skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep! for a great example, try out Rush Holt (http://www.congressbuddies.com/?name=Rush%20Holt)

None of his top-5 "buddies" have him anywhere in their own top-5 lists, which is pretty unusual.
I'd like to see a principal components projection. Are there clusters? The buddies are interesting, but it seems like there's more here! :-)
This gave me a great idea for a defensive firefox plugin, maybe even just a greasemonkey script:

Any number that looks like a price (currency sign nearby with a .99) is automatically rounded up to the next integer when displayed in the browser.
And that is why you should never blindly use bodyParser middleware in production...

http://andrewkelley.me/post/do-not-use-bodyparser-with-expre...
Hey, you should apply at 1Sale, shoot us an email: dev@1saleaday.com
Or that there is an evolutionary advantage to being able to escape other cats by moving slower than they can see.
I down-modded you because references to when you were a boy and when you were in college without actual dates are meaningless to everyone else.
Unsurprising because the new streams API, which is responsible for this bug, was introduced in node 0.10. Try with earlier 0.10 versions instead.
This has to do with the way the software interacts with hardware on PC.

Basically, a GPU is a very complex computer with several hierarchies of execution streams e.g. there are vector SIMD streams that execute same code over different data, there are threads of such streams that preempt each other, there multiple processing units each running a set of such threads, and there are even structures of such processing units. Yet all of this is hidden from the programmer and only API there is an abstract "scene" description. E.g. you can say "first render these polygons with such and such settings, then render other polygons with other settings, then show what is rendered so far and return to the default state".

Going from such a high level description to the thousands of execution streams that GPU will execute is a very complex procedure that changes with each driver version and is not fully understood by any single person. On top of this you have other processes running on your machine while playing the game and they can and will steal CPU and the OS scheduling slots, adding a lot of variance to your frame time.

You can render the same data set several times and sometime it will take 10ms but other times it will take 100ms depending on what other processes decided to do at the time so it's impossible to guarantee constant frame time on PC.

On consoles it's not a big deal as you can program the GPU directly and don't compete with other processes. A great number of games do run with constant frame rate - it's not trivial but it's not a rocket science either.
I lived in NYC for a year, working right next to Hell's Kitchen. While the food is great, it's certainly not "incomparable". Paris has better restaurants. Tokyo has better restaurants (cheaper too in that case). Even San Francisco has comparable food standards.

You end up sounding just like so many New-Yorkers --annoying and conceited. But no, living there doesn't make you special. It's just a big city, and not the only one in the world.
Sure, but consider that the majority of people in SF/SV are priced out of the market and are instead renters -- they're getting the worst of both worlds.
No, really, you just missed the good pizza here. The offer stands, come back here, email me, and I will treat you to good pizza.
C++, it's time to go
It's a bit of a monoculture, but one that spans more cuisines than anywhere else. There are definitely certain aesthetics that are prized over others that are arguably worthwhile, but it's cross-cutting. You can get more diversity in, say, fried chicken, in PA, but you can't get the same diversity across cuisines, combined with the same depth and quality of execution, anywhere else.
Years of CPU time is not a lot in google. You only need hundreds of CPUs to run for a couple of days.

Though not everyone has easy access to this resource, this project is meaningful enough to get approved for the resource allocation.
LA has a lot of good food, SF only has good burritos.
Hell no: Hot weather is bad for productivity.

I lived in Florida for 5 years. Lived in St. Louis for 15. It's not a myth, being in a hotter state makes you lazier, more tired, and decreases your productivity levels (unless you're indoors 100% of the time). It's the heat & sun and the way it affects productivity and thinking, and blood distribution.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/24/a...

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865562780/Hot-news-The-be...

For me at least, being in the heat would just drain me of my energy and focus. When I lived in Orlando, Florida my productivity just hit rock bottom. I didn't want to do anything. Neither did anyone around me. My neighbors were all lazy, everyone was lazy, the parks had a lot less people than parks up north. Every thing was just slower. Less people walked. Everyone was just inside. The sun is just intense since Florida's closer to the equator, the heat is extreme during the summer and since there's so much humidity your body can't cool itself off through sweat evaporation. Also, when you're in the heat your body sends more blood to circulate in your skin and uses a lot more energy to keep itself cool. And even simple things like going outside to check my mail would just be a burning pain. I'm serious, we all stayed indoors. We were like prisoners. Miami is even worse. And Key West was just... a boiling oven.

Compare the productivity levels, development, & innovation of colder countries with warmer countries. Is it really a surprise that so many 3rd world countries are hot countries near the equator (with very little availability of air conditioning)?

