skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"because as it gets better known"

The saying in traditional business could be "everyone and their uncle".

You begin to attract people who apply for what might appear to be the wrong reasons.

You run into this with physicians. You find people who truly care about medicine and helping people. But then you find people who went into medicine simply because it's a career that has prestige and pays well.

There was this dichtomy that I observed when I was at Wharton (which has an undergraduate and graduate business school).

The UG student body tended to be people who were angling to make a buck when they were 10. It was in their blood and their family upbringing.

The MBA students tended to be people who had liberal arts degrees and then decided to "get their MBA". (Caveat: This was true when I was there which was quite some time ago and it may have changed).
Does anyone have any stats on Threes' sales? I wonder if 2048 has significantly boosted them.
Lessons from Bump, a top 10 app acquired by Google
Facebook was very carefully structured so that investors cannot oust Zuckerberg.
Or, you just escape the tab. \t style. (Well, then you need to escape \\, and \n, etc). Really, it just gets messy at that point. Which is why I try to avoid free text in tab delimited files. It's not much better in CSV if you allow newlines within cells.
Show HN: Social media aggregator by event (e.g., Arcade Fire)
Hence my comment about it being cheap for very simple applications. If you want to compete with market leading vendors then yeah of course it's going to be hideously expensive.
Facebook can afford not to provide an better user experience because it has no competition. Should Google Plus one day threaten Facebook's usage, Facebook may pull this design out of it's archives.

Until then, they will provide the minimal user experience that keeps them on top of the hill with as much ad inventory as possible.
This is a weakness of ad-supported business models. When users are buying or subscribing to a product, you want them to love it as much as possible so that they will always buy more. Ad-supported models untie the relationship between UX and revenue. In an ad-supported model, you do need users to like the product enough to keep coming back, but small decreases in utility that generate more impressions could be great for revenue.

The people at Facebook are extremely talented. It's a shame they're stuck with this business model. It would be awesome to see how good they could make Facebook if this wasn't tying them down.
That's my whole point though. Merely questioning Karpeles isn't what they want...especially when it's looking more and more like he did something shady.

And as far as Assange goes, the way it was initially reported it seemed like an innocent questioning for Assange as well (for those unfamiliar with Swedish law.
LA is never going to have real good mass transit. It's just too big and sparse. Currently, they are expanding the metro-expo line to Santa Monica in West LA. It is going along Olympic Blvd. This is a choice they had to make. The majority of sky-rises are along Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. These parallel Olympic at a distance of about 1500 to 3000 feet to the north (http://imgur.com/FduYKNf). Thats about 11 minutes without stoplights to Wilshire from Olympic. Now, stations aren't going to be everywhere along Olympic (http://imgur.com/8asaNwq). For all of west LA, there are 4 stops. Getting to your job on Wilshire is going to take more than 11 minutes, maybe 30. The time you may have saved in taking the train, will be out weighed by the walk to work. Not to mention that most of the people working there are not living along the expo line, many live in the valley. Getting a line from the Valley to West LA is all but impossible. There isn't a lot of land to put it on. You have maybe Sunset to squeak it though, and that's not all that flat of land either.

You have to get to work, and you want to do it quickly. The train is not going to do that unless you have a lot more of them going everywhere. People commute a long ways in LA and there is no thing as 'counter-commute.' LA has no central place. There is a downtown, but its just a place like any other.

LA is the very definition of a poorly planned city. But trying to horn it into a planned city will take many many years. You have tons of issues to deal with. You might be able to encourage a planned city, ala this metro line seeding growth in the right places. However, it is just going to take a long time.
These products or services are not guaranteed by Kickstarter or Kickstartees though, so we backers aren't paying for a product alone. In many cases, the value of the product is not commensurate with the money paid. Notch certainly didn't get his $10000 worth from getting a kit and meeting Carmack—he could have picked up a kit after the campaign and met Carmack at GDC or Quakecon or wherever. It's more akin to donating $100 to PBS and getting a tote bag and a $70 tax write-off, without the write-off. As others have said, it's a charitable donation to a cool project from which backers could possibly get some benefits.
Yes, and the one configured as fail secure is probably the most popular. When power fails, it automatically locks: applying the 12V power opens the strike.

