skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the business was actually built for the military (quickly locating where enemy fire is coming from is fairly high value there) and has since been marketed to civilian law enforcement.

At least one civilian agency which has adopted it seems to have found that its not worth the cost. [0]

[0] http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-cops-aim-to-scra...
Glad you brought up Schelling. He gave a fairly compelling answer to the question posed in this article in his Nobel acceptance speech 10 years ago.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...
It sleeps after 30 minutes of inactivity, right? So no hits for 30 minutes means your app goes to sleep. Then the next hit will take longer while the dyno spins up before it returns.
I can't agree enough! More projects need this "decisions made for you" section in them.

Hmm, maybe I should go through the common Ruby frameworks and add a section like this in a pull request...
Eh, I just find the whole "debate" silly. The two systems aren't comparable and can and do live together side-by-side in every program. I feel I agree saying that empirical evidence here is going to either be silly or impossible to achieve for a long time.

So, I guess I just tire of it. If you're making a language today you can either take advantage of information known statically or not. I think there's a relative burst in activity here as some of the more genuinely useful forms of static analysis have become recently more popularized and I personally feel it's silly to not use this information... but it's just a choice, not a religious war.
I'm fairly sure that salt does not differentiate between polluting and non-polluting vehicles.
No, I'm not sure.

I just read that the BND-officials said that they are overworked, too - since years.

There seem to be systematic issues in the German intelligence services.
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That seems fair enough - rethinking about it that probably makes it easier to support other payment types too - indiegogo seem to quote 3-5% for various options. BTW your pricing does seem really cheap compared, is there any reason beyond you just charging less?

Tbh I'm not a huge user of these tools, just thought my feedback could be useful :) I've donated to a few indiegogo campaigns and raised on there twice. The faith aspect also isn't really interesting to me, but the site suggests it'll be available to others too? Btw I think the video only mentioned the faith aspect so it might be worth making it more general at some point too.
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If I'm not mistaken, those ships are more efficient per unit of cargo than smaller ships. It's one of the main reasons they were built.
I was more under the impression that the gun violence is not really so high as to justify a constant monitoring system to watch out for (especially if you need a person to look over the reports and then alert law enforcement - I get the feeling a emergency hotline can cover this as well).

This looks like it targets a very small (but probably high profile) subsection of criminal activities. For example, it wouldn't detect someone robbing/beating/stabbing someone.
"Your contract with the network is, you're going to watch the spots. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming."
Right at the end of the article is an interesting statement:

The report said the NSA had equipped the listening station
in Bad Aibling with sophisticated technical equipment. A
number of NSA personnel are believed to work there together
with some 120 BND personnel.

The point here is that NSA personnel are on secondment or implants to use another term. Having implants encourages complacency. You end up with scenarios like:

Bob (NSA): hey Klaus, can you add these new selectors to the filters please?

Klaus (BND): Ja, when do you want that? Tomorrow ok? I'll get Alice to run them tomorrow. You still want to come to the summer party this weekend?

Familiarity in security scenarios is dangerous. Implants breed familiarity.
The article implies that we will or ought to arrive at the point where a machine can appreciate why an image is funny in the same complex way that a human can. Not to discount the value of AI Vision research and technology, but at some point we must ask "why".

Partly the question goes to the difference between artificial intelligence, and artificial consciousness. According to some definitions, the former is ability to produce relevant information, while the latter is an autonomous system capable of using that information for self interest.

For example, no matter how complex a system like Watson is, it's no more conscious than a rock. Meanwhile, rudimentary life form is something we are nowhere near replicating artificially. This distinction is quite important, and very intelligent AI pundits seem to fail to make it (or understand it?).

While we are quite capable of producing intelligence artificially, the capacities associated with the consciousness become confused easily in the mind. While some intelligence is easy to produce with machines, there are some problems of experience that simply cannot be solved by artificial intelligence, and require consciousness.

But let's be clear: producing an artificial consciousness is orders of magnitude more complex an engineering challenge than building an artificial intelligence machine.

It is also potentially enormously destructive: many times more difficult to create, and at least as destructive as atomic bomb.
This reminds me of https://github.com/mooz/percol
The privacy concerns with systems like these is not what they currently do, but what they are capable of.

It doesn't matter what your privacy policy says, and it doesn't matter if the default configuration is to only download the audio near the time of a possible gunshot.

The important part is that these devices can stream audio to remote servers. The NSA or anybody who finds or can coerce accesses to the system could use them to eavesdrop on everything within range.

