skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's supposed to be the crazy one, and yet you're still arguing on this 4 day old thread everyone else has forgotten about? Will you please just let it go?
Sorry I saw a new account on a sensitive subject - as the man says assumption makes an ass of you and umption...

Are you paying hourly because originally things were uncertain and salaries were a big risk on the founders? If this has changed (good rep, plenty of orders trhough next six months) then maybe salary is the way to go.

My feeling though is salary is only part of a question about sharing and managing risk. Games development is risky and there will be better qualified people here to advise but I would look at how the whole risk/reward is structured - salaried employees take on the bread and butter corporate games, freelancers take the riskier retail with some shared upside? There are many ways to do it but at the moment it sounds that it's in peoples interet to work longer hours rather than ship early.
Puredata does it for free! http://www.puredata.info

vvvv does it for video (similar to Max's Jitter, or pd's GEM, except better), for windows, for kinda free! http://vvvv.org
http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/2389801228-texas-holdem...
Are you using an IMAP client? I think it can have the same effect as connected apps.
Reference: a person to whom inquiries as to character or ability can be made

Key being character AND ability.
finally gangnam style come to hackernews :-)
That UDID script I wrote - 350K hits... (w/source)
This demonstrate once again the antagonism of beeing able to ensure security as was complained to be lacking for the 9/11 and that no honnest citizen gets trampled by it.

I can't see a way out of spying it's own cytizen and keep them in the beleif they aren't to achive the goal.

One of the question to be asked is who is controlling the controllers ?
Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders
Good because I am sick of hearing about it anyway - almost as sick as hearing about the glorious "someday soon" of HTML5.
Radio interview with Richard Dawkins
Interesting. Do you have any benchmarks handy to show how much of a difference this makes? I'd wonder if the dynamic allocations necessary to build the tree might undercut the lookup advantages.
1. Start a Bitcoin exchange

2. Announce you were "hacked"

3. Profit!
But then again, after the $99 is paid to Apple, you can publish what you make to the App Store (yeah yeah, we are all aware that restrictions apply here). From what I gather, after paying $100 to Steam/Child's Play, you have a _chance_ of having your game/app have a speedier approval process.
One could argue that it's still in the interests of Bitfloor and similar exchanges to pay for such a service. Where will they be left off financially if such an event occurs?

From the article:

"BitFloor may take one of two options. They may either take the loss and continue running in an attempt to eventually earn the money back or, in the worst case, shut down entirely and begin an account partial refund process out of the available funds."
I suppose MacVim automatically centers the editable area on the screen when going fullscreen? I can't seem to replicate that using vim under Linux.
What takes time is to create the pattern and the last for a bespoke shoemaker, so the additional pair of shoes are not that time demanding to make.
A simple cron job sends select directory contents to other partitions and redundant cloud storage. Encrypted and compressed.
No worries Typicons, good to see you engaging with the community for feedback. Mac's tend to render things much nicer than their Windows counterparts where there are numerous things to consider like system anti-aliasing being different across different browsers and operating systems.
Oh god how does Javascript become AJAX?

AJAX is largely part of DOM, it's just some http callbacks your browser provide to Javascript.
Well, PostgreSQL is a project -- not a company. As a project, it is very roughly run by consensus, and that means acting strategically is not something the project as a whole does very much.

Sure, there are many project goals, but they're rather informed by what various correspondents of pgsql-hackers (this could be loosely coined "the community". Admission is free.) seem personally willing, interested and/or funded to do. You, too, can be a database internals engineer! And Postgres's code is still considered crisp enough to fork for Your Very Own Database Startup (which I think is pretty remarkable -- most such stand-alone programs are typically not worth reworking), so you can waltz right on in.

One piece of project gridlock is that the bar is very, very high for any new code to be committed (and almost certainly released), and that goes double if you are not someone who is proven to suffer through all the bugs one is going to find over the foreseeable future and no one else is excited about doing that for you (if you submitted some excellently written, badly needed functionality, I think it would be accepted under that rationale, though, in spite of most complexity concerns). Postgres has a long history, so "the foreseeable future" lasts an awfully long time.

