skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello russellbeattie,

I understand your thoughts about pricing and I know that I may not be the cheapest macbook sticker producer on the planet ;)

Here is a little background of why the stickers may seem a little bit expensive: I only produce small batches and do most of the work by myself. I did the designs of the stickers, made the website and wrote a shop system in the last couple of months. While writing this, I print out some stamps and put some stickers in packages to bring them to the post office tomorrow morning (I'm not kidding, I'm really doing this right now :))

The problem of messing up a sticker is a good point and not that easy to solve. It sometimes happens and if it happens, people write me an email and I send back one or two stickers for free. Maybe I could mention this on the website so that you can be sure, that you don't need backup stickers.

Stickersets is a good idea too, but I could imagine to offer the second sticker for half the price or something like this.

Bye the way. This is one reason why I open sourced all the stickers that I sell. I want to offer the freedom to produce them by your own if you may not like the pricing or the designs that I made. You can change them or just copy them and produce them as you like. Also, I hope to change the mind about pricing, after going the extra mile of producing them by your own ;)

Thanks for your feedback!
Pelican Imaging will be bringing out similar technology in cell phones this year or next. They're using a camera array rather than a single sensor + MLA.
If you Google "wut app" it's the first hit.
What does POEM expand into? Urban Dictionary failed me.
that's not the issue here, wether a pattern is good or not is irrelevant.The question is ,is it possible to write something like ActiveRecord and keep its most advanced features in Go. Right now the lack of genericity in the language makes it a no go.
I don't understand the background she brings which makes her a valuable member of the board? The article failed to address that too.

Sure, I understand the gripe against mass surveillance, but if you don't think that was already going on you have issues.
Ask HN: Why iOS started to require a lot of free space for updates?
I am using iOS since 5.x and in iOS 7, updates of sizes like 18 MB - 50 MB started to ask for free space of 800 MB - 1.5 GB on the phone. That sounds absurd. From a programmer point of view, what could be the reason every single update requires so much spare space on the disk?
They're actually not required in Go.
Kind of similar to the one I wrote for Haiku: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/system/libroot/posix...
Makes me wonder if having testbyte() inside the loop will be good for branch prediction.

And IIRC repe cmpsb isn't bad for longer strings on new x86. It's the initial setup that adds overhead. Still, you want to make a fast general solution.
It’s civil society in action. This is how it’s supposed to work, you know.

Someone does something you don’t like, you state that openly and publicly.
A general observation, which the comments in this thread have brought to the point of perceptibility:

Perhaps only in the field of music management and playback is it considered so reasonable to suggest that an acceptable solution to lousy user interface design is to modify the otherwise well-formed data presented by that interface, rather than just to fix the interface and be done with it.

I'm not sure why this is, and I don't mean by it to denigrate people who develop music player software, but it does seem awfully odd to me by comparison with pretty much any other specialization of software design.
If you are interested in bittorrent trackers then XBT Tracker[1] and Opentracker[2] are two other open source trackers out there which you can consider using.

[1] http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/tracker/

[2] http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
Probably gov't connections and therefore possible gov't contracts.
Fracking and oil.
We banned the site and changed the link. Thanks wslh and dgritsko.
How is growing D?
I played with it 6 years ago, then I totally forgot it.
Your comment is very emphatic, but you didn't rebut either of my points:

* 120k will barely pay the fully loaded cost of a single engineer

* A good freelancer can generate 120k above living expenses in a year

Your response was "the fully loaded cost of an engineer is irrelevant". That's a weird argument, given that the cost of engineers dominates the expenses of early-stage startups.
There is an app for iOS - seene.co. The amount of movements you have to do to capture enough pixels is prohibitive for my taste. I think that google has nailed it - it's super simple.

As for storing the layers - you would only have the "from above" pixels, and only a few. Probably that's why there is only a LensBlur in their app in the first place.

