skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally yes, it's running on a different machine. But most certainly a different process.

For the queue, I've wrapped redis and rabbitmq clients with a simple retry logic that re-enqueues the job on failure to send. It's about choosing what's right for your use case.
The world’s first WebRTC video call on an airplane in flight using appear.in
Heh. Threadable's actually Rails on the backend, but last time I had a problem with collectstatic being slow, I used this: https://github.com/antonagestam/collectfast
Aww, platonically speaking we're glad you're here too :)
All of my older multimeters, from the 80s and 90s, were black or grey.

The yellow/grey contrast is a recent development, and it would surprise me very much if it weren't a deliberate attempt to knock off Fluke.
Any enterprise coders converting from or to Java?
I'm curious with Java 8 out now, are there enterprise coders reading HN who are considering converting projects in production either to or from Java?
I take from this that the word "bint" is not used in US English?
Senior Scala Engineer job at WhitePages
I'm probably going to get kicked in the face for this one but sparkfun are stepping beyond the realms of sensibility here and are turning this into a war with random internet people who get offended easily to draw attention to Fluke and away from themselves and a really crappy purchasing and import decision.

I'm well on Fluke's side here as a an actual qualified electrical engineer. I trust Fluke's products and have done for over 20 years.

Multimeters are more than just budget devices to measure voltages, amperages and resistance. They sit between you and part of a circuit that might well kill you through electrocution or explosions. All it takes is a miswired socket, earth fault or short in a power supply and you've got 110-240v going up your arm and you're dead. Either that or the meter explodes, removing your fingers or spraying bits of plastic and metal into your eyes.

Yes it's that graphic.

To present that piece of junk as high quality device for $15 is totally wrong to start with. Even without reviewing it, it's not possible to purchase the isolation circuitry for that price from a Chinese component manufacturer.

Sparkfun is purely aimed at amateurs as expected but to go on this witch hunt is wrong.

Fluke are worried people will assume that these will be associated with their brand and rightfully so want that association removed. And obviously, on that basis, they're being destroyed so someone agrees.

I wouldn't touch one of those meters with a 20 foot long rubber pole and I wouldn't want them on the shelf next to a proper meter.

SparkFun are wrong as are probably most of the people cheering for the demise of Fluke here.
US files charge against Toyota, $1.2B penalty
What if you plant the tree in your back yard, and it dies, or don't make it for what ever reason?

Would that not be distressing to the surviving family members even more and re-awaken the pain of loosing someone all over again?
Some ebay sellers do (or at least did) open up storefronts. I think one challenge for that idea would have been- why add another intermediary?
I wasn't claiming anything, I am asking what it is supposed to mean. It's interesting that a machine reading something can be described as the action of a juristic person. I do think the implications would be that web mail becomes impossible.

What exact part of "reading" is a privacy violation?
Previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121775
Disasters Cost More Than Ever – But Not Because of Climate Change
Oh I should add… Full disclosure: I am friends with the people at Threadable, hence getting on the early beta. However, I am if anything more critical of my friends so all that I wrote is honest. Also, the people at the non-profit I'm part of are not friends of theirs so their opinions are less biased. And so for the other people in the non-profit like it too. There was the initial "oh no I hate switching!" But it went smoothly since all the features are intuitive.
I think that a better example is Coke -- their bottle shape is a user-friendly design that is easy to hold onto, but more importantly it has become an iconic symbol of Coke the brand.

