skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you broke the blog server dude!!!!
A bath without water: So. Africa startup [6 min. Ted vid]
But if a poacher shoots it down, then they have just alerted the wardens to their presence.
> Some of them also post professional images they've imported from their computer (not just phone images).

They're the cancer that's killing Instagram
I don't understand why people have downvoted this yet far more inane comments that are older haven't been downvoted as much (case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936978). This is an "expressed opinion" - it's not "inane banter" (like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936806) - yet people have downvoted it because they disagree. It doesn't express the hive mind thus the downvotes rain in. So weird...
That's a US problem which the rest of the world is not constrained by. It's not going to stop technological progress.

Especially not when wifi and wired internet is completely and utterly untouched by it. That's how 99.99% of the business market is deployed.

And you have governments to regulate monopolies. Demand action from your government instead of complaining about it online. That has worked out pretty well for Europe.
Cut doesn't work for finding a specific user.
Grep could work, indeed, when using -o. But this is not supported in posix grep - clarified in the quiz that I meant the posix variant.
You seem to argue (by the use of "glibly") that the presence of the transferability clause leaves no other interpretation possible than that that transfer will be for use of user content by third part in return for payment. However, the clause may also be there to allow use of content on other services owned by Instagram's parent.

I was quite explicit that I was giving my read of the intent, not my assessment of what Instagram could legally get away with. The transferability clause does not change my reading of the intent.
Jelastic PHP cloud is now available
Well, yes and no :) Even when you're self-insured (which is what you are when you've got risk factored into your margins), you're still insured.
Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says German Privacy Regulator
A Researcher Reveals 4 Crucial Things "Average Users" Should Know But Don't
And how these particular flaws of Java are relevant to the comments-or-not discussion at hand?
Those are both the same HN URL - looks like you mistakenly copied the URL for the 2nd by the 1st. :-)
To my understanding, it means Instagram can do a direct deal with Instaprints and cut out the "sending profits to the artists" cost.
Anti-aliasing on a ~50 voxel display _sounds_ like overthinking the problem, but the result seems to indicate it was a great approach. It's quite pretty…
You can add in there passwords not being secured properly by application developers too ... probably the biggest source of being hacked.
Check your data more closely.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Ush...

>"it just doesn't happen often enough"

There is nothing positive about guns; your group illusion of "self-protection" is quickly diminish by the fact that legal guns many times end up in the hands of the criminals, provoking accidents or in hands of mentally unqualified people... so even 1 death is enough.
Why? Why wouldn't you want a company - any company - to do well, build great products, make their shareholders happy, and generally succeed?
> HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript

Only a total idiot will use these in a tutorial.
OP: Stop submitting your idiotic shit to HN.
Mexico's problem is drugs, the guns are just a consequence.
Too many rhinos dispersed across too far a distance. Unlike elephants rhinos don't necessarily herd in large groups. Many of the rhinos killed were either alone or in a small group of 2-4.

I'm not sure flooding the market with fake rhino horn is feasible as the underworld will develop its own authentication methods, but one suggestion that has been discussed is to flood the market with rhino horns from the huge stockpiles collected from rhinos who've died from natural causes in the hope that it'll lower the price and reduce the incentive to poach.
Maybe not that big of a deal. If Facebook doesn't comply, they only have to pay 20000€: http://translate.google.de/translate?twu=1?sl=de&tl=en&#...
It's interesting because there are several German social networks (XING, StudiVZ, wer-kennt-wen, ...) that also do not allow their users to use pseudonyms. As far as I know, none of them have been ordered to change their policies.
Wordpress Tools  Wordpress Pipeline.
Music companies seek to block Pirate Bay in Ireland
Conduit: Delivering 10 billions events daily in Real-time
This problem involves performance, precision, code stability and player perception, so there are no hard and fast rules applicable everywhere, and certainly do not need always to be fixed in concrete. A game can mix variable dt and fixed dt in different subsystems (render, logic, physics, user input, network, ...).

I have even managed to dynamically change these settings and parameters on the fly: which subsystems use which method, the lower and upper limit for variable dt, number of iterations per render frame, and even value to use for fixed dt, all adjusting depending on framerate and state of the game.

A classic example of this is, during a big explosion you may need maximum precision on physics (fixed dt with low value), can afford variable dt on behaviour and interface (since stuff is just blowing up in the air), and can benefit from a low maximum dt that causes a bit of slow-motion (John Woo style!).

When you're doing multiplayer there's a lot less you can afford to change, because you need to keep timing sane and synced across clients & server. Everything depends on the game, the engine, the platform, and the dynamics of what the player is seeing.
I'd actually go so far as to say that the PHP ecosystem completely dwarfs the Rails ecosystem, and until my mom can upload a Ruby file to any cheap shared server and just have it work it always will.
Actually, I find that a lot of the metrics mentioned like uniques and pageviews are the ones that affect revenue for ad-driven startups. That's as real as it gets with metrics.

