skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This popular phrase often strikes me as untrue. For example, at the end of WWI number of religious soldiers in Russian army reduced drastically. Church in Russia collapsed after First World War/Russian Civil War.
I'm sorry, but what? All you're doing is trolling.

Please, find me a resampler that works for real world cases. You can point to URLs on the Internet or to research papers or to whatever you want; but when I use what the world considers the best available resamplers to deal with typical cases and the result audibly bad, then I'm not sure what you really want me to claim here.

Also, down voting me isn't helping your case. This is HN, you can't intimidate people here with cheap tricks.
Only 8GB? ha. I have 4GB and having any kind of flash player open in chrome means I have no RAM free.
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I wonder if Ryan started doing business with this culture in place or if it was something he adopted. I'd be interested to hear how he converted to a 4 day working week if it wasn't something that he started out doing. I think it's that initial changeover that would be the hardest thing to stick to.
Not ready for prime time. Log-ins don't work right, and even their CAPTCHA on the password-recovery screen is totally broken.
Someone has already thought about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
If you ship that easy, then you may not be able to grow easily in a structured and sane way.

This is true of any language/framework, however. Others encourage better structure and methodology.
Watch The Avengers
Watch The Avengers film making is by Seamus McGarvey which is edited by Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek. The motion picture is distributed by Walt Disney Pictures under Marvel Studios which is due to be shown in the big screen on the 11th of April, 2012 for international premiere and in the U.s.a. on the 4th of May, 2012.
Heads-up on TechCrunch’s Take at Norwegian Startups
We've been doing the 4-day week since 2006 so I can't speak to doing the switch. Sorry.
> Our sensitivity to these phonemic distinctions develops at an extremely early age: by one month old infants already begin to stop distinguishing between different sounds that their language slots into the same category as the same “sound” [6]. Infants don’t even babble at this age never mind produce or understand adult speech, but they have already stopped noticing certain differences in speech—that’s how deeply ingrained the way we perceive and produce speech is, and why it’s almost impossible to speak a non-native language without an accent.

I've heard this before but am confused by the fact that children can learn a native accent (which presumably includes those ignored sounds) for a language they're exposed to many years after infancy.

Does that mean that although babies will ignore it by one month old, they're capable of reversing that if the need arises?
And I think to answer the parent's question one can expand on your second point. I think most people don't admit to being wrong or not knowing because they 1). wrongly think of certain people as relevant or 2). they have chosen their relevant people wrongly.
Check out the Nike's Store's robots text - Just Crawl It
It sounds like you are already doing this, but now make sure that you not only answer your kids' questions, but more importantly teach them your A,B,C,D research/teaching steps! Give a man a fish, ... :)
That's easy enough to calculate. You end up with 46 cubic miles. That's equivalent to 100 foot building 50 miles on each edge.

Much smaller - still pretty large, but doable. Your energy output in comparison to capturing solar energy is now 3 times as much rather than 1/20 as much.
In my experience it's "big company-itis". Work at a big company very long and literally everyone starts adopting this kind of mentality. You kind of have to because if you don't everyone is going to start using you and your own tasks will start falling behind.

The trick is, once you get out of a big company you have to let that mentality go instantly. Some can do this better than others.
Perhaps we'll see "Google Moon", the first settlement requiring a Google Account to live in...
another take on experimental "storytelling" is "The Mongoliad" http://mongoliad.com by Neil Stephenson (The Diamond Age) and http://subutai.mn
Interesting, I've heard of 4-day weeks at some large companies, but they're usually 4x 10-hr days, so same total amount of work, just a way of reducing time wasted commuting. Perhaps more common is alternating 5/4-day weeks of 9-hour days (every other Friday off). Making it 4-day weeks of regular-length days is more of a real change.
Awesome to see this discussion going on - and thanks to qrlawified for submitting the post to kick this off.

For anyone interested in trying out Unbounce, I wanna give you a coupon code (somewhat sheepishly as this isn't the usual forum). But if you do wanna check us out, use "hn503" to get 50% off for 3 months.

If you flame me I'll either kiss you or hug you... #JustSayin
One designer can pull it off to make a graphic novel all by himself. But you need a team to make an animated movie.
hey, will you drop us a note via "send feedback" and we'll see if we can debug this?
Really curious what people get out of bashing a language they don't like. I'm no psychologist but I'm sure it's common behavior outside of programming and typically deals with ego.
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Maybe I was too subtle. This "create the next foo" is the tagline of way too many "news" that float around this place. I think that there's no "next foo", only bar that contains the ingredients indicated by you.
you should patent that...
> But iTunes does't add significant value: unlike the stores, which were paid to take inventory risk and predict demand, iTunes takes no risk and performs almost no service other than dealing with card processing fees.

iTunes combats piracy for them by being a better option all around.
Hmm, I'm guilty of most of these.