If you just want a small displacement effect like on depthy - then the key is no sharp edges in the depthmap. We will try to tackle this in one of the upcoming updates...
It seems that this standard definitely goes for clarity of code over syntactic shortcuts.

Which, you know, is probably a good idea for critical system software on an aircraft. It's better for your intermediate developers to know exactly what your code is going to do than to be able to use some greybeard tricks that can lead to buffer overflows if the person modifying them doesn't know exactly how they work.
This post makes me feel bad about myself. How many "passion projects" have I started and gave up on the first time something difficult came up? Too many to count.

There are several lessons to be learned from this post. Perseverance. Starting small. Not sacrificing your vision. Willingness to go as low-level as needed. Patience. This is an inspiring post. I think I'm going to dust off one of my old projects now and get back to work.
Out of curiosity what is you motivation for porting something from Erlang to Go?
Sorry I tried to say that Logical Thinkers of history were very religious. I'll tell Issace Newton and Pascal to shove it!
What exactly does an organized boycott have in common with "mob justice"? They seem like polar opposites to me.
This passage hits pretty hard in terms of company culture. I think this is what Peter Thiel meant by "dont fuck up the culture" to Airbnb.

"Those were the years of Microsoft’s long, slow decline, which continues to this day. The number of things wrong with the company was extraordinary, but they can be summed up by the word bureaucracy. Early on at Microsoft—and even later, when we first started Messenger—you could just do things. You had a good idea, you ran it by your boss, you tried it, and if it worked, in it went. After a while, you had to run everything by a hundred people, and at some point the ball would get dropped—and you’d never hear back."
Does it matter? Politicians who do stupid things deserve this kind of negative attention, no matter how insignificant it is. It's a good thing that this is even being mentioned by some of the domestic news agencies.

Even if nothing further comes of this, we as a society will have benefited from some tiny percentage of the population becoming aware of the Dropbox->Rice relationship.
Show HN: Save yourself from GameofThrones (or any other) spoilers
A chrome extension that hides from your facebook/twitter/quora/reddit feeds, any item containing keywords flagged by you. Enjoy unspoiled TV Shows n Movies! Can also be used to mute annoying friends or stay away from irritating topics.
I'd watch it!
Are you sure? The change log mentions 10.7.x for a couple of the items.
> Java is betwen Python and C, in terms of ease-of-use

Opinions vary highly on that claim. In fact, I've never seen anyone claim "ease-of-use" as one of Java's properties.
You don't need those parens in Go, and go fmt will in fact remove them/
That your computer is so old that you no longer look hip in Starbucks. Plastic MacBooks are so noughties!
I will add <span ng-if="Modernizr.Android">another </span>Android ;)
As simple as Audacious is, I've stuck to it for the LADSPA and Sample Rate conversion filters. I wouldn't take UI improvements over sound itself.
Moneyball for AngelList Syndicates
BTW, I just switched things over to port 80, so that link is now http://myproxy.bloko.me/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2...
Second point is spot on. Before it was kind of explicit that you should take the SAFE, but if you weren't familiar with financial instruments or how exactly MFN clauses worked, you could run into issues you weren't completely aware of. The new way smooths all that out.
There are a couple of real estate firms that do regular reporting on pricing trends:

http://www.mns.com/pdf/manhattan_market_report_mar_14.pdf

http://www.mns.com/pdf/brooklyn_market_report_mar_14.pdf
I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore.

This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.
That's not what the OP said, he said the lesson was "that ORMs are fundamentally broken abstractions". Fowler does not believe this, and even if he did, his opinion is certainly not a global lesson as if it were now best practice to consider ORMs fundamentally broken.
Google Chrome's content script comments 
I was just playing around and found this script. It has some really good comments. Its like reading the developer's mind.

URL: chrome-extension://molncoemjfmpgdkbdlbjmhlcgniigdnf/js/naptha-wick.js

ONE OF MY FAV COMMENT

/*
It's April 16, 2014.

