skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used a program called PhotoModeler [1] at work, which does the same thing.

You use a consumer camera + a calibration chart to get the specifics about the lens setup on the camera, and then just take a whole heap of photos around the object in question. You add the photos to the program and it asks you to identify common points. This puts them all in 3d perspective and you set a dimension on a known length to scale it.

For mapping large-scale machinery (train stuff) I've managed to get a ~5mm accuracy out of it. That's great when you don't have drawings.

[1]: http://www.photomodeler.com/index.html
The headline suggests that it was their choice of London as a fundraising location that almost killed their startup but I don't think that's true. While it's certainly more difficult to raise money in London than in San Francisco, the real problem seems to be that they ignored a critical piece of advice:

> The lead investor encouraged us to get it closed quickly and not try to do anything fancy.

Having said that, it's deeply disappointing that they still haven't heard back from HMRC on the advance assurance for SEIS.
Article is two years old, ICO link is to a dead page. Ignore it, probably a bot spamming HN.
Nothing wrong with your work ethic. It seems to be a consistent finding across domains that four or five hours of intellectually demanding work per day is about the limit of what the human brain can handle.
There are many organizations working to end the failed policy of prohibition. I believe one of the most effective is the Drug Policy Alliance. DPA is a national advocacy leader of drug law reform that is grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. If anyone know of a more effective organization please share it.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/
You are programming less.
Similar things have happened in Amsterdam for decades. They will go away as soon as the rest of Europe follows suit with decriminalization.
You and I are talking about two different things.

You're talking about command line editing, on the command line. And you're right, ge doesn't work there. vi mode at the command line is a small subset of vi.

The next time you want to use ge or any other full vim feature, try this instead:

- esc, to get into normal mode.
- the single character 'v' (no quotes), to open a full vi (or vim, or $EDITOR).
- the vim session will have your command line so far.
- edit with the full power of vim or whatever opened.
- :wq to execute the command.
- or empty the buffer and then :wq to not execute anything.
For those who, like me, had no idea how what a Chit Fund was and why it would need managed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund.
Checking their about page, they have 3 web developers, one of which wrote that post. That's worrying.
"At the moment, the number of police officers who have killed innocent people is still absolutely tiny"

There is no way to verify your claim. In my own antidotal
world, I have seen cops ruin people's lives by harassment, and revenue collection!

There are two statements made by Eric Holder's Justice Department that didn't get the traction I felt they needed:

“Local authorities consistently approached law enforcement not as a means for protecting public safety, but as a way of generating revenue,” Holder said

Officers in Ferguson “routinely violate the Fourth Amendment,” Holder said, and stop citizens without reasonable suspicion and then use unreasonable force against them. Incidents often “blatantly cross the line,” he said.

This investigation was specific to Ferguson, Missouri, but I have a feeling they are systemic problems in many towns and cities across America.

I have no way if proving my own personal suspicions about the average Cop, in the average police department, but I don't trust them anymore. I know I have been pulled over for no reason. I have been ticketed for incidents I honestly didn't
think I committed. I'm a white dude living in a wealthy community; I often wonder how minorites are treated in other parts of the country?

(I have no answers to the injustices I see, other than arming your vechicle, and person with a video cam. The problem I see now is most cops will be on the lookout for any recording
devise.)
>If customer support is a "cost center" for you, you're doing it wrong.

But Google showed us that you can build a billion-dollar multinational with abysmal customer support.

Valve Software performs similarly well, and is renowned for having awful customer support.
Zynga founder Mark Pincus returns
Your support will put there life on the line for a customer? Wow! That's incredible!
Domo comes out of nowhere at a $2B valuation
> Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them.

For the drug user and possibly society, not better for the Law Enforcement, Prison Guard and private corporations who run them though.
Seems like a semantic gloss, but then at some level I suppose higher level computing languages are all a semantic gloss.

Thanks for the responses - I'm now almost as knowledgeable as a 10 yo prior to being instructed in the subject at hand.
Can you provide examples of non deprecated API that Apple broke?
You have a good understanding of why this is the case. Hyper-V would be doing the job of Virtual Box and boot2docker which is what most developers have been using to run Docker daemon on non-linux hosts. I've tried the Hyper-V driver with Docker Machine and had some issues. So I'll be sticking with Virtual Box until that changes.
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Please don't keep it limited to osx. I'd love for it to be available on Linux as well. Should be doable since nw.js has nice cross-platform support.
This is the vid that i thinks carries the best all round anti-prohibition argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8yYJ_oV6xk
Humans are much better at adaptation than (so far) the things we build. I remember being surprised at how many things I was doing through a smartphone UI - and then I realised it's not because that's the only thing I can do, it's because that's the only way these services can understand me.
Same thing here. We're a pretty large agency, and it powers all of our SPA's and hybrid apps; even with a normal request based approach, Backbone/Marionette handles all UI beyond routing and initial render.

