skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow--I really clicked with this immediately--super intuitive. Also, holy crap is it fast--instant results.

Some initial reactions/suggestions:

- I want to be able to edit entries in a list in-line. When I looked at it on my Android phone, each word's link was separated which made me think I could click each element individually to change it in place vs. having to re-enter it on the right panel. Think of it like Google or Pinterest's search interface where you modify individual words in place vs. doing it somewhere separate. For modifying integers, you could even use a dropdown or scroll menu on mobile since numbers would likely be relatively low.

- When I have the input field selected, pause the animation. In fact, maybe make it stop looping once I've entered one or a couple things. It is distracting and I've shown I understand how to use the box. Instead, consider putting static text examples somewhere below--an input key if you will.

- You have an engaging hook--let me take the next step of engagement. Add user accounts and the ability to save lists as recipe's or shopping lists, share them, and list the most popular ones based on shares. Instant boost to k-factor.

- In the list below the bar graph, I'd love to see line-item nutritional stats (perhaps marked by corresponding graph series color) for contribution of total calories of that type. For example, I have a smoothie recipe with 1C almond milk in it. Without clicking on it, I should be able to see displayed both the absolute values as well as the percentage of total recipe calories, carbs, fat and protein the line item is adding.

- Let me make lists of lists, list of lists of lists, etc.--ie. menu planning. A list is a recipe, a list of lists is the menu, a list of lists of lists is a weekly meal plan that would be awesome to plug into Amazon Fresh or something of the sort (if it had an API). Let me buy n-deep lists with a click.

- Consider showing the source of the data for users to verify or investigate further. If I am substituting something for one of your entries though that you don't have, I should be able to enter my own custom items as well as their nutritional information. This obviously is easier to implement for individual users and their shared recipes vs. incorporating in to your master lookup data.

- The mobile interface is slick, but I'd love a native app down the line as well.

- Let me upload a photo(s)--particularly on mobile where I might have made something, want to snap a photo, toss together the recipe quickly, and share it out. Think Instagram for recipes.

Would love to know more details about the project.

1. What did you use for building the front/back ends?

2. How did you make it so blazing fast?

3. What's your data source?

4. What made you decide to launch this? Consider adding an "About" page.

Awesome stuff.
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I don't think GPUs will be big with "web services" datacenters anytime soon.

As the slides mentioned, the difference between this web-services stuff and HPC is that HPC has a much higher compute/data ratio. Said another way, this web-services stuff is all about moving data, collating it a bit, and less about intensive mathematical processing of it.

Most of the boxes in the diagrams are datastores. Block stores, object stores, columnar stores, caches. I hate to say it but... big data. Not (as) big compute.
Let's end Imposter Syndrome
Kinda ancillary to your point, but if you think the developers who write stuff like this make $100k/year, you've lived in Silicon Valley or NYC for too long. These kinds of projects are typically done by someone making half that somewhere in middle America.
Repost, but really handy, used to easily test a website on my phone not long ago. It felt like a good lazy mans solution to testing stuff.

Also good to quickly let friends try your local server.
We do need real funding. The more we can make the sooner and better we can make things. Having lot of modules and test sites we can easily parallelize work of both testing at different sites and collecting more data and working on improving more modules at the same time. So basically we can truly utilize higher amount of funding
It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL (2007)
Nice! Now these look plausible but it's still surprising how accurate these are.

Note since this is a linear approach, the choice of the colorspace can have a large impact on the results. You didn't mention the colorspace, my best bet is that you used sRGB. Maybe you can try it on a linear colorspace too.

Edit:
According to the source you use PIL.Image.getdata(), which according to the doc returns "pixel values", then they have an RGB->XYZ conversion example that only works for linear colorspace. So it suggests that they already return linear RGB values, but many software mess these things up so I'm not 100% sure.
For 20 years of 6 figure salary at one of the most prestigious engineering jobs in the world? Maybe worth cramming a bit?
That would be most of their customers I imagine. I work with one who still runs mainframes.
If your goal is to accurately recreate dresses, then yes, a non-linear method would work better. But, I don't think that makes this work uninteresting. For a start, PCA is very simple to implement and train, which gives it hackability that non-linear methods typically don't have. PCA makes a better tool if you just want to play around. Exploring non-realistic output is also interesting for its own sake. I find the "ghost" effect that PCA generates quite nice.
ngrok is really cool software but it's unfortunate that version 2 went closed source. I'll be sticking with version 1.x
Holy shit, Google is actually that idiotic/incompetent. 404s depending on its interpretation of my IP "location". From US (well, US IP that Google believes is in Hungary, because Google sucks as localization) it works, from other countries it doesn't.

Amazing.
The New Tech CEO Archetype
> It might be slightly challenging to ensure that only the actual article content gets ran through typeset and not any other content.