It's been six months since I started this project.

Just under two years after I first came up with the idea.

It's weird to think of time as something that happens,
to think of code as something that evolves. And it may
be obvious to recognize that code is not organic, that
it changes only in discrete steps as dictated by some
intelligence's urging, but coupled with a faulty and
mortal memory, its gradual slopes are indistinguishable
from autonomy.

Hopefully, this project is going to launch soon. It
looks like there's actually a chance that this will
be able to happen.

The proximity of its launch has kind of been my own little
perpetual delusion. During the hackathon, I announced that
it would be released in two weeks time.

When winter break rolled by, I had determined to finish
and release before the end of the year 2013.

This deadline rolled further way, to the end of January
term, IAP as it is known. But like all the artificial
dates set earlier, it too folded against the tides of
procrastination.

I'll spare you February and March, but they too simply
happened with a modicum of dread. This brings us to the
present day, which hopefully will have the good luck to
be spared from the fate of its predecessors.

After all, it is the gaseous vaporware that burns.

*/
To be honest, I imagine they'd all still exist even if YC gave no funding. A program like YCVC would exist (because VCs put inordinate trust in YC) and startups would get the funding they need.

And, let's be honest, $120k really isn't a lot of money. Sure, it might be more than my net worth right now—but as an engineer I could easily save up that amount in less than 2 years.
There are certain things that you can't really avoid using an interpreted language. How would you go around Ruby's GIL for example when you specifically need multiple threads (not talking about green threads). I agree that some of the stuff is on the developers developing libraries and performance is not kept in mind but there are hard limits you can't really do anything about.
I've witnessed southern charm several times and it's alive and well.
Hold on a second. TalentBin's reason for existing is to help other companies find candidates, but they themselves have to resort to asking their employees for their Facebook accounts?
> Individuals have feeling and morals, etc., and may cancel accounts. Businesses do not, though, no matter how much we try to make them people.

All actions attributed to businesses are actions of people, who have feelings and morals. Now, for certain businesses, management may be effectively serving the shared interests of the owners/shareholders, and those shared interests may be limited to maximizing material returns, which certainly creates a common pattern of behavior...
Is in NY, PN, WV, VA, and OH. Not ND.
> you don't feel the consequences of making a FB status update that no one comments on

Wait, what? What's the consequence of that? You expect people to comment on every one of your status updates?

Kids these days...
>The question being, why am I here experiencing it all? Why is it not just, well, "automated", without me here as an "observer"?

It's simple really: you have to observe to decide. Imagine not having any vision-qualia. How would you read? Your vision-qualia is the substrate from which your conscious mind makes decisions. You cannot have conscious decision making without qualia. Conscious experience is simply high level representations of information interfacing with your decision-making apparatus. Nothing more, nothing less.

The concept of p-zombies are inherently contradictory. P-zombies are by definition indistinguishable from a conscious entity through any test. Yet when I ask a p-zombie a million questions designed to get at its conception of its conscious experience, it responds in the exact same way as the conscious entity. Furthermore, all observations of its behavior prove to be equivalent to the conscious entity. So the p-zombie must contain the exact same information regarding "conscious experience" as the assumed conscious entity. Therefore, the two systems are information-equivalent.

What is the difference between these two supposed systems? They are information-equivalent, and yet you claim the conscious entity experiences something the p-zombie doesn't. But of course, by definition of experience, that occurrence must be able to shape your future behavior. This contradicts information-equivalence.

You might say: well the representation of that information is different in the p-zombie vs the conscious entity. This doesn't work either. Just like the universe has no privileged reference-frame, it has no privileged information representation either.

Therefore, either qualia is a meaningless concept, or it is purely dependent on information representation.

