skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet creates big pockets of social groups that have no consideration of age, race, social status, etc. There's an interesting side-effect of looking for validation from your peers when you don't know what those people are actually like. We can act more mature by looking up to a mature audience, we can look down on a less mature audience, or we can resonate with the values of a less mature audience. I went from Digg to reddit to HN mainly due to interests/content, but also because I looked up to the more mature audiences. Some people will stick to platforms where they are entertained by immaturity and seek those people's validation by mimicking them.
tl;dr Do non-scalable things to reach product/market fit, then do scalable things
It doesn't change any business models

So how's life at RIM these days? You guys hiring?
No idea, but I'm of particularly interest because their performance numbers are abysmal. There has to be something else going on here.

1 second per thousand records is not fast :/.
This was normal during the housing bubble in almost all the european capitals.
They really don't look that bad. Everything's relative I guess.
One key bit here is Gary Flake, the founder/CEO of Clipboard is a industry legend and is a key hire (I believe he's going to become VP of Engg at Salesforce). If a talent acquisition, Salesforce is getting great talent.
> Strictly my opinion?

In the sense that it's not fact. It's a personal preference which you and many others hold.

> Hardly. Some neo-liberals aside (and them constrained in the US) it's the opinion of most of the world.

And here lies the crux of your argument. That by being a majority you're justified to act in a way you normally wouldn't. Taking x % of someone's income is normally unjust, but if you outnumber the guy -- all is fair. Because a mob approves of theft, you redefine it as taxation. I can go with that, but don't paint me as the bizarro one.
Have you considered ccache?

http://ccache.samba.org/

You could also roll your own in a very few lines of code. Maybe even have the output of the program, not the compiled code, be the content of the hashed file, assuming you aren't reading STDIN or anything like that from the user.
huh... a road rage story in response to a post that talked a bit about road rage compared to cyber-bullying and safety in anonymity, etc. It sounded on topic in my head.
It's not being shut down :)
I think some areas depend on city size. Moving from New Mexico to (southwest) Virginia I realized that small-town southern cities are extremely backward, especially with racism. However, head North to the northern 1/3 of VA and it's as diverse and accepting as any decent city.
> > Doctors order tests to help them choose the right treatments.
> No they don't, except in very rare cases. Doctors order tests to make a diagnosis. The treatment follows from that.

What I said didn't contract what you said. If test => diagnosis => treatment then test => treatment.
(I'm one of the devs.)

Thanks for the link! Real time is a pretty big constraint, and the input for those results is a much more complete labeling than we expect (only 22 to 44 pixels around the ground truth boundary are left uncertain). But I'll definitely read the paper and hopefully we can gain some insights from it!
Ask HN: Do software agencies need a niche?
Howdy HN,

TL;DR - This year a friend and I started a software dev. agency (http://inoutput.io). Previous experience leading dev teams (for similar companies), building startups, and can offer everything from web/mobile/desktop...

So my question is - do you think software/web agencies benefit from specializing in a particular area? (e.g Android apps, or internal business software) - as opposed to "we build everything"?

So far for us it's all good (3 months in). We love building software, and are not losing money. Our work is quite varied - from complex cross-mobile apps, to static HTML sites. But more thinking about where we are heading, and how best to get there.
Valid point. My phrasing was very short and easily misinterpreted . I'd love to be able to express it in some more positive way; this topic is something I've put a lot of thought into.

My central concern is that as technology has advanced it has been easier and easier for humans to live in larger and larger groups. As the potential for our embarrassing moments to become viral memes which spread around the world has grown so has the potential for these kind of moments to utterly destroy someone's confidence, if not life.

