skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the nginx native image library completely inadequate a few years ago, so I had to use the perl module to connect it to imagemagick libraries instead. Much higher quality results.

Not sure if they have improved the native library but I doubt it has the flexibility.

The important part is caching the results because of the expensive cpu time.

ps. googling about the current state of this came up with an interesting nginx module which talks to imagemagick (or gd) directly https://github.com/cubicdaiya/ngx_small_light
My best guess is the interviewer didn't know shit and could only use "facebook," "google," "stanford" as indicators that someone who did know shit considered the interviewee worthwhile.
It is not worth the engineering effort at the current moment in time.
OK just skimmed parts and read conclusion. Going to go back to later but this is an awesome piece I want to point every strictly "Grow Military" republican friends I have to as, no don't grow the military but be SMART about allocation of funds in order to strengthen military. Money doesn't make a good anything if it's mismanaged.

One thing I've seen is that many government projects get their budget shrunk if they don't spend it all... So they use their entire budget even if they don't need to. That is only one small problem in a hugely broken system. A system that doesn't strive for their goal of "winning wars with minimal cost of life."
I'm wondering if it has been reported everytime the US has deployed some defensive missile batteries around the world... Pretty much US aircraft carriers have more fire power then these batteries. Do we report their movement as hard as this?

Like is this just agg-prop to some anti China sentiment?
Agreed, except that the marginal value of money is exponentially higher for the poorest people in the world. For example, the Against Malaria foundation can save a life for approximately $2838 [1] pre-tax dollars. The people closest to you do not need your money that badly.

[1] http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/amf#Cost...
https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-an...
Precisely. When dealing with a mercantilist market-state, the only advantage you have is to be unique and irreplaceable.

China could spend billions at the drop of a hat to create their own Chinese Basketball League, but one cannot mandate a LeBron James.
Measure Arctic ice with this one weird trick
<<Haha, really? Isn't that how Uber started out, and the quote could well be verbatim from a taxi driver in 2011?>>

Yes, This this is completely disingenuous... They did not only start out like this in the US, but this is the ONLY way they were able to buy their way into China. When Uber started in China, their competitors had most of the chinese local drivers, and it was Uber who started the subsidy war to gain market share.
Welp, good luck to them in beating GitHub, haha.

Edit: the answer is to use JIRA, since they are reasonably well integrated in the on-prem solutions. For their site, no idea.
That's a good question. Anyone know the political background?

Zephyr is for systems far too small for Linux. You don't even have to have a file system.

Several of the endorsers in the press release speak of Zephyr as "secure". This OS has no memory protection, no user IDs, and no permission system. Any code can do anything. Messages are passed around as raw pointers; they're not copied. Nor is the size sent with the message. And it's all in C. What could possibly go wrong?

There's nothing wrong with using an OS like this when your application program is a few hundred lines. But if you add a networking stack and a mini web server, there's going to be trouble.

[1] https://www.zephyrproject.org/doc/api/api.html
Aid is reaching them everyday, both from Israel and Egypt checkpoints. They're also trading with both countries quite a lot. You don't think that this "siege" word actually means a blockade, do you?

The only thing that is required to be smuggled are rockets.
There seems to be a lot of people parroting that the CCP freezes out foreign firms by onerous Chinese regulations favoring local firms.

That may be the case for a number of different situations. However, Didi Kauidi, China's ride-sharing service, may just be a better offering than Uber.

Last year, it arranged 1.4 billions rides, more than Uber has done worldwide in its entire history. Also, Didi doesn't just focus on private-car services. It lets users pick a taxi, private car, shared car, shuttle van, or bus to pick them up. It also is tailored to the local market. During Chinese New Year, lots of flights and trains were sold out. Didi helped users find inter-city rides at train fare prices.

It also has a few quirks that separate it from Uber. You can book a test drive of new cars (Audi and Mercedes included). And, Didi is also offering a Tinder-like matchmaking service for passengers. As a kid, I was getting it on in the back seat of my parent's Dodge. What a time to be alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
So... what do you do when you arrive in Bakersfield, take a car to LA?
simple, stop making semi-annual "wars" against a (relative to IDF) defenseless population.
Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions
It is funny, but it was the first result my search gave me. The result after was from another site that reported the same figure though, so it's not like AppleInsider was alone.
You are being downvoted for two reasons:

1. No, the existence of gravity waves does not, in any way, impact our climate models. Both because their effect is way too small to change anything, and also because we measure the distance to the sun constantly - these measurements are not affected by the existence or not of gravity waves.

