skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the kind words about the site! I would disagree that American's are "not so celeb-crazy." I think many American's are very in tune with celebrities. Not just their clothing, but every aspect of their life. Though some people might not want to duplicate an exact look, we feel many are looking to celebs for the latest fashion inspiration. Thanks again!
How was Singh caught? He was asked to come to the Taxi and Limo Commission.

You could probably have called him to come to the DMV and get the same result. If the man wasn't afraid to come to the Commission, I'm pretty sure he wasn't that difficult to find.

Chung was caught because the victim called 911 who tracked him through his dispatch records.

I don't know where you read that, because the company said he wasn't working for them anymore.

The livery and identification of their jobs significantly narrowed down the search from "person with car" to "cab #xxxx".

It's called a license plate, every car has one, taxi or not.

There's very good reasons why these guidelines are the way they are. What do you suppose those reasons are?

Well, duh. Obviously when you have a mixed of regulated and unregulated taxis, criminals will prefer the second system.

But the reasoning error you're committing is that you're taking the assumptions of the regulated system - that every taxi should be treated the same - to the unregulated system, which is specious.

In an unregulated system, people would have to stop relying on this implicit assumption and make better judgment calls. Instead of entering on random cars that happened to be painted with the right colors and marks, which is a terrible authentication system¹, they'd need other - better - systems, like using an app that can verify the driver status in real time and record the client's location - possibly even during the ride.

¹ see Chung's case, which wasn't even an employed driver at the time, and "should" have removed the markings, for how well that work.
My thought exactly. It is trivial to implement viglink - do it now.
That's slightly better but the size of these robots is what kills their use. So many times there's not even half the size of these robots between a table and a wall in Japan, they just won't fit there. Dyson should really do more market research before they think they can disrupt the market with basically the same form factor as the other brands. I don't have hard data but my guess is that most people are far from being satisfied with these cleaning robots.
Other way round: the C language after optimisation is unpredictable, which makes it hard to write secure system software.

You don't expect to write sound-looking code and have it broken for you by the optimiser.
Verbally asserting your rights or non-cooperation, while being physically non-threatening and compliant, is the right solution, generally.

"No, officer, I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.", said repeatedly, makes it much more clear in court later that the search, which may have been conducted without reasonable suspicion, was also done without consent, and thus the evidence is inadmissible. You're still probably going to jail if they find a suitcase of contraband while searching the car, but jail > conviction.
> on C11 […] you can use the memset_s function

How is the case for modern C++? Are there `vector` or smart pointer alternatives that reliably zero the memory in the destructor?
I don't really agree with that part of the test setup. The mass and springiness of the battery versus the slug dropped mask the fact that this is a double spring setup, there is also still the bottom of the battery contacting the base it all sits on so you can expect some of the bounce to be transferred to the battery which would not jump a whole lot. So at a minimum there would have to be a hard connection (clamped or glued in place or something like that) between the base and the battery to compensate for that.
For me smart watches currently seem like tablets before the iPad. There's something not quite right about them but it's hard to pinpoint. I'm hoping that Apple is going to come along and fix that next week. Being their first new product category in 4 years I'm guessing than they've spent a lot longer working on it that LG/Motorola have. Of course I could be completely wrong.
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This is the same size/resolution as what a 27" Retina Thunderbolt Display would be.
Thanks for checking out the site. We are regularly adding celebrities from all demographics. Stay tuned!
And people will call them, how? The problem with the current system is that people are bullshitted to believe that any car with the right color is "safe". Eliminate this regulated and flawed "authentication" and people won't just enter some random dude's car.
Stop testing my faith.
Yes, at the price of $13.
http://www.cnet.com/news/xiaomi-to-sell-its-13-fitness-band-...
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I think the stock would run out much faster than fashion would change. Also, there are probably 4 or 5 retailers selling similar items; you want your affiliate links to spread the load over those sites so as not to kill any of them quickly.

Of course, all this assumes your site explodes and you help sell thousands of outfits per day; which sounds unlikely to programmers, but maybe not for the people who buy all those awful magazines that are more popular than Linux Voice.
Unity's one edge was the marketplace. Now that is going to disappear, UE4 is a superior engine.
"independence, whether just greater autonomy or full independence, would have been able to capture the ethnic Ukrainian and Tatar vote"

Yes it's possible to vote for greater autonomy, but how to make sure it is granted? Crimea has already voted this greater autonomy in the 90s - and it was promptly ignored by Ukraine.

