skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, southern Europe in general is not easy to properly start a business in even for locals. I have some relatives who run a small business in Greece, and they have lots of stories about that. One of several problems in the country.

Denmark might be the easiest for foreigners: you can register a sole proprietorship free online, and get a tax code, within an hour. It's only in Danish, but simple enough Danish that Google Chrome's translation can handle ok: http://www.virk.dk/myndigheder/stat/ERST/Registrering_af_enk...

The government also recently translated their entrepreneurs' handbook to English, with background information on laws, incorporation types, employment norms, etc.: http://startvaekst.dk/entrepreneurshipindenmark.dk/tools_and.... And Copenhagen, at least, has an office specifically for assisting non-Danes in starting businesses and navigating any regulations: https://subsite.kk.dk/sitecore/content/Subsites/CityOfCopenh.... In general the civil service is surprisingly English-friendly.
I didn't know that PG suggested something similar, thanks for the pointer :-)
How Microsoft invented almost everything (including the wheel)
Nice little project.

A few suggestions to improve the writeup:

1. Consider going into more depth on the workings of the image processing techniques. The ones you have chosen are some of the more readily-accessible and, to the uninitiated, can be a delight to learn (esp the Hough Transform, imo). This will also help cement things in your mind and be useful when it comes to exam time.

2. Feature selection is obviously the most critical part of the process - consider going into more detail. (Un)Fortunately you got it right first time, so you couldn't document a process of trial, error, insight and finally success. In lieu of this you should at least be able to elucidate on the thought processes that led you to choose the features you did. If you are able to make a prediction that is subsequently realised then that demonstrates you are intelligently selecting features and understanding the consequences, rather than just getting lucky.

3. Your description of k-Nearest Neighbours is a little faulty - possibly the result of you trying to phrase what is essentially a simple concept in your own words? The user doesn't pre-define some set 'search radius' - the algorithm simply finds the k nearest neighbours of a given point. If your point is some outlier then the 'search radius' will be much larger then had you selected a more 'typical' point in the middle of a densely-populated area - for the same value of k.
Does anyone know if this update is for windows only? I can't seem to find a Mac version of the update.
i would use nuodb if they brought down their AWS hosted pricing.
Here's the shortest I've gotten after looking at some of the comments:

IO.write$*.pop,ARGF.lines.sort.join

And yes, it does work even without the space between `write` and `$*`.

Also after testing, I realized the ('\n') is not required for join. When you call 'lines', it still has the '\n' character in the string, and when you join, it defaults to join without a delimiter, so it's putting them back together with the newline still there.
Unless I am mistaken, the following features were not available in Windows 2000: GDI+, Clear Type, Remote Desktop, Windows Media Player, much better Internet support, USB 2.0, FireWire 800, etc.

The list is very long. XP is not a big service pack. It includes everything that was missing in 2000 to make it consumer-ready.
Don't worry about a thing. I have an Art/Advertising degree, and I'm an iOS engineer right now. I got here by programming my ass off.
Rampant speculation that it has been back-doored by the NSA.

Also, not cross-platform.
detecting all porn seems to be an almost impossible problem. Many kinds of advanced porn (BDSM, etc.) don't have much skin - often the actors are in latex, tied up, or whatever. It's obviously porn when you see it, but detecting it seems incredibly hard.

Detecting smurf-porn(1) (yes that's a thing...) is even harder since all the actors are blue.

http://pinporngifs.blogspot.dk/2012/09/smurfs-porn.html?zx=7... - obviously very NSFW, but quite funny.
On site Optimization of Raspberry Pi site
Why Machine Learning fails
Waltonia: A Darwin Sandbox
machine learning? because you also want to filter cats.
I used to use this but my issue was that I usually watch TV/Movies on my laptop before bed. I had to disable flux to do that which made it kind of pointless for me. During my time using it I never noticed any benefits (probably because, like I said, I turned it off late at night).

Has anyone seen real benefits to using it?
Yar, I realise the Hezbollah thingy is only tangentally applicable, but I couldn't find a better example of a single mistake compromising an identity and thereby a network. I think that someone (maybe Cory Doctorow?) wrote a better, at-length post about how hard it is to stay anonymous but I couldn't find it, so I used this example instead.

