skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought I'd share what I've been working on for some time. Would love feedback!

It uses Deep learning models for natural language. Happy to answer tech related questions here.

Just a note: It's limited to San Francisco only for now - and it's still in Alpha - there will be kinks!
Well at least the website is apparently off the grid :)
That's great news!

Thanks for the heads up.

If possible please also post this at the forum thread that I referred to.
Interesting to see the original Yahoo! reinvented this way.
I'm always fascinated with other peoples work habits/spaces when they have a choice, it always tells you something about the way they work.

Here's mine - http://i.imgur.com/IpRAW3m.jpg 7x3ft standing desk I built with my business partner :)
Well, I lost the key I used to install my windows 8 machine - I built it myself, it didn't come with a sticker. I was wondering if there was a way to recover it, but apparently I won't have to bother.

I expect to sell that machine in a couple of months, so it's a better deal for the buyer, than it is for me.
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The Problem with Group Projects
>Just yesterday I ran across this example: "(っ˘▽˘)っ :cloud: ⊂(◕。◕⊂)" in the Parse SDK repo, which I found especially distracting, and in general, kind of turned me off from the project (even though I know Parse is awesome).

This reasoning turns me off from types who have it.

It's not like they use emoticons everywhere -- and if having one is the big distraction one can complaint about, then their repo is in excellent shape.
Law at both federal and state levels (in most states) has fairly strong protection for government whistleblowers in general; the Espionage Act specifically lacks whistleblower provisions, which certainly presents an issue when whistleblowing relates to the kind of defense-related information to which the Espionage Act applies, but that's not indicative of a general approach in law to government whistleblowers.
Interesting open source cinema camera:

https://apertus.org/axiom-beta

Would be interesting to hear opinions from knowledgeable people.
I would highly recommend looking at the CERT C Coding Standards, which are available for free: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/SEI+C...

One thing to note, they split them into recommendations and rules. Recommendations are more stylistic and open to debate, whereas violations of rules generally result in definite security concerns.
I'm going to just ride my honda ruckus moped and forget buying a new car.
I know there is a large sentiment at HN that the Daily Standup is dead, or an anti-pattern. However, the truth is Agile and Scrum are still huge. Plus, most do not have a say in the methodologies they use at their job. Why not try and make the most out of it!
One thing that really says a lot about Wirth's philosophy is that in the most recent revision (2007?) he actually removed a rather common feature from the language (multiple returns!).
This is a really entertaining writing style: technical enlightenment through demonstration via humorous examples. For the lazy (and additional humorous demonstration), I wish he'd provided an example gif showing it in action (i.e., Github, terminal, Sourcetree, etc...).
Relativity does tell us that there are no preferred inertial reference frames. But the comment I replied to was asking about a very specific reference frame: the galactic center.

And to one up your pedantry: relativity allows us to define our coordinate system in any inertial reference frame to compare with other inertial reference frames. The solar system orbiting the galactic center is not inertial since it is constantly accelerating.
That's how it seems to me as well. Maps had a smoother, more responsive UI and more developed map/routing data, but Waze had crowdsourced updates for more accurate reporting of accidents and delays.

As a user of both (and investor in neither) it always seemed to me that Waze did the crowdsourcing thing pretty well but their map editing tools were really clunky, UI was much less responsive, and they just didn't have any good way to fund the service (as indicated by the fact that all I ever saw in terms of advertising were little Taco Bell icons any time I was near a Taco Bell).

Google has the backend, the framework for making money from the service, and established routing and mapping systems whereas Waze's more granular and up-to-date info on traffic conditions offered something Maps didn't have.

Basically, the reasons people used Waze over Maps also made good additions to Maps. Would've been fine the other way around too but the reality was that Google was the larger, more established company so in typical fashion, they bought the smaller one to gain their features.
I wasn't dead set on AWS, I was just using it as an example. Any sufficiently large company would have worked.
my idea out of blue sunny sky - do once a week an anonymous doodle/whatever app with things that went good, things that went wrong, what i would like to change, and suggestions to team building event (it could be anything from an hour team meeting about technologies/changes to few beers at the bar to anything else... and not necessarily on weekly basis).

unless the team is massive, it cannot be really 100% anonymous, but good enough is... good enough. and make clear in the beginning that these data have single purpose, and nothing else.

then there is the reality part - big multinational corps (i work in one of them) don't care about this - you should be super happy ultra motivated employee by default, all the time, beacon of light, among all other beacons of light. You are not happy, you complain? well guess what, in next firing round, the chances of you being gone are higher, much higher...
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That could be true, since the most cloud Providers don't use "enterprise" hdd's, they just buy stuff they tested.
I just use my blog: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/24/geekdesk-max-sit-stand-des... and write a new post every couple years.
We are all gonna die anyway. The mature commiters too, including everybody they love.

