skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That'd be easy enough even before the release of the SDK - open the video on the Chromecast, audio on the sender app, use the websocket connection between them to keep them in sync, Bob's your uncle.

Making it so that you only downloaded the video on the Chromecast and the audio on the sender app would be a little more difficult, but not insurmountable.
>You seem to be very upset about all of this...

Which is neither here nor there regarding the validity or not of what I say, and a little rude to boot.

>The nice thing about semantic HTML is that any metadata and structured data is a part of the document itself instead of hidden away somewhere else through an API. This has its disadvantages (I'd rather interact with an API than scrape a website, even if it's all tidy and semantic) but it absolutely also has advantages. The usual alternative to semantic HTML is not a well-designed API, the alternative tends to be nothing

Which is fine too, since the usual case also is that nobody is consuming the raw html anyway except the browser.
I need to wonder why people insist on using terrible names like these. It takes careful analysis of the word just to be able to read and pronounce it, and I will certainly never remember it. Especially contrast with Rap Genius, a name that's wonderful in its simplicity (if not its creativity.)
I created a saas site (https://www.menutail.com) which does nutrition analysis and generates pdf labels for nutrition facts labels. The main demographic are small food vendors who are interested in entering bigger markets such as whole foods.

The idea came about from a pivot from a failed app (http://fs.howcookingworks.com/). In that app, users can take pictures of food, and get nutrition info back. It turns out that the need for nutrition analysis is needed much more in the enterprise space.

The validation of the idea came when pitching my local restaurants if they needed nutrition facts labels. It turns out that one restaurant did. After that, I hit the road visiting all my local farmer's markets and have been and gathered my first set of clients from those visits.
But parsers are easy to write and unfriendly syntax will completely kill a nascent language's adoption. If you're aiming for users that like s-exprs, then by all means use them. Otherwise, try to stick to a syntax roughly similar to one familiar to the users you're targeting.
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Not a problem, just make sure to update your skills and you'll be good.
There's an argument to be made that shows in their third and fifth seasons would naturally have more participation than a brand new show as fans are certainly more invested and likely more numerous.
I got a headache from rolling my eyes so violently.
I guess I misunderstood you; no worries!
Expressing a desire for a game to enter the public domain, let’s say twenty years after publication, does not in any sense whatsoever suggest a desire for developers to not get paid. I resent having to type this. It’s a bit like finding yourself having to say that you’re not in favour of gruesomely starving children to death because you expressed a thought that they probably shouldn’t get to exclusively eat at McDonald’s.

“But the prisoner is still in prison!” he’d cry, as he left the police station, his pockets out-turned, not having done any other work in the thirty-five years since and bemused as to why he wasn’t living in a castle.

Dude complains about people exaggerating his opinion and then proceeds to completely exaggerate the opposing opinion (a policeman deserves to live in a castle for arresting one criminal 35 years ago).
> Decent developers routinely charge $40-$50/hour on remote work sites like eLance ...

This topic comes up every so often. It rarely ends up as a silver bullet to financial independence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6350201 (4 months ago)
I was thinking along those lines, cheers.
Hohoho?

I said less for a reason. Most people don't have to worry about -35C. Cars start reliably down to fairly low temperatures, so they don't need to worry about it.
Oh my god, I can't believe I missed that...
Not sure why it has to be without EC2 to be useful. The main benefit is indeed the fact that you can have VMs, queue, load balancers, databases, DNS, cache, etc. all using consistent APIs, etc. You can create dev/test environments that are as close to prod as possible with fraction of the cost, etc.

In our case (and I'm pretty sure we're not in the fringe) when you consider all costs including the administrative overhead, etc. EC2 costs are not significant portion of the cost.
Just to give an idea, for us, even if someone had offered VM hosting for free, it would not be cost effective for us to move.
For a company that have very high processing requirements it could be a different story. I just wanted to mention that the value added by services in addition to EC2 is sufficiently high that even if EC2 costs are higher than alternative (and they are higher), AWS can still provide significant savings.

Time of a highly skilled dev/ops person is (very) valuable, and not something we can buy more of easily. Anything that saves us time, implement faster pays for itself pretty easily. If you don't have a massive EC2 bill, chances are AWS overall is a good proposition.
It does, it's called Nominatim (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim)
Very helpful. When is libsass just going to built into the browser?
Thats -81.4(F), btw.
Yes, the climate has fluctuated over geological time. Scientists know this.

The difference is a) the rate at which it is warming and b) the fact that all living things have adapted to a completely different climate.

Climate change means mass famines and suffering, mass disruptions in commerce as whole industries implode, increased conflicts over dwindling resources, and mass extinction. It's a big deal.

