skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My eyes aren't quite that bad (no albinism, just crappy eyes--worse than 20/40 corrected), but, having tried a projector, it wasn't until I was out of school and had an apartment of my own--no roommates--that I had enough space to make it big enough to be more clear than monitors given the bigger distance between my eyes and the monitors, and now that I have the room I already have the monitors so it's not really useful. I have to think it'd get worse with worse eyesight.
Happy to have been a part of Apptimize, even a small one! Glad to see you guys got so much out of YC. And hit me up with a T-shirt already! Maybe I'll wear it to an Appsterdam session. ;)

Wish you and Jeremy the best going forwards, keep in touch.
0% of the code on Github was written on a whiteboard. Perhaps it means the skills are not easily transferable between mediums?
We're assuming they don't understand those laws already. We're also assuming that their terms of service don't put that burden on the homeowner. It would actually be the homeowner's responsibility to know the laws within their locale. Airbnb is simply an agency.
Always interesting to speculate about what would happen.

A default in the traditional sense probably won't happen this October but one day in our lifetime they are going to have to come up with a way to finance the 126 trillion unfunded liabilities:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

One way to do that - without defaulting in a legal sense - is to work the printing press and call it stimulation or monetary easing. Nah, Quantitative easing! That's a nice term.
IPhoto stores shared images on windows.net
related - I've used this for running my own Gem server for years - It really is trivial: https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox
why the need for public access to a record of someone being arrested

It is intended to prevent secret arrests. It is absolutely sucky for individuals to have their arrests made public, but the consequences of enabling secret arrests would be terrible for the country as a whole.
Nathan Jurgenson wrote an interesting piece about how phones are a sort of microaggression- using it is a subtle act of protest against present company. It's a kind of shield, a buffer that says "I'm afraid to fully commit."

What I don't get is how that's totally acceptable even to otherwise educated people. From what I can remember, reading the paper or watching TV during a conversation was considered rude and often censored, yet cellphones seem to be exceptional. I find it puzzling.
I agree. What I am curious about is what happens when the competitors are destroyed? Is there a business to keep it sustainable? With Twitter, it's admittedly a bit easier to fathom than it would be for Instagram (at least for me). But I've never been able to find an answer for this question for this type of argument.

What we're talking about is how to value a company's ability to destroy another company's value, not how to value a company's ability to create value. That's like the business of assassination. Assassins can say what their price is to kill someone. If you took that business away, and that was their only way to demonstrate worth, then what do they have left? They'd have to get into a completely different business to continue life.

So if Twitter succeeds in assassinating Facebook's value, or even the entire company (unlikely, but let's just follow the line of thought to its logical end), what next? Where's their value going to come from next? If there was valid income generation that can simply take the place of Facebook (or anything else Twitter destroys), why couldn't that value have been measured already?

Or if it is measured already, is it just like how the Internet has caused the music industry to earn digital pennies instead of the past's analog dollars? That kind of sucks overall from a valuation perspective. But at least you killed the giant!

As General James Mattis once commented on military strategy and foreign policy following lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq: "You invade a country, pull down a statue, then say 'now what do we do?'"
Transparency takes precedence over everything else in this post, aka the thing you haven't seen US companies doing at all.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Summer's memories STOP-MOTION
I'm confused, search indexing isn't a realtime exercise... Why would performance be an issue? Running a headless browser vs running "whatever it is they run that can execute JS" doesn't seem like a huge leap...
Wow. The documentary comes off as a well-intentioned piece of shit. The claims are pretty damning as to how poorly researched this pitiful excuse for a documentary is.

Sadly, this package of pathos appeals (ie kid in a hazard suit) obviously lack logos and ethos, yet more than a few ignorant people may still lap this up because it reinforces their pre-existing biases.

Exposing real problems of the world to the collective psyche seems like a better use of time.
Apparently that's about $3,400 ($170 x 20): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_units

A year of incarcerating someone is only worth $3,400 to the government? Strange, considering that if you're going to be pedantic about money, the cost of incarceration is surely at least one order of magnitude more than that.
The map of Lactase Hotspots is pretty interesting. My family comes from the State of Gujarat in India, one of the darker (70%+) regions in the map. The "White Revolution"[1] was started in the 70s by independent dairy farmers in the district our village belongs to. The Gujarati and neighboring Rajasthani diet has always included milk and byproducts as a significant ingredient. The 3m+ milk producers supplying milk to the dairy cooperative Amul [2] have made India the largest producer of milk and milk products in the world. I highly doubt this would've happened if the region was 30%-40% dark like the rest of India.

