skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's the point. While ~10% of computing devices are keyboarded, traditional machines,.. >>10% of content is created on them; which makes them hardly 'irrelevant'
> Does it have categories/labels?

No.

> Priorities?

Yes.

> There absolutely needs to be a features list on the homepage.

Will do.
I have a 4 y.o. macbook that I use for most stuff and a 10 y.o. PC with WinXP for some other stuff (also for the sake of some old PC games from the past :))
Right. See the "Seeded backup" section here: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/details.html
Yes, back in 2007, and on the basis of exposing various API functions that FB has now repeatedly shown that it is willing to arbitrarily restrict or revoke when developers use them in ways FB doesn't like. They are within their rights to do that, but it's not the sort of behavior that's consistent with wanting to be a utility.

But even if FB didn't do that, the argument about them being a utility doesn't hold water, because, as nknighthb pointed out upthread, FB could shut down tomorrow and people would simply find other means of social networking. The public utility is the Internet infrastructure itself; that is what would cause huge disruption if it were suddenly shut down or restricted.
The Programmer and His Client
There are two impacts. In front of the glass is a light mesh that is used to keep water from kicked up is from showing as droplets on the screen. That mesh is coated in a hydrophobic material and works well keeping a camera from needing to have the lens wiped.

The Green Line is when the camera took that part of the impact. Likely the Sensor shook enough to cause an error.

It recovered in the frame before the puck hit the lens so there is a clear frame before that.

The comments about IPB frames and compression might seem logical at first, but B frames are very rarely used in live broadcast because they add so much to the delay, and cause a lot of issues when broadcast over lossy formats.

If this was a broadcast from tape, the impact could have damaged the tape when the tenisioner was jostled by the impact, but typically that would do more than the small ammount of frame loss shown here, and wouldn't have been part of a live broadcast.
I never claimed to be minimalist in size, only in features. Most of the stuff that gets installed is to support python extensions.
I notice that whatever CMS they're using for the website seems to be turning double hyphens (--) into dashes (–), which is unfortunate.
Oh, p'shaw! 20-something, and you're already complaining about not having enough time on your hands? Lets talk about it again when you hit 40 and have gained a little real wisdom ..
A great way to deal with scaling assets for mobile is to create your art in a vector format to begin with. For Uncle Slam on iOS we did all the artwork in Illustrator and exported to PNG at three sizes: iPhone 1x, iPhone 2x (and iPad), and iPad 2x. The results are sharp images with the right level of detail and no scaling artifacts.

We even took the exact same artwork and made an 8 foot tall banner with it, and it looks great!
This is why you invest in twenty companies, not one.
If you've ever done government contracting, you'd know as things stand now a large fraction of those "amazing developers" wouldn't put up with its insanities when they have good alternatives. E.g. would you be happy filling out time sheets for exactly 40 hours, no matter what you did or should do?

I've done this twice. Once for a NASA project where my smaller company was doing work NASA judged as too hard for CSC; that my manager was one of the best ever certainly made a difference, as well as getting any tool I asked for (ah, I was among other things cleaning up after another consultant to this company abjectly failed). Not sure how long I would have done it if that was an option (the NASA consulting contract was eliminated altogether when Clinton downsized NASA).

The other one I've mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, and I quit in disgust after less than 2 months.
WHMCS contacts localhost.re's owner asking for partnership/a security audit
poor planning, change management, etc. from the government is no excuse for CGI not building an architecturally sound web site

In the world that most of us live in, this is true. But for companies like CGI their business is not really building architecturally sound systems, it is keeping the doors open to an endless stream of government contract dollars. When the government rewards failure by granting the same vendor another contract to fix the problems, the predictable happens.
> more susceptible to any kind of tobacco

That is, of course, assuming that the e-cig uses tobacco, for which I see absolutely no evidence.

Please at least stick to the ingredients actually present when attempting an attack.

Additionallym please bear in mind that saying "oh but we've no guarantee it was actually made with those ingredients" is pretty equivalent to "oh but we've no guarantee somebody's lipstick wasn't actually made with rat poision", so your 'strawman argument' claim down thread doesn't make any sense to me.

> I understand why my mother started smoking when she was 16 and then smoked a pack a day for the next 43 years until she died from cancer.

