skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go troll somewhere else.

"Which is Better: a 10MP camera dialed down to 3MP, or a 3MP camera?

Easy: when set to the same resolution, a higher-resolution camera set to a lower resolution always looks better than a camera with that native resolution.

This is because digital cameras cheat and use Bayer Interpolation. They don't really have that many color pixels on their CCDs. CCDs are actually black-and-white and use colored stripes to see color. Bayer Interpolation spreads the data around to fill in each pixel as if it could could see color. Because of this the images of all digital cameras at their native resolutions are more blurred than they could be.

If you halve the size of the image, the pixel-to-pixel sharpness will increase because there is now enough data for each and every pixel. See my Bayer Interpolation page for examples.

Therefore it's always better to use a higher resolution camera set down to a lower resolution than a camera with only that much resolution."
I don't think the comment is misleading at all. I think its pretty accurate and makes a succinct point about the current state of affairs.
That's something you should negotiate before you're an employee.
Offsite backup, man. What if you're running a business? Do you want every scrap of data your business runs on in the same building? What if it burns down?

It's all about the importance you place on the data, and your level of technical skill.
In continuing the devil's advocate angle here, there is a lot of scary stuff going on in Mexico right now. Some of that spilling over the border(or more realistically, the people and equipment are already here just unnoticed) is a possibility.
If you just want to swing numbers around, for $500/month you can get a bare-metal Xeon with 8 cores, 32GB of RAM, and 1.6 TB of storage from Storm on Demand: https://www.stormondemand.com/servers/baremetal.html#showsig...

The startup I'm at has looked at using AWS and repeatedly decided against it based on cost. It's simply much more expensive compared to dedicated hardware when you need a single high-performance box -- and you should be able to serve a whole fuckton of traffic an 8-cpu 32GB box if you try.
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I read all slides. With no more than 12 clicks on those dots :likeAboss:
Once you've built up an organization like that, it's hard to demobilize it. Public unions basically make it impossible to shrink police forces.
"Domain Names

yourname.neocities.org is pretty good, but there's nothing more powerful than owning your own domain. When you own your own domain, you are in control. I want to make it easy for people to add their domain name to NeoCities, and just as easy to move their content elsewhere if they decide they don't want to use us (or want to step to something more powerful like their own server).

I will be implementing domain support eventually. I'm not sure what the timeline on this is yet, it's a more difficult thing to implement, but I think it's important. So we're going to do it. Domains themselves cost money, but we will not be charging for linking domains to NeoCities sites because I feel that having your own identity that you control is important."

...but what about my page? http://ns1.neocities.org/
I would add probabilities. And see it differently in my case:

HN is ~10% work (this comment is not work)

Blogging is 90% work

Tweeting is 90% work
You're right the data set contains some questionable relations. Looks like DBpedia would have been a better and more reliable data source than Freebase.
SVN is in that URL: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3567-a-refresher-course-in-em...

Does 37signals still use SVN and uses it to host their content directly?
I don't know much about undersea cables (although it is a fascinating subject), but I imagine there's no need to tap a cable in the middle of the ocean. If instead you tap it a couple miles offshore (even tens of miles), suddenly have a lot less undersea fiber to run. And if multiple cables come ashore at the same place, you can probably disguise it as just another fiber.

Of course, this requires a friendly country at one end of the cable, but that's probably not too big a problem.
We don't make any money off of prints, only the photographers do. The business model is subscriptions.
Meet The Future of Hiring – It Looks A Lot Like Expedia And RedFin
Saw this up on the blog for Group Talent.. pretty interesting.
You have a cool mom. My entire family, extended, blended, and otherwise is on facebook. I try to get people to look at & use Plus but there's just not a lot of interest.
Ironically, the three companies you mentioned have all failed trying to succeed independently over and over again, rather than standing on the shoulders of others.
Macro Timelapse
As he said, he's selling a fixed bid project that is scheduled for a week.

The client he's looking to work with is looking for results, not how long he spends sitting in front of an IDE.
I'm glad this turned into a fruitful discussion and I think you offered a great analog with Tegan and Sara's album.

Perhaps maybe we could boil most our comments down to just a simple suggestion that maybe the new design could be nudged just a bit more in the direction of "minimalistic / retro / edgy / avant-garde / anarchist". The right design could have both the accessibility you (rightly) are seeking, but still preserve a little bit of the minimalistic feel that (we felt) sets the Neocities image apart. Of course, finding the right balance is going to be challenging, but that's what makes a good designer good.

