skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fyi: It's still in closed-beta, you'll have to request an invite for an activation code before you can do anything after you install it.
Actually, I'm not a fan of the word myself, but it's habit and it's a term only two words long that everyone is familiar with so it's convenient.

It's so well known a term among people that it doesn't even do a good job of masking or downplaying what it actually means anymore.
But "ingress" is also an English language word, with a definition unrelated to what you're talking about.
The original post used the term "formed," and I used "make," both with the intent of using only dots to create a circle. I would say you have "included" two dots in your circle, with this new line being the main element. With all due respect.
Most people write code so it can be used. They don't care about wounding anything. If the choice is between having your code being used or having no one use it, most people will chose the more liberal licenses.
Europe responds very poorly to political and economic upheaval, which they seem to undergo near the start of each century. Germany was in shambles after WWI and so fomented the rise of National Socialism (which nearly conquered the world) and France after the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror gave rise to Emperor Napoleon (who nearly conquered all of Europe.) It looks like it might be Greece's turn to experience collective insanity.

The European Union will either become far more powerful as a central government, or it will collapse and even more chaos will follow.
How long do people's tests usually take?

Longer than about 15 seconds I start getting distracted waiting for the answer, so I try to keep things fast.
So 1:27 still seems slow to me.

However we also have a set of integration tests that take 25 minutes, which is way too long.
I personally find it to be quite useful, but you have to adapt to it and figure out what it's good at. I use Siri for:

1. Setting location-based alerts using Find My Friends. Saying "tell me when my wife leaves work" is effective, convenient, and about twenty times faster than setting up the alert by hand.

2. Again with Find My Friends, finding out where people are. If I'm meeting somebody I can just ask, "Where's Bob?" and it shows me, so I know if they're running late or whatever.

3. Setting reminders, especially location-based reminders. As I'm walking along, I suddenly remember that I need to fix the windshield wipers on my car or something. "Remind me to fix the windshield wipers when I get home", and done. Again, way faster than setting this up by hand.

4. Quick text messages while on the go. It can both read an incoming message and write a reply. Faster than typing a reply, usually.

5. Setting timers and alarms. Put a pizza in the oven, then "timer, 15 minutes", and I get an alert when it's done.

I don't think the article is wrong, but it's a bit narrow. It concentrates entirely on search, and I agree that Siri is pretty weak with that. But Siri is good at doing stuff, at least certain stuff, on your behalf. Google's voice search can't do this on iOS at all, and my understanding is that even on Android its capabilities are much more limited.

Siri is probably over-hyped by Apple, but i personally still find it to be quite useful. It's not the all-powerful personal answer-machine that some people want it to be, but it's a handy alternate UI for many of the phone's functions.
Being chased by a 800 pound gorilla is always scary.
Hang on guys, I love your product and I'm sure you can embrace and extend :)
'MOP' has been my go-to paradigm for most of my professional career. I freely admit that I 'go there' too soon in some situations, but you are quite correct about the benefits.

Scalability is only one benefit. Testability is another. And my favorite, it's very easy and usually safe to do run-time hacks, as the need arises.

I am currently working on a wide-scale, multi-language MOP family of libraries that I hope will make this programming paradigm a lot more accessible.
Sorry if I made the timing not clear. It definitely would be hypocritical if I was building this business after I wrote this post.

I had no idea these sponsored posts ended up in people's timelines in such a way no one could tell what's real and what's bullshit. I stopped development on any "like-gating" tech over a year ago for a bunch of reasons. The tech is still up on a website in demo mode, but I don't sell it anymore or intend to revisit selling it again. I wouldn't want to work on encouraging likes again if this sponsored post thing continues to be used like I describe in this post.
If it were me, I would try to figure out which niche is being offered/taken the most and move your entire product towards it. It will be easier for people to identify and remember your site and easier for you to reach out to the organizations in that space. I don't want to be thinking day and night about what to give, but if whenever people think about volunteering OR moving furniture they think of your site, it might gain more traction.
Absolutely it has. Resolution, noise, dynamic range have all improved dramatically since 2006. Compare the Canon 5d (1) from 2006 and the 5d Mk3 from this year - pretty decent comparison. It is no contest.
OpenMP 4.0 is likely to have support for accelerator devices (i.e, move the necessary data on to the device, run the computation, and move back to the host). in fact, that's one of the methods you can use the Phi right now (intel have extensions to OpenMP)

or if you can't be bothered to wait for such a standard, you should have a look at OpenACC[1], which does exactly this, and exists now. you end up adding code like

#pragma acc kernels for

on top of your for loops, it does the low level work for you.

