skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on this! Not at MSFT, as a consultant building stuff that used it. The Javascript API didn't allow you to do transforms with matrices, you had to translate, scale, rotate things in separate calls. This was the bane of my existence for a couple months, trying to get 3DS models to animate correctly. I learned a lot more math than I expected to on that project. :)
I really like my own, so I'll post it here:

http://rayalez.com
Newsflash: Spammers are more intelligent than your friends and relatives who share political opinions.
I've spent a bit of time in it. I can run pretty complex Linux software like Qemu emulating an embedded platform displaying an X window. However, I've had serious problems working with symbolic links.

I think giving how well it works, it's just a matter of continued debugging and refinement.
as a former employee who had the opportunity to sit across the table from some of the execs you read about in the newspapers, let me give you my admittedly skewed perspective.

cop catches thieves.But it is not in the interest of cops if they catch ALL thieves. This is not a vaccination program, where if you eliminate polio across the nation, doctors will rejoice because they can now focus on malaria. If there are no thieves at all, the funding for cops will simply drop drastically & cops will be laid off.

So cops must catch thieves, and always "appear" to catch even more, but never actually catch all of them.

If you had a 100% sanitized feed with no trolls and no spam and no abuse, it would become a plain old communication utility, like a letters to the newspaper column, or weather channel or stock ticker driven finance channel etc. Even in those mediums, the channel programmers throw in sordid details like "most disastrous tornado", "worst all-time hurricane", "sleaziest hedge fund manager" etc. They do that because otherwise it gets too boring and viewership drops.

it is very much in the interest of twitter to "appear" to be actively engaged in combating trolls and abuse. but part of its newsworthiness and charm is all this frenzied action around policing abuse and suspending high profile trolls. these things keep the company hip and happening. if you solve the problem for good, there wouldn't be much to cheer about - users may temporarily cheer, but then they'd notice nothing much happening, no controversy, no abuse, no trolls, everything too polite, and soon users will switch to the next racy medium.
> bash works like on a Mac

It actually works better. Since everything is completely updated. In line with Ubuntu 16.
Even well tested rockets still explode sometimes. Rockets are risky, complex, explosive machines. Ask an insurance company about it.
Hah! How random to see someone I used to play warcraft on hackernews posting about TSLA, what up mitch.

Totally agree with you on this, long elon musk is always the play.
Heh. It's interesting to me that in the vernacular a quantum leap is a large change while in physics it's a very quick, extremely tiny event.
You Could Probably Just Be Working
Microsoft is imitating Google and switching their business model to spyware-as-a-service.

And almost everyone's falling for it, just like they did for Google.
That's just not true.
... which is approximately the same as the union rate for the United States as a whole, 1950-1970.
I actually get the impression that most of the articles that are "liked" by HN are somewhat grass roots. Take this one. It is a "hacker" that is spending time to try to improve biases held.

It is somewhat ironic, to me, that I am basically accusing us of having an anti-intellectual bend. However, it is not unique to psychology. There is a similar slant against "academic" computer science.
Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser, but this is truly shocking. Like, Google Reader shutdown level shocking. Twitter is seriously clueless if they weren't able to make any use of such a popular service. Especially when Periscope is still running somehow. Though it's only a matter of time for that too now.
Really cool stuff. I love it! Thank you for making this.

A side note anyone using Django should keep up to date. If you see the list of versions and the related packages which have known vulnerabilities you will realize keeping up to date is critical.
Ask HN: What are your best unusual parenting practices?
What things have you discovered about raising children that seem to make a big difference for you? I have two to contribute:

1. Every night, we all talk as a family about what the best part of our day was and why. This spawns great conversations, and I think it helps each of us notice the good things that happen during the day that might otherwise be missed.

2. I have a son who's prone to throwing tantrums. We have worked out a deal so that when he feels like he's going to throw one (or when I can tell he's getting ready) one of us will ask the other if we can "take a minute." We then sit quietly for about a minute in each other's company, after which we go back to resolving whatever our problem was. The minute really seems to help short circuit the descent into chaos and lead to better results all around.
I LOLed
Seems like twitter is really starting to cut fat and trim down. I'm not surprised at all. No one bought them out. They seem to be overstaffed with a head count of ~2,300.

Sad though.
Nowadays Apple events look like they were made by Microsoft and vice-versa.
Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationships at Work
PyCharm 2016.3 PR: Python 3.6, Docker Compose, Remote Django Debug,
AMD can't be bought. The x86/x86_64 cross licensing agreement forbids the sale of AMD (or Intel) to a third party.

If this happened, AMD wouldn't be able to make x86 and Intel wouldn't be able to make x86_64 anymore. [1]

Also Intel is very very keen to have AMD continue existing and manufacturing x86 CPUs because if they don't, the antitrust boffins will come after Intel.