Two more quick points:

- We (the peanut gallery) could all be totally wrong. We're all rooting for you though. :)

- For every success like Tegan and Sara, everyone knows a band who tried to switch it up and just started sucking. There's nothing wrong with staying in a niche. On the other hand, we know you're ambitious and have a great vision. I think we all like that about Neocities too!
Google.co.uk homepage was not working earlier:
ISP: TalkTalk

Location: SW United Kingdom
Where do you store it?
You can easily make a VPC fully public, or have fully public subdivisions.
In the late 90's, I attended a presentation that described doing just such a fractional-light fiber split at major exchanges (e.g. MAE-West) to collect data for research purposes. [1] While the researchers were probably trustworthy, I remember thinking that such sniffing seemed like it could be pretty scary in the wrong hands.

(The presentation was given by Evi Nemeth, who was sadly in the news recently due to being lost at sea.)

[1] http://www.caida.org/workshops/isma/9808/report.html
"The coral/ocXmon family of monitors use optical splitters to tap fiber, filtering 5-10% of the light signal to interface cards in the coral monitoring host."
A Minimum Viable Product doesn't have to be crappy
I still don't really get what you're trying to say. Mentioning that a power is contained within a clause of the Telecommunications Act doesn't really mean much. All 594 subsections need to be read in conjunction with each other before an accurate interpretation can be made. I've had a quick read through and I can't really see how a broad enough construal of Part 13 is possible for anything you're saying to happen. It's going to turn on whether the government believes whether the High Court will interpret what you're describing as 'reasonable' even though the Act repeatedly emphasises that confidentiality should be paramount. We've got some silly people in power but they're not that dumb.

I do not understand how councils are not already part of the 'public revenue', maybe there is case law on this that I am unaware of?

The explanatory memorandum attached to the referendum explicitly states that the Federal government will have no legal influence over local councils. It also mentions that the referendum is for no other purpose than to grant the council money. As soon as any evidence of what you've described crops up they're going to get their asses handed to them in court as they're acting against their own explicit intention. I can't see the loophole you do at all.

I've spent the last 25 minutes or so going through the Telecommunications Act and it is an absolute shambles when read in context. As I said in another post, there are far simpler ways for the Commonwealth to claim a legal right to monitor us.

If the Australian government wanted to monitor our metadata, or conduct any other sort of surveillance for that matter, they'd probably just do it and then claim external affairs once they're caught. It's far simpler and more effective than to try to engineer a legal loophole like you're describing. It's cynical and it sucks but that's the way these things tend to go.
Great post, with some very interesting ideas. My experience has been that although it sounds great to be "super" flexible, it's really hard to run a company that way. As you add more people to the team, people will mimick the worst behaviors to restore fairness - "if jon always leaves at 5, then it's not fair if I stay late" and suddenly people start slacking. Strengthening the rules later is also really hard, but at some point you realize you have to.

That doesn't mean you push people 60 hours or weekends, but you enforce minimums like 9-5 and you make sure everyone feel's everyone is equally contributing and that everyone is trying hard.
Clippy, Comic Sans, and Other Legends of Early UI
This is something that is really important to me. I've even thought of perhaps finding another line of work where this mindset doesn't prevail. I suffer from chronic health issues, and that really helps put things in perspective in a different way. My number 1 commitment is to my health, and working 80+ hours a week is not going to be doing me any favors in that department. Life is short, and it doesn't mean anything to earn all that money if you're not healthy, can't go anywhere to enjoy it, don't see your family, etc. People need to put it in perspective.
Even if Amazon never got into selling ebooks, Apple would have wanted the same terms: a 30% cut of the sale price, and sane pricing for ebooks. It matches their terms for music[1] and they take the same 30% cut for apps.

I wonder what would have happened if Apple never mentioned or alluded to Amazon in licensing discussions. It seems like mentions of Amazon are included in all of the damning evidence.

[1] I don't know about TV shows and movies, but I imagine it is the same for them as well.
AWS recently released a whitepaper describing the best practices for doing just this: http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_NoSQL_MongoDB.pdf [PDF]
Without knowing anything about hdf5 specifically, Vertigo [1] will let you treat a memory-mapped file (or a piece of one) as a normal Clojure data structure, as long as the element types are fixed-layout.

[1] https://github.com/ztellman/vertigo
I think he means this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console
I feel like it will be a while before we truly know exactly what is going on.
I'm not sure. Sounds like I'll have to check it out, though, because I'd love to use a news service like that.
The funniest thing is: however, ignorance of the law does not exempt from obeying it. :-)
LOL awesome. Nail on the head.
I was listening to Alan Kay on the More or less blog today, and what he said resonated here.

Basically the stock market no longer bears any relation to the simple business of providing capital to companies to grow.

The trade in secondary markets is so huge that the stock market can happily ignore smaller growing companies - and it is it seems if VCs and similar are to be believed.

Plus we know it is - reaching IPO should be when a company really starts to deliver, takes the capital and expands. Not when the founders leave, and the growth halts.

