skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that you bring up Ebert because I would apply your original comment to him. Ebert is spot on about the redeeming qualities of many films, but in retrospect he focuses a lot on the positives. I don't think this is due to him appealing to the "idiot masses", but rather it's a product of how he views film. No matter which review I've read, the only impression of Ebert I've had is of someone who loves film and its ability to convey the human spirit.

As for calling Ebert himself an idiot the man had seen pretty much every movie that deserves acclaim so it's silly to think he doesn't have a huge library to compare to or isn't qualified to talk about film. He even kept reviewing after having his lower jaw removed because of cancer. The only reason I'd call him an "idiot's reviewer" is because he never bothered with pretentiousness or overanalysis in his reviews.
I'm noting down to update both you and 'kragen after I write something up. I might post it on my blog or do a Tell HN; we'll see after I actually have something to write about :). You can also shoot me an e-mail (mine in the profile) so that I know how to notify you directly.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll take a look. Most of the activity happens in the Android client, not on the site, so we sometimes don't check the web property as often as we should.

We've talked about cryptocurrency but go back and forth on it. Right now, we're mainly focused on streamlining credit card, direct debit, and SMS billing, and carrier where we can get it. We just got approved to use Paypal through Epoch so that's really exciting for us since a lot of people want to buy adult content by Paypal.
Red Hat is buying Ansible
"exclusively trading in stereotypes and Western orientialist imagery and tropes"

To be fair, they could also be simply trading on whatever happens to be in the news. If you open a newspaper / watch the news, most of what you will see about the region can be summed up by 'crazy islamists killing people, threaten America with annihilation'.
I'm very confused by this company and uBeam. Is it really possible that both companies could raise so much money without an astounding breakthrough to demonstrate to investors?

Or do investors really have enough cash that they can blow a few million on companies that, if successful, should be worth many tens of billions?
Thanks, I'll forward this the next time they ask for money. A shotgun approach to investing other people's money in tech startups is fine, but drawing down the $__B endowment in 2008-2009 to avoid salary freezes was too risky.
What a BS title. Not even reading it tonight for that. Someone tell the writer to come back when he or she is writing on one whose cloaking and obfuscation techniques deserve the claim.
Wasn't there an old black-and-white movie set in Africa, where a Zulu warrior comes onscreen to tell the Chief something about the plot in subtitles? And what he says in Zulu is "I'm not being paid enough for being in this movie!"
I have the same workflow as he does and recently upgraded it by using the experimental GIMP 2.9 branch. It supports 16 and 32 bit colour channels and better interpolation which enables the use of GIMP as a RAW editor (which I find easier than darktable). If there are tech savvy photographers out there, I recommend taking the extra time to compile GIMP.
Product Manager You Are… a Janitor, Essentially
I think the other factor was supposed to be the cost of the assays. If they're just using the same machines as everyone else to do the same tests, they have no competitive advantage.
Yes, it is an interesting PL design that may be inspiring or informative.

I'm not sure what age has to do with anything. Most major advances in CS are old.
Isn't that the thing we could easily cook the planet with if we released it by accident?
or look at the average rating in RT
See the new reality show Curvy Girls of Atlanta
I made an aggregator for remote jobs here: http://remoteok.io
i wonder if there will be an overall impact on VCs branching into non-software areas. the software-is-eating-the-world kool aid might have gotten to some heads. "disrupting" social media or ads is one thing - health, energy, etc is a whole other ballgame. being of some sort of libertarian anti-gov mindset might also create a blindspot for gov regulation and agencies. uber can skirt the rules, but you don't fuck around with the FDA.
Superbook: How we made an animation demo for our startup
They probably already did: plenty about Equation Group points in their direction.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/the_equation_...

Its methods are quite sophisticated and careful compared to most. Like the Snowden leaks plus with some of the same specifics. There should be no doubt on Stuxnet at this point: it was a joint US and Israeli attack.
Thanks! Everything is free except community features like asking questions on the forum (https://nomadforum.io), although reading is free.
> [I] feel like I don't really have any useful name recognition here.

Really? You're not tptacek or patio11, but I'd at least expect people interested in the kind of things you're interested in to recognize you. I do...
Really cool, my IoT button is on the way.

