skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like most of the conversations around this topic boil down to:

"I don't want to have to learn new stuff."

GTFO of this industry then.
This is beautiful and really well done. I especially like how the light reflects naturally as the knot rotates. How did you achieve that effect?
publish it somewhere it is magically picked up by a 3rd party who isn't bound by the TOS and republishes somewhere.

problem solved.
Um duh, cause it's a Library. (One of) Library's jobs is to preserve our culture as expressed in the media arts. Library's don't judge that culture. They maintain it so current and future society have a chance to.
The following defines the Fibonacci recurrence relation (in matrix form):

[F(n+1); F(n)] = [1 1; 1 0]^n * [F(n); F(n-1)]

or

[F(n+1); F(n)] = [1 1; 1 0]^n * [1; 0] if we define F(0) = 0 and F(1) = 1.

However, we can diagonalize [1 1; 1 0] using its eigenvalues and eigenvectors (see here: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=eigenvectors+of+%7B%7B1...).

For any diagonalizable matrix A = PDP^-1 where P is the matrix of eigenvectors and D is the matrix of eigenvalues on the diagonal, A^n = PD^nP^-1. Try to expand the A^n if you don't believe it. Using this trick, you have simplified the power of a matrix to a power of two floats, namely the eigenvalues.
> This is a wonderful post that no-one will care about. This may be the only post.

I think you are underestimating the crowd here. Last time it was posted it got quite a few responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873250 (already a while back, but might be interesting for reference/to bring topics up again)
In 1969 on the 911S, a front mounted radiator-style cooler
was mounted as standard equipment in the front right fender
well. In 1973, the newer trombone, serpentine, loop or
cooling pipe cooler as it was called, replaced the radiator
style cooler. This style of oil cooler was used through 1983.

Ha! What the hell!? The 911 never actually was a purely air-cooled car, like the Beetle?

And now that I check wikipedia, I learn that the Beetle also had an oil cooler! My god, I've been living a lie.
An Arduino, Hydroponics, and You: A Solar Powered Microcontroller Garden
"However, loads can be reordered with earlier stores. For example, if you write

mov 1, [%esp]
mov [%ebx], %eax

it can be executed as if you wrote

mov [%ebx], %eax
mov 1, [%esp]"

The confusing mix of Intel and GAS/AT&T syntax aside, this is not possible since it would give different results when ebx == esp.
ASCII and EBCDIC are just different ways of encoding the same information. It's like saying comma-delimited files aren't portable because there are also tab-delimited files and some programs support one or the other. It doesn't matter because there are trivial, widely available utilities to convert between them.

There is nothing analogous to convert MSIL to. EBCDIC and ASCII both have a representation for 'A'. Only .NET has "Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey()".
He would have to change on the black market, though, a little risky if you don't know Polish. The official rate was much worse. But yeah, the rate was absurd, especially when the inflation kicked in in late 80s.

My father worked for a few months as a farmer in Austria, and paid back 30-years mortgage for that money.
Uhh, so their revenue model is 'guaranteed'? And subject to linear or better growth?

There's also the possibility that they're nearing a plateau. That everyone who wants to be on Twitter already is.
> Twitter doesn't in of itself owe anything to the public interest.

Twitter exists at the sufferance of the society that grants it its corporate charter. It most certainly does owe a great deal to the public interest--or it would, in a healthy society, be penalized, up to and including destruction of its convenient legal fiction, for acting against it.
I'm writing a filter for my hacker news plugin that removes all references to "unicorn" from my feed.
Show HN: Ninja Rockstar Unicorn T-shirt
We use PyMite at work, (Python 2.x) which works pretty well. The longer you use it, the more things you find that aren't implemented, though. No int() or float(), no try except, longs don't exist at all, no keyword arguments, etc etc. You give up a lot to fit in 55 kilobytes.
Hmm, he probably had been prosecuted for some other things. I just accepted his story at face value as I had a torrid affair when I was in the Air Force, and I remember it being so incredibly exciting because of the trouble we could get in. She was also a servicemember who was married.
Yep. IBM has been running a hackathon since early 2002 all around the world as a recruiting funnel to resolve the talent shortage problems @surge refers to. Runs every year, all across the world and there are always great prizes (mainframe tshirts, ipads, iphones, macbook pros) just for completing the exercises plus side-track options to drop out of uni and instantly obtain six-figure employment at one of IBM's customers if you do well.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/education/academic/masterthe... and https://www.facebook.com/MasterTheMainframe
A ghost ship & cannibal rats!!! I can make a story for a scary movie out of this.
Then retweet it.
I personally know summernote developer.
He is really eager to make it to world best stuff.
Congrats. I cheer you up.
For me, there are two big differences.

