skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This company repeatedly sets off my B.S. detector with its technology story. Here's a previous article where they didn't have their schtick quite so polished:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/imgix-graphics-...

Believe it or not: Google already had awesome, high-performance image tech. YouTube re-encoded every video in 2010 as a favor to Apple. Meanwhile these guys are saying Google couldn't make thumbnails? So they had to do a startup using the GPUs in Mac minis?

“We just couldn’t crunch those images down to a smaller size,” Zacharias remembers. “It would have taken a significant amount of Google’s entire processing power just to do that.”

Preposterous, dishonest claim.

I looked at this back then and discovered:

Google provides it through App Engine.
Adobe provides this through Akamai.
http://cloudimage.io/ does it through Rackspace CDN.
http://cloudinary.com/ does it through CloudFront.

That said Imgix seems to provide a stable service people enjoy. Perhaps they should sell that instead of these oddball tech claims. Because what they're doing isn't hard or novel. They sure are making it complicated, though.
If it's not very different from DejaVu Sans mono, why not use the latter itself in the first place?
Why would you want to obfuscate the source code of a package?..
Awesome Polymer
How we decided to reach Cara Delevingne over the internet to launch our startup
My small sample size of experience with the FDA: they seem to be very receptive to novel therapies for terminal illness and it's surprisingly straight-forward to get a Phase I trial approved.

There's no static rule uniformly enforcing the initiation of trials, rather your IND (investigational new drug) application is reviewed by experts in the relevant field to determine whether (1) is there a plausible reason to believe your new therapy helps and (2) is it unlikely to kill or severely injure patients.

I can't think of a better way for things to work for late-stage cancer or other untreatable terminal illnesses.
csvlook [0] is another great tool that does this for any CSV file. It's part of the very useful csvkit[1] suite of command line utilities for working with CSV files.

[0] http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/scripts/csvlook.html

[1] http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
Goosebumps all way down the arms and spine. Again.
Snabb Switch
ZOMG! I remember this; I had a copy when I was 13 years old and I have no idea what happened to it. I learned soldering with this. Thanks!
Why I Won't Do Another Kickstarter Campaign
The following sentence explains it. "The way in which [the fibonacci spiral] continues to grow but stay true to its form is very much like Steinway & Sons over these many years."
I remember hearing somewhere that certain animals find direct eye contact as an aggressive challenge to their dominance.

This isn't the first time that the cops have gotten upset with people because of "eyeballing" or "dehumanizing stares": http://www.salon.com/2013/05/30/miami_olice_choke_and_tackle...

Not so great of a situation when you're not allowed to even make eye contact with the cops. I can't help but feel that the cops want to see people near them with eyes/face pointing down as a sign of deference...
A lot of stocks were hitting circuit breakers IIRC, so some of the underlying single stocks simply weren't trading for part of the time.
Nothing about rbenv in the post. Any reason why not? Some of the things you pointed out about rvm would be handled by using rbenv instead.
IIRC, pre-SP2 IE6 didn't handle gzipped javascript properly, but those days are behind us.
4am Panic
As more women enter in and stay in a field, it becomes perceived as 'women's work' and men will abandon it.
a "too short trading window" means that no retail investor had the chance to buy within this 1 hour timeframe, because of the massive amount of order?
I had hoped that it wouldn't come down to axioms. I'm still curious to hear your response to the question from my previous comment:

It would be as if you'd said "well, the part of a degenerative mental disease where you're forgetting everything you are is horrible, but once you're done forgetting everything you are, and forgetting that there was even something to forget, what's wrong with that?".

That's the part I'm most curious about. I realize that you don't personally believe death is a transition to non-existence, but you also acknowledged that others did feel that way, and you wondered how even given that basis one might feel horrified by that non-existence (rather than the process leading to it). Given that, if the above doesn't explain it, I don't think I understand where you're coming from.

Or are you saying that that now makes sense, and the remaining axiomatic disagreement is about non-existence itself?

> However, the method I have in solving these problems are very integrated with my faith. I've personally concluded that we live in a broken and fallen world and are incapable of fixing it, but a higher power exists who can fix us. However, I won't try to have that discussion here.

Neither will I, and I appreciate you separating the discussion from that. However, I would ask that you consider the possibility of the two not being incompatible: believing in an afterlife is not incompatible with trying to make this life as good as possible, and even if you believe it can't be made perfect, that doesn't stop it from getting asymptotically better. The phrase "pray to God but keep rowing to shore" comes to mind, as well as "God helps those who help themselves". I'm not bothered when others have faith; it does bother me, though, when faith in a higher power causes people to give up on humanity. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

In any case, I do very much appreciate the opportunity for a discussion with someone who, despite having a very different point of view, was willing to discuss things in reasonable terms and make an effort to understand a differing point of view.
Also, Market Orders are ALWAYS executed before limit orders, even if the limit makes it executable.

