skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, although such a silly rule isn't staying still. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/06/fork_a...

I remember a story how the Nazis in WW2 would identify American spies in Germany by observing how they held and used their cutlery in restaurants. Sadly, I was unable to find the story just now.
I disable web fonts for all my browsing. For the most part, it's fine and speeds up responsiveness. In rare cases, I run into problems when a website has decided to replace its icons with fonts, but generally, those sites are overly designed and I usually avoid them.

If I absolutely need to visit a site that uses mission-critical webfonts, I'll just open IE, do my business, and get out.
Notepad++ uses Scintilla internally.
Apparently losses are as high as 50% per mirror?
> Microsoft deliberately gave away their (vendor-locked) web browser at a loss to drive the other web browsers out of business (i.e. dumping)

This is kind of a weird claim. They gave Notepad and Solitaire away too. But they weren't giving any of that away at a loss; the "at a loss" concept doesn't even apply to software sales.
Antenas de telefonia móvil, un riesgo demasiado cerca
Биткоин краны от 10000 сатоши в час Bitcoin zebra moon Bitcoin
Technical cofounder of a SaaS company based in Switzerland.

Side project is a simple e-commerce website selling handmade jewellery (http://www.wiggles.ch) - I won't retire off it but I spend < 4h/month on the project and it pays the rent...
"The Craft of Text Editing" (http://www.finseth.com/craft/) could also interest people who like reading about text editor internals.
Project invests 7-figures in the car parts and accessories seller kfzteile24
>And a good compiler doesn't only optimize for speed. It also optimizes for code size, memory usage.

No they don't. Code size is rarely a problem (embedded probably cares..). Optimizations will in most cases lead to larger code, loop unrolling, inline expansion etc.
In c the compiler cant't, in most cases do anything about memory usage. (Probably could pack structs.. , but that is not something the compiler would do I think, you would break ABI with non optimized code). In managed languages, memory usages is probably more depended on the runtime system GC, then compilers.

GCC has a flag for code size optimization -Os
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
What what your experience with conrod ? Piston seems to go in lots of different direction, I wonder if it is a mature library.
> I should do a veggie dive at a local market here in southwest China and show you guys what you are missing variety wise.

I'd love to see that if you have the time to take a few pics!

I used to live near a big open air market, and in the last few years I've noticed a revival of old root vegetables; some local producers managed to make a living selling only that kind of food.

The usual explanation for their disappearance was that during the second world war, people had to eat a lot of them, and without any special cooking (they'd only boiled them in water.) So after that eating this kind of roots vegetables reminded people of war and they were avoided.
Customer Success Manager at CoScale

Side projects:

- Felt: front-end load testing https://github.com/kidk/felt

- Pomodoro timer with stats (not public)

- Map of glutenfree restaurants in Ghent (not finished)
Can you clarify the difference between an index fund and an etf? I always thought they were synonymous.
How cancer cells fuel their growth
Well, by design (which sadly Chrome breaks) CSS prioritizes user styles: https://www.viget.com/articles/inline-styles-user-style-shee...

Unfortunately, as people write more and more convoluted html, and are using javascript techniques for laying out web pages and blogs, not just web applications -- it's becoming harder and harder to have the reading experience one wants, rather than the reading experience some designer fop thinks you should want -- for no good reason.

It started with Microsoft Frontpage setting the background to white without overriding the body text colour by default (so those that had a user stylsheet for reading white/light text on a dark background got zero contrast) -- and has been going steadily down hill from there.
Well, it is equivalent. Not in terms of what a played back sound is like, because tape and digital both introduce characteristic artifacts, but in terms of "this signal peak is so many dB above the noise floor."

If you actually code some audio DSP(and I do), you quickly learn that there are a lot of ways to color sound that aren't quantified except in a very broad statistical sense, but are measurable in audition. What digital is very good at is the basics of reproduction with a (statistically) uncolored result. At artistic effect, it is somewhat more limited; a lot of compute time and engineering has to be thrown into reproducing some straightforward analog world things and model accuracy still has room for improvement even now.

If you want to quibble with the video, do so on its terms. It isn't saying that digital is better, it's saying that digital is better at a very specific task.
Why reinvent a wheel? Have a look at miglayout http://www.miglayout.com/
Not really. Normal labs that aren't aiming to be revolutionary ultra-profitable mega corporations will be fine.

Having a slightly more accurate result is useless, because there is far more biological variation in a person (from disease, the vagaries of physiology, compliance, pharmacokinetics, diet, the time of day, mental state, the season etc etc) than technical variation in a lab test. You would be optimising the wrong thing.

The only example I can think of where someone would probably be harmed by this is if they were undergoing some kind of a procedure with a bleeding risk, and the Theranos test said their clotting was fine when it wasn't, and they had a significant haemorrhage during the procedure. Someone will probably launch a class action lawsuit anyway.