The only downside is installation cost? isn't it a job for a locksmith to install, especially when your existing strike faceplace is metal. Also, you'd need some power hooked up to it, on the inside of your door frame.

I have this one, which I bought from a local electronics supplier - AU $29.95 -
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=LA5077
A very common organizational structure is the resident-owned cooperative apartment building, and the bylaws usually require that you live there as your main residence as a condition of ownership: if you move, you sell

This isn't a terribly good idea because for a lot of people owning real estate in general isn't a great idea: it inhibits mobility and ties up huge amounts of money in a single asset (see Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City for more research and detail about why this is a bad idea). Owning real estate also leads to financial fragility and problems like the ones discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449797 .

In the U.S. (and perhaps Denmark?) there is a cult of property ownership, but that cult is based a lot of not-very-good ideas that have a lot of drawbacks in actuality.
Wow, Servo is way longer along than I thought!

From that post:

> No doubt about it, CSS 2.1 is tricky—floats perhaps more than anything else.

I really hope that Servo helps to identify parts of the HTML/CSS specs (if any) that unnecessarily prevent parallelism. By that I mean features (like "float" perhaps) that make it harder to parallelize, and where an alternative design could support the same use cases in a better way.

Those are the gems that teach us deep lessons about the problem space, and how future similar technologies out to be designed.
> when CPUs stop getting much faster

If by faster you mean clock speed, they haven't been getting faster for a while now. Memory and IO speeds do lag behind, but we have caching to solve the former and SSDs to solve the latter. One pressing issue now is getting the power consumption down. This is especially important for laptops and mobile phones. FPGAs are pretty good at using less power, but you have to sacrifice a lot of performance and programmability.
The GPU vendors dont exactly have open toolchains either. OpenCL is not open in that we get to write assembler for the GPU... It is only a little better.

But GPUs got shipped in volume. I think they were just cheaper for the performance level.
Challenge curation manager at Hackerrank
HackerRank is a programming contest platform used by hackers to hone their skills and companies for streamlining the recruiting process. It's free for hackers and we make money by selling a white-labeled version of the platform to companies.

We are at $1M+ revenues with an impressive growth rate, 500k+ hackers and a team of 36 based in Palo Alto & India.

The mission of the company is to construct a world based on meritocracy. The only thing that should matter is skill - not resumes, or the school/company you went to. Here's a platform that helps to hone your skill, self-select the challenges/companies you are interested in and demonstrate the skill.

Role:

There are different skills & domains in CS - AI, ML, security, basic algorithms, front-end, etc. We need to build challenges across all domains and levels and have the infrastructure to objectively evaluate the code that's submitted.

Your role would be to help build a team of freelancers or programmers or professors or companies who can help contribute challenges in the above categories. The role involves finding those people (a lot of them are in our community itself), building a team (part-time/full-time), managing them, constructing a process from the sourcing of challenge to making it live and ensuring the quality of the challenges is very very high.

The challenges will be used on public contests or by companies for their recruiting process.

Your background:

-- Self-taught programmer

-- Ability to manage a team and formulate a process

-- Love for hackerrank and what we are planning to accomplish

-- This role needs a little bit of BD/sales skill as well

Software is eating the world and we are helping making the entire process faster, cleaner & objective. This is going to significantly change the pace of the world.

If you're interested, please e-mail to vivek [at] hackerrank with your profile link and why you're the best person for the role. We'd like to hire the best person for the role, hence remote is also okay but prefer Palo Alto or India.
An Elektron Analog Four and a DSI Tempest (possibly about to be replaced with another Elektron box). I can dig up pictures of the PCBs if that's helpful but I don't have the knowledge for detailed analysis of how it works.

