skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he were really honest, I think he would say that the innovative ideas come from the trusted core in-crowd, while everyone else is interchangeable. Amazon has a tough culture that chews people up and spits them out. I frequently hear from Amazon employees here in Seattle that their average tenure is just one year. The high turnover is not a bug, it's a feature.
The real question is "why should America go metric?"

When you're such a large country, you can afford to do things your own way - others will accommodate you.
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> And more importantly why would anyone send anything to anywhere?

You're assuming everyone is rational. For instance, if I were a future billionaire I'd totally do it... knowing I'd never see even a glimmer of return on the investment... just cause.
I'm pretty sure sendmail still wears that crown.
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because reading a book takes much more time than listening to a song or watching a movie.
Have you written software for motion controls before? Like not gestures, but actual physical motion? I expect they quickly found out that Wiimote+[0] is not good enough for swordfighting the way they wanted it. Nothing on the consumer market is. The Razer Hydra came closest, which is why the thing they released wound up targeting it, but even then it was hard to find and too unreliable in typical use for a fun experience. (Now that the STEM is finally shipping, this may have changed.)

It's a garbage-in, garbage-out scenario that is really, really hard to solve in software. And come on, why am I explaining this to you? Why are there zero compelling or realistic Wii/U sword games?

It also doesn't sound like you've put any thought into the challenge of simulating realistic swordplay as a generic engine that supports different historically accurate fighting styles, with all the nitty physics, kinematics, and for that matter historical issues to be dealt with.

But I don't know why I'm having to defend the concept that software costs money. I think I'll just quote Neal's apology:

"Members of the team made large personal contributions of time and money to the project before, during, and after the Kickstarter phase. Some members, when all is said and done, absorbed significant financial losses. I am one of them; that has been my way of taking responsibility for this. The team had considerable incentives--emotional and financial--to see CLANG move on to the next round of funding. They showed intense dedication and dogged focus that I think most of our backers would find moving if the whole story were told. I will forever be grateful to them. In the end, however, additional fundraising efforts failed and forced the team to cut their losses and disband in search of steady work."
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang/posts/9...

These were intelligent people, working with passion, on something hard. I'm glad your Kickstarter was a success, but maybe a little humility is called for.

[0] As in accelerometer+gyro, in general. It's fundamentally flawed, and you can't buy your way out of it with better parts.
Ask HN: Is there an audit tool to check for Copyrighted images on my sites?
I received an e-mail today form PicScout that an image on one of my client's site was copyrighted. Which is odd since I have subscriptions to quite a few stock photography sites for my designers to use. Needless to say my client was freaking out a bit and so was I.

My company manages tons of content for many small businesses. Besides implementing draconian rules for all designers and content publishers on the site, I can only think of one thing to do, i.e. to scan all of my sites for images which may be copyrighted.

I googled around a bit, found tineye.com and of course pic scout. My instinct is to write a little bit of python code to grab all the images from the website directories from my server and upload them one by one to something like picscout. Maybe someone's done that already.

Anyone here know of such a tool?
Well, CPC/CPx/CPO campaigns only pay on those events, so yeah, impressions are a cost only.

But those campaigns tend to predominate on low-value inventory, whereas the branding campaigns naturally want a higher end of the market for impressions and the demographics viewing them.

Non-CPM is where Google really shines, their click-through on CPC is, AFAIK, an order of magnitude above the industry average.
Growing up as an Amateur Radio Operator in which a) you must disclose your real physical station address as well as your mailing address and b) all radio communications are by nature public and may not be encrypted, I have a different intensity level than most of the modern commentators about privacy.

And if you are in a business, you are likely to want the opposite of anonymity.

If your state of well-being depends upon absolute and total privacy, you will need to take rather extreme measures. Probably starting back in 1992.
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UX + Research: Scrolling Below the Fold
First impressions:

- Increased whitespace makes it feel less informationally dense.

- The colors are a bit too light. As someone with sensitive eyes, it makes reading the docs for long periods of time harder. This is going to be tough to get used to.

- For whatever reason, my eyes keep skipping over the light green bar that's between the nav and the content. I didn't even see the download link on the getting started page until I took a second look at it. I wonder why this happens?

Overall, I'm not adverse to it. I like the clean look, but one reason why I liked the old site is because I could see all the information I'd want to know on the first page without scrolling. You can't get that here, and it makes me wonder how much information I'll miss out on over time.
ComScore data is collected from panels with self-selection bias, but also incorporating significant statistical correction based on random selection panels and demographic data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore#Data_collection_and_re...
Please gentleman try to read something. If you are playing at electoral politics, you understand very little.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spect...

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/15...