I think that the Theranos board will realise that they need to get rid of Holmes in the next 6 - 12 months. Even if the tech actually works, having her there has become a liability.
> what are the side projects you are doing currently. This question is about having insight about what people are doing.

I find it interesting that you ask primarily about side projects rather than just projects. Why are side projects more OK to discuss (or more interesting) than projects?

I think it is sometimes a bad habit to follow the impulse to pursue an idea as only a side project. Whether you're a line employee or a founder, I think there's value to seriously pursuing ideas that you believe to have merit and attempt to get traction behind them at your company. It's the path to career growth and success in both cases. Keeping an idea as a "side project" limits its potential success compared with sharing it with others at your workplace and attempting to establish consensus around it and simply doing it as a project. You learn a lot more that way, not only because you get feedback from others about the idea. (Are you invested in the idea, or not? I don't mean financially. Success does not come from investing in no ideas.)

Perhaps what you are asking is: "what are you working on that is too small for you have bothered to try to garner consensus around it with others, to get their support for your idea". Just a thought. Or perhaps your question betrays an anxiety about one's inability to influence one's employer by altering business plans -- that is to say, if you don't pitch an idea, then there's no opportunity for it to be rejected. That is the impulse that I think we should not generally encourage, since it does not promote growth; it allows fragile and bad ideas to survive longer than they should, and it probably stunts good ideas too. This is just my opinion.

All ideas also deserve a time where they're cultivating and premature to share with others. Perhaps you are asking, "Share an idea here that you have not yet shared with anyone".

Perhaps what you are implying is that it would be improper for someone to discuss what they're doing at their job, in the context of their role at their job. "I am a developer at X.com and I'm working on a project for X.com where ..." - perhaps this class of answer seems uninteresting for surface reasons. But why shouldn't it be interesting? Would it be boring to say, "I work at Comcast and I help transition our legacy IPv4 networks to IPv6", or, "I work at Google on an upcoming Google Compute Platform service", or "I help launch the Apple iTunes store in new countries and territories worldwide".

Perhaps what you're asking is, "What work do you do will benefit and be interesting to other engineers (e.g., building general purpose libraries and tools for other software engineers)?"

Sorry, I don't mean to be contrary. I like to play devil's advocate, and I think there's something interesting to dig into regarding what you intend to ask and the implications behind the question. There is a whole bundle of implications in that word "side project".
Ask HN: Where can I get constructive criticism for my app/website?
...besides Show HN. In the Show HN description, it states, that releases are not worth a 'Show HN' post. This creates some pressure, because you only get one shot with the HN community, so you're product better be free of major bugs.
And sometimes, you just don't know anyone personally, who will be able to provide constructive criticism, since nobody is passionate enough neither from the technical, nor 'idea' side about your project.

Is there a solution on the web where you can provide your not-so production level solution, preferably anonymously, and get constructive feedback?
Yes, that's how the England 100,000 genomes project is transferring 10s of petabytes from San Diego to England. I assume it was the same here.
Direct link: http://www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org/ee/ZPK/BF/2012/01/01...

Unfortunately, it appears to be down at the moment.
What about https://disconnect.me? Don't they provide an interesting "free" trackers-list, that is even integrated inside the "non-profit" uBlock Origin?
Our goal to unify fastlane tools
Fronted software engineer for a HFT company.

Side project: UI framework over OpenGl for java, to be used for a 2d game editor, to be used for a 2d game.
At no point. They go into politics, charges if any are ever bought will just sort of fade away.

These are rich powerful people, they don't go to jail.
Paying Technical Debt – How to Rescue Legacy Code Through Refactoring
Was a senior backend/full-stack Python developer, now considering career options, thinking about contracting or perhaps finding a remote position.

On the side I'm playing with Elixir/Phoenix and working on an experimental knowledgebase.
In London, I work as a consultant growing startups - but now I'm looking for a full-time role in growth/marketing/partnerships for a high growth tech company...

My side project is a hackathon/startup school hybrid focusing on creating entreprenurial solutions that tackle the challenges of diversity - http://www.startupandbloom.com/

Currently, I'm writing up press releases and sponsorship documents.
The transparency logs themselves grow in bulk. If I watch one of the main logs with a 30 second refresh, I can go two hours without a single cert, then 2000 or so scroll past at once.
I agree. I apologise if my phrasing implied approval of this strategy, that was not my intent.

Our current leader suffer the same weakness as our past leaders: Failure to foresee the consequences of their preferred (and tested) strategies in new environments.

The First World War as practically fought as a classic European war initially. And it was assumed by everyone that it would be just that; another quick decisive war. And it looked like it might almost have been that, had it not been for some strategic blunders by German HQ. Blunders that were sparked by conservative ideas and classic defence strategy.

