skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my edit. The only trails you will see are due to the rotation of the earth; not the movement of the plane.

EDIT: MATH: Assume the horizontal FOV is ~90 degrees (conservative according to Wikipedia). 30 (time) seconds around the Earth is (90/360)/(24x60x60/30) = 1/720 of that field. Meaning, you'd need a 720 px image to even see one PIXEL of blur due to the rotation of the Earth. The additional velocity of the plane contributes MUCH LESS than this; hence it is not visible.
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Glenn Greenwald has a lot of Powerpoint slides. Am I the only one who wants to see the source code for ICREACH, and all the other ALLCAPS projects?
is this a facebook app?
Interesting question. INAL but I would suggest it's not reasonable grounds for search.

Either way in this situation the defendant not only allowed the search but pointed out where to find the drugs.
Right, given that as yet no DNA from Kennewick Man is available, I believe it's implied that he may have been the product of intermingling between the theoretical first settlers and the later Bering settlers. No revision of land bridge migration dates would be needed.
i'm gonna keep posting here
I can't really think of any feasible way for the user to be only person who can initiate a remote shutdown.

(Sure, you can probably come up with some hypothetical scheme involving public key crypto, but we know they're not doing that, and if they did most users wouldn't be able to figure out how to kill their own phones either).

So, yeah, the technology is clearly going to be able to be used so the government (or really, the cell provider or anyone that can convince/force the provider company to do something) can shut down any cell phone, or even all cell phones in a given specified area (that is, currently in contact with specified access points). Of course, they could just shut down the towers too, maybe more likely to be used against selected numbers or lists of numbers.

Anyhow, that was my first thought too. On seeing the headline, I even first thought that was the _point_ of the legislation, you know for 'national security'.
even though it's dead
Chui Releases Video Focused on Creating Keyless, Secure, and Individualized
> But I suspect it's only a matter of time before the FBI/CIA/NSA (or local PD) will be able to unilaterally decide it's in the "public interest" to suddenly shut off every phone in a particular geofence.

This would be an ineffective way to accomplish that. They'd first have to make a list of all the phones in the target area, and then they'd have to send the lock commands to them, one by one.

Furthermore, even if they went through all that trouble, it only would work on smartphones. The bill does not apply to feature phones, other non-smartphone phones, laptops, or tablets. The bill defines a "smartphone" as a cellular radio telephone or other mobile voice communications handset that includes ALL of the following features:

• Utilizes a mobile operating system.

• Possess the capability to utilize mobile software applications, access and browse the Internet, utilize text messaging, utilize digital voice service, and send and receive email.

• Has wireless network connectivity.

• Is capable of operating on a long-term evolution network or successor wireless data network communications standards.

The bill explicitly says that "smartphone" does not "include a radio cellular telephone commonly referred to as a 'feature' or 'messaging' telephone, a laptop, a tablet device, or a device that only has electronic reading capability".

(Added in edit) Also, while the bill requires that smartphones be equipped with this and that it be on by default, the bill does NOT require that it stay on. Apple's iOS 7 kill switch lets the user turn it off, and I believe that is what Samsung plans to do. People going to protests or other events where they think authorities may try to disrupt communications can simply turn off the kill switch before arriving at the protest.

It would be much more effective to silence a particular area by doing something at the cell tower layer or higher.

> I have a hard time believing that stolen phones are a big enough social problem to warrant a mandate of this scope

Stolen phones account for half of all robberies in San Francisco. In New York, they are 20% and rapidly rising. It's the #1 property crime nationwide, accounting for 1/3 of all property crime. In half of the San Francisco incidents the victims are punched, kicked, or physically intimidated, and in a quarter of them they are threatened with a gun or knife.

That sure seems like a big enough problem to me to try to do something about. We also know that kill switches are effective. In the first five months after Apple put in a kill switch, iPhone thefts dropped 38% in San Francisco, 24% in London, and 19% in New York. We know this wasn't just due to a general lowing of crime rates, because in the same time period overall New York theft went down 10%, and Samsung phone theft went up 40%.
How is this happening? I thought the rule of thumb was $100mm/yr run rate and profitable before IPO, now. This business violates all of that.
It's actually very possible to capture that with some crude stabilization considering that his aircraft was moving towards the area he was photographing instead of laterally. (You would get a much-more pronounced motion blur of the foreground otherwise)

Just to be sure, I ran the watermarked "original" through FotoForensics:

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=847c810d887372384b2...