When it comes to ad-driven startups, you could actually say that the "real" metrics suggested, like active users and engagement, are the actual bullshit metrics. For many ad companies like Google(search) or YouTube, high engagement by the users adds nothing to the bottom line.
They are not; I was simply correcting the assertion I didn't like Java because it is verbose.
Not the first time, I would imagine...

see also:
http://xkcd.com/927/
Exactly. However the W3C have rather lost their claim to legitimacy after the XHTML2 debacle.
On the same subject and also peer-reviewed, there's the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy which is brilliant :
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
Right, I'm aware "that changed". I'm not sure that "an entity that wasn't Instagram, say a nightclub, couldn't use your pictures on their own promotional materials, advetising, or site without obtaining a separate license from you" is really true, though. If a night club was working in clear collaboration with Instagram and published your photos on its promotional materials, that would seem to be covered by Instagram's license to replicate your content in "any media formats through any media channels", as Instagram exercised their license to place it there.

As I said, they'd probably have difficulty operating as a blatant competitor to iStockPhoto, but I think if they'd structured things with a modicum of cleverness, their old ToS would allow them to get away with most of what's explicitly covered in the new ToS.
Ask HN: How frequently you visit HN?
I visit the site every couple of hours. HN has saved me a lot of time as instead of going on various blogs and sites I can get the all the relevant information here in one place.

How about you?
Foxconn Allegedly Manufacturing Amazon’s Smartphone Model
And you'll be waiting a long time because their motivations aren't even remotely similar. You know what a monopolist does to competitors? It gives products away for free to bankrupt the competition. Or it buys the compeitor out and shitcans the entire operation.

Apple is sitting on $100B in cash. If it really wanted to it could do a lot of damage with that much cash (not even talking about equity or assets, just cash). But it doesn't, it selectively invests while the tech journalists write articles about what Apple should be doing with that money.
WaveAccounting rolls out new version, users hate it
That's engineers' whole problem really, we think we deserve little so that's what we settle for. The flipside of what you're saying is that people will pay the price for something even if they value it much more highly than the price. Capitalism is amoral, sorry.
This is such a silly comic. There might be one more standard but its a step in the right direction and multiple vendors adopt the 15th standard sooner or later.
Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?
Reading HN one could come to the conclusion that start-up = website + marketing and that node.js, bootstrap and github are the only technologies you'll need. Now I'm not for a minute deriding either fantastic web based start-ups or wonderful new technologies. It's just that I work for a medical image analysis start-up and we build conventional technology, desktop applications for highly regulated clinical end users. Just what the diversity of HN readers is in terms of their role, technology, company size and domain. Perhaps I just want to know I'm not the only one who never learnt javascript...
Have you looked at APL or its derivatives like J and K? For certain types of work, and with experience, it's very terse and expressive.
What can I say, it's time to die.
My amateur marketing analysis follows...

"Brand extension is a crime against marketing and against common sense"
Agreed and it's an example of something Apple has gotten very right. Apple is the banner brand.

What is Apple? It's a hardware device manufacturer with mostly excellent software and services. You buy an Apple X and you're buying (post Mac but still applies):

iPod.

iPod smaller.

iPod much smaller.

iPod with a touch screen.

iPod with a touch screen and phone.

iPod with a touch screen, internet and much bigger.

iPod with a touch screen, internet and slightly bigger.

Some thinner, some fatter, some with cameras, some without.

They've almost never stumbled in extending the brand and creating new sub-brands because the initial umbrella brand isn't 'used in vain' or diluted.

What is Google? Google is an ad supported AI interface with occasionally excellent hardware, and genius software services. You buy a Google X and you're buying? It remains to be seen (although I suspect it's coming) what exactly the 'Google Nexus' is.

What is Microsoft? Microsoft makes Windows and Office, enterprise software and is a sticker on the side of other people's products. When you buy Microsoft Windows X you get??
>demand for rhino horn from Asia

I think that is better classified as "traditional Chinese medicine".

The other (more scientific?) traditional medicine in Asia - Ayurveda - has no usage of elements like rhino horn, tiger blood, etc.
Permian–Triassic extinction event
Single Microbe May Have Triggered World's Largest Mass Extinction
Using a single codebase for both Python 2 and 3 seems the most fashionable thing these days. It is, after all, the approach followed by Pyramid and Django. I also think it makes maintenance easier. The __future__ import is a consequence of it.
I visit the site 3-4 times in a day. I agree with you that HN is full of lots of awesome information.
Show HN: Facebook Legacy
There we go, thanks. At least the most important one was the one that was copied. :)
> how does this compare to theano? it seems like some of the ideas are similar?