I fear that this statement elsethread - combined with your sneering tone anc crusader's mindset - indicates that you're not actually interested in discussing the matter clearly but rather in rationalising your hatred of the thing you blame for your mother's death. That would be a shame; under the thick layer of condescension I think you actually have some valid arguments, although it's a little difficult to tell for sure.
Another reason is the fact that these large projects rewrite business processes of the organisation (instead of merely automating them). This obviously opens up a huge turf war on how the post-deployment world is going to look like (esp. if there are to be layoffs). Additionally, in .gov, the business processes are always at least partially defined by law, which in consequence needs to be changed. The actual software project is the easy part.
India Takes A Stand On Academic Photocopying
I can get used to the verbosity, but the archaic block editing copy/paste makes Powershell painful to use for anything more than the basics. Copying multiline text in Powershell first requires pasting it into an intermediary text editor and fixing up the new lines. And since the commands are so verbose, more often than not a command will span multiple lines.
Using Spring Integration to bridge RSS/Atom and Twitter
I'm disappointed there's no comment here from tptacek telling you off for that decidedly dodgy-looking mac-then-encrypt, or the timing side channel in your mac verification. He must be slipping :)
Did you say 2 years? Make that 4 and a half: https://www.webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/
Well, the really early C++ compilers would output C code and daisy chain on a C compiler.

That trend didn't last very long, though.
Bolt Riley - Co-designed by Quest for Glory creators
Check out Bolt Riley, the Kickstarter I launched a few days ago.
http://bolt-riley.com/

It’s a 2D point and click adventure game I designed myself along with legendary game designers Corey and Lori Cole who made Quest for Glory. It tells the story of the greatest Reggae musician that ever lived and deals with many important subjects like dealing with racism, bullying and oppression, it has themes of peace, love, and friendship. (And Reggae music)
I’ve been pouring my life into this game since 2011.

I’m sure you’re going to love it.

Oded
Obama ‘knew and approved’ NSA spying on Chancellor Merkel
This thread is so full of BS I shouldn't even bother commenting, but maybe you should just know that Kyle himself is openly gay...
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Bitcasa. They provide unlimited storage for $99/year, and everything is encrypted locally before being sent over the wire.
Minor correction that proves the rule: "Then all conservative states except Idaho declined to make their own exchanges...."

I'd correct your latter statement to "most recently, the American political system makes no sense". Prior to Obamacare, every major entitlement program, from FDR's Social Security to G. W. Bush's Medicare Part D prescription program was passed with large bipartisan majorities, strongly suggesting they had wide majority support.

Obamacare famously did not, heck, it only passed within the Democrats by a whisker, and a lot of them found themselves spending more time with their families after their next election.

So any sane plan by Team Obama to implement it should have factored in very strong resistance in a lot of places. Heck, I along with 71% of the people in my Purple, very much not Red, home state of Missouri voted in 2010 to outlaw mandates (http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Missouri_Health_Care_F... ) and then in 2012 62% voted to outlaw the creation of a state exchange unless authorized by the people or the legislature (http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Missouri_Health_Care_E... ).
I think that's a very narrow view, and it leads to a situation where female applicants might use the school as a 'safety' - it isn't desirable, but it will definitely accept you to boost numbers and look "equal". A better approach, which I think the OP promotes, is to look at why you don't have as many female applicants as other schools. If your messaging is turning off the good female candidates, who know they can get into the school they want, then consequently you will either accept less-good female candidates (under a quota system), or have a significant imbalance.
A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue
Code Junkie - Newbie Friendly Web Development
Hey everyone,
I'd like to point out that the c-- domain is no longer cminusminus.org, the historical site can be found on norman ramsey's homepage here http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/ ! It also has actual reading material / papers!

The cminusminus domain is no longer valid (though it has more modern CSS), also it lacks links to all the informative papers!

C-- is very similar overall to LLVM IR, though there are crucial differences, but overall you could think of them as equivalent representations you can map between trivially (albeit thats glossing over some crucial details).

In fact, a few people have been mulling the idea of writing a LLVM IR frontend that would basically be a C-- variant. LLVM IR has a human readable format, but its not quite a programmer writable format!

C-- is also the final rep in the ghc compiler before code gen (ie the "native" backend, the llvm backend, and the unregisterized gcc C backend).

theres probably a few other things I could say, but that covers the basics. I'm also involved in GHC dev and have actually done a teeny bit of work on the c-- related bits of the compiler.

relatedly: i have a few toy C-- snippets you can compile and benchmark using GHC, in a talk I gave a few months ago https://bitbucket.org/carter/who-ya-gonna-call-talk-may-2013... https://vimeo.com/69025829

I should also add that C-- in GHC <= 7.6 doesn't have function arguments, but in GHC HEAD / 7.7 and soon 7.8, you can have nice function args in the C-- functions. See https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/rts/PrimOps.cmm for GHC HEAD examples, vs https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/ghc-7.6/rts/PrimOps.cmm for the old style.
Today I learned that I'm straight, Nancy Lynch is a man, and David Nolen is white.

Diverse engineers are all around us. They just go unnoticed--in part, because we interact with usernames and papers instead of face to face.
Is it just me, or is every insightful I come across where I nod vigorously whilst reading it turns out to be by either Mathias Bynens (seriously, that guy is everywhere!) or porneL?
I believe the business term is worrying about a "lazy balance sheet". You want every dollar working its bum off, not lazing around in a bank.

