skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a problem finding decent students/coworkers that listen. I don't know how many times I've made suggestions and recommendations, just to be ignored.

I co-lead a local programming user group and we commonly help people. Frequently we encounter people that want us to fix the bug in one line of code and don't want help in fixing the structure, the function, the readability or overall program.
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I've run marathons and I am pretty sure I could not do this:

12 1/2 mile march in combat gear, no more than 5 hours while hauling almost 90-pounds of gear, at nearly a 4 mph pace (almost a jog), rifle included
Bitcoin "Assasination Market" attempting to hire killers of US leaders
Xamarin and Unity are heavily used and are based on .NET. There is plenty of .NET around, we just don't scream "it's the future!" all the time and do not post [useless] 30-liners. The latter might change now :).
Why do I hardly ever see an Apple employee on the internet?
I see Google, Microsoft and Facebook employees often, but why there is no Apple?
"Carlos Bueno, an Engineer at Facebook, doesn't let data push him around."

Hilarious!
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Proprietary software is the technology that enables it.
If you're both using an Exchange server, you can undo sending an email. https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/how-message-...
Thank you to both _neil and follower. This is one of the things I love about HN. All you have to do is mention how cool something would be to do and you get a pile of links for people who did just that.
This is really neat. Adding something like LinqPad's Dump() extension method would make this supercool.
Download Skitch 1.0. It is still available and works great — it is much more useful than their 2.0 version, in fact.

While it still works, it is by far the best solution for capturing quick screenshots and annotating them.
They also thoroughly reviewed the PS4, and the review was also pretty mixed. Overall, I'm not tempted to buy either device (10+s to wake from sleep seems infuriating; my AppleTV takes about that long and it drives me bonkers).

My take on the next gen consoles is that it's not clear there will be any winners. The current generation hasn't actually been profitable for either Microsoft or Sony, and the economics of the industry have, if anything, gotten worse. (Sure, the market is bigger, but if you're selling the platform at a loss hoping to profit on licensing then you need the cost per game to remain steady or go up.)

And there's the other shoe: iOS / Android / Steam / Linux. E.g. if Apple were to release an iOS console (i.e. AppleTV on steroids) sometime in the next two years they could leave Microsoft and Sony to eat their loss leaders and take a huge chunk of the market away. (In general, Apple's 30% cut of games is smaller than what the games companies pay to retailers and platform licensees, and Apple could always lower it if necessary.)

Overall I think it's kind of a nightmare scenario:

1) Long wait since previous generation, so expectations are sky-high.

2) Each platform has been hit by at least one scandal -- PS4's bricking, Xbox One pricing model backdown followed by 720p launch titles (WTF?!)

3) Neither platform offering elegant out-of-box solutions despite numerous complaints with the previous generation (seriously, every time I launch my PS3 it needs to patch, and the same problem is in the PS4 and Xbox One).

4) Underwhelming launch titles.

Sony and Microsoft think they can ship a half-baked product and fix it over the next year or two, just like it "worked" for the previous generation (that pretty much lost them both money).
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How come he is a DNA genius if he couldn't find an anti-age solution?
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Nah, I think the fact you can easily try it in your browser and the additional explanation helped it. ;)

The submitted page actually well predates this "30 lines" fad, I just realised it might be an effective parody today. The joke works better in HTML form, as it takes longer to see it.
Perhaps it has — but for the moment it works great, and for the amount of money that you have to pay for it, who cares if it will work a year from now?
Ask HN: Review my startup - Smooth Bulletin
I've been working on this project for the better part of 10 months. Its to the point where I would love to get some feedback from HN.

http://www.smoothbulletin.com - Marketing Site

http://demo.smoothbulletin.com - Demo Front End

http://demo.smoothbulletin.com/admin/ - Demo Admin (u:demo@smoothbulletin.com, p:demo)

What is Smooth Bulletin?

Smooth Bulletin takes the pain out of academic catalog management. Our academic catalog management system(ACMS) is easy to use, easy to manage, and easy for students. Academic catalogs are almost universally awful to use and their quality rarely reflects the quality of the institution that they represent. Smooth Bulletin helps schools put their academic catalog on the web in a way that they can be proud of. If the school needs help, we’re happy to provide customization and integration services.

What sort of feedback am I looking for?

- Pricing: I honestly have no idea how to price this. I understand that colleges have LOTS of money, but are they willing to spend it on a product like this?

- Product: Is this a good product? Valid niche?

- Marketing: I need ideas for where to go from here. I have lots of feature ideas, but what I really need are marketing ideas. Are there any higher education tech conferences that I could get a booth at? Are adwords a good way to go? Cold calls? Cold emails?

- Funding: I've bootstrapped up to this point and will continue to do so, however is it worth pursuing funding for this?