"According to this theory, about 70% of the economic development of a country can be predicted from the distance between that country and the equator. In other words, the further from the equator the more developed a country tends to be." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_determinism

After my Florida experience I'm staying away from the south. Some people love it there though.
There is a link to a .pdf two page resume on his site.
This is awesome. I've been sketching and thinking about such an approach to editing for months now — it would be perfect for one of my products. Not only have you validated that this "block" concept makes sense to other people, you've also given me a head start on the code. Many thanks, and I look forward to using (and contributing to) the project!
Nimrod is a lot like a modernized Pascal with a Python-like syntax.
Yea, mouse ball that can't be cleaned, thanks Apple.
you can apply this logic to every problem and never address anything.
You Can Be Rejected, But You Cannot Be Stopped
San Francisco is a magnet for talented, ambitious, creative, brilliant, audacious people. It's hard to argue against this, and by accepting that as true, you must also accept the clear corollary - that there are proportionally more of those extraordinary people in San Francisco and fewer in Miami. And yes, that makes huge difference.

While it may not be politically correct to say that one city is "dumber, less creative, and 'worse at life'," it seems to be politically fine to say San Francisco is filled with creative, smart, "good at life" people. Of course, those statements are logically equivalent, so it's really just politics you are arguing.
I got an unsolicited email to check out a Github project once and I didn't mind it. I ended up looking at the new project and it was neat. What made this one so irritating?
Well, in that case lets add confusion about affected versions to the list of things being suboptimal about this whole thing: http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/ - the same warning about the same error and they did backport the fix to 0.8: https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/653d4db71f569ddc87a0bc...
Paris only has good french and moroccan food, san francisco actually doesn't have nearly as good food, so just stop.
This thread appears to be mixing up 'contracting' and 'freelancing'.

Contracting - generally on site, fixed term contract, paid by the day, working alongside the team.

Freelancing - generally off site, project based, paid by the hour, working more autonomously.

You do find exceptions such as a work from home contract or a freelancer who bills by the day, but this distinction definetly hold true in the mind of companies and agencies.

Making the good rates in the poll is relatively easy as a contractor, but fiendishly difficult as a freelancer.

I suspect freelancing is more appealing to the HN crowd for the autonomy and location independence. I know I would swap £100+ hr of what I call 'contracting' for a consistent stream of £50 hr 'freelancing' in a heartbeat, but the work is difficult to source reliably.

(As an aside, I'm glad to see we have the same rate inflation on the London polls. At the time of writing approx 30% of respondents are on £100 + hr. There's no way the London market supports that at volume.)
Pretty much everyone who travels often. Oh man, how I hate this airport.
Derek's hashmap was faster than than Go 1.0's built in hashmap. With Go 1.1 or 1.1.1 (don't remember which one exactly), the standard one did become faster, though Derek had decided to stick with it as is. I can ask him what the reason was... I don't recall right now.
Outside the US, prices are more normal. I suspect that the tax issue in particular reflects the fact that taxes are different in every different city in the US, which makes tax-included prices hard to advertise.
Does anyone know much about the practicalities of the chemistry behind this? I've almost finished looking at redox at high school.
Looking at them like this reminds me how terrible they are -- ergonomics isn't Apple's strong suit. Give me a cheap Logitech mouse any day of the week.

Bizarrely, Apple's dedication to the "simple" idea of not having a second mouse button results in far more uncomfortable and unintuitive interfaces, featuring an ever increasing melange crazy gestural shortcuts.
I can honestly tell you that New York City has absolutely zero good tacos though. The ones that exist are sad and laughable things. This alone is reason to leave the city.
Loneliness is the bane of my entire existence. My biggest, life-long source of dissatisfaction with life itself.
They will get positions where the key factor is price. Many purchasing decisions aren't based solely (or even chiefly) on price.

You have to decide where you fit and act (and charge) accordingly. There's an entire spectrum of rates, and there's no iron law that says one has to fit in at the bottom.
When I was studying psychology we often ran into negotiating tactics like this. Another is if you need a small favor, ask for something huge when they turn you down, they will almost always agree to the small favor. For example, after asking your parents for a car for your birthday, they'll be more likely to agree to get you that game for your xbox.
That doesn't seem to agree with http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/MICRO/fma/pdf/LCD_Backgroun... .
Content is not king
Cheap cost of living? I live in Chicago, but the rest of my extended family lives in Tampa, FL. I make $120K/year in Chicago, but due to lower costs of living, only need to make $90K/year in Tampa for the same lifestyle.
Southfork's Open Source SecViz Tool Under Legal Attack
Very nice! Now I've got to see if my old floppies are still readable.