Thanks for the other replies on dev boards etc.
I think this move will really solidify the reality anyone thinking about kick starting something, you're not an investor, all you get for your donation is the possibility of receiving the items in the sidebar at the level you donated, the company owes you nothing else.
But it's a trend that is extremely helpful to non-English speakers.
Isn't that what the Instagram, Whatsapp, and Occulus purchases are for? None of them are yet tied down to an advertising based business model.
>"Well, PG live edits HN"

But HN has a persistent bug where the next button on the first page expires and doesn't work. That's the difference between doing something for work and doing something for fun.

The willingnes to tolerate malfunction is higher
You mean mostly meat and some plants.
> most of these things are true

that is like, your opinion, man

I think your comments suck though.
If you can get along without Office, then you are not their target customer. The marketing and sales folk at my company are so dependent on (and skilled with) Excel that it would surprise most techies to see what they can do with what we consider very primitive tools.

This is a good move, and Microsoft has always been better as the underdog, they've just been away from that role for a long time.
IE6 predates all of civilization too.
Thats a topic for another post :) - hit me @ ritwikt@gmail.com and I will share the emails we used ..

One line answer - think what is in it for the reader and personalize to their scenarios[DO NOT MAKE THEM THINK]
Microsoft Finally Unveils Office for Apple's iPad
I firmly believe more [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] or else we're all [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]!
If you don't need the feed you don't even need the web browser since the message system is bog standard jabber.

I do my FB messaging through Messages on my Mac and the FB Messages app on my phone. Works great.
What are your plans that were determined by that project and how do they differ from your prior plans?
Why don't we try to get to the root causes of these "behavioral issues" instead of treating the symptoms.
Bitcoined
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He's also caused significant downtime by doing this, so this may not be a good lesson to take for your own sites.
The Curious Case of FireChat, the IM app that works with no Internet connection
FireChat? 100K/day? How come an almost-unknown app is exploding that big?
Day nada
Could benefit from an instructions screen upon first load.
>FPGAs are fundamentally a prototyping tool. Can you think of examples of prototyping tools that eventually broke into the main market, replacing the incumbent product?

Python
The annoyed tone of the article makes it sound like the author is hungry. HAngry even...
Yes please let us know who "we" are!
No. Nobody means mostly meat.
Yes it would be possible to detect "malleated" transactions with high confidence for certain classes of malleability[0]. I'm not aware of anyone having done such analysis yet.

[0] The types of transactions that are less likely to catch false positives would probably be those that have "superfluous scriptSig operations". For other classes of malleability, it would be more difficult to tell whether a given transaction was the result of a malleability attack or if it was just a transaction produced by an alternative client.
Visualize march madness
Isn't it a good thing? Companies should be competing for talent, not vice versa.

Once you reach the level of Jean-Marie Hullot and his team, you are lifetimes past the please hire me routine. So he spent the next couple years travelling instead of helping Google sell more ads... good for him, his old friend Jobs did him a favour.
I think Microsoft has realized that Linux isn't the danger they feared.
I don't think he was suggesting that developing a general process cpu that is competitive with Intel's offering costs only 10k. He said that getting your ASIC design, i.e. application-specific integrated circuit, etched into silicon is cheaper than is used to be and that's true. I know guys who implemented things like novel power converters on an IC as their masters projects, using only the budget of, well, master projects.

The money is a huge barrier to entry for hobbyist types, but if we're talking about commercial stuff, it'll probably cost you a lot more to pay for the engineers who are competent enough to implement something that will actually work than it will to do the fabrication.
And dropping...
Yet another shameless plug: SpaceBase[1] uses an R-Tree variant especially tailored to concurrent modifications. It does not require a global lock (as an R* tree would), while at the same time it does not degenerate over time.

