skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be like that. First, anyone approving a budget knows what they're told, but probably has the capacity for very little first-hand verification. Second, not all budgets are "given" - we've previously seen the CIA raise money independently to fund illegal operations.
I just updated my Google Drive to the "new" web interface and I've noticed it is absurdly slow in general.
Almost human: Xerox brings higher level of AI to its virtual support agents
Does that 20000 item limit apply with all types of accounts? I've seen comments about how onedrive business doesn't have a mac client for example?
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In case anyone on the OneDrive team is reading this, the link on "here" in the words "go here to put yourself at the front of the line" links to a URL [+] that seems to have a placeholder tracking id.

[+] https://preview.onedrive.com/?wt.mc_id=oo_blog_onedrive_inse...
It usually makes more sense for sensors to be closer to a circular shape (i.e. square aspect ratio) because the image projected by the lens is going to be circular anyway. So if you have a very wide sensor you lose a lot of light on the top and bottom in order to expose the sides correctly.
My mistake, I forgot that the 5 had OIS. That was actually the feature that compelled me to accept the camera downgrade when I bought mine. Regardless, the 6 has a much better camera than the 5, so I imagine that its OIS will be at least somewhat improved.
Well with the world moving towards mobile display compatibility people are generally depreciating tables in favor of grid-systems via CSS because they are more customizable for formatting tables intelligibly on smaller displays. Tables don't collapse or reformat properly on small screen and what you'll get is usually multiple columns with one letter on each line while grid-systems can stack columns making it both more legible and organized. CSS grid-systems of course require more work but you can generally find them already integrated into frameworks like bootstrap. Even still if you have complex table formats it'll require more customized situational grids than generalized grid-systems but in most cases bootstrap grids works fine. However I have had times when I have tables with minimum copy and mostly icons so we opted for tables because even on small displays it collapsed just fine as opposed to grids which left a lot of empty space.
It's not perfect, but looking at only 'verified' users cuts through about 95% of the chaff (although you do lose many excellent non-verified people, naturally).

But if you discover you're followed by a handful of your favorite famous programmers, maybe a VC or two, things like that.. it could be useful to know you might be able to take advantage (in a nice way) of those connections some day.
"In a system without the publisher operating as middleman, where the author takes his life’s work and just posts it to Amazon, each book becomes a lonely outpost in the stiff winds of the marketplace, a tiny business that must sell or die....

"But I’m not sure that even Yglesias would want to live in the world he’s envisioning. Mark Krotov, an editor at Melville House, points out on Twitter that in posts like these two, Yglesias has often recommended 'good, unusual books' such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey and Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained. 'I’m confident that none of these books, as different and diverse as they are, could ever have found their audience without a publisher,' Krotov writes."

I'm rather suspecting that Evan Hughes could stand to be less ignorant of the industry he's discussing.

For one thing, Tripmaster Monkey is at least the fifth book that Kingston has written (I can't find a complete bibliography.) and Dennett's Content and Consciousness was published in 1969, 22 years before Consciousness Explained. Both of them had already "found their audiences" before those books were written, much less published.

Further, Dennett has published many of his books with academic presses, where advances are rare. (Anyone know if MIT Press pays them?)
Ah right, forgot about the newline specification. I guess, for reference, the smallest string I can come up with to get Cowboy to spit that error message is '\x20\x20\n'. Parsers are fun.
Thanks, but it's not like people have suddenly stopped manually performing totally repetitive tasks on a computer since 2011, so it's still relevant today. :)
Programming languages belong to linguistics, not mathematics (2010)
the "HDR" look can be overdone.

If its done right you don't notice it. Since Photoshop added HDR photo merging its been a thing to capture the full dynamic range of a scene and make it look HDR.

google "hdr photos" to see it overdone.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hdr+photos
The Unfun Parent: Internet Safety for Kids for Parents (comic)
Looks remarkably similar to what Sun had 25 years ago,
something called TFS.

I found the paper about it and converted it to pdf, you can get that here:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/papers/tfs.pdf
Your friend could have gotten the same benefits while working on something that also was of greater (presumable) benefit to others than "Cat Snaps".

(I speak as one who has tremendous respect for the good that cat pictures have done for the world.)
That "magnetic field to protect from radiation" part is pretty important, though. (ISS is inside the Earth's magnetic field.)
How Big Was Penguin 3.0?
web.py is still my go to for lightweight webapps. I won't start a big discourse on the pros and cons vs. other technologies, but I will say it is incredibly easy to setup and use.

The current github page is here: https://github.com/webpy/webpy

If you are looking to get up and running quickly, I would recommend forking this skeleton: https://github.com/jzellman/webpy-skeleton

Finally, the built in database framework is a bit simplistic. I like to pair this with Peewee (included in the webpy-skeleton).
I found something about this very interesting.. that is, Stripe + low dollar amount + something potentially useful == me copying and pasting in my credit card details from 1Password very quickly.

