skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue the "significant landmark" problem has essentially been solved as a side effect of online photo sharing sites (originally Flickr, now everything) -- the most frequently photographed things are the landmarks, and the number of photos scales with the significance of the landmark. When you search for "Rome" on Flickr, the clusters of photos that pop out as being 3D-reconstructable are precisely the landmarks.

See this popular work from 2009, "Building Rome in a Day":
http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/

Quoting:
"The data set consists of 150,000 images from Flickr.com associated with the tags "Rome" or "Roma". Matching and reconstruction took a total of 21 hours on a cluster with 496 compute cores. Upon matching, the images organized themselves into a number of groups corresponding to the major landmarks in the city of Rome. Amongst these clusters can be found the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon."
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Found GUILTY in CSC Hacking Case
He went to Auburn
I have a couple flat charging plates and on my desk, I use the angled plate [1]. That said, I don't actually use my phone all that much while it's on a charging plate.

But as others have pointed out, when you have wireless charging plates at your home and office, you'll routinely just drop your phone on a plate just as peers will drop theirs on a their desk. You'll find your phone is more often at full charge. I've only fully-drained the battery a handful of times (much use while away from any charging, wires included) and observed it in battery-saver mode another handful.

I would say a wireless-charging device with ample charging plates (say, 3 or 4) gives you a blissful ignorance of battery life. It's analogous to the bliss I had when I drove an electric car—contrary to conventional wisdom I found that electric cars create range bliss rather than range anxiety. Every time you leave your home for the day, the car is at full capacity. You never have to plan a visit to a refilling station. With a wirelessly-charged phone, I scarcely look at my phone's battery indicator; it's just not an issue.

And just to be as clear as possible, you can still connect a traditional micro USB cord to charge these phones if that's all you have handy.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/accessory/dt-910/
If you want to send bulk email blasts from a large list then definitely use a 3rd party, but it seems their emails were triggered programmatically from many different parts of their application. The email providers I have used don't make this easy so it is usually better to run the server yourself. You don't need much knowledge or experience to run an email server (if you are competent at general IT tasks already) but you need one thing: to actually check once in a while to see if your sever is sending email.

Which is the real problem here. Team members knew mail wasn't being delivered in the forums and they chose to ignore it. They must have never done any follow-up (personal email, phone call, survey) on new customers even when they were doing their big marketing "ramp-up." They must not have even checked with a test walk-through of the new user process. Leadership was just too far removed from the customer experience, whether they used a 3rd party email service or not.
If you have configured Chrome with a Google account, on Linux - for me, it does ask me for password on restart. I am assuming the password is for decrypting the passwords it stores in browser's "manage passwords".

Overall, I think either:

a. Chrome can use that account password for decrypting the other senstive information too.
b. or it can integrate with keychain of operation system. If I am not wrong, each time a new application accesses keychain of OS, OS prompts for user's password.
Gawker makes sure to mention it every time they cover him. I trusted Gawker on that one since Nick Denton is gay as well
Nice try, KGB!
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg AKA Anakata Found GUILTY in CSC Hacking Case

http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/gottfrid-svartholm-warg-foun...
Someone isn't out until they out themselves. Until then, it's gossip and speculation from second-hand (or worse) sources.

I'm glad the culture around him reached the point where he felt comfortable and safe being out. Hopefully this will be a kick in the pants to the culture around me. It's hard to date when most people are in the closet.
Dude, he expressed his opinion about the gay marriage like Tim Cook did about his beliefs in God and society. What's the difference ? It's just opinions! And people have to respect both!
Also anti means that you are against something, and Brendan never expressed that he was against gays or even hated gays. He was just against gay marriage.

