skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of the GPL, of course. I'm not a big fan of the political views behind the license.
The problem with this is that there is not only one framing, "music as art" but also another, "art as collectible good", which is the most banal meaning one can attribute to art.

Reproducibility has never detracted anything from important pieces of art, and has nothing to do with their artistical value; everyone has painting reproductions in their home, and that doesn't make the painting* less valuable.

For this reason, while there are certainly valuable discussions on generic terms, this remains a pure marketing stunt (or, a banal pseudo-intellectual statement).

*=of course, here there could be a debate about the value of the concept related to the original physical copy and its reproductions.
Modern lathe bits are ceramic or sintered metal, so it should be possible to use other materials.

Grinding / sanding are good ways to get near perfect shapes (it is typically the last pass after the lathe has done its work if you want extreme precision). Ball bearings are made using an interesting process (using a vibrating drum with abrasive, the resulting minimal surface elements are perfectly spherical by definition...).

Babbit bearings have a higher friction coefficient, but we're talking about making a working bicycle, not the most efficient one, after that it is incremental improvements and of course, ball bearings are better but they may not be the shortest path to success.

You've really done a bad thing here, I can't get this out of my head... :)
same here. Was a FreeBSD user, but find hard to find VM a few years ago that support FreeBSD, may switch back, if this issue is NOT addressed.
Can someone please explain the role that carriers play in the United States? In most countries, the carrier simply provides you with a SIM card that allows you to make use of their network, but they have nothing to do with your hardware / OS. How come carriers control OS updates in the United States?

To me, this sounds as absurd as an ISP having control of your computer - imagine if you had to wait till your ISP allowed you to update your OS. Yet that seems to be your situation with respect to mobile.
The way I see it: Facebook's edge is its social graph. WhataApp had independently built a massive social graph, just like Instagram did. Facebook simply cannot afford to not acquire these companies.
Hearing the article, I felt thrown into PKD novel. One of the recurring theme in his work are precogs, normal people with special abilities to forecast the future. Or also to mispredict the future very accurately. Large corporations use groups of precogs to plan marketing campaigns, product designs, etc.
It's interesting all the "how is this useful" examples she gives are for international commerce: money transfers, doing business with international customers, countries where cards are harder to accept.

I'm still waiting to hear concrete examples of how Bitcoin would compete with credit cards in a First World market. There's a lot of talk about how "expensive" and "inefficient" the credit card system is (it's almost a mandatory part of any intro to Bitcoin). But so far I've heard nothing concrete. Anyone have a good link I should read?
That is getting uncomfortably close to Neuromancer territory:

"M-G employees above a certain level were implanted with advanced microprocessors that monitored mutagen levels in the bloodstream. Gear like that would get you rolled in Night City, rolled straight into a black clinic."
There is no single best route. It all depends on the specific business you are in and at what stage are you today.

To suggest a way, share more details about your product / company. Looks like an B2B focused product.
- What is it?
- Howz the current distribution
- Who are these customers (I mean type)
- Why has it took 7 years to get 20 customers? Is your product is very heavy to even evaluate?
- Why do you need money and where will you put that (hiring, product development, marketing, distribution, etc)
You can edit a local project (click "Open Local Folder"), a Dropbox folder ("Open Dropbox Folder") or the built-in Notes, Configuration and Manual projects. None of those work? Works fine my my Chromebook.
Examples of state machine compilers in production?
We have a class based messaging framework for developing applications into production (an inhouse application platform for .net ui applications). The resulting applications contain quite a lot of boiler plate to define effectively a directed graph of callbacks - a classic state machine.
I'm figuring out this is a classic application domain for a code emitting state machine compiler and I might need to convince business with case studies (anecdotes are fine) in addition to implementing a prototype.
Do you use state machine compilers in production code? What are your experiences viz. maintainability and scalability? There are lots of generators in the web and chapters in books about using state machine compilers but I've come up with very little concrete industry references except for imatix's GSL and their open source projects using it. Our problem domain is sligthly different. Are there any project websites with examples? Or are the only users of state machine compilers lone guys? Our solution would need to be scalable to several production teams. I would heartily welcome a simple "yes, our domain is ... and works great for us with n developers" or "no, total fail because...". References to state machine compiler projects in the web that you've found personally useful similar to https://github.com/imatix/gsl or http://smc.sourceforge.net/ would be welcome as well. I'm probably not looking for an off-the-shelf solution though. Note that I'm not discussing executable state machines like what Ragel http://www.complang.org/ragel/ generates but even references to these cases would be nice.
The thing I don't like about the way bitcoin mining works is that it's an arms race that leaves attacker and defender on equal footing - quite unlike a lot of crypto, where adding a bit increases the defender's work linearly but the attacker's exponentially. By its nature, then, we have to keep burning off more in value than someone could make with a 51% attack, regardless of improvements in tech efficiency.

