skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that ffmpeg is returning in Ubuntu 15
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ffmpeg-returns-to-official-ub...
>For example, find me someone who can tell me what kind of hardware we need for an AGI.

My guess: Something with tons of flops (or even fixed point ops, if that would be easier). Everything else secondary.
> Short of more fanciful solutions like fully elevated or underground passageways, you're going to need roughly the same grid of roads even if you eliminate cars.

Not actually true. Grids come in many different shapes and sizes. As one easy example: the block size. As a city planner, you can choose any block size you like, and this will adjust the ratio of real estate to transportation infrastructure accordingly.

Additionally, and this is fanciful futurism more than anything else: in a city that functions without ubiquitous private vehicle traffic, you can make the roads narrower, which also increases the real estate. To take an example from where I live:

http://sfdpw.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=3690

Potrero Avenue in SF is 100 feet wide. A hundred feet. If you naievely parceled this land out by drawing a line across the road every 5 feet, the each demarcated space would be worth $2k/mo rent. In a hypothetical future city without cars, you wouldn't need a road to be a hundred feet wide.

More reading re: grid plans

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/10/14/places-and-non...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan (specifically this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Block_Sizes_and_Street_Len...)
surprised not to see this linked in the article:

http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio...
> there is no good way for the other party to call your bullshit.

Er, actually...
Being wired into the entertainment system is what I would be worried about. I'd be pretty surprised if they added a separate fuse for the device.

Personally I don't have any qualms about pulling the fuse being against the terms. I just don't think it will even be a viable option.
Self isn't implicit by design. One of the core python philosophies is that explicit is better than implicit.
"What the massive snowfall in Boston tells us about global warming"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201...

“Sea surface temperatures off the coast of New England right now are at record levels, 11.5C (21F) warmer than normal in some locations,” says Penn State climate researcher Michael Mann. “There is [a] direct relationship between the surface warmth of the ocean and the amount of moisture in the air. What that means is that this storm will be feeding off these very warm seas, producing very large amounts of snow as spiraling winds of the storm squeeze that moisture out of the air, cool, it, and deposit it as snow inland.”
Show HN: React+D3.js, an ebook that teaches you dataviz with React
Editor:

- Atom

- Plugins:
- Sublime-Style-Column-Selection
- atom-beautiful
- autocomplete-plus
- emmet
- pretty-json
- (few other plugins for spotify etc...)

Utilities:

- Grunt
- Bower
- Compass

Terminal:
I personally use iTerm for all of my terminal needs, this is purely a personal choice.
I'd also suggest that efforts to try to "remove cars" prior to this technology are likely to amount to wastes of time. There's a lot of people who want this, which makes me somewhat suspicious that the studies are just finding what they want to find, and I rather suspect what Hamburg is going to discover is that they spend a lot of money making it so cars can't penetrate their "city", only to discover, oops, we can't actually remove them after all.

You may dislike passenger cars (and I detect more than a faint whiff of Puritanism around that whole attitude, but that's a discussion for another day), but to entirely remove roads requires you to also solve the problem that motor vehicles are also the general circulatory system of a city. Now I think there are solutions to that problem... but they're all about 10 years away, minimum. We aren't there yet.

And then, when we do get there, it won't need to be helped along by governments or modern-day Puritans... it'll just happen, faster and better than any premature attempt to make it happen before the tech is there ever could make it happen.
Hamburg's mentioned plan reminds me of Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan for San Francsico, which would have created Panhandle-like parks running all over the city as well as diagonal avenues connecting major points of interest a-la Paris or Washington DC. The 1906 earthquake would've been the perfect opportunity to make it a reality, but unfortunately it never went anywhere.

Map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Burnham_San_Fr...
i allow myself to be impacted by this too much, but I would still say we do have control, as we choose to allow ourselves to be exposed to the stimuli, right? the provided examples above a-d can all be controlled by not having your phone in front of you, and closing non-coding applications.

desk drive-bys and kitchen cake on the other hand, are much less likely for me to resist
This is cool, but all that it takes to break down the fancy encryption is for the government/law enforcement to take it over and add some tiny js in the page.

If you really need to be secure, never trust a third party.
1password if you're not using any other password organizer app.

Bartender to keep your menu bar items organized.

Flashlight to make Spotlight a bit more powerful.

Flux if you're into it.

Github OSX app is quite nice.

That's what I got from a quick look to my system.
~3500 most-mentioned python resources in tweets, visualized and summarized
This is a good idea, unfortunately I've worked on projects recently in which the "backend" is in JS.
or you could just not mind the downvotes whether they are misunderstood, accidental, or random.
The melting of Antarctica
To.is
Silverlight's end of life has been announced. Microsoft is even phasing it out of its own product offerings. The example I am thinking of is their data visualization tool, Power View, which is taking the helm as their dashboard design platform. It was originally developed with Silverlight, but pretty much all current development is in the HTML5 fork in PowerBI.

