skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, he means HSL (or sometimes HLS), though the abbreviations used in the wild for these models are wildly inconsistent.

Here’s the first footnote in the Wikipedia article I wrote about HSL/HSV:

In Joblove and Greenberg’s (1978) paper first introducing HSL, they called HSL lightness "intensity", called HSL saturation "relative chroma", called HSV saturation "saturation" and called HSV value "value". They carefully and unambiguously described and compared three models: hue/chroma/intensity, hue/relative chroma/intensity, and hue/value/saturation. Unfortunately, later authors were less fastidious, and current usage of these terms is inconsistent and often misleading. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=807362

[Worth noting: Joblove and Greenberg’s terms weren’t really consistent with standard color science definitions, but they were at least well defined at the top of their paper.]
Once you've done it once it is very quick imo. Deploy 1 to Digital Ocean with Node/Express/Mongo took me a work-night and deploy 2 and 3 took me < 15 minutes.
There were a bunch of things, one thing that stuck in my mind, they were concerned with lack of internal customer support for the drivers and a lack attention.
Worth mentioning that's "directory entries per directory". The "data files per directory" isn't driven by the intermediate path...just the total number of "full paths".
Incidentally, isn't $80k around the point where happiness from income levels off?

The advantage of big money isn't just charities and companies - it's having your time back, since you're not tied to getting an income from it.
Congrats for the new release. I love the new user/permission mechanism!
As much as jetbrains has annoyed me, I really love this new business model that they come up with.

I almost want to buy a subscription, only I prefer Netbeans.

We'll so how long it takes before Oracle finds out it owns Netbeans and destroys it and I have to go back.
After reading this I get the understanding that in my life if I am to start a company and being a programmer that I will inevitably have to let go of being a programmer and focus on being solely a leader. This never is a thought that I never even fathomed.
I love Lysander Spooner, and I'm a little surprised to see his works show up here on HN. I'm not sure how "on topic" this really is, but still kinda glad to see this. I think everybody would be well served to read Spooner, even if you don't agree with all of his positions. At the very least, his way of thinking may challenge some of our pre-existing notions about the nature of government and authority.

And, of course, I can't say enough about Bastiat's The Law either. Definitely worth reading if you haven't read it yet.
Many HN readers have no problem with 1st-party analytics (web developers collecting usage information on their own websites). Privacy problems become more of an issue for 3rd-party analytics providers, who can track browsers across all the sites using the same analytics provider.

Piwik is probably the most widely-known option in this space. It is a more complete solution (including the reporting side) written in PHP; it also requires MySQL. http://piwik.org

LilBrother may be a nice option for developers to include in their existing node.js backend.
Our biggest focus is `npm install` performance. We have multiple caches to make it the best possible experience for you.

Every time you run `now` it's as if you had installed from scratch (including semver invalidations like ^ or ~). The focus is on reproducibility.
Isn't the contact list how whatsapp knows how to encrypt messages and who to send them too?
Interesting point. The idea of a meritocracy is pretty ingrained into the tech world, and that means control over life is internal, not external.

But tech is not a meritocracy. [1] [2]

Accepting that you have less control over your life may change some of your outcomes, but I doubt it would completely crush one's spirit.

I've accepted that I'll never flap my arms unaided and fly like a bird. I'm not depressed because of that realization. It's a known limitation of my life, and I can live with it, and I won't spend my weekends practicing my flapping and running skills. It actually helps me focus on areas I can affect change... such as building a jetpack.

Knowing which things are outside of your control should help you realize what is and is not within your ability to change, and then you can figure out how to make the most success given which variables are mutable or immutable.

You mention research about one's perception can affect later economic success; I'd be very interested in a reference.

[1] http://istechameritocracy.com
[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272...
Me too. Good luck with your endeavors.
Quotes in the linked article seem like lawyerly smokescreen to me. Assuming that the government planted child porn on this guy is no more correct than assuming he's guilty before a trial.
This looks like good software. I'm going to try using this to replace slrn. If it's okay with you, I'll email you in a couple weeks with an update.
Diagrams are next to useless in my experience. They tell you nothing about the execution of the system, it's properties, invariants, etc.

If diagrams were all we needed to design software we'd all be writing UML right now and proving our systems correct with it.

A better alternative is to look into specification languages and the awesome tooling around them. Unit-B, TLA+, etc.
We do not all see color the same way in the first place!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16647849
From a BI consultancy perspective, not in the slightest. The amount of time we spend on ETL is not because of the difficulty of piping data around from place-to-place. The difficulty is in modelling data appropriately to support ad-hoc analyses. Rather, the E and L portions don't provide much difficulty (hassle, frustration, sometimes time, sure, but they're not inherently difficult).