Regarding independence - why would Crimean Ukrainians vote for it? They are content being part of Ukraine.
Why would Tatars vote for independence of tiny state where they will still be a minority, maybe even the persecuted minority. Much safer bet is any stable large state.
Why would Russians vote for independence? They don't consider themself "Crimeans", rather they consider themself Russians.

"which is what the world expected and why everyone was so shocked by the annexation"

You see the problem right here. World expects independent puppet states to be created, because that's how it works in the modern world. But this arrangement will be harmful to actual people living in Crimea. And that's what matters here.

Also I should remind that the situation in Crimea (and the conflict in Ukraine too) is not purely ethnic; many ethnic Ukrainians are pro-Russian, and some Russians are pro-Ukraine.
It's not even ideological divide, rather different views on past and future history of the place.
Is the solution to a small robot vacuum really to increase the power of the motor above the competition?

On hard wood flooring I've never found rotary brushes to be better than side sweeps (what most of the competition uses).

And on carpet where rotary brushes do perform better, I can't help but think that instead of upping the suction power you could approach the problem from a different perspective... such as using a low vibration to shake the dirt and dust free of the carpet so that it's easier to pick up the material with less suction power.

I really like Dyson products, but it very much feels like they have a hammer (high powered suction in lower watt motors) and so every problem looks like a nail.

Some of their innovations over the past 5 years haven't impressed me...

Their hand dryers do a worse job than the classic World Dryer and look uglier over time and seem to be less performant over time (smaller clogged filters perhaps!?).

Their "fanless" fan of course has a fan, and whilst it shifts a good chunk of air at first it also suffers from degrading performance as the hidden fan gets clogged with dust over a season. And yet, the classic desk fan performs consistently well all the time.

And the problem with releasing highly-hyped products that turn out to be only average, is that it's hard to believe the hype in future.

Whereas I used to look at a Dyson as being incredibly functional innovation, I now look upon them as gimmicky innovation using their single core-trick.

And of course, they will successfully market and patent all of this (of which even the linked article is a part of that puzzle), such that people start to believe this is the best solution (not proven at all), and that Dyson will claim that no-one else can provide the best because of the patents (partly true, but who said this was the best?).

Years of buying and using Dyson products has left me greatly cynical. Their upright hoovers are still the business though.
This all seems kind of silly. Why doesn't C have a type qualifier like called "secure" to inform the compiler that it should avoid security-compromising optimisations and maybe even automatically zero the memory when it falls out of scope?
> If you don't live in the Arctic Circle, or have temperatures to match, it's quite possible (I've seen it done anyway) to grow some vegetables under glass even in pretty unfavorable climates.

I live 60 degrees northern latitude (still 1000 km to arctic circle). It is not possible to grow vegetables in gardens like this (indoors, in warm, with artificial light next to a floor to ceiling window wall). It is barely possible to grow herbs and greens, as long as they have been germinated earlier in the fall. Trying to start a seedling or a cloned cutting no longer works when the length of day goes around six hours or so.

Of course, you can put in a huge amount of grow lights but that's no longer practical to do in your kitchen.
Wasn't there a law recently that it's illegal to film policemen? Seems like a not so positive imbalance in power.
Similar story. Multiple failed YC interviews. I did raise significant angel money from outside of SV but I still failed with that company.

Firms like YC are designed with the nearly singular goal of attracting the next Google. The primary criteria for investment is essentially "how much like [Larry Page|Bill Gates|Mark Zuckerberg] are these founders?"

Unless you're a [Stanford|MIT|Harvard] Ph.D. student you're already off to a really bad start. If you didn't grow up in an upper middle class household you're probably going to stick out in various ways you're unaware of. http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/

Airbnb is the biggest YC success. They don't fit the mold and were one rather mundane story away from being rejected.

So ignore investors. Build a great product that users want and make it grow rapidly. Then you can pick and choose which money manager you want to accept financing from.

What I've done is scaled back my living expenses and built up enough revenue that I'm ramen profitable. It sure would have been easier if someone wrote me a check but at least now I'm completely unstoppable. It took me 1.5 years of solid effort to get into this position after my previous failure which I spent 2 years on. I'm about to release the first version of the best thing I've ever done.

If you're like me all you care about is writing code and creating great things anyway. Investors can often get in the way of that. The very best products all came out of genuine interest.

Let users alone be your judge.
> Buzzfeeditis

You haven't been paying attention.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/television/9287042/as-a-thir...
Many thanks for this answer and link; very enlightening.

If I understand the article correctly, it seems de-horned rhinos are poached mostly because poachers don't see the rhino has lost its horns, and they kill it then because

1) they're furious when they find out

2) they don't want to waste more time hunting it again

If this is true it would probably be less of a problem for elephants as their tusks (or absence thereof) are more visible.