No amount of "privacy policy" is going to prevent it.
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I just looked up the LAPD's crime statistics: http://assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf (The NYPD's equivalent report doesn't count shots fired.)

Between April 5 and May 2 of this year, there were 187 recorded cases of shots fired in all of LA.
But as the article says, they need the original audio in order to improve the gunshot detection - for example, if a gunshot is reported elsewhere but the detector doesn't classify it, they can grab the audio from the record to train the detector and hopefully improve it.

If you never capture the raw audio, you won't be able to train the system to better detect the gunshots and to reduce false positives.
I don't know about you, but I always call the FBI when I leave my facebook open at the public library: http://www.avclub.com/article/updated-fbi-arrests-man-suspec...
Move it to digital ocean?

https://education.github.com/pack
Yes, you're talking about 4.7 cubic feet of gold there. Buy the island and then you'll have a place to store 1 cubic foot of gold, to pay your routine expenses.
I am the only one annoyed with the excessive usage of XYZ-gate-words? Kinda Gategate?
I suppose the question is how do you rank each stress against each other?

If we use an arbitrary stress unit (maybe call it a "Dammit"), with a single Tap being the base unit (1 Dammit), then could we use usability tests to try and quantify a Swipe stress (2 Dammits?)

If a page takes 2 seconds to load, would that be 2 Dammits, or does the Stress v Page Load graph follow a geometric curve where every half second doubles the stress (so 2 seconds is then closer to 4 Dammits)

Seems like good research for anyone involved in the alchemy of trying to find a formula for turning a pile of UX components into that "killer app"
I won't argue that there isn't cross-pollination between NASA and the military, but if you're looking for a test pilot for your new, high-performance aircraft (or, say, rocket), you'd be hard pressed to find a more qualified candidate than a military test pilot.
One really shouldn't blame Apple for OSX not working on a Hackintosh.
Every time I get hear about tensors:

"It's just a multidimensional array!"

Ok, simple enough. But then I go to wikipedia get hit with differential geometry, manifolds, multi-linear algebra, etc...

I mean these are all topics I've been meaning to learn for a while, but each one seems like it would take a year to properly introduce myself to (for which I never seem to have the time).
You can look at outsourcing creating content for your company. What you write about should be beneficial to your readers and users so simply just putting up posts week after week isn't as effective as well researched content that has direct benefits for your readers. Just mindlessly putting up "content" is not a great strategy.

I just read about this today, Audience Ops [1],[2], and the approach to helping busy founders provide valuable content looks refreshing. It could be a good place to start thinking about how to get help with your content.

(I'm not affiliated with this, but thought it was something that could help you).

1. https://casjam.com/introducing-audience-ops/?__s=ihfp4xetd9k...

2.http://audienceops.com
It says it's a 1GHz A13 compatible, so that's a Cortex A8.

[edit]
And specifically it has an Allwinner R8 logo, which I assume is a lower-cost A13 replacement (no information about that part on Allwinner's site).
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> As a CTO with no computer science background and no previous experience programming at another company

Why are you the CTO?
I'm not at all sure about that. I was in the D.C. metro area back then, and very few of the people and places I worked for and with, let alone applied to, grocked MIT back then; that might be different now. It was very different in the Boston area in the '80s (well, until the end of the Cold War and the local recession simply ended the original area high tech scene, the web one that followed in the '90s did not grow from the old one), and I assume the Bay area.

I'm also not sure it would have made a difference, seeing as I was working towards becoming a scientist when finances forced me into a sordid life of professional programming. As in, a degree in chemistry wouldn't have necessarily helped all that much in getting programming jobs, whereas my history of serious success in such jobs did make it easy, until as I judge my age started to become a factor. There really was a significant difference in the middle of that job hunt when I erased all evidence of my age from my resume.
I use fzf[0] for similar purposes.

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
I've lived in Oakland, LA, and SD and have heard shots in all of them.

Though to be fair it was New Years in San Diego, and Santee is a bit out of the way
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That makes sense. I've seen something similar on the TV show "Flashpoint", mobile microphones/sensors were used to triangulate the position of a sniper iirc. This obviously makes sense, if you have the manpower to react to something like this.

But yeah, it might look cool at first glance, but I don't think its worth its money.
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It looks like this is a banking charter and not a money transmitter license (?)
Another explanation offered by Schelling is that nuclear is generically different, basically ickier than other explosives.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...