Similar to how presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline [3], this small genetic mutation has affected the entire world's economy, especially agriculture-based industries. Once we enter the post-natural-selection era where we can select the DNA of our offspring, I wonder how different will the long-term future be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Revolution_(India)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul

[3] http://deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-ar...
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I got into programming as a kid because to me it was like
electronics (I make stuff and it works! I'm almost 40 now and still cannot get over the feeling.) but without the hassle of running out of 2k resistors (you never run out of Z80 assembly instructions!) not to mention some of the harder-to-get devices.

So I didn't think as big as the author (fixing world's issues) but the purely practical aspect of the freedom he describes was enough to get me in.
Betting on C# for Cross Platform Mobile Development
Ask HN: Do Coursera/edX MOOC certificates have any impact on resume?
But for the most part these build processes are for web apps... If your build can't connect to the internet, your web app isn't going to work (even if it can build).
In your home, and therefore up some kid's nose.
It is possible to encrypt SMTP connections with standard SSL/TLS technology.

FastMail has been using opportunistic encryption on their incoming and outgoing SMTP servers for years. If you send an email to another service that does opportunistic encryption, and if both the sender and recipient uses SSL to access their mailboxes (as FastMail requires), the email will never be transmitted in plain text over the Internet.
Alternatively, since you're financially stable and don't technically need any more money, how about working for a non-profit as a volunteer?

Sure, learn software development in your spare time, but why not find ways to use your engineering skills & talents in (say) building wells in rural Africa, or helping Haiti become a safe and stable country again? What about teaching engineering or building safety in Cambodia or Laos? Help figure out how to get plumbing or sanitary systems that are affordable in the slums of Manila or Rio? Or even spending 3 months a year teaching or helping out in the Dalit schools in India?

Instead of making millions, how about helping millions?

(I've been working the last 7 years for 'OM' (www.om.org) mainly doing Audio/Visual Engineering, and some software development. I'm not financially independant, so rely on sponsorship from friends/family/churches, etc.)
I have some interesting anecdotes to share about a somewhat opposite situation. I, uh, I just got a Facebook account. I have actively refused it for a long time, and even now I am very picky about it -- my friends list has a bunch of people I don't even know, my location frequently changes and I access it only through Tor because I hate Facebook's privacy policy (or lack of thereof). That being said, I was the last in my group of friends to do it. Most of them opened their FB account years ago. I opened it because one of my friends left the country, but he doesn't use an IM program, nor checks his e-mail too often, and this was pretty much the only way to stay in touch.

I noticed a bunch of weird things about FB-trained users:

* A few days ago, I threw a party and invited two good friends that I haven't seen in a while. Both of them were a bit pissed on me, because I'd moved to Ireland without so much as dropping by to tell them I'm leaving, but were happy to see me and had struggled to make it to the party, because they knew I'd probably be going back soon. Now, I've never even been to Ireland, let alone move there, so I was understandably dumbfounded, until I realized that the last location I'd listed on Facebook was a city in Ireland. The thought that someone would take the location I list on the Internet seriously didn't even cross my mind. Hell, when I started using the Internet, around a quarter of the other users claimed they were from Middle Earth, and I claimed I was from Coruscant!

* Facebook events. I nearly missed a friend's anniversary because he just opened a Facebook event, instead of inviting everyone over. You know, by telephone. Needless to say, I probably skipped over it in my inbox or whatever they call it.

* "Like" and "Epic". I consistently denied using the former without leaving a comment, because I think it's lazy, but the latter is, unfortunately, starting to enter my vocabulary. At first, whenever someone was saying that this or that had been epic, I was literally asking them what exactly they meant. I'm seriously alarmed by this, as our entire vocabulary is being invaded by "lazy" words that can mean pretty much anything you want them to mean. "Epic" is the new "nice". Is it sunny outside? Whoa, what a nice, warm day. Is it raining? Whoa, how nice and cozy. Is there a fucking blizzard outside? This is going to be such a nice Christmas day! Now, my jalapeno sauce was about as epic as the adventures of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk.

Needless to say, my integration in this new Interwebs-powered social network has not been without glitches...
omg the t shirt! Sorry I forgot bc I decided to wait to get one after we got a logo. You'll get one soon.
Rent income is income.

> It's your property, what business is it of the government's?