This is usually an argument for taking on debt to finance new projects.

That said, the complicated way capital gains and income tax interact in the USA mean that lots of investors prefer share prices to rise to any dividend; so when there's nothing to spend cash on, it just piles up.

Compare Australia, where franking credits mean that major companies regularly pay dividends. It's a different kind of complication, but I think on balance it's the better outcome.
I'm not sure if it would be possible, unless we replaced the printer's control board, but I will look into it. It's probably more worthwhile to just embed our software in upcoming printers.
Doesn't mean CMS was the integrator for any of the systems it uses, or any really big ones.

E.g. I don't rag on CGI Federal as much as some others, because they're responsible for CMS.gov and Medicare.gov, and the latter is more than "good enough for government work" ^_^.
That's nice. And I have completely unmixed feelings from reading you and the other genius commenters here and in the other thread about how you are somehow threatened by his simple encouragement of underrepresented minorities in a technical field.

Unlike you I'll actually tell you what my feelings are about the entrenched misogyny, racism, and sexism tolerated by so many white anglo saxon males in the tech world: complete disgust and contempt.
Pressure - message queue built on Redis. with Python module
Starts to kill retail, not has killed it.

The most important thing for investor trust right now is that the trends are going the right way. In 10 years people will start seeing the writing on the wall for the current distribution model.
Two things that I cook that make a ton and will freeze are baked ziti (or lasagna, ziti is a bit easier on prep), and Japanese curry. Prep on the curry takes a while because there's a lot of vegetable chopping, but cost per serving is pretty low.

Walk down the frozen section and see what they're selling. It'll all freeze well if you make it yourself.

I also enjoy tonkatsu, because it's basically like flour, egg, panko, fry. By the time you've done all that your rice is cooked. Good with either pork or chicken. Tonkatsu sauce is awesome on rice. Leftover rice you can make fried rice out of with any leftover meat.
LearnGitBranching now has lessons on git fetch, push, and pull
Your Online Money Making Ideas: Choosing the Right Method (Part 1)
...and the website is not the worst part of the ACA ride we are now on.

Part of me has been ignoring a lot of the chatter around the ACA as potential right wing fabricated drama. Too much noise and bilateral bullshit being thrown about these days.

That was until a few days ago, when I would learn our insurance has both more than doubled in cost and is also scheduled for cancellation. Doubled and cancelled. All as a direct result of the ACA. Brilliant! To say this was shocking is an understatement. Our annual cost will go well past $15K.

There's a tragedy of unintended consequences, side effects and direct effects, being played out in the background that hasn't completely come to the surface yet. We certainly can't be the last family to get news of this kind. That means in the coming months it is likely hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of additional individuals and families are going to receive these dreaded letters. Apparently hundreds of thousands already have. Last week was our turn.

At one point this and other issues will be difficult to ignore. And they will dwarf the IT issues. The website, as much of a disaster as it is, is likely to pale in comparison to all of the other, non IT, issues.

Some of what's happening is related to the incredible disconnect between Washington and technology. All you need to do is listen to some of these folks talk about the website issue to see how little they understand. I heard one senator say something akin to "they just have to re-enter a list of five million codes". In other words, the term "code" to some of these guys means "numbers" and that someone made a data entry error in copying "codes" into the website.

BSS (Balaji Srinivasan) covered some of this in his excellent Startup School talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A

A talk which, he comments, has been mutated into something far different from what he said by the modern equivalent of the "broken telephone" game.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619068

I agree very much with his suggestion that an "exit" is required. Not meaning that we ought to pull-up roots and go, but rather that the tech community ought to almost ignore the dinosaurs and go ahead and evolve a society more aligned to modern realities. In his talk he gives examples of various US cities that have been "exited" to some extent through technologies developed in the free market.

To some extent, it's an Innovator's Dilemma kind of a problem.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-B...

The only way to make step changes is to do it well outside of the organization looking after the status quo, because that's all they know and that's all they can focus on.
Hmm, yeah, part of the program might as well be none of it. Ideally, I'd want to be able to compile it myself and use the resulting binary, or have the client be in Python or something like that.
Slaves of the internet, unite
Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
The first Quest for Glory is a fantastic game. You can still buy them on GOG - http://www.gog.com/game/quest_for_glory
Haha, the MAC-then-encrypt should be fine, since it's stored files, and how is anyone going to use the timing attack when the script runs on trusted hardware anyway? :P
That's messed up. I would've quit on the spot hearing shit like that.
“Twitter tax break” could cost SF tens of millions more after IPO
I don't see how giving 20 startups $15 million each would have led to success instead of failure. Even if you found a better company to do the implementation than CGI Federal, there were several enormous problems that no company would have had any control over.