- Other forms of learning: I'm thinking of expanding into corporate learning catalog management. Maybe government learning stuff too. Essentially if there is a curriculum for learning, Smooth Bulletin could manage it. Good idea? Bad idea?

Thanks!
Agreed. In my experience working at a tech research firm, it's nothing that people take lightly. And when we start talking about massive enterprises, this selection process often has to go through multiple levels of approval to make sure it's the right decision (still, it's now always!).
When there is a microcode blob update, there is nothing to guarantee it does only what it's supposed to do. The problem is not with GPUs - it's with software (writable microcode is after all, software) that you cannot understand.
It's nice, I've heard of it a while ago. But I just had a crazy thought of combining this with UTFGrid for interacting with data points, but that's probably silly :)
Then they should have done a video in my somewhat less well lit living room, with a couch that's the same color as my wife's shirt, and a stereotypical wedding pix in the background and peculiar shadows.

If its higher performance, well, show it!

The real killer is the concept. The highest performance way to do "up down enter" on a menu is obviously a controller not an arm and camera.

Kinect doesn't have to work very well for my daughter to have fun with her dance games. But for a UI to a menu, it does kinda actually have to work all the time, which is a meta-UI issue. If it was just a dancin' jumpin' peripheral, which its "good enough" for, then I'd be very happy, but no its gotta be implemented as the worlds cruddiest most aggravating menu navigation system, which makes it an epic fail.

My carpenters hammer is a great tool for nail installation, but an epic fail at screw installation and forcing everyone to use hammers to install screws is just going to piss people off.
I would like to share with you my experience of using HBase, namely to tell you about bulk loading.
TL; DR:

- Intel(R) Content Protection HECI Service: Yo dawg, I've heard you like DRM, so I put some DRM in your DRM'ed hardware.

- Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service: should help not frying your gpu & getting less flicker on older cards.
One time price VMs
This an easy to use tool I've been working on. Well tested on Ubuntu, with some recent attention to Fedora and CentOS.
Sadly, no Nobel Prize rewards computer scientists. You could check if the same statistical fact can be established for the Turing medal.
Reddit is great. People used to say that about Yahoo search, and about Digg.
I'd like to hear more about this. Imagine that I, a sole proprietor, take in $10 million in a year, with deductible expenses of $1 million (if the numbers are rosy, well, it's my scenario ;) ). Imagine that I get hit with a fine of $8.5 million. How am I supposed to pay taxes on my $9 million of income with my $500K cash? Taxes get paid quarterly, so imagine I've already paid them when I get hit with the fine. Will the fine be discharged in my inevitable bankruptcy? Do the courts have to stand in line with my other creditors?
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Still... He was only 14. I'm impressed.
Check out www.reddit.com/r/headphones

They were helpful when I was looking and have a weekly stickied thread where you can ask for recommendations (just fill out the simple form).

You'll need closed or IEMs. I had a pair of Sennheiser Momentums which were comfortable and sounded good but work from home so have since changed to the open HD-650s. Best of luck! You'll probably want something that doesn't need a DAC/Amp.
That is only a tactic move. it is Zhang's work inspired him to look for a quick better alternative. Zhang showed " there is gold! " And then Maynard ran towards that.
Shure 315s will block out most things, one thing you need to watch out for is that most IEMs are a pain to put in/take off. So if people are prone to ask you questions and you keep having to take them off that could be a problem.

For this reason I've been using the new style Apple headphone recently, they off some noise isolation but are a lot easier to take off.
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A couple of coworkers have these: http://www.asus.com/ROG_ROG/Vulcan_ANC/
They're really quite impressive considering the lowish price.
Apparently there's a new version, the Vulcan Pro... probably has the same noise cancellation circuitry.
Excerpt: "it also vastly expands the universe of things that could go wrong, particularly when it comes to privacy".

Very funny, from an article sitting in a web page filled with tracker scripts and whatnot.
The battery storage system that could close down coal power.
This is super awesome! I was thinking of building something like this the other day because I wanted to test some code and not make a new test console app.

Totally awesome!
Well as TPP showed Hollywood demands are insatiable. So if we have in Windows 10 - Microsoft Genuine Media Advantage Validation that makes the built in antivirus to mark unsigned mp3-s and mp4-s as viruses I won't be surprised. That is assuming you could load your own files on windows machine by that time.
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Agreed - I have a launch PS4, but I've been underwhelmed by the game selection. I cancelled my Xbox One preorder a couple of weeks back over the same concerns. I think the Wii U has a much more entertaining selection than both at this point.
Ipad Air
Yes, that sounds like a great idea. Will add it in next couple of days.
Very useful. This will be a great way to answer questions and demo algorithms
> That would seem like a perfectly sensible inequality to someone three hundred years ago, who wouldn't.