Some old features like the way hash-group and hash indexes work I am reasonably confident could not be committed if submitted as-is today. (The former can't spill to disk and the latter has no crash recovery, which is why the documentation shoos you away...but some people use it?)

Besides bugs, there also needs to be a lot of convincing that the feature is worth whatever complexity it brings, in implementation and in user-interface.

In spite of that, a lot of code has gotten committed, and not without some trepidation as to the sheer amount of growth. I used to hack a fork of Postgres a few years ago, and the project is probably about 10-20% bigger now:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/postgres/analyses/latest/languages_su...

The problem is hard, there is not even a single solution everyone agrees is the best, reliability and maintenance requirements are stringent, and even in spite of all that the project's code is growing at a rather scary clip.

All in all though, I think a lot of the pre-requisites for what you want are locked up in the attack on logical replication, which is ongoing in the 9.3 release cycle.
Oracle Must Pay Google $1,130,350 in Costs
You joke, but yes, that's exactly what I want. Why would I not want exactly what I'm looking for delivered directly to me?

Also, "I'm Feeling Lucky" isn't an option for me, not in the version of Chrome I have anyway. Even if I explicitly load the www.google.com which shows the feeling lucky button, as soon as I type 1 letter in the box the screen changes to an interactive search, which no longer has the lucky button.
Funny, I would do the exact opposite - completely ignore the ads and look for experiences of the users, reviews or really anything but the ads. How does buying adwords correlate with quality?
It's cool that he got so much press in such a short time, but applauding technology choices that allowed him to sustain 8 requests per second (assuming this was over a 12 hour period) is ridiculous.
Realtime Three.js Coding
Which brings us almost full-circle to early monochromatic highlighting, where you didn't have many options besides adding bold and italic to the mix.
I've had experience with both Spoon Tailor and Indochino. TL;DR: go with Spoon over Indochino if it's in your price range.

I've used Spoon for about 9 shirts and talked with them extensively about their MTM suiting. The quality is much higher on their suiting and the fabrics are nicer. Plus, as far as MTM goes their process is closer to bespoke. Multiple fittings are involved and they have a local tailor that does the pattern, if I recall.

Indochino's an affordable option out there, but they're definitely going the cheaper MTM route. Their suits are based off of ready-made patterns. They can't really do stuff like account for sloped shoulders or weird drops. Their details are also a lot more "fashion forward" (like skinny lapels) that will look dated in a few years. I went to their traveling tailor event in Chicago a few weeks ago and got a suit made up for me as a review unit for a blog I write and I can't say I'd highly recommend them over other MTM services that might charge more or ready-to-wear options that cost the same.

If you're looking for something at Indochino prices yet in "ready to wear", then I'd suggest checking out Suit Supply. Decent cuts, good fabric, good construction, affordable intro-level prices.
Pretty incredible that you were able to withstand that on a $15 VPS. Nice job, man.
For home use, it seems easier to put or more extra external drives (encrypted with, say, TrueCrypt) at some trusted locations, like the houses of friends.
Are there tools/databases out that keep track of stolen Bitcoins and where they end up? It seems like it would be in the interest of the exchanges to share this information and blacklist coins originating from a theft.

They should also allow users to check incoming transactions against this blacklist and reject them if they choose. I suppose you'd end up with a black market of tainted Bitcoin, but that's better than just allowing thieves to immediately exchange stolen coins for another currency or legitimate services/products.
The question is: can I find something equivalent for
less cost. My experience has been, with sufficient
searching (and yes, there's a time cost to that), yes,
I can.

As far as I'm aware, there is nothing equivalent to Outlier on the market today, much less anything at a lower price point. If you have information to the contrary, please do share.
Your remote site method is my method too. I'm not worried about city-wide catastrophes, so I keep the spare drives closer for easier updating.
Good. Work should be fun.
Daily World Of Warcraft Transmogrification
Africa On The Rise
The artist's page: http://www.martinbackes.com/pixelhead-limited-edition/

He sells them for 158 euro.