Of course, lacking a better proposal, it could be that this is the best we can do. I don't have to like everything about every piece of technology in the world...
Or possibly one that rises in proportion to hash rate... ? That might be interestimg.
If you're after VC cash then you should plug your company every chance you get including here.

I can't help you other than that but I will say that you should consider remote workers if it's feasible.
Any chance of you expressing yourself without the seemingly obligatory 'fuck'?
Texas to study desalination of Gulf water as viable option in face of drought
I would call it linkbait, cool. Sad to see coming from NPR.

Thanks for the link, it's been a few years since I read those rules.
Slightly off-topic but why don't more companies have 5 character ticker symbols? They'd probably be easier to recognize.
Its hard to give you much detail based on information you have provided. 7 years seems a long time for company earning low income. Do you see yourself in this industry in few years? Do you have possibility to grow? Who is your customers - large companies, smes?
PayPal is Still Bad at Account Security
This is why my comment began with the words "particular, individual". A regex like (1{5}0{3})\* can be implemented in constant space, but a language like

matches(n, m, string):
return matches((1{n}0{m})\*, string)

cannot.

Just think about it -- the former is just a DFA, and so of course you can do it in constant space (provided your input stream is abstracted away, or you use a TM.
very impressive. I wonder what the most effective means of communication/best practices was for an intern in a vastly different time zone.
I use FreeAgent for my Zweigniederlassung. I export my bank transactions from Volksbank's web interface, convert the file with a script I wrote (https://github.com/airblade/volksbanker) and upload into FreeAgent.

FreeAgent doesn't integrate with Datev or anything like that. However my Steuerberater can log into my FreeAgent account and get all the book-keeping information he needs.
Completely useless trivia: Roy Scheider is shown using one of these (on a beach, no less!) in 1984's _2010_.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/trivia?item=tr0748438
Agree. I wanted to put some emphasis on the fact that technologies with modest goals, but well executed, may in fact achieve more than grand masterplans.
After more than 15 years of coding I came to realize that focusing very strongly to your true needs and nothing more, is really a quality met only by the very advanced.
I think you have to add that everyone is solving a different puzzle, I.e. if I'm not mistaken, an identifier of the miner (I would guess her public key, I can't really check right now) is included in the string she hashes (plus they may not all have the same list of pending transactions). otherwise you would still have the problem that if people use the same software for guessing the random string, the fastest would always win.
Threats to data accuracy in web-analytics and ways to prevent them
Win+X then C for a Command Prompt. Or Win+X then A for an Administrative Command Prompt.
How We're Feeling: Tweet sentiment
Something similar but a little toned down still happens in Romania too.

For instance if you ruffle the wrong feathers your business may get "surprise inspections" from every government agency known to man.

And guess what they will always find a reason to fine your.
This seems to me to be right from the MBA textbook chapter called, "What happens if you have no Business Development".

You need to get more customers (and not just from referral, though that's great), and you need more buzz. When you get stronger demand, the capital supply will more easily rise up to greet it.
I've been trying to stay 'under the radar' but maybe you're right, could be time to come out of stealth mode, thanks.
Right now you need Chrome to install it, the standalone version I mention will embed the parts of Chrome in the binary.
God is the only reason that matters.

God will speak to everybody and news will spread.
> I don't care too much about the windows store

Don't get excited then, this is only for windows store.
best thing i read in quite a while!
Intel releases Android KitKat 4.4 with optimized x86-64 kernel
It was expected this kind of ubuntu branded services were not going to last long.
From its early beginning ubuntu has been pointed out for lacking a foreseeable long term future, being a nice experiment funded by a donation from the personal fortune of a rich guy,which will eventually run out.

Ubuntu one felt like an experimentation from Ubuntu to bring some money in, in hope to somehow contribute money to fund itself for lack of a better business model.
It makes sense to kill the experimentations that don't bring enough profit while consuming precious resources.
I know I can get lots of customers very quickly, I'm turning business away. My issue is letting them down because I don't have the resources to support them. (my previous roles were biz-dev, I do that well)
I don't think this has any direct influence on performance.