In the continuous market time priority rules. If a marketable limit order arrives before a market order, the limit order executes first.
I think the main reason I probably won't be getting an OnHub (for myself at least -- it might be perfect for my parents) is my love of tinkering and learning networking. I like that firmware like DD-WRT lets me poke around at the internals, and actually calls features by their standardized names instead of some made-up copyrighted marketing name.
> But I’ve had zero issues with the OnHub: coverage has been shockingly good, I haven’t needed to use the wireless repeater at all, and the interference I saw with the baby monitor has disappeared. In areas that were formerly dead zones, the OnHub has given me enough bandwidth and throughput to stream 4K video, even in my basement, a full two stories below my office. This is despite putting the router in a less-than-ideal location: upstairs, in my office, far from our general living areas.

This is what I was hoping for. It seems every router I've tried -- and I even have the ASUS RT-N66U, which is supposed to have great coverage -- never fails to have multiple bad spots in our home (and it's not that large).

If OnHub has the advertised coverage, it may set a bar that hopefully other manufactures will be forced to follow.
How 90 minutes with Lego bricks taught these government executives agile
I should have made a note that I've been using rbenv as an escape from rvm and it has roughly the same set of problems, but it is a bit less enraging.
I'm interested in this as well. I've been using org-mode and Dropbox for many years, but have become interested in something I can (a) easily use with a phone, and (b) use photos with. I've been pleased, in these capacities, with Evernote so far, but would love something that's either open source or not subscription-based.
ahh, so arbitrage players simply paused trading, as their automated calculations where incomplete?
The weird part is that they presumably exist to reduce volatility, but if everyone has to put their order in for 2 seconds every five minutes it just makes the volatility much much worse.

If they really feel that a circuit breaker serves does something useful here (and I'm skeptical this is the case) they should stop trading for longer periods of time and allow a larger window between haltings in order to allow all trade participants put in an order and not just a few of the fastest HFT engines.
I've tried several of similar libraries, and still find `tabulate` the best.
Posted a comment about this as well - I also highly recommend watching this, Dr. Barkley's lecture altered how I view my myself
Taxicabland
Well, plenty of traders are out there selling without actually owning -- that's something market makers and only market makers are allowed to do

I assume you are referring to naked short selling.

To be clear, anyone may borrow shares and then sell them. Although legal ownership does pass to the borrower, this is not what most people think of if told they must "own shares prior to selling them".

In fact under SEC regulations, the borrow doesn't actually need to take place before the sale, so long as the broker has reasonable grounds to believe that the security can be borrowed to satisfy delivery for the sale.

From the retail traders perspective, this is typically transparent. They simply enter a sell order in a security that they don't own, and their broker worries about locating it for delivery (or doesn't allow the trade if it believes it can't locate the shares).
Forth was my first programming language for work from 1999-2004 at FedEx, developing the software used by the courier scanning device the Enhanced SuperTracker (EST) -- which was used in production between 1987 and 2007... 20 years! I still look back fondly on it for battle-hardening me on recursion and the function stack. I still marvel at the ability of the language to "fold in" on itself when compiled, resulting in a miniscule binary footprint. Also, since you define your own "words" (or functions), it supports a DSL approach to coding... no syntax to learn, you write your own!

One of my favorite descriptions of Forth:

"There is no syntax, no redundancy, no typing. There are no errors that can be detected. Forth uses postfix, there are no parentheses. No indentation. Comments are deferred to the documentation. No hooks, no compatibility. Words are never hyphenated. There's no heirarchy. No files. No operating system."

http://www.colorforth.com/1percent.html

EDIT: I survived and currently work at a YC company and do not have a neck-beard.
Ask HN: What RESTful APIs do you use most?
I'm interested in what APIs (maybe top 10) are you usually using in your projects? Thank you so much for your help
I write Forth code for tiny microcontrollers that are embedded in ASICs. They are ROM-based, and have to work first time. Size is a few hundred bytes, so C is out of question.
How to work with a remote team
> due more to luck than anything else.

With many of these things it boils down to: simple food likely does exactly the same thing. I hear that well-nourished people generally have stronger immune systems.

> regards to dressing wounds

Even if it actually works on dressings the bigger question is: how well does it survive HCl and bile? Can it be absorbed via the intestines? Or is the only active effect killing off flora on its way to be pooped out? Sanitized poop: great.

What these people don't realize is that the body isn't something you put things into an expect the same results. Would they guzzle down bleach simply because it cleans their clothes? Why would they then guzzle down this honey, merely because it sanitizes wounds?
I am one of those people who bought a used TiVo box and used it with a cablecard from Comcast.

The reason I did this is because with a basic cable subscription you can't watch HD channels, even though the HD channels are free, because they will only give you a non-hd cable box.