2. Your question appears loaded, as if you are implying "climate scientists were wrong all this time."
But we agree that the Secure Enclave code CAN be updated, correct? I know that it can, because I remember an iOS update that fixed a problem with Touch ID on my iPhone 5s. If the DFU mode can't do it, then you just need to load an OS that will do it.

The only question is, does the existing firmware blank the store keys before flashing the new update. I didn't see any indication that it does.
For the most part, no one carries guns around. In the US, some 3%ish of the population has concealed carry permits. (In some states, permits are not required at all, but the overall percentage won't be hugely higher.)
Building a Company Based on Core Values
"The fingerprint sensor is active only when the capacitive steel ring that surrounds the Home button detects the touch of a finger, which triggers the advanced imaging array to scan the finger and send the scan to the Secure Enclave"

Right? So I still can't see why a 3rd party touch ID sensor can't speak the protocol towards the secure enclave. Can you enlighten me on this?

Edit (rate limited) for answer below: Is your argument still valid if you can already can use a dummy finger to unlock your phone as per various CCC videos demonstrated?
The Weird Relationship Between Zimbabwe and SnapChat
I have seen quite a few well received jokes on HN. I've even made one or two myself. But as far as I can remember, those jokes tend to continue towards relevant discussion. A relevant point that can be made without humor, to which humor is added, is continuing the discussion and has a far better chance of being accepted than a joke that, if you took away the humor, leaves nothing to be discussed.
> But if you have to dehumanize people to get your point across, then yes, to the rest of the world you're just a "tech bro" sitting behind your computer screen who can't handle the realities of human life.

People dehumanize tech workers, the wealthy, and other "privileged" people all the time. And frankly, I'm fine with it. It's hard to acknowledge the human aspect of a problem when you're talking about it from a high level. Statisticians and scientists dehumanize people all the time because they need to remain subjective. There's nothing inherently wrong with dehumanizing people and sometimes it's necessary in order to make hard decisions about real problems.

What I'm not cool with are virtual lynch mobs doxxing and inciting people to attack someone for holding an unpopular opinion.

And for the record, I find no offense in the term "tech bro".
All I want is a Wiki search.... pretty please.
Wiki file uploads (images) at very minimum that aren't commited to git. The process now is to create an empty issue, drag the file over, copy the URL and paste it into the Wiki page.
Just changed it up: http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-ohare-knocks-atlanta-title-bu...
Well, I didn't mean to claim it's prescriptively wrong, just that to my mind, maybe because I've been around a lot of mathematicians and coded a lot of Haskell, the usage jumps out as kind of weird... and anecdotally, I've mostly heard "isomorphic JavaScript" used kind of ironically, with a wink bordering on a cringe.

By the way, for the broader point about language mutation, and prescriptivism vs descriptivism, I think there's a common stance against prescriptivism that also seems to rule out any negative opinion about language change—to which I say, hey, negative opinions are part of the whole mess too, even from a descriptivist standpoint. But this is a derail already; sorry.
Mark Cuban's Blog: Apple vs the FBI vs. A Suggestion
Here's an article from last year claiming that Google made 75% of its mobile search revenue from iOS: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/27/apples-ios-drives-...
It _is_ easy if you have the fingerprint of someone.
BCC – Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
Any firsthand accounts of Didi Kuaidi pricing from chinese HNers?

I took a few cabs around shanghai in 2008 and was floored at how cheap their prices were.

If Didi Kuaidi is undercutting taxi prices, and Uber is trying to undercut them... ridesharing must be almost free in major chinese cities at this point I'm assuming?
Yes, but if you stored all your bank accounts, credit cards, and private photos in your car, and any repair shop could connect a USB thumb drive and download the contents unencrypted, wouldn't you want a little bit of cryptographic insurance that that wasn't possible?
I don't really know why you're being downvoted.

Uber has to be in China because they raised $RIDICULOUS on a valuation of $MORERIDICULOUS. That valuation is premised on the idea that they will somehow be part of the fundamental physical infrastructure of the world, in a more-than-just-taxicab kind of way. Disclosure: I think that this is an absurd premise. But it's their ambition.

