skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony and Microsoft beat Amazon to the punch. Whatever that means.
I remember reading about this in a New scientist issue over 8 years ago. It's a shame that it's taken this long for newsworthy studies to be done on it.
That's already known. If you knew anything about 'M#' you'd realize these two have to be related somehow. That's the question.
Nothing on the site except for a logo, dates and a pair of horns. But still, this is another positive development for the Julia language and community.
Modeled after Airbnb, new app aims to disrupt commercial real estate
OP here, and I agree.
I shared as the founders are good friends and the project is pretty impressive.
I didn't post the link to the story anywhere so don't really know.
I don't want to sound ungrateful, but the only reason Euro-politicians have put so much energy into, first, universal chargers, and now, roaming costs, is that they are some of the only issues that affect them directly, because of the extraordinary amount of air travel they do within the EU.
Machine learning algorithms as a service API: algorithms.io
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$ If that's a 60fps camera (I think it is?), that's 180 f/s speed or 122mph. That seems really slow for a rock flying into the atmosphere from space, and far slower than a rock would have to be going for it to "cut him in half."

A slushie travelling at 120mph into a windshield:
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/soda-cu...

Regarding the speed, the atmosphere will slow the rock down considerably, aerodynamic drag is proportional to the square of the speed.
A Website That Attempts the Impossible
From the article:

> We ought to be able to make ends meet perfectly well with [...] a 40 hour week for 48 weeks a year for a ten year working lifetime.

And my point is that we (well, most Hacker News readers, at least) can do that -- if, at the end of that 10-year span, we live like it's 1930.
Eric from TrackJs here.

1) The performance impact should be functionally negligible. We do instrument a few of the lower level base JS objects but it's all very lightweight. We have not noticed any performance issues thus far. That said, we have some new features coming and we will make anything potentially performance impacting opt-in

2) the buffer of events is currently the latest 10 events from the console, network, and user interaction, for a total of 30. We are looking at modifying this.

3) You can certainly bundle our script, we use the same technique Google Analytics does to capture hits.

4) Nothing, although we currently don't have hard caps and would certainly be in communication with you if you were concerned that was happening!
From Lead Dev to Consultant. That's a hell of a nice trajectory.
I've heard about almost this exact situation. A brilliant developer I knew when I worked for a Smalltalk vendor (one who made a seminal contribution to his programming community that went on to influence almost every other programming community) was working as a contractor for a telecom. He found that he could get all of his assignments for the week done in 1 or 2 days. Basically, his manager told him to do more work each week, so that the suffering would be distributed evenly.
Sure. But most if not all of that logic is on the server anyways. So to actually make it work that way would be (IME) a duplication of effort.

Then you have to deal with the fact that some of these second-order effects may be dealing with thousands of options. Do you really want to be calculating cartesian products on the client in JS? Ignoring the performance concerns, you could be talking about preloading a ton of data.

And then you're addressing complexities on the client side, coming up with potentially inconsistent solutions for because you're evaluating these on a case by case basis, and you've already solved these problems on the server.

While there might be some UX cost to round-tripping to the server, the client solution to approaching such problems is then consistent, and arguably far simpler. And you generally have much much better tooling to tackle these problems on the server, and more flexibility in applying your logic across web, mobile, batch processing scenarios, etc.

I mean, you could make your same argument for WebControls in ASP.NET. And it's my impression everyone mostly agrees it was a bad idea (at least I haven't noticed any competitors thinking it was an idea worth stealing). Except now it's on the client, with much weaker tooling, multiple runtimes it has to work with, etc.

We could go back and forth all day I'm sure. It's just a POV I felt like putting out there as someone who survived the two-way-data-binding wars of the early 2000's and isn't eager to see that idea rise to prominence again.
Take a look at unpaper instead. It was designed for postprocessing scanned documents. The only thing it does not do is the Evernote upload:

https://github.com/Flameeyes/unpaper
I'm sure the politicians get their phone bill paid for them.
I agree it's because of the lawsuit, but usually people settle lawsuits because they think the law will rule against them.
They are considering if they can skip some features just to retain some lock in, or competition is already too strong for them to do it. That's "under consideration". "Not considered" means they decided that competition is too weak yet and they can just skip that in order not to increase interoperability (for example WebRTC). Implemented features means they think competition has won and they have no choice but to go along even if they didn't want before (for example WebGL).
If you compare an inner city ghetto to a village in Bangladesh though, there are other key differences.

Number one, there's no war on drugs in a Bangladeshi village to disrupt family units and create black market violence. That factor alone causes a huge amount of misery in inner cities in the United States.