Point 6 is my main stepping-stone from 'organised and capable' to 'government'. FWIW governments have deliberately set up 'dodgy banks' as a way of attracting money launderers and then busting them, so I think it's valid.
Thanks for the clarification, cheald! Of course you did user testing and know your audience way better than I do, haha, but the design just irks me for my way of consuming Mashable content. So my opinion is as always my own subjective taste (selfishly). But I do still consume some of the content :)
Amazon Mechanical Turk has an adult-content marker specifically for this purpose. Lots of people have done the paperwork to qualify for adult-content jobs and the cost of having humans do it at scale is very low: https://requester.mturk.com/help/faq#can_explicit_offensive

Source: I helped implement a MT job to filter adult content for a large hosting company.
I'm not a designer but aesthetically it looks horrible to me. It's bad enough that if it was a site I hadn't heard of or used I wouldn't sign up.
It's never that simple - and making the product awesome and launching at 95% can introduce way more rewards than launching at 75 or 80%. I think the concept of an MVP is regarded as the word of law around here, and sometimes an MVP looks like shit and nobody will use it afterwards, so spend the extra two weeks making it absolutely awesome. I know that's not really what you were talking about, but I think people shouldn't shy away from taking a step back and just thinking about what you're building without being stupid-productive all of the time. It's all about balance.
It's not abnormal to see time stamps like that with print publications - they often publish to the web in advance of the print edition coming out, but it makes sense to use the print edition as the 'reference' edition when it comes to dating articles.
Because there is no <embed> tag. This is a pure javascript flash VM.
Read Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks
By Nick Szabo and couple that with Bitcoin. Think of laws as being online documents with their own git layer, public repo infrastructure.

"We are now entering an era of online communications and software "literacy". The "physics of cyberspace", studied by computer scientists, are radically different from the properties of paper, to an even greater degree than paper was different from string, clay, and metal. "
faster too

$ time sort < t > t-sh
real 0m0.016s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.008s

$ time py -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1],'w').writelines(sorted(open(sys.argv[2]).readlines()))" t-py t
real 0m0.088s
user 0m0.056s
sys 0m0.012s

BTW also a different result (I curled this page for the data).
This is a very interesting post. I am intrigued by point 11, but it's written so abstractly that I'm not quite sure I understand what he(?)'s saying. What are the groups he's talking about? Functional groups (of employees, like 'marketing')? If that's correct, who are the stakeholders within that group? Perhaps he meant 'leader' of these groups, or 'strong personalities.'

Or is he talking about people who have an interest in the product (the usual use of the term 'stakeholders'). In which case, what is this variable compensation he's talking about?

I wonder how big a company has to be before this paragraph is something that actually has to be managed. Goal alignment has to be continual throughout the company's lifetime, of course, but at what point do you have to start identifying 'thought leaders' within groups and have to take special care that the group's own personality has goals aligned with the company?

I'd love to hear someone with this experience, of having stuck with a startup through some period where the mixture of talent has 'condensed' into separate functional groups, enlighten this paragraph a bit.
Signing off on the paperwork and /then/ getting out of there.

So NASA :-)
Why do you have to disable flux to do that? Try looking at your phone after using your fluxed(?) laptop for an hour or so. The blue will burn your eyes out...
The absence of the TrueCrypt license on the OSI-certified list itself does not signify much, since the license was AFAIK never submitted for OSI approval, but Linux distros among others have raised concerns about several versions of the license in the past, and the current one continues to be problematic IMO. Some recent discussion has been going on on the OSI license-discuss mailing list for those interested:
see http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/201...
and followup messages.

(Disclaimer: am an OSI director and also am Red Hat lawyer who was involved in reviewing and rejecting the TrueCrypt license for Fedora.)
Bitcoin + contracts => new governments https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts

Quote from Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By Nick Szabo.

"We are now entering an era of online communications and software "literacy". The "physics of cyberspace", studied by computer scientists, are radically different from the properties of paper, to an even greater degree than paper was different from string, clay, and metal. "
Performance isn't the reason I see people wanting to move away from that stack; it's more about library availability, tool ecosystem (including things like monitoring, so this is an improvement - though I doubt it will stem the tide), and language productivity.

(Not that that your performance sounds like a compelling advantage for that stack. That's what, an average of 700 requests/second/web server? So the peak is probably around 1500? Pretty good indeed, but not outstandingly so - where I worked 3 years ago our system handled peaks of 600 requests/second/web server on a JVM-based stack. And I don't see .net topping the charts on http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/).
have you read the link? And seen "Movie Mode" is part of this "big update"?
Germany is doing something right: http://i.imgur.com/B2YoJug.png (map of unemployment variation)
"I feel it used to be the same in the US at some point in time."

It's interesting you say that because European right wingers always depict the US as a paradise where people can be wealthy (which they equate to successful) and respected for it.

"On HN, I'm not sure what is the trend, since you see people saying that "profit is evil" and stuff in that line of thought, as well as folks cheering for SpaceX, Tesla Motors' CEO Elon Musk"

I don't see any contradiction. Most people feel one should be rewarded based on their contribution to society, and have respect and admiration for skilled and ambitious persons.

