skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Count Zippy in! He'll bring the food.
http://meetzippy.com

Also, the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition is similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfJHgSNx_vY
https://avc.sparkfun.com/2014
Anecdotal: My first job out of college had an IQ test (along with other interviews, tests, and a presentation), and it was a great job.
Or in Philip K Dick's Ubik:

The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you."

"I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt."

...he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

"You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.
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I don't think a million or more qualifies as top end FWIW
Maybe you don't like it, and you are fully within your rights to cancel, but it is not abuse. They can or should be able to carry whatever products they damn well please.
Perhaps (or at least a TOS violation). But then again, who cares.
I was present at the first DARPA Grand Challenge. It really had that indy racing feel to it. Teams up all night long in the paddock hacking away on their code and hardware. So many different sizes and shapes of vehicles all designed for the same goal. Well-funded, industry-backed university teams up against garage hobbyists. It really felt like the future was open to all comers.

Now, we have drone racing, autonomous vehicles that have driven millions of miles, sensors are inexpensive and plentiful, machine learning has advanced massively. I think this could be something cool! (It's possible that the fewer rules, the more innovation it would produce.)
What if Douglas Adams was half right and it's been the bees in charge this whole time. What if Colony collapse disorder is just them getting on their spaceships and going home?

We are so getting bypassed...
> I'd be willing to bet a significant percentage of HN's readers drive stick.

Is that because they have any technical comprehension of it or because they want everyone else to swoon?
That's the coolest thing I saw all week! A track like that was the first thing I built all by myself when I was a kid.
yes -x is the same as --extract-audio, but I use an alias in my bashrc like this (if you don't use --audio-format mp3, you might not get mp3 (not necessarily a bad thing)):

alias youtubemp3='youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3'
Did you actually mean Windows Millennium Edition, or was that a typo?
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I write books.
Here is my chart.
http://imgur.com/WpdGsDK
I want to sell 10% of my future royalties to whoever wants to buy it.
So would a lot of writers with demonstrable growth.
Wasn't it mice? edit: wait, nvm - I get your meaning now.
I'd guess that licensing such scans for quality reproductions is a source of revenue for museums.
Pure electrics don't have gearboxes...
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They like to use those almost like abstract art around here. It's been going on for at least a decade or so and there are some new pieces I've seen turn up in just the last few years.
MIT is toxic. I respect they supposedly have some good engineers coming out of that place, but I don't think as a school they offer much compared to Stanford, USC, etc... Most American schools are now trying to capitalize as well and attempting to beat corporations to the punch in exploiting their students, so it might be a bit unfair to just isolate MIT for that kind of toxic behavior.

Just look at their students debts for example, or "acceptance rates". That metric is abused to justify prestige in a failing educational system whose output can barely compete with _middle schoolers_ of truly developed countries, and even developing countries like China. Stanford for example has this little lottery where they select some poor bastard with chops to market themselves as a merit based school which is hilarious.

If you look at MIT, and other American schools' prestige in the global arena and take into account the state of their educational system, they are a bunch of hoaxers and fraudsters.

The meat of the quality of the output of American higher education is from the strength of foreign students, and not from American systems.
The native API calls such as createElement are pretty expensive (in V8 it's like 10 function calls to finally reach the target C++ function) and you are making a lot more such calls when not using innerHTML.
My .NET C# open source project “Warden” – a library for monitoring resources
Hi all,
I've started working on the first open source project and it's been over a month now since its inception. There's a wiki docs, code examples and the prelease version of the NuGet packages.
What do you think about such idea? Any opinions will be very appreciated.

URL:
https://github.com/spetz/warden
Jeff is amazing. It's that simple!
And because you can only prove software to be correct given some specific conditions, your provably correct system will eventually get pwned through a side channel anyway.
This is quite close to what happened with my first job, which was also my first experience with interviews.

The difference of course is that I didn't have the insight to ask the right questions, however that didn't pose a problem because the first thing the CEO said to me basically answered exactly this.

After two rounds with the person who would become my boss, I proceeded to the third round on one simple basis: I still had no clue about what the company actually did (information logistics. Obvious?). I also had no clear picture of what I would be doing, only generic expectations. So I proceed to the third round, sitting in the room with my headhunter (which was absurd in itself at the time), and the CEO opens the door, walks in, and exclaimed in frustration:

I fucking hate teflon heads.