Then there's the fact that communities may not be as supportive and tightly knit. This makes things much harder on working parents and their children. People have this image of people in the ghetto sitting on their asses and not working but the truth is there are a lot of people working more than one jobs and being stuck in poverty. Objectively the standard of living for those people may be higher than the Bangladeshi village resident, but the cost is that those folks probably have a harder time raising a family.

Either way I totally agree that basic income cannot ignore the role of the community as well as cultural and social constructs. Not to mention the criminal justice system.
skip netbeans and move right on to intellij!
Man, you're just not seeing it. This "experiment" was not done going by rigorous scientific protocols. We have no idea whether or not the results are due poo placebo effects.
Did everyone assume this was an april fools joke?
Enterprise Windows Phone: Is Microsoft too late?
We are working on getting it back up ASAP, in the meantime you can also check out http://trackjs.com which is just static files. (The blog is of course wordpress)

(Edit: After kicking MySql things should be back - also, the rest of our application does not use MySQL :))
Effort is praised because it is positive for kids' development. It is a better place for them to root their self worth. You get kids who can handle failure and try, try again.
And what if your broker routes your order through an HFT for a fee so the HFT can front-run you? That's what some say is happening. I'm still unclear if I can really believe that because it sounds so obviously illegal.
You need to know standard deviations: the standard error of the measuring device (from Biome), the standard deviation within a subject (i.e. between measurements on different places, different times in one person) and between subjects.

Until you know those, you will be unable to conclude anything from these numbers.
I think the idea is that even if you are able to restructure reality to fit your expectations, it is only a temporary fix and your happiness is short lived. Also, you don't need "expectations" in order to reshape reality. In fact, I think the less expectations, the better you are prepared to reshape reality.
> "Microsoft new CEO makes windows os free"

Two points about the above title:

1. It's not the title of the linked article, which is "In A Six-Day Period, Microsoft's New CEO Satya Nadella Completely Changed The Company".

2. It's false. Microsoft did not make the Windows OS free. In order to compete with Android, Microsoft is going to offer Windows 8.1, its least popular product, available free to manufacturers of devices with screens less than 9 inches measured diagonally. Consumers will still have to buy all versions of Windows at the usual retail prices.

The title is the worst kind of linkbait.
I didn't have access to a (personal) computer till a few years before starting college.

I'm currently using a 3 year old machine, granted it's still pretty fast for my needs, but if I saw a program that was only for girls, and there weren't any alternative for boys (at the age group this is targeted at) I would have been quite disappointed.

I don't bear any ill-will towards this program, but I feel that kids are mostly prejudice free, and this makes them see some form of gender discrimination.

What is next, you'll ask for funding for programs targeted at girls that are only hispanic or indian or black?
Harvard Sexual Assault Survivor Writes Heartbreaking Open Letter to the School
As an Asian person who undergoes a ton of implicit and occasionally explicit racial discrimination (I have often been called out repeatedly for belonging to a specific nationality, and been the butt of numerous jokes regarding it), it is somewhat disheartening to see people who are higher than you on the social totem pole (e.g. highly-educated white females) often being the beneficiaries of programs such as these on the basis of their gender. It is absolutely true that they too probably have been discriminated against in the technology field, but in the overall social arena, they are in a much better position than, say, Asian men.

As a result, in an average tech workplace (which is a combination of technical and social factors), I think Asian people are at just as much, if not more at a disadvantage than women.

I don't want to feel animosity, or even ambivalence towards such programs, but given the reason above, it is a bit difficult for me not to. Any thoughts/solutions that the HN crowd might have about this? By nature, I'm not particularly inclined towards $SOCIETAL_GROUP-specific programs, but if that is the solution people think is useful, I'd be willing to advocate for it in the future, and focus towards soliciting donations, etc. for that instead.

[edit: Downvoters, I'm asking for opinions or solutions. Why not offer one in addition to your downvote?]
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That does not make any sense. I don't expect Angular, for example, to tell me when I have a syntax error. Also, things are rarely so clean in browser-land, anyway. Just because you have a framework doesn't mean there's not another parallel framework on a page, or plugins that don't need a framework, etc.
I think you misinterpreted my comment as if it were about what "we" as a society could do, but I meant it as a comment about what any of us as an individual could do.
16S reads should be fine for basic characterization. The bioinformatics tools for sequence classification of short reads from a full sequencing run have also improved dramatically recently. Especially in terms of speed (100-1000X improvements).

(Plug) I just launched a site last week that demos this and links to a few other academic works in the field (check the FAQ): https://helix.io
Nothing in the article, but they have had a close association in the past. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Public_Safety
Sounds like it was great last year, so it's absolutely worth it. Such events are definitely needed.
I actually think there are lots of trading schemes that could prevent speed being a major advantage, but discrete time auctions are not one. They just change who gets the time advantage. The only way to remove time advantage from the field would be to make it so that order time was not calculated in fill priority. There are markets that do this currently (pro-rata markets give larger orders priority over smaller ones regardless of order time). There are also markets that have tried randomized matching and other esoteric methods. Not many people liked trading this way so volume dried up.