There's some artifacts around the area but the overall pattern of the noise seems to check out. The EXIF data is also still intact (albeit processed through Photoshop), he'd have to be somewhat committed to forge that as well.
This picture's watermark claims it was a 30 second exposure: http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/image/157113240
Police don't investigate stolen phones.
> Languages don't matter. Platforms matter. APIs matter. Playing nicely with the rest of the world fucking matters. Common Lisp wouldn't.

this. playing with CL inside CL is fun and nice. As soon as you try to interface with the outside world, and actually do almost anything you run into trouble. I mean an FS api that was designed before we solidified on hierarchical filesystems? Lisp does not play nice or well or easily with the outside environment it is running on. (in my experience)

it can be an ugly language, but if it has all the libraries, then you can get so much more done so much quicker with so much work done for you, people will go there.

Again, some little progress has started with things like quicklisp finally starting to provide a better (or first proper) package management system for CL like most newer languages have all had, but still. little and late. But given time and work maybe resuscitateable. We'll see
Ooh, ooh, and how long until someone hacks into the cell phone network in order to have the power to 'kill' others phones. Chinese army hackers? Sounds like something that would appeal to them. And lots of other people.

But maybe there could be a succesful campaign against this on 'national security' grounds, it makes our communications network less secure, chinese army hackers are gonna get into it and kill peoples phones! Meh, probably would not work.
"GlassWire is not compatible with this Operating System."

XP x64
Yep, makes sense. Would be great to know if we could skip the test for people over age X, but maybe just making it expensive for people under that age is a good idea.
So, they'd have to, you know... actually have revenue in excess of their expenditures? Shocking!
This helps explain VMware's vision behind the partnership.

http://cto.vmware.com/vmware-docker-better-together/
Turn database table into a CRUD documentation API application with one line
You can get rackspace startup credit without joining any accelerator. Use this link:

https://www.f6s.com/rackspacestartupprogramapplication

They usually reply in 1 business day for these applications.
Wouldn't it be beautiful to see kids grow their own produce in a very fast, efficient way without herbicides or pesticides. Schools who have some of the best teachers throughout the United States are doing just that with www.TheTowerGardens.com it is an aeroponic/hydroponic system that allows you to grow vertically, so that you can grow a tremendous amount of produce in a small space. Tower Gardens grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs vertically with no soil, just air, water and food base minerals. Tower Garden™ is more nutritious than almost any conventional or organic produce commercially available.
Grow in your backyard, year round, and “there is no weeding, tilling, kneeling, or getting dirty!
Kaiser offers some reasonable plans for simple coverage. Depending on your age and health you could get it for less than 250 a month.
Yes and no. Lying in routine questioning isn't obstruction of justice until an investigation is underway. It would fall under the right to not self-incriminate otherwise a cop could just walk the street and ask everyone "do you smoke pot?". You also have the right not to self incriminate on an obstruction of justice charge!

Basically the closer you get to a jury and a judge the worse the charge for lying is. So if lying stands a good chance of keeping you far far away, you lie your ass off.
And yet the legal age of drinking is magically 21 in the entire country. That one really makes my head spin.
Viral marketing for Cloverfield 2 or Pacific Rim 2?
Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
This is so gorgeous.
>>> As already pointed out in another comment, don't volunteer that you have pot on you. At least make 'em work for it. Oh, you were thinking they were going to go easier on you? It doesn't work that way.

Actually it does.

I've had several incidents in states where medical marijuana is legal, but you have to have a card. Possession without the card is illegal. Both times we were up front with the cop and he thanked us for being honest. He only gave us a citation for a fine, confiscated our weed and then sent us on our way.

Or you can "make em' work for it" like you said. You can bet the cops are not only going to get you on the possession, but then you get arrested and now if you're driving and you test positive for THC, now you're looking at an impaired driving or driving under the influence, which can get you reckless driving or reckless endangerment if you had passengers. If you were a real douche to them, then they start looking at obstruction or impeding an investigation. Sure, if you get yourself a decent lawyer, most of those charges could be dropped, but that doesn't change the fact you spent a few nights in jail, had to post bond and now have a court date and now have to explain to your employer why you missed three days of work.

Trust me, it's always better to cooperate with the cops. Being a dick is just going to get you more trouble.
agile development in beego, nice one!
The challenge hubspot and some related business face is heavy reliance on service. In their case, it seems like most of the business is "coaches" to help SMBs with their content/inbound marketing. The amount of software/technology behind it is questionable.

Seems like the investment strategy is to go long within the first 60-90 days and then dump it once the public markets get hip.
In Japan? Just take them to the nearest koban (police box). Should be one within a few hundred meters in a city. Whether loser or finder, the entire population is conditioned to use this process, so it works.
A million dollars isn't cool. Know what's cool? A billion dollars.
People are strange. Watch debates about rent control and skilled immigration for similar arguments.
It is a 13 year old OS.
There is a difference between not cooperating and being a dick. You can do the former politely and not incriminate yourself.
It seems to be likely that 1.0 will hit before this really holds true. In Beta 6 I'm told you can easily crash the compiler with recursive generic ADTs and most have to travel "through" some heap type to compile at all.