After researching online, I found that you can use a TiVo box with a cablecard and get HD channels.

I can only imagine that millions of Comcast basic cable customers out there are either 1) watching non-HD TV, or 2) paying extra for an upgraded cable box because they don't know this trick.

I completely agree that this business model needs to change. I should be able to receive cable channels, that I pay for, with whatever device I want. Being able to receive cable channels with my chromecast would be awesome. One less crap to keep around.
Agreed, this is awful. Presumably it means that adding comments can slow your code down, which I would otherwise have thought a completely laughable suggestion.
He meant ban market orders rather than ban ETFs.
Agreed. I see this as a sort of fuzz tester for your assumptions.
Information systems for the age of consequences
It depends on why you're minifying, but there are good reasons to do so. I'd bet, as in guess/speculate without evidence, that the #1 reason people do it is for code obfuscation. Front end JavaScript delivers source code to your users and competitors alike, that can be scary when you're working hard on something you think people will like & copy.

Most here are talking about uglify which does very superficial minimization, but Google's closure compiler is in the mix too, and that provides static type checking, nested variable flattening, dead code removal, inlining optimizations, and more. These things are substantial, not marginal, especially the static type checking. It's closer to C++ compilation than it is to gzip.

Gzip can be used (and usually is) either way, and generally still has some benefit even on minified code. But no, gzip can't replace or provide the majority benefit of a minification pass, they're two mostly independent things done for mostly different reasons.
The whole point of a stop-loss order like that is to fire immediately, because it's meant to protect you against crashes. If RSP were to crash down to zero, then an hour after it hit $70 it would be at zero or close to it - the idea is to sell at $70 on the way down before it goes to zero.

Really you should buy the thing you actually want - a down-and-in put option struck at $70. But that would cost money, whereas you can do a stop-loss order "for free", so people prefer to do that.

IMO these stop-loss orders are bad for the market, people trying to get something for nothing, and if the increasing prevalence of flash crashes gets people to stop using them that will be do bad thing.
[Talking purely CPU] You can resize 100k images a second on a 2013 laptop. [Source: the Google guy who serves your images.] A couple ARM cellphones could meet this entire company's [CPU] image processing needs.

Think of what YouTube is doing for videos in the time you read this sentence if you want to put their silly claims in perspective.

Anybody remember when Steve Jobs said the 400Mhz PowerPC G4 Altivec was a supercomputer? But the only code that showed up was a Reverb that took a weekend to run and a couple FFT libraries that had accuracy problems? Good times.
IMHO that's going into optimiser territory, and perhaps the reason why these minifier bugs exist - the minifier writers need to be very sure of the semantics of the language before attempting to rewrite code to have the same behaviour, and JS/ECMAscript semantics are not trivial especially w.r.t the (highly) dynamic type system as the example shows. Even renaming things is not as trivial as it seems because the names can themselves be dynamic, e.g. a.somefield vs a['s' + 'ome' + 'field'].

(I'm not a JS developer so I might've missed a few other things, but minifying JS is definitely a much harder problem than doing it with something like C.)
These rules are in practice ignored by the receiving countries and the northern european countries accept this.

That is why Germany will receive nearly a million refugees this year and probably more next year.

The political (and economic) implications are massive and in many ways this is more disrupting for the european project than the crisis in Greece.
10 traits of confident people
K20s are old GPUs, get a Tesla K80 :)

The apple hardware is either Nvidia or ATI gpus, but the software apis are what are really nice about dealing with some of these things on OS X. I think the Author of the post is confounding new hardware from Nvidia / ATI with new hardware from Apple.
All I know is that I was working as a shipping clerk at the time, and my mis-shipment rate dropped significantly after I got the glasses. When that happened it suddenly occurred to me all the other times where I had to read a ton of numbers and symbols which were densely packed under time constraints and math was the only class like that.
HOW I GOT PEOPLE TO READ
They're using code that they cannot license elsewhere. They're making OS calls to process the images.
If you're gonna open your post with "of course" then there's a serious lack of citations going on.
This was pretty much the reason I didn't go to grad school, despite having a full ride. Seemed like a one-way ticket to misery and poverty, and I was kinda over that after working my way through college (having as many as 3 jobs at a time plus classes full-time).
Since I bought a Ubiquiti Unifi AP, I have no bad spot at all.

I actually have my ISP wifi downstairs, I put the Unifi upstairs thinking I would switch from one to the other, but even closer to my ISP router I still get a better signal with my Unifi.
$20 Android PC from China Sucessfully Raises $1.6M on Kickstarter
New FCC rules could prevent installing OpenWRT on WiFi Routers
What I'm most concerned about, as somebody switching back to a Windows Phone soon, is the apparent lack of a web interface for the OnHub. According to this page [1] the OnHub requires an Android or iOS device, with the app installed, to setup and configure the router. I don't blame Google for not supporting Windows Phone, the market share is still very low, but I'm not convinced that requiring an app instead of using a web interface like every other router is what I want from this.