So they have to eventually show solid steps on being more than just a taxi company for rich dense North American cities, because they claimed they were worth $MORERIDICULOUS. They have to pursue some more ambitious schemes. One of those is getting a dominant position in the market of the 1/7th of the world that is most rapidly growing in wealth.
Vector doesn't have BPF support yet. When it does we should be open sourcing it. As for a book, I'll try to get it done. :)
Ditto - in fact, one of the main reasons we did YC was because we talked with a lot of alumni who said they would do YC for their next startup without hesitation.
Apache Arrow zooms to top-level status with promise of fast memory access
Why not just ask the user if they want to trust the new sensor and authenticate using the password? If attackers have the password you've already lost, so as far as I can tell there's little security risk in allowing that.
GitLab has been doing a pretty good job of releasing new features in their monthly updates. [Last month's 8.4 release](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/22/gitlab-8-4-released/) has a few nice additions. 8.5 will release on Monday, mostly with a focus on performance improvements, and there are some big ones :) Also a new Issue sidebar design!

You can see [the Changelog](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELO...) for more information.
The Fed’s interest payments to banks
What is scrubbing and resilvering if not a fsck equivalent?
Cold Start Times: An Analysis of Top Android Apps
By advocating childlessness?
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Commitment to co-founders is great, but commitment to your idea is a double-edged sword. It can lead to teams less willing to pivot because they're so committed to the concept they applied with.

(Source: Been on the teaching team of a few accelerator programs and seen founders make poor choices due to commitment to their ideas, despite advice otherwise from mentors and their market).
How many hrs would this app take an experienced Iphone app developer to create?
Iphone App Requirements:
-Logs into Instagram (for multiple accounts at the same time)
-Auto follows users following an account you choose below Instagram’s follow limits
-Auto unfollows users below Instagram’s unfollow limits
He didn't define his criteria for "best". If it's $/core, for example, then Samsung probably is better. But I doubt Apple cares about that particular metric.
No, it won't.

In all out conventional warfare you bring out the tactical nukes via various deployment mechanisms.

If the batteries form a big threat, they'll get wiped.
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Code generation can do type erasure starting, for example from List<List<SomeConcreteType>>.
Honeywell was the brand back when I installed security systems. Ancient (analog modem, iirc) interfaces, but quite dependable.
The Netflix Recommender System
(Disclaimer: I have a stake in https://www.kattis.com/)

Solving a programming challenge is not the same as winning the ICPC. And that is what a lot of people here are saying it matters how you use these tools. If you ask developers to solve the very hardest challenges used during the ICPC you are probably going to waste their time and you might miss out on candidates who would have done a good job even if they couldn't solve that challenge. But being asked to have a basic understanding of algorithms, which is what is needed to solve the average challenges, is something that I think should be taken for granted whatever position you are applying to.
This too. Between collecting data, writing grant proposals, writing papers, etc. I don't spend time day-in, day-out using R.

Often the first hour of that is thinking "Shit, how do I do that again? Has Hadley written a package to do this better by now? What did I do last time - why did I do that last time?"
Used it - $3 is awesome for saving hours of config
Kanye West Asks $1B from Mark Zuckerberg
Music Theory: Exploring the 432Hz Tuning Debate
Do you really think that the information in this phone is otherwise beyond the reach of all mankind? Spare a few snowflake engineers and managers at Apple?

There are dozens if not hundreds of viable methods to obtain this info, FBI is choosing to pursue the court order route instead of any of the other forensic tools available to them.

The simple fact of the matter is that the encrypted data and the key to decrypt it both live in a piece of physical hardware on the device-- no matter how well obfuscated it is, it can still be analyzed and recovered by a sufficiently advanced technical entity.

This is exactly the type of work that NSA TAO exists to accomplish, and they are widely regarded as one of the best organizations of this kind in the world.
It makes more sense when comparing two "mobile ride hailing" services. Uber actually started out as a black car service, significantly more expensive than taxis while providing a far superior experience.
I'd really like to know the inside details: what changes have they made to release new features quickly like this? Have they been bogged down in process? Or just lack of pressure to release improvements?
People here mostly react adversely to lame/predictable jokes. Exceptionally good ones get the opposite treatment. A current example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11124967, which currently has over a hundred points. Personally I don't care for it, though pierrec's reply is amusing. But as an example of how the community responds to humor, it's typical.

I think scott_s got it right (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696013). HN isn't against humor, it's against stock humor. Stock humor is internet crabgrass.
It seems like it can be updated but it's not clear whether there are any restrictions on that process. It might accept any signed update but that wouldn't be enough if it required Touch ID or the phone to be unlocked to avoid clearing the HSM.
Is India’s Freedom 251, a $4 Smartphone, Too Good to Be True?
Show HN: Make your own Kanye West album cover with HTML5 canvas
Super cheap and saves a ton of time.
I think his comment went over your head.

