skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a user who would also want this feature, I would say it is because you sometimes want to see full detail. If, for example, someone sends you a link to a painting or some old coins you might be buying or whatever.
I'm not entirely sure that I care if you register. It might be beneficial, but I'm more concerned about you finding it useful and using it / sharing it with other people. If a lot of people use it anonymously I think it would be fine, although maybe that's naive...

The second line is meant to explain that after one month you can pay $0.99 and download all the full-size photos (before one month you can do that for free). Is that how you understood it?
Dynatable.js: HTML5+JSON interactive table plugin
> We probably need to kill the NoSQL terminology. It's outlived its usefulness.

On a more serious note, this is probably the main point of that website.
This is fairly common knowledge in the intelligence communities. You can find lots of detail in declassified training manuals, but the most accessible sources will be memoirs from CIA/KGB operatives. The book Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames by Victor Cherkashin is particularly good. He's quite critical of the Soviet practice of executing spies because once an American CIA agent converted a Soviet worker, the Soviet worker had no choice but to continue giving away secrets. The American agents (supposedly) used the threat of informing on the worker to coerce more and more information away.
A UIVieController has a view associated with it (typically self.view) which is why XCode offers to create a xib file for you.
Given the Speaker of the Houses we have had over the years, I shudder to think what would have happened without the states interests being protected by the Senate. In fact, making Senators directly elected has been problematic for state budgets and allowed an overreach in DC that is not proper.
Just wondering: what does the [scribd] mean in the title? I thought this was a warning for the poor usability and difficulty to download from site http://www.scribd.com. This links directly to a pdf, so wouldn't a [pdf] tag be better? I've noticed this on a bunch of posts recently.
The article doesn't even explain how they come to the conclusion that the universe has been there forever from the "rainbow gravity" concept.
> "Get help setting up your development and production environments. In English, this means set up where you write your code and where you see the results of it. Setting this up is the biggest pain for us non-technical people. In fact, I think that it is the single most difficult thing in learning to code."

As a lifelong hacker, this is something its easy to lose sight of until you try to help someone else get started.

Last time I needed to help a newbie get running, we tried https://www.nitrous.io/ and it was helpful. It defers dealing with all the environment / sysadmin stuff until later, so the learner can get positive feedback sooner.
Ain't no such thing as a free lunch folks...
It's more about that because those are the most used functions, it's very easy to upload an album, and you can re-arrange,and download them, the custom URL is not possible if you're scaling up that large.
Thanks for the clarification.

But, you know, in context, there's a huge difference between not finding a job and not being able to easily make the next step up in your career.

At 7 years, you just don't have much senior experience (that's a comment about years, not knowledge or talent). 7 years is a lot of programming experience, it's just not a lot of senior dev or team lead experience.

It's a good career move to insist on this in your next position, and I'm not doubting that you're capable of it, but that puts you in a completely different category than somebody who can't find work at all or somebody who's been a senior dev for 20 years and can't find a position.

One thing to be aware of is that a lot of shops, myself included, almost never hire senior/leads directly. I'll pay your salary request, but no matter who you are, you're going to spend a couple of months on somebody else's project before you lead your own, just to understand the code base, the team, the tracking and VCS systems, the culture in general. We may have an understanding that you'll lead the next big project if you don't flame out, but you're still going to have to spend some time down in the code trenches.
This is a psychologically perverse view. If you are well versed in psychology, sociology, urban planning, and child cognitive development, then I could consider it. But it is the statement that someone ignorant of those subjects would say as well. Have you read Jane Jacob's "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"? If not, then why should urban planners learn more from tech? Her book makes it clear that what you have said is brutally wrong. From the perspective of child development --- "I personally care not a single more for my own neighbor than for some random individual living in China; in fact, I would probably care more about the Chinese person if he was a "Mozillan" and my neighbor was not." --- is a destructive position.
SO MONEY
It's a HN auto-tag, to promote a Scribd, a YC company.
Thanks danielrpa, I am from China and now I feel very proud.
True but it's still more possible than this. You can actually buy SD cards with much more than 32 gigabytes. They are pretty rare though.
AirStream: Stream your PC from anywhere in the world
> A concept that refers to something specific

It says: Is it even a well-defined concept: SQL 1, NoSQL 0
Oh it's on my reading list. I'm just taking it one at a time. Thanks!
Lots of good points there, one of my favorites is the Collison Close: “Open up your laptop. I'll get you an account and code the integration right now.”
Necessary, but not sufficient. I agree.
I don't know much about bittorrent sync. How does it work?
I would love one!
"And it's been reported that [the movie version of] Tony Stark is loosely based on Elon."