I've not come across anyone else doing anything like this, yet there are probably thousands of such small services I'd be happy to pay a few bucks for here and there, especially if it's through a payment system I trust like Stripe or PayPal.

That aside, I wish it'd let me export the list of verified followers in a nice way after I've paid my $2 :-)
Disclaimer: I've been working on this ;)
We hope to open a public beta soon.
PH Winston's books are exactly what you are looking for: On To Java, On To C, On To C++, On To SmallTalk. They appeared around 2000 and are now on the web:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/OnToC/ etc.

They are written in an unusual format built around slides rather than pages - even the printed versions.
Workable? Not world-changing but certainly takes some of the "urgherhergasdasd" out of it.
You need to make it clear whether you are talking about the metaphor of a "shopping cart" or the more general concept of queue to hold purchases before payment.
> Give it five to ten years, human-like and beyond-human intelligence will be built

It is absolutely safe to say that human-like AI in five years is not going to happen. Even ten years seems highly unlikely. All leading researchers in the field agree on this.
All you need is a couple of meters of water or earth. The base would be inside the comet at complete safety anyway, and detection can warn you to get inside in case of increased sun activity.

It is really easy if you have just a little material:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_protection#Shielding
Lens Blur is pretty great, too, and it's available for others. I think the restriction may be the fact that it has to 1) support OIS and 2) Google has to support that specific OIS.

It would be nice if Google could do something similar for EIS phones, too, though.
> If you want to keep talking about how you don't trust tech companies...

Do you trust all of them? I doubt it. Of course some companies are more trustworthy than others.

My point is that in a time when trust is in crisis, NONE of the major tech companies is providing users with strong tools for privacy that can't be circumvented for law enforcement or spying.
That RSA's only product is sturdy crypto would be news to RSA, which began as a two-factor token company (called SDTI), later purchased the RSA brand, and now sells a gigantic suite of enterprise security and compliance products, along with their flagship multi-factor products. I would be surprised to discover (but have not looked into it) that BSAFE --- the RSA product you're referring to --- was even a rounding error for RSA's revenue.

If the closest you can come to arguing that all commercial tech enterprises are "voluntold" to build key escrow is a crypto library used by virtually no end-user encrypted communications systems, I'm suddenly a lot less interested in this discussion.

I think Dual-EC probably was a backdoor. I think any commercial product that adopted Dual-EC is worthy of suspicion. Fortunately, so far as I can tell, virtually nothing that matters ever used Dual-EC.
The point is, by installing an ad blocker, the ads that do get through are ultimately seen by those to whom they are move effective.

Ad servers get a somewhat smaller but receptive audience.
Here is is TC's take on the subject: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/27/robin-labs-launches-less-ma...
You also won't be able to use most of the internet in 2014, so this point seems moot.
I use QtdSync (which uses rsync under the hood) for about 2-3 years, and I'm satisfied with it. I've also set up some scheduled backup tasks as well.

You should try it and see for yourself.
Ten Short Rants About GamerGate
> I'd be very skeptical about that...

The gaming industry is in the middle of doing exactly this. What exactly are you skeptical about? Whether an attempt will be made, or whether an attempt will succeed?
I upvoted just because it's a neat, historical document that I missed the first time around. I have no particular stake in Lisp or Python.
> "The other group are people who argue the details of a phase detection autofocus in the Canon DSLR and the 51 point field autofocus of the Nikon DSLR and can't believe that the handset makers are allowed to actually call these things 'cameras' in their advertisements."

This demographic can be safely ignored. The people who get the most up in arms about the "purity" of photographic tools are also the ones producing the least work. They're the ones who buy $10,000 worth of bodies and lenses but can never go beyond photos of their local park, or sharpness test charts in their basement. This group isn't good for much more than vociferous, highly-technical religion wars on the Internet. We'll start caring what they think when they start producing work.

In the mean time there are many passionate photographers out there producing great work, with a variety tools, cheap to expensive, simple to complex.

This guy with a crappy old iPhone 3GS has been taking better photos (and publishing them) than the bulk of people with 5D3's and 70-200 f/2.8's: http://boingboing.net/2009/10/29/photographer-takes-p-1.html
Data scientist here. It really depends on what kind/size of data you intend to work with. If you want to work with enormous data sets, focus on Hadoop and Machine Learning. You won't be able to learn a lot of Hadoop on your own since it really requires having a working cluster and breaking it, but you can get some idea.

For smaller data sets, R will work, and Python acts as glue. In general, on a daily basis, I spend about 70% of my day finding and cleaning data (a lot of data scientists will say the same) and getting it in the shape I need, and only then running algorithms over it.