On the Netflix front, Chrome has had HTML5 streaming since late last summer.

I think the bigger news is killing NPAPI, not specifically Silverlight.

Edit: Typoes.
It comes from the fact that there are many, many jobs for programmers out there. If you don't actually enjoy your job, then it's at least work having a look out there to see if there is something you'd enjoy more.

Like the person you quoted said, life is too short to spend 40 hours a week doing something you really don't care about.
I did no such thing; you just totally missed my point. People did not adopt hierarchies; they were pushed on them by violence. People fucking abhor hierarchies. That's why "the boss" is a universally despised figure.
Obligatory disclaimer: "Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful"

http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
To take one example, the details of rental car controls can sometimes be unfamiliar. I've generally been comfortable pulling out the manual in those situations, but I'm sure some people would prefer a live walkthrough, if available.
Constantinople was Christian at the time though. It was the capital of the roman empire, and remained Christian until til fifteenth century. But they did fight Arabs, so there was contact that way.
We know that human brains don't run on magic, therefore you can build a machine that can do the same thing.

I mean that is what I think, and most of the community thinks, but we haven't proven that empirically - nor could we, its unprovable.

But you don't have any good arguments for feeling safe.

Correct. Notice that I am not saying that we are safe. I personally think we aren't safe [1], but that is a different discussion which is equally as baseless.

The key here is that the argument that AGI will not be safe, and therefore needs to be regulated to make it safe, not only misses the point but ensures that we would never make one. The current level of funding for AGI development and understanding of the roadmap for AGI is absolutely dismal given it's potential impact. If we now add the constraint that in order to make one, we also ensure it doesn't threaten humanity - then you have sounded the death knell for AGI. Once we make AGI - in the sense that it is a recursively self improving system with human equivalent capabilities across domains - there is no way we will know what will happen. That's it.

[1] Which is why I am personally in the transhumanist camp.
Here's a slight variation -- Normally, the client side runs a "find" command to generate a file manifest, and sends it to the "snebu" command on the server side. Which then generates file list of files that it doesn't already have. The client then responds with a tar command output of those files, sending that back into the "snebu" command on the server (all via ssh).

The variation: Run snebu locally, and have the file vault loaded on an iscsi device targeted to the remote backup server. Then you can run LUKS locally, and not have to worry about trusting the remote server. Just make sure you send a copy of the sqlite database file (containing the backup catalog) to the remote volume after a backup. However, this still doesn't address having a remote encrypted volume that multiple clients can send to (in that case, you will need to do the other approach of sending to a local server under your control, then replicating it with a plugin that supports encryption [to be developed yet]).

Note, this method should work for any of the other backup utilities that don't support encryption also.
Gosh I hope we can figure this out in my lifetime.

Me too. BTW, The High Cost of Free Parking by Shoup is amazing on this issue (http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/1932...). Totally changed my perspective when I read it.
Anna Atkins was the first woman to ever take a photograph. Maybe
War on Food Science: Bisphenol a (BPA)
Phabricator does host git repositories. The workflow is a bit strange when compared to github's more natural PR model, but it works, and is overall quite solid.

Bonus points that in encourages you to upload memes under macros to troll your coworkers when doing code reviews.
Yes, you're right, this is why people are always saying things like, "I love my boss," "I really like other people telling me what to do all the time," and "I'd really hate to be able to work for myself."

Hierarchies are not the only way to divide labor.
Big Brother Hertz :)
I'm currently setting up something similar to this. It's an app that does server-side rendering. It has the server-side code, the shared rendering code, and the client-side code.

Webpack solves a LOT of problems with application development. Handling assets properly is very difficult, and webpack makes it straightforward.

Build systems are complicated, I'd love to see something that handles the same problems as webpack but somehow manages to avoid the required configuration.
Ask HN: How long need to wait an answer for YC apply
Yesterday i applied to YC S15 and interested in how long need to wait for an answer?
You can pipe the frames from FFmpeg to convert to avoid temporary files.
http://superuser.com/a/730389
Are you sure you're not thinking of a "security image"? That's a common tactic by banks to help users feel more secure, but in practice it actually provides very little benefit.
> We don't say that git hooks will be EE forever and we try so evaluate each merge request on its merits.

Seems like you sad exactly that a while ago:

"We are unlikely to merge this functionality in CE because there already is a nice implementation in EE."¹

It's your repo. You can do whatever you want with it, no need to merge PR for features that are already in your EE edition. That's why I hope someone forks it, or something better comes around.

¹https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/6883#issuecomment-...
Okay, that makes sense. But then the real problem is that solving what should be a trivial technical problem today requires an extremely wasteful workaround. If I understood jschuh correctly in [1] and [2], then they plan to make this workaround unnecessary by treating connections to localhost as secure even when over plain http/ws.

