skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

Gridspy ( http://gridspy.com ) is built on a lot of discrete components. We've got a variety of servers all talking via several APIs and pretty complex data flows in twisted and also in javascript in the browser.

I'd love a tool that simplified this - even if it just helped ease the pain of API integration or the flow of data.

I need to be led to more concrete information around what happens on deploy. Do you compile applications from the flow diagram?

I want to see a nice migration to and from the noflo platform. The last thing I want to see is lockin either way.

For me I need Python and Javascript support. We're built in Python.

Very nice video, very artistic. You certainly had fun pulling focus and playing with exposure.
I think that's an interesting proposal. I think shifting more of the burden of proof to the plaintiff will be an important part of any further patent reform.

I don't know if there is a need to be so skeptical of discovery. There is nearly always a danger of destroying evidence...
Yes, especially since the card type is typically in the bottom corner of the card, so for a while it just looks like it's reloading the same image.
Yes absolutely, we'd be really happy to speak to anyone in Mexico.
I always wondered how well you could fingerprint individual wifi devices. I.e. how effective is changing your MAC and various IP and above stuff.
I think the problem you ran into wasn't so much a user interface problem, but a "gaijin aren't our target clientele" thing. 10 years ago a lot of Japanese banks regarded "gaijin without permanent residence" as riskier than a 20-year-old Japanese student; this included gaijin with good credit records and income above average. Things have been changing, though.
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My experience on an iPad. Typed first 4 numbers of my VISA. Realized I could type in the MM and YY, then realized I could enter the name. It was a very smooth process for me - and I didn't read any text above or below before trying.

I wonder if trying it on a touch device made it more natural or not.
Tangentially related Matt from Wordpress did an AMA on reddit yesterday and mentioned the Bitcoin integration they've done: in the last 9 months there's been 94 total Bitcoin transactions. Hopefully Khan academy will release figures too so we can see how the adoption of Bitcoin is going. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jg781/i_am_matt_mulle...
Yeah, it's the second law. One of the first marketing books I read that convinced me marketing wasn't all puffery.
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I would too, being able to tap a stream of traffic and being able to pick an instance and boot it?

I think they are way out of bounds but they are not god.
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So basically the same things that make reddit's community what it is today?
Cool stuff, but I wonder, even if the price of BTC stabilizes, will "normal everyday people" use it?

I'm taking a coursera class (Startup 101 by Stanford) where we'll use BTC to fund our projects. But it seems like it's more confusing to the average user to see a "Donate Bitcoin" button on my page. I'd rather it just say "Donate" and have my payments processor accept any local currency.

Also, the Winklevoss twins are BTC speculators.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/02/beware-the-risks-o...
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Code at Compile time is a different entity than the Code at Runtime. Programmers learns to visualize expanding and collapsing data structures and the web of pointers and call-backs. One simple tiny recursive function can become a massively complex tree at runtime. These two complexities are similar yet very different. Any system that doesn't respect the runtime will fail to understand the mindset of a programmer. I hope they succeed in dealing with both.
Re: 95, turns out it was easy to just get on to the beta list. Reminds me of a funny story...

Summer of '95, I was sitting at the weekly roundtable meeting of our IT department (at an R&D lab I used to work), and explaining to the boss that I could get my hands on a new beta of it from a friend so we could kick the tires. The whole team seemed interested and leaned in. "So," the boss says, "Who is your friend... he must be some VIP at a big operation, eh?"

"Nope," shaking my head.

"Well, who?" asks the boss.

"He's a high-school student."

"BWAH-HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAahahah...."
Actually this was at work, where I have a version of chrome that's 6 months to a year old. Linux / most recent Chrome seem to work better.
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So - do you guys apply to these jobs? We need more Snowdens!

By the way - have you guys noticed the text RMS adds to his emails recently:

[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
Very nice work. I've done lots of work with credit card fields because I work for a large non-profit that depends on credit card donations. I might just use this in the next iteration of our form. Good idea doing the detection in realtime.

My only gripe would be that it doesn't innately explain which cards are acceptable... E.g., you might not accept Diners Club and Discover, but do want to accept Visa, MC, and Amex. Having little icons there make that more explainable. We did it like that on our contribution form: https://contribute.publicradio.org/contribute.php
Every time I see a comment "hurr durr hackernews is becoming more reddit every day we reddit the reddit" I see another geniunely pointless noise point injected into the discourse.