I work with fairly small-to-medium sized data (now..previously I was at Hadoop scale) and my tools of choice are: SQL for getting the data I need (you will need to become really good at SQL..almost everyone uses it everywhere, really great universal skill to have), Python (pandas) for cleaning the data and making that cleaning process reproducible, then high-level algorithm analysis in R, and presentation either in R or Tableau.
yes, absolutely agree. this is the power of Stripe combined with (finally!) super affordable v-host providers I was partly adressing earlier in a comment. my cost is actually next to nil. They make it possible for me to just push this out with minimal implementation work (this took about 3-4 days to write) and really sane fees all around. It's so simple, the refunding is so straight forward, it actually makes sense to keep costs low, simply because I can, at this point.

and of course, I could slap a $20 price on that and see if it still validates. and the implication of a higher price > higher quality etc. would possibly play into that as well.

but I am a very reluctant 'paying user' myself. it takes ages for me to convince me until I finally pull that credit card out. I feel many people just charge what everybody else charges, or try to get the most out of it (which all makes sense). but this is just a small tool, I want to stick to coffee-pricing if at all possible.

and you guys paid my server bills for the next 3 months now, so this is nice enough for me today.
Ouch! Not entirely unexpected of course, there are many inexperienced people who try to get something going, and get experienced the hard way. I wonder sometimes if Kickstarter and Indiegogo are training a new breed of entrepreneur or con artists.

What I haven't seen too much of yet, but expect to, is something that is a cross between Quirky and Kickstarter where a company with product development expertise runs 'kickstarters' as essentially a way to schedule excess factory capacity. Given a couple of designers you could have them throw out ideas and if they get funded, then make those. A bit harder to forecast than the current process but it seems like an interesting way to monetize excess capacity.
As much as it's a pain in the ass, you can always a multipart RAR to get around this.

Again, I know, pain in the ass, but it's a work around.
It must be around here somewhere.
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> Give it five to ten years, human-like and beyond-human intelligence will be built

That's probably a bit early. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has collected various surveys of experts asked about this question. The one with the earliest estimates asked the question, “Assuming beneficial political and economic development and that no global catastrophe halts progress, by what year would you assign a 10%/50%/90% chance of the development of artificial intelligence that is roughly as good as humans (or better, perhaps unevenly) at science, mathematics, engineering and programming?” Of 19 replies, the median estimates for 10%, 50%, and 90% were 2025, 2035, and 2070, respectively."

Other surveys and research are described here: http://intelligence.org/2013/05/15/when-will-ai-be-created/
Woot. Thanks. Yea- we see a lot of people use us to "find people" on Twitter and then export to CSV or Twitter List or save the search to SocialRank so they can pull it up anytime.

Thanks!
I assumed (incorrectly) that you just needed skin contact measure an electrical pulse (like an EKG machine).

However, that appears not to be the case. Even the wrist based optical ones are often times inaccurate.
Founders Have a Right to Rule
I could argue, using a gist makes the results more reusable... + I like the way gists look.
Shouldn't book sellers and author's be able to do the same?

Sure. What's stopping them? Authors are free to charge whatever they want. Hell, they even have a state-granted, life + 80 years monopoly on their works.

What they can't is force Amazon to sell their books for whatever price they want.
Poke this out of curiosity: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

I searched for Steven Brust in the Kindle Store and didn't get a very good list, although it mentioned the "Vlad Taltos" series, so I searched for that.

I'm currently seeing Book of Dragon as the second entry (which is a collection of part of the series), an unrelated Brust book, and something by Michael McClung.
Then, don't use SSL if it's too heavyweight.

I know everyone will tell you not to roll your own cryptosystem, but rolling your own is superior to having no encryption or authentication, and so long as you're sane about it the result should be no worse than passing plaintext.

Your messages are small. Encrypt (or maybe just sign) them with RSA and call it a day. You don't really need to use port 80 and a HTTP preface at all, do you?
That's the definition of price anchoring... That makes look like the $150 device is a bargain, because for ONLY $20 more you get the HRM, distracting from the more objective consideration of the price of the item.
Robin Labs launches Less.Mail – an ai-powered email voice assistant
Where Does One Field Test a Self-driving Car?
Leave any company you aren't happy with, not just startups. Sometimes you and the company may not get along. Maybe you were a bad fit and neither of you knew it. Or maybe it truly is a Startcrap. Either way, find another gig and move on. Everyone will be better off.
Reminds me of an interesting story. Someone I know was considering buying Google during the online IPO sale. The website was very laggy and barely worked, so he decided not to buy the stock. "If they can't handle this issue, how could they be a good web company?" Of course my friend was wrong. And it's easier now to scale than it was several years ago. But it's an interesting story. It's not always easy to anticipate what is necessary to scale or what load will be like.
What you are citing actually supports tptacek's claim that there is no law requiring key escrow or other means of circumventing encryption. That appears to be true.