As far as agriculture, crops have evolved to certain soil types and climactic conditions. For examples, yield rates are going down for grains like wheat due to warmer nights, and the soil in Iowa in 2012 was too hot for seeding corn! It won't be a simple as moving the crops northward as the world gets hotter: soil types and ecological conditions are important for crops too.

As far as mass famine and suffering: whole countries will be wiped off the map. That means refugees. It means fewer resources for more people.

As far as more more violence associated with climate change: see dwindling resources and refugees. The US Department of Defense predicts that there will be armed conflicts over desertifying regions, especially Africa, which experience some of the worst climate change [1]. The USDOD is not made up of hippies.

As far as mass extinction: it's already happening. Due to CO2, the ocean is 30% more acidic than it was in the 70s, and the shell fish industry on the wet coast is dying [2]. (Shellfish are particularly sensitive to ocean acidficiation.) This is just the beginning, and the great coral reefs of the world are dying too.[3]

Basically, in my view, climate change is the single most consequential event in human history, and its scope will extend beyond humans too. The aggregate pain and suffering and the unimaginable loss will have a profound effect on the human psyche.

If anyone reading this is concerned, I urge them to join 350.org [4], which is a climate change activist organization. 350 is named after NASA scientist James Hansen's estimate for the upper bound of acceptable CO2 PPM for humanity to thrive in. We passed 400PPM in 2012; humanity evolved in the upper 200's. James Hansen was head of NASA's Goddard Institute before he retired to organize against climate change full time [5].

350.org's main initiative at the moment is divestment: getting major educational institutions to divest from fossil fuels as a social statement. To sign the petition for your school, go to http://gofossilfree.org/ [6] .

The climate change movement desperately needs conscientious, scientifically aware individuals to stand up!

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.ht...

[2] http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/...

[3] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-acidificatio...

[4] http://350.org

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#Research_and_publi...

[6] http://gofossilfree.org/
You couldn't control everything the chromecast can do with simple controls, such as selecting which content to play.

That said you could pause, rewind, fast forward, and unpause, I suppose. But you'd still need some other device to select content.
That sounds so different from their office in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It's a sweatshop there. I know a number of people who work/have worked there and they all say it's awful.
I really hope this doesn't mean that they're going to kill the all-at-once "binge" releases for new shows.

I've been doing this for TV shows since long before Netflix streaming existed - I would wait until a season (or show) ended, and then rent the entire series from Blockbuster, one disk at a time.

I don't always have time to watch shows regularly, and it's great being able to do it at my own pace. Plus, I'm impatient when it comes to cliffhangers[0]

[0] This sort of behavior can be very lucrative for Netflix. Many episodes of Weeds ended with cliffhangers or twists that caused me to watch an episode or two more at a time than I'd originally planned. To a lesser extent, Orange is the New Black (also created by Jenji Kohan) used the same technique as well.
I wish there was a viable solution for making micro-payments! How many people know to the penny what they need per week to remain independent? How many people really know the difference between wants and needs?

Since she quoted two different numbers in the story, I'd like to propose (assuming we figure out how to give small amounts efficiently) that we each give either $1.34 or $2.49. I think it would be cool to have at least 52 donors (one for each week of a year), but what if we blew it out with half of the HNers donating?
Just to clarify: you obviously don't need to be licensed to trade securities on your own behalf. Anyone can open up a retail account and trade. You do need a license to trade on behalf of other people (brokering), but I don't think that's unreasonable.
What The US Could Learn From Finland About Education
Yeah, that's a whole lot of cash to be paying out, especially times 15,000! Even over two years, its a LOT.

Has to be at least $100 million I'd think, possibly even just in the insurance cost alone, not to mention the direct severance compensation too.

Very respectful & respectable package IMO, probably why the news was released on a Monday, eh? ;-)
Copper compared to many metals isn't particular expensive per KG, it is just relatively expensive in the class of metals that we use a crapload of (for example aluminimum is around $1.8 per KG) it is still much cheaper than tin at ~$22.

The main reason that copper is so valuable is it has so many uses and is very easily recycled(I saw an estimate that said 80% of all the copper ever mined is still in use) so holds it's value (You often get 90-95% of its commodity value for recycling).
Google is not good at talking to people.

It goes further than that: Google does not want to be good at talking to people.

Whether that is a good decision or not isn't clearcut. Google's position (I think) is that technical competence trumps all, and that end of the day, no matter how much some people whine, most people will go with the better solution whenever it is (a) free, or (b) makes them more money (AdWords).

An alternate theory is that Google considers "talking to people" to be legacy baggage from when "normals" reigned supreme, and that the world being (re-)built now is being built, mostly, by and for people who are much more Aspie-like than the general population.