I think in the case of Apple, they iterate so often on basic laptop design that having trademarked trade dress around a laptop would be counter-productive. They always want their devices to be thinner and lighter, and that requires fundamental changes to the design (wedge shapes, unibody, etc)

With the Dell laptop, what really makes it look like Apple? It's silver and thin. There are literally dozens of vendors shipping thin, silver devices.
Plus 55 USD shipping and about 80 USD VAT when shipping to Germany -- ouch.
I want to serve students in my less-developed country.
This is great, wondering if there's an open source version of something like this.
When i lived in China i found a "Fruke" brand multimeter in the weird back room of a large grocery store where i was shopping. I almost bought the meter for posterity. It looked just like a Fluke... in that it was yellow and grey. #truestory
I agree mailing list software is terrible and neglected and this is an improvement, and mailing lists are useful so Threadable is definitely creating value. I can see the vision in the product and you can imagine how it will just get better. What I wonder though is what path this kind of a product could take to achieve success on the scale of Stripe or even Mixpanel. I could see it achieving small team/business profitability, but I don't see how a mailing list manager can become an Atlassian or Fog Creek. Also this product kind of competes with Streak, another YC company.

As an engineer what bugs me most in this space is the terrible email related protocols. They are broken and burdensome to deal with. I wish someone would attack that problem.

As a user what bugs me are the terrible native apps for email. I think this stems from the previous problem, few people innovate in email because SMTP and IMAP etc are terrible protocols. It explains why there aren't a thousand mail clients in the way there once were a thousand Twitter clients.

I don't know if Threadable has any plans of going beyond managing lists but those problems ^^^ really need solutions.
I would argue that your brain probably believes what it sees over the sense of touch, at first at least. It would be confused why the body didn't feel anything, but that could be explained by being paralyzed on or some pain-killer.
The State of "Do Not Track" in Firefox
What's the reason for this? Why don't you just build the website using standard HTML? Genuine question.
Season of NuPIC
"Encoding is designed to protect the integrity of data as it crosses networks and systems"

What?
Funny you mention that! Posted today: http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
That's a good point, you should use Soil IQ [1] to make sure that doesn't happen.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/soil-iq/
Using siege and NewRelic to stress test your application on the cloud
I clicked the link to 'Create your account', and the link 404'd.

I'm not sure they stole yet. They might be in the process of stealing it.

Distinction that doesn't make a difference?
Toyota agrees $1.2bn deal to settle US safety probe
Not sure if you've ever been involved in a suit, but the "first sign of conflict" is a critical juncture. Perhaps the most critical. And, in many cases, your decision is a function of simple math.

Once you proceed past the "first sign of conflict", you will quickly sink a lot of cash. You don't get a refund if you later decide to stop, nor any other credit. That money is gone and either you keep going until you a.) win (or lose) a protracted, costly battle; b.) bankrupt your cash, energy, or will; or c.) find an opportunity to settle and stop the bleeding. By then, the damage is done.

So, if you decide to proceed, then you are signing up for significant cost and a ride for which you have limited control. They will keep throwing stuff at you to entangle and frustrate you. If you take the suit as far as discovery, then you can get into the high 6-figure or even 7-figure range before you know it.

And, before you get to discovery, the motions, counter-motions, and other pleadings can easily get you to six figures within a few short months or less (depending on the complexity of the case).

If you are a small business, it can be a non-starter, especially when the plaintiff is a much larger (and hostile) company. I've been through it personally and I decided not to "capitulate at the first sign of conflict". I was pissed, they were wrong, I wouldn't be bullied, etc. So, I fought it.

We handily beat them back on the initial injunction they were seeking. Based on the merit, we knew we'd win that easily. Still, it cost me ~$20K to actually do it. It doesn't matter how weak their case is. They can make you bleed to prove it. The standard for having the suit labeled frivolous is extraordinarily high and you almost assuredly will not recover your legal fees.

We kept fighting, using some of the foundation (research, etc.) laid during the injunction battle to reduce costs. Still, by the time, we reached the mandatory (in the state of CA) settlement conference (where we decided to settle), we were out over $100K. So, that was the price of "not capitulating at the first sign of conflict". Of course, we didn't have to concede everything they initially demanded, but that small victory felt a bit Pyrrhic.