Anyone in north america lives in a hard right fascist state. Both canada and the US are completely fascist, and the "liberal wing" isn't. The liberal wings of USA and canada are hard right conservative.
I wish they had written the names of the people in the short interviews during the interview - especially the guy that snorted who narrated later over the classroom video.

For some reason watching this makes me think that this is exactly what it's like to live in The Culture, complete with the slim blonde and the ship's avatar narrating a retro movie. The video would be even better if you gland some Edge.

Some of the art looked very dated - the 3D shapes, the juggler, airplanes, the 'plastic surgery', but the analog radio wave character and the more abstract artwork still look great - for example, the gray haired guy (again, missed the name) who worked with the antiaircraft gun.

Did Gary Chang invent autotune?
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FWIW, Scandinavia has long had a tradition of "tomte" (elves, but not quite) watching over children before Christmas, so they can report back to Santa who's naughty and who's nice. As a parent, I find this mildly useful in keeping my kids on their best behaviour, and not particularly Orwellian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomte
Part of the value was that the dumps were updated weekly.

Say you're using it to get a list of named entities (proper nouns). The purpose is to cluster news stories about a given entity (if you look at Facebook's Trending News, each headline begins with a proper noun followed by a blurb. Not sure if they use Freebase, but it could be a useful input).

The value of Freebase will decline over time as the content becomes out of date.
Perhaps if they put some of that $3m in the glory days to expanding the focus and community around the site it wouldnt be this way, new users new revenue streams.... Kind of like slashdot (sold for a big mac) and soon infoq (e.g. more conferences puylishing to youtube now)

It will be news to Google and Bing (and their share price) that "advertising on websites" doesn't work. I suspect they were still working a CPM advertising model that died around the start of the century.
No trippier than the Windows 386 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcjvgxAKiHs
Childrens' stories and even lullabies have always sounded creepy. You know "rock-a-bye baby" for example. And I get asked "Daddy, why did they put the crib in the tree and let the baby fall and get hurt!???". I didn't think much about it first, then once I did, it does sound a bit off.

Then my kid is freaked out about Santa. "What? This person in funny clothes will break into our house, at night, while I am asleep, and I am supposed to be happy about it". Yeah that is pretty creepy too.

Then Elf On The Shelf. Wife said all the friends are doing this thing with their kids. We decided not to, it is too strange. Now reading this it makes it even worse. You know back in the day it used to be "God is watching you. Don't do bad things. Don't think bad thoughts. Etc.". That is very effective brainwashing. Once done on a child they will cary guilt and this nagging feeling of being watched and critisized with them for life (Hey isn't that Super Ego? I saw someone drop Slavoj Zizek's name, he would know). Today not many people are religious but I think they are earning for a substitute. Perhaps unconsciously if you will. This is that substitute -- "Elf will see you mix salt in the sugar bowl and will punish you".
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I want to point out, this is SALARY only. Don't forget about stock/bonuses.
Only if it's independently evolved, if it's a fork of life on Earth then it doesn't tell us anything about the probability of life elsewhere.

The great filter is very likely the evolution of multicelluar life and animals, which are unlikely to be found on mars. If we found living animals on mars I would be very concerned about the future of the human race.
(Devil's advocate time...)

I wish that the French had gone all of the way to a duodecimal system, and a base 12 measurement system. Most of the arguments for the Imperial system surround the fact that in convenient places you can divide things in half or thirds. And a base 12 time system could have been compelling enough to replace the Babylonian base 60 system that we are stuck with. The one that, even in the metric system makes it hard to convert from meters/second to km/hour.
That said, if you could gain persistent remote access to the computer, you can just repeatedly ask the processor to encrypt things.

This is incidentally part of why the Chromebook design makes it hard to persistently change the machine; a reboot starts from a clean signed image and then mounts a home directory. It's still possible to stick a persistent exploit somewhere in the home directory, but it's not as simple as just dropping a file in /etc/init.
Browserify's "runtime" is about 440 bytes. For example, consider:

// hello.js
module.exports.hello = function() {
console.log("hello");
}

// test.js
var h = require('./hello');
h.hello();

The result of browserifying this is:

(function e(t,n,r){function s(o,u){if(!n[o]){if(!t[o]){var a=typeof require=="function"&&require;if(!u&&a)return a(o,!0);if(i)return i(o,!0);var f=new Error("Cannot find module '"+o+"'");throw f.code="MODULE_NOT_FOUND",f}var l=n[o]={exports:{}};t[o][0].call(l.exports,function(e){var n=t[o][1][e];return s(n?n:e)},l,l.exports,e,t,n,r)}return n[o].exports}var i=typeof require=="function"&&require;for(var o=0;o<r.length;o++)s(r[o]);return s})({1:[function(require,module,exports){
module.exports.hello = function() {
console.log("hello");
}
},{}],2:[function(require,module,exports){
var h = require('./hello');
h.hello();
},{"./hello":1}]},{},[2]);