One, I'm more willing to forgive those with less privilege for errors of ignorance or misplaced reactions to trauma. Part of what privilege gets you is space to learn and to work our your issues.

Two, poor people can't afford to buy much in the way of service, so their ability to mistreat other poor people is limited. The richer the person, though, the more personal service they can consume, and the more power they have over those workers.
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Notable examples on the desktop: GitHub for Mac (ReactiveCocca) and GitHub for Windows (ReactiveUI)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNATGjqM6U and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyKHxy7X0w and http://web.archive.org/web/20120714082000/http://www.reactiv...

(True Elm is part of the web-community, just saying React was not the first mover but I agree it will certainly be most likely the one that makes FRP cross the chasm)
Oh, so that's your political opinion. I was wondering.
Then just eschew the Twitter API and scrape the website, then tell Twitter to go pound sand. Doesn't do anything about getting hit with a frivolous lawsuit but that's a different topic.
I have often imagined a dashcam that does license plate recognition and lets you know when shitty drivers are nearby. And of course, it would have voice response so you could give nearby cars compliments and public grumbles. Presumably you'd also want it to be geosensitive and real time, so that it could say, "Hey, there's a lunatic coming up behind you."

Seems like it would be easy to put together a dash stand, some OpenCV magic, and a little glue logic to get a prototype together.
Here, have some api keys: https://github.com/search?l=php&p=4&q=access_token+access_to...
MamaBee+-+$35.00+Gets+You+Free+Shipping+
I reworded Twitter's statement to make its nonsense more obvious:

Imagine how nerve-wracking -- terrifying, even -- making public statements would be if it was immutable and irrevocable?
Chromebooks Gaining on iPads in School Sector
Highest Paying Remote Jobs (August 2015) Are All Technical
So is it formerly Russian, formerly Ghost or formerly Ship?
Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for getting work done?
I have this repo on Github, though it's more of an all inclusive list.
https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

What I'm really curious about is -- what tools do you love so much that you recommend them to others any chance you get?

For me:

- Quip. Start using it. It will eliminate any use for Google Docs and Evernote. It's a much faster version of Google Docs. Make sure you download the desktop and mobile apps though, otherwise it's not as good.

What tool is so good that you know others will love it once they start using it?
You two have my support.

A psychiatrist acquaintance told me some people almost reflexively lose control and must take advantage of a chance to belittle someone in a customer/server scenario.
Digitize the Planet
Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/snopy/. The project hasn't been updated for 3 years, and the files haven't been updated since 2002. I'm not sure that the dev is particularly active any more.
When I was in high school about 25 years ago we took a trip to Anchorage. I would love to go back and I think it is incredible up there, can definitely respect the pulling and not being able to resist. I think the hardest part isn't the job, but overcoming the difference in living conditions. You can always find something remote and make it work, it's just a question of being comfortable. The other thing you may want to check though is the internet connectivity in some of the smaller cities. May find a use for some of those old AOL dialup CDs :)

Good luck.
Metrics monitor on api's response time, call frequency, exceptions count etc.
Yep, especially when they put no effort into understanding the design decisions behind different frameworks and glibly dismiss new ones as "hype" and "jerking off".
I approached them as a data scientist. 18 years professional experience, working on military and finance projects. Spoke with a salesman on the phone for a few minutes. I explained I was taking on data science projects, but they thought there might still be a fit there.

They asked me to do a fizz-buzz/filter test in a cut down web based IDE. I did the questions in a language appropriate to my trade - Mathematica.

Their entire filtering process is automatically scored. I got back a nice form letter saying I'd failed.

Executive summary: Words don't match actions. Nice website, but you're still a piece of meat.
Ask HN: How best to get CISSP certified?
Hi HN! I have a background in non-technical aspects of security, from physical security to policy, and am looking to get my CISSP certification for work. Looking for advice. If at a physical location, preference is for proximity to Palo Alto. Also interested in online programs, but the bias is for in-person learning. Thanks!
I think the IMS issue may make the 987.1 Cayman and 996 911 cars some of the best deals out there today - it seems like the IMS issues don't affect too many cars (and the issues may have been over-reported on Porsche forums), and there are solutions like the IMS Guardian (http://theimsguardian.com/) to detect IMS failure before it happens.

