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ARGUS-IS

"ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphone cameras in a mosaic to video and auto-track every moving object within a 36 square mile area.

ARGUS is a form of Wide Area Persistent Surveillance that allows for one camera to provide such detailed video that users can collect 'pattern-of-life' data and track individual people inside the footage anywhere within the field of regard."

[0] https://youtu.be/QGxNyaXfJsA?t=51s

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS
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> bloated GNU tools

If you were coming from the Unix/BSD world, I could understand this, but how is using a GUI for everything considered elegant, while GNU tools are considered "bloated?" Doesn't the GUI necessarily "bloat" the program more than a few extra command-line options would?
I know that. Regardless, they are free now, so it's not unreasonable (given the competitive nature of the software industry) to think Microsoft's will be too.
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I'm surprised there isn't more talk about how Pinterest stopped allowing any links with affiliate codes and started treating anyone that used them like a spammer.

This new integration is cool, it's what they need, but the attack on people using affiliate links is pretty lame.
Yes it is. Hopefully Blow's the Witness will as awesome.

Also consider playing the following if you have thirst for puzzle games

- The Swapper
- Snakebird
- Spacechem
- Starseed Pilgrim (this one I haven't played but Blow recommended it, iirc)
I opted for a Chromebox running Ubuntu+Kodi. Its quite easy to set up!
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=194362
4 months to go 1800m deep. It's now finished.
Total cost of the project is 34M€ (11M€ just for the drilling).

http://www.constructioncayola.com/reseaux/article/2014/12/15...
Yep, so we took the same notes on the outside of the box that I used to. I would still have several "kitchen -- dishes" boxes etc. It made it easy to find the obvious stuff, and easy to find the smaller stuff, without having to take meticulous notes after packing the box.
"Why not?"

Because it isn't true.

"in my opinion I don't see it any less safe than languages that don't have automatic memory management"

Strawman ... the comment was about scripting languages.

"and/or languages like Rust"

Then it would be unwise to pay any attention to your opinion.
Assuming you dislike carrying splitter dongles, it sounds like the new MacBook isn't for you.

(It's not for me, either.)
Ask HN: What are some non-malicious activities coming from users of a webservice
I'm a PhD student at the Univ. of Colorado and I'm doing research on cloud computing and services. I am trying to understand some operational aspects of running a web service. My question is to web service providers (if you are not a service provider and have some feedback, feel free to share them). To some degree, I understand the clear malicious attacks and protections against them. My question is: what are some non-malicious activities coming from your users (who are using your service) that you have experienced that are annoying or even affected your service (e.g., a user sending malformed requests)?
Did you have to do something about it (even pre-emptively), and if so what (blocking user? sending warning to users? etc)
Thanks a lot,
Assuming for a moment that this problem exists: That wouldn't change anything about my argument. If privacy is part of the threat model then privacy shouldn't be conditional on the public key being kept secret.

By publishing the key you expose the flaw in that setup.
Because you no longer need a tuner? Could be.

But I doubt you could buy a 60" glass front monitor for the price they sell TVs :)
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Another vote for MobaXTerm.
Of course it would be Elon Musk. Who doesn't want to colonize mars?
Truly united? Sadly that's just your PoV.

I was too born and raised in Ukraine, in Odessa. As many Odessans, we will never forget May 2nd, 2014 and will never forgive.
It's completely true that these things can (and, to be honest, probably will) be turned into services by companies, that's just one more way in which access to such information will become easier.

It doesn't change the point about motivation and the underlying reasons such information would be used not changing as a result of it being easier.

Let's further deconstruct those three examples:

1. If your boss pays for such a service, it probably points to a wider issue with them, or you. Either your boss is happy with you and your performance, or they aren't. If the former, what incentive do they have to catch you red-handed lying about sick days? Do they even care, ultimately, if you're getting the job done? If not, why would they pay for and/or use such a service? However, if in their opinion you're not getting the job done, and they're actively looking for evidence presumably to support firing you, and you're actually guilty of lying about sick days - well... that sounds like an extremely unhealthy situation that would probably come to a bad end anyway, with or without them using such a service.

2. (Disclaimer, this may be wildly wrong or pure fantasy, IANAEconomist) How do they feed this data into their risk models exactly? This won't increase everyones' premiums - rather it would result in some premiums going up, others down. If, due to poor models, it results in some premiums going up unfairly, then presumably some other insurance company will figure this out so those actually-not-that-risky clients will switch to them for lower premiums. There will be disruption, and temporarily some people will be treated unfairly, but the market will adjust and actually may become fairer all round eventually. Transparency in this case should actually be a good thing, right? Or are we saying that people who are actually riskier should be subsidised by the less risky?