And, none of this cost includes the time, mental energy, and stress involved. If you are running a small business, you likely don't have time/energy for it. So, beyond literally bankrupting you, it can damage your business (perhaps irreparably) in other ways.
That's easy to say, but try and debug/optimize CPU caching! The available tools are extremely primitive and hard to use. It's very hard to gain visibility into what parts of your code is causing caching problems, why, and what you can do about it. Practical, comprehensive, useful literature about CPU cache optimization is also almost nonexistent.

The L1 cache is so small, I don't even know how to optimize for it in general-purpose software. It's not too hard if you have very narrow use cases, e.g. if you're doing heavy matrix calculations on small localities at a time. But I'm writing an HTTP server, and a single read() into a 16 KB buffer already blows my entire L1 cache. Great, how do I optimize that?
Going after board appointments and funding is probably the right way to build forward motion, though. There's a real capital acquisition problem for female and minority founders, which generally leads them to seek funding from regions less-experienced in tech investments and less plugged into the industry. Board members in the tech world are almost uniformly white guys, which is IMO a performance and innovation problem as much as an optics problem.

Improving diversity in STEM is a hard problem, because it begins with fetal and early childhood development and goes all the way through adulthood. But improving executive culture by increasing access for qualified persons can be done now.
It won't really take off until a self-driving car can swing by and automatically transfer them to their new owner.
Netbooks For Midgets
A spoof PSA about the Trials & Tribulations "little people" go through when using modern technology.
Any plans on making one that can move around on wheels?
While these are great, let's swing the conversation the other direction and rock out to some of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music - I'm still not convinced anyone has actually listened to it all the way through.

But seriously, I love any attempt at stretching the boundaries of music as a performance art, because who the hell are we to tell musicians what they can and can't do
All signs are pointing to 2015.
This is amazing...I've been trying to explain this concept for a long time, but have never come to even a fraction of the eloquence of this author.
I'd ask the professional tennis player or porn star if their jobs are/would be stressful at 80 hrs per week... but in the spirit of it I can definitely agree.

The multitude of tasks bit is true. Where my BS meter starts to twitch is when it's a developer telling me that they've been hacking 12 hours a day for x years and feel fit as a fiddle. In those instances, I've gotta imagine the quality output vs. time quotient is lower per capita than the average 30-50 hour per week dev.
Auto dealers fire back at Tesla CEO: 'he wants all the profits for himself'
And they have leveraged this one valuable service into a massive industry that, while still engaged in the valuable service, has also branched out into destructive parasitic services. One cannot remove the parasite, because no effective alternative exists for the necessary and valuable function.

So what is to be done? The only plan likely to work even a little bit would be to establish a government bureau of capital and infrastructure investment, such that if the financial industry vanished overnight, the small businesses engine would not putter out. But such an agency would be an obvious target for lobbying, regulatory capture, and personnel rotation to and from the financial industry.

They have us over a barrel, and they know it.

If lending were abolished entirely, people who would otherwise lend would be forced to buy shares, with all the associated risks of ownership.
Whatever investment made him that money probably also tanked later on. It sounds like he invested in stocks and waited too long to cash out.
This routinely great advise (never make the first move!) just doesn't work in practice. Those making the hiring decisions are going to want to identify a range of possible salaries before continuing the recruiting process. Otherwise, if the candidate later demands an extremely high price, we both wasted a lot of time and resources.

Here's what I recommend and have used successfully:

A) Offer a range

B) Offer your last salary (with some expectation of a bump)

The key is that this gets you in the door for consideration without being committal. Once the employer begins to really sell themselves on you, then you have the leverage. Other offers can justify increasing your ask and now they're more hooked on you as the right candidate.
Take a look at http://isophonics.net/nnls-chroma
I haven't noticed anyone expressing their thanks for sharing helpful information on getting a job in SF.

Your post is directly applicable to my current situation, and has reassured that I am not "average outsider" and should continue pushing my dreams, despite of being recent graduate in UK.

