skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, once it's in a corner it shouldn't really matter which one any individual prefers. Once it's past 512 you have really low odds of recovering from moving it out of the corner in a single player game, probably more like 128 in this group form.
The article is referencing the physical space, not the existence of a research team/department.
TCP is more complex than UDP. UDP is really just I pick my local ip and port, and send to your remote ip and port, and hope you get it. TCP has handshaking, acks, flags, resets, etc; a lot more to go wrong. Anyway, understanding DNS means understanding UDP too.

I've seen a lot of things in HTTP land that I wouldn't have been able to figure out without tcpdump. The most exciting thing is that livehttpheaders doesn't always tell the whole truth. :( But also subtle things like (TCP) load balancers mungling option fields, forged reset packets (and determining from whence they may have come), weird packet corruption.

Yes, absolutely I don't expect people coming from an offline world to know the internet stuff... but who's really offline these days?
Cool. This version is more challenging since it's hard to remember the ordering of images. Also, I had to cheat to see the "final" image, the derp. That was a motivation, too: I wanted to see what the next image would be!
%25 pay cut for not showing up to pointless meetings? sheeeeit.
I have played with Bokeh! The capabilities seem really impressive but my main problem with it is its lack of embeddability and flexibility, which I imagine will get ironed out as it matures (though the Python bindings are on point).
It's okay, he's a web developer
Show HN:  Phlisped, the Graphical Programming Editor Experiment
SQLite does not discourage using it for websites https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html . I use it for some low traffic web sites and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't. Benchmarking shows that my website can handle up to 400 req/s - that's not magic but it is far from my needs. As well it is convenient when memory usage of your web app is no more than 100Mb.

You should absolutely understand what you are doing but SQLite is good choice in many cases. Not everyone works on next Facebook.
They're the latest bitcoin clone. :-)
The cost is immeterial here, i think the way it should be done is priority/exlcusive contracts for certain data and price the tool ridiculasly like 1 million type and get few high worth brokers to use it. Add some thing like AI stuff or only sold for ferrai/lamb/bugatti owners. Then it gets word of mouth and trader will make the client/companies buy these.... make some money out of these idiots (BTW, i have no experience in trades but i personally beleive the trade messages time should be regualted across the world so everyone gets the mesage at the delivery and based on your connection you can pickup may be slightly faster)
This is a pretty shallow, close minded perspective.
Git-results – A git extension for running and organizing experiments
If my bank had the sort of insurances, regulations and oversight over its operations that Bitcoin companies have over theirs (i.e. barely any), I assure you I would only trust them with about as much money I trust to my own physical wallet (i.e. barely any).
> This is such stupid advice.

Is it, even after MtGox?

As far as I know (IANAL) there is no law or precedent which takes the value of stolen bitcoins into consideration while sentencing. There is also no history (AFAIK) of prosecution, of serious prosecution which takes the effort to follow up on stolen coins may have been "mixed" etc., in cases of BTC theft.

Given this, does not an online service (like Coinbase) which holds a large amount of bitcoin in "stealable" form present, to potential criminals, a lot of incentive to break in and take it all away? I, for one, wouldn't keep up to 5000 USD in such a place, at least till the time there has been some serious prosecution and proportionate sentencing of BTC thieves. But of course to each their own.
According to the link, a product development group.
I'm not sure why this is being upvoted. It's very light on technical content (how can you mention sqlite and not say that its type system is advisory only is beyond me), and provides no added value compared to what you can get out of a quick google search if you wanted to compare these three widely used RDBMS.

I'll note that I usually disagree with these "why is this on HN" posts, but technical posts should have a higher bar than this.
I guess I'll defend myself...

None of the companies I've started has lost the investors' money (yet). Some of them weren't that successful (Kiko) but still sold for a small profit.

Twitch / Justin.tv is a 120+ employee company that makes money and supports over 100 full time broadcasters who make their living on our platform (and has hundreds of thousands of casual broadcasters). Over 45 million people look at Twitch videos every month. While there are many more successful companies, I don't think you could call that a failure.

Socialcam was a spinoff of Justin.tv that was acquired for $60m on less than $2m raised capital.

The jury is still out on the Exec / Handybook acquisition, but I think the online-to-offline home services space is a growth space.

I think I've earned a few investors' trust and I think I have some experience with founding early stage tech companies.
Satellite photos of possible crash site of MH370
ICANN may approve '.sucks' domain
Or the difference between a currency or a payment system, possibly cheaper method of keeping books, or political movement? Any one of these (including currency) can collapse faster than you can say Friendster.
sanitize GET variable!
From the photos of the two objects posted on @MicahGrimes (https://twitter.com/MicahGrimes)

http://t.co/gFZJhGfTNG
http://t.co/SRYeeZfkc2

Distance between:
43:58:34S 090:57:37E
44:03:02S 091:13:27E

is 22.72km according to WolframAlpha

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+between+43%3A...
In Chrome pressing the "Get the pre-release now" button immediately opens the pdf in the same tab, which means it's not possible to subscribe for updates. I had to use Firefox instead for it to work as intended.
You do realize that losing a wallet is not the same as losing an email. A backup copy of the former is useless if it's stolen however that's not always the case with latter.