3. The type of person to use such a service would not just do so because it's easy. This is a fundamental matter of morals. The type of person to use this service would be incredibly likely to do bad things anyway, regardless of the tools available to them to do bad - technology will not take otherwise moral people and suddenly make them immoral just because it's easier now than it was yesterday. In rather simplistic terms, don't blame the weapon for violence, blame the person making the decision to use the weapon.
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A hobby is just work you like doing. Countless companies have been started as "hobbies". So in that respect, life is about working, so you might as well try to find work you like to do.
Okay well then you must be lying because that's just not possible (the airline thing, not the Win98)
Not my project, but I just ran across it on a mailing list, and I really like the idea. Planning on using it on a test project soon.
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You'd be surprised. I've worked a lot with kids, and I've seen pre-teens get into Dwarf Fortress very independently. It's not necessarily true that all kids will have the interest/attention for it, but it's still not that crazy. People routinely underestimate kids.
All else being equal, would I skip the smart features? Sure. You don't get that choice though. At least, I never have. Aspects like display technology, color reproduction, contrast, latency, etc are much more important to me than smart vs. dumb, and those things are how I make my decision.
My eyes! MY EYES!!
The array of cameras on the aircraft that flew over
Compton can record high-resolution images of a 25-square
mile area for up to six hours. It can track every person
and vehicle on the ground, beaming back the pictures in
real time.

It’s city-wide surveillance on an unprecedented scale.

What we essentially do is a live version of google earth
only with a full TIVO capability, it allows us to rewind
time and go back and see events that we didn’t know
occurred at the time they occurred.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/new-police-surveillance-techn...
This is great! I'm not sure if it was discussed on HN or not, but Khan Academy recently released an MCAT course with "more than 900 videos and 2000 practice questions." This is incredible, because last summer my wife's online MCAT course cost us around $2,500. It was a good course, but Khan Academy's course seems extensive and thorough. I hope it gets more publicity among med-school applicants!

Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat
Let me know if I can answer any questions. There are trial versions available, so feel free to give the app a try.
TB1 and TB2 might not have had enough bandwidth for high-performance stuff but it did have more than enough bandwidth to blow IGPs out of the water: DYI external TB2 systems had 80~90% of "internal" desktop performances on synthetic benchmarks[0], even with a TB — EC chain you could reach very, very respectable performances[1]

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7987/running-an-nvidia-gtx-780...

[1] http://forum.techinferno.com/implementation-guides-apple/427...
Exactly, they're doing a lot worse.
Storm has been moved under the Apache umbrella so Twitter coming out with Storm 2.0 would present a few problems.
No, thank you!!
On the upside, [the ridiculously expensive HP SSDs] do have fancy detailed stats (like wear levelling) exposed via the controller and ILO, and none have failed yet almost 3 years on (in fact, they’re all showing 99% health). You get what you pay for, luckily.

Call me a huge cynic if you must, but given the other problems observed, I think there's a really simple explanation for perfectly uniform "99% health" after three years of service that doesn't involve "you get what you pay for."
Apart from unconstrained resizing, everything else is part of Powershell.
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Heh, kind of interesting the winner of the survey is "I don't know" by a definitive margin.

Idealistically speaking, Evan Spiegel of Snapchat would be the most preferable due to understanding the fiat currency system is unsustainably dangerous, and especially in the tech sector (as noted in recent interviews / past letters).

Rationally speaking, Travis Kalanick of Uber seems like the best fit because he appears an unscrupulous, vindictive and egotistical person based on his company's actions and penchant for trying to cover up any bad PR.

Still laughing that "I don't know" got such a wide margin of victory.
The Intel SSD 520 and 530 use SandForce controllers, so Intel started with a big mess and spent months trying to clean it up before shipping the drives. Clearly they missed a few bugs, and they couldn't work around every mistake and design limitation in the controller's hardware.

Intel's in-house designs have an extremely good track record. I'm only aware of two major bugs.
Maybe we need to start being more realistic about what things "cost" in performance and start evaluating the cost/benefit ratio. It's OK to say no to a feature if it is going to degrade the user experience. Just because we have a phone with a quad core 2 Ghz processor does not mean we need to design the OS to require it.
1) pure science changes direction very, very slowly under the best of circumstances.

2) regulation strongly constrains funding by steering it towards drug discovery.

3) people don't like being told they're doing it wrong, even when it is absolutely true.

4) the real goal of most researchers is to catalog metabolism, not to produce any way of treating aging.
I wonder how the results would change if the CEO names were removed from the questions?