[1] www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-clarifies-cross-license-with-intel-change-of-control-terminates-agreement-for-both
Get a wireless camera, wireless headset, big powerbank and even bigger data plan, and I'll happily narrate your life for you ;).
It's worse than that. As the next paragraph says:

"The online data were collected in two stages. In the first stage, the participants were recruited via several open internet discussion forums and several student mailing lists. In this stage, data about religious and paranormal beliefs, systemizing, mechanical abilities, and core ontological confusions were collected. The rest of the data were collected 1.5 years later. The recruitment message was sent by email to all individuals who had participated in the first stage and who had given their email address for participating in further studies (N= 1537). Of them, 237 could not be contacted because of outdated email address, and 887 did not take part in the present study."

So this is a self-selecting study: the initial group of 1537 (which was self-selected) was whittled down (largely through self-selection) to the final 258 on whom the results are based. Further to that, the authors gave no information on which of the "several open internet discussion forums and several student mailing lists" they recruited or how they did that recruitment. And they made no comparison between the demographic makeup of their sample and the general Finnish population. (Probably because it would've counted against the validity of the study since, y'know, Finland isn't 63% female or 44% students.)
My Mint VM hasn't been woken up in ~3 months. All thanks to Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
That...is a fascinating question. Usually when dealing with verbal thought, it turns into voices in my head, unlike the OP. That might be why while I can read pretty fast, I still can only do so about carnival barker or auctioneer speed, rather than faster than speech. I could be automatically limited in my rate of comprehension due to how it's being processed, still as a 'voice', rather than visuals that map directly to concepts. I would -love- to see survey results on that, whether people had tried to speed read, if, having tried, they succeeded, and whether they tend to/ever have an 'internal voice' in their minds when thinking
Hey, looking into it. I tried visiting http://origami.design/examples on my phone but it looks fine to me. Try refreshing?
I really really wish people would separate advice by field rather than unfairly tarnish all of academic research with an incredibly broad brush. I'm a PhD in CS and while a lot of results are incremental, there is far far far less BS than in biomed from what I've heard.
Worth looking up the underlying tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

It's a standards draft, but not a standard, so it's more that Edge implemented this particular draft feature, whereas Chrome/Firefox have not.
To define "abuse" we'll need to talk about expectations and norms around collective communication.

Social communication platforms (implicitly or explicitly) embody certain communication goals.

A. Striving for constructive conversation is one family of goals. These goals are valid even if fuzzy and imperfectly enforced.

B. Striving for "(almost) anything goes, up to legal limits, such as libel" is another kind of goal. This may seem safer and more ideologically comfortable to some. However, in practice, it still has large complexity and uncertainty.

Social media platforms are not necessarily responsible for promoting free speech in the same way that Democratic institutions are bound to protect individual rights. Many individuals have multiple channels for speech. They often can find a venue that works best for them.

Speaking generally -- there may be exceptions in specific cases -- organizations are not required to give every viewpoint equal airtime. Organizations are free to choose how they want to structure their environments, up to the point at which they accept money or are subject to the purview of governmental bodies.

Some people such the word "censorship" too loosely, in my view. Yes, governmental censorship is only justified with a very high and particular standard, subject to close scrutiny. However, private organizations are much freer to filter as they see fit, and I think this is justified. One church does not have to voice every viewpoint at a gathering. A magazine does not have to print every article submitted. Not every story gets to the top of Hacker News. The rules at play are, by definition, filters.

I want an online platform for constructive conversation. This requires some kind of norms and probably some kind of message "shaping" for lack of a better word. Call it filtering or summarization or topic modeling. Whatever it is, people have limited time, and to be effective, a platform has to design around that constraint. Platforms need to demonstrate excellent collective user interface design.

I think almost all "social" platforms are falling very short to the extent that they claim they are effective social communication tools. I wrote much more here: https://medium.com/@xpe/designing-effective-communication-67...
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I'd argue that Twitter's brand is among its most valuable assets. It's globally known. Used and promoted by influencers like celebrities, artists, politicians, media, business leaders, activists. It's all over music, TV, media of all types. Heck, an entire movie was made about it.

That sort of broad public awareness is very hard for any company to get.
‘Find Your Park’ with ReactJS, Google Maps and the DarkSky API
Show HN: AZN Asian Snack Store for iOS
It's that exact mindset that is making you miserable. It's making excuses. "I can't be happy, I'm not millionaire! My misery is out of my own control!" ... That's simply bad faith.

Edit: I've lived my entire childhood in my city's poorest neighbourhood. Everyone with a positive mindset got to experience joy. Money makes life easier but it won't change a bad mindset.
Annual 10-Month Aerial Life Phase in the Common Swift Apus Apus
but what about all the vine stars? What will they livelihood become?
As a former scientist, current startup person: please stop. This is crass. Startups that sell services to scientists aren't helping with the fundamental problem (i.e. there aren't many jobs, and there isn't enough funding once you have a job). Crowdfunding is nice in theory, but just makes the problem of vanity science worse than it is right now. Crowds don't know shit about science.

