skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found it much more interesting to consider that smart stop light sensors could read the RFID tags that are required for tires [1]. You can change your plates but how often do you change your tires?

[1] http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?10880
Well I have no experience actually setting up this but some high power routers/access points with high gain antennas would probably be preferable (at least if both sides use comparable hardware). I don't know how well the software stands up from software such as Amped Wireless equipment but they'd probably be a good from an hardware standpoint. But it might be cheaper jam wifi-cards in the already available computers and running local software.

I once needed internet access from an server with no physical network access, however I had an friend living across the hall (quite thick concrete and brick walls but hardwood doors). That time I were rather successful running two cheapo PCI wifi-cards with external antennas I had laying around. Used lagg interfaces (link aggregation in failover mode) in FreeBSD and got a workable remote terminal session over mosh. It wasn't optimal but it certainly worked.
FTA: Valderrama doesn't recommend eating the meat, in case it is infected with a transmittable disease - one dead hippo was found to be carrying leptospirosis which can cause meningitis
I've been mulling ideas to defeat ANPR without breaking state laws. The simplest may be to use a tilted/warped surrounding frame that interferes with the skew correction of the captured plate. Another thought is to project bright infrared patterns to disrupt unfiltered B&W cameras.
Given the pace of its growth, the future cumulative value should be tremendously huge.

Keeping the 1st search positions with such competitive large-volume phrases as "Transfer money to the USA" and "Transfer money to the UK" tells me it's killing it. [search tested in NY-based VPN and Finland]
The TOR project has a fork of Firefox with lots of defaults changed to prevent user fingerprinting. They also provide patches back to Mozilla. The closest to a list of defaults to change I found is

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#Imple...
I think it's a phenomenon worth examining. There isn't a simple answer. Part of it must be changes in American culture. What those changes are is debatable.
I have to laugh a bit about his comments on point of view, and arrogance.

The atheist prays, and is rescued by a couple of passing Eskimos -- he credits the Eskimos (no God involved), the believer credits God, and I (somewhat arrogantly) notice that:

- the "experiment" doesn't offer any evidence in either direction, BUT

- prayer in a life-or-death situation does seem like it would strengthen religious belief, because if someone prays and dies, well, that's that. They're not around to tell others how prayer failed them. But those that pray and survive will preach the seeming intercession to the world with utter conviction.

This is why his other points about worship are excellent -- if I take intellectual agility or rationality to the level of worship, and keep a self-centered focus, well, I just have to run into someone who's mastered this far more than I have to be deflated.
I found the sound effects too distracting. It's a shame you can't turn them off and just hear the speech with the video.
About a third of a percent of the memory available in a Model B.
> Ad absurdum, consider if everyone purchased enough solar for their household to be net zero. The power companies would not be able to charge anything

Untrue. Electric utility tariffs in California include both "Energy Rates" ($ per kWh in multiple tiers based on multiples of baseline monthly kWh usage) and "Minimum Charge Rates" ($ per meter per day, irrespective of usage).

With net zero usage, only the Minimum Charge Rate could be collected. But, given the way tariff setting works, if net zero was common, the Minimum Charge Rate would be much higher than it is now, to cover infrastructure, etc. costs.

The system also includes "standby reservation charges" for energy customers that are also energy generators, but small solar and some other generation systems that aren't selling energy as a primary function and are exporting only "incidental" amounts back into the grid are exempted from those charges under, e.g., PG&E's current tariff schedule. That limited exemption is more defensible as an unsustainable subsidy to small solar (and some other) generators than the basic net zero arrangement is.
Does the framework predict monotonic utility growth? Does profit maximization occur instantaneously? Does it provide any guarantees on the timeframe required to experience maximal social utility?
Because DMV databases weren't enough? No... We need to know where all those cars are. Come on.
I kind of assumed this technology had always existed. Nearly every crime movie I've ever watched included a scene where they mentioned picking up the criminal's plates on the highway.
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> from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (čaturaṅga)

chatur-anga = four limbs (or perhaps four body parts, I'm not sure)
http://www.openworm.org/science.html

s/pealing/peeling
This is apparently a new study, but the idea is not new. For example, see this article from American Family Physician in 2009: http://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/0301/ot2.html

A quote:

> Background: Medications with anticholinergic properties are often associated with adverse events, including falls, cognitive dysfunction, delirium, and loss of independence.

That's from 2009, and it is stated as something already known.

Also, it should be noted that loratadine ("Claritin"), which lots of people take, has anticholinergic effects. See http://doctorslounge.com/chest/drugs/antihistamines/claritin...
Good stuff. You just missed out the free reviews but you can always order a review (http://sitesesh.com), and with a coupon code, it goes down to $8 :)
I'm with you on that. I seriously hate the term "creatives", I've only seen it used in a derogatory way (either by or against). I just can't take anyone seriously when they use that word to describe themselves or their clients.