At that point, I immediately knew this was the job for me, whatever it was. For me, at the time, only a few things were truly clear: this place had serious problems, the attitude of the management was not in line with that of the employees (seemed clear even without having meet a single individual), and there was a serious gap between the managements goal and the organization's ability to execute. To be honest, all that went on mainly in my subconscious, at the time I told myself that this place is in such deep shit that I can't possibly fuck it up any further.

It turned out to be the right call, the organization was blowing in changing winds, and the current (20) employees were doing their best to maintain business as usual rather than business as necessary. Due to the chaos and my initial understanding of the situation,i quickly progressed and ensured that whatever I did, I would be making clear and firm decisions in line with what was needed to achieve the main goals, regardless of whether or not it was my mandate to make those decisions or not.

I realize that this could all have gone the wrong way as well, I could be permanently suck implementing new customers in Cobol (new from scratch Cobol code in 2007), but instead I pushed for complete and fundamental change. Such is the path to architecture, led through example, confidence and communication.

For the rest of the interview, the CEO continued to deliver the same canned pitch of what the company did, with minimal interest, just wanting to sign and get it over with. That first sign of weakness was enough to predict what kind of troubles I would be facing. I went eyes open into a troubled organization, and stick with it for seven intense (but moderately happy/frustrating) years. Wouldn't trade that experience for anything, but at the same time I would never recommend that company as an employer to anyone. I now know that I can thrive in this kind of negative situation and improve it for everyone involved, do what would be a clear red flag to some seeking a simple happy path is an open invitation to me.

All in all an extremely rewarding adventure, filled with challenges of every type at every turn.
This is the problem with for lack of a better term, millennial analysis of historical decisions on current markets.

Prop 13 was put into place because the state and municipalities were raising taxes left and right without consideration of things like fixed income individuals being able to stay in their homes.

There was good and bad in the measure. Good - to a point - raising the need to add taxes above 50%+1 vote, the bad, it applied property tax issues to both commercial and residential properties equally.

It's much easier to set up a business entity to span generations and avoid taxes than it is a private home.

The measure also masked an issue of use. A single individual who bought a house for $500k would pay more in taxes than a family who bought a house in the same neighborhood for $350k, yet if the family has children in the schools, they are paying less in taxes and getting more out. Most property taxes have multiple assessments for schools.

It does need to be fixed, but the conversation so far has fixated on residential and ignored the commercial impacts of prop 13.
how enforceable is the TOS ?

once something is published on the internet then it is assumed it can be viewed / copied / downloaded / etc.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping , the legal issues part.
Not to mention that i never heard about this App. But there is only a 50 user limit plus it is somehow called a trail. I doubt that makes many devs motivated to develop for it.
Look at it from another angle - haven't we already made all the music and movies we can possibly need? What do we stand to gain from having one more song when we already have several million of them. Just let the music and movie industry die and have people exchange the stuff that's already available. There are already more movies than you can watch in a lifetime.
Which in the world of databases is a synonym for "useless". Typical boutique SQL query strings can be anything from a few to a few dozen lines and the compiled form is typically cached by the SQL engine (if you're using parameterised variables, which you are, because not doing so is stupid and dangerous).

So why not be explicit?
If you install signal on your phone without google play it will magically stop working with no warning after some delay (6 months?) leaving you without communications ability. It was especially irritating when it cut out mid-conversation leaving me unable to tell the far end why I was unable to respond further, or get help getting a new package built.

Pretty lame. I wonder if the desktop software also has this kind of logic bomb anti-feature?
I don't rub shoulders with BigCo devs, but of all the SmallCo devs I know, the only ones that reach 4 years tenure are the ones that own the company.
Note that it is against YouTube's ToS to download videos:
https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

"You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the Service and as permitted under these Terms of Service. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content."
sure. we can start when the jvm can do preemptive scheduling of processes

erlang isn't great because of a single feature or library, it's great because it's designed from the ground up for one very particular role. you can't just port the otp api to go or the jvm. you need the whole foundation
Logo for Food App. Thoughts?
This is getting just like in Star Trek. A door is locked and you really want to get in? Pop in the panel on the wall and use the door override console. No power on the whole deck? The override console has a handy magnetic hook that will let you open the door by brute force.
Given we only have about 500-1000 users in our AD, but we simply have a basic web based application to display (and manage to some degree) the AD entries. If there is something the web app can't do, but the bosses want to know i just write a small Ruby script to aggregate the data.