If you want to help researchers, vote for people who will increase scientific funding. Much of this crunch is directly attributable to congressional budgetary cutbacks since the early 2000s:

http://www.faseb.org/portals/2/images/opa/Factsheet_Restore-...

(Oh also: encourage your local billionaire(s) to stop funding ridiculous vanity projects, and do scientific good by giving grants to researchers who are already doing peer-reviewed work. Or just encourage them to give their money to the organizations that exist and do a great job of this, like HHMI, or the Gates Foundation. How refreshing it would be to hear a nouveau riche Silicon Valley dudebro stand up and say: "I want my money to have the tiniest chance of curing cancer in my lifetime -- a task so impossibly large that even my vast wealth and gigantic ego cannot possibly tackle it alone -- so I'm making a massive charitable donation to the National Cancer Institute!" Alas...)
How MeetUp made its exec staff more diverse
People will love all sorts of stupid shit if it's put in a gallery. (Commentary on that phenomenon is, in fact, an entire art movement -- readymades.) There are two questions we should be asking here:

1) Does a positive gallery reception indicate artistic value? Presumably not.
2) If we assume that these style transfers have artistic value, is it similar to the value of the original paintings? This is a more difficult question, but the answer does seem to be "no."
I did refer to this with the Babylonian thing but I didn't want to get sidetracked into a review of ancient number bases. I love your reference about non-constant time though, most interesting.
it talks about suken cost falacy but links to the entry on actual sunken cost, which at most has an argument about fixed vs recurring sunken costs.
> If an individual finds personalization of search to be a barrier to finding diversified news, they could always use incognito and search among many different search engines

Few people will do those things. Most people do not understand Icognito and won't look at the second page of search results, much less use multiple search engines. I wonder how many are even aware of other search engines.

The reality is that the search engines' personalization algorithms determine what users see.
What about it is awesome? I'm looking at an Inspiron 15 5000. With quad-core CPU, 8GB, and 256GB SSD, it's $1,750! That's $50 cheaper than the equivalent rMBP 15", with worse screen, smaller battery (84 watt-hours versus 100), and no Iris Pro. It's also substantially heavier with the 6-cell.
It's not containers, it's AWS. You get CloudWatch events that can turn into alerts for many parts of the platform. With the ECS and ELB/ALB integration, we get paged about downtime and 500s without Nagios.
The Spanpixel ones are exactly what I was looking for! Now to try and figure out how to get them, I see that Avnet is a rep for them so perhaps they will be able to help me out.
It's the same wolf, just got smarter and fancier clothing, old man ...
Engineer on Origami here:
Yeah, it's rewritten from scratch as a native mac app in ObjC++. Happy to answer any question you have :D
Agreed. Hiring someone specifically to try to do an aggressive, audit hatchet-job on special, star customers that had spent six figures on golden tickets with them doesn't make this story read very sympathetically for American Airlines to me.

Perhaps it's naïveté on my part, expecting a business to have some care for its reputation as well as its bottom line, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're going to promise an elephant, you'd better at least have a pachyderm on backorder and not try to wriggle out of it the moment it inconveniences you, because that just makes you look callous.
Some people are attracted to man-made complexity like flies to manure. See also: C++ and LaTeX.
Everyone discounts before they launch a new product. You don't need to follow Tesla to know a new product is eminent when you walk into a show room and they knock $10k of the price because you look pretty or walk nicely. Big deals and big discounts with serious need are always informative to the buyer.

Plus people but cars when then want cars, some will always lament they could have waited a bit, but most I expect will be happy to own a Tesla that was (and is) amazing just a few days ago.
This reminds me of a over 10 year old security hole I noticed in tar: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290435
Flying for 10 months without a layover
Too Many Startups Like Playing Startup
I agree the privacy and cripple ware issues are bad, but to me that pales in comparison to the decade-plus of shipping vulnerable code that allowed anyone to root your system by serving one bad ad or emailing you one jpeg. I can't fathom how many families lost their photos, or paid hundreds of dollars for a tech to run mbam. How many identities were stolen, how many small businesses lost money, how much productivity lost. All because of the license agreement absolving them of ALL liability and product guarantees.

This is grave, it had a substantial negative impact,spanning over 10 years, and nothing was done about it. If there ever were an unforgivable offense, this was it.
It's getting to a point that I hate any device prefixed with the word smart. I don't want my device to suggest, hint, or predict anything with regard to my behavior. I don't need an advertisement disguised as a smart phone. I just want a smart phone that lets me search the web, make calls, stream music from shoutcast servers, and take pictures. I really just wished Google and Apple would just stop trying to wall off content they can't monetize.
Uber's vision for on-demand urban air transportation
You can integrate CloudWatch Alarms to PagerDuty with an SNS webhook. PagerDuty keeps nagging until the CloudWatch Alarm auto-resolves.
I'm curious what your use case for those are.

