jobs) becoming an MP, became leader of his party, helped in the conflict in Bosnia (with a multi-million dollar price on his head)....

Even though I've co-founded a VC founded startup and worked at other startups I felt distinctly risk-adverse after reading about all of that. After all, anything you do while sitting at a desk using a PC can't be that risky....
If you turn into a junction and a pedestrian is already crossing you are required to wait. It will be interesting to see how pedestrians change as a result of this. I would be much less likely to wait for cars if I know for certain that they will let me cross safely. It may make urban areas more pleasent if cars are consistantly safe.
Sounds ok, but think about the pain of that for the creators? not to mention continuing costs. I do not think there is a perfect answer, but maybe the 'community' should come up with a largely agreed upon time and call it something descriptive and recognizable...
The main point is okay. Dull, heard many times, but okay.

The delivery (and I'm not just talking about the incompetent CSS) is horrible.
Never heard of it before, I do like the map feature which is showing you pictures close to your location. [0] How were they going to monetize it? I can't find any information on the site but I think exposure.co's [1] pricing is pretty good. It's pretty much the same business (I don't know about Fotopedia's story editor but the one exposure is using is amazing) and they are charging for it.

[0] http://www.fotopedia.com/reporter/map

[1] https://exposure.co/
What was the original intended business model of Fotopedia?
"6. Find innovative ways to create dignified jobs for young people."

Hmm... I hope he's not suggesting a job guarantee.
Gas fired combi boilers (with centrally heated [pumped] cycling water) are pretty much the default in the UK. I've never seen one that didn't have output temp adjustments. I'd imagine that set highest (which should reach thermostat set target temp fastest) would produce greatest flue losses but I'm speculating there.