If we really wanted to remove time priority, my favorite way would be to add near infinite price increments. Then if you wanted to pay for priority you could in an explicit way.

I'll buy that my hypothesis was overly broad. Let me rephrase it to, "The current system is way better than the previous system, and I've heard no systems that don't have obvious flaws as compared to the current system."
I left a job where I was basically paid to be the other guy with a heartbeat who knows Smalltalk. I did nothing but browse all day, and it was soul crushing. (Also responsible for a significant chunk of my HN karma.)

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-06-02/
I need to stop crying now
As far as I know, everyone has a baseline amount of money in our society -- it's just that it comes from a lot of disparate sources. Some people get their baseline from a combination of housing vouchers, food stamps, medicaid, and other entitlements; others get their baseline from working 2 McJobs; others have good jobs that provide way beyond the baseline.

If the baseline is provided in a more straightforward way (and, presumably, taxes on above-baseline amounts are raised accordingly) there may be very little economic distortion from the present state.
Software that turns Google Analytics into plain English reports
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Harvard Student Who Claims On-Campus Sexual Assault Slams University Policies
How Retargeting Gets Our SaaS $650 for $6
Airplay on games is total shit. The amount of time it takes for the screen to get encoded, sent to the atv, then displayed on the tv, is really unnerving.

Its like playing Counterstrike back in the 56k and >100ms ping days. Aka, not a twitch game. Might work for things like plants versus zombies or candy crush though. But things like infinity blade are not playable. I tried, and failed horribly and just ended up using the screen anyway.

Would be cool if they opened up the airplay sdk and atv as well though. I do like my appletv in general but playing games from my ipad or iphone is... at best frustrating.
> Life is meaningless to you... That's a whole another can of worms but a very interesting one nevertheless.

Can of worms? You seem to imply that I find it depressing, while really it's quite the opposite. Spare me your projections.
Planets Cube: 58 hours to go.
Nazi crimes did not stop the U.S. from recruiting their rocket scientists and welcoming their intelligence people into the fold.
I was just correcting Morgante. I'm not saying Cuba is some social paradise. But you sure seem to be comparing Cuba to Nazi Germany. Something I thought only those exiles did.
For some places you may be able to transfer that room to someone else without having to pay any cancellation fees. I've looked at doing that for conventions in the past where I wasn't 100% certain I was going to go, but somehow managed to get into a good hotel for cheap with the housing block.

EDIT: An example of how to deal with this. Say you can't go, but know someone who can. Coordinate with the individual to contact the hotel. Tell the hotel reservation manager that you're wanting to transfer the reservation to another name/CC. Have the second person contact them (likely need your reservation # that you originally got) and give the hotel the info (like CC, name, address). You can contact the hotel afterwards to confirm that the transfer has occurred and that you're no longer on the hook for the room.

This is also a useful trick for getting out of leases early. They transfer the lease to the new person's name and you don't have to break it.
Cartero – a streaming asset pipeline based on npm and browserify.
This site has more information. It's in Norwegian, but there are some charts and graphics which give an idea how they've been trying to locate the rock by analyzing the video and checking wind speed records.

http://norskmeteornettverk.no/wordpress/?p=1329

They estimate the speed of the falling rock at 280km/h (vertical) and the speed of the guy in the wingsuit at 148km/h (at 37 degr). It seems like they're still uncertain about the exact speed, though. The wind speed was about 5m/s.

One document in the video suggests the altitude that the rock passed him was 1200m... so the rock would have hit the ground 15 seconds later at 280km/h

The research website mentioned in the article is linked on that page, but it isn't up yet.
Hmm I'm skeptical about the reliability of this especially on older browers.

Does it track these events basically in an order? JavaScript is single threaded in the browser so multiple reschedulings could easily hit different objects and events unrelated to each other.

Looks interesting nonetheless.
I just noticed this is the script link:

/releases/1.2.2/tracker.js

Is it a good idea to have the version number in there?

As won't that mean you'll never be able to update your customers with new versions of the script?

Nice product though, looks great, easy to use.

EDIT: Seriously, this product is awesome, amazing UI, easy to use. Try it out.
You think you’ve seen everything? How about a video game toothbrush
Show HN: Video analysis of 22 websites. Do they pass the 3-second test?
Ask HN: Which graph database do you use?
Trying to figure out what a good alternative to neo4j is.
I got my little sister - almost 15 - to apply for this program. It's important for me that she has a very safe and welcoming environment to get excited about coding - since this will be her introduction to it. I feel like having 15-16 year old boys in the program would be very distracting and counterproductive for her.