It was necessary to increase the default limits for larger shared_buffers, etc on pgsql prior to 9.3 where SysV shared memory was used, but this was common to many *nix operating systems.
YT was bought for $1.65bn in shares which is an order of magnitude less.
Getting out alive
wow! this is awesome! I'll chip in.
Congrats, this is an interesting project and props for doing it all on your own! I thought our kind has gone all but extinct these days :)

That said, here's a problem from just watching the video - all the focus on the design of the device assumes that it should be on a display. That's the domain of the home automation market for passionate amateurs - "Look, look, I automated my door!" A proper installation is always discrete and does not clash with existing interior design of the space. It would be something that blends in easily and, ideally, paintable over. Definitely not a computer-mouse like puck that just screams "look at me!". Your whole point of this being "technology that is not worth hiding" is way off for practical applications. I realize that you probably trying to pull Nest here, but this is an utilitarian non-interactive device, it has no business being visible in my space. I would strongly suggest adding an "OEM" model that is just a flat white box.
You don't usually define 2 at all when talking about abstract structures (it makes little sense to call the polynomial 2 as being "the 2" of the field of rational functions, for example). 2 is something that exists only in N, and talking about it in other structures makes sense only when you are referring to a ring homomorphism Z->F or something similar.
adding here just so the link is clickable: https://github.com/hiteshtr/open-courseware-web-development
Snakes on a train
OF MONKEYS AND MICROSERVICES
As I said yesterday, any serious Windows user should be using Process Explorer as a replacement for the default Task Manager: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.asp....

(Some of the other sysinternal tools are worth their weight in gold as well)
Mail.app crashes on launch consistently
Not to detract from the very intelligent and reasoned posting, but what tiny percentage of people honestly still use fat-ass RDBMS as their primary datastore and would be better off performance tuning it at the kernel IO level than actually analyzing their load and subsequently sharding or migrating their data structures to less behemoth-like datastores? Yes, RDBMS are easy to hire developers and DBAs for, are well supported and full-featured. However, in this day and age using them just feels a little ... lazy ... for most workloads.
"Well sure, it does both."

Certainly. Using it to distribute the currency, before there's the critical mass of people wanting to make transactions enough to pay your miners seems a perfectly good fit once you're already needing to mine, though.

"There are (theoretical) systems that allow cryptographically secure transactions to take place without so much thrashing though. Even verifiable offline transactions."

Verifiable offline transactions with no centralization? Can you link to some?
"Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer"

That's a disappointing choice! Why not something more like LEON or OpenRISC?
Wow, thanks. It's predominantly ERP. Customers are top 20 from 1 industry currently (the referral impact) but it's not limited to that trade. It's taken 7 years because I've had to earn a living while developing it and it's a fairly large system. Money is for developer/s so that I can do sales and marketing. What do you mean 'heavy to even evaluate'?
I heard talk of some math that said, in effect, "if the work is useful, proof of work breaks down." Not finding a link...
Humanizer is now a Portable Class Library – Mehdi Khalili
nice story, but you cant call that "coding". looked at the website and its sophistication can be compared to a kid practicing how to write the alphabet in primary school.

in terms of the learning curve this can be pulled off by an above avg 13 year old in 2 weeks....

Nonetheless women + coding or women + investment banking etc. is the magic combo that will put you on the front page in these days. talk about gender equality/survival of the fittest....lol
Genuine question for the submitter: Why do you think this is appropriate for HN?

I'm trying to understand the HN community better and there are quite a number of submissions like this. Are people just sharing things that caught their attention in the news, or do you genuinely think this is relevant to the community here?

You can probably tell that I don't think it's appropriate, but maybe I'm wrong. That's why I'm asking for your thoughts.

Thanks.
Cortana, in the game, was nearly useless outside of the cutscenes.

Hopefully she's better at navigation on the phones. I don't think providing a compass heading to your destination, and constantly yelling that you need to get there is going to cut it.
Stealth Mode is a bad idea unless you're somehow legally obliged to keep quiet.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't meant you could get 120GB of storage for a year, I meant you could each year buy 120 units of "GB-month" (like kWh but for storage).

You could distribute that equally throughout the year, using 10GB-month per month, yes. Or you could use 1GB-month in the first month, 2GB-month in the second, etc, as your storage needs grew.
Graham’s Number Is Too Big for Me to Tell You How Big It Is
Looks like script "whiteboard" from the collection referenced by heisenzombie in this thread can apply relevant transformations: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/whiteboard/index.php
Until the late 1990's there were SEC rules governing when you could have three vs four or five letters.

You might not be surprised that the origination of the short naming convention was heavily caused by the ticker tape machine (dramatically more convenient in most respects to just enter a short symbol rather than the whole company name).
Why the downvotes? Surely a program that is meant to be uploading and downloading and keeping directories in sync with an external system over a variable speed link (my Internet connection) needs to indicate what it is doing and how far along it is in doing that? A "I'm doing it!" indication isn't enough, because if I shut down the Mac and wander off and expect to have files on Drive but it had finished uploading, I have no way of knowing which of many (possibly huge) files it had uploaded. I have to guess.

The web interface gives a progress indication, so why not the native application? It's very very poor.
Maybe it was the Dreamcast equivalent of the BIOS before the OS was loaded from the disc? I know that I have machines that say powered by Windows XP that really aren't! :-)
No you can't read what doesn't exist.