To these people, the need to not have to talk to people to get something fixed, or to buy something, or to get from A to B is a feature, not a bug. That's the world they want to live in, and unlike normals (who already have what they want), these people are working their asses off to make it so.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out in the long run.
Well, the weather is good in some places. It's because of the recent good weather! No, it's because of the simultaneous good and bad weather in different parts of the country!
You don't need money to have a happy and interesting life-- if you're willing to forgo having a family, quite likely for good. Then schools and spouses and making sure your kids get to make decisions instead of being affected by them... all of those responsibilities go away.

The shitty thing about it is that it's too competitive, these days, for people who decide to slum it in their 20s to get back on the career track. The people who think they can fuck around while living on a shoestring are going to face horrendous age discrimination when they decide that the career thing is actually important.

In a morally decent society, people wouldn't be shut out of having a family (properly, which means giving your kids the chance, should they have the talent, of being owners rather than mid-grade meat for society to devour and destroy) based on decisions they made at 22-23. But we don't live in a morally decent society, so scratch that line of thought.
Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users
so i really just want to say something like, "yeah, but Parsec is still awesome," but then i saw someone got downvoted for a similar comment with Rob Pike in place of Parsec, so what can i add to the discussion?

perhaps just that it's important to keep in mind that computer systems are things we've worked out for ourselves. these notions of "lex" and "parse" are not things given to us by nature...

...although, they do kind of do fall out the circumstances of (1) needing to emit x86 instructions and (2) the preference for writing programs in text editors. the second point gets a lot of discussion what with ideas about editors understanding parse trees and all, but i wonder what happens to the whole lexer-parser dichotomy if we keep 2 and periscope our notions of hardware. does the need for tokenization appear as a result of something fundamental to von neumann architecture, or is it just a result of currently-vogue instruction sets?

ah well, back to making things happen with the tools at hand.
>and the brags need to be objectively accurate

No, it just needs to be convincing. Plenty of convincing lies (or unproven claims) are used to sell programming languages.
So how often does a broken cookie give the right fortune?
I disagree. Wikipedia is a similar effort, and yet they have a highly polished look. I agree with the fact that OSM doesn't look as nice as GMaps, and I also agree that a better color/font scheme needs to be implemented if they want 7 billion users.
I guess the explanation to why someone deserves to be paid for something as long as they live is: if somebody is creating something to be sold to other people, and that is their job, why should it matter when that thing is sold to someone? A policeman isn't being paid for keeping someone in Jail, they are being paid to put them there. Content creators don't get paid for creating a work, they get paid for selling it to somebody- so why an arbitrary restriction saying once X years are up, you can't sell it anymore (or can't effectively since anyone can have it for free).

The answer is, it is in the common interests to have these rights expire at some point, since after a certain period of time the utility of having everyone be able to do what they want with the work is greater than the expected value the content creator would be able to extract. But if you believe that copyright should be valid for any period of time at all, don't act like it is a given that it should expire after some arbitrary period of time. You are taking away a right from somebody in the interests of the public good, and there is always going to be discussion when that happens because you are taking away from one group of people specifically to benefit society as a whole.
I agree that the sponsorship requirement to sit for the test is backwards, but if you are talking about barriers to entry for creating a new broker/dealer, the series 7 is a small inconvenience compared to everything else†. You have all the FinCEN stuff plus capital requirements as well as various recordkeeping, auditing and reporting requirements. It's a huge pain in the ass.

†http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/bdguide.htm
>There's an explosion of frameworks because there's an explosion of different use cases and application goals on the web.

And they receive pull requests for several MVC frameworks each week demonstrating how to build a to do list in a new framework.

I don't think that you're talking about the same thing here.
Wow. When I heard -60, I thought Fahrenheit. Christ.
Netflix recently surpassed HBO in subscribers. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-c...

Regardless, for this conversation, the number of people who could see the shows is not relevant. It's the number of people who did see them. I don't think anyone knows the number for House of Cards aside from Netflix.
One of the things you can say in favor of the NYT is that they never bought into the TV news balance fad.
I think it is worth considering that perhaps obvious architecture is the wrong thing to make, rather than existing languages being wrong for making it.
Why the Heck is Git so Hard?
Haha, oops, just an editing mistake leaving those out. Thanks for finding that typo.
Right, but a TV show isn't an experience, it's a campfire story. If all you do is sit around the campfire and listen to TV producers tell you stories, you aren't having any experiences at all.
Even young, given current salaries for software developers, this is very viable. I was earning ~$80,000/year as a newly graduated bachelor of Computer Science working 40-hour weeks at a flexible consulting shop before I started my Masters degree.