It is used in real-time defense systems, MMOs, and real-time location-based services.

[1]: paralleluniverse.co/spacebase/
For 95%+ of their user base, Word, Powerpoint and Excel have feature parity on the Mac/Windows. Outlook and Lync are significantly superior on the Windows Platform.

Excel had a pretty nasty regression on the Macintosh in Office 2004/2008 (to the point at which I no longer used it on the Mac in 2008, it was pretty horrid) - but they returned it to (mostly) feature parity as of Office 2011.

Sharepoint, on the other hand, is complete crap on a Macintosh. It's almost like it's been designed to be bad.
It might come as a total shock to you, but "this business" doesn't end with Apple and Google.
As a user of and contributor to Caffe [1], I have to take the opportunity to plug it here. Like the CCV classifier linked, Caffe is fully open-source [2], has a downloadable state-of-the-art model pre-trained on ImageNet [3], and scripts/documentation that make it very easy to compute features using our pre-trained model or other models [4].

Unlike the linked CCV release (unless I'm misinformed -- haven't actually tried it, please correct me if I say anything inaccurate), Caffe supports completely customizable architectures via a configuration language, fully supports training [5], finetuning [6], and inference (feature extraction/classification) in these customizable architectures, and seamlessly runs on both CPU and GPU.

Caffe is also very fast; twice as fast at CPU feature computation as its predecessor DeCAF, and faster than cuda-convnet at training/testing ImageNet architectures on a Titan/K40 GPU.

The linked CCV release does mention Caffe, but quickly dismisses it due to the license. It's true that our pre-trained model [3] is licensed only for non-commercial use, but ALL of the Caffe code is BSD-licensed, including the exact script we used to train said model. So if you're a commercial entity, using Caffe for feature extraction/classification from a state-of-the-art network is a matter of purchasing a $1000 GPU (NVIDIA Titan -- I'm assuming you own a computer), downloading the ImageNet dataset, and waiting about a week for training to converge. This will buy you the ability to adapt the classifier to YOUR visual classification problem by finetuning [6], rather than being stuck with the particular 1000 categories the pre-trained model knows about.

[1] http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/

[2] https://github.com/BVLC/caffe

[3] http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/getting_pretrained_models.ht...

[4] http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/ex...

[5] http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/imagenet_training.html

[6] http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/caffe-presentation.pdf (see page 14)
I don't feel this is a proper response to my comment. This thread had been talking about how one should take money from an accelerator if it offers a greater chance of success compared to the dilution it results in; it hasn't compared the merits of YC versus other accelerators at all. Your earlier comment mentioned how rational the decision was, but I'm saying that it isn't rational based on what was written earlier in the thread since other programs weren't taken into account at all.

That said, based on my understanding of the accelerator space, I'd probably prefer YC to other options. Some reasons you maybe would prefer something else (guessing) would be if it conflicts with an accelerator that is very domain specific, although I'm not sure if such a situation would happen that couldn't be worked around.
Actually I don't think any of the outages have been caused by this. The prospect does add an edge of excitement to programming though. Gamification for programmers!
RHEL6 is ancient, decent ARM support is more recent. A lot has changed, such as the first kernels that run on multiple machines.
As for a karma rating to pend, then perhaps some scaling, if backlog of pending comments then the limit lowered and if low then raised, Base on say 5-15 minute average, or even hoursly or daily...

Also thing the initial poster should automaticly get some level of control upon the posted comments.

Random is what /. did for a last time I used it and that is pretty random in results, garbage in, garbage out as they say.
I understand what you are saying. I'm arguing that when quick sort was first contrived, the speed aspect that you can achieve with the in place variant was not just a lucky by product. It was the bloody point. To such an extent that if you are lucky enough -- which most of us are -- to be in a place where that is not a consideration, then sure, go for the higher level abstractions.