As I understood, connecting to a daemon, both over ws and wss will still be possible, as long as the - to be defined - opt-in headers are sent by the daemon. In fact, the associated change to mixed-content would even allow using plain ws://localhost on secure sites, which - as you told - isn't possible today.

Apparently vulnerable services exist and this is a security hole that needs to be closed. So legitimate users of local connections need to update their implementations anyway. If that's the case, I'd prefer a solution which just requires me to add a new response header and not need me to manage a new DNS entry and TLS cert for no real benefit.

I agree though that this change has possible sweeping implications and should be done as part of the usual HTML5 process and not unilaterally be chrome. Also, the opt-in protocol must be specified before this change comes into effect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211034
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210985
> Implementation would be another matter as there are a number of complexity gotchas.

I interviewed at an internet darling company. They had the main interviewer (who was a bit rude) and another shadow interviewer who takes notes on everything you do an say. All interviews are like this.

The coding gotchas quickly make you super nervous as everything you do and say is recorded. You have 15 minutes. Plus whiteboard is not an editor. I don't code linearly like writing a text book.

I have come to a realization that fresh out of university me performs better at interviews than 7 year experienced me.
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Setting experience requirements (high and low) is legal. Flat out stating an age isn't, in both the US and the UK.
and, just like the NRA had nothing to do with DC v. Heller (and in fact, filed a brief _against_ it when CATO filed), NORML has nothing to do with these victories.

the NRA was an elaborate way to milk money from gun owners whilst sabotaging the overall movement. I can't help but think NORML is the exact same thing from their track record.
Profit for something like AWS is likely difficult to put a number on.

They built it so they could run Amazon.com off the infrastructure, but then decided they could make money leasing their under-subscribed portions.

If they are not making a cut-and-dry profit from AWS (I'd fathom they are, they are one of the most expensive cloud providers and many other providers turn a healthy profit), then they are at least dramatically offsetting their own Amazon.com infrastructure costs which are mandatory anyway.
1 million people in one city (Sao Paulo). Most capitals (including Brasilia) had protests as well.
Perhaps even more amazing is the small Buddha statue found in a grave in Sweden from the 8th century.
Yes please. Let's leave GIF in the 20th Century, where it belongs.
NASA announces technology competition at SXSW
It's basically the same community working on both hardening and attacking Tor. Typically if you can find a vulnerability in Tor, you can patch it, and researchers usually work with the Tor developers to get the patches into Tor before disclosing them.
You don't seem to understand how militaries are organized.
New Site Mocks the Worst Kindle EBook Covers
I can't see myself using this for journal, simply having a usb or some other way is preferable if I need privacy. However, this has potential as a very nice solution for encrypting entries of any kind. Some kind of secure evernote. Anyhow, if you decide to further develop, I think this can grow into very interesting solution.
Thanks, doesn't look like you can use anything that isn't in the supported keywords though (like date/time)
It is interesting coming at it from the other side, I get hit up all the time to move my infrastructure to the cloud, I give them the specs and what I pay per month, tell them that if they can beat it I'll switch. The closest anyone has come has been about 4x the cost I'm currently paying.

But I note that I have a unique case that isn't covered by the cloud "architecture" (crawling the web and indexing it). Explaining that it is "ok" if I am in the 10% not covered by your 90% solution. But sales folks never like to hear that.
You're not kidding. I (oddly) graph the temp daily, and feb had about 3 days where it broke freezing.

A fun city game: car or just snow mound?

The public transit didn't work, compounding the problem. My three mile commute turned into 1.5 hr nightmare.

Finally Massachusetts is having a conversation about public transit. Fingers crossed they'll fix it. Maybe in time for the Olympics!
> OCaml classes allow row polymorphism, but disallow immutable updates (immutable updates meaning create a new object with everything the same, but one element different.)

There's a functional update construct for objects:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/objectexamples.ht...

It works like { r with field = value }.
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I'm also trying to wrap my brain around what webpack is, since I've been thus far conditioned to think of the build runner (e.g. gulp) and the bundle maker (e.g. browserify) as being separate.

The article seems to be saying this, but am I correct to come away thinking of webpack as a "module-aware build runner" that replaces both gulp and browserify (for example)?
Holland – backing up MySQL/PostgreSQL without a headache
Pachyderm v0.5: Single Node Mode
I think the best language to teach as an intro to coding for non-engineering, non-compsci folks would be python or maybe ruby.
I can't be the only one very bothered by the choice of projection. Despite its rounded corners, it's still very much Mercator.
I don't feel defensive, honestly build systems are boring to me so I'm not that passionate about it. What I meant was that its simple relative to what it could be.