[1] http://www.openacc-standard.org/
I was given a title once, and I think it was a 3 (this was... a heck of a long time ago). But... I wasn't told what the 3 meant - is 3 the bottom? The middle? The top? Is "level 1" where people start? Or is it like golf, where a lower number is better? I asked, and ... got the weirdest look, as if I was an idiot for not having some insider knowledge about "corporate titles". I wasn't there very long. And I never actually got an answer...
Luckily, because it's open, Android has no such problems.

Only 2.7% of all Android devices run the current version, but I'm sure that every Android user has an up to date third party browser they use exclusively.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
I do love how a guy from box added this link....
The streetview was made by Navteq using a Ladybug 3 camera, which is a pretty sad camera to use for this application. It is not very high resolution, it is intended more for panoramic video than for high resolution streetview-type capture. It also needs a ton of post production in order to look good.
Napkee ( http://www.napkee.com ) does it for Balsamiq Mockups.
Gamification, badges, recognition, social profiles.
Offer some sense of gratification when they complete a transaction and give something away.
Integrate with Facebook, both for inviting more users and for posting on their timeline when they have given something. It highlights their generosity.
Focus on having the recipient give feedback to the giver - recognition, express gratitude, how much they enjoyed what they got.

Craigslist has the audience but no sense of identity, community. eBay has the feedback loop and score but no social network.
Ask HN: Recommendation for Portable Stand-up height desk?
Recommendation for Portable Stand-up height desk?

I enjoy working while standing up but I can't find a portable stand up desk. I want one I could fold up quickly and put in my car and is height adjustable.

The reason is there are not many places that have stand up desks and I change offices/working places frequently.
Unless you're google, hiring someone means not hiring someone else.

At any given time we would love to hire 3 people that are all as amazing as we can think, but the budgets never are that large.

Making a choice between 2 amazing guys is even harder than searching for one.
If Apple actually had a monopoly share in the smartphone market, such a complaint would likely proceed quite quickly. They don't have a monopoly market share so they face many fewer constraints under anti-trust law.
Adjusted Maps of the 2012 election results
One bonus is that the transfer from Dropbox to a web service is going to be way faster than from your computer to that same service.

Additionally, the user can navigate away from the page, close their browser, lose internet, etc. and the transfer will still happen.
Terrorism is by definition anti-civilian warfare. Welcome to the future. Now we get dis-inter-media-ted media-ted violence. A sort of Gawker.com meets 9/11. Ugly all around. Don't forget, the "News" media will show (and make money from) all the baby killing, too. That's part of the strategy of terrorism, too. The complicity of the media to distribute the "message", because they can't resist (the ratings).
I think your comment is in response to the ability to only gift this app to someone you know who is chronically late, which may hurt his feelings. If you look at the FAQ at the bottom of the page though, you'll see the solution for getting the app for yourself is to gift it to your own email address.

Personally, I know I'm always late, usually because I'll be in the middle of hacking something, lose track of time, and be tardy, so I just self gifted the app. There should probably be two clear ways to back this app though, either by gifting it to someone, or just backing it yourself.
This is probably because what makes a "language" is fairly fuzzy. There is probably no hard line where a abstraction layer goes from just being a user interface/environment/library/notation to a language.
No, because I don't like the idea of being dependent on some external factor to be able to access my email account. If there's an emergency and I find myself naked with my wallet and phone gone in the middle of a foreign country, I want to be able to access my emails.
That's a fair assessment, however LivingSocial has its own recruiters and they are doing a great job. So far I got a few companies reaching out to me to let me know that they have some open positions and I know of many others in my network. I'll do my best to try to match people.
A comment about suggestion 1: The creators may have prior computer vision experience, but as someone who tried to learn this from scratch and perform handwritten shape detection I can say that it's a messy place to work. If it's not their core competency, it can get tricky with all the different shapes and problems that may arise with said shapes. Then again, I didn't have machine-learning experience which may be the way to go.

That would definitely be cool, though. You could basically edit what you literally just drew if you could properly detect the shapes and how they were nested within each other.
Media companies should embrace Project Glass
Home Aquaponics Kit: Self-Cleaning Fish Tank That Grows Food
I just watched the following video today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cku6RJPIGG8

It is about the Fog Creek offices, it's well worth the money if you are designing an office.
What would you say to a college student who's just starting out?
TDD Done Right
You can subscribe to their posts without liking.
> Two...as someone pointed out, this really isn't marketing. These are emails to the kind of people who would sign up for campaign emails, I.e. the candidate's supporters.

Are you serious? This is a great case exhibiting what email marketing does best - repeat business - keeping your customer base aware of (and buying) your products/services, and discussing it with others.

That aside, Obama's emails were a call to action (fed the grassroots operations that led to his smashing victory in many swing states), while Romney's were more about inspiring the recipient about the candidate - which given the many gaffes commited by Romney, seem like a rearguard action.