So now I think they are heuristics rather than absolute measurements. And we should use them to teach ourselves something about logic, but not others.
I think the permanent commitment to 4-days is important. It clearly communicates to the Team.
In which case, I can only assume we are aiming for greater efficiency than the sun. Thanks for your answer!
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Error handling style in C
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Quite disturbing that there was no warning of this.
OTOH, i have had phone screens, where the interviewer seemed to have no idea of what i have done or had asked questions that seem irrelevant if you visited some of the links in my profile. It's actually a weird feeling. if you ask me.
We're definitely keen to get it in asap. The hang-up was getting secure websockets working - that was showing up a bunch of socket errors server-side, but the latest dev testing seems to show things are looking better, so we hope to get it in real soon. weeks not months...
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I'd just like to thank you for putting all the clueless recruiters out there into a frenzied word search for "Github".

Yours,
A Bitbucket User
Ditto for me. Or almost the same :-) I have been writing software for over 17 years now, and never got bored of writing code. In fact, in between years where I was sort of pushed into management were stressful.

I realized that (hopefully) I am going to be programming for a long period of time. And last 5 years on my own have been very fulfilling in that respect, and I am very thankful for it.

The bulk of my last big project is in Java/GWT. But off late I am back to loving C++. And I want to write more software in C++. Even considering moving something from Java to C++.

I got inspired by GIT being done in C. And wrote one fairly good piece of code in all three Java/C++ & C. Before finally adopting C++. The reason was memory usage wise there was very little difference between C & C++.

And as somebody above mentions about finding joy in getting things to compile. I am getting that too. C++ just feels fast after working in Java.
Have they not improved the dynamic pager parameters in the last two years?
If I were an investor and someone said to me "We are only going to work 4 days a week since we can do 5 days work in 4." I'd challenge with "so why don't you do 6 days work in 5 days?"

I am mostly playing devils advocate: I think having a 4 day work week is a fantastic recruitment tool. I do wonder though if a young startup raising it's seed financing said "oh, we only work 4 days a week" an investor may raise eyebrows. Regardless, this is a fantastic example of Ryan Carsons' culture resonating throughout the company.
> kill the containment field and fly apart

It's _really_ hard to keep the magnetic field right. It's not a stable system, it needs to be dynamically controlled. Presumably these defects mess up the magnetic field to the point that it's impossible to contain it.
As a long-time fan of bandes dessinés (Franco-Belgian graphic novel format) this is extremely exciting. This might be the future of the digital form of the medium. I'm pumped.
I love the tiny stats TFA spouts out and concludes with, "I've seen it all.". Oh you've been on 6 technical interviews, have you? Tell me more about your incredible wisdom.

The advice offered is great for a new programmer. Anyone going for a truly senior level position would be better advised to not do what is advised.
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Henry Ford was one of the first to change. Instead of a 6 day week, he made his factories have a 5 day week, and was willing to pay the same for less work.

We (as a society) need to start changing to a 4 day week.
It's almost as if the people interviewing you had a full time job before you came along!

Is it possible that you really aren't the most important thing in their world!?
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As far as I can tell, author is talking about FM-Index. It compresses the search data into a much smaller index memory footprint. I tried using it few times, but never figured out how to use it as a key-value data store.
If anybody is interested, here is the code: http://pizzachili.di.unipi.it/indexes/FM-indexV2/fmindexV2.t...
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A friend of mine worked in the aerospace industry in California. It's apparently pretty standard there to work a 9/9/80 schedule. 9 hours a day, for 9 days over two weeks. It means that everyone gets a three-day weekend every other week. He loved it!
Who's going to stop you, the Space Police?
Will QMobile beat Nokia mobiles and Samsung mobiles in Pakistan?
Whenever we visit mobile stores we find huge posters and advertisements of QMobile phones hanging on the walls and doors. There are only a few big mobile shops that sell high-end smartphones like HTC, iPhone smartphones and BlackBerry handsets.
Doesn't work in Chrome Beta for ICS. That's a shame, because this doodle screams for touch interaction.
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I always have a problem in mind while in college, and the problem becomes my real problem. If my day job requires me to work from 9am to 8pm, excluding 1 hour round trip commute, which is a norm in the city I am living in, how can I squeeze out time to maintain a meaningful github repo/ SO profile / tech blog? I really want to sharpen my skills AND display it, but my day job already take up literally half of my life.
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Himachal tour will offer you an opportunity to explore many things including beauty, history and mythology. A large number of tourists attracts towards the Himalayas as it is one of the most beautiful mountain ranges.
yes this is FM index. The linked paper is authored by Ferragina and Manzini, which is how the name FM index comes.
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Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please.
If I had the choice I'd rather spend $20 bucks on a wiki or website that was CC licensed so that it could be updated and improved without reliance on one individual. Same for software.