Everyone that does this is actually making things worse than they would've been otherwise, is actually creating the bullshit situation they're decrying.

Please, everyone, stop bringing in the stupid reddit comparisons.
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It's funny how clearly this entire comments page shows the schism between the consequentialist/aesthete "hacker" mode of thinking people here operate with on their own (I recall the MIT Lockpicking Guide being upvoted here every time it was posted, after all), and the liability-focused "business" kind of thinking people switch into as soon as they've got a product or service to hawk.

Laws, in the end, are just legal levers people can use--if they feel impinged-upon, and see no more personal recourse--to seek justice. At scale, you don't have personal relationships with your customers, so you have to obey every letter of every law. Before then, though--when you're small, and when you know each customer well-enough that you could call them friends--those customers have other ways to seek justice for things you do to them. Like, say, complaining to you.

This case is very similar to another I remember reading about on HN: an "extremely exclusive restaurant" in New York, which is not only invitation-only, but whose location is a well-protected secret. Why is it a secret? Because the "location" is an apartment! No restaurant license; just a "retired" five-star chef, cooking for you out of his own house. Completely illegal--all sorts of regulations are being broken--but much-beloved by all involved.

This is the kind of thing you can do when you have personal relationships with your customers. This is what you do that gets customers to love you--and can bootstrap into a big, legitimate business if you want. This is what people mean by "hustling", but everyone is afraid to say. It's going out on a real limb--not just sacrificing your own financial nest-egg, but giving your customers the ability to blackmail you or put you in jail if they decide they really don't like you. But this is what makes magic happen.

(Note that I'm totally not advocating the other kind of "hustling", the one done by grey-hat SEO "growth hackers." If you're a small, scrappy startup breaking laws that protect people from bad businesses in their service, and to earn their gratitude, then you'll likely be okay; but if you're breaking laws to "achieve growth" but earning people's spite in the process (you know, those "people who weren't gonna be your customers anyway, so screw 'em"), then please don't follow my advice. Don't go out on any limbs. Stay well inside, where we won't have to deal with you.)
They are right though - spec for spec, this phone is priced much higher than phones with equivalent components. Whether or not that matters is yet to be determined, but we do know that in the past, Android handsets have dated fairly badly, so specs are something that have to be taken into consideration, even if the handset feels good now.

The high cost is a result of having it made in the USA, no doubt.
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What is amazing is that the same government that is funding these activities has also drummed up the fear of Chinese attacks on our computer systems. The same techniques being used by the FBI could be used for industrial espionage or to spy on government officials. We cannot have it both ways -- either we give up on expanding law enforcement power like this and encourage computer security, or we give priority to the police and accept attacks by foreign powers (and ironically, criminals) as collateral damage.
My personal favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco (look at my reference to DR-DOS in the end for example):

http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
Ironically, you could wind up without any where to run your cron jobs in such a setup as well... (eg: running scheduled tasks in the container as the db/cache/webapp uid).

This is of course fixable, but still interesting given the context.
Tibetans (with Hukou anyways) have Chinese names though. Usually they are phonetically chosen. Its something that must be done when you are born in China I guess, even if your native language isn't Chinese. This applies to all minorities who use different writing systems (Uigher, Manchu, Mongolian, etc...).

Japanese of Korean descent can also choose Kanji names I think, to use as legal aliases.
I would say I want him to make a podcast (and would pay like $5 a month for an episode), but considering he thinks hes wasting his free time if all hes doing is learning scheme and implementing Wolfenstein in Haskell, I definitely don't want to take away of his time to educate muggles.
It's strange that NYT seems to be transitioning to a full blown tech company. Good strange though.
The network is assembled at run time by instantiating the various components and connecting their ports. There is no compilation step.

As for Python, we'd love to support the language! It is one of our stretch goals. In case we don't hit it, the Python community can of course do it themselves :-)
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Interesting read, thanks. I'll definitely look into Kanth further; the notion that gender struggle predates class struggle is intriguing, and seems almost obvious in hindsight.

I agree that much of conventional economics functions largely as apologia and "retroactive continuity" for existing power structures and legacy wealth. While there are obviously spectra of disagreement within the field, as a whole it does seem largely oriented towards received wisdom in its academic culture, but that's from a distinctly outsider perspective.

