skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Being cryptic doesn't work for everyone, even if you're the co-founder of Uber.
I really like the idea of the Web site as a whole: explaining concepts from computer vision in a simple way.

When I was starting my masters course I was interested in learning what the concept of bag of words in computer vision was all about. Although it is straightforward technique, there are few examples on the Web explaining how to implement it (clustering the feature vectors and etc.)
Wow, giving it a quick try I can't believe how fast it is. This is one of those things that I've always desperately needed, and I never knew until now.

Be sure to tweet it at some of the github engineers– Thy should bring this into their core product.
To me, the lack a fast tree browser has been one of the biggest weakness of the Github interface. This plugin solves that problem exceeding well. Github should hire the author, and officially fund his efforts to make it a first class feature that does not require a plugin.
Sounds incredible, something I think would be hard to implement after years of corporate food contracts.
I didn't make that point at all. I really have no clue whether the degree has an impact on job performance. All I meant to say is that many teachers are required to get it to progress in their careers and that it is expensive to do so without much future compensation for that expense relative to other degrees.
Would love to see a Firefox port.
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What about enterprise GitHub support?
This is weird, you and danielweber both put the same words in my mouth. I made no comment at all about the value of the degree, only about its necessity to teachers and its expense.
Well it seems that Apple has little incentive to fix this and have been dragging their feet: They're hoping that a brand new Android user will blame non-working SMS messages to their phone and return it for another iPhone.

Just another lock-in behaviour from them.
It does not matter that it is not a warship. Sovereign wrecks are owned by the sovereign entity, whether or not they are armed.

The problem is that the Santa Maria was not owned by Spain. It was owned by Juan de la Cosa, a private citizen.
> It's possible to overpay for a position.

No doubt. And I pulled the number 200K out of my ass; it could be a lot of numbers. But on the question of how hard it is to find applicants, it depends what you hold constant: the qualifications or the compensation. Here we're holding the compensation constant and raising the qualification bar however high we can. I'm sure hoards of people would apply to become CEO of Microsoft if that was a thing you could do, but that doesn't mean the position is overpaid. The experiment here is to see if you could get much better teachers by widening the pool of potential applicants to people who who wouldn't normally want to do that, by a) making the pay competitive with other high-skill industries and b) cutting out a lot of the bullshit involved in applying that skill to teaching children. That pool would surely include plenty of people who are already rockstar teachers, but additionally lots of people who think of themselves as bound for, say, business consulting or finance or software engineering. How would you choose among your applicants? I don't know, but I'm sure there are plenty of answers to "if I could turn anyone into a teacher, who would it be? And I how could I maximize their abilities?" Maybe this is actually lots of different experiments with different selection criteria and different degrees of freedom in applying themselves to the task (e.g., in defining curriculum).
Quartzy is hiring Director of Inside Sales (YC S11)
Quartzy is the world’s #1 lab management platform.

For the last five years, tens of thousands of lab managers from academic institutions and pharma and biotech companies have been relying on Quartzy to run their labs efficiently. We are building out our inside sales team and need a customer-focused and metrics-oriented Sales Management leader who will hire, lead, coach and develop the inside sales representatives in a fast-pace collaborative team environment with a rapidly expanding client base. The Director of Inside Sales will report to the founders of the company, including the CEO. This is a remarkable opportunity to join a Khosla-Ventures funded startup with tremendous growth opportunity.

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Responsibilities:

Acts as the lead in hiring, training, developing,motivating, and coaching ISR's.

Establish and enforce inside sales processes to maximize team efficiency and effectiveness.

Design and implement a scalable training program and materials for new inside sales reps.

Ensures continuous improvement of ISR’s by driving key activity metrics around dials, conversations and appointments set, opportunities generated, and deals closed.

Conducts weekly reviews with all ISR’s to understand training and development needs, build more effective communication, and provide insight for the improvement of the Inside Sales program.

Reports on metrics to measure the performance of the Inside Sales activities and corrects deficiencies where necessary.

Collaborates with company founders to measure and inspect innovative sales programs and initiatives.

Collaborates with marketing and product team on content development and improvement.

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Send resumes to info@quartzy.com
We use Poweredge VRTX systems in our branch offices to run minor stuff. It's not too pricey compared to this Orange Box and it's an easy way to replace what in some cases could be almost a full cabinet of systems in to 5U space.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-vrtx/pd

Edit: Oh yeah and it supports ECC memory, to address the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7740087
Where are teachers required to have that masters?
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No, not another iOS device.
I had the same issue, but I was able to still retrieve the messages via another apple device that was still connected to the iMessage service. I was then able to disassociate my number with the service.

