skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny to me is this guy is clearly talented. I laughed my ass off, but even in his rush to create total garbage, you can still see his sense of space and weight creeping in.

God, click on on the testimonials and look at some of those logos, so funny.
Well, to be fair, Google doesn't list free beer as "perk"...

(Not that it stops Google employees from feeling deeply entitled to have free beer every week...)
What's next for MediaCrush? We have a public issue tracker on that same GitHub repo [1], which gives a good idea of our near-term plans.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues
Your site says that you "losslessly compress images, video, and audio" - I poked around in the code a little and didn't find the compression stuff, but it doesn't make sense to me that you can do that. There is some optimization that you can do on PNGs, but for most media encoded with a lossy method you shouldn't be able to achieve a smaller filesize without reencoding with another lossy method (and by definition losing more information, althoughh it might not significantly decrease the percieved quality)
No. The next generation of consoles needed better game distribution and choice of games, not better graphics. Systems have far outpaced games in graphics power to utilization of that power for a while now.

I want to easily and quickly browse and play different games, without investing hours and $50+ to find out if it sucks or not. That's the problem I have with consoles and they don't seem interested in solving it. I want quick and immediate selection and playing of games, like Netflix is with movies. Like I'm in an arcade, not in a checkout line. Nintendo had the right idea with the Wii. Gaming is more than the latest 3d engine.
Cassandra on Rackspace
Depends on the person... Courier "old" is fixed size, I happen to prefer the "new" version.
It's quite interesting to see essencially the ideas used in stream fusion [1] to produce practically the same results produced in Haskell, avoiding allocations and often making it much easier for the compiter ro produce vectorised code. At least that's what it looks like to me, correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: [3] has a good exlanation of how stream fusion works, and it should make it clearer why the linked code appears to be doing the same thing.

see also here[2] for a further paper on stream fusion being used to produce vectorised code. I've linked to the reddit comments because there's some useful discussion there too.

[1] http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.104.7...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1br0ls/haskell_beat...

[3] http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/haskell-as-fast-as-c...
That's awesome! The spaceship especially. I wonder if it's possible to make the turning radius smaller though. Going to poke around. Thanks for doing this!
don't see a way to (easily) copy the url to clipboard?
For people wondering "What possible reason would someone run fraudulent credit cards through a charity?", the answer is:

1) Most stolen credit cards are sold, generally in large blocks.

2) The value of a stolen credit card is highly dependent on a few factors, including most saliently age since acquisition (since they're increasingly likely to be discovered and canceled over time) and whether they've been recently vetted or not (since otherwise the market is a market for non-working lemons, where you cream off known-good cards and sell known-bad cards).

3) Putting a transaction through any merchant which actually runs the card and returns a result will successfully vet the card. Charities, Internet startups, and Internet startup charities are all known to have lower-than-average risk screens in place, so they're preferentially abused for this.

A credit card fraud ring used BCC for same reasons earlier this year, by buying it through our Paypal buy now button. We reversed ~60 transactions before I (apparently?) successfully convinced the Paypal live security team to bring the hammer down on them.

P.S. Watsi folks, you should talk to Gumroad or SiftScience. Both of them are YC companies (so I rather suspect both would help you out under a frieNDA or something) and both have ideas which would work for you.
Thanks for the explication but...aren't all aspects of computational machine-learning mathematics available without Lebesgue measure? That is, with the simpler Borel measure? Or even without introducing the notion of measure?

Other than pathological cases which would never be programmable anyway, couldn't we ignore any requirement to speak of Lebesgue measure? This is computation we're talking about, not theoretical mathematics, after all.
>> No, for a suicidal terrorist it is not. He'd be dead anyway, who you're going to catch? Of course, there's a risk of getting caught before, but that is known and they are sure they can avoid it, it doesn't deter them.