Its like directly there and has a understandable API, with a fitting library you dont even need to know the hows. (I know i dont, and i wrote the web application)
Because capitalism. Compute is now cheap, Linux is free and using those you'll get the work done faster than by doing it right.
you can also do youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio '<url>' to skip a step, since 90% of the time that's what I want anyways.
Somehow people are just catching on to this. I was amazed and deeply disappointed by the appointment of Cass Sunstein. He wrote a freaking book entitled "The Problem of Free Speech" and actively justifies state infiltration and 'providing direction' to online political discourse among the US citizen base (among other things).

Though its not this administration either. The Bust Administration before it drew up many broad interpretations of law, including the laws that have since been used for censorship (first in "Free Speech Zones" but since at Occupy and the media free zones around Ferguson).
What about google, did they started using react?
Update: Yes they did! Wow, what an improvement!
So it differs from Reddit as Reddit's feed is based made of subreddits that share links creating a unique feed of content while WebArcs's feed is feed of the other feeds of sites you subscribe to.

It differs from an RSS reader in the way we show the content. Most readers such as feedly try to restrict the functionality of the product so people will pay for it and only offer you an easier way to view the sites you already like and so already have a way of accessing.

On WebArcs we try to enable discovery of new feeds you would not view otherwise. This is the hardest thing to get across, I only keep up with hacker news, Reddit, TheMacro, recode and a lot more because I have WebArcs.

It's when you find a new site you wouldn't of kept up with before on WebArcs that you start getting the real value.

tl;dr It's about enableing you to discover new sites you couldn't keep up with otherwise.

Thanks for your question by the way =D
Assets in cash are a stock not a flow. What happens when it runs out? It's surely not sustainable to do this.

I'd hardly use the phrasing that it 'proves it'.
The "grant" text suddenly disappeared from the source code? I'd say it is depressing that people don't care.
Business as Magic
Interesting, thanks. I had heard that calls from JS to C++ were cheap but calls from C++ to JS (such as if Array.prototype.map was implemented natively) were expensive.
Yup that's correct.
"This item cannot be installed in your country".
Wat?
No, we did not consider Gollum--it definitely looks like a possible solution and one we might have considered. I think the name of the project makes it hard to find, unfortunately.
That's not illegal.

It's a bit worrying how many people run to defend corporation profits by default.
Unless your legislation explicitly grants you that right in a way that cannot be overriden by ToS.
The tragedy of this software (and many like it) is that despite working exactly as advertised, easily and with a lot of features, because it's a quiet open source project without any SEO rigging it will never appear in page 1 of any searches by laymen trying to download videos ("save youtube to hard drive", "download youtube videos" et al).

The amount of crapware I've had to remove from family member's PCs just because they wanted to save a video is ridiculous.
Nice strawman you're building there. We're talking about reddit, a unicorn by most standards - at least in terms of user base. This isn't some random app with no promotion or user base.
According to the german computer magazine heise (Which already blamed Whatsapp back in 2014/15 because when they released encryption back then it basically was not even worth it) suggests that it is still far from perfect. Especially as many details are not known, and it could happen that the user is suddenly unencrypted without even noticeing.
Oh like UBI but with all the disadvantages of not being universal.
If you think Panama is bad, wait until you hear about Delaware
Kick out Marissa and buy Yahoo
What about simple rsyslog ? I stumble on this kind of programs (others have mentioned heka, fluentd, logstash), but the general speed, simplicity, versatility -the feature range is actually quite big from ES output to unix pipes to simple filters - and ubiquity of rsyslog make it suited for many of these tasks. I am missing something ?
Your family members would use a command line app ?
But most content on /wsg/ is webm these days
I have lived, at various times, in a motorhome (240 square feet with the slide out), a travel trailer (190 square feet, and my current home), an apartment (600 square feet), a full sized house, a small house (800 square feet), and a big house with roommates.

I am thoroughly sold on tiny houses. I don't need a McMansion to be happy. Don't want one, in fact.

But, I don't like these and don't find them attractive, at all. They have the negatives of an apartment and none of the benefits of a tiny house, as I see them. The "rack" concept is antithetical to the independence I want from a tiny house...if I hate my landlord (as history indicates I will), or otherwise want to move, I have to relocate my whole house to another compatible rack. That virtually guarantees I can't move to where I want to move (because there's no way this is going to be hugely popular). So, I'm stuck selling the thing. Might as well buy an apartment (also a thing I would never do).

