skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to know I'm not the only one living in a Veedub.

I live in 85 westy that just recently passed smog after having to change the cat. BAR CAP repairs are a huge PITA and shops feel obliged to rip you and the state off with unnecessary repairs. You're better off paying cash to the esses in east San Jose to make it "pass."
I prefer social interaction as well which is why we hit up Bagnell Dam strip, go to the lake in the summer (& pools with swim up bars), farmer's markets, vineyards, and apple festivals. But I definitely don't think I would have been able to make the switch without rboyd. Definitely recommend to find a partner in the city, then move closer to nature with your love!
There is this "Tim van Gelder on Douglas Engelbart, Intelligence Amplification and Argument Mapping"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P77FvUy-NGA
Modern CPUs do exactly this right now. If you are using a powerful x86 (not an old atom), it will process your software out of order. Both your compiler and the CPU itself are aggressively trying to execute as many LOADs as possible before work can't continue.

Or were you describing something more than that?
A lot of these are compliance legal reasons, but you know what.. the laws can change! Even the government is using AWS now.
I think AWS and similiar cloud providers have a tough challenge for the long term.

The big question is how cheap will computing get, and how will the demand of that computing increase over time? If prices continue to decrease rapidly, it becomes very difficult to maintain large revenue growth, even with unit-volume increases.

In 20 years, how cheap will core services like S3 and ec2 be, and how will AWS' revenue on those services compare to today?

They are also developing a lot of AWS software that probably won't decrease in price over time. For example, over the past 30 years database hardware has decreased dramatically in price, but Oracle software licenses have not. AWS has a lot of services that are some combination of complex software and hardware components.
> Now, we've known for a long time that we want rigid curve generation

>A rigid curve standard can generate only one or a very few curves. A non-rigid generation procedure might generate millions or billions of different curves. That's bad news, because it means that corrupt standards bodies can search those billions of curves for one with a weakness that only they know about.

This looks like a contradiction.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if every concrete function had some degree of weakness, and if finding that weakness requires vast computational resources, then we hardly need corrupt standards bodies to find them in advance.

Can you square this circle for me, Thomas?
Uber competitor Cabify secures funding from Rakuten
From article,

> As an LTS release, support for v4.x will continue for a period of 30 months from today.

They will likely semver major node into 5/6 etc, but that doesn't change the fact that 4.x will continue with 2 and a half years of LTS.

Not sure if that completely answers your question, and I could be wrong.
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Agreed, it's nicely put together. I think this could grow into a handy tool, like an advanced thesaurus of sorts.

Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down.

I do find these things quite fun; I put in "You are a sexy beast" and got "You are a hot dog" as neutral, "You are a beautiful dog" as neutral but "You are a beautiful horse" would be pushing it and impolite; though "You are a glamorous horse" (or hot) is neutral.

Giving it a go with some Donald Trump twitter text, the suggestion was "President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight" is impolite; a suggested change that would be more polite was "President obama was incredible on@60minutes last night.". I noticed with that it looped through the same words a few times - in some cases labelling the same phrase as both neutral and polite.
I've lived in a VW Westy for about 5 years, and think about building a yurt or micro-house.

Folks should be free to use their imaginations and what's around them to make their own practical way. It doesn't have to be expensive, conventional or a work of art to be your own.

Check these out:

Castle on Wheels https://youtu.be/CnHGKUh-5O4

Floating, movable island http://dornob.com/recycled-paradise-amazing-man-made-floatin...
Malaria vaccine provides hope for a general cure for cancer
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I should probably add a redraw on window resize. Right now it does that polygon stuff once on page load.

So if you resize the window and reload the page it should fit everything correctly again.
PTC to Acquire Augmented Reality Leader Vuforia from Qualcomm for $65M
Apple Maps Car Spotted in SF
Out of curiosity, what kind of photography equipment was used for these photos and videos? They are really nice.
The last european dictator and his son
Good to know as a "gotcha" but typically when you get to an optimization like this you should have covered all other bigger optimizations like minification, ... that this won't actually return big yields.
this will probably goes to p0f signature database.
>Please would you kindly help if good with you please, thank you kindly, thanks.

Took a while, but along with a coworker, we were able to get 100.
Australian metadata retention changes explained
Disagreeing with the 'politeness' assessment of some of these words... type in 'Howdy' and the only "polite" words are "Welcome" and "Goodbye".

More troubling to me is that this feels more like one person trying to impose their definition of "polite" onto others, and many of the suggestions seem result in speech that is weak, weasel-y, or lacking a feeling of weight.
Interesting. So although that particular mechanism is undesirable it seems like cancelling out a couple of degrees of warming is well within our capabilities.
The only chance of living as a human being without ever seeing/hearing/reading an advertisement is if I relocate to the middle of the Amazon jungle by myself. My point is the this type of enforcement is futile. Advertisement is part of our lives if we want to exchange what I have to what you have.
Euler's Disc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368547
An Introduction to Linear Models for Data Science
What could possibly go wrong?