It's pretty damn compact. Sure, every module is wrapped with the signature "function(require, module, exports)", but a good minifier such as Google Closure will reduce that by a lot:

(function e$$0(d,b,f){function g(c,e){if(!b[c]){if(!d[c]){var a="function"==typeof require&&require;if(!e&&a)return a(c,!0);if(h)return h(c,!0);a=Error("Cannot find module '"+c+"'");throw a.code="MODULE_NOT_FOUND",a;}a=b[c]={exports:{}};d[c][0].call(a.exports,function(a){var b=d[c][1][a];return g(b?b:a)},a,a.exports,e$$0,d,b,f)}return b[c].exports}for(var h="function"==typeof require&&require,e=0;e<f.length;e++)g(f[e]);return g})({1:[function(k,d,b){d.exports.hello=function(){console.log("hello")}},
{}],2:[function(k,d,b){k("./hello").hello()},{"./hello":1}]},{},[2]);

I don't see what you win by going with RequireJS/AMD.
I felt the same as you, until I read that Google is going to manage your keys or handle the cert. authority part (however that ends up). Then I realized their end game, which is to control end to end encryption adoption to keep another vendor from controlling it.

It's the same strategy google did with the browser and mobile. They don't want to be locked out of this play, because if they don't have influence then they may potentially loose all sorts of profiling data on you. So, with Google controlling the adoption they can ensure mechanisms to provide services around your encrypted data to benefit you (while also serving google by letting them into your encrypted life).
But accelerators are not only about money, aren't they? How about a process of looking for co-founders, learning... Video chats may be used for a better communication.
At least, online model can be combined with the classical accelerators. What do you think?
The diff suggests removing the TODO because it adds the privacy checks. See the added canSeeFriends call.
Mountains out of molehills. The truth of it is, it doesn't matter what the default unit of measurement is as long as you know to clearly specify the unit! :) Like language translation, let others convert your "native" units into their local version. This is no different than how foods or tastes change, or sometimes even color preferences, can change regionally. At least we've moved beyond "m" means both "metre" and "mile". Generally people now say "mi" when they mean "mile", so I'll take that as a win. I tried to convert the word "mile" to other languages, but ended up finding that in many translations, they converted US miles into native miles or kilometres, and so did not have a clearly defined word for such things. Which is why I emphasize being specific about the unit of measure. The rest doesn't really matter. 70°F? 21°C? Feels about the same to me! That said, I wish everyone would hurry up on the YYYY-MM-DD adoption. Always confuses me to see 2-digit days and months and not know which is which.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I think the Elf on the Shelf gives exactly the right message about the place of surveillance in our society.
And while we're at it, let's add Kodak's 13-month calendar to the (evenly-divided) wishlist too, eh? :D
Meta: I was hesitant to click on this link, as the HN comments implied it was "enjoyable", which in my experience when applied to technical articles is usually codeword for "fluffy and un-informative".

But this article has all the technical details, and just-enough-but-not-too-much humor and background story to make this entertaining. Highly recommended, even if you're a "the details, all the details and nothing but the details" technical reader like me.
Have you received a copy of NDA for review? Instead of outright declining NDA, I will suggest you review the NDA, identify the clauses that you have concerns about, let the client know your concerns and request to modify/remove the relevant clauses. Most of the time client will either modify the clauses or let you know the reasons for having those clauses in NDA.

Recently, I requested a client to sign an Indemnification and hold harmless agreement. The client came back expressing their concerns about couple of clauses and requested to remove them. I replied with details on what is the purpose of those clauses and how they protect both parties. I also suggested to the client that they are welcome to suggest modifications that achieve similar objective and situations as original clauses and also address their concerns.

Once client understood the reasons for those clauses, they signed the agreement without requesting any changes or removal of those clauses.
Not authoritarian attitudes per se, but propensity to internalize the sense that one ought to behave as if one is being watched because A.) it's likely that it may very well be true and B.) the punishment / reward structure in place is both justified and aligned with overseen personal choices.

It would be interesting to see if this toy specifically correlates with these feelings (would be a hard multi-decade study to design...) but I do think there is the point to be made at large that we exist in a surveillance state, and in fact that since at least the 1700s these forces have been very powerful in shaping Western culture. (For that I would suggest reading Foucault, Gilliom, J.B. Rule and Dandeker.)
I live in Phoenix, a city built entirely on a mile-demarked grid. It's useful to be able to approximate how far everything is in whole units based on the grid, and I reckon it would take a very long time before people just referred to them as "blocks" or something similar.
>> Today not many people are religious

I think you're wrong about that. I also think you're wrong to conflate your apparent phobias about religion with Elf on the Shelf and government control.
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curious why don't they deploy parachutes or floatables and then slowly do a controlled descent using the rockets? I mean is this most efficient way of landing the rocket, essentially going backwards on re-entry? What if the rocket catches a gust of wind and flips on its side? Bad weather?
First, some chrome extensions might legitimately need this. But even if they were disallowed -

The guy had physical access to a running chrome capable of sending those cookies, and the ability to install an extension. This basically means no software policy was going to stop him.
> possible for countries and companies to co-operate on such a scale on a capital market

Simple. Heads of State get together and decide to what they want to happen. They have a whole range of levers to pull to manipulate markets.