I think they're trying to solve several problems at once, and ending up with a suboptimal solution for all of them. One problem is high rents in downtown Austin (which truly has gotten out of hand, and will only get worse as long as Austin remains the fastest growing city in the US), another problem is home ownership which is out of reach for more people than ever (for a variety of reasons, and it is most pronounced in growing cities), and finally I think the tiny house thing is a backlash against the suburban dream of huge houses. The thing is, though, that this won't be affordable...the small number of available locations to "park" your tiny house will guarantee the landlord is in a position of strength when negotiating rent so this will be more expensive than other tiny homes in general. The issue of wanting to own your own home isn't solved when you don't own the land it sits on, as you're still a renter with the added stress of what to do with the damned thing when you move.

Anyway, I like that tiny houses are becoming more "normal". I don't like that the model for how it's being implemented looks a lot like renting.
His example is a subtle jab at working class. He thinks people are such trash that truck driver is aspirational for them. The education benefits for blue collar workers at Amazon take years to kick in and don't cover a single year at most community colleges. Workers are frequently fired before 90 days to prevent benefits from starting. Workers would do far better to do a small education loan and start training early.
These days it's all about the webms, though. Luckily youtube-dl is even more useful for that.
Wow. Finally an actually decent bing feature. I hope this spurs google to improve their support for non alphanumeric characters.
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I cannot speak for Clion, but Android Studio it is still a pain to use for NDK projects, when compared with VS 2015 support.
I literally taught my younger brother how to pip install --upgrade youtube-dl from cmd.exe and then use it.
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It's hard to detect fan-driven vote surges. I'm not convinced it's possible to do that, or at best the signal would be a weak one.

FWIW I was surprised to read this comment insofar as I don't associate your account with this kind of conflict at all. I just like your technical posts and think you've contributed a lot here.

What I meant upthread is that if you engaged with the Apply HN startups who are active in technical areas you know about, that could be valuable.
VS 2015 NDK support is still better than what Google is able to provide for their own OS.
The case for bringing Swift to the Server
That's a neat website.

Is there any tutorial/documentation on how to design beautiful websites like that.Asides from looking at the source: https://www.reddit.com/mobile/site/style.css
There's a Firefox plugin that does (parts of) this: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes
His family members are a lines of code...
I am planning for the first event to just be for testing. Some of these folks have never seen a track.
I'm not convinced here. Sure, they may have wanted to look at the FitBit for confirmation, but surely the patient could tell them it had been only three hours since he started to have trouble? You're not going to confuse three and twenty four hours.
I'm planning to eventually model it off of normal racing - classes will constrain and allow different sets of rules. Fewer rules in some ways, more in others. For example, one class might dictate the car itself, or the sensors to use...
It looks cool. I get the location mark. But is it a person? An animal? I wouldn't have a clue that this is about food if I saw it without context. All I'd know was that it's something nearby. Might just be me, but the person-ish feel to the logo makes it seem like it's a meetup app or something related to social activities, rather than food.
Good catch. I'll alert the authorities.
A tool for writers to track word counts, with fancy charts and shit. I built it for myself, but wound up opening it up to anyone who wants to use it. I don't really care if I get users or not, but it's fun to work on:

https://www.novelsarehard.com
Download mp3 with the maximum possible quality.

$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <URL>
Sales tax is regressive and thus should not be the main source of tax revenue, we cannot push this burden onto the shoulders of people who already have the least.
This was recorded at QConLondon in March 2016 and IBM's engineers are talking about how they are working on the Linux port of Swift, as well as the docker technology behind the Swift web repl at https://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net

Disclaimer: I hosted the Modern Native Languages track and invited these guys to speak at the conference.
Not sure about the speed compared to Genymotion. HAXM is still required but less buggy now.
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I write books. They will make some money in royalties each month for all time. That can back a cryptocurrency as well as the other things currently backing existing cryptocurrencies, so why not tied to book royalties.
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you are welcome to bring it. drop me an email.
Heka looks good and does a lot more. It doesn't appear to support Redis and S3 out of the box, so we would have probably had to evaluate, learn, and change the third-party plugins had we known about Heka beforehand.
The counter-hypothesis to this is that HN's audience is broad enough that even on specialized topics, there's often someone (or surprisingly several) who actually knows something. It would be disappointing if all we got were 'wow' responses—but we'll be able to tell that by looking at the discussion quality of the Apply HN threads.
It's not easy because it's an command line.

Not a single family member would touch this here.

It's sad but understandable.
I like it, and want to partner with you either way.
I found this neat project that adds a GUI to YouTube-dl. It looks like an easy program for non-technical people to use.

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui
I'm a writer, btw.
It has been open-sourced in October 2015: http://blog.maps.me/2015/10/mapsme-goes-open-source.html