How soon till the worlds hackers start releasing details of Australian citizens digital activities?

It's such a relief to know that I am now safer.
This is very cool. Love that its just a shell script.

In a similar vein, I have a Jekyll plugin that reads folders of images and can create galleries: https://github.com/callmeed/jekyll-image-set

Nice that you have video support. Can't wait to give this a try.
AngelList to power $400MM seed fund
1) At the very least, read the projects About Us/History page, and its Wikipedia article, to get a sense where it stands for in the grand scheme of things.

2) Do some searching to see what alternatives exist. Even typing "alternative to Node.js" will give you some starting points. E.g. when you find out about NW.js and want to use it, it would pay to know that there's also Electron. If you learn there's this hot Angular thing, it should pay to also check React and Ember.

3) Also check how "alive" the project is. Things like GitHub followers, latest commits, release frequency, etc, will give you a sense of that. You don't have to go wild with this and (2) -- just check the 2-3 more prevalent projects in your niche. Again, if you don't what those are, a search like (2) will help. Or ask Quora or even HN.

4) Check the published roadmap.

5) If you want to get even close to the project community, most have an aggregator blog, or an official project blog. E.g. "Planet PHP" etc. There's also frequently mailing lists with links (e.g. Javascript Weekly). You can start reading whatever posts seem interesting to you -- soon you'll have a sense of what the key players are, what developments are coming, etc.

6) Check the relevant Reddit channel for the framework/project/language, or HN for stories on it.

The first 4 items don't take more than half a day to go through (of course you could spread them in a weekend or a whole week).

The (5) and (6) are more advanced, but still you can dip your toes slowly into them too -- a couple hours per week or so.

For more advanced involvement, you can go on irc and say hi to some devs and helpful volunteers. At later stages you can join their dev mailing lists, and even volunteer and help the project yourself.
not 100% , https://github.com/chandu0101/sri/issues/3
I'd actually agree that most static sites shouldn't require js. For image galleries though it really needs the lazy loading to save bandwidth imo.

Also it's "sort of" responsive, it just doesn't handle window resize right now. I didn't think that was an important use case, but now multiple people have pointed it out so I'll add it.
Gotta say, people who consider that the "organizational problems of society" can be solved have been responsible for a lot of misery over the centuries.
I was using a panasonic GX7 with the kit lens and 20mm 1.7 prime, and a few random vintage lenses. I'm glad you enjoyed it :]
No one said that the solution has to be all speech. Throw in some small gestures and that'll be faster than reaching for a key.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0

Throw in eye-tracking and you can pick out any word quickly.
Data Scientist Interview: Trey Causey
But how would you go with restoring such an image? It won't be instant, there will still be a window where the service manager is continuing its work but the image hasn't been restored yet. One way or the other, you need a synchronization mechanism, so how would you design such a mechanism without support from the daemon?

You don't need a complicated case to have a race with acquiring some resource. A server opening a socket is providing a resource; clients connecting to that socket are using it. Clients should not be started before the server is listening to the socket. How would you solve this case - are you advocating socket activation by the service manager? ;)
That's a fair point. It's never easy and I had that rough experience, too. I mean, I wasn't a real expert on these things so mine was a reimplementation of existing work but still hard.

Curious, what was your language's interesting properties?

"I guess I am reluctant to realize how much easier it would have been with a lisp."

It might help if you see a modern example. The recent language impressing me the most with its features is Julia:

http://julialang.org/

Wondering aloud about how they pulled all that off, esp macro's, led someone here to tell me it's actually femtolisp internally:

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

So, they appear to have built a simple LISP, then used it to incrementally build a compiler for a complex language. They just represent the syntax internally in a LISP form and work with it from there. Don't know much more than that but it shows the power of the concept.

Better demo is the one below as it goes step-by-step in stages. One commenter (Orion63) pointed out the author was re-using the proven cheat: "build a LISP, do it all in LISP, profit." Haha. I've considered duplicating that work with different language options.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699065
You're also assuming a specific sense of justice - you're assuming that the utility of money is linear. (That is, giving up $10 is the same to someone earning minimum wage and to someone earning $150k).

You can hold that view - but recognize that it is a specific view, not an essential definition of fairness.
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Take a look at "rapid environment editor". It solves the " tiny ass box" problem.
Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
The US wants him badly. It insinuates the rape allegations were to get him extradited to Sweden where he would then be extradited to the US.
I see. Personally I prefer to just be a developer, not worry about how other people are doing it wrong... though like anyone I have plenty of opinions on such matters.
World Series of Stock Trading – 80% done, 24h Meteor hackathon submission
Let's stop trashing on people's work.