[1]: https://on.google.com/hub/support/#get-started
I had no idea that Beethoven used equal temperament. Do you have a source for that?
Citizens Against Remote Working
The same trend holds in America as well. The low margins on gas has lead to gas pumps becoming a loss leader to encourage people to go to nearby convenience stores and now increasingly entire supermarkets and superstores. The pumps that are surviving aren't really "gas stations" in the classic Americana sense and I don't think people realize that.
Yeah. A human can probably spot the difference between a flash crash and a true crash, at least after making a few phone calls - but by that point the opportunity has probably gone.
Bosch's acquisition of battery maker Seeo
I think that you could do some perfectly good science in both fields.

Now, as to whether good science is being done in those fields, I'm not qualified to say.
This whole thing was triggered at opening. Why does the market even close these days? There is "after hours" trading going on for some people. Why shouldn't the computers be running 24/7? Is there some batch stuff that goes on after close? I've seen cases where transactions were unwound, but aren't we nearing real-time across the board?
He probably misspoke and meant J-1, but the import is the same.
It seems like this is less about improving your memory than it is about showing off your awesome memory of history. While it might be that you'd learn some new things from your adversary as mentioned, the game would only be fun with people who know enough history to participate fully. "The accidental mention of Waterloo will turn loose an inundation of French history" might have been true in Twain's world but today, I'm not so sure.
TriCorder X-Prize? FDA has done nothing but hobbled it's development. DNA screening for the masses? FDA shut down 23andMe. Terminally ill and willing to try an experimental drug? FDA says, "too bad" (and the Supreme Court agrees).
Certain? No. But never attribute to malice &c.
> calls features by their standardized names instead of some made-up copyrighted marketing name

What standardized names did Google replace with made-up copyrighted marketing names?
I'm no DD-WRT fan: I find the interface is inconsistent and ugly. And the support forum is full of aggressive bofhs.
>but I have the math and you can't argue with it.

Where is "the math"?

You just reiterated your previous post with more vitriol.
I've seen a lot of complaints about this router only having one ethernet LAN port. This really could just be an issue of different use cases, but are there a large amount of modems out there that don't have plenty of ethernet ports on them? I have never needed to plug in anything to my router that I can't just plug into my modem, but I'll be the first to admit that I don't connect too much to either to begin with.
There's a whole statistical literature on survival bias. The basic equations all require "independent and identically distributed" data loss. As soon as that's not the case (e.g., more placebo patients drop out than treatment patients), you have to compensate for that.

That being said, I suspect this analysis is operating at a higher level where survivor bias isn't as relevant, because it's looking across many studies at once.
10% can be a lot. We have plenty of data that conversions go down as page loads take longer, even by tiny amounts that you wouldn't expect to have an effect.
Misleading headline? The article talks about a "proposed rule", so shouldn't it say "FCC may ban"?
Competition Commission of India files anti-trust charges against Google
I have an Apple Extreme which is good, but getting a bit up there in age. Might hand it off to my parents and upgrade to this. My experience has been that investing in good routing hardware makes my life much more pleasant. Internet when I need it, and none of the nonsense. When I've had cheap hardware in the past (growing up, in college), I feel like I was constantly battling it to get it working -- ddwrt or not. I actually inherited a nice Apple Extreme when my startup graduated to pro-grade networking hardware, and I've loved using it.
The amino acid L-Tyrosine is a dopamine precursor and has a mildly beneficial effect. It's available over the counter though I've had to order on Amazon since it's not often found in stores. When I'm off meds I'll take that, some multi vitamins and a few cups of coffee (which is essentially a homemade 5-hour energy)

I mentioned this in other comments on this thread but there is a video series that is really great by Russel Barkley - he talks about education and coping strategies for kids and adults that aren't totally reliant on on meds. Relying on lists and reminders are important for adults
Wouldn't you like to sleep, at some point?
Is there any realistic possibility Americans could use drugs approved in Europe ?
Or is it that the completely-analog piano has become more niche? Digital pianos these days sound and feel fantastic when put up against their analog counterparts in the lower end of the price range (what you'd find in a typical home). And they require zero maintenance and can be moved with ease. There will always be a place for a "real" piano, but you no longer need one if you just want to learn and play. I personally have a digital stage piano. It's 20 lbs. without the stand, and I can sling it over my shoulder with ease. 9 times out of 10, when I try to play a piano in someone's home it's out of tune and has some sticky or unplayable keys. So I'd say that analog pianos aren't dying, but they have become relegated to the niche of people who either want them as furniture or people who are serious enough to maintain and care for them. For the rest of us, digital is the right choice.
Because it's delivered over the wire to every client that requests it..