What's your opinion, if any, of David Graeber's ideas in "Debt: The First 5000 Years"?
He talks at length about the recent years of Armadillo, I think it is really interesting his gripe was a lack of oversight from his end when he wasn't active on site, while he was spending a million a year funding the project. I wonder how many of the startups around these parts could use that kind of lesson (ie, inverse of the overbearing boss).

I also love that John Carmack and Elon Musk are email buddies, and that even John Carmack isn't thinking big enough for Elon =P
He talks at length about the recent years of Armadillo, I think it is really interesting his problem was a lack of oversight from his end when he wasn't active on site, while he was spending a million a year funding the project.

I also love that John Carmack and Elon Musk are email buddies, and that even John Carmack isn't thinking big enough for Elon =P
This is social commentary you guys -- and it's flying over everyone's heads.
Does anyone else besides me think that this is a very cheap technique to use in a smear campaign? Throw up some fake "viral marketing" company website, offer to pay $x to some people for fake reviews / secret paid promotions but don't actually pay, and wait for public complaints from either people with ethics or people who didn't get paid?
Wow... terrible taste with the "Feminine Mystique" reference.
One thing I've gotten very into recently is multishot techniques, where I take multiple shots in burst mode, align them, and then average them to reduce sensor noise. Similar to what http://www.photoacute.com/ does but they do more advanced superresolution stuff that your invisible noise might preclude, but a simple average or median in areas where there isn't too much motion really improves the quality quite dramatically in some cases, particularily in low lighting situations. If your frame rate is that high it probably wouldn't be hard to get a really good alignment between frames, so I thought I'd bring this up as a thought for a future feature (as in - you select the frame you like, then the program grabs a few frames immediately before and after and uses them to increase the image quality of the final output).
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I have to admit I'm surprised a community like HN would upvote such a vulnerable package. Hell, even our sites that have been converted to static HTML still receive requests for /wp-admin/ by bots all the time.

Thanks for allowing non-technies to set up their own site but no thanks--I'm good.
There is Finland with millions Russian tourists - endless source.))
Maybe it's to avoid foreign gangs buying up lots of legal weed and shipping it out of country.
FWIW, I just tried to update my dev site, the install failed, and now the site fails to load. Yikes.

In all fairness, I think that's because the admin has been playing around with file permissions on the server side. I can't even log in right now to read the errlog.
Some of us get to enjoy name-mangling theatre on all social occasions.
I'm all down for mindless fellating of Apple products, but could we at least hold ourselves to a higher bar?

The author repeats "Apple makes the best x" for many values of x, but doesn't explain their metric or anything else. There is nothing to engage with here, just a lot of opinions expressed without stack traces supporting them.
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I am so overflowing and stuffed from all these NSA revelations, that I read "Snowden Runs Out Of Garbage" two times in a row.
Turns out I was right: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/employer-tipped-off-police-...

The search was nothing like that article described.
It works better as a spoken language (and therefore fairly well for estimated distances), but man, does it make any kind of calculation annoying (many engineering textbooks are from the US and use imperial units - you end up with stupidity like BTU/ft^2.s.

The thing I think many people from the US don't understand about a transition is that it doesn't mean you're somehow not allowed to use imperial units anymore - in Australia it's still used regularly in spoken language (especially with regard to distances) - but anything where the number matters, the value is given in metric, so calculations can be performed simply.
Its worth it just for the frontpage of HN/Reddit for PR.
People tend to write date code themselves, no matter how many times we tell them not to.

There have been leap year bugs in everything from Zune to Windows Phone 8 to iPhone/iOS.

This, in spite of legions of CS professors trying to get it into people's heads that they should be using libraries (once, of course, they have verified that said library is accurate).
Thank you for you candid and thoughtful answer :)
I'd guess that for your example you'd have labels on the flow components that approximate the order of events. So in the visualizer it can display them in almost linear order.

When you want to view low level vs high level code, you switch layouts. May have to manually label your components low level vs high level. So you won't see everything at once but noticeably more useful.

Hard to tell how far ahead these guys thought this through. Maybe with community interest and a cool looking product they'd attract enough people to work out these details. But judging by comments and relative lack of interest, won't be holding my breath.
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I like seeing new players in this space. I think there's a lot of potential for small-group or 1-on-1 mentoring to help fill the "intermediate but beyond tutorials" space. Kind of like golf, or surfing lessons, only perhaps with some investment on return.
Might as well link to the source of TNW's regurgitation:

http://wordpress.org/news/2013/08/oscar/
If you're satisfied to write e.g. RoR apps for a living and have no curiosity in programming beyond that, I agree that SICP will not be very valuable to you.
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I don't understand what you mean by parsing if not what the interpreter does. Can you give an example?
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If ZFS Snapshots were deployable to other machines in a network, then it would be really superior. Is that possible? By deploy I mean pushing snapshots into other machine's zpools, migrating them and lastly applying them. So that at the end you have a copy of the other server.