What is usually debated is: how much should be the reward, and how to assess everyone's contribution.
Just because a HN blog post complained about this supposed "echo chamber" yesterday doesn't mean we all have to stop talking about it. The role of government is a complicated, unsolved issue and it happens to be something that lot of people in this community care about. I think that's a good thing.
Right, that would make more sense.
This is not the only definition, but it does help. If they get complaints that they are giving the Conservatives too much and too little airtime then it's a good indication that they're dealing with them reasonably.

> It means that issues or actors are given favourable coverage in proportion to their ability to muster or manufacture complaints.

Only if they use this to alter their output. It's more of a contrast to the other situation where you get lots of complaints on one side and none on the other, which suggests (but doesn't mean) you're treating things badly.

If they responded to just the complaints (rather than trying to think about how likely people are to complain/praise each side) then they'd never allow a gay kiss on screen (the responses are phenomenal when something like that happens).
If've seen it happen to people.
> Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economic Science for (I'm vastly over-simplifying) research that indicates only dictatorships have famines because the rulers are insulated from the effects and so have little motivation to fix the systemic problems that cause famines. The "let them eat cake" syndrome (although that quote itself is historically misleading).

Should we deduce that, by electing wealthy people, we ensure that they have no incentive to fix the systemic problems which cause a cycle of economic crises?
I live in Stuttgart too, and I know for sure a few people that would love to attend more talks/events but shackspace does not look very active and it's hard to get informed if/when interesting events take place.
Molecular and Cellular Biology major here, and it was the same story with my program. 500 students in two intro bio classes became 250 students my second semester and 150 students my third. Eventually, less than 50 students received their diploma across every cell bio major (MCB, Immunology, Microbiology, etc.)

Reading the comments on here I wonder if it's a "tradition" among STEM majors. I honestly thought the pressure, stress, and competition in my program was universal across all fields until I met my current girlfriend. The very idea of a 90% attrition rate or classes that practically required three hours of sleep a night was completely foreign to her. Even the very culture within our programs were radically different. I was subjected to a lot of "Most of you won't get your MDs or PhDs", whereas she had a much more encouraging rather than discouraging environment.
You don't get withdrawal symptoms from stopping to eat cheeseburgers.
Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
There is not need for an equivalent of an Ltd, because a British Ltd can do business in Germany just like a GmbH could.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiengesellschaft_(Vereinigtes...
C++11 is so 2 years ago, C++14 for the win ;) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B14 )

C++11 has many nice new things, if you are not familiar with it, I recommend starting also on the wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11
Would like to see a feature where the software takes local cloud cover into account and dims with the sun during the day.
Yes, seriously.

You imply that it is a ridiculous option, but it is not.
They broke the back button :-(
Stripe Redesign
also from the f.lux website:

> f.lux is patent pending. If you make a cell phone, display, or other cool device, and want to talk about licensing f.lux?
My personal favourite mathematical animation is the construction of Bezier curves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezier_curve#Constructing_B.C3....
Havege and other CPU-based entropy sources are interesting. But they do implicit assumptions such as that the TSC is somehow giving you real measurements (and is not virtualized for example) and that the CPU has cache memories, do out-of-order issue etc which makes the exection time variable.

We have tested Havege and on modern x86 systems you do get good numbers. But there are embedded SSL stacks that use Havege on such things as AVR32 cpus where the exection time is much more predictable. I have yet to test in those environments, but it does not look like a smart move.

Also, Havege includes an entropy estimator that seems to be broken. We used the Simics system simulator and forced the TSC to be stuck and could see that we got bad entropy from Havege. But the estimator happily said that the entropy was good.

My suggestion is that if you are to use Havege and friends, use them to feed the OS entropy pool, not as a replacement for /dev/random, /dev/uramndom.

And speaking of friends. Jytter is one such friend. I have yet to test it with Dieharder though.

http://jytter.blogspot.se/
There's a similar thing in Sweden, called Swish (https://www.getswish.se/). But it's a cooperation between banks, and you link it with your phone number, the transfer is instant, you have to identify using something called Bank ID.

Square Cash seems nice, but I prefer the approach of Swish.
I just looked it up, and tuition for my last semester (Fall 08) was $5,300. The two years before that, average tuition was 800/semester less. It is not that much more expensive.

I hadn't seen the health complication until I read through some of your other comments from the last few days. I think it makes you an exception though and not definitive of the state of education...

tl;dr: The numbers don't line up to suggest college is unavailable to kids whose parents won't pay.

It's going to mean loans. Even with 9 months of a really generously compensated internship (to Midwest standards, at least, I grew up in WI and went to school in MI), I still left college with north of 50k in loans.

Ohio University, cost is ~24k a year, more than 12k of which is room, board, transportation and personal. Ohio State this year is 21k, more than half of which is the room and board. For both, tuition and books is about 11-11.5k.

You'd hypothetically already be paying the rest with the 7k / year job that's keeping you kicking.