Suddenly being "gay" is cool and being "hetero" is not cool ?
Thanks for summing it all up. Does Sentry provide anything similar to the Telemetry Timeline? This seems like a great feature if done well...
Only if you're into strictly Euclidian geometries. And don't call me Shirley.
Job Requirement: "You must be: Clever, competent and kind"

I wish more job descriptions were like this one. Straight and to the point, not much fluff or buzzword padding all over the place.
This submission has been vote manipulated, with the OP asking for upvotes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/albn/status/527816635621838849
A coworker pointed me to this interesting post noting that in a browser-facing web server (not the same as hits to a datastore), most users will experience the 99th percentile for at least one resource on the page.

http://latencytipoftheday.blogspot.it/2014/06/latencytipofth...
That's an entirely different project from Nodejitsu. I don't know if it's still active.

The hook.io domain actually expired and went to public auction recently and I was able to purchase it.
You could try posting the question to the /r/headphones subreddit, too. You'll probably get a few more responses there than at HN.
> The trend for the last couple of years has been towards non-user-serviceable batteries and omitting external storage slots altogether.

I wonder why that is. It's the only thing I don't like about my Moto G.
At first I didn't like the news. Tim Cook is gay, so what? I though 5 seconds about it and then I realized how actually we still need this... we still need to remind people that there's nothing wrong with being gay. That's sad that we are still at this point.
Interestingly this also supports the argument that Peter Thiel made in Lecture 5 of the Startup Class (by YC at Stanford) to avoid competitive markets or to focus on a niche of the market that doesn't contain any direct competitors
You either didn't read the article or simply failed to understand from the article why he did it. He's not trying to exploit anything for himself or his company but instead of the betterment of minorities.
Yes, at some point I got a report about Xen 3.0 (If I remember correctly) fixing the issue, but I never see in the real world things improving much AFAIK. Here is a table that shows fork times with different environments, just to show how bad the thing is:

Linux beefy VM on VMware 6.0GB: 12.8 milliseconds per GB.

Linux running on physical machine (Unknown HW): 13.1 milliseconds per GB.

Linux running on physical machine (Xeon @ 2.27Ghz): 9 milliseconds per GB.

Linux VM on 6sync (KVM): 23.3 millisecond per GB.

Linux VM on EC2 (Xen): 239.3 milliseconds per GB.

Linux VM on Linode (Xen): 424 milliseconds per GB.

Around 30 times slower than bare metal, and I'm talking about old physical servers with slow memory compared to today's.

EDIT: Make sure to read this -> https://redislabs.com/blog/testing-fork-time-on-awsxen-infra...
Data Stream Processing: A More Scalable Bridge from Kafka to Hadoop
I'm not sure I understand. Why couldn't they use a 3rd party hosted smtp server to send mail programmatically?
ugh, I wasn't even thinking that far. That is unfortunate.
I don't care what language they use, personally. However I am at work and having the F-word in 72pt font blaring from the top of my browser made scroll down very quickly. I doubt my bosses would be thrilled to see that.
A thread on xen-devel, similar discussion.
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg0008...
247Infotech » Mobile Phone Spying, Detection and Countermeasures
Further evidence that "if you aren't monitoring it, it isn't happening"! Ensuring that code is monitorable needs to be right up there with ensuring it's testable.
Go Tim!
My favorite solution for this periodic offline/online access is CouchDB for mobile or PouchDB for html. But it's use would require another device between the back end CouchDB and their Oracle server.
No, that does not make any difference. You're tracking the same area, it's based on incident light, not on the resulting surface area of the detector.

See the image with the article, it's a giant square leaf doing 2 axis tracking. So the concentrator and the cells are on the same substrate.

I did try exactly what you are suggesting (to separate the tracked panels and the concentrator) but then you run into a totally different set of problems.
fork test by redis labs (2012)
https://redislabs.com/blog/testing-fork-time-on-awsxen-infra...
well said. I think this is such a great symbolic moment. It's so hard to come to terms with your 'otherness' when you're young. The biggest step is admitting to yourself that you're different.
I've used SendGrid for transactional emails and it works like a charm.
Boycott Linux
That's interesting but it implies I cannot tell the time if my arms are at rest on a table or say, hovered over my keyboard.
It is useful to give you the gist of what you are about to read, and why you might want to or not if you were not sure.