You could argue that renting an apartment puts a burden on the community - the people that rent it need to drive there, they use public roads and public resources. However, that argument is false. The argument behind taxes is that there is a government that allocates certain resources towards community goals - security, infrastructure, welfare. These resources need to be paid for and so the government raises taxes - on income, on property, on cars etc. All the money collected gets redistributed and none of it is tied to the sector it came from: My income tax pays for roads, railways, kindergardens alike even though I don't own a car and rarely drive and don't have any kids. And the legislative decided that renting a room is a taxable action and that's it - like it or not. It's really as simple as that.
Twitter's Data Mining Business Earned $47.5 Million From Selling Off Information
When rsync needs to update a file it saves the contents to a temporary file first and then copies it over at the end, which should be an atomic operation on most filesystems. So you shouldn't end up with half updated files (unless you use the --inplace switch), but you can end up in situations where half the files in a directory are updated and half are not, which can be just as bad.
HealthCare.gov runs Bootstrap 2.3
I pay taxes. That doesn't mean that I owe the government for every accomplishment that I've achieved. You seem to subscribe to Obama's "You didn't build it" statement.

You also fail to acknowledge that a large majority of the spending you've described could be privately run. I'm not suggesting that it should be, however, it's possible some of it could be. If I went to a private school supported by no government money, does that mean I ought to pay taxes to that private school if I happen to become a billionaire? After all, if it weren't for that school, I wouldn't have the education to have built something that made me a billionaire.

Well that's bullshit. I pay a gas tax to drive on the road. I pay a telephone excise tax as well as state and local taxes. I also pay sales tax. I pay property tax, I pay school taxes. I pay taxes on buying and registering a car, I pay taxes when I sell and transfer the title to a car. I pay parking taxes, airport taxes, airline taxes.

I don't owe government a "debt" because of my success any more than government owes me anything because of my failure.
FELLEG ;) stop-motion and more
You can simulate this -sort of- by playing Age of Empires. In this game, the civilizations are pretty much the same, except for small bonuses here and there - yet their play style often differs a lot, as in the successful strategies are wildly different.

Small bonuses can mean a lot in a game of life.
"We've made our position public, and we're satisfied that
its an accurate reflection of our position and our
understanding of Australian law. You must not rely on it as a legal basis
for anything though"

I'm not sure if I see the value of you saying it, then. Why not get a lawyer to provide you with a position that can be relied upon?
If I recall correctly, in regards to the incident at the restaurant: it wasn't owned by the person the demonstrators had issue with, it WAS the patron (David Irving, who is a Nazi "sympathizer," to say the least) they disliked. One reason it got coverage is that another patron was accidentally hit by a bottle one of the demonstrators threw (not Hammond).
A large part of the asm => C and C => C++ moves is that C and C++ very ,very strictly follow the principle that you pay only for what you use, and that pretty much all C and C++ environments makes inline assembler quite easy to do.

In other words: You can write C++ that is no slower than C, and you can write C that is only rarely slower than ASM, and in both cases, in the few situations where the performance difference is large enough to be noticeable and matter, you can still easily write asm.

This is also why C and C++ keeps being used in the face of so many higher level languages.

And I say this as someone who spends most of his time writing Ruby, and who haven't even bothered upgrading to MRI 2.x despite the performance improvements available.

In other words: I agree with your first line. But moving to C/C++ is a totally different tradeoff than moving to most higher level languages, most of which at the very least makes the performance characteristics much harder to predict.
Amnesty and Naturskyddsföreningen
You should try Pose method of running. But start very slowly, as your connective tissue will not be ready to go beyond some couple hundred yards the first months. But if you are patient you´ll run faster, with less effort and with less risk of injury.
Here it is a short article on it. http://running.competitor.com/2013/01/training/an-introducti...
I just deleted the bookmark for Facebook so I have to type it in. Well, type "Fa" anyway. But just doing that instead of having a button to click cut down my usage by 70-80%. I was clicking the button out of boredom a lot, I guess.

I rarely use Facebook on my phone, I don't like the interface at all. Mostly I'll just use it to share a pic, and even then I'm going through Instagram to do it.
But in this case they're talking about writing it in Java, and they have control over the Java compiler. In other words they have plenty of opportunities to ensure it optimises well:

- Focus on ensuring the overall pattern optimises well.

- Or recognising the special case of the JVM interpreter loop

- Or adding a pragma of some sort to trigger special optimisations.

Making it fast when compiled with an arbitrary compiler is another matter. But then even a lot of interpreters written in C often resorts to compiler specific hackery.
Now swear in blood you weren't under any kind of nondisclosure order when you wrote that.
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All I can think is –

[Mr. Burns is reminiscing about his grandfather's old Atom Smashing Plant]

Burns' Grandfather: Come on, men! Smash those atoms! You there, turn out your pockets.