The T, transformation, is huge in many ways. Think of it this way: the data model is the primary UI for an analyst or any power user. It also dictates query performance.

Adding a visualization layer on top of Salesforce's schema, e.g. is not too helpful, regardless of where that data is living. You can answer trivial questions without too much difficulty, but the difficulty ramps up quickly.

The data access patterns, types of logic necessary, and end-user demands are hugely different between an OLTP and OLAP workload.

There's also potentially huge complexity in conforming dimensions across disparate source systems' data.

Master data management is another huge component that hits a lot of the ETL pipeline.

These concerns are all on top of hooking up the right ends of the hose to one another.

I don't mean to disparage the product or company and hope I don't come across as if I am. I just want to point out that they address only a small component of a large process, which in turn is only a segment of the BI lifecycle.
View the New York Times article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/technology/drones-marshale...
Mine did that for a while, then it resolved itself. Maybe it takes some time for all instances in a group to agree they are encrypted; I also think at least one of my groups marked itself encrypted after everyone in it had posted at least one comment since yesterday.
So the deploys do not depends on npm infrastructure at all?
> Competent programmers tend to be much more cynical about their own ability to write good code.

Did you mean skeptical instead of cynical?
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how many signs do you need?

This is one thing I like about State Sponsored news. Here in the states, people whine about censorship all day and make a point to criticize whatever single party system sponsors said news, but that is just for government stuff. The C-Span type shit nobody cares about anyway.

For local news, regional, national news, and international conflicts, state sponsored news gets straight to the point without the sensation.

Plane went missing? Plane went missing and relevant details.
Weather forecast? Its gonna rain.

keep it moving
People just need to study a little bit of direct response fundamentals to fix many of the pop-up offer issues.

"Subscribe" just isn't an offer.

"Subscribe and download free guide to X" is 100x better in my experience.

And also you can have pop-overs that don't trigger until X seconds after visiting - or when someone reaches the bottom of an article - or any other measurable event...then you know they are interested.

But in the end, you probably get more front-end subscribers by trying to shove the subscribe pop-up down people's throats --- but if you measure the engagement with those follow-up emails - it may be poor as hell.

But measuring that isn't trivial.
> TextExpander works globally not only within Emacs.

That's why we emacs users like to do all of our typing in a single environment. It really is an OS sometimes!
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> it is not illegal to post Facebook photos with a statue. Since clearly that is not a database

...but then it would be illegal to tag the photo, right?
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> Plato must have been cognizant of the great size of our globe, and of other continents, because he said in Phaedo that the Mediterranean people occupied 'only a small portion of the earth.'

> That's inspiring. So, before the Vikings, the New World wasn't an impossibility. It was in fact as old as any other point on Earth.

Very well said. If nothing else this also shows the deep origins of the development of the scientific method: propose a theory based on (in this case) extrapolation, then prove it later on with evidence. In many ways, human civilization, and especially human knowledge can be thought of as a manifestation of this simple formula.

The existence of a kind of extrapolation-based forethought prior to the actual process of exploration undertaken by humankind evidenced here would fall neatly into this progression.
Our focus is on empowering the realtime JavaScript cloud with its rich module ecosystem.

With the advent of microservices, code will become more succinct. Your backends will be aggregations of small functions with clear inputs and outputs.

The syntactic differences between languages will matter less. Our bet is that JS has the largest and most prolific community!
That's actually why historically only land owners could vote. They had the most to lose and we're the most educated.

Regardless of "right or wrong" that did provide a safeguard against the likes of people like Trump, probably Hillery and Bernie as well.
One thing that's odd about this is that it's phone only, so they need your phone number. It would be a million times better if it were an android app you could sideload onto any device and use anonymously; exchanging your contact details anonymously. It's hard to see how whatsapp can legally/technically defeat a request for `which contacts does this person communicate with`. The same goes for the Signal app too. Am I missing something here? Clearly none of the protocols require phone numbers, so why do the implementations?
>Considering the lifespan of the dumb versions of these products

And what's ironic about that is that in theory the lifespan of the product should be longer, given that that it can theoretically be "enhanced" OTA vs in a pure hardware situation. But, of course, there's no financial incentive.