Well there's still no usable (web) gui for managing zfs (tell me what you want, but that IS wha is needed to make zfs more popular).

Would a minimal install of [your_server] into kvm give more rough performance than LXC+Docker?

One downside of Docker & LXC is that applications CAN breakout of the "jail" and affect the host machine. The docker guys told me about that fact and that they will work on that in the future.

After all that fizzbuzz, I'm not sure anymore, maybe chef/puppet/ansible or salt would be a much better solution than dealing with bits "manually". Because that would be the Model Driven Approach.
noflo looks like a novel yet familiar way of designing software, which really glues well with TDD.

I don't sense a very strong emphasis on runtime profiling from the video or the description, but if this were a core feature then it would certainly add value to the product.
I installed Zagat app once after they were acquired by Google, and they kept on sending me spam after spam, with opt-out. I won't even try the new app anymore.
Here's their blog post about it:
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/objectively-stylish...
I think this is a common experience for anyone who interacts with the rest of the world. And, since there always seems to be Texas sharpshooter response as to why anything you describe is somehow perfectly reasonable, perhaps the best aproach is to ask, "what wouldn't you want the government to collect, or how wouldn't you like it to be used?"

If there's nothing, then you can dismiss them as not a serious person. If they have an answer you have a beginning point for a conversation that may not be a waste of time for both of you.
Use your knuckles, with both hands next to each other, from left to right Jan - Dec. Each 'hump' has 31 days.
Quote of the day:

"Facebook is like a kindergarten run by child molesters."
We already are on a "new" calendar system.

If you're on unix/linux/os x, run

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Why not just to have clang installed in /usr/local?)
And gcc 4.2.1 is good-enough.
So does this bug show up on http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list ?
Anyone have an idea how big the pool of institutional investors are? Everytime I read one of these funding announcements I feel like its the same couple hundred instituons giving their money to bunch of different funds...that end up investing in mostly the same companies.
Are you talking about a fixed offset, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haas_effect, or a variable offset, sort of like a flanger?
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Interesting comment! Yes, I have been trying to avoid EC because some of the random walk stuff I read made me uncomfortable given standardized curves. I always thought that NSA vector register desire was strictly due to block size of ciphers (particularly Russian). This was definitely true when DES/3DES where in use. Then again, I thought Bluffdale was just to crack old Russian intercepts with GPU like custom hardware. BTW, a Cray hw engineer and I talked about how Cray was trying to pivot into Bioinformatics since the gov biz was no longer robust (in 2004, IIRC?).
He actually started talking about unified memory architecture at about the 51 minute mark. (If anyone else is curious.)
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Did you just call the American poor "some of the poorest people on earth?" Or were you talking about immigrants? One town in Sweden (Södertälje) has received more Iraqi refugees alone than all of the US has, the country that actually started the war. Sweden's immigrants are actually some of the poorest people on earth, mainly refugees of war and people who would be prosecuted/killed if they returned to their home country. Contrast that with the US that receives heaps of well educated people every year. Today, the ratio of foreign born people in Sweden is roughly equal to that of the US, but again, mainly refugees.
We do have a gofmt for Python.

pip install autopep8

Just pip search pep8 to see all the tooling.

It's not a "Ninja IDE" thingjobber, just a command line tool.
About a year after 9/11, I was taking pictures of a protestant church in suburban New York as part of a loan assessment. The cops showed up and told us someone had reported us as suspicious. He mentioned something about a mosque being nearby but I didn't know if that meant we were supposedly from the mosque or going after the mosque next. On the same trip, but later in Philadelphia, I was hassled by a rent-a-cop outside of a random building for carrying a camera.

If the goal of terrorism is to terrorize the public with irrational fears (leading to wild accusations against each other, and demanding that their government "do something, anything"), 9/11 was a success.
I meant after he started talking, my bad. I was watching it live. In the vod that might not make sense.
It depends on whether you're using pure tones, or phase shifted audio. Binaural beats in phase shifted audio do not survive MP3 encoding, and require a high quality setting to survive Vorbis.