When the war became entrenched, no side truly knew how to advance. They knew how to defend their position (machine guns), but not how to take the other's positions. That first really changed with the introduction of the tank. But that arrived too late to partake in many battles in that war. The Second World War proved its usefulness to its fullest.

Traditional geopolitical, strategic thinking and military schools turned the First World War into a far bloodier than it could have been. New technology, new warfare tactics among other things have changed they dynamic for war.

Today, new ideologies, again new warfare tactics (think urban warfare), new opponents (not nation states anymore) among other things are again changing the dynamic.

When the First World War ended, the solution to it was the same as always; war reparation without considerations to their consequences. The same thing is happening today; old strategy and military schools are being applied to conflicts to which they do not apply.

It might be because our current leaders are politicians first, and need to secure their popularity among voters. Moreso than our past leaders. But it might also just be history repeating itself. In a way.
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I guess you need some English classes! :P
People try to come up with a plan. The problem is the plan is in its very early stage. We have a couple of impractical algorithms.

An EU research project has published a couple of recommendations what you can do if you need postquantum today (none of which you want to use for TLS, because the keys or signatures are too big). NIST plans a standardization process. A draft for a stateful hash-based signature scheme (XMSS) is probably going to be an IETF document soon.

Small bits and pieces. People are working on it, but it's still a long way until you will be able to use your browser to establish a quantum-safe https connection.
Senior developer.

Side project #1 is a Chrome plugin to record user actions on a web page and use the data to automate end-to-end testing with Nightwatch/Karma and Selenium.

Side project #2 is a Chrome plugin to add tags to web content (anything, but it's intended for tagging usernames) and share the tags between groups of users.
Show HN: Android Commons
PhD student in applied Math at UCL in London.
Side project is public engagement: short documentaries about academic research (http://knowitwall.com ); My role is web developer (starting learning web dev from scratch which was and still is overwhelming but fun :) )
From Founder to Exit: Scaling Thingworx
Technical Lead, Xamarin Insights (https://xamarin.com/insights)

Side Projects:
https://github.com/skizzehq/skizze - High-throughput probalistic data structure service. Also working on it's Golang and Node.js client bindings (see the org.)

https://github.com/njpatel/grpcc - a nice-to-use gRPC CLI for testing/debugging gRPC services

https://github.com/njpatel/HiveKit - a British gas Hive Heating -> HomeKit bridge

Also working on another little utility for devs around sending files between machines, should be out by the weekend!
Anyone can support the OSS product to utmost level by studying the source code (and possibly fixing/modifying it).

> Are you talking more in terms of support?

Support is not tied to the product's license (which is common for proprietary software).
I have the stats from late January (at Stockholm Hadoop User Group). It's 90PB of data, running jobs with 95 TB of RAM, 40K jobs/day (approximately 12,000 CPUs with probably 60-90% utilization).
Continuous integration load testing with jenkins
The little guy usually gets destroyed for doing something unambiguously illegal that was unambiguously illegal at the time. Whereas the big guy gets a (proportionately) small fine for... well, ultimately the court decided they were breaking the law, but it was more a matter of making a judgement call the wrong way.

This case may be more clear-cut, but that's generally why you see these differences.
Swearing basically is a personal approach and different words mean completely different to different people.
I'm a backend developer;

and, for a long time, I worked on side software projects; but, when I get home, I'm often so tired from coding all day that I don't program as much at home anymore. Lately, I've been learning to play a midi-controller and maybe make some music :)
Big 4 technology advisory manager. The main side project I'm working on is a MOOC platform written in clojure (nothing to see yet, though).
Off-Topic: By the way: http://imgur.com/KrLQ9a3
What is the first line :?
Visited with a Lenny 2, Wiko.
Notepad. Sometimes, my mobile phone.
the net comes pretrained. I haven't dug into the code much, but from the surface it seems it works by using the net as a scoring system for feature similarity, and then does a gradient descent on that (in very broad terms, I saw the style layer being used multiple times at multiple scales, probably to capture high and level patterns independently)
I should add they also have ~100 servers streaming the music to clients for songs that aren't handled by the CDN.
Show HN: A super simple webcrawler framework written in Python
> Refugees flooding the EU

About 2M refugees in 2015 (highest number I could find) into a population of ~508M isn't "flooding". For comparison, there seems to have been just over 5M "live births" in 2014[3].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24583286
[2] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/population-demography-migra...
[3] http://www.statista.com/statistics/253401/number-of-live-bir...
Is that a standard immutable string? Does this mean allocating a whole new string every time a character edit is made?
It's very simple. With FLOSS you are not tied to one software distributor and you can freely modify and distribute the software by yourself. It is not about support, it is about freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
Some more details are available at http://seif.codes/skizze-behind-the-scenes-of-alpha-2/ and https://njp.io/skizze-alpha-release/ , including what's coming up in future releases.