But it makes it all the more surprising that none of these companies supports user-controlled keys, convenient and trustworthy key exchange, and end-to-end encryption for their storage and communications products.
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I remember reading through David Macaulay's “The Way Things Work” as a kid, soaking up the illustrations until I understood each one. It was life-changing. However, I remember having trouble with one page in particular -- the one describing differential gears. Of course, video would probably have helped a lot :)
They're doing it through tax/speculator subsidy; it's not even a pricing model that is working for Amazon.

The Success of Amazon: Welfare As We Should Know It

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-colu...

Amazon's Tax Breaks Are Essential to Its Survival

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/amazons-t...

Franklin Foer Confuses Amazon's Subsidies from the Government With Profits

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/franklin-...
Webkit exploit confirmed to run on PS4
How would you suggest they generate insights to begin with? And what local matching are you proposing here?
Digital Lessons from the Museum and Art World
> But I see a few common patterns on HN all the time

> A post such as mine would not have to appear too frequently

Which is it? All the time or not too frequently?

And while you might only make rare posts some people would point out every error and mistake and difference in style. People downvote your post to dissuade those other posts.

About your downvotes: I'm guessing they're for your incredible arrogance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440847

People see that level of arrogance as ugly. You might want to either change your posting style or stop complaining about the downvotes.
As someone who has both a DSLR and a smartphone. The smartphones are pretty good and "the camera you have with you" is always better than the camera at your home. Plus the wifi connectivity and abitliy to push photos real time is really nice.

The DSLR pictures when I do get around to loading and editing are better. It just takes more time.

As for focus points, I have this wierd camera the canon 70d. Every "pixel" on the camera can phase detect. But I don't think the camera is making full use of the sensor. I wish I could write software for it.

An overview of camera focusing:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-70d/3
Doesn't look scalable for a startup but I'd give my pinky (OK, maybe just a month's salary) for having a decent tech recruiter work for me (developer open to new opportunities), as in sparing me of the 90% of BS that I usually go through when dealing with recruiters/companies.
Exactly. I've written about this at length because people who don't have much experiences in the hard science/engineering fields have a vast disconnect between what's possible in software vs. what's possible in the physical world. Startups are great for pure software and very simple and constrained science/engineering experiments. These, by definition, won't be groundbreaking.

Big science/engineering is very expensive, very long term and very risky. No one wants to foot the bill. Not corporations, not investors, and recently not even governments (NIH/NSF funding cuts, etc.).

I discuss this further here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337837
<joke>

Likely consumed by meta-patterns, like every other project who's primary reason to exist is to be a LISP clone of something.
> I know that claim to be false.

Bollocks. But let me ask you this: have other incentives - non-legal ones, even personal whim - enticed any of these companies to provide key escrow for the US government? What is the current policy climate with this regard? Is there a voluntary key escrow program? How many companies are on board it? Is there a single telecommunications provider that -isn't- providing key escrow?

I can't find a testable claim anywhere in your comment. That's not a ding, it's merely the usual nature of HN comments. It is a sort of foul play to selectively apply criteria.

Here's a testable claim. If a HN participant does independent research on the Apple and Google encryption news recently (not you or me or lern_too_spel), that participant will find that encryption is not new nor the thing that law enforcement are critical about. They will find that there is a long history of FDE on Android and on Apple and on other products. They will find that both Apple and Google declared that they would provide encryption mechanisms that they would not have access to decryption keys for. They will find that this causes a ruckus at the FBI and other law enforcement.

This is a testable claim. Not testable by you or by me. But it is testable by other readers. They should do it for themselves.

The quality of my posts are not in question. I highly encourage readers to wade through my comment history (and that of 'xnull' as well) to links interesting and relevant to the current state of cybercontrol.
I have an Android phone, but what is described in the post sounds a lot like what the app Average Cam Pro [1] does on my iPad (multiple exposures, average them out) with the refinement that the ACP app also allows you to subtract a "dark image" to combat sensor-specific banding noise, plus the user can adjust exposure after the shot.

It takes the cleanest pictures by far, beating out my Canon 7D at times, but for optimal results it does require the device to be extremely steady. I've been waiting for this app to appear on Android too, but it hasn't so far.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/average-camera-pro/id4155778...
Running Google Hangouts through Tor would work well as it uses https by default. As long as he's using a throwaway Google account, it seems good to me.
Yeah, this is one of the reasons it's not an interesting discussion for me: it's practically a valance issue. Everyone has a tech company they don't trust.
Hi mazsa, was this press release taken from the facebook page? If not where from? s.ziv[at]newsweek[dot]com