Fukushima is kind of reinforcing that sense of ickiness to the long-term detriment of nuclear as an alternative energy source, which is unfortunate because to me at least it appears to be the most viable.
I can't find the article but Google used to think that replacing cars and coal plants(with clean coal) would be enough to curb CO2 emissions but a new study they just released(last 6 months I think) said it wouldn't matter at all. That has changed their strategy from clean coal to carbon sequestration.
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not against trying to prepare against it - perhaps we can discover a breakthrough that does defend against AI (although I'm very doubtful in the long-term). It is worth a serious try though.
Would love to see something like this for RESTful Web Services built on Go with /users, auth, rate-limiting, etc already working out of the box.
I don't know how much they're charging, but in violent cities it sounds useful. You can have the exact location of a gunshot and dispatch an officer in a matter of seconds, and microphone arrays should be pretty cheap. Together with cell-id positioning it's a powerful tool for investigation: you can have the exact location/time of the shot and exactly who was nearby that that moment.

The alternative for violent areas is relying on witnesses to both dispatch help and confirm date and place of gunshots.
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Meanwhile the almost-banned 3rd party app I use on my phone - Tweetbot - shows me a clean, linear timeline. Exactly what I want. Exactly what keeps me coming back.

They're driving their own service in to the ground. It's really sad.
That was one argument I saw on an article, dvtm carries a simpler self-sufficient task and is far smaller than tmux. Separation of concerns etc.
Ah, I might have mistook your surprise for an assumption in the other direction. I agree, I do not think that crime levels justify this sort of expenditure or monitoring. Maybe part of the appeal for law enforcement here is something that emergency hotlines can't replicate: this sort of system allows the police to be virtually omnipresent. An emergency hotline requires an engaged citizenry, one that would call the cops when a shooting happens, something that many pundits would argue crime-ridden communities are lacking.
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The MR master handles it.

Mapreduce workers can request shards (work) that have data local to the host it is running on. For large mapreduces this basically works because both the data and the tasks are in most of the cluster, and for small mapreduces it doesn't matter.
Borg also uses cgroups, just like LXC.

From the paper: "We use a Linux chroot jail as the primary security isolation mechanism between multiple tasks on the same machine… all Borg tasks run inside a Linux cgroup-based resource container."
This is a regionalized or "benign" effect. To the degree that this can be proven in Haskell's synthetic effect calculus it's OK. Since Haskell does have `unsafePerformIO` we can, with great care, introduce new rules to the type system. This is how `ST` was created

-- we need a primitive first
while :: Monad m => m Bool -> m a -> m ()
while conde bodye = do
cond <- conde
if cond then bodye else return ()

-- then we can make a direct, verified pure translation
f :: a -> Int
f x = runST $ do
i <- newSTRef 17
while (readSTRef i >>= \ival -> return (ival > 0)) $ do
modifySTRef i (\ival -> ival - 1)
ival <- readSTRef i
return ival
"This type of thing" can be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. If, emboldened by a Snowden partdon, future whistleblowers take it too far, the president can decide whether or not they are eligible for pardon when the time comes.

The pendulum has swung too far away for this to be a credible objection. Yes, I do want to encourage what Snowden did.
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See Proba-V

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technolo...
Yeah wow, folks hated that post. Some comments would have been nice.
Off-topic question: Why do people insist on calling The Hoover Dam "one of the top engineering marvels".

Surely, a dam that doesn't even make it into the top-25 tallest dams in the world, and is 57th in the world in power generation is not that impressive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_dams_in_the_wor...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_p...
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Yes. Thank you for understanding my use of the term "trap". My solution this week was to purchase a mandolin and start learning to play an instrument. Not so much a "trap release" as an "escape valve".
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What you're describing is journalctl.
Good work! when I was at FB I rolled my own, called "gitsh":

https://gist.github.com/aristus/2304335

One of the most useful features is range selection syntax, eg, run git rm on items 4-16.
When I read Rainbow Six, I remember wondering if he wrote parts of it to be more applicable in the video game, a la Splinter Cell. The heartbeat monitor, the map types (jungle, city, amusement park)... it seemed like nice fit.

They were still a good read though.
You ridicule it, and perhaps rightfully, but it's a pretty good way to make a lot of FU money to be able to turn around and flip off the 'feudal lords' after the handcuffs come off.
You can take this work much further in an "FP" kind of way by noting that the pi calculus is a good proof system for linear logic. Frank Pfenning has some lectures on this.
But on Twitter it's perfectly acceptable to not follow your close friends. It's not expected that you do.