Furthermore, Swift doesn't support enough laziness/deferral/coalgebraic formulation to have, say, an infinite stream type without breaking GCD. These will probably be fixed in time, but Swift's ADT support is still pretty experimental to say the least.
To provide another data point: I never visit mainstream news websites or tv stations. I visit Twitch almost every day.
The PYXIS spatial indexing scheme takes a similar approach, with a few interesting advantages (and undoubtedly some consequent disadvantages to go with them).

http://www.pyxisinnovation.com/pyxwiki/index.php?title=How_P...

Once you get past the inexplicably florid and fervent language (it's a spatial indexing scheme, guys—not a holy revelation!) there are a couple of cool qualities that stand out to me:

- The distribution of indices is very even over the globe. Yes, this scheme is specifically suited to indexing space on a globe, and not much else.

- You can be arbitrarily precise by specifying a longer index. Truncating that index just makes it less precise. A major benefit that springs to mind here is the ease with which you could then query for overlapping indices.

- Subdividing space by placing child indices at both cell vertices and centroids means there is always overlap between cells at neighbouring resolutions. Whilst this does make the scheme a tad inefficient in terms of storage (which may or may not be the most important detail depending on your application) it has the really neat consequence that any area smaller than a continent is guaranteed to fit wholly within a single index at some resolution. Schemes that avoid overlapping indices or coordinates for the sake of efficiency can never have this property.

(I stumbled upon PYXIS while looking for an addressing scheme to rip off for a game project I was working on years ago. Ultimately I decided that PYXIS was not well-suited to my needs and took a much simpler approach, but its novelty stuck it firmly in my mind anyway.)
I do ... and I post on http://dylanfoundry.org/.

I don't usually bother to post them on HN as I don't have the time to try to get something on the front page (otherwise, no attention). I do post them on r/lisp though or lobste.rs usually.

I've got a couple of posts in draft stage now that I hope to publish this week or next.
My publisher also provided most of the above (extensive copyediting, developmental editing, and technical review). Given how niche the market is, I'm quite happy with sales so far. As far as marketing goes, it's hard for me to tell as an author how extensive the support has been.

I guess you're selling so many copies of each book (and based on your watchwords) by being quite selective about what titles you publish?

For the record, I do think my book is great but writing a book is not black and white - it's such a big endeavor that there is generally more than one motivation. I also didn't want to self call.
I don't think everyone knew how to implement lambada properly, but the calculus was clear enough. Hell, the original calculus was both lexical and substructural!
> I'm sure there are some real a@#holes participating and running these scams but often the people on the ground are just human beings who have no other way to earn money.

So the bot is probably a better idea than targeted humiliation. Making crime quietly unprofitable is a good thing.

(You can help with Nigerian development, eg by giving to Doctors without Borders or other approaches.)
Seems like a pretty good idea. It's kinda weird that no such technology exists for cars actually.
Rich in this case i think means above poverty level and can afford gyms and time to exercise. As opposed to someone busy all the time meeting the basic needs
You caught where he said, '... though states rights have been weakened over time..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...

"The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed on July 17, 1984 by the United States Congress. It punished every state that allowed persons below 21 years to purchase and publicly possess alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by ten percent."
Idaho is a very pretty state, especially the northern regions, and I have been very happy with my vacation time spent there. Have you ever heard of the Idaho National Laboratory? They study cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Or how about the advanced manufacturing and electronics facilities in Boise? There's lots of reasons to go to Idaho.
I don't understand how, with an 8s exposure from a moving vehicle, the photos have perfect stars. There should be streaking.
thanks for the Comment guys. I'm concerned because I'm reasonably active and do get minor injuries sometimes at BJJ, which is my main outlet for exercise.

I'm 24, male, living in the bay area. Any rough estimates on how much COBRA would cost?
Books seem like an old-fashioned way to teach programming. Wouldn't it make sense to create more interactive content so readers/users can try out the code as they go along? I think this is definitely true for beginners learning programming, but shouldn't it also apply to many cases of more advanced programming knowledge?

My plug:
My site http://www.learneroo.com has educational modules primarily for beginners learning programming, but I'm thinking of expanding it to more advanced topics. Anyone interested in publishing their content on it?
I hope I'm wrong, and apologies in advance if I am, but this seems like a disguised attempt to get some attention from your previously deleted posts where you mention the business name in the title. I had a look through your comments and 24 days ago I saw comments that make me question the growth and motive to this post. E.g.;

"Finished the mvp and would love you guys' feedback on the idea/initial reaction of the home page. See potential?"

"I'm looking for 100 beta users...."

I doubt you've had that much growth in 24 days especially as server space tends to be fairly reasonably priced these days.