It still sounds like a horrible procedure, but I don't think trying to curb demand will ever be effective -- or maybe in the very long run, when there are no elephants left.
> Why Dyson's robot vacuum took 16 years

Because that's how Dyson marketing department spins it.
"I hated discussing what OO pattern should be used"
"they submit patches to major frameworks, writes things in assembly for fun"
You don't have to do this kind of things to be a programmer.
Of course discussing OO patterns with your team is a need but submitting patches to major frameworks is on your free time! If every programmer would do so we wouldn't have so many incomplete open software.
Try not to be chased by the "The Myth of the Genius Programmer" and keep enjoying creating things.

A google talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ
plus MemSQL, a YC company =)
To be clear - this is a human viewing the images, and only narrowly beating the neural net.

Furthermore, the human spent some time 'training' himself on the images, plus he used a neural net to reduce the possible answer space - he didn't come to it cold.

"Then I organized a labeling party of intense labeling effort only among the (expert labelers) in our lab. Then I developed a modified interface that used GoogLeNet predictions to prune the number of categories from 1000 to only about 100. It was still too hard - people kept missing categories and getting up to ranges of 13-15% error rates. In the end I realized that to get anywhere competitively close to GoogLeNet, it was most efficient if I sat down and went through the painfully long training process and the subsequent careful annotation process myself."
Remember that we're trying to mitigate exploits. The test code could just be an exploit. Either that or just dump and analyze the memory.
Coming with background in service company in oil field and I should say I benefited from reading this script a lot
TBH vacuuming the floor is just a small part of cleaning - hiring a cleaner is probably a better solution then. Cheaper in the short run, too.
Move the func into a dynamically linked library.

Thanks to the performance requirements of dynamic linking it's going to be a really long time until we have dynamic linker peeking into .so files and checking what a func does.
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Thanks so much for the kind words and insight. Why would you say the trends are like that in Italy and EU? Also, how "close" would be a "good match?" We really value your thoughts, thanks again!
Add suction to the treads? A few air holes routed to the side of the tread where there's a vacuum pickup? I bet it would be tricky to get a seal that has low enough friction to allow the tread to slide past but still a good enough seal to get good suction from the bottom of the tread. Oh and it's got to last and last. Yikes... back to coding I go...
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Don't sign up to either Viglink or Skimlinks.

If you're curating the products and links manually (as this site appears to be doing), then sign up to the 4 or 5 affiliate programs directly.

It's insane that anyone would give away 25%+ of their current revenue and future revenue to save a few minutes work.

Even if you are not curating links and are using user generated content... only use Viglink and Skimlinks as a stop-gap for you identifying your key revenue sources and going direct.
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The problem with most new programming languages is that they are simply an compiler without any sort of IDE or text editor. Some may provide an simple Scitec based text editor or an sublime/vim/emacs bindings but this is not sufficient if the language wants to become popular, especially with the new wave of programmers born after the 90s where IDEs such as visual studio made life much more easier by integrating project management and GUI builders in one package. These are a generation used to clicking the "run" button and letting the IDE invoke the compiler and build the project instead of having to mess with the command line. I propose that someone create an IDE generation software that have native GUI bindings for windows/mac. To create an new IDE all you have to do is to code an language parser using the built in api to specify the syntax of your code. Intellisense and other types of documentations can be specified using YAML files. This would allow people to try out new programming languges more easily and allow them to gain traction faster.
It's time to read up on NFC before the Apple event next week
A colleague of mine purchased a Samsung Gear 2. I think it took about 2 days before it was discarded. He said it was awkward doing business in a display like that when the phone was in your pocket anyway. I suspect the same is true with this: it has initial appeal but lacks practicality and genuine use cases.

I myself, after owning everything from a Timex DataLink, Fossil Wrist PDA, through a TI EZ430 to an expensive Omega, settled on watch perfection: £7 Casio F-91W.
Aha! It is very unusual to see a youtube link not just on the front page, but at the top spot of it.
I do programming like I do algebra. It's a tool I use to solve problems.

Mind you, it's a tool I'm very good with, and that I get intrinsic enjoyment from when using it. But I don't do it 24/7, and I also get intrinsic enjoyment from woodworking, soldering, cooking...

Some people are invested in getting you to believe a narrative where coders code, all the time, 80 hours a week even if you don't pay them, like they're one-dimensional widgets instead of people. If anyone tries to feed you that line, I'd take a good hard think about why.
I think this is the first time I've heard of NDN, and I've only spent a short while reading about it. My first impression is:

1) It involves addressing chunks of data rather than hosts that hold those chunks. Somewhat like using URLs at the network level. So instead of IP/HTTPS where the network learns of host communications without learning of specific data exchanges, NPN would reveal those specific data exchanges to the network.