It's also worth looking at CV Dazzle if you find this interesting. It looks at ways to beat current face detection mechanisms while not looking like that's your only intention: http://cvdazzle.com/
The hope is that adding all those people adds value somewhere, it doesn't just add cost.
Agreed. The only resize effect 99.9% of users will see is turning their mobile device from portrait to landscape, which would still give a cool effect on this site.
I really doubt that these 350k hits were spread neatly over 12 hours.They most likely came as one giant rush. The author would have to confirm.

Considering that lots of peoples blogs die because they get 10k visitors from HN. His small $15 vps did fine.
I actually started a project with Zurb, and switched to Bootstrap, because it offers a bit more, and looked a bit better out of the box. I think Bootstrap has more momentum, which can be important for these kinds of things.
My http://pastehtml.com/udid got 130k hits yesterday. PasteHTML.com itself and this UDID tool are running on a moderate dedicated server, nginx/rails/postgresql.
Benefits of basing your startup in Scotland
What I do to avoid the class soup Bootstrap expects you to use in your HTML is import bootstrap.css in LESS/SASS and then inherit its classes in my semantic classes. E.g.,

.userprofile {
.well;
}
> I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley

Me too, but Groupon.
Cold War Monitoring of Soviet Radars via the Lunar Surface
Wow, that's a nice one. Very readable, not too pastel... I almost never use the more 'stylish' themes because I find their tradeoffs a pain, but this might be an improvement on anything I've used thus far.
Buttons have to deal with the level of formality.

Single buttons have their roots in the single-breasted dinner jacket or tuxedo. If you want your jacket to have an increased level of formality, you'd go with a single button.

Two-button suits are more standard, common for business and every-day suiting. Formal enough for the majority of situations when you'd wear a suit, but not quite "after six" level of formality for an evening event or dinner.

Three-button jackets should be left to casual suits or odd-jackets. Adding more buttons on the single-breasted suit adds an increased level of informality. Works best on casual, seasonal fabrics like seersucker, linen, tweed, corduroy, etc.

Double-breasted jackets have their roots in the military and are often paired with peak lapels, which are more formal than the notched lapels of most suits. So, a double-breasted suit would be definitely on the more formal end.

So, I wouldn't say that buttons are about "personality" as much as it is the situation in which you'll be wearing the suit.
Considering the FBI's anti-American history, they don't deserve the benefit of doubt.
Unfortunately, cops have too many incentives to lie. Also, while there are honest cops, they have very little incentive to speak up when they witness a colleague lying, especially on smaller things that are seen as just making the job easier, as rocking the boat like that can destroy your career.
.. " an extra $100 to submit a game to a service like Greenlight just for a chance to share it with people " ..

The way I see this particular position, is this: if you don't have $100 worth of friends and people locally to you who can at least donate towards your entry to the -potentially- $million-dollar making Greenlight effort, then ... maybe your game actually is crap. Go away, get $100 of your own donations with your game, from your direct immediate users, first, and then you can play.

It sort of will act as a filter, yes. But I believe if there are poor people out there who want to enter this competition, they can get the help needed. (I volunteer, of course, PM me if you have a great game but need ~$100 .. "gamedeetsplz" ..)
Earth-Moon-Earth Communication (EME), or Moonbouncing, is today enjoyed by Amateur Radio enthusiasts all over the world. I just thought this was really interesting in it's exploitation by the CIA during the Cold War.
any particular reason to downvote this? (noticed that the other mention of semaphore got downvoted too). It would be nice to know why. I'm relatively new to HN, but haven't had much stuff downvoted, and not sure what might be wrong with my comment.
Old men who use computers less likely to get dementia
Required listening:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/r...

It's about a cop who felt that his station was becoming corrupt. So he started wearing a wire all the time and recorded evidence against his bosses.

