skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mapping the Apache Software Foundation
A visualization of ASF projects and their relationships, based on the social network graph of individual projects.
I'm traveling this week, but email me a reminder next Monday and I'll share a workflow using solely Apple free tools to get your photos into Lightroom. I'm a little surprised how much misinformation is in this thread.

(Btw, I feel Dropbox is an outrageously expensive solution to this.)
I'm reminded of an SF story (Reynolds?) in which a set of three identically-sized bodies in orbit were the one indisputable relic of an alien civilization - maybe a work of art, maybe a demonstration of power, maybe something else.
> What can we learn that we can apply to technology in general? I feel like "programmers" and "IT" tend to be undervalued while Data Science tends to be accurately or even overvalued.

Given that Data Scientist is just a sexier rephrasing of Analyst, my suggestion would be to retitle Programmers as Computational Engineers. Or use Lisp.
If your team is checking in to the central repository such personal things as config files for development environments, you've got bigger problems. Sure, occasional snippets (such as a .dir-locals.el for style), but whole configs? WTF?
Challenges with sports analytics
That's cool, and attractive, and visually appealing.

I do have a request. Look at stuff like "Belbruno Orbits" "Low energy transfer orbits" "ITN Interplanetary Transport Network". Then look at the nice clean easy to use visualizer we're linked to. Then do the obvious merger of the two...

Yes I already know there's a way to visualize Belbruno orbits with ORSA or other full fledged simulation packages, but its not quite as easy and convenient as this webpage.

You know what would make an interesting web standard or maybe startup idea? A universal internet standard free dynamics system. Not just for orbits but even physics 101 basic kinematics. Think of like the animated drawing blueprints on "Mythbusters" but simply include a javascript package of some type (or whatever) and then the end user merely provides three things: enumerated list of URL for sprite graphics, starting conditions for those objects both simple coordinates and maybe "hidden" variables, and the math equation(s) governing. Not general purpose "here's mathematica in node.js" just dynamics.
> That's a nice thought, and if you take it a bit further, you may end up thinking there should be no government at all

Which is good, because I also miss the days where the man with the biggest club had the power.
But who are the new ninjas?
"Passthought" Glass unlocking? ;-)

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70726?...
I use Ubuntu on my personal computer and for my side projects, but I'm stuck using Windows at work. In any case, I don't develop in PHP so the question was academic.
I've heard of Salt Stack[1], though I've never used it. From what I can tell, it can be used to do the same thing.

[1] http://docs.saltstack.com/
Are you scraping the site to build it?
Monoculture used to be a dirty word.
DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats
I took one look at how iPhoto stores the pictures years ago and said "no way" (same with storing my music in iTunes). My SMB network share has been working quite well for me, connect all my Windows and Mac computers and my Android phone and tablets to my share.. backed up to another USB drive. Has been working well for over a decade for me. iTunes and iPhoto are primary reasons I don't do Apple products.
Did you consider that one of my commitments might be "Come into the office on time and spend eight hours at work?"
Thank you for the dose of reality. People forget the technical realities of video vs photos.
No you don't which I count as a feature, but I understand the opposite side. I can export my photos locally, but already my photo collection is larger then the storage space on my phone, tablet or Chromebook so a syncing solution wouldn't help on those platforms.
My main objection to it is that this rebranding of statistics (and machine learning I suppose) obscures the deep political connection statistics has[1] and in so doing obscures the fact it's going to have major political ramifications across this century. Happy clappy summer of code donations from Google to EFF or the Sunlight Foundation are entirely not proportional to the extremely high level of abuse that could potentially stem from these technologies (see the use of IBM sorting machines in the Holocaust).

Technology at a basic level amplifies agency, certain techniques and their resultant technologies have benefited individuals and citizens more than State agencies and with others it's been the inverse. I think we are moving into an stage where there is potential for massive recentralisation of control in various domains.

But this is HN, not a political discussion forum, most of the 'frighteningly ambitious ideas' to grace these pages are to do with pushing out more ads or other such pablum. PG isn't a philanthropist and YC isn't a charitable foundation; HN is naturally aligned with those objectives.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_statistics#Etymolog...
Yahoo’s video ambitions continue with reported Hulu talks
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For anyone having this problem, check out MyShoebox. It's exactly what Peter is suggesting, plus it works on Android and Windows as well.