Huge thanks for sharing your experience and giving advices to obstacles :)
DogeCoin user donates $11,000 To Bring Clean Water To Kenya 
DogeCoin user donates $11,000 To Bring Clean Water To Kenya
Free To Play: The movie
I foresee a future where appliances rate their owners and publish it amongst themselves.
I also agree -- this makes me very happy to be a FastMail customer. Can you imagine any of the other big email providers offering this kind of technical explanation of data loss, or going to these lengths to recover every message possible?

I wrote a blog post about switching from Gmail to FastMail last summer that may be of interest to anyone considering switching: http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069944).
Republic of the Philippines
You could already do that with Google's "Search by Image"...

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyi...
I get that, but path-tracing is realism, there's nothing to add or nothing to remove. It's a full optical simulation. Path-tracing is not about what 'effects' it can do, it's about speed, precision, and accuracy, and nothing else. That answers the technology question the article is talking about.

Another question was art and content. For that I will say that new tools will be developed that combine huge libraries of 3D scanned content and procedural generation. Artists are still needed for 'art direction', which is the part where he decides what general shapes and materials he wants, and basically traditionally models almost everything like houses etc. That is still a huge amount of work for games like Skyrim, but the end result will always be photorealistic, and it should not be the artist's job to care about how it looks anymore.
The end of the social network
Nick is misrepresenting himself somewhat. The letter from Customs mentions 250 units, not 2000. Also, his $30K "loss" is a gross sales loss ($15 retail price * 2000), not Sparkfun's actual loss, which I'd imagine is substantially less.
Oculus Rift DK2 out
How to use a waterfall chart to diagnose your website’s performance pains
This is awesome! I like how they document everything. Tomorrow, I'm interviewing at a different place, which is trying to deal with their storage issues, and I was going to mention Storage Pod 3.0. So this is very timely for me!
Feedback on this from both sides of the table. Every dev esp. entry level students list the same keywords: Java, Oracle, Apache, ... Zzz.

Recent specific accomplishments that furthered tech or business plz. What makes you uniquely relevant to the role?
Not that I thought being owned by Opera was a bad thing, but now they're completely employee owned again:

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st...

So I have high hopes that they'll continue to improve all that core functionality goodness.

The CardDAV and CalDAV stuff has been around for ages in Cyrus, but it's always needed a lot of work. I'm happy that the FM team has decided to take it on, even in beta it's been working wonderfully for me.

I remember attempting to use KOLAB groupware, which was based on Cyrus, but instead of improving the crappy CalDAV functionality (at the time) of Cyrus, they simply saved all the calendar objects as messages in special folders. Not necessarily a bad thing, but then they made the unwise decision to store the calendar data in a binary blob inside the message, meaning that they couldn't leverage IMAP/Cyrus' native indexing. Which meant that every message in the calendar folder had to be fetched, downloaded and parsed by the client for every view. Ugh, what a disaster. It basically fell over on calendars with more than a couple dozen events on them.
I clicked on ones with what I judged to be a "contrasting yellow border" and only about 50% of them were actually Flukes. Seems this trademark is not evenly enforced.
Actually, they are taking a "big picture" approach, since it's easier to find out the chord produced by an unknown number of instruments than to find out how many instruments are playing and what they are playing, separately. Doing these things you describe would require the second option, I believe.

From the article itself:

“The problem with ‘full polyphonic transcription’ is that the computer doesn’t know how many voices and instruments sound together and what the characteristics are of these instruments,” says De Haas.

“When you transcribe chords, we examine the mixture as a whole and examine what the prominent frequencies are in the spectrum.”
Just compare the ScalaDoc of different Scala versions.