FYI I wrote a node module to make programming for the regular dash button really easy:

https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button
Machine Intelligence Manager (Native Vietnamese)
Project Manager of Vietnamese Machine Translation project
Location: Tokyo Japan
Task: Management of project and linguists who create data. Creating guidelines of morphological, semantic and syntactic projects. Review of annotated data.
Requirements:
Native Vietnamese, Experience in Machine intelligence and managing people
Master's Degree of Linguistics or Computer science.
Salary: 50K-60K
Period: 1 year
Contact: t.matsumoto@sec-japan.co.jp
Samurai Slices a 100 Mph Baseball in Half
Why did you name it avsc? Are you concerned that it might cause confusion with the avsc file extension that avro uses for schema files?

https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/gettingstartedjava.html
Hands on with Paper, Dropbox's Answer to Google Docs
There's probably also a way to write a decorator that does the same thing.
> Personally, I use a crummy laptop if needs be, and I remote into the big workstation from wherever I am (I use x2go a lot).

How does it handle having a massive resolution on the remote side, and a way smaller resolution locally?
Well, how have you fared with this challenge?
The risk of multiple moon landings and takeoffs is really quite small as the moon has no atmosphere.

Perhaps not mission critical small, it might be in the range of 0.1-2% risk for each landing/takeoff cycle. So if you require 10 refuelling launches, your total risk is 1-20%.

Say you had a large moon lander, or multiple landers that make up a robotic fuel collection and refining system. Then you have a reusable lander-launcher that lands, collects the fuel and delivers whatever it doesn't use for takeoff/landing into a orbital fuel deport orbiting either the moon or earth.
Actually might be best to have your deport orbiting the moon until it's full then send it on a slow, low-fuel, multi-month path back to earth orbit, perhaps you meet the Mars transfer vehicle there.

If at any point the fuel transfer lander-launcher fails, you can launch a new one from earth and push back your Mars mission. Perhaps you have multiple fuel transfer landers as a contingency, or to increase throughput (fuel in orbit isn't just useful for a single Mars mission)

Only once you have your fuel ready, do you launch your Mars crew.

You could do a similar setup at Mars to collect fuel for your trip and avoid having to drag that fuel from the moon. But a Mars fuel transfer lander-launch would be much more complex and risky, and it would be a lot harder to land the fuel collection/refining facility.
An AMA sounds fun. :)

I think the article covered the misconceptions and the state of the industry pretty well.

I think the biggest misconceptions are:
1. No one pays for porn, but we know they do.
2. Selling is a sure-fire way to make a ton of money. It's only sure-fire if you're going to use less than favorable tactics, as with any business.
3. Everyone in porn is a scammer. There are bad apples, but most folks in the adult industry are really great to work with.
4. That porn tube sites are the common enemy. But in many ways it's the big mainstream tech giants that threaten the industry. Take a look at Tumblr. They made it so easy to spread and share pirated content with one click and even if you wanted to claim your content back by adding your affiliate links, they will ban your account and call that "spam".
I haven't seen it yet. I find most of these "exposes" into the performer world tend to be biased, but I'll check it out.
The Multiverse and You
How does the Intel NUC handle long-running intensive tasks?

Does it have issues with overheating under those conditions?
LWPs and OTP patterns are a "parallelization framework". You have to try pretty hard to design an OTP application that can't be trivially parallelized, and that includes parallelization across machines, not just cores.
Looking for tennis courts on aerial photos (2009)
5th is VERY must, after a while the team feels you are just another non-coding hairy pointed manager. The problem is developers will have hard time to accept your suggestions questioning your judgement subconsciously and consciously. If you keep telling them that you were once a hard coder, i am sure that won't help at all. so always make sure 1/3 rd time is spent in coding.
The problem with most online reviews is that they usually only collect reviews from those who are motivated to submit a review. This usually skews reviews towards the 1 or 5 star ends of the spectrum because 3-star reviewers aren't really motivated to go through the hassle of submitting a review, unless they're the type of person who obsessively reviews everything (think Yelp! Elite).

The only real way to get past this is to know when someone is a candidate to review something and solicit reviews from them. Amazon reviews fall into this category and it's the reason why they're pretty reliable. I'd bet they're getting 5-10% conversion (I've worked on systems that got over 30%, but different types of reviewable products have different conversion rates) on every "Did product X meet your expectations?" email they send. They've got their die hards that review everything and who's reviews everyone finds helpful, but the star rating will be largely determined by the larger group of people that write 1-2 sentences and submit.

But without closing the loop and attempting to get reviews from every possible reviewer, ratings are far less useful.
Thanks! We had a ton of fun shooting that. Andy and James ad libbed a lot of it. It was fun to shoot because we had to hide in the back room while they did their thang, otherwise they'd catch us in the Glass footage huddled around the corner laughing. :D The funny thing about shooting Glass POV porn is we thought we could be in the room to help direct, but literally everything you see is recorded, so we were constantly accidentally caught on film. So they kicked us out. :D
I'll start with the second question since it's easier to answer: some of the other libraries don't support all Avro features (for example I don't think `node-avro-io` supports encoding records defined inside arrays), so they're unable to run some of the benchmarks. Both the reference Java implementation and `avsc` are able to parse all these schemas so don't have any -1s in their columns.