Perhaps you dont know about HN's show area where you are allowed to openly post about your business: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
I'm 24, male, living in the bay area. Any rough estimates on how much COBRA would cost?
I, myself didnt have any programming experience, and took an online rails bootcamp, graduated and got a job from a fortune 50 company as a SW engineer. I was able to ramp up with the codebase relatively quickly and committing/completing user stories in weeks. I did all those tutorials you can think of...code school, code academy, coursera(that rotten potatoes app), and the one I took had a lot of structure and built a production worth app as the main course, all through TDD, capybara, factories, stripe payment integration. The instructors were focused on teaching how to build shippable code. Comapleting the course,and writing a kickass readme files on your github projects, should land you some interviews. Of course, i had to go above and beyond to get past recruiters, who focus on rails experience only...
This is one of the all-time great exploit writeups.
Running some rough numbers:

If a 10mm lens can capture ~120° angle of view, then the image at 1024 px (low quality) represents 0.117° per pixel. In the 30s exposure, there is < 3 px represented by many stars, so that's 0.351° of tolerance.

How often have you flown in an airplane with less than 1/3 of a degree of drift on any axis over 30 seconds?

Yes, I'm quite familiar with the rotation of the earth and its effects on long exposures (I do some astrophotography myself). I'm not referring to that here, but rather to the normal instability of an airplane.

EDIT: I'm not just referring to pitch, but also to roll, yaw and vibration.
The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) (2006)
Hi. I'm Josh, the original author. Sorry, I didn't realize someone posted this to HackerNews. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

I've also posted a follow up to my blog, this time focusing on fonts.

http://joshondesign.com/2014/08/25/typopl2
Would be able to help if knew what the business is about?
See my explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8225519

(TLDR: consider (a) how the moon does not appear to move when viewed from a car moving in a straight line, and (b) that the surface of the Earth is constantly moving at ~1,000 MPH.)
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An 8s exposure with a 10mm lens will not show trails at the resolutions shown there.
No, planes don't rotate much when flying - it would be inefficient. Also, it is using a 10mm lens.
They're not as secretive as Apple. We use AWS and I'm often talking to our account manager or support, and they're always talking about upcoming products and features in the pipeline. They just don't give ETAs, which is sensible, to ensure customers aren't banking on feature X being available on date Y.

They also advertise some of their working practices when it benefits them (eg datacentre physical staff don't have logical access), but to be honest, there aren't a lot of big companies out there that openly advertise their internal processes. They're also being extremely open about wanting to be The Middle Man when it comes to cloud, nothing stealthy about it at all. I just went to a free AWS summit, where the VP giving the keynote said as much - how is it possible to accuse them of secrecy when they paid for a big venue for me to visit, just in order to tell me exactly that factoid?

They are worth watching due to monopolistic concerns, sure, but there's so much FUD out there about them.
There are any number of bots trading and arbitraging on the bitcoin exchanges. I've helped someone write one myself.
Federal Republic of Germany. Just `Germany' is roughly equivalent to saying just `America'. As an example, education is in the purview of the German states. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism_in_Germany

Canada also has a federal system. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federalism
Why don't you take your time doing outside backend projects ? Spend less time for the company you are working and more time for your own backend enjoyable projects. It's not like they fire you at the point, just take things slowly at work and try to focus your own projects which you enjoy.
They are two different pictures.
Turns out that stars are really friggin' far away, so with a nice steady plane and some stabilization equipment, you're not going to get enough parallax for streaking to occur.
Earthquake Alarm: Impending earthquakes have been sending us warning signals--and people are starting to listen

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/earthquake-alarm

"A light or glow in the sky sometimes heralds a big earthquake. On 17 January 1995, for example, there were 23 reported sightings in Kobe, Japan, of a white, blue, or orange light extending some 200 meters in the air and spreading 1 to 8 kilometers across the ground. Hours later a 6.9-magnitude earthquake killed more than 5500 people..."
The hubble moves significantly faster than an aircraft and takes exposures significantly longer than 8seconds.
The French Government Has Collapsed, and It's Partly Paul Krugman's Fault
"Operations" as opposed to "engineering" for systems admin.

The "DevOps revolution" is predicated around increasing the amount of automation involved with ops, though in my experience that's 1) simply a continuation of long-time best practices and 2) often frustrated by the non-programmable tools employed in some "DevOps" tools (e.g., RightScale, which utterly lacks scriptability).

More on RightScale, FWIW, somewhat dated, though it matches my own experience and impressions:

http://www.codelord.net/2011/07/27/why-i-regret-choosing-rig...
To the contrary, I am worried that if I work any less, they will fire me.

I get into work at 7:00 AM every morning to an empty office. Others join me around three hours later, but I understand that since nobody sees me come in there is a misconception about the hours that I work. I leave at 7:00 PM.

I would like to write a Python interpreter in Python, though. That sounds like a lot of fun. :)