It's a definite boon to our development proces, and it has made our solutions easier to maintain. Can't ever see us go back from this approach.
I can't say I've noticed this before, which leads me to think it's probably an American colloquialism, but that's my default response to these kinds of things.

Could be that I've just not noticed it.
OMG brings back memories and makes me sad at same time it failed to gain ground. I was a BIG BeOS fan. In fact I'd probably be able to dig up from my storage the actual purchased BeOS package and the "The BeOS Bible" book I bought too. It was the "Opera Browser" of operating systems at the time to me. Lightweight, nimble, fast and just completely felt it was well thought out by brilliant engineers that weren't tied down to legacy.

I remember pitching it to my co-workers and praising its ability to still play multiple movies smoothly in a dragging window even with other tasks running in the background, which at the time was really cool considering same hardware Windows/Linux could not. And to this day, it had my favorite all-time newsreader (can't remember the name but it was threaded news that used multiple windows)

In the end, it just didn't the apps and the world was Microsoft centric and this thing called "Linux" was the buzz, along with Apple gaining ground.
He Said, She Said: How Uber Relied on Data in an Assault Dispute
I'll wait for someone else to respond to your comment.
That's what Apple pixie dust does to people. I had people seriously arguing that Apple invented portable mp3 player with iPad too.
Just curiosity, the investment was in Delaware C-corp stock or on a new UK entity?
Yea, but i guess they connect directly to the daemon on each host so no intermediate db. Which sounds like a terrible idea
> Thing is though, making one minute of lets-play costs a lot less (time / money) than making one minute physics or crash course or you name it.

Well yes, as I say it's a tradeoff. A 10s video of a cat falling off a chair takes less time and money to make than any of those.
Why then aren't suspected misconduct in police force A investigated by internal affairs of police force B in a random other jurisdiction?
Yes but this makes the analogy a criticism of other cars, not the Apple one.
https://storify.com/gr4kjalan/misteri-gunung-semeru
There is a lot of music there, the article sounds like this would be music key + everything else. That would make it an extra cost of $2 for all non-music videos.
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It's worth noting that the obvious conclusion from your comment is that the core problem is with the length of copyright, rather than the restrictions within the law - if copyright were bloody finite, then people would eventually be able to play stuff anyway.
A lot of health dis-benefits are a result of criminalisation.
Some people who call for decriminalisation are calling for drug use to be treated as the health problem that it is.

With criminalisation we see drives to stronger forms of the drug (EG: bootleggers were mostly not selling beer, but spirits). Decriminalisation and legalisation would allow people to grow and actively market weaker forms of the drug.

Criminalisation pushes people towards unhealthier forms of drug taking because it's legally tricky to provide harm reduction information or harm reduction devices. Most people smoke cannabis; and most people mix it with tobacco. That's a pretty unhealthy way to take it. Legally being allowed to sell vaporisers would help.
But suppose you want to re-use the sub-view in another component, you would then need to clone the functionality and satisfy/remove all the directly coupled invocations.

This is where you have to decide how much coupling to introduce to balance comprehension vs future needs of the project
IIS management is done via WMI which will work for this version of Windows Server: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj635848.aspx
> but i'm not sure if this would be a reasonable option for commercial use

Why not?
UK political party, Cannabis is safer than alcohol (CISTA) is fielding candidates in the UK general election next month.

http://cista.org/

Funded by one of the co-founders of Bebo, a social network.
Delaware C-corp
I like this idea. At the moment there is nothing that differentiates a "this cert expired yesterday" warning from a "someone is MITMing your connection" warning, at least not for the casual user.

And since the former is (sadly) pretty common, this only teaches people that these warnings are not that unusual, and can safely be overridden.

It would be much better to have one "the server admin forgot to renew his certificate" type of warning and another "a totalitarian regime is trying to spy on you" type of warning...
I was always doubtful about David Brin's views on privacy and surveillance[1], mostly because I didn't want it to be true.

But I'm increasingly coming around to think that it might make sense to explore his model more.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
ember(-cli) does a good job (sans jsx)
“Explain to me how Bitcoin works.”
The available web developers may not have access to either the SSL vendor or where the certificate is stored. None of the front-end devs I work with have access to either of those things.
Interesting. A few questions:

Is it possible to backtrack using this framework? (I.e., execute code, stop it, go back a bit, continue, etc.)

Is it possible to save/restore the machine state to a file?

And can it deterministically (re)run multi-threaded code? And other (normally non-deterministic) OS functions?
> I don't really care about the playlist of cat videos - assuming youtube divides based on the individuals time spent there and not globally

Ah yes, now this is quite an important distinction. If it's my $10 split over what I watch, then that's different to splitting everyone's money globally.