Given my living arrangements and lack of dependents, it didn't require any effort at all to save 50% of this money and put it into long-term (retirement) investments. Ten years of a similar arrangement would ensure a very decent nest egg, assuming I kept living below my means. Given that skills and salaries increase quickly, after a couple of years it would almost certainly be possible to scale back 25% and keep saving more or less the same amount.

As long as you are in a position to plan ahead, this shouldn't be a problem. It helps to view the glass as half full rather than half empty; many people will only see the negativity in any suggestion. Money is often a subject where the naysayers talk louder than the rest.
Hey, would it levitate there if the tube was spinning? It falls back and forth when he rotates it...
Fortran is very heavily used for development in numerical weather prediction. For example, the WRF model (http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users) includes hundreds of thousands of lines of code and has been under continuous development since the late 1990's.

And Fortran has evolved significantly in the last two decades, absorbing many features (and lessons learned) from other languages. Structures, modules, encapsulation, argument checking, pointers, allocatable arrays, classes, inheritance, function overloading, pure functions.... Wikipedia has a decent summary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran).
This is off-topic, but because I've just recently started my foray into devops/systems administration do you know any lists of good resources to learn about those two things? I'd love to see a guide like this [1] except that's for analytics.

Things like what you should do right after you SSH into a server, how to make your server secure, setting up nginx, chmod'ing permissions of files correctly, and things I don't even know.

Regardless if you get back to me, I appreciate you taking the time to read this :)

[1] https://segment.io/academy/
Bitcoin will be regulated because the power of the state demands it, and aside from the state's vast power, the regulators actually have the reasonable argument that while they may corrupt, venal and malicious at times, giving their power to completely random-ass anonymous people wouldn't be an improvement.

IE, The power of unregulated bitcoin is not "power to the people" but power to Silkroad founder and from there one would guess the Zetas and so-forth.
> Then there's some rather horrible things Symbolics forced upon CL to increase Lisp Machine Lisp compatibility, but that are hard to implement in stock hardware.

30 years ago, maybe Today nothing of Common Lisp is hard to implement on stock hardware.
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Interesting. That's roughly a computer a day per year per employee. Assuming $40k / year per employee, that's $111 bucks per computer of employee cost. Hirer than I thought.
In my opinion, the synthesis of the two points is that society shouldn't advocate for regulation (no. 1) precisely because of the inevitability of regulatory capture (no. 2). Of course, people can disagree over which point is really more inevitable. I think no. 2 is more inevitable, so it would be wiser to resist no. 1.
I'm really skeptical whether the author's "optimizations" are actually doing what the author thinks they do. Read-after-write hazards do not always result in a stall. Modern CPU pipelines have backward propagation that can resolve RAW hazards without stalling the pipeline. More likely it's the fact that x86 processors are superscalar and have multiple ALUs and FPUs. Therefore, they can dispatch multiple floating point instructions at once, as long as there is no data dependence.
Do you lose anything by simply waiting for the final episode to air and then binge watching the entire season?

The only two downsides to this that I see would be the possibility of being spoiled by others' discussions of the already-aired episodes (ironic) and potentially having to wait an extra few weeks to watch the whole season.
I'd like to also recommend this book. For people who think the $10k/year figure is only possible in cheap places to live, the author lives in SF Bay Area. Here's some more details: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-yea...
Interestingly, the post to which you're replying never actually refers to Kevin Poulsen, neither explicitly nor (as far as I'm concerned) implicitly.
I don't know how you think that was the point. He doesn't say anything like that. In fact he takes the exact opposite position when dealing with parsing, saying to just write more code. Why would something which literally requires no extra effort (producing useful error messages without semicolons) be misdirected effort, while writing a more complex parser is cool?
More than once, I've half-seriously lamented that the death of VHS killed discussions. Before DVDs and streaming, you'd rewind the tape at the end of the movie. You'd talk quietly with your viewing partner(s) about what you had just seen and how it made you feel, over the loud noise of the VCR. Now in our instant-gratification society, this time of reflection is robbed from us.

Of course, I'd not suggest going back to VHS...
seriously though, I'm not as bright as most people. Random genetics.
>And Haskell's rules are a pain.

How?
As a user of programming languages, I don't care about s-expr vs infix syntax, but I do care about the amount of semantic innovation that went into a language (as in I refuse to learn any language whose main contribution is syntactic), and sadly it seems that wasting time on syntax distracts many PL creators from the semantic poverty of their creations.
You guys had electrons? We had to use scotch tape on a bunch of quarks and give them a half spin and then push them.

Uphill. Both ways.
That's cute.

So, when a big gorilla company uses the name of your well known (and with your use it already known to them) application / webpage that you've worked for years on, I wish you a good luck "trying to ride this publicity gravy train".
Anytime you feel like it.
Ah, okay. Thanks for the prompt response. Good luck!