Not a problem. It accepts CSS selectors as options (e.g., ".article").
List of web applications built with Meteor.js
Kim Dotcom's Baboom is here
Pretty cool! Security might be to reconsider.
Fortunately we are starting at Bay area where bad weather is less frequent and we can also operate on mild bad weather and have done lot of testing at night (in fact that was our prime hours of testing). We have also worked in bright sunny daylight in scorching heats and overcome issues with sensor noise in both conditions, only hoping to make even smarter algorithms and deals with more wider range of situations and we continue our pilots and paid deployments.
You have to be a paying member of Slack to use ScreenHero.
> Only the military has the budget to design solutions from scratch.

Define from scratch. It's perfectly reasonable and economically feasible to develop a SoM or SoC based hardware platform.
Voting machines should be called voting computers. That is what they are, they "compute" a vote-count (with all problems and fallacies that word implies).
I've never heard of this company before now. I've needed a manual for my Leader LBO-514A oscilloscope, and it turns out they have one. I guess Jason has it now!
How odd is a cluster of plane crashes?
Url changed from http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/08/18/the-dataflow-model-a-prac..., which points to this.
Monitor servers logs using ELK stack
I wonder if he will finish this one...
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Technically in this case, Apple was given advance notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10070799 . I'm guessing we'd all agree it was not a reasonable amount of time to actually fix it... but then who gets to decide what that is? If I'm counting right, it took over a month for Apple to patch DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE, which was disclosed in a similar way.

IMO's it's naive to think nobody else knew about these relatively simple exploits, so I don't blame the reporter too badly for deciding they don't want to wait weeks for Apple to fix it, if they can fix it themselves in hours. It's useless for Apple to be "in a position to distribute a patch more rapidly and more widely than anyone else" if they don't actually distribute a patch rapidly. I guess we'll have to wait and see how rapid they are this time.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm at least glad to read around a bit that it's a controversial topic, so we're both in good company in our respective opinions.
Kinda ancillary to your point, but if you don't know what "fully loaded cost" is, it might behoove you to look it up before assuming it means "salary".

I've never hired a $50k/a engineer, so I don't know what the multiplier is, but I've heard people throw around "2x" as a rough estimate. So you and JoachimSchipper are assuming the same salary, more or less.
Introducing a New Design on Wunderlist for Web
We will meet soon then :) .. hope you are exited to get autonomous rides. University authorities are excited to deploy such technology both to stay ahead and have cool inspiring tech in campus and also to help elderly people like some professors and visitors (who regularly come to church), or anyone who has trouble walking and they can even use it for logistics within campus. When something becomes much cheaper in the industry use-case possibilities explode. So lots of reasons even for a small campus and everyone is excited about it.
People in my team tend to express their mood in project context. Yet they find it valuable to know somebody has a bad day, so to not take his mood as something their actions had created.

It has not raised anybodies anxiety or made them feel exhibitioning private matters they would like not to share. It also makes them feel comfortable they can express themselves in an open way.

It may not work with all teams and all environments - yet my feeling is that such environments and teams have other stuff to work out to build space for comfortable exchange of opinions and feelings.

There are many guides for effective feedback which base on expressing how actions or behaviour of a person you give feedback to impact feelings. So I guess it's worth exercising ;)
Ooops, just seen this comment. Yes, you're right, your slice techniques do make a lot more sense than my examples.
"If the projectiles meet at the halfway point, then the clocks are synchronized."

And how would either end-point know this exactly?
It will raise your property value though.
UberEats Comes to San Francisco, Where Food Delivery Is Hot
I really like how the firewall is illustrated as a wall on fire with a hole in it. It describes NAT really well.
It is perfect.

The most annoying problem with Hangouts is that I have to load the whole Gmail tab for answering a single message on my laptop. This tool is a lot faster. I zoomed to 125%, adblocked the bing background image & the now cropped giant greeting.
Yeah, but this time he borrowed money from people who cannot be duped.
wow, just wow. huge work indeed
Thanks!. I have read that this data structure can be used for range updates and queries. Something that can also be done using Segment Trees. I haven't covered range updates in my article. It only talks about prefix sum and point updates. I will talk about range updates and segment trees in another article soon.
What don't you buy about TDD?
Have a look at Alteryx (http://www.alteryx.com/) - it's pretty close to what you're describing, I think.
It's funny how the pendulum swings - from one madness to another: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/18gx3h/til_that...
I think the main party to blame here is Microsoft. They're pushing this "one-size fits all" solution into everything - from embedded systems to super-computers. To them it doesn't matter if Windows is "over-engineered" for a voting machine - it's just another license sold.