While in college, I got myself an oddball MS-DOS computer. My dad read an article in the business pages about this guy who had the audacity to market a complete software product for 39 bucks. Dad didn't know anything about computers, except that there was growing interest in programming, so he got Turbo Pascal version 1 for me as an Xmas present. That was the original version, and I stuck with Turbo Pascal through successive revisions until 1994 when I discovered HyperCard on an Apple Mac.

In my view, among the strengths of TP, its manuals shouldn't be overlooked. Each version came with a relatively slim yet complete manual that a person could actually read. Of course it helped that the target platform was relatively simple too.
From the end of the article:

"But all of the above will not get electronics down to the energy-efficiency of the brain.

"That will require many more changes, including a move to analogue computation instead of digital.

"It will also involve breakthroughs in new non-Turing models of computation, for example based on an understanding of how the brain processes information."

What exactly does all this mean? How would moving from digital to analogue computation improve energy efficiency? And aren't the whole Turing vs. non-Turing models of the brain still up for serious debate?
I can speak for Houston at least. The suburbs (Sugar Land, Katy, etc.) all have pretty good schools, and the homes zoned to them are generally affordable to middle class families ($250-300k is probably the sweet spot).

If you live in an urban inner-city neighborhood, though, then yes, you have to pay an extraordinary amount to get a good education for your kids through private school. On the plus side, Houston has some incredibly strong private high schools (e.g., St. John's School) if you can afford the $20-25k/year tuition on top of the super expensive real estate and the 3% property taxes.
Same here. Heat makes me very irritable.
Is that why I keep reading about the BART strike and not being able to get anything but a "nice crack den" for $3K/month in San Francisco?
I used shameless plug more as a means to imply I am associated with the project. The phrase probably roots from the general tendency of hackers to feel ashamed of promoting their own work?
Is it just me, or is this article written by someone who is clueless? I read the whole thing, and wasn't able to extract a single piece of genuine information.

Either someone is gaming HN to make artificial up votes, or I need to find a different forum.
The plaintiff (Battelle) has claimed copyright violation, amongst other things. This is crazy. Southfork's system is written in a different language, and this can be verified because the source is visible to the public on github, at https://github.com/visdom/visdom, as is the commit log for every line of source.
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"Their vision is that by 2060, a one petaflop computer that would fill half a football field today, will fit on your desktop."

Will it be able to run Crysis?

But seriously, I'd be even more interested in how these computers will be programmed. Any wild speculations?
One of the best game i ever play in my childhood and complete it with in 3 days, still remember the stage 3 when i have to touch space bar for open the gate and simultaneous monster came. it was scary for me.
Mainly i like to target the oil drums :). Mine favorite weapon was the machine gun which was available in the middle chamber with a protected suit
A script to deploy $HOME dot files acrossing different hosts. 
For many Linux users, a common task is to manage and deploy dot files for different users on many hosts. Many people are using Git to manage the dot files, but how to deploy them is still a question. I wrote this script to ease this task by maintaining a central dots repo which could by synced accross several hosts by dropbox, and let the script take care of the rest.
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Sloane's Gap.
Soak some toilet paper in alcohol, run the mouse upside down over it, then admire the smear of black dirt that comes off the roller.
But the additional property tax is already built into your rent price and increases?
He just jump out of the water like that?
Ask HN: Is there an open source license that prohibits binary distribution?
Where would this be useful?

For open source apps on the Play Store, for example. Without something like this, it's very common to see multiple third-party binaries, making it confusing for regular users of the original app.
I just moved from SF to Miami Beach a month ago. I loved SF but if you have the ability to work from home as I do, financially it does not make sense to stay. I honestly would have preferred to move to Honolulu over here but the only area I liked (Tantalus/roundtop/pacheights) really didn't (at the time) have any nice houses for sale that were under 5 million.

Also, while the cost of living is way down here, so is the income you will get from working a local job. I talked with a few people and there is scant a developer pulling in over 90k here. Compare that to SF where 100k salaries are the norm and it all evens out.

With that said, I like MB/Miami. The tech scene is in its infancy though. I don't believe there is any real institutional venture funds here. Basically, raising a 'A' round is going to be very difficult. You might be able to pull it off with latin american based VC but it will be a struggle.

I will say that the people I have met so far out here have been very nice and welcoming and there is a very good vibe. I am looking forward to building things out here.
Background on the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Integer...

Very good video on Sloane's Gap, for the impatient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YysNM2JoFo

The article is particularly interesting to me for it's examination of what complexity theory tells us to expect for the distribution of 'interesting' integer sequences.