It's almost like a covert intelligence program would be a really good way to know to when to swoop in such as to stop a person when they have enough evidence on them to arrest, but before they carry out an attack.
I wanted to point out one important distinction between Bokeh and anything that's currently out there - we have a full blow python/js object bridge that synchronizes client side models with objects you can interact with in python. The significance of this, is that someone can select points on a scatter plot, and then you can retrieve the indexes of those points on the python side, and use that to further dive into your data.

It's worth mentioning that the IPython guys are implementing a similar json/python bridge to support the new interactive tools in the IPython notebook. Once that is up and running, we'll probably just piggy back off of that bridge, when you're running in the notebook.
The value seems high given the price.
Pinterest needs growth badly, so it is pinning places
Actually, we just took some of that out to reduce processing times for users. We're going to overhaul the backend processing system so that we can process some things asyncronously, and then we'll put all that code back.

However, we do losslessly compress some things. We run PNG files through optipng and JPGs through jhead to strip out EXIF data, but most interestingly, we run GIF files through ffmpeg and serve them up with HTML5 video [1]. We usually get between 500 and 2000% faster for GIFs.

However, I agree that it's a little misleading, since we don't do it for every kind of media, and an ideally compressed file cannot be compressed further. I've been considering rewording it.

[1] https://mediacru.sh/UZHD8_afZDqz
If by "Vicious Utilitarianism" the author meant "AOL no longer wishes to provide free service users aren't interested in and that will not remain profitable" then yes, that's vicious.
Most "equivalent generics" are in fact made by the same companies that make the major name brands, in the same factories; they cost less because lower marketing expenses.

If you buy store generic-equivalents, its quite likely your money is going to exactly the same major corporation as the name brand in pretty much the same quantity (after deducting that the part that the major corporation would be paying to marketing/advertising firms to market the name brand.)

So, while it saves you money, it may not be as effective a boycott technique as you think. Unless your boycott target is the advertising industry.
Right click -> copy? Maybe we should include a copy button.
Job Interview
Can you type in these?

شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – Arabic for "web/network"

онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Cyrillic for "online"

сайт (xn--80aswg) – Cyrillic for "site"

游戏(xn--unup4y) – Chinese for "game(s)"

Can you eve view them?

Yeah, Google will help, but if the trend continues, the Internet will become less global. One language is better in this case.

Imagine if programming languages were in different languages with their respective characters - everything would be harder and everyone would have a whole lot to lose.
Lol.

On a serious note though, this would be an excellent way to get cheap concepts for a logo. Buy the dude 4 beers for the same logo and get someone that uses Photoshop well to digitize it properly.

80% of creating a logo is getting the concept.
How do you boycott Qualcomm? That's like saying don't buy a cell phone, ever.
Put your data in more than one cloud and keep a local backup.
Well, even if we had been served a warrant, I dunno what we'd give them. We don't store anything about our users. https://blog.mediacru.sh/2013/07/19/MediaCrush-for-nerds.htm...
> Even just the ability to copy and paste the symbols into google would be great, but it's just an image, and a non-math person won't know what they are called.

Okay, so in the case of a wikipedia article, if you're really ignorant of the symbology used and don't know where to start, just click 'edit' and look at the latex code. If that's not helpful, like the case where the latex for the P(.) function is simply 'P', read the contextual information.

"The posterior distribution can be defined by marginalizing over joint distribution, factorized into its independent prior distributions and then dividing by the partition function."... or whatever.

If the article doesn't have any contextual info, then you probably shouldn't rely on it if you're learning. Look somewhere else.