Performance-wise, the main benefits came from doing as much preprocessing as possible. Here are a couple examples of what is done when a schema is parsed:

+ All methods for encoding and decoding nested types get fully resolved, removing the need for lookups (for example an array of integers would have a reference to the method for encoding integers).

+ A constructor, and encoding/decoding methods gets programmatically generated for each record type. This avoids having to iterate over the fields each time. Same for unions. (Having a "Class" for each record type also lets us attach useful methods to its prototype, available for all record instances.)

Then there are a few other general ideas like making sure v8 is able to optimize all the methods on the critical path, or reusing buffers as much as possible to avoid allocating too many objects.
The hardware will get cheaper as more people will want it.
“This is completely against the established common wisdom
of how to go to Mars, which is a straight shot to Mars,
carry everything with you,” de Weck says. “The idea of
taking a detour into the lunar system … it’s very
unintuitive."

and later...

“Assuming you can extract these resources, what do you
do with it? Almost nobody has looked at that question.”

Give me a break. People discuss this sort of approach all the time. They don't necessarily publish their conclusions, though.
There are a lot of aspects of the phenomenon of "chiptune sound" that aren't given much due. For example, early arcade hardware was more prone to using analog components - think of the rumbling explosions of games like Space Invaders, or the 6-voice subtractive synth used in Sente games[0], reused by Sequential Circuits as a standalone synth[1]. The Atari 8-bit chips(both TIA and POKEY) contained "distortion" effects (based on a variable-length LFSR) that could be used for both noise and guitar-like tonal timbres[2]. The true successor to the SID is the Ensoniq DOC used in the Apple IIGS[3] and SQ-80[4], but it gets little attention. And lastly a number of later chips, including the Game Boy, had a low-res wavetable on at least one voice, which allowed for some more timbre options(albeit 90% of the time it was a sawtooth)[5].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xCiOXQJO18 (MAME emulates this chip but does a terrible job)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa-Cwn4po40

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDeV7wrB2c0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujTzBCRBAY

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8fNnDJUx0

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caz21XapSiA&list=PL3B271CECB...
I see you've given up on responding to my points so you're making up strawmen you think you can knock down instead.

I didn't claim that a BI will increase investment.

I didn't claim that believe the rich and poor have equal propensity to spend.

I said that if you want to increase investment (with or without a BI) there are plenty of ways to do that.
When you use such card in a store you're exposing your PIN to a person next to you (at least). So he can just follow you to a dark alley and rob you
yes. I do the same thing. I look at rotten. Then compare with IMDB. Decision made! :)
I don't know much about LISP. What you showed looks nice and useful, but I would not consider it new syntax.

Is it possible to use this technique to introduce, say, infix arithmetic operators, or ObjC's dot syntax? Or can you just trade one S-expression for another?
Jeffersonian-Era Chemistry Hearth Preserved in Rotunda Wall at UVA
> I'm not sure what age has to do with anything.

I wasn't trying to be snarky, but a lot of exciting things have happened in PL design since 1988.
I do the same. I check the synopsis and if interesting i watch it. But i do sometimes watch based on reddit recommendations/upvotes.
Totally did not see that one coming. Great to know Lisp is still strong within HN infrastructure! Thanks for the links and please put ParenScript REPL on-line :).
I wonder if YC's seed investment being LP money changes the incentives/advice on the part of the partners. (?)
Networked traffic routing apps like Waze ought to nullify the Braess' paradox; if everyone used Waze, new roads would always have a positive marginal impact.
I'm curious, what was the 95% fresh movie that you thought was the worst movie in 2 decades?
I really like the hobby(?) project http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/ which attempts to create a definitive weighted-aggregate of movie rankings using:

many different types of lists to measure film quality
... polls of the general public, of academics, of critics,
and of filmmakers. Some of these polls ask respondents to
list their favorite films. Others ask respondents to rate a
large number of films. There are single author lists by
critics, academics, and filmmakers. There are lists that
focus on how films are rated by video guides or on how many
awards the films received. Some lists try to call attention
to obscure films. Others stick to the obvious choices. Some
attempt to measure film quality directly. Others include
factors such as the historical importance of the film.

The use of different types of lists and the statistical
methods used help to minimize the effect of factors other
than quality in order to create a purer measure of a film's
greatness.