When I had my iPhone, I had originally linked both my email and my phone number to the same iMessage account, so fortunately I never lost messages.

If it was tied to your email as well, you might be able to disable the service via another apple device.
I agree completely with the thought process, and but I think there might be better 'dimensions' to be used. The one that I'd recommend here is based on Little's Law, which gives a limit on throughput based on the number and latency of outstanding requests: Concurrency = Latency * Bandwidth.

It turns out that each core has can only have 10 requests for memory outstanding (line fill buffers). Since in the end these requests are coming from RAM, each request has a latency of about 100 cycles. Since each request is for 64B, this gives us a maximum throughput of about about:

Bandwidth = 10 * 64B in flight / 100 cycles
Bandwidth = about 6B per cycle

At a 3.5 GHz clock frequency, this would suggest that we have a hard cap at about 3.5 billion cycles/s * 6 bytes/cycle = 21 GB/s, which is mighty close to the actual limit! The numbers are fudged a little bit because it's not actually a flat 100 cycle latency to access RAM, but I think this limit is more relevant and indicative here than the instruction count.
Thanks, i already knew about this one. I was looking to something more specific to single server / multiple clients that need to sync.
It seems a bit different to the type of algorithm used when trying to reach a concensus between multiple servers upon a read request ( or is it ?)

Edit : when i said related to ditributed database, i related more to things like log shipping.
Just iPad or Android, too?
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They already did meta-studies a couple years ago that found no link between Omega-3s and heart diseases.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1357266 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=11514...
The only reliable fix I've seen for this is to have your friends remove and re-add your mobile number from their contacts.
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The tree should already be collapsed by the default (or it's a bug). However, the extension remembers the selection state, so if you expand some folders, you will see them remained expanded the next time you visit the same repository. Is there any chance you talked about this scenario?
Here is a better link: https://squareup.com/feedback.

I believe this is good for small businesses because it a.) let's you have another direct communication channel with your customers besides the extortionists that are Yelp, etc. and b.) it let's you know that this customer has bought x amount of goods, I should listen to their input. A lot of times small businesses can't associate the dollar amount someone brings in with their customer service and this gives a very clear dashboard of just that. It really puts customer service first in a way but I would imagine the ones paying for such a service already do care about their customers.
Finally, I always wanted a botnet and spaceheater in one. Sure, this is about 10 times what the actual value is, but no price is too great to pay for Freedom.
It turned out agile processes contained a bunch of important but unpleasant aspects - business people needed to be much more present in daily development, while developers needed to meet with business people much more frequently (often at specific times when said business people were available) and keep lots of non-development action points in mind (as the team now had collective ownership of those action points).

So, in a stroke of mutual back slapping, everybody embraced the less objectionable features of agile methods - daily meetings, short iterations, reduce documentation and focus on shippable code - thus feeling really good about themselves. This caused ample moral licensing, letting most development team members and business people cut down on the unpleasant aspects.

This collective ball dropping was fortunately mitigated by a surplus of employees happy to pick up this poor, unloved ball. Being orderly people they would suggest improvements to the process to prevent further ball dropping, carving out a place and title for themselves while they were at it.
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Honest question: What is this good for? I guess I don't use github (or any other visual vcs) enough.. but I really can't see any point in browsing file structure of the repo in a web browser.
I meant the entire left pane collapsed by default. Right now on page load it automatically pops out.

edit: looks like I'm insane. working as you described it. nice job!
In my case, my direct manager. Oh, and not ASP.Net webforms. WinForms, for desktop-deployed software.
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I have read about these issues plaguing people. It is strange because whenever I have roamed overseas or have disabled data for whatever reason. People still can text me, albeit I am sure there is a delay between when they hit send and when I got the message.

Friends of mine have moved from iPhone to Android, when I send them a message it tries with iMessage - and I get the message failure exclamation mark. It then resends as a text and doesn't try iMessage again for some time. Haven't really had the black hole experience yet...
Which specific piece of legislation required it?

To answer your question: I believe in the rule of law, so it would be the decision of a court as to whether some item in a person's possession should be taken from them.
It seems like you are getting down-voted but I'm very curios about this as well. It has always seemed to me that the tree browser was very inefficient way of browsing a file structure especially if you get into the realm of deep directories and long file names.
Well, I did make a lot of connections in the two years I spent finishing my undergrad. Your point is certainly valid, though - connections are a big part of what you're paying for at a big name school.
Trust me; that's a good thing. Nasty, deeply misguided platform - whoever came up with the idea of PostBack and trying to make the web look like VB6 is definitely not on my Christmas card list. Ties you in knots trying to make the web something it fundamentally isn't.