1) Full collection in the cloud with access or upload from any device
2) Unlimited backup... for free! Okay, slight caveat, the free plan is downsized, but for $5 a month it keeps original resolution.
3) A merged camera roll across all devices (including old devices)
4) API coming soon
5) Lots of clever auto-sorting. We search and sort on about 25 filters, and use that data to automatically find interesting sets to surface on the explore page

http://shoeboxapp.com
Which skills do you need to become a Chief Data Officer?
By using Windows 8, I discovered I'm much more of a visual thinker than I thought. When I want to launch Excel, I know where it is in the menu and what the icon looks like, but the name "excel" doesn't necessarily come to mind. I just want to launch a spreadsheet program, or a CD burning program, or a graphics program. Having to type the name is a serious slow down. And I'm a Windows programmer with 20 years experience!
"Dropbox (if they stopped syncing everything everywhere)" THIS.
The 2010 proposal included key escrow or some form of a back door. They seem to have dropped that from this latest proposal, probably because they did not want to revive the same old fight.
6 Lessons I’ve Learned Building Matchist So Far
How iPhoto stored photos years ago and now are very different. Today iPhoto uses the scalable Aperture library SQLite DB for fast indexing and searching (open same library in both programs), but stores photos in simple directory structure (folders dated by import date) as original untouched files.
Everpix doesn't support Android just yet I believe - someone correct me if i'm wrong!
Take fewer, better photos.
iOS development is in the works.
I don't think this qualifies as "big" data... it's just data visualization.

The fact you were running it on just one server should have been a clue.
Yahoo’s Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See
If you check out the next version of angular (currently 1.1.5) it includes an enhanced ngClick directive in a mobile module that handles click / touch directly to overcome the 300ms delay, etc.

Initiate it with app.module('myapp', ['ngMobile'], .. )
This is a pretty fluffed up article that missed the wave of "data scientists are awesome" articles last year.

But I think it's important to not underestimate the shift that has been happening. The race to automate tasks has always been accelerating, but it hit an inflection point a few years ago when mainstream business people realized what current technology can achieve. Pretty much every industry I've seen has been or can be drastically transformed by better data management and predictive analytics.

It's going to affect all of us, so I think it's worth following closely.
According to the article, at this point they've given up on the idea of disabling end-to-end encryption or holding keys in escrow, due to the concern that hackers could use the same backdoors.

From what I can tell, the proposal is that a judge would be order to order a technically-feasible wiretap, and be able to fine the company for not complying.

The problem is that "technically feasible" would be up to the judge, so the company would need to be able to explain via their lawyers why a given wiretap could not actually be implemented.
What is Failure?
As someone who first got on the internet in 1995 at the age of 17, I know that feel.
This is true, but storage is dropping and don't forget Amazon makes a profit on those prices so the cost is cheaper. It would potentially be a loss leader - generally people still don't take much video compared to photos.
HP faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal
Startups Should be Wary of Disruptive Technologies
Repo here: https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI
Wasn't talking about parent post but rather a more general dump of information. I'm a Canadian Software Engineer myself needing ~11months more experience before I get my P.Eng.
"periodic motions where the n bodies all follow one another at regular intervals along a closed path"

Out of curiosity, does someone has any idea where is this applicable (& already is applied)? I'm already starting to imagine some different scenarios (maybe in hydraulics, computer networks, etc)...
Thanks, will do. I agree about Dropbox, I have no intention of adding additional space for this, however, I like the integration it offers on phones etc.
Ubuntu Might Get OSX-Like App Installer, New Simplified Packaging Format
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You're not the only one, if the Dropbox desktop clients acted more like the mobile clients then it would work well...
That's about $10 Million a year. And, like you said, that's where it starts.

Look at the fines that they are imposing on companies that don't comply with Affordable Care Act. Some will incur fines upwards of a $1 Million/day.

I think even Facebook and Google would feel $365 Million a year in fines.
Has anyone figured out any meaning behind these numbers? Or are they just random?
The parasite part was clearly referencing the earlier clogging up the public roads without paying for the privilege part of his comment.
Yeah, it confused me at first as well, but I ran `file` to see what was going on and that clued me in.
There are two things you could mean here.

One is that you are, like a lot of people, modestly averse to doing something novel that seems hard. (E.g., "I could never run a 5k." Actually you could; you just don't know how to get there from where you are.) That's a solvable problem. The main trick is to get started; oonlynce you are doing research on customers, the hacker part of your brain will have data and something to start optimizing, so you'll be fine.

If that's you, try something like Lean Startup Machine. I volunteer as a mentor for it, and the team context and short timelines force you to get out there and start bothering random strangers. Who it turns out are not bothered at all, and are happy to talk. Once you get good at it, it's even fun. From there, read a few of the Lean Startup books; they're full of techniques.

The other thing you could mean is that you are literally terrified of dealing with potential customers. That is also not unusual. Programmers skew shy. The main reason I spent most of my teenage years learning to code was that I was awkward and people were scary.

