skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you can just acknowledge that we are limited. all of us.

Once you realize that, aiming for simplicity first is the obvious choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...
> I have not heard about a west coast launch pad

Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California. The first Falcon 9 v1.1 launch, for CASSIOPE, was from Vandenberg.

Here is a sign that SpaceX has at Vandenberg, implying that they intend to both launch from and land at Vandenberg: http://i.imgur.com/YW4tmkR.jpg

Vandenberg is really only useful for polar orbits, and perhaps retrograde orbits, due to it's high inclination and it's geographical relationship to the ocean.

Similarly, launches from the east coast will land back at the east coast. It will look something like this: http://i.imgur.com/NEi7qKp.jpg (related discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/23l96t/spacex_falcon... source: http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9v1-1.html)
A JSON literal is also valid JSON.
Therefore 4, "test" and true should be saveable without a object wrapper
> not to mention the self-quoting of tweets

Yes, I found it rather... strange.
Simply beautiful collection of pics from different parts of the earth.

This collection shows how beautiful our earth is!
Why not Trello or Pintask? They are both whiteboard lists.

They also allow you to have checklists right on the board.
So you’re building an EdTech app? (An intro to data privacy)
(^ How moving production to China really happens)
> I use the term "Rockstar" to connotate: - highly productive - gets features shipped (avoid analysis paralysis) - features rarely have bugs - features rarely have to be refactored when we scale - code is easily maintained by other engineers

Then just say you want those things! Why use meaningless fluff words that do nothing but attract a very specific demographic and turn the rest of us off completely?
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> If I have to use Greasemonkey to fix your design, your site is broken.

Your feeling of entitlement to free content in its most convenient form doesn't mean that anything's broken except your expectations relative to business realities.
Maybe? Most guys who are really fast are also really smart. It's hard to make money purely being fast these days.

I can't speak for everyone but most "HFT" models are built around providing some kind of service to the market, generally either making markets to try to make the bid-offer spread or arbitraging away inefficiencies between related products.

Even if you are evil, building a model that solely seeks to take advantage of another trader doesn't make sense in the long run. Eventually they will alter their behavior or exit the market. It's not sustainable.
So you know a lot of people that take things out of the SCIF because they do not want to stay late?
Last time this came up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274674) I had been working on a sort of hybrid between visual programming languages and the traditional "text in files" approach most people have been using for the past few decades. I still think that text seems to be the best way to express exactly what we want out of our programs, but I'm not convinced "text in files" is the right way to go about programming, at least not for all cases.

I'm working on Code Connect (http://codeconnect.io) with a friend and we're trying out some of the ideas first demonstrated in Code Bubbles. Instead of working with files, one works with individual functions. You can see a demo here if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ8NJOypqs

We're currently building it for Visual Studio, but we should be branching out into other languages and IDEs shortly after we release.
There are traders A and B in addition to yourself. A is as fast as you, B is slower.

How does it help you to slow yourself and C down? That just means A will beat both of you.
One particularly impressive improvement:
"Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds" - http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html
This is a different lifestyle choice. I have many friends who could more than easily afford a car (or two), but they choose not to have one - the public transportation system is more than enough for them.

Also, I live in Serbia, and honestly even we don't wait "weeks or months" for non-emergency issues. As someone who has lived in the US as well, I've actually waited longer in the US hospital than in the Serbian one. I'm really not sure where that stereotype of "you have to wait months for surgery in Europe" comes from.
Yeah, but the days where that was arguably even approximately true -- when a majority or something reasonably close to it of Americans were in middle class (as well as professionals and executives, yeoman farmers -- a formerly very common thing in the US, but now vanishingly rare -- are part of the middle class -- as are others whose primary support is independent business that they own but which is still dependent on their labor [if it wasn't, they'd be straight-up upper class capitalists]) -- are past. Now, most of the Americans who identify as middle class are working class whose identification reflects aspiration rather than reality.
>> But the nasty-looking fake bokeh produced by Google's app doesn't even make conventional large sensor cameras obsolete.

The thing is, the fake bokeh is nasty looking to people who know how to judge bokeh, which is a fairly small portion of camera phone users. To most of them, it's probably good enough for what they are trying to accomplish. And in that regard, while it won't make a conventional large sensor camera obsolete, it'll still have enough people saying "my smartphone can do that, why would I bother buying a big camera that doesn't fit in my pocket?"

>> This thing is actually pretty impressive and lets you do stuff you cannot do with any other camera.

