skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially for programming, the tools have to be narrowly tailored to the examples since you're constantly wrestling with the specter of Turing-completeness. Any given program is an instance of an infinite number of more general classes of programs, and it's the tool designer's job to choose which dimensions of the design space are meaningful and important enough to be worth simultaneously visualizing the consequences of possible alternatives. I think it's going to take some very judicious integration of recent work on modularity-enhancing programming paradigms into the design of reflective language implementations before it becomes tractable to build responsive special-purpose reflective tools on top of a generic infrastructure. Or at least that's the strategy I'm trying.
I thought they used Ur/Web.
Can you expand upon that? I am always looking to reduce my taxes. I got killed with my 1099s this year.
Why hasn't anyone suggested using some of that money to hire a financial advisor? That option, while potentially costly, seems least likely to backfire.
I've spent many restless nights thinking about how to best integrate git and a web latex editor. It's a hard thing to do as there is a clash of philosophies. The web latex editors are about making your word processing as simple as possible with minimum required knowledge and effort. Git on the other hand requires a working knowledge of the Git versioning model before you can start doing anything with it. Forcing Git upon unfamiliar users would scare them away.
I just made a new landing page using fullPage.js. Wondering how effective it is.
If it's not very private matter, could you tell us how you benefited from the information? I'm really curious.
So would you all have happily paid for all those fat people's gyms?
If they want to exercise they could put some walking/running to their daily programme. You only need a pair of legs to do so. But slackers always find excuses, and bureaucrats always find ways to spend the money of the economically illiterate with the smart and naive minds, as it seems.
Automatic Testing With Node.js and Jasmine 2.0
Right, it would work. However the modern web, even when "optimized for mobile" is usually a very frustrating experience on 2G, and even some 3G connections.

Stuck at 2G most would probably use the data very sparingly and be stuck using whatever wifi they find.
"Don't bother trying" -- great advice.
Without knowing any of the details I'd guess that the processor would still benefit from some small amount of cache.
I think it was more disappointment at not being asked to speak about what she wanted to speak about.
I would also like to see some examples. If you're just writing code all day, you have an awfully low overhead. I lose over half of my side income after I hit a certain point that's covered by my deductions, at which point I simply stop doing side work.
> Whatever the reality, the number of reported sea serpent sightings declined rapidly after the nineteenth century. Writing in 1925, Austin Clark of the Smithsonian Institution offered a typical explanation for the decline. “In the last 20 years,” Clark noted, the size of ships rapidly increased and steam ships replaced sailing vessels. These maritime advances mean that the “vantage point” for observing the sea serpent moved “from the low and insecure wave-washed deck of a small sailing boat to the high, comfortable, secure, and relatively dry deck of a much larger steamer.” This shift in perspective “removed the element of fear and hence dulled the imagination so that sailors are now able to study calmly and report correctly what they see.”

Or perhaps the sea serpents were predators, and they depended on one of the species that our bigger and more powerful ships allowed us to hunt more efficiently, and we destroyed enough of their food source that they went extinct.

Much of these stories remind me of the stories of giant waves that come out of nowhere and destroy ships. Sailors told stories of these waves for centuries, and their stories were dismissed as exaggerations from drinking or their judgement being thrown off by rough seas (e.g., you think the wave was 75 feet because it was taller than your 75 foot mast...but because of the rough seas you didn't realize the mast was actually pointing at a steep angle at the time so the top was only 40 feet above the water).

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, scientists thoroughly understood ocean waves, and stated that it was impossible to have waves higher than 50ft in open ocean. No matter how many sailors saw such waves, they were told that they MUST be wrong because science had proved such waves cannot exist.

Then sensors on an unmanned platform in the North Sea reported an 84 ft wave during a storm. The operators assumed that this meant that the sensors were malfunctioning, and sent a repair crew. The crew found that the sensors were fine, and there were clear signs of wave damage showing that the wave really was that big.

Now that scientists finally had evidence that they could not dismiss as drunken sailors, they went looking for more evidence and quickly found many instances of rogue waves. They found enough to see a pattern, and were able to figure out some of the conditions that would cause them, and find areas that would have a lot of them. And guess what, those were the areas where sailors had long been reporting ships wiped out by those "impossible" waves.

Science is great. It's the best thing we've got for finding out the truth about nature. But sometimes science gets arrogant and ignores anecdotal evidence even when it is so widespread that some of it almost certainly is from reliable observers. That's what happened with rogue waves, and I would not be at all surprised if that happened with at least some of the "mythical" large sea creatures.
Whats the actual probability of a $1bil exit? Something more like .00001 I'd imagine, nowhere near that $100MM payout. Granted, nobody becomes an entrepreneur looking at that math - they have some reason to believe they're better than the rest, and as long as it looks good rather than poor on a resume to have your own failed company there's little reason not to try for it.
We will probably do that too at some point, but it won't replace explicit SIMD, just as widely-available auto vectorization support in C++ hasn't eliminated the need for explicit SIMD extensions there either.