So yes, a new stock market, not bound to the financial gaming house, is needed to supply capital to growing companies.

It wont be kickstarter. But it will be something. And I doubt it will be American. It will be a federation of small markets across India and Brazil and China.

And it wont be tech-led. We can barely use the capital.
Over the past few years, I worked on a few versions of this as a side project. The last iteration didn't do the backup itself--it connected with your Dropbox, sync'd the raw images, and processed them at a preset +-2 EV, and 3 color temperatures. The image results were good, but honestly I never found it particularly compelling.

In any case, building this sort of thing is a pain. The most obvious problem is the size of the images. Glacier is an interesting backup solution, and had just come out around the time I decided to stop working on my app. A less obvious problem is raw conversion. All the best converters are proprietary, meaning that I had to piggy back off the Mac OS converter engines. Again, I never got to the point where I felt the product was worth the trouble of buying racking up a Mac Mini to run a little market test. Maybe I'm wrong.

I had a (frankly somewhat scattered) draft of a post mortem written, and since it seems like there's some interest in this subject, I posted it: http://scraps.bigbento.com/2013/05/30/hiatus.html
If people start acting like that, something in their environment has put them on edge.
Yeah. The Legacy and Opinions in Poland sections are particularly interesting.
You could also check out https://www.hnsearch.com/
And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on every linux server on the planet, and it just works very reliably for the majority of things you throw at it. Certainly you might need to rethink if you have a million users logging in, but the vast majority of installations won't have this issue.
I disagree with your interpretation that the Executive Branch has "totally unchain [sic] itself from the Constitution."

Congress has voted a couple times in the most recent decade to approve extensions for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (see footnotes). So under Congressional authority, the Executive Branch has been able to continue their activities under the FISC. I do agree, however, that there is a blindfold around the Judicial branch that prevents any introspection into the actual interpretations of law under the FISC, specifically w/r/t the 4th Amendment.

[1] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr5949
[2] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...
The 7-bit Internet
Local data can randomly disappear too - hard drives don't always fail in a predictable fashion.

Personally, I prefer to use both local and cloud storage (encrypted, bien sûr).
An IPO is just a means of transferring ownership. It doesn't say much about the viability of the business model other than that people might believe in it.
The FISA Amendments Act that passed in 2008 and was renewed late last year, needs to go, too. The Patriot Act part is more for phone calls. FISA allows them to scoop all the Internet data.
You're right about what you said, but web designers and developers aren't usually to blame for this.

The problem isn't cultural traction among web designers and developers, but among the CEOs and marketing guys and VPs who, for egotistical or political reasons, order the designers to implement the site in a certain way.

They love carousels because, as you said, carousels feel like a design cheat code that let you fit 5 (or more) times the amount of content in the same amount of space. Instead of actually researching your niche and making a choice about what content is most important to solve your customers' problems and your own goals and what content gets priority on a page, they take the lazy way out and order the designer to fit everything on the screen.

Most decent web developers who place a premium on UX will not usually suggest a carousel as the best way to display some content on the screen, and they may fight those decisions as best as they can, but at the end of the day the people who pay the bills will make these decisions.
They deny providing an API (at least Google denies it):

I’m not sure I can say this more clearly: we’re not in cahoots with the NSA and there’s is no government program that Google participates in that allows the kind of access that the media originally reported. Note that I say "originally" because you'll see that many of those original sources corrected their articles after it became clear that the PRISM slides were not accurate. Now, what does happen is that we get specific requests from the government for user data. We review each of those requests and push back when the request is overly broad or doesn't follow the correct process. There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jun/19/google...
They got a huge boost out of the whole NSA fallout, which they consequently used to great effect for marketing. Good for them! I still hate the name, though.
Plug is an object to seamlessly share disk space between all your devices.
Not when you buy from the general purpose grid. You can eventually become big enough to pressure the power companies to source from cleaner generation types but that doesn't over night.
at this rate, we'll soon have something like "war of the day". Seems like the media likes us to be at "war" with something, all the time.
This is how I got started with programming. Then later I wanted to make some things conditionally displayed, so I learned a scripting language. Then I wanted to write non-spaghetti code, so I learned more about how to structure projects. Etc.

I think it's an organic way to learn. It's instantly rewarding.
'I don't even know what it means to "know XML".'

There's definitely such a thing: Do you understand entities and how they work? (There's more to it than just &amp; and &lt;. Without looking it up, do you know what a Billion Laughs is, and why it's related to entities?) What's in a DTD? Do you understand XML namespaces properly? (e.g., in the tag <x:test xmlns:x="http://blah.com/ns1" att="1"/>, what namespace is "att" in? What, exactly, does the http://blah.com/ns1 mean? How does it relate to blah.com or the content at http://blah.com/ns1?) Do you have an understanding of the various schema languages? Do you understand how encodings interact with XML? Are you familiar with the terminology (e.g., can you precisely answer "What is CDATA?", with some idea of where in the XML grammar it appears and what characters are and are not allowed)? Do you know what a processing instruction is? What is the correct way to embed binary data in XML?