2) The mandatory "signature, coupled with data publisher information, enables determination of data provenance..." aspect would cut both ways. For we would be data consumers in some contexts and data producers in other contexts.

I hope I read something to dispel my concern, but I worry about increased metadata exposures and reduced ability to achieve beneficial levels of privacy/anonymity.
It is not only less convenient and potentially costlier it also means you carry much higher risks.

I applaud you for your principled stance but you should be aware of all the consequences.
> The device's battery life is probably proportional to how often the screen is kept on

I would expect a smartwatch's display to always be "on", displaying a watch face.
Not sure I understand what you're saying -- is it that runs-per-game and homeruns-per-game are the same thing? Because they're not.
What are your thoughts on Unity's per-seat pricing model vs. UE4's 5% top of line?
It certainly isn't enough to sustain a single person but it's still nice to supplement your diet with fresh herbs and greens.

It's not viable for growing fruit or vegetables, though. That just doesn't make any sense economically.

We have a very similar hydroponic garden at our office and it's not a lot of work to maintain it. Basically adding a few buckets of water every week is enough. Every few months it needs an hour of maintenance, though (planting new seedlings or cuttings).

There are also organic hydroponic nutrients available. A dollar per day for nutrients is way too much if you're growing salad. Your basic plant food from the supermarket is a few bucks and lasts for months. You can spend as much money on expensive weed nutrients but that isn't necessary.

Hydroponics are used a lot outside of growing weed. Commercial production of herbs, salads and other greens is almost exclusively done with hydroponics, at least here in northern Europe, where light and heat are at a premium half of the year. Maintaining a greenhouse is expensive so maximizing the production per area per time is required for a viable commercial operation.
It is disappointing that there aren't many small high-end smartphones. Obviously it's more difficult to pack the latest technology in a smaller package. But it seems like it's a market much less flooded than the 5+ inch size phones. Maybe someday companies will start marketing "ultra-phones".
Even bigger phone, just great.

Edit: there are 7 comments now, and all complained about the bigger size. That means something, doesn't it?
Tiger's are another issue - a big reason for the decrease in India's tiger population is that the demand from China is so overwhelming; apparently a tiger's gonads are considered a valuable aphrodisiac. This kind of insanity has to stop before the animal is extinct.
I use one built out of an old treadmill and a plywood desk I made. Works fine enough though the motor overheats at about an hour, even when I use silicone spray on the track and a fan blowing on the motor. Treadmills aren't usually made to run for an hour at very slow speeds (1 MPH or less).
Is it impossible a technological solution exists? There has been a lot of research on automatically categorizing documents, or reducing them to a few dimensions.

Even if it works well, I'm not sure how much utility this information would provide.
"Wouldn't high suction give you better traction"

Reminds me of the F1 Brabham BT46B "fan car" that sucked itself down to the road using a large engine driven fan at the back of the car:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B.C2.A...
My first startup was an attempt to make an ATM-like network that actually worked:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3293

Although mostly of historical interest now, I think the basic ideas are still sound. But the problem (as we learned the hard way) is that deploying a new network architecture is mainly a political problem, not a technical one.
Why would you do business on your WATCH? The purpose is to propagate notification in a non-intrusive manner, not being a phone replacement.
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> There are countless examples of CCTV abuse in the UK

OK, but you've linked to a paper on CCTV operators being bored and ineffective, a list of papers discussing the moral implications, and finally a 16-year-old piece that claims to have substantiated some of the public's concerns.

That feels quite a long way from "countless examples".
Always nice to start off the day with dose of "just fug do it" stories like this.
I think the real motivation for a Japan-only launch is that, if things don't work out, they can quietly kill it without experiencing a costly PR fiasco in Western markets. Which is a bit weak for such a "revolutionary" products.
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That's a fantastic idea! We encourage commenting on individual outfit pages. Our focus is community at famousoutfits.com. We already working on some new features to make community involvement even better. Thanks again!
I broke my nexus 5 AND my old nexus 4 in the span of 4 days while traveling in Hong Kong. I am seriously considering getting this when I return to the US later this month.

The only thing that bothers me now is that the nexus 5 is already a little big, and this is even bigger (4.95" vs 5.2"). Unfortunately my hands don't grow as fast as phones anymore.

I wonder if this is something I can get use to though, since everyone in Asia is using giant phones, and I did feel the nexus 4 a little small for the 4 days I was using it again.
No, it's (I think) that 20 percent and a fifth are the same thing.