Awesome things like what MtGox did?
He did. And it's a much better cadence.
How Pronouns Affect Click Conversion Rates
Hey now, that's really unfair. Nobody I know who has a CISSP cert got it willingly.

Other than that though, carry on.
I have seen developers struggle to identify the problem. You can't solve a problem if you don't know what a particular algorithm do for you. I have seen java developers knowing only ArrayList and nothing else in the collection.

In numerous forums, people ask for code because they don't know what the problem is. In which case, even search can't help.
Busted – U.S. Tech Giants Knew Of NSA Spying Says Agency's Senior Lawyer
I was about to watch it all the way to 2048, but then I realized that even at a rate of 1 point per second, I'd be looking at a block jumping up and down for over 34 minutes. So I thought better and went back to work. Haha, almost got me.
You would find it fascinating, illuminating, and mind changing to read David Wootton's biography of Galileo. An outstanding scientist, and a relentless hustler like you would not believe.

There are schleps involved in doing great work of all kinds. People capable of true greatness overcome them.
Not just yet, but pretty soon! Shoot me an email, address is in my profile. ;)
This is not the official repo. The official repository is on https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app.

That's not even Yify's repository. Probably some holaunblocker guy wanted to take advantage of the news and else to drive traffic to their website.
So your first post seems to say"the CEOs could plausibly not have known" and this post seems to say "of course the CEOs went along with it!" Which is an entirely different claim. Could you clarify?
[Show HN] Content discovery meets gamification
Google doesn't need a designated "lab space" because Google is a laboratory.

It might be different if Google were a chemical engineering company, but it's not. It's a software engineering company. Anywhere they've got computer scientists, whiteboards and computers is a lab. And that's basically every building at Google.
Seconded. I ran a very popular website that used Socket.IO. It broke down whenever we had 200+ concurrent users. Sockets would randomly close.
Not quite the in-depth article I expected sadly. Very disappointed.

As someone who has used all three extensively, I would say steer clear of SQLite for large-scale applications or a web app in production. I tend to use SQLite for prototyping because it means you don't have to worry about setting up a database, I wouldn't use it for much more than that.

I used to use MySQL quite a bit, and since version 5.5 MySQL has actually been really good in terms of performance and feature-set. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL have their advantages, and as long as you know when to scale and shard your database it's all relative in the end regardless of which of the two you choose, both can be tuned to do the same things.
Virtual Churches
Its a uservoice widget, which has a habit of getting blocked by some privacy-focused extensions. You can also email support@threadable, or you can reach out to me directly if you'd like. My email's in my profile.
More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Facilities
Blood sport: More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Facilities. The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions don’t improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off.
When did we specify we were solely talking about genetics? Do you really declare that the stepfamily down the road isn't actually a family? That's just nonsense from a political, social, or philosophical standpoint, and doubly so when you consider that the term we're using - nuclear family - is most often used in these contexts. I'm a biologist by training (though not a geneticist) and I've never seen the term 'nuclear family' used when talking genetics, but I've seen it a great many times in political and social commentary.

In any case, what society considers a family has more impact on how humans treat each other than what genetics considers a family, so I don't see how you can so casually discard non-genetic definitions. If you go to a court that deals in family law, they certainly don't limit their definition of family to pure genetic strains.

evolutionary foundations of human mating systems

What exactly are you referring to here?
Flappy Bird creator says he does intend to bring the app back onto the app store
JSON format and JavaScript
Doge 4 NASCAR
Tony Abbott Called to Protect Innovation and Entrepreneurs
Oh great, you read the Bible. The Christians you're talking about hadn't even written the thing in their day and age.
How to Fix 'Certificate is not valid' Error on iOS 7.1
NGUI was also one of the most successful plugins in the entire Store, so his revenue, while significant, should also be treated as a ceiling on what a company can expect to get.
Why more skilled immigration would be good for American workers, too
Thanks I completely forgot about that one. :)
I'd love to give people the benefit of the doubt and attribute it to spoilers who intentionally move it against the flow, but I have my doubts.
Are You Still Using a Pre-Snowden Search Engine?
Is this really hacker news worthy?
It's only for "indies" without definition of what indie means. It might mean that you have revenue under 10k for example and after that you will have to pay 30%, they haven't told any additional details yet.
That is fucking incredible they could find that in the Indian Ocean
It's my favorite book of the Bible but I always found it the opposite of comforting. If you disregard the bits at the end about the duty of man to keep God's commandments, it seems in parts to basically describe nihilism.
Guy builds a home in 6 weeks for $9,000
Tell HN: Satellite images of alleged MH370 debris are timestamped 03/16/14
Question: why are they timestamped March 16, 2014 ?
Have you considered starting your own company? I see lots of opportunities for someone from a "rural town".
Which is exactly what Unity has been busy doing for the past 3 years. Epic and Crytek knew that as soon as someone released a major AAA game based on Unity, it was game over for them, and the beginning of a console generation (where developers are still leaving a lot of power unused) was the perfect time for this to happen. They needed to react, and they have.
Here is google maps of the lat and lng's:

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=-43.5834,90.5737 [from 1]

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=-44.0302,91.1327 [from 2]

Based off these images:

[1] https://photos-4.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAFoSL9yTdmE2e4_DanfiQ5uk_...

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjJuy3QCUAAHS7s.jpg:large
I'd assume that's the time the photo was taken by the satellite.
Funny that the US Military and Intelligence technology was never put to use here. Gives you a sense of the ethics in play.
4 * 3 * 2 * 1=24?
Tango Raises Massive $280 Million Series D
I'd have thought that was the date of the image capture - surely it takes an immense amount of time to process that volume of imagery in order to pick out such a thing?
There's no evidence that they aren't being put to use. The ocean is big, just because one country's assets found something first doesn't mean others haven't been looking.
is this not from the same guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgz90Y93c0 < google tech talk
Thanks for posting this. I'm working through some career changes and this reminded me to focus on the process, instead of the result, because I have no control over the result, only my attitude and efforts.
Very difficult to reconcile because, in my own experience at least, I get across the board better results if I almost "trick" myself into feeling I need whatever I'm working towards.

What's weird to come to terms with is that the self-hypnosis of psyching yourself into working really hard has by definition succeeded when you no longer need it.
Super-bright solar power plant blinding pilots around midda
If you're like Europe, the population is ageing too - so it's natural that healthcare costs should go up in line with age, rather than inflation.
Looks more like sea water reflection.
I am obviously no expert, but I expected something more clearer than this. This doesn't look too different from the smudges and discoloration all over the image (are those ocean waves?)
The "over double digit" claim is simply not true. I'm running three multiplayer games for about two years now, and it starts to have problems once if goes over 3500 concurrent connections. It could be that I just hit the right combination of node+socketio versions, though, as I had problems with newer ones. My setup is:

node.js 0.6
socket.io 0.9.6

This version of socket.io has a nasty bug in jsonp protocol handling which I patched manually by merging some change from a newer version, but it does work fine.

To make it scale, I run multiple node processes. In the last 300+ days each of those has between 1000 and 2000 concurrent connections all the time and it works fine. Except that there is some memory leak (I'm not sure if it's related to socket.io or some other lib), so I restart each server once a week (it's done automatically each Sunday at 2am).

I had my eye on SockJS since 2012, and it looks like newer versions are really good, but I'd need upgrade to newer nodejs and this is simply not possible for the existing projects as many used modules are not available.

However, if you're starting a new project, it's worth testing and see which performs better.
Oh so it is an internal SDK, like something MS shares between Windows and Office or something? I'd expect it to rely on something other than a global secret. Or maybe they mean that with the source, it's easier to see how the activation checks are implemented and help reverse engineer them out?

Either way, pretty sure all MS products are widely available pirated.
How long before an emscipten js version?
Mirror for when Dropbox goes over bandwidth limit http://i.imgur.com/UYDAYfz.jpg
A plane full of people vanished with no sign of wreckage nor anything to go on with tens of thousands of kilometres of possible search area. I'd say this is definitely "Hacker News worthy".
Doubtful on this one. I've seen several objects in satellite images of 'significant size' on Tomnod
I also admire the upfront and clear explanation. For people who are about to make a decision this helps immensely.

Everyone should learn from this: there is no point in overhyping or hiding things — I will discover these tradeoffs eventually anyway, so why not save everyone some time and clarify them upfront?
I use #222222 so that I can't see my karma score. That way I don't play HN like a points scoring game.
Sony would like a word with you.
Yeah, I use #222222 to block out my karma score.
Anyone have experience using CryEngine?