Furthermore, if you accept that our brains are a large part of what makes up our minds, then somehow our physical brains "interface" with the substrate of consciousness. Neuroscientists should be able to find this interface. Physicists should be able to probe this "consciousness substrate" using the same physical properties of matter that our brains do. We have found nothing of the sort. The only thing in our brains are bundles of neurons and neurotransmitters. Those of you that suppose metaphysical explanations for consciousness are just as guilty of "god of the gaps" as those who would look up at the stars and posit a god holding them in place. Don't be that person.

A relevant reddit comment of mine from a while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/1o1yxm/the_menta...
Excellent article. So many people I know could benefit from reading this (not only programmers).
Exactly. move into your mother's house. become a 1099 contractor at $100/hr+. save, save, and save. a year later there's your bootstrap funds + credit cards, excess of 100K. Outsource design/dev if necessary, launch it, raise a large seed round/series A, valuation 4m+

You don't have to give away anything. be an entrepreneur.
That's cool and all, but what matters to a very early stage startup isn't the cost of hiring an engineer, it's covering the founders' living expenses and whatever business expenses arise (which may be very small).

You know this, so I'm not sure why you're off on a tangent about things that don't normally apply in these situations.
17K for 7% isn't as raw a deal as you think when you realize that at an "acceptance" into YC essentially doubles your valuation to most seed investors.
Probably not, but surveillance is being subjected to "death from a thousand papercuts". While we probably won't ever put the cat back into the bag, these smaller protests add up to a greater cumulative sum, reminding politicians that there are at least some kind of consequences to their actions.

It isn't the large-scale surveillance rollback we are looking for, but it's the next best thing.
Click "wrote about a report", then in that article click "new report", and you'll find this:

"The signature finding of Out of Reach is the annual Housing Wage - the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a decent two-bedroom rental home at HUD-estimated Fair Market Rent (FMR) while spending no more than 30% of income on housing costs."

It is not at all obvious. I really wish that news articles like this would set aside a section where they explicitly name and link to their sources rather than burying them as hyperlinks in the text.
East London from the air
It just means that they don't include buildings that are falling apart, nor do they include penthouse flats. Texas and Louisiana both have lots of dark purple and have the very worst public schools in the nation.
It's really just a pretty good indication of where the jobs are.
Dropbox has learned the lesson of the Komen and Mozilla affairs. The minority who are protesting will not become customers again if their demands are met. (Many aren't even customers to begin with.) If Dropbox caves, however, they stand to lose far more customers.
I agree. I believe that, to businesses, perception is reality, and Rice's appointment will give the perception of increased data security. People may value privacy, but businesses value security.
How does this compare to C-Amplify?

http://voodoo-slide.blogspot.se/2010/01/amplifying-c.html
> lots of very intelligent people have problems with ORMs.

And lots of very intelligent people like them. Both statements are meaningless appeals to authority.

> Despite its many problems, SQL remains the best way of interacting with a relational database.

That's your opinion, it's certainly not a fact, and just as many disagree as would agree. Secondly, ORM's don't stop you from using SQL where it's beneficial, so ruling out the ORM because you don't like it for some cases is throwing out the baby with the bath water. For standard CRUD operations, ORM's are the best approach by far. Your hand written CRUD operations gain you nothing but extra work.
The disappearing inventor
I'd guess that there's more benefit than just refocusing as a post process. This camera ships with a relatively wide aperture lens. Wide apertures are great for low light but they also have a very small focal range. I'd guess that with this type of sensor you could use the lens wide open but not be limited to a very narrow focal depth. This could allow you to take shots in low light that you wouldn't normally be able to get. Macro photography also has problems with focusing. You might be able to put a macro lens on here and take one picture completely in focus instead of combining a series of shots in photoshop.
And not just in the US, but around the world. It's really not hard to see the value someone like Rice adds to a company with global aspirations.

Not saying it should outweigh the other aspects, but her value add is pretty clear.
Perhaps I should clarify... It's almost certain that you could find fault with someone involved with virtually any major organization, or their business practices if you look long and hard enough. Singling out one organization among hundreds of thousands of others in the world seems completely arbitrary.