If that bothers you, go see somebody about it. Call up a few therapists and have a meeting with the ones you like. If you find somebody solid, dig into the social anxiety. I know it goes against the hacker ethos to spend 20 hours dealing with a professional when you could spend 200 or 2000 hours trying to solve the problem yourself. But in this case, I think it's worth trying to get quickly to the think you really want to do, which is make and sell some things that people are excited to buy.
Never heard of n-Body choreographies before and beautifully lost 5 minutes of my life. Thanks a lot for this. really great and quite interesting.
Are these tears of laughter or rage?
Price transparency wouldn't help in most cases. If my deductible is the same whether I get the $8,000 procedure or the $38,000 (same) procedure, why should I care? I bet the $38,000 one is better.

That's not my specific take, but I bet the majority of Americans would take that argument.
There are quite a few also here: http://www.maia.ub.es/dsg/nbody.html Don't expect anything fancy: you need to untar the file and have gnuplot to make it work.

Carles was one of the teachers in the PhD program I was (or am? I'm finishing my PhD thesis so I don't know how the timing has to be considered) in.
Handily, Aperture lets you use the camera generated preview from the EXIF.

Aperture and iPhoto use same library DB packages now, and Aperture's a cheap upgrade if you've outgrown iPhoto's consumer family interface. Aperture lets your organize any way you want, to any depth, with nesting of any kind within any kind.
> Isn't that awesome? But ... "the philosophical assumptions fail, and human immortality through uploading is fundamentally impossible".

To boil it down: They assume roughly that simulating the state and functionality of the neurons is sufficient to reproduce consciousness.

If there's something more to consciousness - say for example that consciousness requires the specific organisation of matter of the human brain - then uploading, at least into software, will fail.
In terms of scaling, how do you deal with prioritizing two different buyers claiming the same time period of a single seller?
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Very cool. Equally scary?

Ripple effects and unpredictable consequences as they (and other engineered plants and animals) inevitably find their way into nature and impact second and third level food chains and ecosystems.

Can't stop it - better to embrace and carefully manage - and the upside is of course enormous.
My thoughts are that I'm going to be in this industry for another 30 years if not longer so I want the title to hold and have when I need it. I work directly alongside P.Eng. engineers so its much easier as my work is a lot closer to electronic engineers than most software.

For someone not requiring it there are often provisions on each regulatory body's to get it down the line by providing cases of past work experience validated by a P.Eng. no matter when it happened.
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What exactly is your complaint here? Are you opposed to sales taxes on principle? If not, what's your complaint? Properly accounting for sales and business taxes, as well as following other laws, in a jurisdiction in which you do business is a basic cost of doing business. The U.S. just happens to be a country of 50 sovereign jurisdictions, each with autonomy in how they structure their sales and business taxes. Does this make accounting for taxes complicated? Sure. It makes lots of things complicated. But we did it on purpose. Why should Congress insulate you from that reality?

The internet certainly makes it easier to say take orders from people in many different jurisdictions at once, but why should you get to avoid the other business realities of operating in multiple jurisdictions just because you're an internet business? You might see everyone as just an IP address, but in the real world, groups of those IP addresses are parts of sovereign entities called state and national governments, and each of those groups are governed by different laws. Just being an internet business shouldn't insulate you from the reality that exists once you break through the IP address abstraction.
Thankfully, your deal beaker is accounted for, just turn off thumbnail and preview generation, done.
Bossa co-founder urges next-gen social game developers to ditch Facebook.
that sounds like an awesome slope to slip down on. let's get rid of all of those ridiculous terms.

how about we just use the oh so boring "professional" instead? i want respect from society for my work, not a cute pet title co-opted from other industries, where they can use these terms with a straight face and without rolled eyes from the audience.
Nothing actionable in the article nor in these comments. Some folks use hashtable as a default container - is that premature optimization? Wouldn't a vector do? Which one is 'evil' and which one is right?
"maybe something else."

Alien contact sci-fi plots usually operate from human experience of conquest or a couple other ideas that are way too serious. I've often thought an interesting new plot idea would be a practical joke. Squaring a circle is so crude but still kinda funny. We know ringworlds are unstable so for a peculiar definition of funny, a stable apparent ringworld (perhaps built with stealthy invisible stabilizing structures or something). An apparently long term stable 3 body equal mass orbit would count as a practical joke. I'm just saying a story about an artifact that appeals to a stage magician with some sneakiness might be a fun change of pace from an artifact designed to appeal to the physicists and .mil generals and computer scientists.

I wonder what an alien would think of watching a really accomplished human stage magician. "Holy F these guys have teleporters who couldda guessed?" "Whoa some members of this species are also telepaths?" "These guys can bioassemble/replicate a living rabbit using lab gear that fits in a modest top hat?"
I guess this a little bit of a hacky, complicated way to do it, but I think it might solve part of the problem.

Setup a cheap VPS/Dedicated server to host all your images.
A good example is BuyVM Storage VPS ($7/month for 250gb) or Kimsufi (10€ /Atom dedicated with 500gb HD).