I do hope some kind of solution is found. I just can't see how. We're fighting against progress. Some kid making a fool of themselves in a small tribe of ~100 people is manageable. When the fool's audience suddenly becomes every internet connected person on the planet it is hard to sit everyone down and quietly explain "hey, maybe you should lay off starwars kid".
Is there anywhere I can read about the mac mini backend for this? Sounds interesting.
Ask HN: Any interest in a Sydney (Aus) Hacker News meetup?
It was 3 years ago this question was last asked and although a few people responded, I don't know if anything has happened since then.

I am happy to organise one if there is some interest.

I'm the instructor for Sydney Dev Camp and the students in my class are keen to meet and share ideas with like-minded people.
Cool, I'll have to check that out. The "Routes on a Map" tracking feature seems like it could be pretty interesting if you collect enough data.
Pinboard seems like a great product; IIRC the person behind it ran it as a one person shop? I suppose that could account for the service issues!
People like you are the reason they do it. If you stopped being such a pussy maybe they'd stop trying to get a rise out of you.
Yeah, the $100k is a red herring. The issue is not how much it costs, but what it does, and I don't see the Model S as doing anything that incumbents already don't.

You don't skate toward the puck, you skate where the puck is going. This kind of thinking is why, for example, Toyota was able to build the Prius and GM wasn't.

Japanese manufacturers started earlier, building up the necessary experience, technology, and culture at a time when nobody could sell hybrids without heavy subsidies. They took losses for years, learned the hard lessons early, and kept the disasters small. Then, when the market was finally ready, they were, too.

That's what Tesla is doing... but despite countless historical examples of market disruption, the incumbents will react with great surprise when they get their asses kicked. Today the car costs $100K. Tomorrow they will know how to build one that costs $10K.
> A USB stick loaded with FIDO software could also work, allowing users to authenticate to computers they don't own.

Much easier. Malware will just switch to stealing those instead.
Are you saying PyPy is unreadable?

I have not read large amounts of it, but the interpreter is written in RPython. Surely it's easier to read than the CPython source?
This isn't about what "you" want.

It is about what large companies want.
Just a bug - https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/332583914818379776
That's not how I read it. Section 2(b) of the bill would require the Dept. of Commerce, within 9 months of enactment, to submit a report to Congress detailing:

>	(A) the impact of section 1201 of title 17, United States Code, on consumer choice, competition, and free flow of information;

>	(B) whether section 1201 of such title should be reformed in part, reformed entirely, or repealed;

USC Title 17 §1201[1] is the circumvention part of the DMCA.

[1]: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
This is really slick. I work at a newspaper where we do a lot of cutouts and I've looked at several automatic tools to save people time, and I think this is the best I have seen in terms of balancing ease of use with accuracy.

The only thing I might suggest is that for photos with softer edges, you might offer some degree of "feathering" on the edges of the cut out. I don't know how hard this is with your algorithm, but it seems like it might be an easy fix.
Nothing compels met to, just used to opera for the last 10 years
C#'s ?? operator is also relevant:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173224.aspx
Redis on Windows – new version and NuGet Packages
Funny you should mention this. My first thought was, is it an OK place for a latino?
Crowdshout are doing something similar to this. Generally, push notifications are a great idea, though convincing people to download the app is trickier.
Yeah, totally agree on that. Maybe best to take it off.
LinuxDevices.com vanishes from the Web
Harvest has a time tracking extension/plugin for Trello. I believe there are others
I only have anecdotal evidence, but the whole "setting strict limits and boundaries" as some panacea to parenting seems wrong to me. I think bad results for "permissive" parents are more about parents who don't give a shit about their kids, dysfunctional homes. My parents were loving and kind but extremely permissive. Not once was I or my sister told to be home by a certain time, not to get drunk or do drugs or stay away from railroad tracks. They treated us with respect and gave us the chance to figure out what we should do. That's an extremely difficult thing for a parent to do, but they did so out of love, not negligence. The biggest problem was visiting friends' houses and be bossed around by their parents, with arbitrary and strict rules. Never enjoyed that very much.
There also seems to be an impermanence to commenting on a video, especially one that's popular, because responses (unless sufficiently up-voted) don't stick around, and there's no way to easily search through them.