In terms of the mob justice reference, it's largely to do with the mob anger that gets whipped up in forums such as this one. It may not be physical violence, but it does seek to damage the "target" economically.
JRuby, RubyMotion
Lets assume somehow you as attacker got access to the box where their CVS process is running.

Now you can edit a file, insert a line or change a "uid != 0" to "uid = 0", you also edit the history of the CVS repistory to make it seem that this change was introduced with some patch 3 years ago by Theo. Because its CVS or SVN the history is in the server, and not on every developers computers. Next time the devs build the tar.gz for distribution your bug is in it.

This wont be allowed with Git or Mercurial, because if you try to rewrite the history, well good luck making a SHA-1 collision on source files. That stops it.
Just to tick a few points off the list:

- from my experience, gcc4.8, clang3.3 and VStudio2013 all have very solid C++11 support, and it is definitely production ready

- (meta-) build systems: cmake, premake, scons or similar meta-build-systems; these create Makefiles or IDE project files and generally simplify managing the build system for large multiplatform projects

- std::thread, std::atomic and std::chrono are really helpful for multi-platform development, since these areas hadn't been standardized before

- clang/llvm has a nice static analyzer, which is also integrated into the Xcode IDE on OSX (with a funky visualization of the "reasoning flow"), VStudio2013 also has a static analyzer built in

- I use UnitTest++ for unit testing, but I'm sure there are other choices,
UnitTest++ has a nice IDE integration both in Xcode and VStudio (basically, the test failure messages are formatted so that they can be parsed by the IDE, and you can simply click on them)

- you can even get C++11 support on somewhat exotic platform like emscripten, std::atomic and std::chronos work, std::thread not because of Javascript's limited threading model

- the new move-semantic is really useful for dynamic container classes, and generally handing complex objects around, and you get these improvements "for free" when using the standard containers

[edit: chronos -> chrono]
Look, I don't have time for your childish pedantry. There were entire articles on the front page of HN blaming C for having poor language design on the issue of "goto fail". Now there is an article promoting macros in C, no less.

HN may not be one person, but does have a front page as a result of aggregate behavior.
I would replace "rants" with "whining" at the title.
Skip this if you haven't read it yet.
RIP, Nokia (1865 – 2014) (2012)
Feel free to suggest one
The Dramatic Differences of a Standing Desk
I actually modeled my implementation after libccv's implementation. Part of what libccv seems to do is to run it multiple times at different scales, which isn't something that's very computationally feasable for a pure javascript implementation. My implementation has a second stage color filter which refines the SWT (this is something of a tradeoff that improves accuracy for machine-generated text and reduces accuracy for natural scenes, and I'm under the impression that the corpus used by SWT focuses on the latter).

Ocrad is being used as the default because it runs locally and it's small enough that it's easy to ship with. The remote OCR engine uses Tesseract which gets much closer to acceptable in a lot of circumstances.

But there is a lot of work which can be done to improve it. I have a friend who constantly nags me for not having a solid test corpus to run regression analysis/parameter tuning/science. Certainly it lacks the rigor of an academic and scientific endeavor, but I've always imagined this as a sort of advanced proof of concept. I think the application of transparent and automatic computer vision, deserves to be part of the interaction paradigm for the next generation of operating systems and browsers.
The lower your income, the higher percentage of it will go to housing unless you are prepared to live in a dank, urine-soaked hellhole.
Just flag this pointless submission.
While that is good to have, a glance through the PDF actually says this data is different.

Namely, the PDF indicates 2-bedroom whereas the WaPo article indicates 1-bedroom. I should probably do a number-comparison on a per-county basis to see if the WaPo writers simply made a mistake, but I'm feeling pretty lazy.
In the tech world, the YC signal > H/M/S signal.
Did you read the article you linked?

"The first seed accelerator was Y Combinator"