Could also be a trigger for me, I word with a lot of designers, artists, and videos guys/gals. Most are pretty good, but all the ones that call themselves "a creative" are guaranteed to be pretty elitist about it.
While it is true that solar during the day is a bit more valuable, what really matters is what it is displacing. Check out this document from the California grid operator on page 3.
http://www.caiso.com/documents/flexibleresourceshelprenewabl...

In 2013, the average load on the electric grid only stayed in a 2 gigawatt band from midnight through 6pm. When there wasn't much deviation, nat gas combined cycle plants (or nuclear, or coal) can run most efficiently. But by 2020, the growth in solar production in the middle of the day will cause dispatachable power plants (nat gas combined cycle along with nat gas turbines) to deal with a change of 13 gigawatts between 4 pm and 8 pm. This is a huge change in a short amount of time. Thank kind of ramping of power plants is not efficient.

Also note in the graph that the highest system demand occurs at about 9pm. That means that solar does not help cover the highest demand. In this situation, solar does not help reduce the amount of power plants and it leads to the increased use of less efficient (and faster acting) power plants. So while solar seems cheap, it leads to other costs if you want to keep the lights on.
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That's starting to be figured out finally. They've identified the motor neurons and some of the ones involved with touch so that a simulated worm can actually navigate around. I find it incredible though all this is done with as few neurons as it has (302). I've got everything downloaded and have been wanting to play with it in a simulation of some kind.
Only if the content is different for people who got there by clicking a link in Google search results, apparently.
I've gotten Amazon gift cards on my last two birthdays.
The "problem" is that it is increasingly easy to assemble these databases and to update them in real time. If a government agency isn't doing it, a corporation could be (and some are, for certain pieces of data), and soon (if not now) an individual or loose collection of individuals could achieve nearly the same results.

We might need to embrace it, make everything transparent and collaborative, and figure out how to make use of the information to create a state that is better than what currently exists.
This quote is out of context. The NSA deals with foreign intelligence. Generally speaking, only US citizens are protected under US law.
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Cashiers. I know some stores have self checkout solutions, but it seem like manually scanning each object isn't the ideal solution. There should be some sort of array of scanners able to rapidly identify UPCs along a moving conveyor belt.
I don't know about that but it helps to ask your CPA (also, get a CPA), and have proof (eg, lease / mortgage, etc) of residency handy. CA once went after me for income I had earned years before I'd ever lived there, and sorting that out was a mess.
In the UK, some police cars have the technology integrated so that officers can pursue uninsured drivers.

I suspect if your plate failed to read you may well end up being pulled over - not sure on the punishment.

The obvious solution of using another car's plate is defeated by noticing that a car appears to be driving on opposite ends of the country simultaneously :D
If a programmer builds an amazingly perfect app, but has no users to see it, did she really build it? -Confucius

In less snarky terms, I think focusing on marketing is super important. The faults and missing features can be fixed when you have users and money to pay for the work to do so. I'm sick of using a nice obscure app that is abandoned because I'm one of the few people who use it, so I'm less harsh on marketing as opposed to "more coding" than you.
Reminds me of another Hippo story, the U.S. Hippo Bill that was proposed to farm Hippos. http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/
You may be on to something there. I wonder, however, how people are going to reconcile what the government is doing now with all of those previous works of fiction? It's going to have to add up to something -- a narrative must be formed. Were those just the halcyon days of yore? And now we've somehow "grown up" to face the realities of a scary world?

Even more troubling, people are people, and when this is seriously abused -- and my money says it'll happen within the next 20 years -- how are people going to explain it all away?

I am left with the troubling thought that we are creating for ourselves a dystopian society never dreamed of even by sci-fi writers. Rome had nothing on this, nor does North Korea. The attention a known dissident would receive in former East Germany is a cakewalk compared to the kind of surveillance we're giving each citizen who's guilty of nothing. The only thing we're waiting for is the logical and natural corruption of large systems of people to take place.
No problem John, I'm not (yet, at least) a user of your app I'm just a fellow indie that wanted to illustrate the reality of doing business at just $30/copy. Prices are low enough to make most indie development uneconomical in pure dollar terms. Though I wholeheartedly agree that money is not the only motivation, customers need to realise that developers need to make a decent living in order for there to be a vibrant ecosystem of apps.

As an indie who has made the mistake of both pricing too low and spending too much time on development (vs marketing) in the past, it looks like you've done very well to avoid these pitfalls so far!
I had thought that ALPR data would be quite a very tool for detectives, but a related article [1] is quite disparaging about their use in Vermont. Apparently in 2013, for a ~$1m investment, 106 queries were made resulting in just 3 cases of useful information.