[Two goons seize a waifish worker and turn out his pockets]

Burns' Grandfather: Aha - atoms! One, two, three, four... SIX of them! Take him away!
Machine Learning with scikit-learn
Same here.
I'm willing to use my next "funemployed" round for getting involved. Maybe even writing my master thesis on a mozilla project.
I really like how the employees can work from everywhere, also it doesn't have the touch of selling your soul, because they help the world with their work.
...or if they use RSA at too low of a bit depth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506120
Write JVM in Haskell, compile it and run natively.
It's an impressive project that shows the extraordinary work of a single developer, Mike Pall. LuaJIT is not only an incredibly beautiful JIT, the current project also demonstrates it can run generated code efficiently, which is probably the hardest thing to do for a language.

When implementing Opa in OCaml, we run into tons of problem since the OCaml runtime was unable to run generated code efficiently. One of its author, Pierre Weis told us at the time: "it's normal, OCaml is not meant to run generated code at all".

As a side note regarding Luje source code: Fossil must be great and all that but having the code on a publicly available Git repository would probably bolster contributions.
Having just left the Bay Area for the UK I will have to second the recommendations made by others to look in the Campbell and Willow Glen areas. Throw the Cambrian area of San Jose into the mix as well (you will end up with lower house costs due to not being in the prime areas but it is otherwise equivalent.) The primary and middle schools are highly ranked, the high school for that area is a bit sketchy but improving. 280 and 85 are close and light rail out of downtown Campbell gets you to Didiron station in two stops for easy access to Caltrain. San Mateo is up 280 to 92 and across; not a great commute when traffic is ugly, but better than just about any other path in that direction.
Can you confirm you have never been contacted by US authorities (or Australian for that matter), and have never been placed under a non-disclosure order?
Should I store images in my database as a BLOB, or as external files?
SoundCloud open-sources Sketchy
Google does have a section within their guidelines on creating "HTML Snapshots". "If a lot of your content is created in JavaScript, you may want to consider using a technology such as a headless browser to create an HTML snapshot." https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...
There is absolutely nothing in the story that has conclusions of how it will actually be in your home in any practical use?

I mean it is raving about the material but not any tested application?

Article vaguely says "want to" and "considering".

On slide 3, I see the words "could" and "promises" which is meaningless.

You might find this reference table handy: https://xkcd.com/678/

Graphene clearly falls under the "10 years" section.
There are lots of fake github profiles with tonnes of forks with no code committed. Be careful.

You have to look at the code to see if they're good, and you should have a conversation about it to find out their thinking process.

I'd always give a coding/architecture/design test before getting them in to interview as this would allow me to see how they solve new problems.
I have a different stance, and believe disabilities will skyrocket due to advancements in healthcare and availability of medical devices: People can stay alive longer, but be bound to say a wheelchair or mobility scooter, thereby requiring disability accommodation.
XBMC clone in Node.js
I had trouble believing it too until it happened multiple times.
Have you ever experienced web apps that laggs like crap? Yeah think about that x 10000 million web pages.
I'm using "whiteboard" here metaphorically. It's actually on a computer using a shared workspace.
"The main problem here is that disabilities are rare"

I was curious about this (I have two disabled siblings, so I assumed that I would over estimate the frequency) - according to the Department of Work and Pensions:

"Around 6 per cent of children are disabled, compared to 16 per cent of working age adults* and 45 per cent of adults over State Pension* age in Great Britain."

http://odi.dwp.gov.uk/disability-statistics-and-research/dis...

To me that is a huge proportion of society.
The argument is flawed. Every job has its own hassles, limits, dogma and so on. This applies to programming also. You might end up working with a team, which uses organizational schemes you hate, in a language that you dislike using tools you consider obsolete (See Linus Torvalds famous talk about git). In other situations re-writing the tool, is far from realistic, so you do professional patching, even though you hate it.

It's an awesome thing to like your work. But it's unrealistic to expect to do everything with your own terms and getting paid for that.
Speaking as someone who receives his income in dollars, I hope US defaults. Maybe then people in US will finally start to give a second thought on the US military expansion all over the world, and the trillions of dollars it's spending on weaponry. There are a lot of domestic programs are that very wasteful, too - not just the police militarization ones, but also social ones.

Maybe this will make them look at every program from sub 100,000 in funding to the hundreds of billions of dollars. Almost $4 trillion in spending a year with a little over $2 trillion a year as income is simply unsustainable, no matter how you cut it. I think everyone can see that. As others mention, the default will happen eventually. It's just a matter of time, and the more it's delayed, the bigger the impact will be.

What worries me most, though, is that if an imminent collapse of the dollar will happen in the future because countries start dropping the dollar, out of desperation, US will start becoming a lot more aggressive in its bullying, and possibly even take military action against them for "hurting their economy", or at the very least use NSA surveillance to blackmail them into not doing so (my guess is that's already happening, though), and it's part of their "diplomacy" with those countries.
A computer made from end of life materials, easy to replicate and remix