This is from experience. I'm a woman who codes, and I mostly go to the women who code meetups because I can learn in a safe space that I personally enjoy.

The first time I went to a normal Rails meetup - with majority guys - there were two guys having a pissing contest about whether ERB is better than HAML, and then another guy was apologizing to me for the two guys being "so technical".

In meetups where there are only women, we get to actually learn and support each other, and it's great. I want the same environment for my sister to learn in.
Google wants to become a wireless carrier
Good point. I bookmarked that one due to length and had to revisit it later when time allowed. I checked back to see how it's HN status fared and read some additional insights, the discussions often add new perspectives or are more substantive than the articles themselves.

Checking the HN comments to ensure I don't inadvertently benefit a click-baiter is very useful, too.
It would help if there was some explicit explanation of why they think this is necessary.

Are women being discriminated against when the apply to the more general Summer Of Code events, or are they choosing not to apply because they are (or are worried about being) harassed or ostracized when they go to those events?

And if either of these are issues, it seems far healthier in the long term to address those problems rather than starting a girls first event.
On Wednesday nights, we play board games.

I know you may think this is a positive attribute -- but it actually comes off as a turn off to anyone who doesn't happen to that particular extracurricular interest -- or who who happens to have some semblance of a life outside the office (like kids, say).
We went back and forth on this. We orginally just had /current/tracker.js but lots of folks feel weird about running potentially changing scripts on their production sites :) in the end we decided it was probably best to version it and let people upgrade as they see fit. Obviously the backwards compat is a little more work for us, but we felt it was a better choice overall. (You can also bundle our script)
"We are all main characters in our own movies." nice line.
Wow, I'm speechless. You really believe that? My wife is Cuban I've spent a lot of time talking with her grandparents, parents, friends etc.. on the subject. Batista was no saint but things got 100X worse after the revolution. You won't hear the on the ground truth unless you speak with people who were there.
The complementary fallacy also in the article: the amount of work required has a lower bound of zero.

Survival isn't free. We consume (destroy) just to maintain a lowest-common-denominator status quo. The Red Queen was right: we need to run (work) hard just to keep up with staying where we are (98 degrees F). To keep two people at that state of basic survival while one does nothing to produce whatever's needed to maintain their fair share, the other has to work twice as hard - and without some suitable incentive, the one working will lose interest in doing so.

Yes, we're in a wealthy society. We're at this level because everyone, on the whole, works hard and pitches in. If a growing subset decide to just bask in the luxury, it's all going to come crashing down. As tax season approaches, I'm reminded of how much is taken from me - making it hard to do what I consider essential for my family, and making me reconsider my role in society; take enough from me, and I can go "off grid" pretty fast. Remember the goose who laid golden eggs.
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> This similarly means that third party TV apps will probably appear (and thus we'll get CBS, Showtime, etc. on the Apple TV itself).

On this point, it seems like we're already there. Apple seems pretty willing to let anyone with original video content have access to the Apple TV APIs and will distribute their app. Look at all the stuff they've added lately, that has pretty small audiences.

The actual main obstacle is contracts that prevent the content providers from making their content available on set-top boxes at all, because it would compete directly with their existing distribution channels (broadcast affiliates.)
What is next, you'll ask for funding for programs targeted at girls that are only hispanic or indian or black?

Already exists: http://www.blackgirlscode.com/

As a disclaimer, I have no opinion on them as I am not really informed about their activities.
Apple, Pfizer, others form 'go slow' U.S. patent lobby group
TrackJS supports IE8+. For IE7-, we disable our instrumentation but your application remains functional.
How does this work for 3rd-party scripts?
Caching django 3600 requests/s (2010)
Wow. I have no idea what I just read, but it....it was awesome.
How I Made $750 In One Weekend Selling an Ebook (that I have not written yet)
I like eclipse too. It's the only editor that I know of that

- I can configure to handle spaces/tabs/line endings the way I like (for example: I use tabs, but when I open a file that someone else made that uses spaces to indent code, the editor should understand this and use spaces instead)

- works great with git

- the package explorer is functional and gives a lot of info about the files I am working on

- works great as js editor

- works great as java editor (refactor/rename stuff, generate getters and setters/override methods, ...)

- the outline view is really useful

What makes me angry every time with eclipse tho, is that it is so awkwardly slow to startup, and the pauses it makes when building stuff in the background.

If someone knows of a better editor that can do the things above, is quicker and mybe uses less memory too, I am sold.
Agreed. When is the last time you saw a bullet videotaped on a normal camera? This is moving 10x faster than a bullet?
In addition to my post above: SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (California, U.S.)

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