Side note: Id probably pick bezos(logistics) or musk(sustainable energy+space).
That's incorrect.

https://sat.collegeboard.org/scores/how-sat-is-scored

>In our statistical analysis, equating adjusts for slight differences in difficulty between test editions and ensures that a student's score of, say, 450 on one edition of a test reflects the same ability as a score of 450 on another edition of the test. Equating also ensures that a student's score does not depend on how well others did on the same edition of the test.
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+100 for Practical Vim... Hands down the best vim guide. After 10 years of kinda-knowing-vim, that book changed how I use vim entirely.
If you are making 140k, aren't you above the limit for a Roth IRA?
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There are dramatic improvements in the command prompt windows in Win10:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm...
Perhaps better name would be 'gene transplant'. It is not creating new gene, but replacing one gene with another gene, which is known to work. Both genes are natural and occur in other people. And we know that particular sequence works well for 99.99999% of population who have it.
> "There is no fee for buyers and merchants .. Users can pay with a credit card or with Apple Pay."

So only a Stripe fee, if you use Stripe.

So how does Pinterest make money on this?
Long due.
No, it just increases average scores (assuming people actually use them and they're minimally effective)).

https://sat.collegeboard.org/scores/how-sat-is-scored

>Equating ensures that the different forms of the test or the level of ability of the students with whom you are tested do not affect your score.
Why would NSA bother with OSs, if they could get direct access to firmware, theoretically?
No, not literally. The founder did not cut himself on the keyboard.
What are the best websites to see technology trends and its numbers?
>In 2020 i won't be able to know if the monitor i recommend my mother will be able to connect to her laptop over the USB Type-C Port or not, or if it will run at full resolution or not, if it will be able to charge the notebook over it, or not... etc.

2020? Even in 2015 you can just look up the laptop model on Google and get results about whether the monitor will work with it or not, the resolution etc.
SAT and all these similar "standardized" tests are a big joke. This outdated testing methodology needs to be evolved. College admissions should be somewhat similar to job interviews. Students walk in, meet admission committee panel (composed of a member of registrar office and professors/lecturers), talk about expectations, solve a few problems, talk about their essays, present design work, piece of literature etc. Such experience is more personal. Better education system needs a better paradigm shift.
"Unlike C, this does not result in undefined behavior "

Of course it does. If you turn off expensive runtime checks, you'll get SIGSEGVs. That doesn't happen in Rust, because it is semantically impossible to dereference NULL.
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But it's also not the default (at least on OSX).
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1) Lack of visibility; how many people even know this research is going on, and that it's potentially close enough to not classify as science fiction?

2) A perception as "natural", together with the naturalistic fallacy. The black plague and cancer are "natural" too, but we have no qualms eradicating them; yet for some reason, people romanticize death, especially when thinking primarily about it applying to other people rather than themselves.

3) Related to that naturalistic fallacy, aging afflicts a less sympathetic group. Given a disease that strikes down the "young and healthy", or the affliction hidden behind such thoughtless and abominable phrases as "it was their time" or "natural causes", the former will tend to attract more funding.

4) In a word, spirituality, whether spoken of or otherwise.

5) Too many crackpots through history have tried to peddle life extension, creating guilt by association.
"It's not about the money" - then why didn't he open source it and/or hand it down to another Mojang employee?
> and about elaborate .vimrc's that take you so far away from 'standard' that you're crippled without them. Stick to a fairly basic standard install and a .vimrc of 50 lines, tops.

I think this is terrible advice. While it is true that one should avoid getting lost down the plugin rabbit hole, for many of us, the whole point of Vim is that it is a configurable, composable editor.

As for being "cripped" without my vimrc, well, moving tiny text files around is pretty much a solved problem at this point. And as a developer, I'd prefer to optimize my 99.9% of the time environment, and not worry about the .1% of the time I'm away from it.

I do, however, recommend that your vimrc is something you should build up over time, understanding what you are putting into it, rather than grabbing some big off-the-shelf framework and using it without understanding what is going on.
You don't need a GUI; PowerShell is a powerful command line scripting environment.
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What makes an assumption unreasonable, in your opinion?
Excuse me but most of what you typed went right over my head. Where can one start learning about SSD/HDD firmware and most of what you said?
Awesome finding, I hope it is confirmed soon. Many neurodegenerative diseases are known to involve an immune component, but how that might occur has been a mystery.

It has very significant implications for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease (aka Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS), multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, etc.
My point is that this occurs because parents have a preference for male heirs who, presumably, are obligated to provide parents with some support when they become infirm, while girls become part of the other family once they marry and their allegiance is to the other family.

This setup is what disfavors the female gender in that society.
+1 for the sentiment (which I share).