Are you needing to `init 1` or `systemctl isolate rescue.target`?

Or is it perhaps a need to `systemctl status` on services?

I might just not be that experienced with the wide use-cases for these applications, but what are your hypothetical use cases?
Not only nonempty, but full fare. On a lot of flights, there are a fair number of people who would get a free upgrade into an empty seat if there were one. But that wouldn't earn AA any more money.
Ask HN: What would make you pay for a digital web development magazine?
No, in both it's a discrete change. It just happens to be that in physics most discrete changes are at a small scale.
GPS + Tower location + SRC/DEST IP + MEID, etc.

The metadata is the problem for true anonymity, not the amount of information that individual users can see, or that the server stores in its database.
There is no objective definition of what "market rate" is once you get into skilled labor.

This is, in part, because every job will value someone slightly differently depending on the unique situation.
I strongly disagree that it's better since that's effectively implying solipsism and that there are no ethical considerations for doing bad things to people since they, well, don't really exist as agents-that-can-feel-things. Regardless of how hard it is to describe philosophically, and what kind of terms one tries to use, the fact that we process things we feel is the reality of our existence and it drastically modifies how we act.
I shoot with both a Pentax K-30 (a DSLR that you'd classify as pretty decent pro-sumer, but about 3-year-old tech) and an Olympus OM-D E-M5ii (a mirrorless m43 that is one of the best available for this technology - although the Sony has a better sensor). And a caveat to this: I'm a really crappy bird photographer, I do mostly landscape.

DSLRs, pro ones especially, have enormously sophisiticated control systems... There are a huge number of ways I can influence what descions the autofocus system makes

If anything, the control system in my m43 camera is more sophisticated. And the autofocus is a big part of that. Similar to many cell phones, my m43 camera has a touch screen that allows me to tap the part of the scene I'd like it to use for focusing. This is a better system than any DSLR I've used. I doubt that in autopilot it would pick the wingtip: because it's in motion it's likely to be less sharp than, say, the head.

Regarding the lag in the EVF, it's certainly noticeable. But I don't see that as a problem in this use case. My experience with capturing moving subjects is that you don't even try to get that one single perfect shot. Instead you're going to be in high-speed shooting mode, grabbing many images of the scene over at least a second or so, in order to pick the best of the set. In this case, the frame rate really is important.

Finally, there's a real advantage to a mirrorless camera for the landscape work I usually do. A lot of the shots I'm looking for are long exposures where it's imperative for the camera to be absolutely still (and I've found that your approach shouldn't be "use a tripod when necessary", but instead "always use a tripod unless it's impractical to do so"). Even the internal operations of the camera can introduce unwanted vibrations. Most DSLRs (unfortunately my DSLR is not one of these) allow you lock up the mirror, which is the largest offender, but that precludes use of the optical viewfinder. But even farther, my mirrorless m43 also allows switching to full-electronic shutter, so there's nothing mechanical at all to shake the camera; I'm not aware of any DSLR that has such a mode, although there may be something out there.
Freedom of expression or privacy, only one can be protected at time. If you want to say whatever you want to say, you should acknowledge responsibility.
Pardon me if it's a silly question, but was Swift not a viable option for macOS development?
Like I said, I try to exploit interesting numerical properties all the time. I really am a mystic, I've made major life decisions based on a tarot reading and am glad I did so as such methods seem to work better for me than purely analytical ones. On the other hand, I'm analytical enough to not want to bullshit people with unreproducible results.
Watching now; they just unveiled a "TV" app to integrate a new apple-tv-like experience across all devices.
Literally starving is a problem, as is being homeless. But the hedonic treadmill is real, and people's notions of what is necessary tend to scale with income. Being rich isn't, by itself, the key.
You've got an incomplete model of higher-education financing, leaving out subsidies provided by government.

For the most part, both increased tuition and falling research grants are symptoms of the same underlying cause: reduced government support for higher education and R&D.

With fewer funds for education, tuition rises. But that tuition is filling in the hole created by a subsidy gap. Not increased research.
Hi

I'm not much of a frontend guy as I concentrate on the backend, but my team is working on a new React UI and I'm thinking of something similar, possibly.

Hopefully you can detail your plan a little more.

The reason our old Angular front-end was complex was because it was firing off dozens of small rest calls to grab every bit of state - drop downs, business logic, props, etc. - every time the route changed. It was a large SPA.

I'm proposing to do something different - break up the SPA into 6 or 7 MVC pages and push as much of the state into the html / JS that is returned, then use React only to update dynamic pieces of the front-end without having to regenerate the whole page.

Is this what you're describing or am I mistaken?