I think combining each states' databases as described in the WSJ will actually improve this number and is actually a prudent decision.

1: http://digital.vpr.net/post/license-plate-scanners-raise-pri...
Don't forget oil. The U.S. military isn't cheap.
"Bring it up to disparage it"... uh what?
Another way is travel by other means, eg taxi, bus, subway, train, bike, etc.
Ahh, good find :)
if someone can afford plate armor, they can probably afford a decent ransom

edit: beaten to it, that's what i get for loading a whole bunch of tabs when i first get into work...
TechCrunch has a source saying 43,000 over the next year -- ie, 11,000 per quarter (scroll to bottom): http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/26/sources-say-ibm-planning-on...
How do you manage your VMs? Are you using Qubes[1] or something like it? Can you easily force all traffic from a specific VM through a VPN/proxy?

[1] https://qubes-os.org/
> It would be a good thing because following the principal of maximizing profits is what is most socially beneficial, in the absence of externalities.

"In the absence of externalities" is a pretty enormous qualifications -- very few real world exchanges have no externalities.

> Such a framework exists and is called general equilibrium theory, which predicts that profit maximizing companies maximize social utility.

It predicts that, in a market with rational actors (as defined in the rational choice model -- utility maximizers with perfect information) and no externalities, a Pareto efficient equilibrium will be achieved. But Pareto efficiency means that for anyone to do better, someone would have to do worse. This is not the same as maximizing social utility (while it seems obvious that the point of maximum social utility must be a pareto efficient point, it is not clear that all pareto efficient points maximize social utility.)

And, of course, the conditions in which it makes those predictions (both the perfect information part of the rationality condition, and the no-externalities condition) don't reflect real world decisions very well.
When I was visiting, I was surprised by how many grocery stores stocked fresh pasta. You could find it almost anywhere. Now that I'm in Dublin, I can't even find a single one!
I dunno if I'm gonna change my tires but I imagine if I didn't want to be tracked it would be not too difficult to smash/electrocute/burn the tags into nonfunctionality.
I'd argue that design and information are (or, should be) inextricably linked. Your advice is sound however!
Quick note, Persian is the proper and historical name of "Farsi" in English. Farsi is the local name (and what most Persian speaking people call their language in their own language), much like "French" vs "Français" in English. To be pedantic, it is improper to say "I speak Français", rather one should say "I speak French".
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C. elegans neurons are non-spiking, making them more like analog circuits than digital circuits. In comparison, all mammalian brains use spiking neurons.
Batteries have huge economies of scale, and solar needs them.

The utilities will change, but I doubt they'll disappear.
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Lots of great answers, thanks to all of you!

The solution of my problem probably lies in the mix of most of your answers; what I'm thinking about doing is:

1. Start waking up earlier in the morning and power nap to counterbalance any sleepiness in the afternoon

2. Be more strict in terms of diet, eat real food + no more coffee after lunchtime

3. Stop working overtime (weekend notably), to try to reduce the procastrination on small tasks

4. Talk with management and try to find some possible arrangements (maybe get a minion?)

5. Find a position where I would have only one major job, not 3 or 4.

Cheers!
The concept is useful, but the API with its need for all these asynchronous callbacks, really sucks donkey balls.
The particular cute thing is that they seem to have a name for every color.
Weird seeing this here, have been playing a lot of Elite: Dangerous lately, if you are a fan of the original Elite it is a true successor: https://www.elitedangerous.com/

Here is a video with interviews of the orginal developers that discuss the extreme need for byte savings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rapa3VfUWfs

Of course you guys know David Braben is one of principle founders of the Raspberry Pi foundation.
Any thoughts on why their chances are so low?
I had never even heard of them, but seems like a pretty cool product.
Tyres have RFID tags in them??! What an unusual thing to put RFID tags in. I wonder what other common items could have tags in them that people are generally unaware of.

I'm quite in to cars and I had NO IDEA this was a thing.
Which murder case was this in particular? Do you have a link to the news article?
To be fair, if anyone could keep this technology alive, it would be Dropbox.
>Does the framework predict monotonic utility growth?

I don't understand that question. I know the language of economics very well, but you're not using the terms in way that has an obvious meaning.

>Does profit maximization occur instantaneously?

Time is not really an issue in general equilibrium theory. E.g. the assumptions can be interpreted as saying that all companies make the decision that, at that time, given all information available, maximizes the expected value of the companies future time discounted dividends.

>Does it provide any guarantees on the timeframe required to experience maximal social utility?