It's quite similar, we just take some of the ideas farther and try to generalize the data storage to include storage backends that data scientists use more frequently ( i.e. SQL, CSV, S3, etc ). We're very friendly with the Theano developers and hope to bridge the projects with a compatibility layer at some point.

> (it gives the illusion of a python solution, but in practice you're off in some other world that only looks like python).

I would argue that's what make Python a great numeric language, and NumPy so succesfull. You get this high level language where you can express domain knowledge but also this 1:1 mapping between fast code execution at the C level. Blaze is the continuation of that vision

> i guess the AST is fed to something that does the work. and that something will have an API and be replaceable.

Precisely, we build up a intermediate form called ATerm out of the construction expression objects, do type inference, graph rewriting, and then pattern match our layout, metadata, and type information against a number of backends to find the most optimal one to perform execution. Or if needed we build a custom kernel with Numba informed by all this type and data layout information we've inferred from the graph.

We don't aim to solve all the subproblems in this area ( expression optimization passes, distributed scheduling ) but I think we have a robust enough system that others can build extensions to Blaze to do expression evaluation in whatever fashion they like.

> are there more details?

Yes! See: http://blaze.pydata.org/
How do you know what anything is worth? If something will make me $100, but you think it is only worth $10, then what is it worth? $10 or $100?

Finding the price that the market will bare is precisely how you determine a product's monetary value.

Side note: if you want to see a entrepreneurial community without morals, I could point you to some places that would make you reconsider your opinion of HN.
Because I don't think their products are so great, and I believe they're having a negative effect on the industry.
Its about how it occurs to the general public. HMers know that if they want to they can use your images, but I have seen people on my Facebook and Twitter saying this is too far and theyre not posting to Instagram anymore.
FWIW, from my profile:

I'm a PhD in Pure Maths (Combinatorics and Graph Theory)
from the University of Cambridge. My BSc(Hons) was in Pure
maths from Monash University, Australia. I work in industry
as a director of Innovation and Research, helping to create
equipment that does the maritime equivalent of Air-Traffic
Control. Basically, we provide kit to help people stop 30,000
tonne oil tankers from crashing into nuclear submarines.

The day job involves image processing, data compression, machine learning, behaviour analysis, user psychology, encryption, fault-tolerant systems, data merging, and some other stuff.
"a website is ugly and poorly designed, then its easy to think "Whoever made this didn't put a lot of effort into it, and may continue to not put effort into it."

Useful will still trump pretty, 9 times out of 10. Especially for a down-and-dirty, early-stage site or service. Think about CraigsList: the site looks like it could conceivably have existed on text-based interfaces in the early 1980s. And that simplicity is part of its ease of use.

I'm not suggesting good design doesn't matter. But pretty, for pretty's sake, is overrated. The primary goal of design is to entice people to use something, and to make using it as easy and rewarding as possible. Often, this means making something as minimalist as possible. Depending on your targeted early adopters, they may be willing to overlook an ugly site if they derive a lot of value from using it.

In a weird way, I almost have the opposite gut reaction to yours when I encounter an early-stage service. If it's too slick and professional looking, I start wondering where the dollars are being spent, and where the priorities are. Especially if the startup is pre-funded or bootstrapped. Champagne tastes on beer budgets are often harbingers of doom.

As a corollary, I will say that people seem a lot more forgiving of ugliness if the service is very novel. The more new-to-the-world your product or service is, the more people will put up with its warts and irregularities (at least in the beginning). Conversely, if your product is attemting to outcompete an established competitor, design becomes a fairly big priority: not graphic design, per se, so much as UX design (think: the simplicity of Google vs. the complexity of Yahoo).
I always have the Newest page loaded, it probably gets refreshed every 1-2 hours when I take a break from what I'm working on between 8am and 10pm GMT :)
> the game is unplayably choppy anyway so it doesn't even matter.

My point originally was about this statement of yours, that is purely conceptual and you skew the discussion to address the other part of your comment (or you through that was the point but didn't explain so in your answers)

But anyway, one assumption is that every game should have a fixed gamestep, in many single player games (real single player games) you don't want to do that, because is preferable that the user can see the ball coming to the player than to magically appear behind the player even if that is "timely correct"; the ball/interface going slow is a lot less frustrating that losing without realizing why. Platformers for PC with (virtual) high speed movements come to mind as a common example of this.