The success of an endeavor is proportional to the number of shitty hacks that have come before it. Sometimes this it true in a literal sense -- sometimes a project consists of shitty hacks. But the astute reader will notice that a hack is only known to be shitty because someone did it, and had the courage to make their example public.

Do we reward their courage? No. We act like cliquish teenagers and rip them apart.

I don't mean to single you out. But this subthread consists of a developer at Amazon, an unknown, and a founder -- the very types of people I wanted to respect -- yet the content is little more than "Look at how stupid these people are." What kind of example are we setting here?

Be excited about X! Whether X is FOAM, Javascript, COBOL, C++, Python, Erlang, Scheme, NPM, ASDF, Vim, Stallman, or a song. Be happy. Be amused. Be anything but bitter.

In this instance, FOAM shows what's possible. Is it necessarily a good idea? Who cares! We've learned something new! Be excited!

How certain are you that an idea that strikes you as bad is actually bad? For every possible circumstance? What about with a slight tweak? In fact, "An idea that seems bad" is the short definition of "startup."

Most ideas that seem bad are, in fact, bad. But it's important to fully explore the problem space before dismissing them, else you'll dismiss Facebook.

This subthread is about a software technique, not a startup idea. But is it really such a different domain? Would the idea of Python have survived if it had been introduced in the era of Multics? It wasn't a compiled language, so it couldn't hope to survive back then. Yet its time was coming, whether or not it would have been dismissed at the time.

"Under what circumstances could this be a good idea?" That's the valuable question. And if you also have a good answer to "Why now?" then you may be onto something. In fact, you might be one of the first people to notice that an idea has flipped from bad to good. Seems like a pretty powerful position.

It seems like most influential work started as a hack. (TeX is a notable exception.) So if you want to do influential work, be delighted by hacks. It'll make them easier to explore, and you might end up in a position few others realize is valuable.
It suggested I upgrade the curse in "Yo, fix the goddamn server already" to motherfucking (as it's only merely contentious.) I don't think it does what it promises! Fun idea, though.
I agree with both ideas. Unfortunately for the thing to be fixed those passing laws should benefit from it being fixed -- but on the contrary they benefit for it being broken.

So, the first thing that should probably be fixed is: no campaign donations, at all.

Campain donations just let the politicians catering to the richer population get more advertising and marketing power.

I'd go as far as forbid all political / campaign advertising. If they want to convince, let them organically convince their local voters, then their state, and up to the whole party etc. Not with costly marketing, videos and large, costly, speaking appearances.
America's newest nuclear plant shows why nuclear power is dying in the U.S
In my experience, the people you're describing don't really exist; you're just projecting.
Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo
This just makes me a bit sad. The woman stuck in a job she hates fighting fires constantly... And the most the parable can offer is "sucks that you're unlucky"?

The best we can hope for, if we want to develop software for a living, is to live within our delusions and hope we're never unlucky then?
@Jaymzcampbell,

The suggested rewrite for "the dudes and dudettes were here" and gave it a 60/100 and a neutral response was

"The N(hint: for black) and fellas were here". All in all, this is a neat site for when I am angry and need to be polite with words.

I like the responses you got though. I can see myself using you are a glamorous horse:)
Folks whom like this might also be interested in the Ashley Book of Knots (ABoK).

Since it should be public domain, here's a pdf magnet url:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9777cb900abc65939b7d2cab9cc36c51ecb7a95a&dn=The+Ashley+Book++of+Knots&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969
Well, at least theoretically it could lead to catastrophic performance loss.
I used this to check the text messages from Key and Peele's "Text Message Confusion" skit[1]:

Keegan: "I've been trying to reach out to you all day, are we on for tonight?" Polite (71 / 100)

Jordan: "Sorry dude, missed your texts. I assumed we'd meet at the bar. Whatever, I don't care." Polite (71 / 100)

Keegan: "Do you even want to hang out?" Impolite (30 / 100)

Jordan: "Like I said, whatever." Neutral (47 / 100)

Keegan: "Jesus, you are fucking priceless" Impolite (30 / 100)

Jordan: "You're the one who's fucking priceless!" Impolite (6 / 100)

Keegan: "You wanna go right now?" Impolite (31 / 100)

Jordan: "Ok let's go" Polite (76 / 100)[2]

Keegan: "You wanna really do this now?" Impolite (13 / 100)

Jordan: "Fuck yeah, let's do it" Impolite (19 / 100)

Jordan: "First round's mine" Neutral (43 / 100)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo

[2]: Adding a "." to the end of the "Ok let's go" drops it by three points to 73 / 100
Microsoft wins Global Randstad Award (most attractive employer brand )
as someone who works around hundreds of MDs daily. I would say they all look down at CS degrees, in fact at my work, a masters in CS still gets you the label of "unskilled labor" but a CNA with 6 months of training is not.
Hey, guys here was my submission of World Series of Stock Trading for the 24h Meteor hackathon. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to get the transactions to work, but if you like the idea and the progress, please vote.
I'm also thinking about continuing with the idea, so please let me know if you want variations or features.
If they are, wow. That heroku one is definitely one of their swag shirts - I got one at an Amazon event.
why not just provide their mobile app the ability to submit things directly?