So a YT comment stream takes on a party line vibe and (IMO) there's not much point taking the time to write something thoughtful.

Mainly when I have commented is on videos on niche subjects when I'm reasonably sure the video poster/artist/producer will see it.
He's also a super-nice guy and went to grad school at U Maryland -- go terps!
Sounds like the person who's sitting next to me in the coffee shop will be able to log in to my bank if he loads the web page faster than I do.
Right, this is what I proposed. We should democratically agree to use the threat of violence to steal money from everyone to pay for medical services for everyone.
Been living in New york for almost 30 years now and these places are not bad. Trust me, there is much worse out there.
This is just what we need. Idiots from Paypal shaping the interwebs.
Inequality & Mass Transit in the Bay Area
I haven't seen Perl vs. PyPy stats, but here is some CPython vs. PyPy benchmarks:

http://speed.pypy.org/
It's not clear to me what you are proposing. Particularly, the source of funding in your proposal seems to be something like "A miracle occurs, and then the healthcare org is sufficiently funded to pay for people's health care."

One could just as easily ask "Which is the greater moral disservice - a global food distribution network that ensures every person will have safe sustenance, or letting people starve because of regional droughts, tyrannical governments, and currency speculators?" but the question does not apparently lead to any actionable policy decisions.
(I'm one of the devs.) Thanks! Yes, adding user-controlled edge blur is a great idea. So much to do, so little time.
>>>7-year New Yorker here.

>>>The high rents here are driven by (a) asshole foreign speculators that the government irresponsibly lets into the market, when a 6-months-and-1-day rule is really in order, (b) various legacy rent-control systems that wouldn't be a big deal except in the context of extreme price inelasticity

Um, no. Second-generation life-long New York native here.

These insane prices are driven up by people like you who come here, don't know the proper prices, don't know why the hell we have rent control or what it is and never check to see if you're being ripped off, and so drive everything the hell up. Period.
Very cool. Stalled each time for me at the "initializing" phase when using Safari 6.0.1 (OS X 10.8.2), but worked like a charm in Chrome.
i forgot to mention FREE DOWNLOAD!
JavaScript implementation of LDA Topic Modeling
I find it to be a good way for recruiters to find me. That may or may not be something that you want.
Show HN: The best thing I made nobody uses
Open Compute Project To Develop An Open Switch
There's nothing wrong with selling to the right suitor but completely shutting down the product?

Is anybody building a company for the long-haul these days, or has the home flipping bubble just moved over to the startup world?

We need to start a trend / honor system for startups to sign so users know they won't be shafted down the road.

I'm going to start a startup that has some standard legal docs that says you won't shut the company/product down even if acquired (disregarding business failure). You get a quality-mark type badge for your site.
Is it just me or do I really have to answer to Moby-Dick trivia while coding Objective C?

On the 1st level, I couldn't progress unless I used 'Ishmael' as firstName and 'Moby-Dick' as lastName.
> Almost a billion viewers across the planet know him as the Star Wars Kid

Yeah.. I don't think so.
just a thought, but it might make a better browser extension, maybe call it "alwayslucky"?

Seems a little out-of-the-way to go to instantica.com anytime I want to search something and look at the first result

Other than that, interesting concept... I didn't think it would be too useful, and well... to put it bluntly, I don't think it is yet, but there is definitely a usecase for it. Maybe you could also redirect to a regular google search if it's not what you're looking for? or maybe it could show the top 10 on some sort of easily visible area before going to the google search?

What I'm really getting at is -- what if it's the case that the first thing ISN'T what the person was looking for? what do you do then?
Not just "word of mouth", but ABC News (Channel 7) pushes it pretty heavily. In fact, the app has their ads much of the time.
Hey everyone!