If it were up to me no embedded system would ever use the same operating system that's on a billion PCs. That's just asking for trouble.
[NSFW] What was the purpose of developing Virtual reality again?
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To me blizzard has always been a gaming-mirror of Apple in many ways, and I think it's a shame this topic hasn't been explored more. Though they have both faltered a bit in this regard in recent years, a hallmark of both companies is that they never release anything until it's _ready_. You also see this focus reflected in their willingness to "stoop" to simplicity, regardless of the hate they both receive.

I could come up with many more examples but the true proof to me is that of the loyal consumer. I know of no one who has only played one blizzard game. If you play WC3, you instantly get a visceral feeling that you can trust their other games to be equally good. Even decades later, as Hearthstone reflects, Blizzards DNA is still shining through. So it is with Apple and their products[0]. Though no one and nothing is perfect, you can sense the maniacal focus behind the scenes.

[0] If you consider the years where they've had proper leadership. (i.e. disregard the pepsi years)
Always love

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Beside chastity belts my favorite is the myth of the flat earth.
No, cookies are shared across incognito windows (try gmail.com)
The actual title is "It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL", and everybody who knows about the GIL knows this. Guido changing his mind and saying otherwise would be big news, so this title "Guido:Easy to remove GIL" is kind of misleading.

Also, this is from 2007.
The Speech APIs
That's pretty much exactly what tmate does (it uses tmux under the hood). However, I was looking at how to do this myself and couldn't figure out how to share my session and only allow people into that, rather than the whole system, so thanks!
It's a sad indictment of how far we've come from the early vision of a pervasive, distributed Internet that it's considered a novelty to run out of your own home or office, rather than on the servers of a couple of massively centralised megacorporations.
Actually in thermodynamic terms temperature is a measure of how entropy (disorder) increases when you increase internal energy. Not the most intuitive definition (you can't just go and buy entropyometer for example ;)) but it works even when quantum effects kick in. And for ideal gas this measure happens to be proportional to the kinetic energy of the particles.
I didn't, but a coworker did when I wasn't in the office. Someone had just come out of a 1:1 with her manager and was sobbing at her desk, and no one was paying her any attention (this was an open plan office).
Those are not the original physical artefacts though. Digitisation is immensely important for access of content, but it's not preservation.
> Presuming this gets scanned and released to the public

What is the copyright status of these manuals? I hope they don't bump into any legal problem though and they can release scans.
> Anyway, here's a thought: IF it's that important to preserve the original title, then add a second field with space for a brief comment supplied by the submitter. Not something like Slashdot mind you, but some way for the user to (optionally) add some extra descriptive verbiage to help clarify ambiguous or context-free titles.

People editorialise titles. Your suggested box would almost ask for editorialising.

People can leave a comment for anything they submit.
Yes, "facts" like denying that OLR actually targets a fixed proportion of employees to be managed out. Who do you think you're fooling? Not anyone who's worked at Amazon.
Why is there the need to use these machines in the first place? IMHO the overengineering started when using a tech solution for a non tech problem.

Voting on paper seems to work for most democratic countries and it's definitely harder to rig than the electronics. I just don't see any siginificant advantage in using technology here (and no, a few $/€ saved every other year is not significant in my honest opinion)
Seems down to me, I'm seeing:

WebSocket connection to 'ws://spe.lt:8080/' failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
>>Apparently the process by which Virginia chooses its voting machines, or at least the process it used at the time, involves no third-party security evaluation. What the hell?

Government RFPs pretty much never have a third-party evaluation process. Those cost money, which is almost certainly not in the budget.

Also, the vast majority of the time the government already has a preferred vendor, and the RFP is simply a legally-required formality.
Because sharing the same client is still useful, even if they're different platforms. For example, being able to use the same application to control systems that run on Linux as well as Windows without needing to duplicate a lot of logic in a lot of places. Additionally, I can see cross-platform programs as potentially being possible through the right combination of well laid out containers, and usage of file associations/binfmt_misc in proper doses. So settling on the docker api does make sense for ms, because a balkanized server ecosystem just leads to frustration and people less interested in your platform.
> other hydrogen compounds may be good candidates for high-temperature superconductivity too

If this is true there will be a mini gold rush in this space in the next couple of years. Maybe the record will not stand for very long.
Test Driven Development (TDD) may or may not be a fad. Regardless, one can always have testing in ones development work. That doesn't mean you're driven by the tests.