4.5k in the stafford loan means, 6k in other loans a year to fill it in at today's cost, which is probably 20-40% higher than it was 5 years ago.

4 years of loans, even if they're shitty, "credit ready" loans at personal loan rates, still only leaves a fictional Ohio traditional student with $45k in student loan debt at the end of the degree. $60 if they take a victory lap.

In any STEM discipline, paid internships and co-ops are also possible, which would further reduce the loan load required.

So in summary, funding an education is not impossible. Yes, the student will be paying for it for a while. I'm still paying on my loans and I still will be for a few years. But I'm sorry, not having parents foot the bill generally isn't yet a barrier to a high-quality education.
I'm speaking as a colorist working in film/television here. TV's already have enough issues destroying the look we carefully craft with "features" like dynamic lighting, motion smoothing, vivid mode, etc. A huge color shift is going to throw this off even more and dramatically change the look and tone to the detriment of the work. This is great for reading text on a screen, but should be disabled for viewing media - you wouldn't look at the Mona Lisa with amber glasses.
That's going to seriously shake the mapping space. MapBox is quite an unstoppable force now.
It's interesting you say that because European right wingers always depict the US as a paradise where people can be wealthy (which they equate to successful) and respected for it.

What's interesting about it? And I have no idea why you start putting politics inside here - that was not the point. You are right about one thing, in Europe people are despised if they have money, no matter if they deserved it or not.

What is usually debated is: how much should be the reward, and how to assess everyone's contribution.

Vote with your wallet/dollars. What else is there to measure ? Honestly I don't see who would be in position to decide "what should be the reward" or these kind of things. That's why we have market systems, to avoid stupid solutions to this kind of issue.
> and some studies suggest that those who sit all day live around two years less than those who are more active.

Considering that truly unhealthy and sick people (who will soon die) probably sit more then they stand, if you remove those people from the dataset, wouldn't the interpretation become that sitting is actually extremely beneficial for the average person who will end up outliving a non-sitter person by several years?
Here's the link for those not speaking German: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
What environment is used to create this app? Seems to be made of simple HTML-sites, but what is used as a backend?
I don't think being supply constrained at launch means they are incompetent. When you have a large % of people who want to buy it as soon as it comes out, if you build your logistics to have enough supply at that time, you'd have too much capacity other times.

But they definitely set the bar pretty low each time so they keep the image of every new product selling out.
jrnkntl notes above that this update is not available for Mac or Linux.
Point taken.

BTW, I did find this[1] graph very interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drug_danger_and_dependenc...
I wonder why they refuse to simply pick a standard free license. They obviously have been able to change the license a number of times, so it's not like it's a problem of having to get permission from all of the copyright holders...
It is pretty great, however it cannot be changed to another key combination and if you happen to use that particular shortcut in some other apps (cough OneNote cough) you're pretty much screwed.
Lola - The Local-Language Environment Manager
Wait, A Small Orange was bought? This would explain a slight shift I've noticed with them in the last year...
I've eaten grasshoppers in Mexico, sautéed in tomato sauce. They were OK but I wouldn't go out of my way to eat them. Shrimp are not terribly different yet people eat them all the time.
Not a freshman but a transfer student. I'm absolutely taking it again as soon as possible. In the meantime I'm going to keep attending the lectures for no credit and learn on my own through Khan Academy. I'm actually confident I can complete the course fine, but I was distracted with other things when the course started and missed some important grades. Thanks for the advice.
Just curious - you hear rumors that the E.U. is considering clamping down on Ireland's tax laws.

Is there any truth to this? Could it happen anytime soon?

If so, does Ireland then consider leaving the E.U., or is Ireland's E.U. membership more important to those U.S. companies than the tax benefits?
An equally huge win for this case in particular is that they managed to predict the crystalline structure correctly as well[1]. While predicting superconductivity is a significant and important challenge, crystal structure prediction is an equally large area of research with constantly improving results. It also has broad applications, all the way from protein folding to high pressure geophysics.

[1] http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i21/e217003
It can't top a table it's not in...
I use a standing desk full-time and find that two anti-fatigue mats stacked on top of each other are better than one. But one is far better than none.

Haven't tried three yet. :)
"I read Hacker News on a daily now and never in my life thought a topic from my previous daily reads (Gecko and Reptile forums) would ever make it here!"

But such a topic did make it here before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5750173
"I disagree with your sentiment that nobody who is not american and willing to work for 25K can write BIOS/driver level software."

Ah that is a good point. The problem is businessmen wanting to import H1Bs to maltreat them because they want to pay locals non-local (low) salaries.

If I could live somewhere that $25K was a reasonable local wage, I wouldn't mind writing code for $25K. I don't, so I'm not amused at the argument that there are no coders available because there are none willing to live far below the local poverty level.
If you like f.lux, and you use Android devices, you might enjoy Twilight.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...