You could maybe search both sides of the statement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Awards_and_recognitio...
Another Mass Shooting, Another Psychiatric Drug? Investigation Long Overdue
Sure, node.js is a server backend just like any other in this use case.
If they didn't buy the company, they would have to honor the contracts anyways. If they break the contract presumably they will have to face consequences, possibly paying money to DARPA so some other company can do it.

Besides not everyone believes DARPA is "evil".
If debate here is any guide, "Marxism" is not a well understood term than enhances ccommunication.
No checked exceptions, which for me is a dealbreaker.
There have been many orbital images of the site. We know pretty well the junky state that it is in.
What makes you say that? It definitely is a Valve product...
Project Teleportation by Vente Privee (Video): Better than Amazon Drones
I was told the inheritance tax (aka death tax) was a major driver of a lot of accounting in farm country. Also, widows tend to rent out the land and it makes accounting for the profits a bit easier.

I believe the inheritance tax is just a bad deal for a lot of people and only makes accountants and lawyers rich.
Great advice, will this work for other technical professions, too? Say, brain surgery, for instance.
That's not a problem by itself. Choose a strong password and you'll be fine.

Your email is publicly available on github by the way... I suppose it's your account https://github.com/justbaker ?
Using cgroups to limit something's RAM consumption (a practical guide)
If a lot of people are using it for free how do you pay for bandwidth?

What happens with the photos if you cannot afford to run the service?
btw, I wasn’t able to reach you via email. Feel free to reach me @ bpindulic@gmail.com
> Right now, buy some motors, buy some metal stock, bearings, shaft, pulleys, etc. and start designing a machine around them. Long before you get to the algorithms of running a robot, there are the physics of it, the basic electronics knowledge, and the design and machining.

This is very much a need. The Turtlebot is a low-cost ($1300) way to get a lot of functionality out of the box, though the lack of manipulator does limit what you can accomplish.

If you (or your lab/company) does have a five-figure budget for hardware, there are a number of very attractive off-the-shelf options which exist to prototype on: http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/#Portals

(Disclosure: I work for Clearpath Robotics, which design and manufacture several of the machines on that page.)
The UK is maybe the worst example for freedom (just because they have a tradition of security being more important - it's the country of 1984 and "Brave New World" after all). Comparing America with France and Germany you get a different picture of freedom of speech imho. I did not hear about people in those countries being held at airports for indefinite time because they were suspected of being in contact with journalists who published the wrong thing.
Show HN: MorseSearch - Search the web using morse code
Fair enough. Feature added.

There's now a link next to the "Download Photo" button called "View Original" when you click to view the larger photos.

Update

Unfortunately on Chrome this link doesn't work because the photo is stored in a way that tells Chrome to automatically download the photo. I'll have to dig in to figure out if there is a way to force the photo to be displayed instead of automatically downloaded.
Yes, because transmitting 1080p over wireless connection on a power-constrained device 384,400km away is a good use of resources.
True, I hadn't considered that. What I had in mind was no default risk (that probably would have been a better way to put it), even when the customer has the ability to pay over time and may be able to purchase things now that they wouldn't normally purchase.
What? GP was just asking if the allegations/accusations were actually true or not. Questioning the legitimacy of the deportation is the opposite of succumbing to McCarthyism.
I bought my 64GB of RAM + mobo off the shelf at Microcenter. So it's probably consumer hardware. Cache SSD drives are mostly bogus, because insanely they cache by alphabetical file order instead of most recently used file. E.g. The folder "Aardvark" will be cached, but "Zebra" probably won't be, even if you use the Zebra program more often.

I know, it's insane, and I almost couldn't believe they implemented caching like that. Almost.

This was some time ago, so maybe the state of things has improved since then.
Whoa, this comment ruins the page layout. If you can still edit it, can you throw two spaces in front of it? (That'll render it in a fixed-width <code> block.)
Oculus raises $75 mln to take virtual reality headset mainstream
I dont have the finra guidelines in front of me, but the statement that they work with finra and imply that doing so means they have solid security seems like a violation.
sure! most of my publications were centered around how robots should climb vertically, but i am also familiar with horizontal and also on various substrates (sand, mesh, etc). we studied the animals "steady state" locomotion (such sprinting as fast as you can without thinking about your steps). this paper is the culmination of many hours spent with cockroaches, geckos, home-made 3d force sensors, high speed cameras, matlab, and c++ simulations :)

http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss03/p02.html

let me know if you have any questions or would like to talk about other animals, substrates, and/or differences between horizontal and vertical locomotion.
You don't need to learn brain surgery when you can just trade your brain surgeon friend a six-pack of beer for their services.
That would be cool for sure!
How is this supposed to be reconciled with the second law of thermodynamics?
There are other use cases like suggesting a color palette based on an image upload before it ever gets sent to the server. Something like an admin interface for creating news article pages/blogs that orient around a particular theme.