And all of their "serious" work will amount to absolutely nothing in just 100 years (that's it if they're lucky: for most their work wont matter at all in 10 or 20 years, their companies shuw down, or bought and dismantled, their startup dreams shattered etc.).

(A lot of them will even regret working so hard and giving importance to the BS they gave importance to after they retire).

Just to put some mature perspective on being playful.
When I started using something like the hyperlink below my time management improved:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/

It is very easy to shift working hours towards afternoon/evening/night - if you do want to have some family life then I suggest isolating yourself into separate room during your working hours and making your family aware that 9-5 is when daddy works :-)
Pixar is making another in-house animation tool free for anyone
Pretty sure that wouldn't be enough to write the HDD. You'd need sudo and theres a couple more double checks. In modern versions of Linux/Unix at least.
When I want to see what good Python looks like, I browse the Django source code. I like the style, the structure, and the approach to documenation.

https://github.com/django/django
In the next couple months, we are adding a bunch more features in the next few weeks :)
* They do, but thinking is evolving that the TCO of having to develop and support those devices isn't worth the revenue they provide. Because the CableCard scheme used in the US is essentially proprietary to the US, the US cable companies have to develop custom hardware at great cost.

* Very true; but there is a lot of investment being made here. Also, if you're watching over the Internet, do you really care if there is a 5 min delay from live action?

* RSNs are a zero-sum game for the cable operators; the money NBCSN makes for Comcast ends up going back out the door to the other RSNs like FoxSN, RootTV, etc. The cable companies would rather not have to pay for any of it. They just use it to bleed each other for money.
There is no clock, that is one of the genius aspects of CAN. There were earlier ideas about multiplexing before CAN and they needed a clock, and that is why they never worked right.
Those individuals make far less than founders in a successful outcome.
This hardware obsession when it comes to photographic equipment is so silly. A skilled cinematographer can do magic with extremely limited equipment; a mediocre one can't be saved by the most expensive camera in the world.

Just look at Shane Carruth's Upstream Color for example, shot on an $800 camera (a modded Panasonic GH2) yet it looks better than tons of movies shot with equipment worth two orders of magnitude more.
Hey guys, would appreciated any feedback.
> I feel this platform is very cool and can fulfill many niches along with Meerkat

The success of Periscope and Meerkat are mutually exclusive. While Periscope has topped the Social Networking category in the App Store, Meerkat has been gradually losing ranking since Periscope's inflection point at the end of May, according to App Annie: http://i.imgur.com/b51Wpm2.png

No, "YOU CAN GUEST IN ANOTHER LIVESTREAM ZOMG XD" is not sufficient feature differentiation.

The space will become tragedy-of-the-commonsed once both YouTube and Facebook release dedicated livestreaming apps; and both are currently in limited release.
We asked Dell for Backup Solutions a while ago, the only thing they told us was that more and more the LTO way of backing up date will decrease and people will focus on offsite cold disk coldstorage.
However they forgot that there are customers which don't have many datacenters all over the place...
Breakout game in ClojureScript
I've been following this camera since everyone considered RED vaporware. Development has been agnozingly slow and now that they're getting close there are better options for less money. It's great if you want something open source (which I can't applaud enough) but in terms of shaking things up it's too little too late.
This is likely a problem with Twitch and not with the ISPs. With live streaming video, the biggest problem is transcoding; not bandwidth.
I think this is a reasonable position to take. GM takes on a long-term responsibility to maintain the software in your car, including pushing updates to it. I don't want to own the software that runs my car; I consider a service that the manufacturer maintains for me.

I can see the other side (being a long-time FOSS user) but I still license software and don't consider it to be owned by me.
What is interesting to me is that the top comment at the time I write this provides the opposite anecdote, that they have seen huge projects using Backbone go really well.

Makes me wonder if there's some sort of objective comparison and analysis of frameworks, or if everything is based on anecdote and personal experiences.
Journey of for loop in Java – JDK 1 to 8
> "This implies that unikernels still need to have an underlying OS to drive their logic."

From the Ethos homepage...

> "The solution to both of these problems is Virtual Machines (VMs). Since VMs allow multiple OS to run on a computer, it is no longer necessary to choose one OS; multiple OSs can be used simultaneously. Hence, one significant application can justify running an OS. Second, the VM provides an abstract hardware architecture which is far simpler then the vast variety of computers extant. The drivers for the real hardware are provided by the VM. We are using Xen as our VM because we believe it is a good security architecture on which to build an OS."

So the plan is to run on baremetal hypervisors like Xen, just like MirageOS and the rest.