I agree with this, but I often wonder if the Lytro is a solution looking for a problem.
Also multiplying the median income by four seems absurd. My children certainly don't bring home the bacon like that. I seriously doubt that the median family of fours income is anywhere near 4 times the median personal income.
I'm putting the over/under on how long till this is used for porn at 4.5 days. Any takers?
The Best Hires Are Right Under Your Nose
Mailbox iOS app adds auto-swipe to better manage your mail
This is excellent:

GCC 4.9 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.2.1 release.
In this case, the goto is into the loop, not out of it, so named break/continue would not help.

And the only point of having named break/continue would be to not use goto. I don't see the point in that, since to me, this:

for (i = 0; i < ie; i++) {
continue_i:
for (j = 0; j < je; j++) {
if (cond1)
goto break_i;
if (cond2)
goto continue_i;
/* ... */
}
}
break_i:

is as readable as this:

loop_i:
for (i = 0; i < ie; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < je; j++) {
if (cond1)
break loop_i;
if (cond2)
continue loop_i;
/* ... */
}
}
beautiful website. want to help you out with a typo i spotted: at the bottom with Ensure, runing should be running.
Well, it's been a while since my Internet video days, but hell, I love 3d parallax effects. When are we shooting?
I'm no expert in this area so I welcome corrections to my rough numbers below.

Approximate number of human neurons: 1.0e11
Approximate number synapses in a human: 1.0e14

These are big numbers, but not impossibly big numbers. There are different kinds of
neurons, and signals on synapses are not simply binary. However, even with these
complications, the hardware needed to reach these scales isn't hard to imagine.

Transistors in XBox One: 1.0e09

Brains are biological computers so they suffer from very slow switching speeds at the neural
level. Neurons run in parallel, but they are not fast:

Approximate neural switching speed: 1.0e03/sec

Even if all of the synapeses could sustain this rate in parallel (they can't) and even if all of the brain was 100% occupied with solving a single task (it isn't) this would mean that we absolutely can't compute faster than:

Speed * synapses (brain ops per second): 1.0e17/sec

For comparison, the fastest bitcoin hardware I see is advertised to operate at the
following speed:

Minerscube 15 (hashes per second): 1.5e12/sec

And a regular GPU is capable of simple instructions that run at the following speed:

AMD Radeon HD 6990 32-bit instructions: 2.6e12/sec

From this we can see that hardware is catching up with the raw computing ability of
the human brain. Now consider the problem of programming a brain. It isn't necessary to
program every synapse. The brain learns, and essentially programs itself. To see
why this is true consider the programming that we are born with:

Bits of information in human genome: 1.0e10

This is far less than the number of synapses that we have. Therefore, the brain must
program itself, somehow.

Now, to address the argument about evolution taking millions of years. First, we can
evolve programs much faster than nature can evolve humans. There have been, perhaps,
100 million generations of humans. Even if it takes six seconds of computing time to
run an evolutionary computation for a single generation it will take no more than
20 years to run over 100 million generations.

Brute force evolution isn't the only way to build strong AI. A program can exhibit
behavior that we don't anticipate. I've written simple programs that beat me easily
at games such as Othello or Freecell.

Finally, once machines get smart enough to design other machines there may be a
rapid acceleration of progress in this area as we employ them in designing subsequent generations.

I feel that strong AI may pose a significant risk to humans; consequently, we should
proceed with caution. Here is a thought experiment. If a chimpanzee could be taught to drive, would you trust it to pick your kids up from school? What sort of value judgements would it make in the case of an impending emergency? Would you let an elephant baby sit for you? Even if was much "smarter" than a normal elephant?

Strong AI will not be like us. It will learn and develop without a human body, and it will not interact with the world and society as we do and may end up being very foreign to us. Will it be sociopathic? Or will it be like whales, intelligent, but mysterious, perhaps spending all its time singing AI songs to other AIs.
Building Firefox for OS X using clang on my MacBook Pro takes about 8 minutes. Cross-compiling Firefox for Android using gcc 4.7 on the same MacBook Pro takes about 45 minutes. :(
"Freedom" to me is defined as being able to do what I want with my life. Should I choose to be an ambitious workaholic, I should be allowed and encouraged to do so. Should I choose to live a simple life, I should be permitted. How can I do that in the US when there's so much "overhead" to living here? $700/mo to insure a family of two mid-30s adults and their two small children with a high deductible? $30,000 per year for university for the kids? High property taxes based on the market value of my house even though I bought and paid for it decades ago? This is all ludicrous and does nothing more than enslave you to a life of endless work to cover your overhead. And I'm so free that my beloved Congressmen don't let me play a hand of poker online should I want to do so.