Things which come to mind (comparing roughly 2.8 (released 2010-07) to 2.11 (released 2013-03)):

Classes (just from the top-level scala.* package):

- Application
- Cell
- cloneable
- CountedIterator
- NotDefinedError
- NotNull
- Responder
- serializable

Complete packages:

- scala.actors and subpackages
- scala.collection.interfaces
- scala.concurrent (still exists, but its contents have been replaced completely)
- scala.dbc and subpackages
- scala.mobile
- scala.reflect.generic
- scala.swing and subpackages
- scala.testing
- scala.text
- scala.util.automata
- scala.util.continuations
- scala.util.grammar
- scala.util.logging
- scala.util.parsing and subpackages (includes parser combinators and JSON)
- scala.util.regexp
- scala.xml

(This of course doesn't include things which were demoted from scala to other namespaces like scala.util, scala.runtime, scala.annotations ...)

The list is certainly incomplete anyway...
I like to read /top/month or /top/year/ of many subreddits. With StackExchange there is only top, and I can't see a way to come back a long time later and see what's new in highly liked questions. Are there any third party sites that cater to this?

Relevant because I imagine I'll read the top questions now, and again in a year with many questions coming up both times.
This is poor advice. When you say "I'm always open to negotiating", you've immediately lost to a degree. Think about these two scenarios:

Q: "How much are you seeking?"
A1: "I'm looking for 80K"
A2: "I'm looking for 80K, but I'm always open to negotiating"

A1 may get 80K, A2 is unlikely to get 80K, because A2 has started negotiations before even being told no.

When you are asked for a salary requirement in a live setting, say your number (assuming you choose to say your number) and stop talking. There may be some silence, and that's ok.

This mistake is one I mostly attribute to entry level job seekers. I've been recruiting some junior level roles lately and these candidates almost always add the "willing to negotiate" to their number. I give them this same advice - say your number and stop.
This is exactly what a trademark is intended for. If I started a home goods store called "Home Hut", and made the logo a large orange square... i'd also be infringing, and for good reason. Home depot has built a reputation, and that trade mark orange is representative of that reputation.
This allows you to include other html files from within your templates. Instead of writing out the same <nav> and <header> html in every single file, you can just `include 'nav.html'`
> Why call something a "blade" when you could call it a component or module for instance?it's just confusing and dont help understand what the framework is about. Naming things the right way is important.It means you got your domain logic right.

"component" and "module" are vastly over used in software development so we went with something that was unique and works well with the unique concept we'd developed (~3 years old now). "framework" suffers the same over-use problem so we're probably going to remove that from the intro paragraph.

We specifically went for "Blade" as it works well. Blades represent a vertical _slice_ of application functionality, from UI to interaction with a service layer. Blades contain all the assets (JS, CSS, HTML, config, images) for a single feature grouped together on disk.

BRJS is much more about structuring your application and enabling a workflow that ensures a large and complex JavaScript application is maintainable. It's primarily an extensible toolkit with some core conventions e.g. scaffolding, Blades, Workbenches, Aspects, code dependency analysis for bundling for all asset types etc.

Right now we support writing code in a Node.js-style similar to that which Browserify enables (CommonJS + addition export support) but in the future the toolkit will allow us to move to something like ES6 or maybe TypeScript. We presently have Knockout as default in the Blade templates but we plan to add support for other template types such as Angular, Ember and Web Components (with Polymer). Until we add custom template support it's a small manual step to use these instead of Knockout.

We're only at v0.5 so many things are still evolving, including refining how we describe what it does and the benefits.

This is all useful feedback. So, thanks.
Sssssshhhhhh! Don't be giving it any hints now!
Not too bad if you have any remotely serious plans of developing for it.

Personally, I'll be waiting for the second generation public release before seeing how my badly unbalanced far-sighted vision handles the experience. I'm happy to give them plenty of time to sort out all the little problems and upgrade the hardware.
Attic: deduplicating encrypted backup with FUSE support
It's made out of open-source. Their contribution is to integrate it into a web service.

http://chordify.net/pages/about/

http://www.vamp-plugins.org/develop.html