> "Ethos has an interesting capability and crypto model that unikernels could map their distributed communication primitives too as well."

If that's the main aim, then I don't see why they don't build their capability/crypto model into one of the unikernel OSes, specifically one of those that has the strong type safety and process isolation they are also aiming for. I don't see what they gain from having a custom OS requirement when a lot of the groundwork has already been done for them.
CNN and CBC Sued for Pirating YouTube Video
Yes, that is why I find it good that both Mac OS X and Windows allow for kernel code in C++ as a kind of "worse is better" improvement over plain C.

However C++ with teams that haven't drink the safety kool aid, becomes C with a C++ compiler quite fast.

Hence why nowadays I tend to only use it occasionally in side projects.
While I found the article quite interesting, the stuff he writes about his electrical work makes me think that he shouldn't really do electrical work in the first place: <quote> But when you are pumping 30 AMPS of current through an extension cord, you can’t just use any extension cord, you have to use the heavy duty, 8 gauge, super thick type. (...) But those who know me well, know that I am a cheap bastard, and I wasn’t about to spend $150 on what amounts to a bunch of wire.</quote>

So to save money, he just parallels three cheap cables off Walmart using a splitter.

Please don't do this without putting fuses in each individual cable to make sure the rating is not exceeded.
I read up on some of DCMA stuff, it does seem to allow some degree of reverse engineering in U.S..
and wait 'till someone figures out they can store ads inside commit messages.
It's also possible to specify other conflict resolution options, such as `git merge --strategy=recursive --strategy-option=theirs` [0], which avoids the need for manual conflict resolution (and it's "worked for me"). Discarded hunks are still available in the repo history, in case you needed to restore a file/hunk that was discarded in this manner.

[0]: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge (be sure to look for the "ours" option for the "recursive" strategy, not the "ours" strategy)
"Yet, you unquestioningly repeat it."

Why are you quoting an ancient article (one that, humorously, incorrectly claims that the typing data telematics was just some temporary preview release inclusion, when actually it made it to production), when the actual privacy policy of Windows 10, when you install it, tells you that it will monitor and send "typing data" to Microsoft? Microsoft left this very nebulous, but ultimately that simple privacy setting allows them the legal right, and the technical facility, to log every keystroke.

"I couldn't find any evidence that Windows 10 shares any worthwhile application activity data."

Somehow I don't think you actually looked, given how aggressively you have attempted to defend Microsoft in this whole discussion.

No one thinks Microsoft is evil, but rather that they tried to out-Google Google (not very long after their terrible series of anti-Google ads that you even mentioned), taking the basic principal of Google's activities and multiplying it.
I just switched to remote work a few months ago... slack has been a lifesaver for staying connected w/ the team. Totally agree though w/ ramtatatam that you need a separate space to work WITH A DOOR (my first mistake.)
Is the ES3 vs. ES5/ES6 comparison valid? The latter were subsequent versions of the former, kind of like Angular 2 vs Angular 1. Whereas Backbone, Ember, React, etc. are all different, each with its own "way" of doing things.
Just a note here. RED can't do remote focus, iris, zoom (FIZ). You need a remote follow focus with zoom and iris gears to do that, something like the Preston FIZ. In fact, RED doesn't even make one of these.

You are correct that you can adjust ASA, shutter speed, etc with the REDmote add on. Historically though, they are rather finicky pieces.
it's been in the making for a long time, several years, and then blackmagic came and offers you better camera for less (though not open source).

Hopefully there will be some open source code out of this project that can be used for other cameras, would be great to push open source ISP pipelines in general on linux, the RPi camera options for instance are very limited.
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How are the albums, coffee mug, and baseball figurines not relevant material to a creative worker?
very true, in the end getting great pictures out of the camera is mostly about location, lighting, lenses, imagination and just using your eyes and experience.

Still, I know which one I'd rather take, GH2 or Red Epic :)
Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code
People read the content first. This isn't reddit.
Do you feel that golang is ugly?
> I'm always struck by the strange cognitive dissonance US law has for corporate whistleblowers vs governmental whistleblowers.

It doesn't: there are multiple different programs for reporting perceived illegal activity. Snowden never availed himself of any of these, but instead committed espionage.
hahaha It actually took me a while to realise :D
This article came exactly 1 day too late for me - I literally just blew away one of our test machines yesterday morning, only to find I can't activate it unless I re-install Windows 7. To make matters more fun I chucked the Win7 install disk in the trash thinking, I won't need this again!
Actually this is pretty cool, you can make the same sort of semantics as C++ stack based objects in plain C. With a couple macros you could make it pretty much feature equivalent.