At the moment we seem stuck in the middle of this transition and you either pay for a locked down copy or you get the Free copy for free. But Kickstarter seems like it's getting mainstream so the concept of paying in advance for something that is built to the specifications of the user may at last become common in software.
It might be worth having someone up there to fix the equipment when something goes wrong... unless by that time we've developed teleoperated robots with the flexibility and dexterity and sensitivity needed to make arbitrary on-site repairs. You might remember from the Hubble repair missions [1] that these relatively simple tasks you might expect to take a few hours in an Earth-based lab took /days/ of EVA time. Imagine how much more difficult such things would be when you have to squint at the job through a camera (not as good as an eyeball), use clumsy manipulators instead of your fingers (you'll have force-feedback if you're lucky, but forget about feeling textures), and with some lightspeed delay on top of that. Don't underestimate the value of other human senses, either; often the first indication of a machine failing is that it sounds or smells wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125#Extra-vehicular_activi...
Show HN: Email that self-destructs when forwarded
My weekend project: http://nofwd.com

I created this project because I was tired of seeing my friends violate the confidentiality of our private conversations, by constantly forwarding our emails to third parties. As you at HN will understand, 100% unbreakable rights management of digital content is physically impossible. That said, I think that this tool has great value, at least for people who face the same problem that I had.

Currently, you can use this tool manually, via the demo page, or you can integrate with your email client via the SMTP integration method. I'd like to find some way to streamline the setup process for the SMTP integration. Any ideas?

Other applications for this service:

- Use in addition to email disclaimers and confidentiality agreement footers at the bottom of emails.

- Watermark emails for tracking purposes.

- Supplement existing internal corporate policies for information disclosure.

- Provide additional auditing support for email access-control.

- Delete email messages after they have been sent.

Caveats:

- Currently detects all access attempts from the same computer as one single recipient. Likewise, accessing an email account from multiple devices will be detected as multiple recipients. I.e. each computer == one recipient.

- No real website design yet.

Stack:

Python / Tornado & adisp.py / Nginx / Nginx scripts / Redis / Postgresql

So HN, what do you think?
> I think his point is that pip can't do this, but learning to actually work with your distro's packaging system properly results in a more powerful and easier to redistribute project.

Absolutely. And that’s why I package the whole virtualenv into the DEB along with the project. I always have the assertion, that that combination of packages that’s inside passes all my tests no matter where I install it.
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I love the optimism I naturally want to jump on the band wagon and I doubt my comment will get a single up vote but here it goes:

What about:

1) Biological issues (space viruses etc.)

2) Accidents (opps the orbit changed it's heading for Chicago)

3) More AI for robots, Skynet finally has a good resource base

4) "Today in the news global markets failed as PRI announced capturing a 1 billion metric ton astroid with 80% gold and platinum content"

I am actually super excited just thought it was interesting to think about the counter issues.
Siri-like time management assistant for iPhone 3+
That's cute, but why do I have to be in the office? If you're discarding useless traditions, start with that one. It leads to wonderful things like: flexible hours, goal-based performance rather than time-based performance, and other nifty things like not having to move across the country to change jobs.

Also, why 9-6? Is that a magic number? What about 10 to 5? Is that worse substantially? I doubt it. There's another 22% of your time with your kids back.

I'm pretty sure that we're going to look back at office buildings and the idea of commutes in general as being a huge waste of time.

Unless you're physically manipulating things, there's no reason for it, and it wastes an immense amount of society's resources maintaining millions of square feet of office space. Think of the number of people you could house in the average office building.
This sounds awesome, but I couldn't help but think that once they've built a fleet of robots capable of moving entire asteroids around, there's another viable backup business model to which they could easily 'pivot':

1. Assemble several dozen (hundred?) of the non-platinum-bearing asteroids with your robots and aim them on a slingshot-accelerated path towards Earth.

2. Threaten the entire world (or at least rich countries) with massive kinetic orbital bombardment.

3. ... profit!

Brought to you by the guy who coined "Nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure."
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongu_meteor

But that one was something like 100 to 1000 times larger.
Wondering if each panel has to be tapped to animate, how long to read it all, and what size a Retina download will be.
Is it possible that you were dealing with someone with a mental illness? Looks pretty bipolar to me!
I don't know, companies seems to act more ratinal, than people or countries.

Isn't it more rational to collaborate, when there is almost infinite potential profit and huge risk?
It was a pretty small meteor as these things go. They are virtually impossible to detect ahead of time.