It is a more informal version of papers having an abstract on the front page.
How to Create a Great Presentation in Just 15 Minutes
Thank you so much for a great article. It is very inspiring to read that you guys managed such awesome traction and growth rate before you closed that angel round. Could you share how you hacked your growth rate before funding ?
Maybe true, but a mail server in particular is one of those things that's a lot harder to set up and maintain than it looks.
A minor throwaway moment in the life of a minor character is a huge improvement over the status quo of complete absence just a handful of years ago. There were gay characters in media, but most of them were walking stereotypes.
cc1.4xlarge is on pair with bare metal apparently...
I'm almost certainly an edge case, I just migrated off BTSync. I was using it to automatically back up my docs/code/photos etc from my laptop to my low-power NAS, but the CPU overhead was just not worth it. (NAS was frequently pegged at 100% CPU dealing solely with BTSync).

Switched to using lsyncd instead, and works a treat!

That said, BTSync was fantastic when it worked, and Syncthing looks incredibly promising, too.
How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA
[I had posted this as a reply to #8532324, with obviously a new account, since this subject is too dangerous to post about under my regular HN account. My comment was killed. It might be a sign this subject is too much of a taboo. I don't think that should be a criteria for killing a comment though; it is very on-topic. I hope it doesn't get killed now]

Coming out is an important event for any minority -- at least in the cases where the membership of the minority can be (or has to be) kept a secret. Not being able to tell anyone your true feelings can feel like an enormous burden, driving some people even to the point of suicide.

And like you say, it takes courage to be who you really are. To not feel the weight of your mask every day. For myself, I think it would be false courage in this day and age to 'come out' as a pedophile. 'Pedophile' here means that I feel emotionally and sexually attracted to children, just as gays have that attraction to men. A lot of people are immediately repulsed by that word, and just assume you are a monster and a child abuser/rapist. I think those stereotypes mainly exist because pedophiles are invisible in our society. It is very likely that everybody knows somebody with that orientation, but because it is so risky to 'come out' nobody recognizes that pedophiles are very regular people too.

I have come out to some very close friends and my parents, who luckily all accepted that I am who I am (I live in a European country, so that might help). I'm a bit gay as well, and I have a 5+ year relationship with my boyfriend, who also is a pedo (and somewhat more gay than I am).

Still, every time when I receive a compliment or encouragement from someone, a thought flashes through my mind: what if they knew who I 'really' am?
Programming Language or Shakespeare Character?
Touchpad/touchscreen swipe?
I have a hard time thinking of anyone as Christian if they ignore the basic tenants of what the Bible says. Homosexuality is very clearly spelled out as wrong. So are plenty of other things of course and the Bible doesn't specify homosexual behavior as any more or less wrong than any other sinful act. Christians shouldn't be treating homosexuals any different than anyone else, but that includes letting people know that God views that behavior as sin.
A downvote for pointing that out.

Can someone explain why I would want to do joins on the client side, when there is mature, well tested, well understood technology for doing joins on the server side? All the data is going to be on the server, so no danger of loosing a connection.
Back In The Day, before Windows implemented calling the HLT instruction in the idle loop, overclockers would run a userland program that did the same thing, called cpuidle.

http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/5000/5197/cpu-idle-...

http://www.cpuidle.de/news.php
This mailing list post:

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg0102...

suggests that it's page table validation time, and it can be avoided if you use a PVHVM guest. Has anyone checked whether these redis problems apply only to PV guest images on EC2?
Because it isn't a big deal! I'm glad we're coming around to the reaction to a major public figure coming out is "meh."

Injustice won't be over the day little black boys and girls and little white boys play together. It will be over the day anyone even thinks anything of it. Unfortunately, we have both overt and covert (even accidental) discrimination still to deal with.