"I will always remember the first time a cop lied to me"

Without reading further -

I've kept my nose pretty clean, so mine was a cop who ticketed me for going 70 on the freeway. He told me that 60 mph was an appropriate speed for the fast lane on I-5 in the 60 mph zone, heading north into Seattle, one of the worst freeway congestions in the country.

I was pretty jaded even before I heard that This American Life episode, but that really nailed in the coffin. The officer sold my trust in the police department pretty cheaply that day.
I am guessing that Google is Lego's largest enterprise customer.
When I read that, I thought "intel" referred to the company, rather than being short for "intelligence." Then again, it's not capitalized, so maybe I'm mistaken.

One other comment has me thinking, though. If it's fake, can you go to jail for just pretending to hack the FBI if they never really did it?
> if someone breaks into your online bank account and steals all
> your money, legally you're on the hook unless you can prove the
> breach occurred on the bank's side.

Right, but that's not a valid comparison to what happened.

If someone broke into your account, yes, you'd need to dispute the charges and prove that you did not drain the funds to your new Swiss bank account.

In this case, though, it's not an account that was broken into, but the exchange itself. If someone robs your bank at gunpoint or hacks into its backend servers, either way, you're not liable for the loss -- they're insured.

Individual security vs. organizational security are different in this respect. In fact, I'd argue that the individual security of bitcoin exchange accounts are even riskier than the exchange itself getting hacked: if your bitcoin wallet is compromised in any way, that money is gone forever. No one can do anything to get it back, and if the exchange wasn't compromised, they probably don't care about your terrible password (or malware-infested laptop, or compromised Internet connection, etc). If your bank account is hacked, and you report it, it's not your problem anymore.
This is a classic case where a popular account flatly contradicts the actual study.

The popular account, linked above, is titled "Old men who use computers less likely to get dementia", implying a cause-effect relationship. The article goes on to strongly imply a cause-effect relationship: "Men who use computers as they enter their winter years have a better chance of avoiding dementia than those who don't ..."

The original paper (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...) is titled "Older Men Who Use Computers Have Lower Risk of Dementia" (Emphasis added).

The original paper includes this phrase: "Randomised trials are required to determine if the observed associations are causal." For those unfamiliar with technical writing, this means "we have no idea whether the association between computer use and dementia is a cause, an effect, or a coincidence."

Someday, psychology may become a science. But there's no present evidence for that outcome, only counterevidence.
How about an implementation of Gene Expression Programming (http://gene-expression-programming.com/) in javascript?
Security-wise, the traffic to his server is http, meaning any man-in-the-middle can collect tuples of UDIDs, IP and browser fingerprints, even if he doesn't collect anything.

If you worry about UDIDs being tracked I guess you should worry about the http to his page too.

However, according to somebody who apparently tested it a year ago (and posted it on HN), half of the iPhone apps pass UDID over the same http, allowing collection of the very same or similar data.

Which makes the whole subject of a government agency having UDID database without other convenient data, ummm, quite less probable. IMHO most of the "business entities" are able to collect much more than presented here.
The issue is that it's $100 being spent for literally nothing

Not at all true. $100 will get your game (and the URL to your homepage) in front of thousands of potential customers who have shown an expressed interest in the type of game you're making and whom are willing to pay for that sort of game. I've downloaded several demos/betas of games I only learnt about from browsing Greenlight. A couple of those betas show enough promise that I'll be following their development and probably buying a copy no matter what distribution platform they end up on.
Are You Building Facebook's Empire, Or Your Own?
Who are those small players in smartphone industry?
The second part of your comment is pure speculation.
And let's not forget there was/is a hell of lawsuits between mobile makers, so Apple did nothing new what could scare non-existant small guys.
I'm actually involved in a project where having a hybrid background as a clinician and hacker is a synergistic advantage.

I'm the founder, lead developer and clinical researcher behind StethoCloud - http://www.stethocloud.com/

I find being a clinician helps me understand the problem when it comes to the diagnosis of pneumonia in children. I understand the scope of the problem, its current diagnostic hurdles and as a hacker, I know how to build the app and cloud backend for the project.