BTW, the answer is generally no. "Everybody" understands a subset of XML with balanced tags and simple attributes, but I'd guess single-digit percentages of the people who have "XML" on their resume really know XML, rather than the simple subset. Fortunately, as an interchange format, since nobody understands XML, nobody uses it to its full capacity, those few who try use it incorrectly, and it turns out there isn't a heck of a lot of reason to actually know the full scope of XML, since in general you're unlikely to encounter correct advanced XML anyhow. You can easily go an entire career without ever seeing the advanced features used correctly. Actually knowing XML can be almost end up being an impediment, you're almost better off having a fuzzy understanding so that when you encounter some developer's weird half-assed dialect, you're less shocked and just get on with it.

(I am aware that some of my example questions there are themselves based on false premises. Consider them trick questions.)
Even 2 of my friends who don't even know the difference between Chrome and Internet Explorer recently talked about "this new search engine, something with duck...".

It's catching on :)
Weave Silk
if anyone is curious, the first article in the guardian based on snowden's data was on 5 june, about where P is marked.
I believe publishers were accused of committing an offense as well -- they all settled.
I don't get too many official looking cover letters, but I don't want one. I want a resume and in the body of the email I want a couple sentences that tell me why I should bother to open the resume (I'll open it anyway, but I want you to tell me why I should) and also why you applied - what caught your eye.

I wouldn't waste my time on the formality of a traditional cover letter with all the "To Whom It May Concern" garbage. Just a few sentences, keep it loose.
Mr. Card holds conservative personal beliefs, and has been vocal about them - especially after Sept. 11, 2001.

His books are moving, profound and Apolitical.

If you avoid his books just because you don't like conservatives (and think they are all terrible people and Asshats), it is your loss.

I will say one thing about this "latest" scandal (his writings supporting traditional marriage from back in 2008).

Although today it is a fait accompli, back in 2008 it was a hotly debated topic. Conservatives lost and the country moved on.

Throwing out 2008 arguments into a 2013 world can make ANYONE look bad.

Here's what Mr. Card has to say today:

With the recent Supreme Court ruling, the gay marriage issue becomes moot. The Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution will, sooner or later, give legal force in every state to any marriage contract recognized by any other state.

Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.
"She and her roommates say they panicked, dialed 911 and tried to drive to a police station."

Christ, if that is somebodies genuine reaction after having an encounter with the police, then it is plainly the police involved that should be charged and arrested.

"one felony count of eluding police."

Fucking hell...
Good question! I'm sufficiently interested in technology for its own sake that I keep abreast of developments in the PC industry, so I already knew about Chromebooks, and that they would be a good fit for her. My wife does not keep abreast of developments in the PC industry (she wont mind me saying that :), so as far as she was concerned, there was no such thing as a $250 PC that would easily usurp her MBA, so she didnt even consider it.
America no longer world’s fattest developed nation, UN report says
How transparent is DuckDuckGo when it comes to privacy that they claim?
In case they can't handle scaling fast enough: www.startpage.com
Same here, good for them, I think they are really good people who deserve the success.

Also hate the name, but I guess silliness is hip.
To answer your original question, I use Facebook for communication with my friends and low-level awareness of what old acquaintances are doing, and HN for tech news. HN won't help me meet up with my friends to watch a movie, and my Facebook feed rarely has good tech news. G+ has a bare handful of my friends, none of whom live in the same city now, and I haven't found sufficient interesting public content to make it worth my time (though I haven't seriously looked in about a year). Once a week when I call my parents (Hangouts are awesome for that, I can get my brother in at the same time), I'll scan through the half dozen posts in my feed for the previous week.

Also, I stopped checking G+ daily when they started putting up that annoying "find your friends" banner half the time you hit the site, which was way too much friction for the paucity of content in my G+ feed.
How can Ray Ban charge unfairly for their prices when you have literally 100's of other non Ray Ban options in any sunglasses store? If brand is that important to you that you feel like you have to buy them and you then overpaid for them I would say that's some pretty sweet branding at your expense.
This increase in traffic are not being seen in the unique visitor counts measured by Compete (https://siteanalytics.compete.com/duckduckgo.com/). It appears as if a loyal core of duckduckgo users are switching to it entirely. Alternatively, duckduckgo users are not tracked by Compete, which is entire possible since I believe Compete gets their data from browser extensions that don't respect privacy. Note, Compete data is old, and wouldn't reflect this surge.