> where most notably personal profit leads the market over political decisions

This is 100% wrong. I trade Forex daily and (a) political decisions drive the market and (b) we follow the market not drive it. Statements from say ECB, FOMC and reserve banks around the world etc all dictate what the currency markets will do.
Another way to think about it is this:

There's two types of advertising (probably really more):
1) We don't care where you buy the thing we make, just buy it. (Mazda)
2) You want that thing in #1, come buy that thing from me! (Mazda dealership)

I don't think there's ever been a question of the efficacy of #1, but #2 is probably nearly useless online. Anecdotally, an advertisement might remind me I want something, but it isn't going to change my habits in how/where I buy it. Bob's House of Laptop Batteries could offer me a price that's $2 less than Amazon, but if I see Bob offering the exact battery I need at exactly the moment I need it, there's still a pretty good chance I'll buy it from Amazon because of 1) ease, 2) trust, 3) Prime, etc.
Equally interesting/appalling: private keys on github

https://github.com/search?p=4&q=extension%3A.key+BEGIN+RSA+P...
Nothing else to offer except "agreed".
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It's true that the technique would really enhance organic shapes. I see applying it to 8-bit pixel art spaceships as a cutification, and within the right overall design I think it would make sense.
I don't understand how that affects the ability to pirate them. I can find almost any song, tv show, or movie on torrent. Finding ebooks is much harder.
It seems utterly reasonable to me. What could be more reasonable than wanting your medium of exchange to be out of the control of incompetent, corruptible governments? What could be more reasonable than wanting your medium of exchange to be based upon open-source, community-edited code, that anyone can review, contribute to, and build on top of? What could be more reasonable than wanting your medium of exchange to be available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, regardless of political orientation, without asking anyone's permission?

Sorry but fiat currencies possess no advantages other than incumbent localised network effects. The world needs a true global currency and Bitcoin is it.
This seems like a pretty bad decision.

You don't have a constitutional right to be free from being photographed in public spaces.

If someone wants to follow a police car from a safe distance for weeks and videotape it to capture the civil rights infractions done by its officers; this is now an unconstitutional activity?

The proper way to place a check on this power is for people to decide this is not a good way to spend its money rather than absurd judicial gymnastics.
Thank you. Didn't know that the trade market worked that way.
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If life is discovered on mars, would we be allowed to colonize it?
Due to my background as both an American and (chemical) engineer, I am fluent in metric, American, and domain specific unit systems used in chemical engineering that are neither American nor metric. I can switch between these as necessary quite fluidly; it is an elementary skill as a chemical engineer.

I would argue that being limited to a single unit system is like being limited to a single language. In principle, no one needs more than one but in practice the differences in expressiveness for different purposes are interesting and useful. These differences in expressiveness are connected to the continued existence of different systems.

America is big enough and is sufficiently independent of trade in its economy (most of its stupendous production is also internally consumed) that the cost of not transitioning to metric is marginal. I understand why metric is a good system but simultaneously understand why the benefit of metric is dubious for the average American. Remember, American units are defined in terms of metric units; it is a preference, an American can precisely convert to metric at any time if they deem it useful. But they don't because it serves little purpose.

Basically, like their language, Americans occupy a big enough economic sphere that they get to define their standards. An enormous number of global standards are American in origin as it is. I don't sweat the lack of metric even though I use it routinely. Once you become familiar with enough unit and arithmetic systems, you quickly learn that they all suck in some context.

It is pointless to turn these things into religions.
That wikipedia article supports nothing of the tradition you just described.
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Comparing a language designed 35 years ago with a language designed a few years ago on the merits of a particular niche that the newer language was designed practically from the ground up for. Shocking conclusion here...
CZDS Security Disclosure (2014-12-17)
Part 2; http://sintheticlabs.com/blog/a-look-inside-facebooks-source...
its not an analogy, theres actually research that proves that GC can actually improve memory locality in a particular provable sense!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/iolambda/short.pdf
and
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/iolambda-cacm/cacm.pdf

both treat this topic in a pretty rigorous way.
(i've had some attempts at proving a similar intuition, but those papers do it right)