He was providing bad reasons that someone could use to justify applying to YC
Actually GPU latencies and transfer costs dominate most simple image filtering operations. A GPU might be fast once the data is in GPU local RAM, but if just transferring the data back and forth takes 3x the time running the filter locally, what's the point?

You're better off performing it on a CPU, of course SIMD optimized.

Besides, web servers probably won't have GPUs anyways.
I came across them years ago and followed every once in a while. The original idea (if I remember correctly) was a MMORPG with a seamless-space-engine (like Outerra) and a huge universe (mostly procedurally built). That's their main project: Infinity the quest for Earth.

They've gone for an intermediate goal of making a space-fight simulator based on the engine. I played a prototype a few years back where two teams fight each other in a Solar System in a Counter Strike fashion, mine or destroy the enemy to get money and you get to upgrade your ship. It was pretty fun.

Looks like they've gone to crowdfunding to turn their prototype in a working game that they can use as a stepping stone to the MMORPG. It's called Infinity: Battlescape and it apparently got funded en of last year https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/infinity-battlescape
I'm also seeing "Last modified: Dec 21, 2015", as is the Google Cache of the page and the Web Archive. I'd assume it was published with the wrong date, and the correction hasn't fully propagated Apple's CDN/cache.
> "I'll believe it when I see it".

You may be interested in this...

"Leysin Winter Sprint (20-27th February 2016)"

"STM (Software Transaction Memory), notably: try to come up with benchmarks, and measure them carefully in order to test and improve the conflict reporting tools, and more generally to figure out how practical it is in large projects to avoid conflicts"

http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/leysin-winter-sprint-...

> "Nor do I recommend that you use it as part of your advocacy."

I'm an advocate for F#, but I'll encourage the progress of any open source language, strong competition is good for the field as a whole. The question isn't 'Why can't Python be fast?' but rather 'How fast can Python be?', the difference is a difference in attitude.
Oops, thanks for the correction! This was a bad memory. I can find no support to back up my claim, and though Alphabet has a different phrasing of it, that did not happen in the time frame I falsely recalled.
The PDVSA didn't have the technical expertise and capital to fully explore and exploit their oil fields. The oil majors had stakes in several projects that were nationalized starting in 2007:

http://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-nationalizations-id...

Exxon and ConocoPhillips filed arbitration claims which resulted in an attempt to repatriate PDVSA assets. That resulted in the planned sale of Citgo and may have also motivated the repatriation of gold reserves held overseas (but who knows). Citgo eventually ended up issuing $2.5B dollars worth of bonds which stripped the asset of a lot of it's value.

Ouch on the price of tires.
The Chinese have nukes too. You bring out your nukes, they bring out THEIR nukes, and then you're on the slippery slope towards Armageddon.
Pretty neat. I had Menacer as a kid and a friend had Super Scope. Neither really got a lot of games, although we liked Terminator on yours just for the cool robots and dark theme, I guess, and the Battleclash SNES game. We spent a lot of after school afternoons taking turns trying to get farther in both, perfecting our skills. Elemental Gearbolt was really good later on, but that was another generation ahead, I guess.
No, he's writing in the syntax of Emacs org-mode, which GitHub also recognizes. Parts of it are similar to markdown, but parts are different.

For example, `markdown inline code` vs ~org-mode inline code~, and

```
markdown code blocks
```

vs

#+begin_src
org-mode code blocks
#+end_src

And [markdown links](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) vs [[http://orgmode.org/][org-mode links]].
Probably just rolling out the features slowly is all.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9824/more-on-apples-a9x-soc

Notice the annotated die shot chip works provides. Even if it were true that "Apple's custom SoC's are still mostly a collection of licenced ARM IP blocks " that would constitute only a small fraction of what is in the SOC overall.
What are those principles?
Even if someone guesses my PIN, I still don't want them to be able to get a copy of my fingerprint sensor data. Who knows how many multi-factor auth systems will use fingerprints in the future? Stolen fingerprint data could become the next SSN that people use to steal identities.
Official site:

> http://freedom251.com

Previous thread on the phone before the release event:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11123135
What about Clarifai.com ?
Why would the Israelis do this?? Here's the line from the article:

"According to Missile Threat, the Chinese developed much of the HQ-9’s technology from a Patriot battery Beijing acquired from Israel"

Is this true?
Makes you wonder if China maybe has a 20 year plan towards something very bad out there.

I mean why do they even want that space?
With all due respect, this sounds like data dredging mixed with a bit of astrology, filled out on in a PR release sent in by the authors and reprinted by the wsj.