Having exposure and knowledge in other fields of computer science, mathematics and engineering helps too. I'm glad I took the Stanford AI and Machine Learning courses that gave me a good understanding of what machine learning techniques are capable of doing given sufficient data to train on.

I would say having knowledge of those fields was important in order for me to articulate the problems clinicians face with the diagnosis of pneumonia in children to data scientists in a way that they could understand how their skills could be helpful and thus convince them to help out with this project.
For years, I've been behind the 'stop at the grocery store every day on the way home' way of not wasting food. My wife and I have a routine that is IM around 4pm, decide on dinner, one of us stops for ingredients on our way home. At first, it seems like a pain to go every day but when you realize how little you throw away, it's fantastic. (Granted, we live in a city where hopping off of public transit to stop at the store is no big deal.)

Something else I discovered very late in life: when buying fancy cheeses, you can select a pre-cut/pre-priced piece that is bigger than you need and ask to have it cut in half, a third, whatever and the store will open the cheese, cut it, re-weigh it and re-price it. Then you don't end up with too much five-year Gouda.
The PHP script is super simple, so lighttpd (which is a great web server, in the same performance realm of nginx) and php-fpm on a shared VPS, is plenty of power and resources.

Never seen $found = `grep $udid FILE` using back-ticks in PHP land. Is that the same as the exec() function?
Not the same. Bootstrap is very flexible and while there are copycats that are aping the Twitter layout instead of simply using the framework, it's like complaining all {Windows,OSX,Linux} apps have the same buttons.

Non-copycat examples:

http://osclass.org/
http://asilofis.net/
http://hyperboria.net/
All those blogs die because people don't bother to use WP Super Cache or the equivalent.

Just for comparison, in 1998/99 I ran an mp3 search engine that handled 200k daily queries at the peak. It was a Pentium with 128MB of memory. The search server was written in C, and it used an inverted index. The system load rarely went over 1.
165 billion divided by the population (311 million) divided by 365 days is about $1.45.

irb(main):007:0> 165e9 / 311e6 / 365.0
=> 1.45355239395675

Which thankfully also is consistent with the other number mentioned in the article, $2275 for a family of 4 per year.

irb(main):005:0> 2275.0 / 4 / 365
=> 1.55821917808219

Doesn't seem like a lot can be done about such a small amount of waste per day..
Great article, it's not easy to develop a new "easy to understand" framework for GA, but we try recently in scala, using the great cake pattern to help user to define their algorithm : https://github.com/romainreuillon/mgo
Do Google employees also see the same interface with ads? And if so, shouldn't it be illegal as the employees (in)directly increase Google's revenue?
> Face.com was closed off, and didn’t share the details of how it operated.

Not so true, at least they gave a talk outlining their methods (I remember they used single-point classification with very complex distance and 3D model fitting) as well as quality numbers (~95% recognition) at Yet Another Conference'2011 in Moscow.
Behind the scenes with Samsung's Chinese factory girls
And the Android one https://github.com/WhiteHouse/wh-app-android
Ask HN: What about the new Twitter rules when using a reseller like Gnip?
http://gnip.com/twitter - Gnip is an official reseller of data. Clients do not have relationship with twitter - they have with gnip.

What about the new twitter rules?
Do they affect the users of the reseller?
If not, is this a way to circumvent the new rules?
Have twitter thought about that?
If a person treats the volume of trash going into a landfill as a problem worthy of the slightest consideration, this is a good sign that they have no sense of scale and are unlikely to be worth listening to.
> Try to attend a management meeting in Europe, China, Japan without a suit.

You don't even have to go as far as management meeting. In Japan, if you have any sort of white-collar job (with few exceptions in tech companies and research departments), you wear a suit.
"Bureau of Paranormal Activity Research?! Are you kidding? There is no such a thing!", said Director.
A Day in The Life of A Conversion Rate Optimization Gunslinger