We may start seeing more paid software upgrades for new features.
A more techy question, how can you let anyone use any port, how will your proxy know where to redirect?
The irony is that the Clinton Administration was accused of deferring to politics over intelligence warnings that Boeing was inadvertently or carelessly leaking technology to China.
Thank you. I don't a have a team that is able to use this, but I will sure recommend you whenever I find an opportunity.
Very cool, thanks for the update.
Super cool :)
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Funny we're often warned we must identify ourselves when publicly praising/reviewing our own products, lest we run foul of the FTC. They are UK based though so perhaps its different there.
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Segment is always killing it.
I'd also add that the FISA court rubber-stamps almost all government requests.

http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/foreign-intelligence...
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Somewhat unrelated....If I've never played a Zelda game, what would be a good starting point in the series?
Some CEPs even have query languages which look very like SQL (Esper [1]). But... it's different: 1) it's push model vs pull in database (you toss data in meatgrinder and see outcome on other side as stuff goes in vs going to data and picking what you need); 2) CEPs usually keep track of data only in specified windows (time/distance); you explicitly have to manage manual data windows; this means queries to join everything with everything between two data streams will result in memory explosion on large data sets; 3) CEPs trigger evaluation on message inserts/removals - this means you can't trigger re-evaluation at will without any stimulus event and you can't do joins with absence of something; you can't simply ask CEP to fire an event if no new events happened in last 5 minutes - that needs some query trickery.

[1] http://www.espertech.com/products/esper.php
To install flink on aws or gce, check out karamel.io
That will quadruple the uselessness of Congress.

I feel fairly confident that the political industry would scale nicely to accommodate all those new puppets.
Jail time for storing a pattern of bits? I will stand up and say that's unjustified. The ridiculous basis of the concept is exactly what causes this screwed up regime with no possible discernment between the crime and being framed for the crime.

We see the same patterns arising for the only-slightly-less preposterous idea of criminalizing possession of psychoactive substances - uniformed thugs planting a bit of an utterly innocuous substance into a victim's possession, and then riding the legal fiction (/moral panic) to carry out their personal vendettas.

By all means, find the criminals performing the real physical crime of child abuse and throw away the key, keep such images off of Google etc so we don't stumble upon them, etc. But criminalizing bit patterns just puts us all in the position where we can be arbitrarily imprisoned and unsympathetically prejudged as repugnant.
Make sure you aren't spreading yourself too thin "I have a couple of projects that need a marketing boost" - can you limit it to 1 project and focus on marketing that?

Go try and market one single thing - that is by far the best way to learn.

Once we find one successful tactic - you can apply that to other projects and see if it works on other projects too.
Yeah, nothing stops you from making a follow-up comment after the ride, which they will care about.
Ask HN: Do you own or partner on a brick-and-mortar small business?
I would love some day to take the money I've made in development and open a small neighborhood business (print shop, restaurant / bar, cafe, book store), ideally partnering with someone more knowledgeable who could put in the "sweat equity" It would be something I'm passionate about and would enjoy doing, ideally a non-franchise, but that's it.

Has anyone bought a low-six-figure or smaller stake in a small business not intended to scale? How did you find the opportunity? Did you partner with someone and how has that experience been?
> Tell me again why well-off American programmers continue living in that country without the most basic of human rights?

1) If we all abandon ship, who will be left to argue that this is wrong?

2) A number of countries in Europe lack substantial protections for the freedom of expression. This stuff is only known in the US because its extremely difficult to shut people up.

3) A number of countries are as heavily, if not more heavily, invested in using the tools of the state [surveillance, etc] against the domestic population.

4) The simple fact is if the Government [in whatever country] puts you on their list of people to destroy, you will be destroyed 9 times out of 10. There is substantial xenophobia in both the US and Europe that is fueled by a combination of terrorism, wages, immigration, and a "Fuck you, I have mine" mentality. The US may be swinging heavily in one direction at the moment, but many European countries have been as bad in the past.

5) Please list countries which you consider "enlightened" and I'll tear them down to size if that is your desire.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/opinion/the-french-surveil...

> Mr. Valls, who announced the bill on the day after the deadly attack at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis and as France still reels from the terrorist attacks in Paris in January, has assured the nation that the bill “is not a French Patriot Act,” a comparison to America’s post-9/11 law. But, in a statement on the bill, the Digital Council, which advises the French government about technology’s effects on society, referred specifically to Edward Snowden’s revelations of the extent of United States government surveillance, warning that the bill proposed by Mr. Valls would open the door to similar excesses in France.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/24/france-big-brot...

> The constitutional council made only minor tweaks to the legislation, which human rights and privacy campaigners, as well as the United Nations, have described as paving the way for “very intrusive” surveillance and state-approved eavesdropping and computer-hacking.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/03/french-pa...