Shorter: Obama wanted you to get others to vote. Romney wanted you to vote.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But people can (and do) build that kind of narrative all the time, which was my real point. The reality is always more complicated.
There's a new movement on the horizon called "I'm not hungry." Why don't you have breakfast? I'm not hungry. Why don't you have lunch? I'm still not hungry. Hunger shouldn't always drive the need to eat.
> Call them hackers, ‘ninjas’, or ‘rock stars’ if you’d like.

No, don't.
AWS in Action - Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Campaign
Wind farms, as with solar farms and nuclear energy, have large up-front fixed costs and negligible marginal production costs. If the wind-farm produced _only_ 1 hours worth of energy, then $3.00 per watt would be spot on, as I understand it.

Likely the wind-farm will operate a number of years. Let's suppose it produces at 10% capacity for 20 years. That would be equivalent to 100% capacity for 2 years, which would be 50 MW/h * 24 hour/days * 365 days/year * 2 years = 876,000 MW/h

So now you have $50 Mill/ 876,000 = $57.08 per MW/h, or $5.7088*10^-5 cents per watt/hour.

Now, suppose the capacity is larger or the time lasts longer. The cents continue to fall per watt/hour
The reference to Fiverr.com in this article is classic. Interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
Inflation was a net 0 up until 1914, when the US switched to a fiat money system. There was about 85% inflation between 1914 and 1929, yet the government maintained a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and gold.

This imbalance I'm pretty sure led to all the runs on the banks in the banking collapse, as people finally realized they could nearly double their money by converting it to gold. This collapse continued until the government suspended gold exchanges.

What I find peculiar is I never see this mentioned in explanations for the banking crisis.
You are using his toy. Big distinction. You have not paid him anything, and are here by choice. He owes you nothing.
beanstalkd -b should work. I haven't tried this.
Damn, this is almost what I was looking for earlier.

I was trying to figure out how to tell when an iframe's document size changed (because, for instance, a $(node).show() was called), in order to adjust a custom html-and-js powered scrollbar.
It really bothers me that this is a highly upvoted comment since it has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the post in question. I wouldn't be surprised if that presentation was posted on HN a while back. Search for it and go comment there.
Hum, since Google is an ad company I assume that bonus will magically appear in Starbucks and McDonalds.
> Where have you been looking?

Maryland: in and around Howard County.

> Are you constrained geographically?

Yes, as my wife and I are quite settled in our home.
Nexus 4 oversold, Google places many on back order
China isn't the only one conducting this kind of ground breaking research, but they do put a lot of money into it. I don't have any numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if China's investment in research was higher than most other research countries.
What makes this worth saying is the context provided by the media's initial flood of breathless assurances that this would change everything. In the intervening months, without much attempt to revise the initial estimates, they have pretty much just stopped talking about Siri; the last I heard about it was that Apple disabled prostitute-finding.

In that specific context it's good to have a story saying, actually this is turning out not to be such a big deal.

When the two comments in this thread say "well yeah, Siri's probably over-hyped and its usefulness is actually quite limited" they aren't disagreeing with the article nearly so strongly as they are disagreeing with the majority of what the tech press was saying when Siri first arrived.
> I think of this as the very essence of what Dropbox does, are there really very many situations where local copies would be unavailable?

I can think of a lot of situations where the local file is a gigabyte or more and I'd rather not sit around letting the web form upload it.

With this, I can submit immediately, and the site can handle the heavy lifting on their backend. I get to wander off and do something productive.
Also, if you go by the google ratings, which are similar, you get:

Intern
Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Staff Engineer
Senior Staff Engineer
Principal Engineer
Distinguished Engineer
Fellow

All of a sudden, "senior" doesn't feel very far up the totem pole.
Thank goodness for beneficial tax policies that encourage investment in future technologies!
So they burnt through $10.7M within 1.5 years? $600k/month? I wonder what they have left. I'm curious about the ramifications after this sort of thing transpires.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/12/online-game-startup-tiny-s...
Nitpick: "We are in a perfect and undetectable simulation" is a meaningless statement. If e.g. someone found a privilege escalation in our reality's VM that would be quite meaningful.
I also got my A+ Cert from Prometric, its the main testing center (at least in the US)for these types of certs.
Why Everyone loves Grouper's Challen
The niche you are trying to fill would probably be appreciated by religious communities, especially parishioners in mainline protestant denominations and "emergent" Christians primarily concerned with social justice and human need. If you create a way for groups to specify a push community (food banks, shelters, non-profits in X niche) that would periodically receive a list of the group's available items, it would automate part of their mission. Religious communities would also be likely to post a link to you on their website and encourage participation internally. Outside of cities, this demographic is older and would likely be those already afraid of Craigslist for security reasons but savvy enough to see the benefit in your system.
Love the enthusiasm! To us, anything that helps makes products work more seamlessly together online is a win for the web and the world we want to see.