1. Requirements were delayed so much that development didn't start until March of this year. That spells doom for a system with this kind of complexity, regardless of who the implementor is. You need several months of functional, load, and integration testing so that effectively means you would only have had 4 to 5 months to code healthcare.gov. And that's assuming there weren't any big requirements changes.

2. The people responsible for integration (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services) had no large IT project integration experience. These are people that thought 1 week of full integration testing would be enough.

3. Healthcare.gov had to integrate with legacy systems from the IRS, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, in addition to the various state exchanges. Any number of those systems could have serious flaws that would make it extremely difficult to interface with. On any project a poorly implemented legacy system can dramatically affect the effort needed to be successful. Again, even the best companies would've had a sizable challenge dealing with that.

4. One of the biggest challenges in government IT is the customer. The government decision makers often don't know enough about software engineering to make sensible decisions on requirements, timelines, testing, you name it. In this case there was the added political pressure of, "This cannot fail," even though it should've been clear at least a year ago that there's no way they were going to make the deadline. But you get people who think that you can just deploy and fix it as you go along. Or you get people that think you can just add developers to make up for lost time.

5. And what does being a "startup" have to do with it anyway? Either a software company can do the work, or they can't. Whether they are a startup or an established entity really has nothing to do with it.
I think that the "infinite, streaming structures" that you are referring to can be modelled in ZFC or HOL using Tarski's fixed-point theorem. See for example the paper by L. C. Paulson, "A fixedpoint approach to implementing (co)inductive definitions".

So the point of this anti-foundation axiom probably lies somewhere else.
nice! i didn't know about half of these.
It may not be 100% freedom, but they allow me to load apps from wherever I like, unlike Apple or Microsoft, and so I will continue to use them.

If there was a popular phone platform that was even more open, while providing the same levels of functionality, I'd be very tempted to give it a go.
Expensive? Don't we have patio11 regularly telling Colin (Percival) that he's not charging nearly enough?
On Kidoteca some of our art is made that way, but not all of it.

Our backgrounds for example frequently feature "digital painting" style, with stuff that is outright impossible to do in vector.
"There are no easy fixes for the fact that a 30 year old mainframe can not handle thousands of simultaneous queries. And upgrading all the back-end systems is a bigger job than the web site itself. Some of those systems are still there because attempts to upgrade them failed in the past. Too much legacy software, too many other co-reliant systems, etc."

30 year old (1983) mainframes and databases were designed to handle large transaction loads. For example, airline reservation systems and banking systems were built on them.

And upgrading a mainframe (at least an IBM mainframe) to a faster mainframe isn't such a daunting task, since all the code from 30 years ago (or even from the 1960s) is still object-code compatible with the new machines - you can make it run even if you've lost your source code. There's still lots of 30 year old (and older) Cobol code running on mainframes today.

I agree that re-writing the 30 year old software would be hard, but simply getting it to run faster could probably be done just by spending money on the latest mainframes and disk drives. But if nobody ever did a load test on the site, they wouldn't have known that they had to do this. They probably just thought: "Oh, we have to write a web site that talks to a bunch of databases, how hard could that be?" (By the way, they could have written test code to do a load test on those legacy systems without even having a web site running. In retrospect, that's the first thing they should have done, and it would have shown them that their critical path wasn't the user interface.)
You can still tell what exactly happens. Two separate processes might be used: one for crypto + network which is open source, the one manages synchronisation (which is the secret sauce of all cloud-sync services, if it works really good).

Updated the FAQ:
https://boldshare.com/?lang=en#faq
But what's stopping the majority of companies from just phoning it in and collecting free money? There would be only one winner so 19 of those companies are wasting their time anyway.

If you really want companies to build prototypes, they have to have some skin in the game. Otherwise you are all but ensuring fraud.
Spot On.

We mention this in the detailed description/features of our product page (it's not on our website as yet). For the video, we tried to focus on some key features instead of all.
> Are e-cigarettes regulated by a governmental agency to ensure that they only include listed ingredients?

No, but they should be. No one is arguing that quality control isn't important. The problem is that the debate is being marred by FUD that would seek to remove access to these devices for people who need them to quit cigarettes.

> you in reality have no idea what ingredients the Chinese manufacturers are putting into their vapors

Aside from the gas station disposable ones, most e-liquid purchased in the US is made by small local businesses who want to do right by their customers. I certainly would never buy e-liquid from a non reputable vendor, and certainly not an anonymous company in China.
Well, sort of. As long as you're storing all your data on EBS volumes, you can treat EC2 instances as machines in a rack. Problem with your instance? Reboot, and you'll be good as new.

Now, if you lose an EBS volume, that's totally different. You are snapshotting your EBS volumes, correct?