I wrote this little thing a few years ago to easily share links with my friends. You just add a bookmarklet and click it on the page you want to share, select who you want to share it with and it emails them. No accounts or anything necessary.

It's been amazingly useful and that's how my friends and I share links daily, but, for some reason, I can't convince people to give it a shot. Any hints or tips would be appreciated.
Open Source Cloud Is Failing To Gain Traction
I think the barrier you describe has helped lead to the phenomenon of claiming 'I was just trolling' or some variation of that comment when people are called out on inappropriate behaviour on the internet.
This is going to EXPLODE all over the Internet!
>>>In New York, either that isn't the law, or it just gets violated a lot more often.

That. The city is infested with illegal apartments that would never pass fire inspections.
That's the worst possible lesson to take from this. I watched this video and I laughed at it. But that doesn't mean I ever thought the kid was a loser, or that I thought he deserved ridicule. Everyone does embarrassing things in their life. Everyone. It would be the height of ridiculousness to attempt to hide every embarrassing thing anyone has ever done from the world. Especially today. And it would be even sillier to attempt to prevent people from laughing at embarrassing moments.

What is more important is to encourage compassion and discourage ridicule and bullying. The difference between laughing at embarrassing moments and using such events as a basis for bullying is not at all subtle. There are light-years of difference between someone saying "this is hilarious" and someone saying "kill yourself".
AudioBox lands on Android: stream from your favorite cloud
The issue is that the client can be bugged. A provider can have a solid client-side encryption solution, but silently switch the client distributed to users of interest to an identical version which also phones home with their passwords.

It's possible to verify that your code was signed with your provider's certificate, but how do you know it's the right client? How do you know it's the same one that's been peer-reviewed? We'd need a bulletproof way for the browser to check the hash of JavaScript before executing it. Unless you're going to copy/paste and MD5 the source for GMail every time you check it.

The tools to be sure of the executable you're running really only exist for desktop software right now.
Much of the problem rests with the absolutely insane way that schools work. They encourage bullying and social isolation, they have become almost like prisons, and provide very little benefit in actual education in exchange.
>The book bares all about how the parenting model worked for her older daughter Sophia, now 17 and heading off to an Ivy League college, but backfired dramatically for her younger girl, Louisa, or Lulu, who is now 14

Why do we associate attending an Ivy League institution as a 17 / 18 year old for an undergraduate education as some sort of metric for success?

I mean, I'm not going to be naive and insist that the worthwhile life doesn't look at results and instead only looks at the journey, but to consider one's parenting model as "working" at age 17 because one's child is going to Ivy league is hilariously short-sighted (unless you're planning for your child to die a lot sooner than most people).

My TL;DR point is follows:

17 years is too short to draw any conclusions on how successful a person's life is so the jury should still be out on Tiger Mothering.
Google's approach here does seem heavy-handed.

If they actually do it, will enough customers jump ship to represent an opportunity for competitors large and small? Or will Google be willing/able to change to a more conservative course if too many people don't like the changes? Or do people have high enough trust in Google (or high enough switching costs) that they'll grouse about this at first but eventually get used to it, and actual reductions in the customer base will be small?
Thank you - selling seems to be finding something of value to a person, and just asking.
>>>Someone wants to live in one of the most populous cities in the world with quite high density and also expects a more luxurious setting and a low price?

Yes, because that is how New York City used to be. This crap of these illegal one rooms are driven by people who don't give a shit for native New Yorkers or the laws at all.
Silicon Valley for Canadian startups
Can you recommend any tools for this? LibreOffice butchers XLS files.
> To the kind of people that think encrypted email is important

Are you really okay with the police reading your email at any time for any reason?

I would understand your attitude if email was already protected and encryption could only serve to hide from search warrants and wiretap orders, but that's not the case. The government can and does read our email whenever it pleases. How are you okay with this?
I did the "attractive women" thing (took a hit for the team, for science) and that was absolutely true. The odd thing was, the first random girl I clicked on was this girl I kinda had a crush on in college (all my "People you may know" recommendations were from college, even as I'm three years out) who happened to be Asian. Then...all of the "Also Viewed" were fairly attractive, well-groomed Asian women. Isn't that interesting? I thought at the very least it would break me out of race, but apparently they're their own class.