But our grandparents faced firehouses and dogs, while we face op-eds and Twitter feeds. For the first time in history we have the communications technology to bind humanity together into a single global people.

Someday there will be a gay president. Someday there will be a black female president. I hope that by the time that day comes, it will be little noted nor long remembered.
Anybody needs my help? Looking for a job
"There hasn't been a gay President"

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/our_real_first_gay_president...
Raising cryptography’s standards
If web is to stay, as someone that has to develop web applications, I can only hope Frankenstein HTML/CSS/JavaScript model gets fixed.

Otherwise better keep it for interactive documents only.

On my computer you will find native applications for almost everything, except for the likes of online discussion forums, hotel and plane booking.
That sounds like a PV vs. HVM issue. Using hardware virtualization extensions to handle virtual memory is almost always faster than paravirtualization these days, which is why Xen introduced PVH mode in 4.4.
Honestly it's very difficult to imagine a case where pen is better. I can type faster than I can write, and everyone can read my typing much more easily than my writing. Etherpad (sadly killed by google) had a great annotation UI. Maybe for serious mathematics with formulae, or something where you want to annotate 2D diagrams (architecture?), but that seems pretty niche.
Have you experienced that only from older people? We can only hope that this kind of bigotry go away with new generations.
That would make sense if the other EC2 Xen hosts were running PV guests (as was required for the smaller / older EC2 hosts IIRC? ) & the cc1.4xlarge was PVHVM, according to: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg0102...
Microsoft Research published an early version of what you describe in 2004, "Image-Based Interactive Exploration of Real-World Environments":

Paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/iv...

Web Page, Video, Slides: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/iv...

Quoting: "Whereas many previous systems have used still pho- tography and 3D scene modeling, we avoid explicit 3D reconstruction because it tends to be brittle."
A god will give an end to these also

Time does appear to be healing cultural wounds, even if not quickly enough.
We've gone through an incredible process in a single generations. Truly incredible and blazingly fast. It hasn't been everywhere, but it certainly has been global.

In many ways it seemed to have very high hurdles. Homosexuality and queerness elicits an unexplainably intense anger in some people. It is potently threatening. On the other hand, overcoming homophobia had a relatively small hurdle to get over because there was no intergenerational complexity like racism and xenophobia or deeply rooted structural institutions like sexism. Homosexuals were already everywhere in secret. A homosexual didn't need to overcome to become CEO, he was already a CEO. He just needed to come out.

A part of the precess that I think is happening now nearer the cutting edge is post revolutionary normalization. After the gay parades and overt homosexuality that forced the issue into centre stage what is needed is a homosexuality that can be worn lightly outside of the spheres were it is naturally central (like romantic relationships).

Tim Cook is gay, but he's mostly the CEO of Apple. His gayness is not the central part of his public identity and not being public about it up till now is not being closeted.

It's really a great thing that happened, and is happening. I'm glad to be part of the generation that made it happened, a gift to those who will come after, to those who will not have to suffer.
No. Next question, please--and try to make the next one far less stupid.
Indeed it is; TBH, having seen how easy this was to make, I wonder if there would be any merit to making a stripped-down postgres package which is just daemon + SQL parser + FDW interface (so no built-in storage engine) -- the FDW interface is amazing for building SQL interfaces for arbitrary data sets, but the whole postgres bundle seems a little heavy-weight and complex to install if that's the only thing you want it for...

Or I guess you could start from the other direction, and make a FDW/Multicorn-compatible API for SQLite? (Facebook's OSQuery is SQLite-based, but it looks like the virtual table interface over there is way more complex)
A first-party TL;DR is just another name for what in more formal contexts is called an "abstract" or "executive summary".