> French parliamentary deputies, defying government wishes, have voted in favour of penalising smartphone makers which fail to cooperate in terrorism inquiries, entering a controversy that has pitted the FBI against Apple in the United States.

Similar laws exist in other EU countries.
Are these zero downtime deployments?
> think we should finally abandon the idea that software can be "purchased" once and used forever.

I certainly hope not. If I as a consumer want to use a certain software version locally then I should have that right. Why should I pay for developers to make features that I don't need / want?
> I think we should finally abandon the idea that software can be "purchased" once and used forever.

I've been using Emacs, etc. since the 90s without having to subscribe to them. There is an enormous amount of software, both Free and proprietary, that you can still purchase once and use as long as you care to.

> That said, I consider $48/year to be too high a price. I'd be willing to pay $20/year for TextExpander.

This debacle reminded me that I'd once paid $5 for a license to aText. I dusted it off and found that 1) it's still supported and updated, and 2) it covers 100% of my TextExpander use cases. $48/year is astronomically high when the competition is $5/always.
One important part is once you have broken the project up into tasks, is to simplify (eg: these two tasks could be different views of a core feature) once you have all of the tasks in hand. If you try simplifying before you have a mostly complete idea of the scope, you end up with useless abstractions and other overly complicated code (eg: the ObjectServiceFactoryConfiguratorEngine that only loads a simple json config file during app startup that took months to write).

Also, I've found it handy to have a line or two of the issue this is trying to solve for the user in the user story. To go with the user story example in the article, it should also have: "User frequently schedules appointments from the animals they have viewed recently". That way when implementing the feature one can tell if they are over complicating things when the user actually wants something to make their job easier/simpler or can help uncover hidden requirements that were undiscovered in previous steps (eg: the buttons should be blindingly obvious or more hidden).
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How are you thinking about latency in an environment where there's a waterfall of Now function calls? Will Now functions calling over Now functions naturally get cached on the same server?
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If I have a skill that a large number of people are willing to pay for them that in itself represents independence. Earning potential is far more valuable than money. And guess what, if your children decide not to use those banks and universities, and don't get jobs then they may be "independent, but they are also dead weights. If they don't have skills that contribute to society, they are irrelevant. I agree that people should have access to enough money to realize their potential, but not more than that.
I'll tip when driver went up and beyond what I was expecting (helping me load and unload furniture, stopping at a point not on the lyft line route, etc).
AWS is a platform. If all you want is a VPS, it's overpriced and underperformant (or so I hear).

If you just took a load off of bare metal and moved it to AWS, I don't doubt it got significantly more expensive... but that's a terrible mis-use of the platform.

When you develop an app around the products they offer, it starts to look a lot more reasonable. Especially at a small scale.

When I need a durable messaging service in my app, I don't need to go read up on rabbitmq, find a couple servers somewhere, set up some sort of redundant message queue so I get some level of durability, set up monitoring, deal with updates, debugging problems, etc. I just make some API calls to SQS and it's already there for me.

If "cut out Amazon and replace it with colocated bare-metal" is really that simple, then chances are you're not making very good use of the platform and you should absolutely switch off of it.
You raise a good point, there's no view so outrageous that you can't find someone who wants to make it seriously.
How do you plan to appeal to the enterprise/larger apps market?
yes, and for that matter, any art placed in public spaces as well. Tourists

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to take their pictures while climbing on friendly statues from New York Philadelphia to Indiana.

(where do i learn how to format html for these submissions? i need linebreaks and italics.)
Off topic: Right when I saw the terminal, I instinctively typed "ls". Not sure now if that's what triggered the animation or not but regardless it was a neat occurrence (I also just want to leave it at that ;) ) Yayy muscle memory!
A point of sale that processes EMV cards through your Stripe Account
Link: http://www.ideastone.com/stripe-simple

I found out non-EMV (chip) credit card holders are 10x more likely to become fraud victims. That's nutty. On top of that, businesses who do not accept EMV are liable for fraud damages.

It lets customers 'dip' their chip cards directly to your card reader and it's processed through your Stripe account (existing or new).
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EDIT: misunderstood, thought it was referring to original article not grandparent.

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No. HSV and HSL are two very similar physically-based color models that only loosely map to perceived brightness and perceived grayness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV

They are nice cylindrical shapes because they are straightforward transformations of the RGB cube-shaped color space.

By contrast, HCL is a biologically-based close approximation of actual perceived brightness and perceived grayness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space

It has a funky shape because the frequency responses of the color-sensitive pigments in the cones of our eyes are complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Color_mat...

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