Oh, yeah, freedom bonus: As a US citizen I'm forced to pay taxes on my worldwide income even if I no longer live in the US. And if I want to get rid of this beacon of freedom, my US citizenship, I have to pay an "exit tax" on my assets. Freedom my ass.
I appreciated some of the author's points, but his presentation was egotistical. The pedantically phrased, autobiographical tweets didn't add much to each section. It would have been more humble and interesting to include quotes by other talented programmers.
At my work, we aren't using gitlab, but looked into it for our own hosted git and it's pretty nice, considering you can do properly managed repos. We do currently use phabricator though for source-code review, which is pretty nice. You can also introduce new code into the system through it using their arc tool. I think a mixture between gitlab & phabricator is pretty nice. Using phabricator for new feature buildout & gitlab for bug tracking would be the ultimate setup for me.
Your homepage is delightful.
Probably the true rockstars of a team are, for the big part, all "older people". Experience is a great boost
Sounds like it's a round of optimizations, see the changelog. It's both software and a .0 release, of course there will be bugs :)
Trust me, that is not an accusation I bandy about lightly.

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It's a scam in that SSL purports to verify identity, when really you're trusting the CA to handle that; some do more, some do less, there's no standard, no real accountability beyond major cockups when the community decides to disown you out of necessity for bad behavior (see Diginotar from not that long ago). Having a CA signed cert proves nothing beyond that you gave some person who is trusted some amount of money who ostensibly verified something.

It's a racket in its implementation. The PKI model used nowadays is rotten and exploitative. Renewals which exist as a pure profit vehicle for CAs (upwards of $100 to run some code and generate a hash? Fkn seriously?), the implementation in every browser which treats a self-signed certificate as coming from a known bad guy, or the slightest misconfiguration as same.

But every single user out there has it drilled into their head to look for the little lock (or nowadays, the much more expensive by a factor of ten or so green bar) before shopping, and every browser out there throws really scary looking errors (Chrome's red screen of doom) for something so much as an expiration date. The CA's can effectively say "Gee, that's a nice commerce website you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it and all your customers got scared off since you didn't pay your protec^H^H^H^H renewal fee" - Some basically do, especially around renewal time.

Charging to regenerate or revoke a certificate (again, completely automated processes with zero human interaction required) is just rent-seeking dick behavior of the highest order.

Why do I have to pay upwards of $100 for a wildcard certificate? They don't cost the CA anymore to issue or handle, it's identical to any other certificate except the CN field is written slightly differently. No, the fuckers expect me to either pay for a massively overpriced bit of hashed code or pay lots of times for slightly different overpriced bits of hashed code. Either way, i'm getting screwed. All so people who visit my website don't get scary and misleading warnings.
Oh, I should have made this clearer. I have not used this camera. I have tried my camera phone in frustration a few times, but I am usually only happy with the shots I get from my DSLR. To the point that I picked up a used 5D Mark II. I'm very happy with this camera, but getting focus on far away shots with a zoom can be difficult. Solving that would be nice.

Which is why I think this conversation needs to happen. I'm not sure what the benefits are. I'm just not dismissive, either. Nor do I think the camera phone will completely destroy the DSLR any time soon.

(I do think it will eventually happen. Maybe not the camera phone, per se, but camera sensors could advance such that having many different cameras will be for novelty more than utility.)
I'm not in the US and don't know a lot about those companies, but it would seem to me that they're more "built on unregulated commerce" than "built on sharing".

So it's not altogether surprising that they have awkward relations with regulators.
I've always done research, but there's usually a lot of hugely relevant information that's not going to be very publicly available. Oculus is a bad example - most companies are not high profile, in a space with few other significant players that has been romanticized by sci-fi media for decades. Of course, there are always going to be idiots blindly excited by what they imagine, but those aren't the good hires - the best hires learn what they can, then pick the best option, then pursue it passionately.
CMake outputs to Ninja as well. It's the only way I know how to use Ninja in fact.
I do regular web scrapping using php and curl. This seems more interesting time to learn factor programming language.

@otoburb can you recommend any better guide for the same?
Mi Maslam. Indeed, VisualOps is a good starting point to understand common AWS topologies. However, it goes much further! In fact, VisualOps allows you to configure the software layer of your AWS instances, directly from the IDE! It allows you to define which packages you want on which instance, their configuration, the sources repositories, the scripts to launch, and so on! - Yes, you can export VisualOps stacks to CloudFormation templates. Unfortunately, doing this, the configuration management won't be possible.
There were and are a lot of web building sites besides Weebly, but weebly is the cleanest for its price by far. When I talk with small business owners I always recommend Weebly (unless I think they can do a lot of e-Commerce, in which case I recommend shopify). Weebly is the least frustrating and out of the box prettiest of the free web options.
Yes on both counts. The problem is that I can type faster than I can think. I don't believe that terseness inherently improves readability or encourages better design. I have felt this way since Perl.