But since it's small, it's also not dangerous. The dangerous ones are larger - and also easier to see. So that works out in our favor.
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C. Voila plaintext (or in your case, a readable screenshot of the plaintext - I've been experimenting with the site meanwhile), let me forward that.

Moreover, I very much prefer my e-mail textual - some of my e-mail devices may be severely constrained in bandwidth and screen size; text compresses, transmits and scales way better (also: insert standard accessibility rant here).

Also, what of nomadic users? "Oh, your smartphone already accessed the one copy [for added fun, try "and didn't save it"]? No way to read the e-mail anywhere else, tough luck."

You have addressed the above as caveats - however, there one more thing that bothers me, immensely - the immediate, silent and complete retraction capability: "I never said that" is bad enough, "I never sent you an e-mail like that" would be worse. For dealing with certain people, I like to have a local copy of what was written, just in case they change their mind later. Even if I kept local copies of the screenshots, I like my evidence searchable, too - eyeballing a bunch of images to find a specific e-mail is distinctly suboptimal.

On the other hand, if you are facing the one exact problem of people mindlessly forwarding your e-mail, verbatim, this might be a useful mitigation technique. It's a nice project, but not useful for me - it would solve problems I don't have, while saddling me with other problems I don't want to have.

As for "no real website design" - I actually like the clean and minimal design :)
Massively clearer than a text article.
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How is that a logical fallacy? That's just a lack of data and an unwillingness to gather it.
More info and side story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/how-the-col...
There is something deeply broken about equating hours to productivity.

It's been my experience that folk are very good at deceiving themselves about their productivity (myself included :-)

One team I worked with had a serious problem with overtime. They were putting in stupid hours and it was showing in the quality of work going out. So I ran an experiment where we all agreed to work "normal" hours for six weeks.

I was "only" working about 45 hours a week at this point, when other people on the team were regularly working 50-60. I was relatively young, didn't have any family pressure, enjoyed my work and felt very productive doing those hours. I wasn't one of the people with a "problem" as I saw it. We were running the experiment for the other folk on the team.

In the experiment we dropped to a 40 hours week (6 hours coding per day, 2 hours for breaks, meetings & lunch). After a couple of weeks adjustment my productivity went way up. I also felt a lot better in myself - generally sharper and more on the ball.

People seem to have quite a wide bad of "this feels okay" that subsumes the much narrower "I'm performing at my best".

Also people don't jump from a 35 hour week to 60 hours a week. It creeps up a few minutes at a time as pressure increases on the team. People have enough time to adjust to it being "normal" and don't notice the drop in productivity that goes with it.

Currently I work roughly 25-30 hours a week and am just as productive by all metrics that I have available to me as when I worked 40-50.

I would strongly urge people to experiment. Pick some metrics, try working shorter hours for a month, see what happens.

(The only caveat I would add is that with folks doing silly hours - anything over 50 I would say - there is often a couple of weeks where things go to hell as the body adjusts. On the team from the story practically everybody caught a bug and felt crap for the first week or so before productivity rose again).
This scary thought makes up much of the backdrop for one of my favourite scifi stories, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Definitely worth a (re)read given this latest news!
I think this article hits the nail on the head regarding 4 day weeks.

I currently work a 4 day week (4x10 hour days) allowing a whole extra day to focus on external activities and interests that i dont get to fully peruse at work due to contraints and/or conflict of interest.

It's such a big change in life style and as Ryan mentioned in the article it fosters such good energy and a totally refreshed feel come a monday morning.

And again just like the employee mentioned in the article it's such a benefit that I wouldn't even consider a move in companies unless it was matched like for like (or better).
I do understand your frustation and to be perfectly honest, I hear the same concern constantly. The fact is, if you're truly passionate about something, you'll find the time. I work a 60 hour week and I have a 2 year old boy and an impatient wife at home yet I find the time to dedicate at least a couple of hours a week to blogs, news, forums and so on and I can sincerely say that it doesn't have any significant impact on my precious family time.

Keep in mind, a useful GitHub repo doesn't need to contain anything groundbreaking. Honestly, even a simple fizzbuzz application is enough to prove you can code.
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The tragedy is that most patients appear for the screening purposes when the cancer is already at an advance stage. In fact the treatment for this kind of cancerous growth becomes complicated and difficult.
Could have done with a less smug profile pic
3D images of tissue may help spot and treat cancer
9-6 is really just a guide. I'm pretty sure our Team works all sorts of random hours M-Th.

Also, there isn't a requirement to come in to the 'office' unless you're on our Video Team (which requires you to be at the Studio to shoot video).
How do you handle customer support that can arise any time (including weekends)?
nsns, I think you meant to link to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17809503

What you actually linked to was a story about stealing a penguin.