I'll be quiet now, and get back to working on my MVC code. The day when I can finally stop having to work on WebForms code too will be a happy one :-)
As someone who regularly switches between Android and iPhone, this is the answer everyone is looking for. It's as simple as turning it off before you switch to a device which is SMS-only.

Moreover, before you sell your device or give it away, make sure you turn iMessage off.
Well - RAID is more or a traditional architecture solution than a cloud one. A cloud storage solution like Ceph provides redundancy across nodes, and I've even read that they strongly discourage the use of RAID. Still, the orange box is a homogenous architecture that can be used flexibly as a training and introduction tool - I've not heard anyone suggest you run it as your production cloud. If you go and spec a real cloud you'll find vendors will provide different configuration for designated storage and compute nodes.
It's currently about 4.5 cents (At current exchange rates), with plans to reduce that by an order of magnitude to 0.45 cents.
Great questions!

1. If you swap pixels you are giving another company control over your own audience data. The other company can do anything it wants with that data. This is bad for your visitors and bad for you as well. We know there are sites willing to do this, but they've talked to us and told us how much they hate doing it. We think it's bad news.

Also, if you swap pixels and you both target eachother, you will absolutely be driving up your marketing costs. And that's also really bad.

With Connect, we're serving as the audience traffic cop, maybe audience escrow is a better way of looking at it. No data changes hands or control and no bids get jacked up. It's better on all fronts.

Instead of swapping pixels back and forth, you can use software to manage access.

2. Absolutely not. Nothing is public. All profiles are locked down behind a registration wall and behind other requirements like "has tag installed" and "has at least 1000 cookies". We have no intention of publishing a public list of people using Connect. Right now you can find people to connect with by syncing with your LinkedIn contacts, by directly inviting people to view your profile, or by seeing who's connected to people you are connected to.

In addition, there's hardly any hard data shared on the profiles. We include a rough range of audience size and a list of who their connections are...and that data is available only to people you connect with...who must be using PA. So it's all very restrictive.

3. Stay tuned! :)

4. Stay tuned! :)

5. No data is being sold. No data is changing hands. We've consulted with several lawyers who see no need to amend privacy policies that already address retargeting.

6. We don't work with LiveRamp and 3rd party cookie syncing providers because they expressly resell and repurpose the data they sync with. We're working to go in the opposite direction where marketers know exactly who's getting access to their data and who's not.

7. We're getting this question a lot. Happy to hear any product ideas you might have!
You are super awesome, I'm poor but somebody should throw money at you.
Your "moral sense" equivalence does not help the average Ukrainian. Also never underestimate the Russian capacity for suffering. Aside from Snowden, no one escapes to Russia and I am sure the irony is not lost on him.
Personally I use it when trying to view past changes and understand what the state of the repo was at that particular moment.

Frankly, right now I just have a hard time remembering what path I was going down with the current process of traversing the file structure.
It's good for when you want to browse a code base written in Java due to the deep folder hierarchies. And the reason somebody might do that is that they might be choosing between several different libraries, and want to evaluate the quality of their code a little before downloading them.
The backstory is I followed the link in the comments after looking at the source on one of Github's 404 pages (https://github.com/asdfasdfasdfhjagksdfhjkgasdjhfgkajhsgdfhj...). The comment read:

Hello future GitHubber! I bet you're here to remove those nasty inline styles,
DRY up these templates and make 'em nice and re-usable, right?

Please, don't. https://github.com/styleguide/templates/2.0
> If you think you need Visual Studio to do .NET development, it's because you fundamentally don't understand the technologies at play and just wanted to say something provocative and witty.

On the off chance you're not just being knee-jerk and defensive because Something You Like is under fire--people think that VS is necessary because life is way too short to spend building something half as good as the other options in twice the time. I mean, could write Scala in TextMate, too, if I had the jones for it. But I could also not, and use IntelliJ, because I value having tools that are able to improve my productivity. (And decrease my frustration; by sticking with the JVM I have the benefit of not have to rely on Mono, whose GC, from experience, I do not trust in long-running processes; after spending a year owning a trivial Mono ASP.NET app that presented no end of troubles, I am very happy not needing to have a watchdog ready to kick it over when it undergoes its daily spaz-out.)

Xamarin Studio is not an acceptable product, either. I've been trying to use it for a couple weeks now and about ready to pitch a computer out a window--the basic functions of editing code are magnificently broken and have been for a long time. Random phantom line breaks in the editor that aren't in the code file, bad auto-indenting, phantom error highlighting, no partial-build error solving--and Visual Studio doesn't work on OS X. (To say nothing of the "you have to restart because XS forgot how to talk to xbuild" bugs...) That leaves the shitty bodges you well-actually'd your way into or not doing .NET at all. The latter makes a lot more sense for a lot more people.