To me, a 996 sounds like a great deal today because prices are driven down by people who don't like the IMS issue and the egg-shaped headlights.
It is common for two people working, even side-by-side, not to view their job the same way. I'm certain we've all experienced that. Your response to the piece, and that of the commenter you cite, is more indicative of your own mindset about the world rather than the motives of the author.
Floats have rather limited precision for this type of computation for large n (gp's post had n=1e9). If you were to go with big-floats instead, then the resulting arithmetic will be more expensive that the straightforward big-integer arithmetic.
Nice editor. I also recommend taking a look at inline editors, like Aloha http://www.alohaeditor.org/demo/aloha-ui/

I had previously written a node.js module that uses it for embedding little CMS content blocks on a web site http://contentblocks.herokuapp.com
They set your hourly rate, many other clauses you need to ask about like the $30k referral fine, being spied on, agreeing to refund all your fees ect. http://yuriybabenko.com/blog/my-experience-joining-toptal
I can totally see why you want that, but a cross-business blacklist on consumers sounds absurdly dystopian.

(Maybe this means normal-Yelp is dystopian, and maybe I should have more empathy with small businesses complaining about unfair reviews.)
They made me do a "coding challenge" that took 90 minutes, plus the time it would take to prepare to take a test that has nothing to do with anything I have ever done as a developer.

So I didn't do it. I can get other offers where I will not be made to dance like an unpaid monkey.
Coming at this from the other perspective, we currently work with a US based designer and 3 Russian python programmers that we found on TopTal, and they have been great. I'm not aware of the financials (I don't deal with that), but there's certainly some talented people on TopTal.
Well, then, it shouldn't be a problem to write a service that automates the capture of screenshots of tweets posted by a particular account or on a particular hashtag. That doesn't even require access to the Twitter API, or, for that matter, having a Twitter account.
Plenty of good topics in here, but it's interesting to see how things have changed since 2011. From the preface:

"Although there is currently no system which can recognize even in the order of 1000 object categories (the best system can get about 60% correct on 100 categories), the fact that we pull it off seemingly effortlessly serves as a “proof of concept” that it can be done."
YC Firms:

AirWare

CoinBase

DoorDash

Mixpanel

Optimizely

ZenPayroll
The developers handbook is just rife with gems.
I realize I didn't make it clear in the OP -- specifically tools for working. That could still include things like Quora if you get good info from it.
Not quite:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=pop

Interesting that it only measures the chance of "measurable rainfall" and does not attempt to predict the duration of the rain.
For those who love the stories of people behind the scenes, it's worth digging around in the Wayback Machine for Bitter Waitress's archives. E.g.:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080917050640/http://www.bitterw...

And my favorite San Francisco story in this vein is "Ice Balls":

http://the-tusk.com/2015/01/09/ice-balls/
Wow, thank you for reminding me about this. Totally forgot it existed.

There were other common ones, especially an echo test and a tone generator. Useful for folks in the phone repair industry.
Wouldnt stories reporting this also fall into the same definition? After all this is also "distributing knowledge on how to obtain illegal content online" since some people might not know what is Popcorn Time at all.
I know this is to make some people targets to make people afraid, but still.. Very weak definition.
... Wow, the CEO went into the comments saying "The only thing that is a scam is this post?" Even if he's right on the facts (which he can't be, he didn't dispute the majority of the post), he doesn't sound like a person I want to work with.
By Location:

New York - 8
San Francisco - 16
Rest of CA - 12
Which one is your favorite?
You're partially right. The whole of the Earth isn't constantly monitored by the kind of satellites that could resolve this ship. However a lot of the high resolution satellites are in polar or nearly polar orbits so one satellite will see the whole Earth in a couple orbits. There's just not a need to collect and process all that information unless there's some reason to be looking at that chunk of land or sea. Generally they'd be focused on more pressing issues like monitoring other countries military bases instead of trying to find a mostly harmless ship in the North Atlantic.

If there was some reason that this ship was an actual threat to countries like the US or Russia who have the large high resolution satellite networks in place it probably would have been found pretty quickly. There just wasn't a reason for the effort to be expended to look for it, the ship was old and being scrapped and wasn't full of anything particularly dangerous to worry any of the countries that could find it.
You'd miss out on some good articles: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141112-unico...
clickable link: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
For those unfamiliar with the Twitter API: the Streaming API pushes out notifications of when users who are eligible to show up in your timeline (i.e. users whom you follow) have deleted a message:

https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/messages-types#st...