We're really excited to be working on solving real-world problems we've come across with Skizze, hopefully others will find it useful too as it matures!
Swiss startups forge a path to robots at the wheel
I thought Oracle or even db2 would be the Gorillas for serious corporate/goverment databases, and MySql would be the Gorilla for cheap + web stuff.

I suppose Microsoft is pretty popular in beetween those 2 markets.
Sounds like you brought into the useless mess and now have to maintain a system written in it, hence the anger and tears.
> The ads that they present to you are based on the data they collect about your behavior. They generate revenue on those ads.

Thing that has nothing to do with your claim

> This is a Pedantic distinction that exists only if you think an ad revenue model is compatible with your values.

No, the distinction is crucial. Is totally different selling data than selling ad space

> It is like google employees who still argue that their harvesting of wifi mac addresses (w/o permission) was ok because they were just out there for anybody to collect.

Google employees didn't argued that because the harvesting of MAC addresses has been done by every company that does geolocation with wifi and has nothing to do with the real problem with Google Street View data collection

> There will be people who agree with you, but there are people like me who find this position abhorrent and exploitative. You are in the same community of businesses as payday loans.

What I think about ads as a business has nothing to do with your wrong claim about Google selling the data so you can stop trying to look in a higher moral ground.
I'm a full stack web developer and I created https://www.quirkycushion.com last week. If it gains any traction then I plan on setting up sister sites for other products.

I read the book http://www.startupbook.net/ which says to pick a niche which is why I will have several sites each focusing on one product rather than one site with multiple categories.
Sourcefabric | Europe | possibly Remote

We are looking to hire a Python specialist who care about good quality software for a position as APPLICATION DEVELOPER (BACKEND) for the SUPERDESK project.

Superdesk is an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform. Superdesk is built by a non profit organisation, Sourcefabric, that builds a variety of open source tools for media organisations all over the world.

Find the job ad here: https://www.sourcefabric.org/en/home/jobs/3440/Application-D...
Can you recommend me a book based on my knowledge, for deep learning?
I have questions regarding this Normalized weights and Initial inputs video on Udacity course Deep Learning.(https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ud730/l-6370362152/m-7119160655)

In this video it talks about variables that go into Big-loss function should have zero mean and equal variances. I can’t figure about which variables it is talking about? Are they weights and biases or are they soft-max function and labels in the Big-loss function? And how zero mean and equal variance would help in optimization?

The other question I have is, in the video it talks about weight initialization randomly using Gaussian distribution, I cannot understand how can we initialize weights using gaussian distribution with zero mean and standard deviation sigma? And where optimizer will move the point (initialized weight), up or down to find the local minima?

So can you recommend me a book that I should study before taking this course, so that problems like these don't occur ?
> Does ANY for pay OS today not come with a Browser? How the hell else am I supposed to get a Browser without some form of browser? Go to the store and buy one?

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but back in 1994 or so when this all happened, people did go to the store and buy netscape navigator on disk or CD-ROM.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship Without Python 2
> Anti-competitive to whom?

To the costumers as the DOJ said.

Please, if you don't want to read what the case is about, stop posting. You're your repeating the same things again and again. And they are wrong.
> What harm has been demonstrated by this supposed conspiracy to set prices? Do you pay one penny more for your e-books? I don't.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
How Hadoop Has Truly Revolutionised IT
[For all car lovers] In Photos: Celebrating 100 Years of BMW
The Longitude Act :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_Act

Short answer : over 114 years from 1714, Britain sought and paid rewards for accurate measures of longitude. Resulting of course in the invention of 'modern' clocks.
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I was hired as a Data Engineer for my skills in Scala, AWS, and other data technologies. I ended up falling into Backend Engineer (also Scala) as our core services needed significant support. From there, I drifted into Operations as our infra and deployment processes were negatively impacting QOS and the time from code-to-prod.

In my spare time I:

- made a shitty personal website[0] for kicks

- maintain an npm package[1]

- contribute to SecureDrop[2]

- run the not-yet-live BerlinLeaks[3]

[0] - https://heartsucker.com

[1] - https://github.com/ehartsuyker/node-deb

[2] - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop

[3] - https://berlinleaks.com
I'm an Android/Rails contractor.

I've built a boilerplate project for starting Android apps using Clean Architecture: https://github.com/dmilicic/Android-Clean-Boilerplate
I think a criminal conspiracy like this qualifies as more than "cutting corners".
Product Manager

Side Projects:

- https://trombone.io

- https://tab.bz
obviously within regulations. But the museum should have no right to deny access after setting up specific appoinments with approved scanners.
If line noise is a program, all fuzzers are developers
Thank you for persisting with this. It's a shame this post isn't more visible.
Can you please elaborate on this? For example, are you talking about social situations or business situations? Applying FIFO to social invitations?