Consider this from the tutorial:

fn draw_all(shapes: &[~Drawable]) {

vs C++:

draw_all (const vector<unique_ptr<const Drawable>>& shapes) {

Transcribing that took a few seconds of thought, and all the terseness of a few symbols has accomplished is to obscure a poor choice of API and ownership semantics. That's just one symbol... how horrific can we make something without noticing with just a few more params and symbols?
Exactly. I've seen multiple companies that have their developer ads filled with words like "rockstar" and "ninja" while their other postings (accountants, salespeople, whatever) sound like proper adult jobs. Doesn't exactly scream "developers are taken seriously here".
I'm coming from a large company mindset, but I disagree. We're working on projects that are too big for a single person, no matter how brilliant. Working well as a team is how we ship features.

Being predictable in our output is important to the business, because they have plans for the project/feature that we'll work on next. There are marketing and customer support teams working with us who also value our ability to deliver what we've promised, and when. There are customers who need features by a specific date.

I think the best engineers are the ones who improve the output of the entire team. Just like a good manager can improve the productivity of their engineers.
Will this work with Spot instances? I looked through the documentation but didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
I've never looked good in tight jeans.
The simplest solution to your soccer practice photography dilemma is to get a camera that can focus quickly enough (or maybe to learn how to zone focus). There are many cameras that can do this, but the problem is that none of them are a smartphone.
My understanding is that work is prohibited on the seventh day of Passover.
How do you envision this being better than other sensor technology? Seems that car sensors would be better off just adding additional sensors instead of this. No need to image process to determine distance from items, when you can do a distance sensor, right?
If there are any weaker participants may still be taking 1-2 millis the technical term for this is "non-participant".
There needs to be more drivers like you then. :)

Also, the less stress there is on the road the better, IMO.
As a photographer, what I really want to know is what characteristics the light field imager has in terms of things like dynamic range, noise, color reproduction, and so on. If the Illum has a unique sort of "flavor," in the same way that Sigma's Foveon series (with its non-Bayer-patterned sensors) has a certain something that's fun for photographers to experiment with, I could see it catching on. Much more so if there are some weird, light-field-based parameters that you can adjust in a Lightroom-esque app from Lytro.

Otherwise, I can't see this thing riding on the appeal of viewer refocusing and tilting – that's just not going to escape the realm of gimmick. Unless the tech offers new creative opportunities to the pro / prosumer photographer, I see that market being less likely to spend $1600 on this than consumers were to spend $400 on the original.
Where are all the comments like:

Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
This is very similar to the BlueMix beta from IBM on SoftLayer. https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/
We're evaluating this feature on http://crbug.com/332624
While I use lots of extensions/scripts for websites, I disagree. Just because YOU want a website in one way does not mean the website is broken by any stretch of the imagination.

On that note, I do prefer single page layouts as well.
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We made a basic weebly site for our small home daycare provider. Then she took it over, it was really easy for her and the site looks great. I'm very impressed with weebly.
Performance is terrible on Chrome 32 and a 2013 MBA with 8GB RAM.
Am I missing the point or is there really a mistake in this statement: "Remember, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming, and off-by-one errors. " ?
In my opinion "depth vs. breadth" balance is very very tricky to get right. We keep saying that a "fat T" is what we're going after. "Depth" is obvious but "Breath" certainly helps in architecting, in seeing the bigger picture, in being able to think out of a platform/language/framework's patterns.
Another neat tool/trick http://xip.io/
Maybe three down football wouldn't go over so well either.
Well, we were discussing Bubba and François not homepess people.

> ...by people who have never known anything other than a life of upper-middle-class or better living.

Is it? I would not know what you're talking about as I grew up during the '80 recession and my family was on welfare.

I am glad I was able to go to a university in part thanks to gouvernement student-aid in a not so expensive city.
I don't know, anyone else find it creepy to have someone from recruiting ask you to do a LinkedIn search, then methodically ask you name-by-name if the company should try and poach them? I would think that could kill recruiting.
The correct word for "mainstream" is "surface". "Mainstream" is far too surface of a word.
On the website I run, the readers which would be most likely to upgrade and pay for a 'happy reader' version of the website would actually be the same group of readers that advertisers would actually want interacting with advertisements.

I've tried to not bombard readers with a terrible experience and they appreciate it. Advertisers stick around and renew regularly, signaling that the real estate is still valuable enough to pay for. So in my experience, you don't have to sacrifice user experience to collect dollars from advertisers.
So since all orders have to go to the exchange first, how does DoS your competitors work?
Thanks you! =)
Working on getting cert today ;). Thanks for the feedback.
Driving license isn't a valid ID at least in most European countries. And residential address would probably need some proof, like those stupid utility bill scans some services require you to send.

Passport obviously works, but doesn't fit in your wallet. But that is the ID I use when I need one.