That would depend on which side of the inequality they were on, would it not?
United857 is right. This totally gives a false impression that regular C code I write will use syscall instead of functions that exist in libc that are dynamically mapped in using the plt. My C code will never say int 0x80

Otherwise this I'd quite good. Helps people make the connection between Hello World in rodata and how it gets used
Isn't the 4000 embedded into the cpu chip?
it failed without throwing a NilPointer exception, how can we debug it?
Concrete examples:

3!+1 = 7 is prime

11!+1 = 39916801 is prime (according to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+11!%2B1+prime%3F)

27!+1 = 10888869450418352160768000001 is prime (according to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+27!%2B1+prime%3F)
You know, the arcane codes that make your computer run. Source(rer) codes.
Most people seem to define killer-web-app-framework to include a "blessed" ORM solution. (I don't personally, but I understand where people are coming from.) Go seems to have been resistant to any large-scale ORMs to date; it's hard to put why into a quick HN post, but the language seems to sort of resist it, despite having some reflection capabilities.

Or at least, the language resists the sort of ORMs that the web world has become accustomed to, with tons of convention-over-configuration and such. A more static one could probably be done.

I find myself wishing the "go" toolchain would give me a defined way of running certain code before the compiler, so I could generate Go code with the go source tools. From there you could easily compile yourself up some ORM code by examining a database at runtime. It's yet another privilege it claims for itself but gives you no way to hook into.
Being a smartass, aren't we?

Is there a difference between knowing what pressing a gas pedal in a car does and how it does that? Surely there's none.
The more you know!

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...

Claims 4,5,6, and 7 are particularly relevant:

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from facial expressions of the user captured by an image capture device during the time period.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from user speech patterns captured by an audio capture device during the time period.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from gestures and body movements of the user captured by an image capture device during the time period.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising storing the emotional state of the user in a database.
How exactly does it change the meaning? Either way it simply ascribes a cause.
That never was my intention when I posted this ..

Like I said, I quite liked the polarity of the comments and the fact that it was the first post on bitcoin in HN ..

But it snow-balled into this !
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Has anyone used it in production ? I would be very interested to hear about interoperability potential with other platforms - some json-based protocol perhaps? In D3 I can just point it to csv and do whatever I need to. Is it just as easy in BokehJS?
The animation lags even in Chrome on a decent machine ;)
"Up next on VH1's Where Are They Now?, Alice and Bob!"

Alice: At the time I thought Eve was the only one I had to worry about. Little
did I know, Carol would be the one who'd really replace me in the end.

Edit: Hmm, downvoted. I guess humor isn't welcome here?
Undefined behavior has advantages, of course. The C language is excellent at certain things, too.

However, not every kernel driver and not every application needs the benefit of C or undefined behavior.

The fact that Haskell's RTS is written in C is evidence that the kind of code in RTS's has more to gain from C than from Haskell. Some parts of drivers might also be best written in C.
This is really cool but I have one question: "Now free, one month only" that means it's free forever if I download it this month or can I use it for free for one month and then I have to pay?
Exactly. Not enough developers care enough to be either good mentors or good mentees.
So instead of violating a smaller number of peoples rights the US chose to violate everybody's rights

So your argument is, it's better to mistreat a small group of people (to which you presumably don't belong) rather than a large group of people. Seems to me you've bought into the baseline fallacy that deliberately mistreating innocent people is A-OK.
It is argued in one of the comments (on the link) that this is a response to the civil rights movement of the '60s - if you can't legally exclude the Minority Ethnic community from voting, lock them all up instead.

I'm not saying that's a true analysis, but it's certainly one way to make this story seriously political. Even if you just make it about stopping poor people voting, instead of some other subdivision, it's still leaks out of the "law and order" debate.
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Why do people think it matters what they say?

I don't think it changes anything whether they say what their software does or not. You run their software in binary form, having no idea what it does. You have no way to verify whether what they say is true.

Mind you, I use Apple machines, so most software that I run comes in binary blobs and I have no idea what it really does. But it wouldn't matter to me what Apple "said" about it. What matters is what Apple does, and most importantly, where I they make money and where their strategic interests lie. This is what I base my (very limited) trust on.
If one doctor can transplant a heart in ten hours, can ten nurses transplant that heart in one hour? Can a hundred nursing assistants transplant that heart in six minutes? Can six hundred hospital receptionists transplant that heart in one minute?

The real question is: Could the doctor do the transplant without any nurses? Could the nurses help the doctor without the receptionists?
CouchDB supports undo as part of their core storage model. http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/btree.html

The short answer is that because CouchDB uses append-only files, the B-tree root node must be rewritten every time the file is updated. However, old portions of the file will never change, so every old B-tree root, should you happen to have a pointer to it, will also point to a consistent snapshot of the database.
As for muslims extremists and al qaida folks, it's easy to profile them, they are all muslims.