Thanks for posting that!
If you look at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paternoster_animated... presumably, as the open-fronted compartments pass over the top of the mechanism, the red drive chain is exposed to people in the cabin. If you watch the video in the guardian article labelled "the loop: from the top" you see an exposed chain that looks easily strong enough to take off a few fingers without stopping.

You could probably come up with an overlapping arrangement of guards, of course. And presumably anyone riding one of these things already knows not to put their limbs into trap points - I couldn't say if the danger of trapping at the top is any greater than the danger of trapping at one of the floors.

Rescue might also be difficult if there's a power cut or breakdown.
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I'm interested. Thanks in advance.
Not only that, it follows the Inferno model, just that Go has a native compiler instead of a VM like Limbo has.

Now if someone would bother to write a bare metal runtime, Go could follow Oberon's footsteps.
They also show Protonmail btw, really nice service :)
This whole story reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica reboot a couple of years ago. The premise was that the shiny, new spaceships were all susceptible to hacking and virus injection while the old, "vintage" ones were unhackable.
Not exactly new but with new features all the time.
Are you suggesting that all the filmmakers using a Red are doing so because of their silly hardware obsession?
CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
Very cool! I've been wondering why more messaging based assistants based in AI aren't emerging versus human-aided (Magic, Operator, etc.). (I was excited about carla.io but disappointingly it never really worked very well.)

This one is fast but still very natural. The suggested query in the onboarding flow obviously works very well, but I tried to throw it for a loop by asking where I can take a party of 20 for dinner in SF tonight (real problem so if anyone has suggestions would love to hear them!).

The response wasn't tremendously useful, but it was still an intelligible and coherent response (recommended 20 Spot--kind of a smart response actually!).

Asking friends, they've suggested Amici's or Buca Di Beppo so I can imagine the algorithm learning or being taught over time to incorporate characteristics like that (large groups). I like that it's a narrow use case to start--focus on that and build from there. Much more optimistic than the wide and shallow approach of Magic and Operator.
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I am aware how they work. I get that all earning up to a point are taxed under bracket x, and then after that are taxed at bracket y, and so forth. Unless you mean something else in which case i welcome you to explain where i have erred here.

If that is in fact what you mean, it still changing absolutely nothing. The effective tax rate on folks in these upper brackets would still be enormous.

But i guess piggybacking baseless comments is an easy way to avoid justifying these stances. I still have not seen someone say how they are justified in taking that much money from people while feeling ethical.
http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/ scroll down to #12
Buying a property does take some capital, but large amounts of financing are much more easily available for property than for nearly anything else. There's also lots of tricks like getting a near-zero-down FHA loan, live there for a couple years, then move and turn it into a rental. Anyway, all that is looking at the individual person. If landlords were actually getting outsized returns, you would see outfits with tons of money going into it. There has been some of that, but not a ton, and that has the effect of increasing supply and reducing returns.

>>but you are also competing for a rent house from the other 1.2 million Americans that lost there in 2008

You seem to be assuming that those houses they lost were bulldozed or something. The amount of vacant housing increased by the exact same amount. Those houses were available for other people to buy (perhaps instead of renting) or to increase the stock of rental housing.

>>one landlord decided to go up in price and the others followed because that person was successful in doing so.

If there's sufficient demand for everyone to raise prices, then it was underpriced before, or demand has increased, or supply has decreased. In any case, that's just how markets work - it's not the Evil Cabal of Price Fixing Landlords.

>>Most renters will stay where they are even if prices go up because moving has large physical, monetary, and opportunity costs.

There's some inertia there, certainly. But it's not at all difficult to shop around and see if your new rent is out of line, so it's hard for landlords to get too far beyond the market.

Also, contrary to what tenants seem to think, smart landlords don't casually kick tenants out. Turnovers are expensive (vacancy, repairs, cleaning), time consuming, and risky (the new tenant could be worse than the old one). Tenants that pay on time, don't wreck the house, and don't piss off the neighbors are like gold. Smart landlords only raise rents on good tenants when they're pretty far below market. Of course, bad tenants are a whole different story.
From what I've seen, in multiple industries (but not automotive), pretty much anyone serious about signing firmware holds the keys in a HSM.

When you factor the total impact of firmware signing on the product lifecycle, a HSM is a drop in a bucket...
I have to question whether secret negotiation is separate from content. If you want it to be really separate from content, you have to keep it from being a mechanism for inserting horrors that hide among the pages of a treaty nobody will read and understand.

For example if you limited each treaty to 10 provisions of 10 pages each then that would make the document understandable, AND it would incentivise the backers of important provisions to shut out the garbage if the garbage will sink the whole deal.

As it is we get at least hundreds of pages of garbage hiding among thousands of pages of soporific minutia.