The other thing I'll say is perhaps this author is tapped out of "People you may know" and LinkedIn is simply guessing . Mine looks fairly reasonable, random, and not like they were digging particularly deep.
Hello folks,
BlackBerry and Ubuntu One Music support is up next.

Let us know if you have a cloud service that you would like to see integrated!
Congrats on creating a great product. Add watermarking please!
> has the home flipping bubble just moved over to the startup world?

If this is "flipping" anything, it's flipping the team. I doubt there was much of a pay out for this.
>>> If you rent this sort of apartment then you should be prepared to live a lifestyle that

... might include roasting to death due to a fire blocking your only egress.
The animation was a bit too quick to make that behaviour obvious, so I just tried without it the first time. I thought it was a bug.

The second time I loaded an image, it did the same thing, and only then did I actually click Help.
The northern third of VA is basically the DC metro area.
Bookmarking services are the new stock market it would seem. Feels like there have been numerous acquisitions and shutdowns of bookmarking services in the last 12 months. A good talent acquisition on Saleforce's part in the form of Gary Flake. He's regarded as one of the best engineers in the industry, he's really smart and will no doubt bring a lot of value to Salesforce.

I understand a lot of people are frustrated, but at the end of the day, you're using a free service and to be honest not many start-ups are in it for the long-haul. Clipboard never quite got the traction it deserved.
Downvoting me is just denial. Own up to it.
Edit HTML online more easily
Unfortunately, that would be hard due to myriad of local rules and regulations that may impede this. For example, in my county public property records are not accessible on the web because some law prohibits publishing some details on government officials, and since some government officials own property that means their details can be taken from there which means to access public records I have to physically drive to government building and ask clerks to give me the info verbally. Pretty annoying since it does not add privacy (the data is still public) but make me waste 2 hours for something that I could have done in 2 minutes.
What's faster than a fastball? Your brain.
3D-printed guns: State Department orders firm to remove web blueprints
I was sad about the shutdown, calling stupid names and all that. But then I tried the export feature and it is great. Now I have complete offline copy of all my clips.
History has taught us if you want to change something within Congress, you need a lot of lobbying cash to buy off as many key votes as possible. While it makes sense to allow cell phone unlocking (here in Australia it's legal) I have a feeling those who benefit off of locking you in will be spending some of their lobby change as well. That's not to say the bill won't pass though, there is still a chance if enough people make enough noise and ask questions, flood the airway.
Very cool! I've seen this technique before in research papers and their videos, but not as actual software.

The one suggestion I would make is to follow Photoshop's shortcuts. Space-Drag to move the image, [ or ] to change the brush size, scroll wheel to zoom (already there), and letters to select the various brushes.
Cleaning Radar Images using Neural Nets and Computer Vision
http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2010/2009_fdny_year_end.pdf

I don't know you, but I can tell you with confidence that you have better things to worry about.
Is there an alternative company you can just subscribe to without having to get a call from their sales guys, if not i'll make the call but ideally I just want to sign up and use it.
one of the early name ideas for Clipboard was tidbit. :)
Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome
> The regime is still alive because no outside force is really doing anything.

Do you even read the news?

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/05/killing-syria...

You clearly haven't got a clue about the events of the past 2 years.
They popularized the idea and the term used to refer it. Obviously their anecdotes don't prove anything.
Mui elegante, sir.
yeah thats what you get in zone 1. used to do some refurbishment work, its amazing how you can go from £500/month with a solid building to £500/week with something thats barely holding together, in just a few streets.
northern virginia is a coastal 'elite' area DC metro.

definitely not 'flyover country' as the original post described.