Which is completely useless since 99.99% of muslims aren't "al qaida folks."
I've become a real fan of Flask and the core framework does very little beyond managing request routing and having a simple framework for using jinja templates. Everything else should be optional. My day job is Spring MVC which is an absolute behemoth. It's an application framework more than just a web framework and the plethora of gadgets are useful for alleviating a lot of architecture decisions, but I'm sure I could get by without them.
Looks like they didn't rate-limit per-user, but only per-IP.

Now that is dumb. I expected more from GitHub.
Don't hire and mentor a newbie or a graduate of a coding school, just hire a master coder+pilot. Perhaps the consultancy team at 8th Light could pick up your project for thousands of dollars a day...
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What about Python? pypi is a mess...
That information is kept with the engineers in their ivory tower. Probably mining Bitcoins with it.
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Just don't let them program air traffic control software.
I'd suggest something like: pitching new clients at last_rate * 1.2 if you're starting more than three weeks out, last_rate * 1.1 if you're starting more than 1 week out, last_rate if you can start immediately, and last_rate * ( .95 ^ num_weeks_since_last_project) if it has been a while since you had work.

Also, avoid round numbers: $110 says "this is my market rate" $100 says "I am rounding up, let's negotiate"

The two keys to making this work are: 1) always be over delivering and learning and 2) keep utilization up, when your time is scarce you have real credible negotiating power on rates.
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Ah - my mistake. Thank you for clarifying.
I also have a pair of the Bose QC15s. They're fantastic for my open-plan office. Even very quiet music, when combined with their noise cancellation, will silence nearly all background noise.
If a company supplies you software that they claim does one thing, but actually does another thing, you might have some legal recourse if you run it on the basis of their assurances that it only does the first thing. If on the other hand they refuse to tell you what the software does, but you run it anyway, you can hardly complain when it turns out to do something you didn't want it to.
In this case, it specifically matters because people want to know if they can safely disable it.

Intel's answer shows that they can and also covers the (mild) consequences.
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In a capitalist system, there are two ways to make money: labor and capital. Labor makes money from the production of some good or service resulting from the labor. In the case of a startup it is the founders' time, effort, and expertise in starting the company. Capital makes money off the use of the capital. In venture capital, the use of the capital (money) comes with a high risk, that the venture will not succeed. Therefore, there is a higher return. Nothing immoral about it.
That's a roundabout argument and I don't think you can prove any criminal intent about that. Unless you can prove that the political process encourages the targeting of minorities, then it's just an enforcement issue. And not every state will ban you from voting for a non-violent offense.
mockingito?
Ask HN: Free industrial/product design resources?
I'm in need of some educational resources on this topic. Would be most grateful for any help provided.
good point, I think this user deserve a second chance in this situation.

Another thing is they should not say that the files are safe in first place, and then destroy them afterward. Maybe this user trust them and wait for the files to submit his assignment.
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> Here are The Top 100 Libraries in Java, JS, & Ruby

Probably should've used the serial comma to make it more clear. At first I thought the top project language was Java and the second were projects that used both JS and Ruby together.
The bible for purchasing headphones is here: http://www.head-fi.org/a/headphone-buying-guide

I personally dropped $38 on the Superlux HD668b Evo, and could not be more pleased. They are semi-open, so not as closed, but they're still pretty isolating - I can't hear anyone unless they're yelling into my ear. And the sound quality to price ratio is astounding. They are far superior to the pair of Bose on-ear headphones I had a while back.
Ask HN: What exactly is Heroku1?
I'm not a sales man. What is Heroku1 compared to just Heroku?

https://www.heroku.com/1
True. This was before the formation of the European Union.
For what it's worth I've been trying to get NVIDIA to tell me what "NVIDIA Capture Server Proxy" service does for a few days. It recently got installed and if you search NVIDIA's website get get nothing.

I did a chat with a NVIDIA tech and they said "It is related to shadow play. please do not worry about it"

I asked for some documentation and they replied "These are development application so we do not have any documentation on this"

Uh, wtf?

I've recently figured out what 'shadowplay' is but the lack of documentation and reluctance to talk about the service is disturbing.
While this one doesn't have the nice "fiddle" suffix, it has been around for a while and supports a lot of platforms:

http://ideone.com/
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Nuts!
Thank you for sharing your experience.

> I don't know why people assume those capable of building a database would also fail to anticipate this need.

Praptak asked if it was hard to deal with and did not imply Datomic's developers failed to anticipate the need.

Excision is a feature that must be prioritized like any other and in fact was not available until Datomic 0.8.3941.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datomic/Gk8h6MrnJYs