> It's like reading source code without comments or named variables or indentation of any kind

Math is an abstraction. It is more abstract that most code, that is why implementing math into code is something people make a living doing. How would you prefer that math equation you gave be presented? As the (currently) top comment states, those symbols are FULL of meaning. Understanding what that equation means is more than just knowing that "P stand for probability, and the funny angled thing is a sigma and that means sum." In fact, quite often an equation represents an idea that is simple enough to conceptualize, but extremely non-trivial to bring into more concrete terms. For example, that equation you posted looks like the kind of thing you'd see in a paper using Bayesian methods. In many cases to implement that equation would require Markov chain monte carlo sampling, maybe a gradient descent algorithm, a quadratic program solver, who knows. It's an infeasible way to present the ideas, at best.
Well, I've yet to use antibiotics, and I hope I never have to. The only time I've been given some was after a minor surgery.
Meet Rumr: The anonymous messaging app teens will love until it makes them cry
Really no object? Find someone on github who has a great open source application or module with code that you really like. Find 2-4 of those people and offer them each $1 million to work on your project. You will probably find one who is able to make time to help you.
LG smart TVs secretly collecting data
> It doesn't work as well during this price hike since the growth is coming from places that we can't see as well and aren't as transparent.

I'm pretty sure it didn't work during this publicity wave because it was so large and fast that many U.S. sellers ran out of coins (including Coinbase).
You honestly don't think the TSA wouldn't have the ability to "secure" you in this device until someone arrived on foot if they wanted to?

I'm absolutely sure the TSA wouldn't abuse this device. At all.
That's a horrible comment.
Google unveils prepaid debit card
I think it is stealing and it is pretty bad. Intellectual property can be misused when it is used to capture something (whether an artistic expression or an invention) that is not very unique or inventive or creative and would have been easily used and discovered by many others had the original "inventor" or "artist" not created it. At that point, intellectual property becomes oppressive.

But this is not the case here. These are unique artistic expressions. True they are simple, but it is impossible to imagine someone creating the same thing without knowing the original. There is practically an unlimited number of ways one can convey a logo. Protecting the rights of one logo does not meaningfully limit the rights of others (if you ignore the "right" to get artistic work done for free).

In these cases we should allow the artist to have a right to their creation.
And it's not just limited to logos: http://www.geekceo.com/static/images/zoto_zoho.png
This is something we can use. I just tried an image and mediacrush gave me a URL of the hosted image. I compared the size of the original image vs the one on MediaCrush. They were both same (130kb) Am I missing something? Or there is nothing to optimize in the image that I used?

Edit: Just realized the original image is optimized by Cloudflare Pro account. I guess they work well.
Seems like software patent processing would benefit by some simple machine learning tools to help examiners identify similar content. Anyone familiar with what tools they currently use? Muddling about with the law will obviously take forever, the guys in congress have no idea what they are legislating, and the lawyers in corporations have no idea what they are lobbying for, aside from monopoly money.
Hmm, I think it looks better than my Leaf. That's not saying much, I'll grant you.
Ask HN: How to find a 1-3 days job for the next week in London?
I'm visiting London next week (25.11-01.12) and I have the following dilemma: I have the tickets but almost no money (100-120 EUR) to live the week through. My background: I work in Germany as a designer/web designer (6 years+, graphic portfolio: http://www.coroflot.com/QutePixels).

Ask HN: I need a 1-3 days paid job. Do You have ideas on where and how should I search/ask for such work?
I am living vicariously through my friend who got in at $12. He unloaded $150,000 this week. He thinks its the new Gold and will hit $2K next year.
Yes, preferences > playback > output and select output method DirectSound http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Pre... http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-5_files/image00... ; http://www.foobar2000.org/ ; http://flattr.com/thing/51681/foobar2000-freeware-audio-play...
We recently disabled some optimizations to reduce processing time while we overhaul the backend processing system to support async processing. Usually, we run PNG files through optipng and JPGs through jhead (the latter isn't very effective).