Yes, build systems are complex, because people need features, even if you personally don't need them. Webpack doesn't offer many ways to do the same thing; it just simply has a lot of features. Whenever we get enough tooling around ES6 modules to match it (or come close), I'll gladly switch.

You'll see a fuller example later. I'd love to see a matching set up using systemjs/jspm. You could convince me to switch.
Then isn't this pattern the epitome of the philosophy?

At some point you trade an api for being explicit. Why isn't memory management explicit in python? I just don't agree with the (seemingly arbitrary) choice of making self explicit. It really does not feel like the "Python" way.
> The biggest problem here is that the opposition is also very corrupt

Also, both situation and opposition have a very similar agenda.
The improved screenshots do look quite improved, with less screen door effect. Nice.
* Czech Republic (Prague is the new Amsterdam)

* Uruguay

* Portugal
So it's using a simple Median Cut quantization... which is okay, but you can get great results using an octree quantizer, and without dithering. Dithering kills your compression savings in GIF so you'd want to avoid it if possible. In any case, you can see the difference a better quantizer makes here:

http://www.leptonica.com/color-quantization.html
Introducing Google Nearline
You make it sound as if Amazon buying servers was some kind of unexpected freak event.

They are just one of many large companies who buy hardware constantly.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Rackspace, Leaseweb, to name a few others...
Co-sign to what everyone said to try the apps.

After you get the feedback, create a small tweak in your iteration of the idea and analyze the potential.

Here I'll throw out an idea I had in a while, keep in mind I barely know how to code or even develop a tech start-up in the first place.

Privatized URL Analytics, yes there's Google and Bit.ly but what I'm saying is take Bit.ly's platform and integrate it with Google Analytics and you'll get one hell of a URL tracker. Sadly, nothing exists (as far as I know of). Would love to help develop and extrapolate the idea but that's as far as I could take it.

If there's such a URL platform, can anyone share what that is, so I may test it? Thanks and good luck with the idea.
Ask HN: How to improve my tech blogging skills?
I have just started writing tech blogs. I have a lot of knowledge which I want to share. Many of my friends have asked me to start blogging because they think it will help in spreading knowledge that I have. I have selected Wordpress as a platform for now but I am open to suggestions for shifting to other platforms. Please advise.
Link -	https://harshillodhi.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/softether-vpn-ubuntulinux-client-configuration-behind-http-proxy-in-progress/
Amazon is not know for posting operating profits, because they plow funds back into new research and businesses. But they most definitely operate with gross margins on everything they sell.

Update: in FY2014, they sold $89BN ($70.1BN in products, $18.9BN in services), and their cost of sales was $62.8BN. I am pretty sure that their margins are razor-thin in retail, but the service side had higher margins.
Pachyderm writes some really good blog posts that are worth checking out:

https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/when-grandmasters-blunder-...
from an insurance perspective even a still photo of who was behind the wheel at the time the vehicle is in motion is invaluable, from a customer perspective it comes down to the desire for privacy weighted against perceived benefits of allowing the camera to be activated without your control.

so perhaps initially providing it as a service will eventually convince people that its existence is benign
My work does not even bother to install the certificate on the individual machines. I get unsigned cert errors all day long.
That's Funny
That is how we are often treated. That is also (one of many reasons) why large projects constantly fail (or else go so massively over budget that you should still call it a failure).
A good solution hasn't been common. Try to use babel with gulp. You have to just glob a bunch of files and hope you've covered all your dependencies. It becomes a mess once you get into more complicated stuff.

Webpack also handles sourcemaps flawlessly, and you get tons of other stuff like http://webpack.github.io/docs/hot-module-replacement.html.
This is not an issue. You rent a car, a 50k+ product. You should expect there to be a GPS, Camera, Mic, etc.

This is not your product that is filled with spy devices. You are renting one of their product and it's their right to make sure you are not mistreating it.

That being said, if they were to sell those recording, yes it would be an issue.

Edit: Yes, your landlord shouldn't be allowed to put microphones and cameras in your apartment. However, when you are renting a Hertz car, you are renting a piece of equipment for a short duration. This isn't a living space we are talking about. It's the short term rental of a piece of machinery.
Oh thank goodness. I thought I was the only one.
Hello, I created some time ago http://secretdiary.org/ [now deleted]. It was basically the same idea but implemented server-side since that was what I wanted to learn at the moment, using the encryption MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256 from PHP [1]

I think that the double encryption is not needed, but since I am not an expert (just an enthusiast) I dig in the past about it and the experts and enthusiasts say the same [2][3]

I just re-bought the name so that no one could buy it when I made it public. If you want it, I have no problem in giving it for free since it reminds me a lot to my project and I think the name could be more suitable and you are indeed much more advanced that my project ever was and actively developing it (:

[1] https://github.com/FranciscoP/secretdiary

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/a/32260/9161

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1nhi4m/why_encryptin...