I thought it was the latter from this part of the story:

> Subscription revenues will be pooled, with partners receiving 55 percent of the total. Individual partners' cuts will be apportioned based on how much time their viewers spend watching their channels, though

However, I'd like to see something that more clearly defines what it is.

I think one big issue either way is that watching a video doesn't define how much value I derive from it, and the value is what I personally want to incentivise. One five minute video of a random lets-play is not equivalent (to me) to a five minute smarter every day video, even though both would get one view and 5 minutes of watching time from me.
I'm an American, running a startup in Scotland, funded by a Scottish angel syndicate, which functions in many ways like a "mini VC". There is intense, constant griping both in Scotland and in the broader UK about the funding climate vs. Silicon Valley. Having been involved in a South Florida startup previously, I can assure everyone here that there are much worse places to raise money and run a tech company than Europe.

Most of the horror stories around fund raising in Europe that I've heard involve B2C companies, or very low revenue-per-customer B2B companies that are constrained by many of the same challenges around customer acquisition (low average rev per customer, not very sticky, can't afford an inside sales team). This makes these B2B companies effectively the same as B2C in many ways.

The key thing to recognise, in my opinion, is that it's extremely difficult to raise money for a software company that's pre revenue or likely in search of product/market fit in almost any market other than a few cities in the US (NYC, Valley, Boston, Others?). Sure, there are counterexamples, but this seems to be true in general. This isn't just a European "problem" and my not even be a problem at all.

When I was playing in rock bands, we quickly learned we needed to play venues that fit our style. Playing in front of an old folks home crowd wasn't going to work. This sounds amazingly stupidly simple, but there's plenty of people ignoring this lesson in startupland with regards to fund raising. If you're sitting anywhere but a few select markets, reading Valley blogs, you're going to be in for disappointment when it comes time to apply all of your Valley knowledge in a non-Valley environment.

B2B land is so much easier than B2C land, and there's plenty of investment out there. Most software and most money made from software is in B2B land. Why not try it out? You could be surprised.
The main question is pricing. If it will be cheap or free (who knows?), it will be an option for hosting micro-services on myriad of VPSes. A probably a resurrection of interest for ASP.NET framework.
That shouldn't be default behaviour in any browser but rather a plugin that you can install that gives the notification. Preferably with a whitelist of websites that I want to get notifications of.
So, free drugs for everyone??
Police Unions.

I strongly support organized labor however I do not support what Police Unions commonly do.

For example a month or two ago, some New York City cop shot and killed a man for no apparent reason. Concerned that he might lose his job, he rang up his Union Steward on his phone.

It was four solid minutes before he looked into whether he might render first aid for the guy he had just shot.

It is very commonly the case that when a law enforcement officer commits a really odious crime, his union will come to his aid.

You'd think that wouldn't happen but it does.

So yes I expect that were internal affairs investigations handled as you suggest, it would have a profoundly positive effect. But it would be hard to implement it, as the unions for the bad cops would not agree to it.

Perhaps a way to handle it would be a state ballot proposition. It might be more appealing to the unions were "police force B" chosen totally at random whenever such an investigation was called for.
Could you elaborate on that?

What is your market then?

What is your greater goal/long term vision?

Why would I want to hire your company for social-media management?

In my opinion, a successful social-media presence involves direct engagement with customers but most importantly business-specific knowledge.

For example, the Deutsche Bahn has a great social-media presence as they emulate a free and quick telephone service via Twitter.
At any time, I can ask them what train I should take, which one is delayed, how I get from A to B, which tickets fit me best, etc.
In your eyes, how is this possible using your platform?
Installing Redis Master-Slave on EC2
> Is it possible to backtrack using this framework? (I.e., execute code, stop it, go back a bit, continue, etc.)

In the develop branch we have a fully integrated debugger (using python-ptrace), so this should be doable.

> Is it possible to save/restore the machine state to a file?

Nop. If you want to do this, you should try to find a more VM-oriented framework (pyqemu maybe?)

> And can it deterministically (re)run multi-threaded code? And other (normally non-deterministic) OS functions?

Not yet, but if you instrument some functions using the debugger in the develop branch, you could do it.

edit: PANDAS is also a very good option (https://github.com/moyix/panda)
BitKeeper not being available anymore was the impetus for starting Git and Mercurial (as replacements for BK), but many of the concepts in Git and Hg come from Monotone, most importantly the use of merkle trees (according to /u/ggherdov Matt Mackall[0] recently mentioned this explicitly on IRC). Linus also mentioned Monotone by name as "the most viable alternative" before starting/publishing git[1] and as pgeorgi noted contributed to the same.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31yi7d/graydon...

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121
Professionally, I work with Java/Spring in a quite large B2B setting.