I've done major swaps between Emacs and (n)vi over the years (currently all vi all the time now, but if you caught me last year, I was ~6 years into my Emacs phase...) -- anyway: the fussing and portability is what kept me from developing custom elisp scripts that I couldn't be guaranteed to have sitting down at every computer, and what now keeps me in nvi, and my nvi usage pretty "vanilla". It's not clear to me if its only the fear of getting caught w/o a custom environment is what's keeping me from developing that environment, but regardless, my env is vanilla.

Edit: typos
Someone in CA would need to charge much more than someone in TX. Same skill sets, same gusto. Guess who gets the job? Good article, but if only life was that easy.
Having a primary function doesn't mean they don't have other functions as well, such as criminal investigations.
They certainly seem to be similar! But, a number of differences do arise from intended use.

- TVs don't need anywhere near the same level of display quality. They are viewed from ten feet away and do not render small text, so they don't need as clear a picture. They also don't really have to go over 30fps, and latency is less of a concern. Basically, they have looser constraints in many ways, making them cheaper

- TVs have a plethora of inputs of many formats

- TVs have remote controls
This is correct - there are 6 Windows 10 SKUs[1]. 4 if you exclude the mobile SKUs. The "only 2 SKUs" was just a rumour/wish.

I'm echoing speculation I read elsewhere: the reason for the numerous versions is Federal Money. The US government demands that it pays the lowest price the vendors offers an item for. Since Microsoft likes to offer discounts to universities, the government would be entitled to the lowest discounted price on the SKU. Their solution is to make Education & Enterprise versions and maintain the price disparity. Money trumps simplicity.

https://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introdu...

(edited for clarity)
I think he may be trying to tell us that they're holding him hostage and we should call the police.
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Tom,
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Please add.
Good advice, gramps!

I've also been using vim for 10 or 15 years. I typically use a couple of plugins (1-3) and that's it. I leave the key bindings alone. I've never liked vimscript and have only done a few things there. Luckily I started that way and stayed that way, so vim actually has saved me time.
Supporting developers means making their lives easy by giving them streamlined systems and frameworks, not throwing a hodge-podge of of command line utilities at them or exposing them to the messy bazaar of the FOSS world.

I'd say Microsoft has been been more pro-developer than most and I'm super glad that I chose to live primarily in their ecosystem because they make my life easy compared to the mess I have to put up with in Unix-land.
> It never occurred to anyone to inject a radioactive tracer...

I'm going to post the relevent xkcd comic, although I fear you failed to meet this standard: https://www.xkcd.com/793/
howe do you think it would turn out?
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That's an excellent story, and something to remember when working on automated systems, especially industrial ones.

For something like, say, an automated surgery robot or da Vinci Surgical System, or the Therac here, or an implantable insulin pump, or whatever, it absolutely makes sense to be super vigorous in testing.

For something that's basically just a big document database, though? Or a glorified calculator? Or graphing and charting app? Or messaging app?

Hardly necessary.

In fact, the sort of testing and software rigor that makes sense for embedded systems (like your lathe or the Therac machine here) is pretty much the worst way possible to release one of the aforementioned systems on time and under budget and useful enough to actually make people productive.

Adding more "rigor" to these applications would only serve as a barrier to entry for folks trying to improve the industry. It wouldn't save lives and it would only increase the power of the monopolies of existing players.
Honestly, I feel a little bad for Notch: he got insane amounts of flak and wound up operating a mega-brand... I think his basic goal was to put together a fun game and run with it for a while - lifestyle business if you will.
Lymphatic tracing is generally more often done with dyes in the case of removal of sentinal nodes due to e.g. cancers.

However, there been work in injecting radioimmunoagent tracers into lymphatics especially in the case of melanomas. The likely reason why these haven't before detected these meningeal lymphatic vessels is likely because: (1) We don't bother imaging the brain because "the brain doesn't have lymphatics" and (2) tracers generally flow with the direction of fluid and the direction of lympth from the CNS is likely efferent rather than afferent.

Furthermore it is difficult these days to do such experiments especially on live subjects "just because".

Hindsight is 20/20.
I totally understand the feeling, but on the other hand, it's incredible that there is so much to explore, so many new things to learn, see and experience. Yes, everything around seems to be pretty complex, at least considering our current abilities [0], but I believe that we can choose how we look at the world/problems - pragmatic optimism may help with feeling overwhelmed :).

[0] Sometimes I think that the perceived complexity of the universe says more about the mind than the universe itself.
>iPhone 1st gen

Actually iPhone 1st gen got HUGE industry adoption, if we're talking about third party peripherals etc.

If you mean other companies using it in their phones, computers etc, Apple never allowed that in the first place.