From what I see, people don't want to sync their stuff so much as it's keeping a copy on their computer, but they want a on the fly solution to edit, modify pictures etc.

1. Setup OwnCloud. Unless someone can think of a better solution, it's probably the easiest and there's already a iOS/Android app, so you sync all your pictures and what not.

2. Setup Samba/AFP. This is pretty easy, it's a bit harder to setup Bonjour for Mac people, but it's not really necessary.

3. (Optional) Setup a VPN, OpenVPN AS comes to mind as its simple as typing apt-get openvpnas (Debian guy here).

Now you would have your own private cloud for under $15/month. Of course if your outside Europe/USA like me the upload speeds are gonna be pretty crap and probably not good enough for Lightroom editing and whatnot, but if you are I reckon the speeds would be fine. I have both a BuyVM VPS and Kimsufi dedicated, and I can easily hit over 10mb/s download/upload on both instances.
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> but the performance is always behind a native application

But the performance will always behind a native application.
Five years in advance? That's nuts. My time in five years will likely be twice as valuable as it is now. I also find "set by the market, with the seller's right to set a floor" dubious .. what market dictates this? Prices vary wildly from location to location, even for the same individual should they decide to move in the interval between the original order and its eventual fulfillment.

Further, how responsive does the freelancer have to be to their client? Do they have to drop everything at a moment's notice or risk liability for the investment?

You have a novel idea, but it is checkered with question marks.
As for the physics, you can clearly see flags waving and trees moving, as well as birds flying and water running.
Well, Windows Phone uploads photos to skydrive and you can sync skydrive onto your desktop/tablet,etc.
They do offer selective sync which can be configured on a folder level in the settings. I've been using this for a while now to save space on device like the MBA with limited space on solid state drives.
CocoaConf Alt canceled for WWDC
ProjectLocker: Pulse
It is confused to give data science much credit for the success of Netflix. Netflix succeeded because of content, wide platform availability, and solid marketing. They ran a million dollar prize contest that ultimately did nothing for their code base, but did generate a lot of positive press.
I'm surprised retainer arrangements didn't get more discussion here, since that was pretty important to my cashflow when I freelanced. For larger clients, that was a standard part of the deal: most months, even without an active project, they'd need a few hours of my time to tweak something, do some maintenance, add a feature, etc. The retainer arrangement allows developers to guarantee availability of a certain number of hours per month to the client, and in return, establishes some baseline reliable revenue.
I noticed there were a lot of designmodo links being tossed around over there too, but let's considering LV's DMCA's "proof" were open-source icons to begin with, I wouldn't call it a rip. That said, it's tacky that this is what constitutes good design right now.
Ask HN:untracked vacation days - what does it mean?
I am considering a job offer that claims that my vacation days won't be tracked. While it sounds like I can take holidays for as long as I want, I know that can't be really true.
What does it mean?
Freeing "Feeds": From Paid App to Open Source
It has recently become popular on HN to write "this" as if it is a complete thought. I don't understand this usage of "this". Can someone enlighten me?
Nothing bad, if you've done backup properly (i.e. three copies; two local, one remote.)

Mirrored drives on your desktop plus an account with Blackblaze (~$5/mo. for unlimited storage), and you're covered. Done and done.
Thank you for your kind comments.

The lowest tier of service will remain free after the beta is finished. The free tier gives you access to a lot less resources, but it should still be useful.

Within the next week, we'll be pushing Ipython clustering. You'll be able to pay for additional compute nodes of various sizes and Wakari will provision them and integrate them into an Ipcluster.
It's as simple as "doing" (creative) vs "using" (consuming).

It's the difference between, say writing notes (creative) and watching TV (consuming).

It's my understanding that this is the view that Steve Jobs took when creating these devices.
Ok, that's fine for legacy, but what should enterprise do about new apps? Continue to build desktop apps and deliver with Citrix?
420,081,335,014 is 420 billion not 420 trillion.
Yes and no... once you hit the

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it becomes

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all on one line for nearly the rest of the file. It might as well be bytecode. Actually many bytecodes are more understandable.
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Was waiting for enum support, because of the core-changes that have to be made, it's a long awaited future ;)

Nice, EF 5.0 is certainly worth the wait.
From the site:

>Google has done a mistake by recognizing the old city as part of “Israel” and this is expected to damage its image among Muslims worldwide.

>It is worth mentioning that the Current CEO and the other cofounder of Google are Jews

Quality journalism.
Just another reminder that it's never worth bypassing the normal deployment process. Every year or two I learn a similar lesson myself: it's so tempting, the fix is so small, it couldn't possibly break anything (heck, I once had a data-gathering script that made a bunch of read-only calls to our system's API cause a live issue). Just say no.
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And we are in the NAP of Americas one!