I really enjoy C# and F# and I'd love to use .NET more if the frustrations in using it on not-Windows were not of such a magnitude. I am critical because it should be better and isn't. (Worse, Xamarin removed most reasons to contribute to the Mono ecosystem a while ago by making so much of the useful bits commercial, which is understandable--gotta eat--but also unfortunate.)
"But I think we'd lose a lot of the benefit of doing so if it became a standard."

Quite possibly, yeah. Learning environments are quickly destroyed if they have to accommodate people who don't want to be there.
" If it's a real source code editor shouldn't it handle Java, Clojure, Haskell, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc all just fine?"

http://pytools.codeplex.com/

http://nodejstools.codeplex.com/

They have others but you get the idea.
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Printing Twitter and GitHub followers (A Ruby Script)
this script could be part of large script of monitoring your followers number across social media, and sum them to form a social score of some kind just like klout does.
as i didn't find an apropriate api to get these data as guest i had to scrap the data from html pages using regex.
if there are other social media that we can add to this script i'll be more than happy if you forked this script and modified.

Full script with docs : https://github.com/blazeeboy/RubyScripts/tree/master/2014-5-13
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Here we have an example of not just a job being displaced by technology, but an entire (sub?)species being deprecated and going extinct for it.
If you're a backend person, thinking about Ember as being more of a Smalltalk MVC than a Rails MVC helps a lot.
They are, but they're not the people posting articles like this. Whenever I see someone bring this back up it's always "I went to Android and something happened...".

I think Apple would be much more likely to respond if a bunch of people posted "My friend went to Android and now my iPhone won't text him". Frame it as issues of current customers.

They've let it go this long, so I somewhat doubt they'll make it easier; they probably would have done it by now. Re-framing it might help push it though.
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Lost me at "based on Cygwin".

Yes Cygwin brings some unix goodness, but it has enough warts that I avoid it.
If you toggle it off (by clicking the small hamburger icon at the bottom-left corner), it should remained hidden even if you navigate to other repositories. The only exception is when it needs to prompt for the personal access token (to access private repositories or deal with GitHub API limit). Is it not the behavior you're observing or expecting?
"ASP.NET" is the name of Microsoft's .NET web platform. To answer your rhetorical question, ASP.NET MVC is an MVC framework for Microsoft's .NET web platform. "Microsoft MVC" would not be clearly constrained to web development.
> "The fish oil capsules I don't think will stand up to a critical review. They simply don't do anything for you," he said. "The people should know that it doesn't help to prevent heart disease."

This struck me. For example examine.com has[0] quite good coverage when it comes to supplements like fish oil, and not surprisingly their round-up shows multitude of benefits from fish oil.

Okay, perhaps the phrasing was altered to provoke and mislead the reader, but still.

0: http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/
Speaking of being misleading, are you saying that being equal 11th of nearly 200 such countries doesn't count as being 'one of the highest'?

Including all nations, it only drops to 17th - still in the top 10%.
I don't think Heroku free tier is a production ready solution.
is there some kind of test to know if we are past the optimal number of dimensions? I guess overfitting could be detected by the ratio between volume and area of the classification boundary.
That looks like mostly a skin for conemu, no? I've desperately wanted to like conemu, but every time I use it something ends up broken in weird ways (hung tabs, garbled output).
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I don't think it's good at all, it's a terrible experience. Even if someone is becoming an ex-customer you should treat them better than that in case they might come back to you later. Burning your bridge for an anti-halo effect is just a bad business decision.

Sadly it just doesn't surprise me. In some ways/places Apple pulls this kind of crap.

It's good that Apple has a way to fix this if you call support (a few years ago I don't think they did), but this should all be fixed.
I was going off http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_display FWIW
Is there a linux distro that is centered around Scratch that I can PXE boot on my media center PC for my son to play with?

I'm interested in getting him into computing of sorts. I tried Doudoulinux, but it was mostly not good.
You use SDL precisely to not care about layers below. SDL 2 will select fastest mechanism to get your software rendered frame to the screen.
Not sure why I was down-voted on this. I assume someone is doing this and isn't looking for competition? ;)
I write Scala production code on a daily basis and I've never had to even look at CanBuildFrom. I know it's there (I remember the API docs before they started hiding things), I just never have to deal with it.

I know it's a common complaint, it's just one that's never impacted me in the real world. Never comes up.