Social utility is timeless. E.g. it can be restated to say that if you were to make a plan (where plan can include contingencies, e.g. if X happens, do Y) to maximize the (time discounted) total social welfare over all future time periods, then this plan would involve instructing all companies to maximize profit (in the sense of my answer above).

Basically, general equilibrium theory takes into account time, by adding dynamic programming. But this augmented theory is fundamentally the same as the theory when all consumption, production and trade occurs in one instant.

Minus all the econ jargon, I think you may have been hinting at the adjustment costs for the workers involved. There are indeed adjustment costs, but you can't speak about these costs in the same terms as the actual value of having a job. It's like comparing the cost of moving from one home to another, to losing one's home entirely.
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Please provide your own estimates on how many people are required to make great software. Not talking about Word in particular.

I've worked in large companies, now I make a living off my own company, so I must know something about software teams, complexity and feature creep. I didn't provide these estimates in the void.
It looks like there isn't any kind of user-definable shard/partition key available within the topics - a message within a topic could go to any client subscribing to a channel for that topic? Is that correct?

That's obviously fine for AWS Lambda-style single event processing (maps, filters, sinks), but isn't that going to make multiple event processing (reduces, sorts) really difficult? It rules out using in-process memory or local KV storage for maintaining the necessary state across the aggregation window - you're only left with pounding some remote database, not a great strategy as per http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/why-local-state-is-a-fundam...
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o_O

Usually I have one weekend where I just crash and I am utterly useless but that's pretty impressive/concerning...

What field you're in?
> general equilibrium theory, which predicts that profit maximizing companies maximize social utility

No, it doesn't. It can't, because "social utility" is visible to the market only through the proxy of willingness to pay. If you assume that the marginal utility of money is roughly proportional to 1/wealth (equivalently, that the utility you get from $X in wealth is roughly proportional to log(X)) then what the economy kinda maximizes is total weighted utility, where every person's utility is weighted in proportion to their wealth.

What markets give us (in theory, subject to various conditions) is a Pareto-efficient allocation of resources. And there's a theorem that says that (in theory, subject to various conditions) one can get any Pareto-efficient allocation of resources by doing a bunch of pure money-transfer operations and then letting the market do its thing.

That's nice, but it's only equivalent to saying that the market maximizes social utility if you regard those money-transfers as net-utility-neutral.

So, suppose I have $1M and you have $1K. Under the logarithmic-utility assumption above, an extra $10 for you gains you about as much extra happiness as an extra $10K for me. Consider a transaction in which I find 1000 people like you and pay you each $10 in exchange for what you consider to be $10 worth of inconvenience or pain; I have lost $10K but will be content if I get what I consider to be $10K worth of convenience or pleasure. So we have a possible transaction to which all participants are indifferent: I get a certain amount of happiness; 1000 people each get a roughly equivalent amount of unhappiness; and some money is transferred between us. If money transfers are net-utility-neutral, then by reversing those transfers we get another simpler "utility-neutral" transaction: X units of happiness for me, X units of unhappiness each for 1000 people. So long as they're 1000x poorer than me.

(Is that logarithmic-utility assumption reasonable? Not entirely. I think it's generally held that the marginal utility of wealth decreases faster than that, which would make the factor by which markets weight rich people's utility more important than poor people's utility greater. On the other hand: If we consider the wealth and utility of corporations as well as individuals, we might want to say that a corporation's utility doesn't drop off the way an individual's does. I haven't fully got my head around the right way to think about this so I'll stop at this point.)
In its pursuit of EPS, IBM has lost its rank and file within the USA. Morale is pretty low. When I left in 2014, "resource actions" were a weekly discussion topic. In Software Group. On a very profitable product.

Layoffs have been happening yearly from when I was an intern in 2007 until I quit IBM about a year ago. IBM stopped publishing its US employment counts for this very reason.
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Thank you. Just to clarify, even though I'm a libertarian, this isn't a "Big Gummit" problem. If DOJ wasn't doing this, Yellow Cab would. Or Uber. Or the guys who build traffic lights. The data is simply too valuable to ignore.

This is a tech problem. We created this, all while saying something like "Yeah, but all that ethical and philosophy stuff isn't really anything I need to worry about. What I need are eyeballs"

The government takes the blame in many cases because they hold all the trump cards -- they can take the data from anybody that's collecting it. They can also send you to jail, which commercial providers cannot directly do (yet). But the problem is with the tech. We have met the enemy and he is us.
Well then maybe we should just require everybody to have telescreens [1] in their homes. The NSA can monitor them a la Thought Police.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
>The people most affected by increased electricity prices are the poor.

If you want to see where solar panels have really taken off, you should pay a visit to the third world where the US government isn't subsidizing them.