Having said that, I'd add Scala/Play to the mix. It's a joy.
Here's a way they could solve it: give ability to donate money directly to channel(s). So let's say I want to give $1/month to MinutePhysics - I donate, and get this channel ad-free. Or maybe I want to donate $10/month to be split in half between MinutePhysics and Scott Manley, so I do that, but since I'm over $10, I get the whole no-ads plan as well.

YouTube will take an ad fee anyway, and the current option could stay as the default ("I don't care about any channel in particular, I just want no ads!").
And because of this I overheard someone say "I just click Okay because else the website won't load!".
Net neutrality in India: Flipkart and Airtel are fucking with your Internet
Tutanota private email review (+ vs. ProtonMail)
The first thing that came to mind was that this is similar to ActiveState's PyPm [0] for Python but it seems this might be offering a bit more by way of bug fixes etc... All in all seems like a great product/idea!

[0] http://www.activestate.com/activepython/pypm-python-modules
The web was built, and runs on, *nix/BSD. Windows is an outlier. Windows can't even get the slashes going the right way. There's a reason 80% of internet traffic does not use Windows.
To be honest, I'm suprised you've received any funding. You're a company that increases Twitter and Instagram followers. This is a deeply dodgy, largely unproven and mostly saturated market and you're charging prices that'll leave you out of pocket. No way are you worth $600,000. There's no way you can get enough customers.

Unless the followers are actually relevant, interested and verified-as-human-beings accounts. If that's the case then $600k is a fraction of what the company could be worth.

There's a lot of 'ponzi scheme' follower increasing apps and systems ($5 for 5,000 followers, 'team followback', etc), where people sign up to get more followers by automatically following other people who join the scheme, but the number of good applications that can find people who would genuinely be interested in hearing your message is, essentially, zero. There is an opportunity in the space but the problem is a hell of lot harder to solve in a worthwhile way than just increasing the vanity metric of "# of followers".
I guess they should have just put a notice up saying forums and wiki unavailable, that could have prevented this whole mess.
What multiple Rust proponents? Where?
What people consider [] superior to <>? How many?

Your text have an air of superiority but your arguments leave a lot to be desired or to be more frank [Citation needed].
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He probably means PLS. Apple used (uses?) Samsung displays for the iPad. Their phones have always used Sharp or LG displays, I believe.
$34b refers to cocaine; $100b refers to everything.

It's not an unreasonable guess.

The numbers are hard to get right. Here's something about different statistical methods that end up with very different numbers (about 650,000 people who used heroin in a year vs about 1.5 million people; about 60,000 people who use heroin nearly daily vs neary a million people who used heroin nearly daily.)

> http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/03/10/how-many-...
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Egnyte we are flattered
Ask HN: How to train my students to be Unicorns
I have a free dev bootcamp for exceptional people who have a dream of becoming a software developer. I only have the front end curriculum ready but wanted to get some input on what I might add for front end or back end. I don't have most of the books listed but the learning is a combination of the best books with the best online videos.

Thank you so much for you input. I really appreciate it.

1. Setup Workstation

2. Learn Linux or OSX at the command line

3. Learn vim

4. Learn Git

5. HTML

6. CSS

CSS Frameworks

L. Bootstrap Framework
M. Foundation Framework

7. Javascript

Javascript Frameworks
A. Angular.js
B. Backbone.js
C. Knockout.js

8. JQuery

9. Pro Developer Tools
a. Yeoman
b. Grunt
c. Gulp
d. Bower
e. Coggle
f. Balsamiq

BACK END

10. Node.js

11. Databases and Caching Technologies

12. Webserver, reverse proxies and load balancers
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Organic chemistry is a self-assembling kit. Completely unlike the disingenuous jet argument.
I am the farthest thing from a CSS expert, so if someone came up with a decent grid system that was class-less (like this "framework" currently is) I would be ecstatic. Till then, I will wait for `flexbox` to be fully supported in all the browsers I care about :)
This is really interesting. It's very annoying to always fire the browser the renew/buy a certificate. I would definitely git it a shot for a standard one, the wildcard looks quite expensive honestly. In other sources you can find it at half-price with promo codes.
The recent Swift 1.2 release brought a whole load of code breaking changes. None of Swift 1.0 was explicitly deprecated.
This looks pretty cool. Although I do not understand why I would have to sign up on the website. The demo makes it look like it's a minimal-config command line tool. Instead the website makes it look like it's a service and there is no clear indication who stores my creditcard info etc. on the front page. This is explained in the FAQ though. A quick notice about stripe processing payments on the front page would be nice.
http://tamannasionalbromotenggersemeru.yolasite.com/
Mhhhh I think he mean EV certs.
I guess because of karma or something I actually got the "undefined is not a function" error today. And I had no idea what was wrong!

Tried the same in NodeJS and that gave:

Object has no method 'bar'

So I guess it depends on what implementation of JS you use for development. Still JS is much easier to debug then assembly (compiled languages).