I agree with the server handling of this if the server is providing the image but I could imagine HTML5 web apps making use of color analysis before the image ever gets sent to the server. JS isn't going away regardless of how much we close our eyes and pretend it's not there.
I would not forget that he was co-founder of China's missile program too. And given how many Chinese-Americans turn out to be passing secrets to China, it's pretty disingenuous to go 'oh, he only worked for them because the US mistreated him!' He would be far from the first person whose loyalties turned out to lie where you would expect them to lie.

Let them go home? This issue has come up before. The Feds locked up H. S. Tsien [Qian Xuesen] back in the 50s because they thought he was pro-Chinese and would aid the Chinese rocket program. When they finally let him go, that’s exactly what he did.

There have been many cases in which key individuals have been allowed to go home and fight with their homies, due to chivalry or some other form of stupidity. in 1861, the Feds let many officers go home and fight for the Confederacy. Radomir Putnik, chief of the Serbian general staff, was taking the waters in Austria when the First World War broke out. They let him go home – were they ever sorry! Gernot Zippe, an Austrian POW in a Siberian camp, built a workable centrifuge for separating isotopes. Yet, to my lasting surprise, the Soviets let him go in 1956. He became the Johnny Appleseed of nuclear proliferation [along with Eisenhower - Atoms for Peace].

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/who-can-you-trust/
Fair enough, but the European way of firing (or lack thereof) leads to persistent underemployment. And tons of "off the books" labor. The most recently reported unemployment rate in Spain is 26.7%. Do you think a young democracy (they had a dictatorship almost into the 1980's) could actually handle a real unemployment rate that high with fomenting a revolution?
How do you skip or remove the opening commercial?

YouTube ads skippable in 3 seconds are more or less OK, but these run for whooping 1:30 with no option to skip. That's really pushing it.
How are you going to hand a chunk of the cloud to someone? http://xkcd.com/949/
The enthusiasm for this suggests that there are many people trading frequently enough and making low enough returns that existing discount brokerage fees are significant. Are they doing HFT from home?
> the prevalent [in the general public, and therefore in the scientific community] theory

The reason it's prevalent is because it is the most easily understood and acceptable by most people/religions/cultures - not because it is the most accurate or plausible explanation.
You might be surprised at the software components which do actually exist:

http://moveit.ros.org/

Check out the videos on that page. There are a lot of obstacles to inexpensive robotic manipulation; the main ones are power-weight ratio and power-cost ratio of the actuators.
Few data points from someone who actually worked in the latest iteration of unified storage, WinFS (2004-2006).

The first problem was the lack of clear vision, contradictory requirements (AKA solving all world problems). For example, the data model had to be changed very late in the game. The previous data model was incredibly complex. It had entities of different types, links between them (of different types IIRC), it allowed multiple entities to be a parent of another entity, and from security stand point this was not solvable in any meaningful way. Shame that hundreds of people written tons of code for the flawed model without even realizing that it won't work, despite all high level architects involved into the project. At the end they realized that they couldn't possibly ship that, and decided to do a micro reset of WinFS' data model (around mid of 2005).

Second problem was SQL Server (actually a fork of what became SQL Server 2005) which was optimized to work as a dedicated service on a server machine and required lots of effort to massage it to work relatively well with other resource consumers on an average consumer grade machine.

Third, WinFS APIs were all managed and Longhorn Explorer was written in managed code as well. The whole thing was slow as hell and extremely unstable.

By the end the teams working on WinFS and related projects were fairly motivated though, we could see the light and the decision to kill WinFS (and do Longhorn reset) was simply a matter of time.

Ironically, the news of cancelling the project came the next day after the team declared WinFS Beta 2 ready. Now I think it was the right decision.
Would dragging a huge hard drive around make you feel better? What's wrong with a sticky note?
What did you think of National Van Lines? Was it reliable? The other issue is that I can't find reviews on these things on Yelp. Not sure if I should be using an alternate review service.
When I saw the Amazon video, what I really wanted was a WildCat army running through the streets delivering packages … now it may happen!
A quick transfer of data to someone where there are:

Too many files to be cloud managed
Business secrets you don't want on the cloud
Files too big to quickly transfer
The cost of storage is very low, so I'm hoping that between some reasonable advertising, pro accounts, and printing services the hosting bill can be covered even with a lot of free accounts. DropBox has done this successfully, so I think it is very possible. Over time the cost of storage will continue to drop as well, making the financial equation more effective...
Why would you? Running a video streaming service is hardly free. It is only like 30 sec of advertisement.

If you really wanted you could use an ad blocker.
…You Rent Them: The Tale of The ComiXology Backup Script (2012)
i hate being too stupid to be involved with any of this.
Wow I can't believe there actually is people like you around here, did you ever been in South America or in any "third-world country"? over here almost every president lives on big palaces, and owns extremely expensive cloths and cars, while the rest of us lives in very very poor conditions... they are not representing the common life style of their country, they are just enjoying the benefits of power.