On Facebook, the opposite. Hence why I'm an avid Twitter user, but don't have a Facebook account.
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Slightly OT, but along the same lines.

Measuring the human pulse from tiny head movements to help diagnose cardiac disease [1]

[1] http://www.kurzweilai.net/measuring-the-human-pulse-from-tin...
They typically do not include earthquakes, but I'm not sure about super slow movement like this. I'd bet "no", though.
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Currently: webdev for a local business

Former: 6+yr TV news producer.

Former: 5+yr TV production/studio manager.

What does "producer" mean in this context?

I was directly responsible for the quality of multi-million dollar brands/(shows). In that role I was responsible for assigning reporters and photographers to work each day. I evaluate their progress regularly, edit the work they turn in (or make them), and also do original research and writing. Like a project manager, except I shipped every day at 6pm. I also did (very) little marketing work between producer jobs. Now I want a new job in a new career other than journalism. I've been working webdev for several months.

I went to school for compsci. About a decade ago. Sometimes I download VS and finagle with it, but never produce anything of value. I mess with HTML & CSS as part of my job now. A lot of it is actually different CMS like Amazon, eBay, Channel Advisor, etc.

Bonus: If you do something important. I'd love to feel as accomplished as I did when informing viewers about the world around them.

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I can attest that the little white flag in my notification tray linked me to lenovo support website telling me to get the power management utility.
I thought that was possible but it's inconsistent with everything else I know. I think it's the reporter's misunderstanding of what a money transmission license is, though I'm happy to be corrected if anyone can find proof that a BitLicense suddenly shifted from being a modified MTL to a bank charter after the comment period... It seems like the FDIC would have a lot to say about that; also it would be totally insane to start handing out state bank charters to virtual currency operators when typical money transmitters don't qualify due to their [much lower] risk profile.
Very interesting, and a bit similar to my entrepreneurial journey with websites.
Making a single very successful website is quite a challenge, as I found out.
What will be your main strategies making your apps successful? Pure product focus? PR? Other forms of marketing?
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To be clear, Haskell "has dependent types" to various degrees as well.
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The RMS lifestyle - get a $1m grant or two, then work for free!
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Hey this is just like 25% of the people on earth (China) causes 90% of the general air pollution.
90% of HackerNews is self plug ... so don't worry :)
At what point does something like Twitter become a monopoly or a utility, and at what point does it become anti-competitive for them to block applications from using their service strictly because they compete? Microsoft's 'crimes' of packaging the browser with the OS seem charming now, it's not like they were preventing you from installing competing browsers.

I don't know the answer but it certainly seems like as a few of these major social networks grow to dominate our lives the regulators may need to step in eventually.
Gun violence is made up.
No, the slow part is switching stacks, and coordinating with the scheduler. Go's GC doesn't yet move memory, and even so there will probably be allowances for passing pointers from Go to C when it is implemented.
Yeah fzf is great -- there are a few differences since PathPicker can execute any command with the selected file(s) (rather than just write it to stdout) and runs in tmux with no issues, but fzf has great vim integration and I believe actually verifies the file matches.

Glad more people are working in the productivity space though!
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Look pretty nice. Have you considered integrating fuzzy finding in it? Or making it cooperate with fzf?
Do blimps have to file flight plans? I lived in DC when they first started testing surveillance blimps there around 2005 or so.

They were completely white with a black box on the bottom. I assumed that they had a similar function to rc-135s with some sort of side radar that can track all vehicles in real time.

Ah, well, here's an answer to one question:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2475827/data-privacy/ma...

The blimps in 2005 looked a bit different - they didn't have such a large obvious radar hump. Also, I'm pretty sure the blimps I saw were not tethered, but hard to say definitively.

I still haven't found any info on filing flight plans though.
do we need to open any specific mode in terminal for FPP?
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He didn't ask which one is nicer to hack on.
I had a discussion with Ben Thompson (author of the article) about exactly this point.

TL;DR: because you're willing to pay the ten bucks, you're worth far more than ten bucks. It'll never happen.
On what basis have you come to believe that you are well positioned to offer reasoned advice in regard to how I, or anyone else should vote and comment on HN?
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Percol was actually a source of inspiration as well, but I got tired of typing things like:

git checkout $(git branch | percol)

Since I had to almost compose my command beforehand rather than decide once I saw the output. So we take the opposite approach. Great UI though!