Politiwoops used monitored this to see which tweets it has previously collected were now deleted. You can peruse the Politwoops source code to see the details:

https://github.com/sunlightlabs/politwoops-tweet-collector

Twitter's complaint is that its terms of service forbids ignoring those deletion messages...but in the past, Twitter had turned a blind eye to what Politwoops was doing. Whatever the reason for the crackdown now, it doesn't mean you can't manually try to track these embarrassing tweets and then publish them under fair use protections...in fact, the Anthony Weiner scandal, in which a user noticed an accidentally posted DM, was what sparked Politwoops in the first place. It's just you can't do it on a wide-scale, automated basis via API.

I'm kind of surprised Politwoops informal waiver lasted this long...or rather, that no one else has applied its open source code to the tracking of celebrities...if that had ever happened (say, as an informal service of TMZ or Gawker), I have no doubt Twitter would shut that down, as celebrities would be spooked by having their mistakes be essentially non-deletable...and their protests would carry a lot more notice than politicians'.

edit: Another relevant link: the unitedstates/congress-legislators repo, which is a crowdsourced listing (augmented by a automated framework) of Congress social media accounts: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators
"Building blogs with wordpress is easy, so building facebook should be easy too."
dammit, that was a good one

maybe I should just exclude financial news sites with non technical staff.
Yeah, it was my opinion. I'm glad my comment conveyed my mindset about the world. That means I was successful in expressing said opinion :)

Now, I alone can't say whether or not my opinion is right - that's why these lovely forums exist so that we can bounce ideas/anecdotes/opinions off each other!

---

For the people who are downvoting this comment: why don't you contribute your opinion so we can have a discussion? A Socratic dialectic? A good old knowledge swap? Spin me a yarn!

This intense, insecure need to be statistically, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt RIGHT (whatever that means) all of the time is killing/derailing countless discussions around HN.

The rules of the forum are simple: have an opinion, don't be a dick. Leave a comment so we can learn from each other.
True, I remember reading about it in (extremely confusing) articles online. This is also a potentially politically motivated case, and I cannot find a concrete and convincing description of Swedish rape laws online.
The Stripes Programming Language
An open source load testing tool
Yes, but a couple of problems:

1) It is also against TOS to store tweets beyond a reasonable length of time.

2) Without the use of the streaming API, you do not have an efficient, automated way to track which tweets have been deleted.
Global labor is not automatically a net win. If companies shop for legal regimes where labor protection is minimal or nonexistent, all you get is a race to the bottom where no one wins, not even the capitalist class, not after the economy contracts because there is hardly anyone left with any leisure time or disposable income.
The [2,1] is just there to pick the correct entry. You can pick another one but you'll have to change the power of the matrix.
Xodia – An AI Bot Battle
Xodia is a programming contest in which you can write a Bot that will play a 2-player game.
This time's game is called "Grow", in which you have to grow your tree as much as possible, and prevent your opponent's tree from growing.

Created by: A group of sophomore and senior year students from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, India.
What is the "retard" fiasco?
It's strange the extent to which programming interview questions reflect an 80s view of the cost of operations, particularly the overabundance of linked list and binary tree questions. Cache misses ain't free and memory scans are relatively cheap after you do the initial lookup.
What don't you like about python? Just curious.

There is this for HMC, NUTS gibbs etc : https://github.com/JuliaStats/Lora.jl

But its not ready to use yet it think.
Good advice. In some situations you'll get better pay too.
It's not a static decision though - the memory accesses can still be reordered when %ebx != %esp, though of course this only ends up visible where there are multiple CPUs involved.

For example, consider the case above and assume that the initial conditions are:

(%esp) == 0
(%ebx) == 0

Now imagine we have a second CPU executing simultaneously, with the same %ebx and %esp as the first CPU, but executing this:

mov $1, (%ebx)
mov (%esp), %eax

Now if there was no reordering, either one or both CPUs must end with %eax == 1. However, the hoisting of loads before earlier stores means that you can actually end up with both CPUs have %eax == 0 after this executes.
Thanks! The fragment shader performs simple lighting with one stationary point light that has ambient, specular, and diffuse components. There are actually no true reflections, although that would be fun thing to work on.
Yup. There is no undo on the Internet. Someone, somewhere is probably saving everything you publish on social media, be it the government, orgs with good intentions, spammers, etc.
I often wonder if a much simpler bill that proposed a national catastrophic insurance program where the Feds pay 100% over $50,000 for a health incident would have been cheaper and tipped the actuarial tables to push insurance rates down?
I'm kinda of surprised that this hadn't already been shown/confirmed/etc. ?
Wasn't there a "report my driving for everybody" or something along those lines on HN in the past few days?
Why would you submit a PR - wouldn't you just create an issue (you don't want to select a license for their project)? In either case - my experiences with PRs have been really negative (and I'm not surprised).