Even multiplayer games suffer of this; in most online FPS if the server suddenly slows down all the players start experiencing lag and everyone looks like they are "teleporting"; with a not-fixed-timestep you could slow everyone down so the problem becomes a lot less frustrating because the player still have complete control and understanding of their in-game character; just a bit slow-mo until the server speeds up to normal. The teleporting should be used only to sync with the server when the client connection is the one with problems updating.
Cloud broker Tapp.in fully integrates New Relic for state-of-the-art APM
It's also a full linux computer with networking capabilities. But you know, picking nits. You are quite right though. It's not 3D when you are watching it in a 2D video.
Yepp. As good, as one might find this move from the German regulators, one must wonder, why only one network is targeted. But that is nothing new here in Germany. Most often it is one symbolic network (often times Google), that is the target. So one might suspect, that this is nothing more than symbolic policy.

The data-protecting people in our government are toothless kittens, they have no real influence and these moves seem to me only to be made, to show, that they are still there and to justify their existence.

Sad to see, but there does not seem to be any real chance, that this will change.
Your model should be made more dynamic, to include that Amazon can adjust to new fraudulent methods. Once a method is discovered for making fraudulent purchases, it will be reused and broadened. Like the story of the Dutch boy and the dike, it will get larger and larger until it collapses. Amazon no doubt figures that they can plug the hole early enough, and reports like this are part of that detection system.
That was interesting, but the video cuts off right at the end. Here's the full vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpYrJs0rX84
Personal servers and unhosted web apps
Virtual currency isn't real money and I doubt it would create enough incentive for people to take their participation seriously enough to give you accurate predictions. The only way is to use real money.
Remotestorage - open protocol for per-user storage (IETF draft)
You have a strange definition of the word "unconditional". And of course all that doctrine contradicts itself in a lot of ways.

> God doesn't use hell as an instrument of coercion.

Oh yes, he very much does. The Christian god as portrayed in scripture is the worst imaginable kind of needy psychopath.

> We sink into hell under the weight of our own evil. We put ourselves there.

No we don't. Christian doctrine invented the concept of original sin to ensure that.

> But why do you want to vilify the God I love, call Him "the devil," call Him a rapist?

Because his followers insist that he acts like one.
I'm having a real hard time deleting my account, because I used plus addressing in the email when I signed up for Instagram. This is making it impossible for me to log in to the web version of Instagram which is as far as I can tell the only way to delete an account… Suppose I'll have to write support, if there is such a thing.
We also use python in production at plotwatt for machine learning. We started by prototyping in matlab and then porting to c++, but have since found it much much easier to just do everything in python and numpy. When speed was an issue, we slightly changed the way we implemented the algorithm rather than implement the same algorithm in a faster language. Admittedly this isn't always possible.
Lower Florida Keys here, haven't had a job within 300 miles of my home since 2003. Although I've lived in a few large cities with decent job markets, I settled here for reasons of personal choice and sanity. Like the author of this piece, I'm utterly unwilling to move (I'd sooner change professions; I'll be a USCG licensed boat captain soon). I understand the tradeoffs involved, and I work in a partnership of like-minded individuals around the country. The partnership gives us healthcare and retirement benefits, while the senior partner in LA has physical access to a large job market to keep us stocked with contracts, if we need more work.

Yes, there are tradeoffs. I probably won't advance in your company or have a prestigious resume, even though I've been working on Internet technologies since the early 1990s. I don't want to be a founder or first employee, I want to be your first contractor. You can even meet me, too; I've been known to fly out to conferences and company meetings.

For my part, I use the partnership's Redmine ticket system religiously, and the customer can see the solid results I deliver by working for the agreed-upon amount of hours (or more!) per day/week/month, and if the customer doesn't like the results (experience suggests most do, but some are better suited to cheap stuff from India), then they do not renew the contract.

Besides my zipcode, I get an interesting choice of working situations. I've been on conference calls while I had two divers in the water getting lobster. A week ago, my office was on the tailgate of the truck as my wife and I worked blue crab fishing holes. I may even be on the sailboat moored near a coral patch reef, a few miles out to sea (there is LTE up to 5nm out to sea generally, around here). I don't tell all clients about this; Some are cool with it, others would prefer to think I sit in an office all day. It doesn't matter, because in the end I'm serious about productivity, regardless of my surroundings (and this is why you won't generally find me trying to work from the countless bars down here, experience suggests it's bad for productivity, to put it mildly).

It isn't for every company, and it isn't for every developer. But it certainly works very well for some companies and some developers.
> Mainstream Christianity insists on the existence of hell, for example: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2O.HTM

That may be true but Catholicism is a really bad example when you had popes believing in apokatastasis.
I reported this to a friend of mine who works in fraud detection at Amazon.
Haters are going to hate.

What did you expect, based on the title?

Where did you get that it would be a hologram?
Instagram isn't about to become iStockphoto. There's no way they're going to let people buy pictures of other people to do what they want with them. More likely they want the option to use photos to help advertise. For example showing photos taken at a hotel on the hotels website or on the hotels facebook page without users moaning that they're being used without permission.