That cultural influences can (probably) have such a dramatic and measurable effect on something like mathematics is fascinating as well.
If you install it through the package manager (by running M-x package-list-packages and then selecting it from there) you can update it through that as well (hitting U will select all updates). See eg: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html
Analog computing is dramatically more energy-efficient than digital because it needs less hardware. For example, you can store an analog value in a capacitor while storing a digital value requires a multi-bit register that is made of multiple transistors per bit. Analog multiplication can be done with an amplifier while digital multiplication requires thousands of transistors. The tradeoff is that digital computation is exact while analog computation contains noise which may accumulate through the computation.
What's the security story here? The website claims it's "secure", but I don't see any more details.

Unlike BitTorrent itself, this is closed-source, so there's not even the option of digging through the code and seeing what it does.
Is there a better way to navigate this page rather than clicking tiny tiny circles? I got a little frustrated after clicking 3 of them.
The hockey puck mouse got a nice introduction though, check the applause Jobs gets when he shows it off — http://youtu.be/0BHPtoTctDY?t=6m25s
What specifically do you have a problem with?

Details will vary between different displays but my point is that due to the pixels being on a grid sequential access is going to be faster. This is not unlike memory.

EDIT:
Here's a reference that discusses scanning in a TFT:
http://www.electronicsforu.com//EFYLinux/efyhome/cover/March...

"The TFT-LCD panel of the AMLCD is
scanned sequentially line-by-line from
top to bottom. Each line is selected by
applying a pulse of +20V to gate line Gn,
which turns on the TFTs in that specific
row. Rows are deselected by applying
–5V to G
n-1
and G
n+1, which turns off
all the TFTs in the deselected rows and
then the data signal is applied from the
source driver to the pixel electrode.
The voltage applied from the
source driver, called ‘gray-scale voltage,’ decides the luminance of the pixel. The storage capacitor (CS) maintains
the luminance of the pixel until the
next frame signal voltage is applied.
In this way, the next line is selected
to turn on all the TFTs, then the data
signal is fed from the source driver and
hence scanning is done."
Can you please elaborate what you are looking to achieve?
>> founding companies that focus on better value for education

What companies do you see doing this? I see so many areas ripe for improvement in education. But most efforts I see in education that are affected by a profit motive seem to be taken over by that profit motive. It seems to me that if you really want to make education better for all students, you have to go down the non-profit road.
Google's Non-Ad Revenue Growth Outpaces Ad Biz As Prices Decline
Brain-machine interface, obvi. That or strong AIs. :)
Good. Save that poor soul from having to keep working for Fox News.

In all seriousness, I thought it was not only an awesome idea, but extremely well executed.
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Google Without Larry Page Would Not Be Like Apple Without Steve Jobs
San Francisco attracts people who want to do Big Things. It attracts people with technical and business smarts. I do not think it follows, though, that it attracts people with general life smarts or, as you put it, people who are "better at life." The sort of strike-it-rich personalities that are drawn to the San Francisco gold rush are not always the same personalities that are conducive to good old-fashioned happiness and contentment. And it's certainly going to attract a lot of people who will put work and Big Things over the raising of a family.
What language do coding pirate's use for statistical analysis? Rrrrrrrrrrr.
Search for "Florida man" on Google News.
To prevent multiple identical binaries on a managed app store (which confuses users.)
Sounds interesting - would love a link to your work if it's open source!
I see quite a few places advertise for Dreamweaver experience, so it makes sense to put it on a resume. He's first and foremost a designer, so I don't think it will hurt him too badly. Besides, just because someone uses a tool that you don't respect doesn't mean that they don't know how to code without it.
There's only 27 people saying that. I only know the Java market and mostly outside of London at that, but £750/day for a reasonable Java developer doesn't seem outrageous in London to me.
They've been trying to get us to buy VR headsets since 1997. Every ten years or so a company comes along and tries to change the world with this technology. The problem is that while we all have a use for non-immersive tools like pocket computers, very few seem to have a use for immersive VR. The companies making this stuff and technologists like us like to believe that the limiting factor is the technology or the cost. It isn't. It's that almost nobody needs this stuff and not many want it. It's not a technical shortcoming that will be overcome next week or a first-mover problem. It's that VR lacks the kind of universal applications that computing has.
The one that came after the hockey puck wasn't much better. I haven't used an Apple mouse in a long time, but I was always amazed at how a company known for design could do so poorly with the most important input device (for desktop).
To most non-coder types, to include management and hr people, HTML is a programming language and CSS is a question mark.

For many of us who code, however, it really hurts to see someone misclassify nearly anything.

I'd be willing to bet that he knows the difference and simply decided to simplify his resume by pretending he didn't.