It is not perfect, but it is closer to perfect than any
other method is.
To be fair about having only one currently licensed physician, they do have Bill Foege on the board and he is a world renowned physician credited with coming up with the strategy that eradicated small pox. Just because he is retired doesn't mean he isn't still sharp. The man is brilliant and very thoughtful. The makeup of the board is pretty strange though.
Microsoft lab predicts a working quantum computer within 10 years
Once you've refuelled on the Moon, you can do an Earth flyby (with a small burn) to reduce the delta-v required to escape the Earth-Moon system. This is what the Nozomi craft tried to do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomi_%28spacecraft%29
Thank you! That's about as nice an offer as I'd want to get on the internet. :)
May be he doesn't know something? Elon several times praised Merlin engines - which are certainly quite impressive. But he seemingly omitted some other rocket engines which were technically even better.

He's very good in delivering - and delivering a lot, but I think he still promises even more. And that's not too typical for engineers.
Mostly because `avro` was already taken on NPM and I wanted a short name to `require`. Since schemas (and schema files) seemed to me to be at the heart of Avro, I thought it was a reasonable option.
I think you still need a doctor's order in california, and there is effectively only one theranos testing center place open to the public in California (I think the one in the Theranos building is for staff only). One of their staff told me they were focussing on Arizona instead of California because the regulation in California increased the time and cost there.

If you are anywhere near Palo Alto and want to get some tests done, just message me, we'll sort something out :)
They do sometimes; a lunar resources conference, in the aftermath of Apollo missions, had discussions regarding use of Moon regolith for things like refueling.
New plugin for TN-V that makes it run homebrew from VHBL folder
I haven't heard about that. do you have a source where I could read more?
Detander - a gas liquifier - can be pretty small and lightweight even for a big flow. Industrial hydrogen liquifiers are built routinely since 1950s if not earlier.

If you're trying to liquify hydrogen, you'll find out that most - almost all - impurities in the gas become liquid or solid before hydrogen becomes liquid. That's a good way to clean hydrogen, so you won't have an odd mixture as the result.
I just took a technical lead role with a bay area SAAS company. It's been a difficult adjustment having worked on contract where all I did was write code. Now, I sit in a lot of meetings, do code merges, interview/hire developers and worry about blockers on two Jira boards. Here are a few things you might want to try;

If their branching strategy is screwed up, help them fix it. You are going in to a .net shop and there is a good chance they have TFS. There is the ALM Rangers branching guidelines you can refer to.

Hold a brown bag and show the team how to write unit tests. Many of the junior developers on the team probably do not understand how to write tests.

Hold a team code reviews.

Initiate common architectural components like a logging or instrumentation framework.

Take on tiny bites of technical debt.

Push to get your team re-sharper licenses.
I'm going to guess Snowpiercer.
I'm not the OP, so this is just a guess, but my money's on "The Room". If not, I'm guessing it's because the OP hasn't yet seen it. ;-)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/room_2015/

Edit: Ooops. The wrong "The Room" altogether. Nod to abruzzi for the correction. The actual Room is only 35% fresh, which I must say is either way too high, or way too low, depending on one's take of the film.

The correct link is here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_room_1998/
Just a reference to the article from The Intercept, which was extensively discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392636
I got straight A's in college philosophy courses. LOVED them.
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Snowpiercer. I'm sure some people love it, but I could not think of a single redeeming thing after I got done. I honestly preferred "The Room", (though that ones 'quality' was unintentional.)
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A brief laundry list:

- Arc embraces macros.

- You can redefine anything. (assign + -) (+ 3 4) evaluates to -1. Not only are you an equal partner to the language, but the language is short enough to carry in your head.

- Green threads. Here's a snippet from Laarc which does hot code reloading:

(thread
(on-err autoerr (fn ()
(while autoload*
(sleep 0.25)
(autoreload)))))

It says "When an error happens, call the 'autoerr' function. Every 0.25 sec, check whether any source has changed, and reload it if so."

But green threads make it so easy to do that in parallel. I never once had to worry about synchronization issues in the case of the autoreloader.

- There's no FFI for Arc. However, I'm in the process of porting Arc from Racket to Lumen, which has a very interesting FFI thanks to LuaJIT: https://github.com/sctb/motor/blob/master/motor.l

It's literally "copy-paste these C declarations. Now you can call those C functions." It quite simply rocks.

If you're interested in Arc, consider Lumen as well. https://github.com/sctb/lumen

It has many similarities to Arc, like a powerful macro system, and has some interesting distinctions, like keyword arguments and the FFI facilities.
Great perspective to hear. I sincerely hope your teams keep up the good work, and this announcement comes at a good time for me. I'm helping to build up a team and was telling a friend today that I hoped Dropbox would start releasing more email like tools.

Paper seems closer to what I want for my team. Release an email server on top and I'll buy as much Dropbox storage as I can.

Out of curiosity, would anyone know if Paper supports markdown? I like the fast lightweight formatting it provides. (edit: appears an earlier comment says its supports a subset of markdown )