Not personally, but I know people who have. On the whole the artist tools are pretty good, those who actually have to code against it and dig into the source tended to end up hating it.
Shouldn't this be quite easy to do with existing computer vision technology though (I'd assume this is a computer vision 101 class project)? Especially considering this is the ocean. The images were taken march 16nth, so they probably were running them through their software.
Well, I think Google should have to make his research lab..Google’s research lab, Alfred Spector, has a small core team and no department or building to call his own,according to MIT Technology Review.
This area is close to Australia so the Aussie Military is probably better to handle it.
I think what was meant was whether Variance comes with built-in themes. At least that was my first question — having a set of well-designed themes would add a lot of value.
X is still very much run by Sergey. On the more experimental projects (i.e. not Glass or self-driving cars) you have a fair amount of freedom to experiment, but if Sergey wants something to happen a certain way, it happens that way.

(For that matter, the rest of the company isn't all that different: you have a fair amount of freedom to experiment, but if Larry wants something to happen a certain way, it happens that way.)
The MH370 has the following dimensions

Wing span 60.9 metres; Overall length 63.7 metres; Tail Height 18.5 metres

Just thinking out loud... but a piece that's 24m long, seems a bit small. To me it makes me think of a boat or something similar. I guess the news agencies are happy with this news today, at least they don't have to keep on repeating the fluff from the last few days.
Hacker News seems to be a community of people who are good at solving problems. This is a big problem that needs solving. Over 200 people missing, all with families who are going through a terrible time. I think the HN response to this is a very positive thing.
I didn't spot a liquid (without particles) looking demo in the videos - would that be easy to make? Would you be able to make visuals look like Wii's Fluidity game using this easily?
File this under "well that's just your random edge case" but on OS X there have been long standing issues when trying to use 64bit Perl and MySQL:

Circa 2009:
http://bixsolutions.net/forum/thread-8.html

Circa 2011:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65462

Circa 2014:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3932531

According to this bug report, it seems to come and go over time:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61243

This has been really frustrating especially when trying to get newbies to try Perl. Honestly you'd think they'd have a test for this.

My solution has been to use Postgres instead. Postgress.app is awesome. Installing it on Linux (or OS X from source or via Homebrew) is hardly difficult. It's no more difficult than MySQL in my experience.

Factor in the fact I don't need to fix sloppy heisenbugs from the command line after the install, Postgres is a lot easier to deploy.
TIME Magazine tells you how to take good selfies [video]
Even if you're not interested in planes or the souls on them, the technology deployed to find this needle in a large haystack is quite Hacker News-worthy.
> historically it's had a great user manual for beginners.

The quality of Postgres' documentation was the thing that was a big plus for me more than 10 years ago when I started fiddling with databases. MySQL came with one big 1MB+ HTML file, while Postgres had nicely organized multi-HTML docs. Even if you know nothing about databases, my vote goes to Postgres' docs for really good explanations of what to do, and what's going on. Of course, nowadays everything's easy with apt-get and stuff.
True but my comment was more directed at the disenfranchising nature of 'using printf.' Printf has nothing to do with shellcode, and is just a silent mockdrop of BS to entice those who would probably click onto the next article of a real explanation of shellcode were had. I prefer frankness to BS even if the frank explanation intimidates most.
Why Meetings Kill Productivity
711 days ago, when there was a thread about karma levels and I just hit 500, I encountered the same phenomenon. I received a response saying that you don't get to downvote threads created prior to crossing 500. (Obviously, can't verify that, but here's the thread for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3812967)
I found a very employer who was willing to take me on as a remote employee. At first they were apprehensive because they preferred face to face interaction. I started out coming to the office at least once a week then they realized that wasn't necessary. I was getting things done without coming to the office so they let me stay home full time. It really comes down to your work ethic and whether or not you'll remain as productive at home. If they're open ask if you can do a trial run by working at home 3-4 days a week.
There's a great Google Tech Talk by Geoff Hinton that serves as a slightly technical introduction to Deep Learning if anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU
Someone's done some fairly high resolution terrain mapping in that area. Plus a small volcano.

What's the depth in that area?
It looks like just waves, or noise.

But I think they think it's real because it looks the same on both types of imaging, while the noise looks different between the two images.
HN plays 2048 in Democracy mode
Haha that was awesome!

As an aside, makes me wonder if there isn't an opportunity to make an app that takes like 50 selfies and selects the best one for you (or just ranks them for you). Like it continually takes photos for 60 seconds and you turn so the light hits you at different angles and it auto-applies Instagram-like colour correction etc.

If Google can apply deep learning to recognize cat pictures in YouTube videos, I'm sure it's possible to assign a score to each of 100 burst-mode photos and rank them to find THE BEST SELFIE OF ALL TIME! :)
I would never want to speculate, but I speculate that CNN's ratings will be back to their abysmal levels in a few weeks. :)
Automatic image macro generator
This tool is an online community built on Meteor.
RAAF has gotten radar reflections off the objects in this area.
Rather, law has inserted itself into religion.
That's probably when it officially launched. Some accounts are older than that, though (such as pg's account which was created in October 2006.)