Response to your edit: heh, I guess it wasn't that easy to optimize in the first place. If you want to see how well we usually treat it, run `optipng -o5 foobar.png`
Why wouldn't it? What do you believe the goal of a boycott to be?
exactly what i thought of!
you guys make truly horrible logos
Take a look at Vincent, which may give you what you're looking for (Python -> Vega, a d3 wrapper): https://vincent.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Very good tips, just make sure to cashout some first and then let the rest ride the wave! Thank you Bitcoins!!
Arguably better looking than a Leaf, similar range, and what looks to be a better (if smaller) interior. The question then becomes whether it's worth US$15K more than a Leaf. Were I buying again today, if I didn't go with the lower-cost Leaf (which I already have), I'd be tempted to just make the price jump to a Tesla. But that's not a small price jump so maybe they'll find a market to grow in to.
Snapchat Valued At $3 Billion? Utter Silliness
But its not your next door neighbour. There's a whole system in place to make sure it's not your next door neighbour, and in fact we generally accept as a society that preventing people's social groups gathering information on each other largely solves problems with privacy (provided we also don't allow people to rebroadcast things as they please).

How much do you care about the credit card purchases of someone you've never met, who lives on the other side of the country, and who you wouldn't recognize the face off if you saw them? How much of your internet posting is done on the exact same assumption?
They are at least focusing on the heart of the matter: corporate personhood. Get rid of that, and you open the door for all the other reforms. As long as amoral, immortal and extremely powerful entities like corporations get equal rights as human beings, it is unavoidable that the laws, including patent law, are forced along amoral pathways.

Software patent reform is battling a symptom, not the cause.
I wasn't talking about the FBI. I was talking about the group that the FBI refuses the name.

Whoever they are I have no doubt that they represent some part of the establishment in the US.
this looks amazing.

Too bad I'll never buy one.

Enjoy your ipad toys, I'll go continue not having pencil on my nexus. :(
What happened to the language bar on GitHub?
What's the license? For the love of pete people, please include a license in your repositories!
Perhaps he's wanting/referring to one of those little hyper link images you can click to copy the url of the page.
The current reporting on these "detention pods" indicates that there is a moment when both doors are closed, and presumably unable to open. I'll have to test one in person to see.
Thanks, will check out other images.
Ordinarily I'd agree with the claustrophobia point, but I feel like anyone who genuinely can't deal with a few seconds in a glass-walled airlock would never have managed getting on a plane in the first place.
I've worked for a number of years on the motion processing sensor side. The Apple acquisition makes sense, as it helps to add another input device for what I suspect will be an Apple TV. For the most part, everyone has hands and arms. To enable your hands to control what's showing on the screen seems in theory to be quite practical.

On the flip side, playing games is one thing.... controlling your TV is a different story altogether. I'm not sure how great an experience it will be. Samsung already has gesture controls on some of their camera-equipped TVS. The experience of waving your hands around for control can actually get a bit tiring.

It will be interesting to find out how Apple plans to integrate this technology into their devices.
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The letters are too squashed together for my taste. I used to use inconsolata but now switched to http://pcaro.es/p/hermit/ . It is a clean font with some personality thrown in. Does anyone else use hermit?
> Even though we occassionally talk about Lua on HN, it frankly still doesn't get enough attention - nor does Mike Pall and his fantastic work on LuaJIT.

Because most HNers are web developers and care only about the browser.

Lua is really strong in the game developer community.
I agree that they responded in the only way they could and I hope they can leverage this to greater success. I wasn't referring to retroactively making up bogus prices given that their pricing page specifically says it's "unlimited", even for the Basic free plan. Rather, I'm proposing a hypothetical scenario whereby future subscriber plans are capped for simultaneous connections with an overage rate. Had such a pricing plan existed when OFA initially signed up, I'm speculating that OFA would have happily paid $700 for the extra capacity for the 140,000 simultaneous listeners.
haha i love this one:

http://www.horriblelogos.com/hail-gabe/
Most? I'd say far from most. I see just as many articles about Go, Scala, Clojure, etc. as I do Javascript.
Eh. Your construction is perhaps easier to understand if you've never used the language, and are trying to learn it just by reading arbitrary source code. But who writes code for such a person?