Yeah sure: if you are the president of Austria you may waste the money if your people living like a king of the middle ages, but that's not the case of Uruguay.
Would this be restricted to American investors only?
It's pretty feasible, you just don't want to give it up.
Jumping Off The Train
Why not? It has all properties of a social network. Is Instagram a social network? Pinterest? Same principles, different look. It doesn't have to have "friends" to be a social network, you know.
The question is, will API access be billed per transaction, or some flat fee? The former will make it difficult to do much that's very interesting, but you could have a lot of fun experimenting within a flat fee structure.
How long must they have let scallion/Shallot. https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot is quoting a 10char prefix on the order of decades for a single machine.
Are Psychiatric Drugs causing school violence?
More specifically, it's actually a link to a copy of the same pdf hosted on scribd, the intention being to offer a means of viewing the pdf that's less cumbersome than Adobe Reader.
Interesting concept, take it to the next level:

Have a stack of "stickies" stuck to your monitor.
Drag files to the "drive" or "stack of stickies".
Files automatically go to the top "sticky" on the stack.
Peel off top sticky and use.
Drive IT at your office insane with all the frivolous unchecked data transfer. ;)
Why? To give the conspiracy theorists another theory to add to their repertoire about how the Chinese government is in on faking moon landings?
Looks good. Only critique I would have:

You say no registration required but next the create album button are sign in and register buttons. I'm sure there would be some users who think they need to register/sign in before clicking the create album button.

I also don't see on the home page what I would get if I did register (even though it's not required).
And...

The system should be viewed as illegitimate (read: as a system to be peacefully turned to dust or forever changed) by those who find deep ethical fault with it. You're alluding to conscientious objectors negatively. They are one of the few groups of people who have ever pushed progress through the ages on this planet. Of course, you're entitled to love the status quo to the point of making it legitimate in your mind every step it takes. Those who ethically disagree with the current oligarchical model for issuing laws that govern the fate of the world do, indeed, disagree.

I view "majoritarian consensus," which the US doesn't actually have, as only a small step above monarchy. It's a very low bar to set for laws of any serious consequence. To be so presumptuous and selfish as to give one small body the right to govern over vast regions of territory would have to, on an ethical level, require approaching systems models that use near full consensus.

Disagreement is the only necessary factor for a person wanting to delegitimize something mentally. In the mind of an objector, there is no more legitimacy in a dictator's brutality, or in an oligarchical republic's brutality (e.g. imprisonment for nonviolent crimes), other than the reality of the sword that backs the decree. Lest the world become lemmings, may people continue to find illegitimacy as they search their minds and hearts.
The OP brings up a very old story in
fault tolerance, reliable systems,
and systems management: In practice
a very significant fraction of all
outages are due fairly directly to
those famous words of the HAL 9000
"human error" or people in the server
farm 'bridge' or the network operations
center (NOC) doing the wrong things.
Don’t Wrap Your MacBook’s Cable Around the Power Brick
Except it turns out often scientists and engineers are one and the same person.
We have arrived at the future as predicted by Saturday Night Live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-BH8j06pM
Ask HN: effective UK seed valuations 20-30x less than the USA?
US seed valuations somewhere between $3.8m from Angelist:
https://angel.co/valuations
Or $5.3m from Pitchbook:
http://pitchbook.com/4Q2013_VC_Valuations_and_Trends_Report.html

In the UK we have significant tax-breaks for investors.

Up to £150k (~$250k) investors can get up to 86.5% of their investment back from their tax bill under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (http://www.seis.co.uk/) with no capital gains on profits. That means the total "at-risk" capital may only be £20.25k

The average seed stage valuation looking at crowdcube, seedrs etc looks around £600k ($1m). But given 86.5% capital protection provided by the government, a £150k investment (enough for a prototype for an app say), which would be 20% of the company post-money, would actually only have £20.25k of "risk" capital. That means the company's real "at-risk" post-money valuation would be £101.25k ($165k), a twentieth of the Angelist number and a thirtieth of the Pitchbook number. Even lower than most accelerators.

Above £150k investment there is the Enterprise Investment Scheme, which offers up to 61.5% capital protection from the government up to £5m in investment.

Are UK investors just considerably more stingy or am I missing something? Do American investors get tax breaks above reductions in capital gains if things go wrong?

The 86.5% and 61.5% numbers are if the company fails completely. Otherwise if the company does well, you still get 64% and 30% of your money back as an investor for SEIS and EIS investments respectively.
Techcrunch posts the FB video deck online: Good journalism?
Is it good journalism to publish confidential business deck?
The US has plenty of money to have a space program, we choose not to have a more active space program.