Edit: On second thought, I read your comment sloppily. I agree, testing in itself isn't an advanced topic and I'd recommend a section on some testing :-)
How to preserve fleeting digital information with DNA for future generations
Yes. Not a big business sure but hey...
Psychopathic clowns terrorize people in France
I do some Flex (Which is build on Flash) contracting, the money is crazy and there are some Flex/Flash applications out there that I don't see getting replaced by JS anytime soon.
"topmind" strikes again!
Cool, thx.
Trump goes after Silicon Valley over immigration hiring
We no longer live in the industrial era in which workers were pretty much interchangeable. Workers are not interchangeable at all. Zuckerberg has already hired everybody in the USA whom he deems suitable. If he cannot import the additional people whom he believes to be suitable, he will simply have to put his engineering shop there where these people are; just like IBM has already done.
You're missing the most crucial point: ATMs provide instant tangible demonstrable feedback to the user that it has done exactly what it said it would do. The machine spits out money, and the money is not only the result of the interaction, but also the perfect witness.

With voting machines, so far, there has been absolutely no provable feedback whatsoever that allows you to assure your vote has been counted. Even worse, there is no system that allows you to verify no votes have been counted that did not exist. I'm not saying these problems can't be solved with cryptography, all I'm saying is that so far, they haven't been solved/implemented yet.

Voting ballots don't have the same problem.
Eventhough the time flies the situation seems to be remain the same.

http://www.snaplogic.com/blog/an-open-letter-to-guido-van-ro...
This is the definition of software that I would not trust to run unless it was open source. This is a real shame.
Flash being a resource hog is down to bad coding of the flash applications rather than the runtime itself (the runtime isn't a masterpiece of efficiency or anything but it isnt intrinsically a resource hog).

All the crappy programmers making punch the monkey flash ads will just make punch the monkey html ads and you wont realise what it is consuming your battery.

Also, "Thoughts on Flash" is full of easily verifiable lies.
I remember reading a book (an introduction to QM) by him when I was young, too bad I didn't know enough at the time to understand that this was a true waste of time, more philosophy mumbo-jumbo than a physic book.
Maintaining a low temperature requires continuous work as you can't stop heat transfer completely. This consumes energy and requires some machinery to produce or deliver the coolant.

Establishing and maintaining a high pressure on the other hand is a one time effort, for example screwing back the front of a ballpoint pen puts the spring inside under permanent pressure, and even gases can be contained at high pressure with no significant loss.
Yeah there are massive internal applications inside Big Corps across the world in Flex that aren't/can't be replaed soon.
Paternity tests are not banned in France. At will, secret, testing is banned. Parents can get court orders if they want a paternity test.

The US is similar: although there are kits you can buy off the shelf the results are for personal knowledge only and can't be used in legal proceedings. If you want to use a paternity test in court you need a court ordered paternity test from an accredited lab.
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My guess is that they just copy the blobs and then send it to other machines/datacenters.
RemindToRead
Ah, didn't realize that. Thinking about it, I've only used this 'hack' to have two different gmail accounts open at the same time (one in normal, one in incognito).
My hypothesis is, that there is a stronger publication bias in psychology journals than in reported clinical trials. And the latter aren't really "publications" in the sense of a peer reviewed, published paper.

There is certainly a publication bias in publishing the results of the clinical studies, but this database registers the trials long before any such publication. And some are never registered.
When do you expect to have a ready-to-purchase product for sale? Do you target US only at first? What will your product cost, order of magnitude?
Good things come to those who iron?
Why does America have alove affair with voting machines? What is wrong with paper and pencil?
For historical reasons, it is most popular with Twilio developers. I find it indispensable for doing any sort of development where you need to get asynchronous callbacks from your API of choice.
From Pandas to Apache Spark’s DataFrame
I don't know what they changed, but it works now.
Author here! This is totally unrelated to the posted book.
So it's easier to rig elections. Honestly, can't think of another reason.
Psychology is a science, yes, and it holds that time spent alone is perfectly normal and for a large section of the population absolutely necessary for mental health.
100g white rice - 8% protein (2g).

I assume the reason for this is because its cooked and its taking into account water content but it feels unintuitive. Also it then doesnt tell me specifically how much carbs/fat there is, just a percentage. If people are going to use this for quick checks for specific diets it won't be all that useful.

In fact it's probably worth just using the percentages for the colour bars and only having pure values in grams shown as numbers. You could add a toggle to show percentages so that people planning a days worth of food could have a percentage split for their macros.

Aside from this I love this idea and the way its presented and would definitely use it if it had enough information.
An idea is a tool is an idea. Or an idea is a description of a tool. In any case, code is a history of our time. A computed history. It encodes the way we thought about things, reflected in the way we arranged our systems of doing things. There's an argument to be made that it is a highly efficient description -- it might be possible to accurately rebuild a fallen civilization if we could read its computer code. At the very least, we'd have a start on rebuilding its infrastructure. The writings of a time encode its culture, you can rebuild a culture from that. The Renaissance did this with the culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Code is a medium, of today. It works to save that, if we value the preservation of our time.