Firstly, there's a debate on whether BTC is closer to FIAT or to an asset (e.g. Gold).

Let's say we skip that part. Until a world-wide bank like say UBS or a country decides to implement an infrastructure for bitcoin, it won't cut it.

Why a country would want to do that, is beyond me - and probably beyond anyone with a basic understanding of macro-economics - and so we're left with other possible implementations of the protocol.

Until we find a way for average Joe to switch from USD/EUR to BTC and back easily and without fear of money loss, I don't think we'll see any widespread adoption as a payment system.

ps. The argument about using bitcoin in societies where finance is not well evolved, is as ridiculous as it is dangerous. Imagine bitcoin-driven banks in Addis Ababa handing out loans (in bitcoin or the local ETB currency?!) and financial products based on bitcoin. Then imagine that an unknown, early adopter, from the other side of the world decides to withdraw 100.000 bitcoins at once: There you go, you got Ethiopians playing wall-street pranks!
That's a language, this is a compiler tech.
I've been in the industry since 95, so, yes, I see myself here for the long run. Wouldn't rule out an exit from this business if the opportunity arose though. I believe growth potential is bigger than most of the super-inflated valuations around right now. Current customers are larger end of SME but it's not limited up or down - just been easiest to sell to!
Here's the comment I posted on the Gist, copy-pasted to here:

@molven, @vibragiel: Wow, I feel more than a bit ridiculous after looking into this. Turns out, those original examples I made using GIMP (same basic process, tuned the parameters to make it look nice). I'd originally put this gist together several months ago, and I hadn't done a thorough enough check before submitting to HN.

HOWEVER, I've since created new examples actually using the bash script, and the gist has been updated accordingly.

You can get these images here:

> Input1 - http://i.imgur.com/27aDJ6b.jpg

> Input2 - http://i.imgur.com/LaRWFT4.jpg

> Output1 - http://i.imgur.com/xMxM8P2.png

> Output2 - http://i.imgur.com/E3XoM3e.png
Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub
A growing part of the industry over the past several years is making github or other open source code examples mandatory for the application process.

Since I am interested in recruitment what changes have HN users noticed?

- Has the average quality of interview candidates increased?

- Do impressive open source contributions correlate with high performance when hired into your company?

- Do employees now push to open source internal tools to demonstrate their work?
Seneca.js is awesome!
The study itself looked at 114 companies in the S&P 1500 (not a typo). The majority of them were consumer discretionary and industrials, not tech.

One thing the study didn't make clear was what its control was. It seemed like they were measuring returns relative to the S&P 1500 as a whole, but this introduces a lot of conflating factors. The study also found that controlled companies with a single-class structure (eg. WalMart, where there's only a single class of shares but the Walton family owns >50% of them) performed better than both multi-class and non-controlled companies, across all time periods. I can't see any rational reason other than random chance that this would be the case, and I would be skeptical of any study with a sample size of 114 non-randomly-chosen entities.
Their creepy designer forgot to use padding on that site. Looks like shit on my ipad.
Agreed, TypeScript is great, but the compiler is excruciatingly slow.

This. at least the js one. Maybe VS is bundled with a Typescript compiler written in C# , i dont know,but clearly the javascript one is damn slow.
Maybe your parent meant that "1 + 1 = 2" is the definition of "2", in the sense that we write the symbol "2" to denote the Peano successor of "1", the Peano successor of "0", which is not a successor.
It's a fair question, and frankly it may well be it has nothing to do here. I just see it as relevant to nerd-culture because of the obvious (I think) reference to the "Snakes on a plane" movie. You could argue nerd-culture is not enough for hacker news, but then if you look at the homepage for example the GOOG split into GOOG/GOOGL article really has nothing to do with hacking. It's news for google shareholders, but somehow it seems many people on HN care about the stock market and Tesla cars and many other things which don't directly relate. Some things capture the HN mind-share and they become acceptable. Sometimes I too am baffled by what ends up on the front page.

So many people, many interests and opinions. That's why there is a 'new' page and a front one I suppose.
That's a very obtuse point of view. I'm curious sociologically: what field do you work in and what your exposure to data is?

Consider an inventory system for a big box retailer. I can't think of anything better than a fat-ass RDBMS as the primary data store. Sharding sounds like a horrific idea. There are myriad workloads like this.

Personally, I've seen pgsql handle terabytes of data just fine and it wasn't really noteworthy or a source of problems to even bring up considering something else. YMMV but it's a good idea to use logic and reason to dictate architecture instead of following the shiny thing or hubris.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520687
This is still true and unlikely to change in the observable future.

There is only one update: inlining with a change of context should now be supported on all architectures. I will update the post.
They didn't choose not to publish.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520581
KDE Releases Alpha Version of Next-gen Plasma Workspace