I'm not particularly fond myself of that name having caught on for that use, but I can't manage to be as put-off by it as you say you are.
Microsoft Garage – What?
Thanks :-)

duly noted.
Zagg has those film screen protectors for this too.
Show HN: An Ubuntu Server 12.04 Yeoman Set-Up Guide
I recently migrated a couple of my sites away from directly sending transactional email, to using MailChimp's Mandrill service. A few months later, I only wish I had done that sooner.
If Shakespeare wrote in JavaScript here's what it would look like
Mobile learning market stats and trends
ExaLink Fusion – Ultra low latency switch
Creating a Simple Shopping Cart with React.js and Flux
Don't overestimate the progressiveness of young men. Look at how terrible so many of the HN comments are whenever there's a submission relating in any way to women.
Exablaze, today announced at the London STAC Summit that the company has introduced the world’s fastest network switch and application platform, the ExaLINK Fusion. The ExaLINK Fusion performs conventional layer 2 switching at approximately 110 nanoseconds latency and layer 1.5 switching at 100 nanoseconds, significantly faster than any existing switching device. The ExaLINK Fusion preserves the sub-five nanosecond layer 1 switching fabric and related capabilities of its industry leading ExaLINK 50 device, and adds layer 2 switching functionality implemented within a Xilinx Ultrascale FPGA. The layer 1 switching fabric is used as a central connection point for front panel line cards and internal application-specific modules.
Frida: Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android
Manna by Marshall Brain
This is only true if these latency outliers are evenly distributed over time, if they indeed happen once every 30 minutes than only users requesting a page at the same time will be affected.
Not quite. I attended a talk by Dr. Koch at MIT. I didn't get all of it, but it seemed to me that his definition tries to figure out what's included or excluded in conscious systems and how conscious they are. It may or may not be right, but it at least it's working towards something with predictive value.

The examples you gave are mostly abstract and not physical. If consciousness is a physical phenomenon, these algorithms must be manifest before they can qualify. As for the game of life, the pieces on a physical board aren't actually interacting with each other with feedback loops. In a computer, the circuits are mostly feed forward and the algorithm is simulated rather than physically realized.
Very uplifting viewpoint.
Outed is not the same as out.
They couldn't afford to spring for one extra line of pixels to make it a standard resolution?
New SQL Features in Firebird 3
Agreed.

I was in a similar boat. My first exposure to the term "lesbian" was a flash cartoon that had a throwaway gag about a butch woman who lived in the sewer and ate children—I remember going home and crying because I strongly suspected that that's what I was, once the other kids explained what the term meant, and I didn't want to end up having to move underground and away from all my friends once I grew up. (This is hilarious in retrospect, but at the time I was really distressed.)

It's really good that young gay people to have so many prominent and positive role models now, and easy access to information on the subject via the internet. Can't imagine my story happening to anyone today.
Be lazy, build better systems
Then you'd think he would be better about not treating someone as fully out when it's not clear he's out to more than friends and family.
There is also the recent Android commercial as well!
Disclaimer: We are not Unix purists by any means. u_u yeah, ok.
TechCrunch: “New  Tool Wants to Bring Clarity to Cloud Billing”
Our whole team interviewed a guy at a local restaurant over lunch. Normally the interviewee would order something simple because we'd be grilling them pretty hard... but this guy ordered the yak. What did it mean?!!?
>> The email providers I have used don't make this easy so it is usually better to run the server yourself.

Mandrill, Mailgun, Sendgrid all make this easy.
With money no object right now I'd be
You do realize it's a parody of http://boycottsystemd.org/ ?
Lenovo wraps up purchase of Motorola phone unit
Template for a typical Python 3 library package
I have mixed feelings about that.
I was tl;dring before tl;dring was cool. In fact, it was called "Executive Summary" and was greatly appreciated by people who make more in a year than I will make in my life.
Excellent point, yes.
Seems like choosing between alternative timelines in some RPG :)
I think thats incorrect. It was made from chromium which has native linux support. In fact, I unpacked archive and I couldnt see any wine parts
More/better examples: http://byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript

I think the Hemingway example is especially well done, in particular the lack of comments and "request was made but not good."
Funny thing to say, since you have no idea where I'm from nor know anything about me.