It also seems like Dropbox is encouraging a different use case, in that the links they provide by default are Dropbox share links that route back to Dropbox, and even the direct ones expire after 4 hours. With Filepicker.io, we want to be a more complete filesystem solution, offering things like store to S3, read/write on the URLs, conversion, etc.

To the cloud!
Tradition. Same reason we use centralized banks and sovereign currency instead of bit-coin and other independent currencies, or miles per gallon instead of gallons per mile.
Phi's memory bandwidth is very high but its memory capacity is very low (a normal Xeon can drive ~192 GB cheaply).
I disagree with your '2nd class devs' comment. Being a developer is not a calling. It's possible for anyone with sound mind and logic to sit down and contribute to a company should they have the will to make rent. That may sound depressing and unfair to the folks who are putting in 90 hours a week but that's reality.
While syncing files is the main attraction for me with Dropbox, there are other useful features too. You can set which folders sync with other machines or only upload to Dropbox, as well as generate links for files in your Dropbox.
Phi architecture is closer to a GPU than a rack of x86 servers.

With 60 cores reading memory over a common ring bus latency will kill you unless you tile your loops to maximize cache reuse [1], at which point you might as well write a GPU code which preloads blocks of data to local memory and works there.

Also, to beat performance of normal x86 CPU you must use vector instructions, what gives you all the little problems GPU warps are known to cause.

[1] http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/cache-blocking-tech...
I want a digital clock with dots instead of numbers.
Doh! Wanted to comment here earlier but my Hacker News app on Android doesn't allow comments!

I'm rich.bradshaw on ye old gmail if anyone has any invites left!
I still have an account but don't login (maybe used it once in the last few months). Before that I only accessed it in an Incognito tab and before that I had the Facebook Disconnect extension running so that I don't see any Like widgets around the web. It's not easy, but it is possible to contain Facebook.

tl;dr I treat Facebook like a virus that is infecting the web.
Yikes. Yep!
Yes. What are you talking about.
Ach, just realized they invested $75 Million, not $50 Million. Scale up by 50% :D
Attackers to Exploit Search Personalization, Supply Chains
Exactly right. Here's a Facebook help page of interest:

"Can I opt out of being featured in Sponsored Stories?"
http://www.facebook.com/help/173332702723681/
First, a 50MW farm is only ~25 turbines which is small for industry standards. I have been on top of wind turbines in farms of hundreds of turbines surrounded by other windfarms of the same size. I use to inspect wind turbine blades using Industrial Rope Access.

Second, Google benefits a few ways with this and other renewable investments, mainly for the Production Tax Credit or PTC. A federal incentive program to develop the wind energy industry that is equivalent to $02.2 per kWh of production. A 50MW farm running at 30% will produce ~130M kWh per year or $3M/year in PTC.

Google is doing three things at once, reducing their tax liability, diversifying their portfolio and advertising the Google Brand. This has nothing to do with powering their own data centers and might even take the focus off of them using dirty energy to power their data centers.
I don't know what any of this has to do with SOPA. Or rather: I'm pretty sure none of this has anything to do with SOPA. Even in the early CISPA drafts that mentioned "intellectual property", the animating concern was the theft of source trees and market data, not Creed CDs (intellectual property was stricken from the final version of CISPA passed by the house).

Technology is a big topic. You should just assume that most bills (and EO's) pertaining to technology are not extensions of SOPA, which was a copyright enforcement measure.
Until a few days ago Intel was saying "over 50" cores; some people forgot to flush their cache.
http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
There is no way I would invest my staff's time in doing that if I hadn't even established that they could fizzbuzz yet.
Well, I wanted to try Triple Town, but on facebook I see this: "This app may post on my behalf, including your high scores and more." Sorry, that's not something I'm willing to "pay".
I turned off web history a while ago. I didn't like the filter bubble [1] that I found myself in. One of the things I like best about the internet is access to new and different information. With web history and personalized searching on, I was finding the same results at the top seemingly no matter what I searched for.

Lately I've been using DuckDuckGo about half the time, and Google the rest of the time.

[1] http://dontbubble.us/
Show HN: Frizzle -- Stop Motion Video Creator using only HTML5
For problem 2, I imagine that most financial institutions have pretty damn good security probably almost equaling government security agencies, considering 1. The amount of money they have, 2. Already under constant attack by cyber-criminals.

I also imagine that the security at utility (power, water) or transportation (airline, bus, etc) companies is pretty pathetic. That's where they should be focusing.
Google's tongue must be firmly in cheek when it asks us to choose a faction if the apps permissions are any indication...