You might as well spell out:

int iterator;
for (iterator = ...

But everybody uses 'i', because it's faster and simpler, takes less time to read, and doesn't fill up your screen so that surrounding elements can be easily associated (e.g. a[i].do(x) vs myArray[iterator].doCoreFunction(element_x) <- yuck)
> Its just the usual HN tinfoil hat hypocrisy that extends to MS, but seemingly not to Apple, Google, Yahoo, Sony, Dropbox, Twitter, and Facebook.

Tu quoque and that's not even close to true.
TravisCI runs their entire infrastructure as open source
We just go with Highcharts, http://www.highcharts.com/.
The process is much more about using another idea as inspiration and a starting point. It's a way to get out of a rut. You'll almost never end up with anything like your starting point.

I've always assumed that this is what the quote is referencing rather than taking actual elements in full as is the case in a few of these examples.
What if a turnstile did detain or trap you? What if a revolving door just stopped or jammed mid-revolution and you were stuck in between? What are you going to do when the turnstile decides not to let you move on? Why is a hypothetical jammed turnstile less sinister than a hypothetical jammed automatic-airlock-dealie?
Google is quickly crossing the line between comfortable and uncomfortable.
You know, I worked there for a summer (I'm a college student) and after working at a couple other tech firms, I have to say it was an amazing environment and I really loved it. I'm not going to sit here and say they are perfect, but they're far from shitbags and there are many great people there.
You've described the technical meaning of stealing very well. But I don't think it's ontologically possible for a person to own something like these logos. Such ownership is a legal fiction set up by legal traditions whose intellectual property protections have started to become more of a problem than a solution. Their remaining relevance it seems to me is to empower corporations such as IBM and Microsoft to extract rent (in the context of patents), and to give money to attorneys and politicians and lobbyists. It is hard for me to have much sympathy for the notion that such protections are in place in the present context primarily for artist making the logo (in the case of trademark, etc.) when there are so many other interests that hang just a little bit back in the background.

In most cases on the site the copies are undeniably in bad taste. But not something to be protected by law, in my opinion.
AOL: Keep Winamp alive or let it go open source
Thanks for putting this together! :)

Here's a car driving demo we also left unfinished you might be interested in, written using this same engine: https://github.com/kamibu/kamiburace
Our startup was open source from the beginning
Are you advocating that the entire world should speak one language - English?

How is typing an Arabic or Cyrillic domain disadvantageous to those that read and write Arabic or Cyrillic? Especially when the resulting site is very likely to contain content in that same language.

Your argument seems very self-centered, and quite exaggeratedly so: you'd prefer disadvantaging non-English speakers when accessing content you wouldn't ever consume, simply because you are more comfortable with Latin characters yourself.
OK. Well, here are a few ads that list alcohol as a perk that I turned up with a 5min search.

* Atlassian: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Team-Lead-Architect/af8692e...

* Lookout: https://www.lookout.com/about/careers/detail?gh_jid=2221&gh_...

* Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/careers

* Twitter's job page shows employees with the classic red solo cup: https://twitter.com/jobs/why_work

* Shop it to me: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/shopittome/data-integration-eng...

* Disqus: http://boards.greenhouse.io/disqus/jobs/2629?t=ug5j4s

* Cozy: http://www.ventureloop.com/ventureloop/jobdetail.php?r=f_in&...

* Blackboard: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH07/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...

As well as bunch of other names I've never heard of (Forio, Reesio, thredUP, UberConference, FiveStars, PagerDuty)
*Super Catchy Viral Song*
Yep, I use Inconsolata too.
Microsoft Launches Anti-Google Merchandise Line 'Scroogled'
Phonemes are similar, but spoken Romanian is complete gibberish to me.

Things get better in writing, but there's still no comparison to Spanish.

After all there was a longer interaction with the latter: for historical reasons words and verbal constructs in southern dialects can give insights with regard to it or French.