That said, it is highly telling that none of the actual implementations of quick sort in any of these languages are that succinct. To the point that it is still a truism to "use a library" for something such as sorting. Because that isn't easy. Do not be fooled by such a quaint example.
There's still nothing there about making your Rails apps perform better. That link just shows how to create an app on Heroku and hit it with flood.io traffic.
What a good look into the process of game design. Tons of communication with team members, lots of pictures and scribbles to explain ideas, and the ever-growing list of tasks that take a prototype to a shipped game. It's amazing to think about the scope and scale of games that AAA studios can deliver at given that all of this has to happen between scores of developers.
Using the same software: http://hackerjews.com/ (nsfw post-modern racist trolling) and of course http://arclanguage.org/forum
Health aside, for reasons of sustainability, I think that's a bad idea.
While it is enticing to entertain the idea that all worldly opportunities are going to minorities, research shows that is far from the truth, despite numerous anecdotes.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873
just the fact that he's confident centos7 can be turned around quickly when rhel7 goes GA is awesome news

the arm stuff is a neat bonus
Yes, if you take the sentence out of its context and clip it that how it sounds. You have every right to criticize what's in that recording, but you should do it honestly. The rest of the statement you omitted is "they would fire 8 rockets into empty lands".

Here's the Turkish statement he (the head if intelligence) made in the recording:

"Biz gerekçeyse gerekçeyi üretiriz, ben öbür tarafa 4 tane adam gönderirim, 8 tane boş alana füze de attırırım."

So he intends to say that he would send 4 of his men but have them send the 8 rockets to empty lands.

In other part of the speech he is more concerned about human life. He says along large swath of the border millions of people's life are at risk that should be enough for intervention but on the other hand we're talking of the Tomb and 22-28 soldiers over there (this is not a translation of the following but gist of it).

Turkish:
" yani işte vatan toprağının işte bu oda kadar yaklaşık 10 dönümlük bir yer için silah kullanmayı göz önüne alıyoruz, ordaki 22-28 tane askerimizin şeyi için, yahu kaçbin kilometre vatan toprağı var sınırda kaç milyon insanın hayatı için almıyoruz"

Full text of recording in Turkish:

https://eksisozluk.com/27-mart-2014-ahmet-davutoglu-ses-kayd...
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Hmmm. I kept npm files out of our repos. Urgh this is an annoying new step to node development

Someone should tell github the new way...
https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Node.gitigno...
IIRC that name was chosen by the moderator, but it will be easy enough for him to change if he wants.
I skimmed and landed on this:
>The first generation margarine-type spreads turned out to be heart-stoppers, which makes it hard to trust anything the marge industry says.

Well, that's good science. I'm sure there were some more worthwhile ideas in there, but that one made me wonder.
Funny how this comment made me think "Putin vs. West"
Are there several moderators or just one "main moderator"? I can't work that out from the text.
A high school kid with a two page resume? lol
How do you even determine results empirically? Is there some objective measure of utility, or is it just up to whether HN mods/admins think that things seem better with the new feature? If it's something like the latter, I wouldn't call that an empirical approach.
Malleable is a descriptive adjective (not a verb)[1]

Malleability is a property-noun (also not a verb)[2]

These words do not have "past-tenses"

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

[2] http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/malleability
I love Threes, and I understand where they're coming from.

But this line "Others rifled off that they thought 2048 was a better game than Threes. That all stung pretty bad. We know Threes is a better game, we spent over a year on it. "

The fact that someone spent less time on a game, and based it on your game, does not make it a WORSE game. It's just unfortunate for you.
Both are excellent suggestions and can work together well.
Exactly! Some people state that they "do not think that this sort of behavior reflects well on LGBT community as a whole," but if a CEO were to financially support the promotion of legislation that would prevent Christians from marrying, millions of Christians would flip out.
Of all the things that inhibit our use of programs, icons are surely the least because after you've pressed them a couple thousand times, I hope you still don't forget them. Text takes up a lot of space.