Just need a basic scriptable browser interface (i.e. a scriptable httpclient), this might change day to day (but no different if all server side). If one could just have a sufficient api (what to GET, what to post, what state needs to be saved, how to get user to enter captcha....) one should be able to keep the instructions updated on the server side and have it always be submitted from the phone.
you can actually adjust the compression settings in the script. I just have mine on the high end out of personal preference.

On mobile it should load the mobile-size version, which is much smaller than what you see on the desktop.
I'm not familiar with continental Europe's wiring practices, but here in the states, we use 15A and 20A breakers. The maximum number of outlets per circuit depends on what the circuit is servicing. The electrical code has gotten stricter in this area over time. The smallest appliance wiring gauge is typically 18 AWG (about 0.8230mm^2). Given the size of our breakers, I suppose if the 18 AWG cable were overloaded with a constant current greater than 7A, the insulation may melt and cause a fire. I haven't seen it happen personally. I do know (from when I was a kid), that a dead short on an 18 AWG appliance lead will cause the circuit breaker to trip.
Fun game. Trying to say "you are wrong" in the most polite way possible. I still cannot get anything above 70.
This app can be turned in to a webview compiled app for iOS and Android. Meteor seems like a really fast way to build. Are there any other tools to build even faster?

Building responsive CSS and managing client state on server DB with callbacks was a bit time consuming. Using React, and some sort of FSM framework, and CSS tools for fast complete customization would have helped.
No, unfotrunately I think our 'security' establishment really are so divorced from reality that they think crippling encryption is a good idea. It would be nice to think that they're actualy technically competent and it's all a ploy, but the truth is depressingly mundane. They handed the Chinese government and other authoritarian states cover for demanding back doors in encrypted products on a platter, and sold out our privacy, without any clue how utterly stupid and self defeating an idea it is.
Is it necessary to bring it up every time he's mentioned anywhere, as has happened in this comments section?
What separates good programmers from great programmers is that the latter know what not to learn.

If you look at most of the great computer scientists and system architects, they all have very unconventional and personalized setups which are completely far off the grain.
thanks! I didn't know about Cesanta so I made my own from scratch, but it is very bulky.
[Show HN] Tinder meets real estate or How I automated house search
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I had never heard of this award. Some Microsoft employees are sharing it around claiming it demonstrates Microsoft is a great place to work.

I read the award description and...that doesn't sound like that is what this award is for. It isn't based on data collected from employees, but rather from the general public based on their impression of what it might be like to work for a given company.

Hence the Randstad's own description which awkwardly reads that it is "the most attractive employer". Not the best employer, but the most attractive.
Here's the direct demo link by the way:
http://worldseries.meteor.com/
I believe Pivotal will actually come out of this amazingly. With GE and IBM money fueling Cloud Foundry (an amazing PaaS), I would imagine Pivotal to be the best positioned here.
There was a time, when not every household had a computer. A time where kids were playing without stuff supported or made by computers. Not everything was better back then, but the world did not collapse due to unoptimized processes. In contrary, I believe that alot of things were more 'personal' in the past, but this is highly subjective.

Technology made alot of stuff possible which would not be possible without technology. But the tradeof is, that we must live with systems which increase in complexity each year we use them. And there's no end in sight.

We developers in some way are trying to get out of the hole we dug ourselves into. Think about this the next time a framework comes along which solves all problems of the previous one. At some point you'd wish back the former days, when everything was simpler...
I would like to think that a woman marrying a man who has gone through this would be quite well acquainted with (and respect) the fact that the man's love for the woman who passed would not be replaced by the new love.
Isn't using someone else's store card a great subversion of their surveillance? I share a card with about half a dozen other people. Ralph's computer must scratch it's head when it looks at "my" purchasing patterns.
Ask HN: Drinks in downtown SF?
I just moved to the bay area after seven years on the east coast. Would love to meet some HNers and talk tech and entrepreneurship. Or just drink, that usually works.

Reply or email me (arithmetic@gmail.com) if you're interested. I'm near the Montgomery St BART stop. I'm thinking around 630PM.