One thing to keep in mind is that most programmers probably won't want to use this feature directly; it'll be used in libraries that expose higher-level APIs. It's still true that every feature we add increases overall clutter, but SIMD seems sufficently useful and sufficiently self-contained that it's worth the tradeoff.
I have experience using approach #4 for global high availability, and the main downside is that most network outages result in packet loss rather than returning an immediate ICMP error, so browsers will hang for about 30 seconds before timing out and trying the next A record.

My personal preference is to combine approaches #3 and #4: have all hosts in the round robin with a lowish TTL, but automatically remove any host that goes down.
I don't think it's a patent issue so much as a question of resources. Sure, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others have the resources to develop a similar machine, but a new type of computer would wipe out their business model in a much more devastating manner than HP. HP has the resources, but also isn't enjoying too much success to scare away this risk.
Or try blendoku: http://www.blendoku.com/
Interesting test. I got a 4, much better than I expected, on my RMBP.

Anyone else here take the XKCD color survey back in 2010: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

I was presented with an awful lot of colors I didn't have a better word for than "tan", "beige", "green", etc, so I expected that my "color acuity score" would be poor.

Looks like I was having trouble without something to compare to, and having trouble naming, rather than having trouble identifying differences between shares. Good to know!
Metadisk: Node for Storj Network
Hmm, with Chrome in W8 it shows an image, So I didn't see anything wrong...
The Spy in Your Pocket (by MuckRock)
Interesting! As for me, diet and exercise goes hand in hand to maintain a healthy lifestyle..
None of this is about democracy, but the freedoms of the constitution and a less corrupt system than some other countries. Corruption still exists heavily in America, but it's primarily focused on money and lobbies and whatnot.
Also, CIA != NSA. CIA are the people doing field work and writing intelligence assessments, NSA is doing mass surveillance/SIGINT. Believe it or not - they compete for funding and attention from their paymasters like any bureaucracy.
Travel Industry is Important for Bitcoin
How is a Java code running in a VM any more native than web technology?
Because while the load balancer shown might (and often, in practice, would) actually be a multi-component system of its own, that's a concern outside the focus of the diagram that distracts from it is attempting to illustrate.
80,000 Hours did a write-up on this: http://80000hours.org/blog/12-salary-or-startup-how-do-goode...
Taxi drivers in European capitals strike over Uber
Economics of Car Ownership
You're absolutely right, vor_. That's precisely what I was reacting to.
Ten Things I Learned at the 2014 Quantified Self Europe Conference
Yes, dogs are very effective at detecting mines.

I used to work at a company that had a large mine detection section (clients includes most militaries and mine clearance organisations).

Mine detectors work similarly to metal detectors, but are tuned differently. However, because of the conditions they are used under they aren't generally as effective as civilian metal detectors because they need to work in all conditions and be used by people with only basic training.

For example, a top-of-the-line metal detector will detect very small amounts of gold well over a metre underground, while ignoring aluminium-trash in heavily mineralised soil. But that requires the operator to carefully tune the detector to the soil.

A mine detector rarely needs to detect things so far down. But OTOH it isn't possible to ignore trash, as mines (and especially improvised explosive devices) are often disguised to seem like trash. It also needs to work reliably in all soil types with little tuning.

That all means that mine detectors tend to suffer from false positives (last thing you want is for a mine detector to be overly aggressive in throwing away signals)

A dog, OTOH is much better at distinguishing trash and mines and they can be trained fairly easily.

In practice both are often used together.

There are other technologies (Machine olfaction and ground penetrating radar). These work well in labs but haven't been very successful in the field.

(Also, trained rats haven't been very successful in the field: turns out they don't really domesticate that well)
Figure out how to make current startup financially viable, pivot, or consider pursuing another startup idea. I agree client/consulting work may make team drift apart as there is no cohesive vision in client work that can keep everyone excited about what they are doing. Also good product development team don't tend to make good service delivery team.

From personal experience, after our startup failure, we three founders tried to continue together with consulting but within a year we drifted apart. We were never able to pursue anything else together again afterward. We drifted apart geographically, career direction, and life stage.

The best outcome for you may be to, if everyone wants to stay together, brainstorm together on another startup idea and continue on.
no, this Tim would have been disastrous for the data!
There's Basically No Way to Not Be a Gentrifier
Mosul has fallen; Baghdad is in ISIS' sights
Off the top of my head, UserVoice and TF2 both use a bullhorn for "Give Feedback".
Pay-TV consumers at their most miserable
91. Still not sure whether that's good or bad given my age range.

EDIT: Based on a brain damage study with 48 patients and 48 healthy controls "a total error score between 20 and 100 was taken as the range of normal competence for discrimination."[1]

[1] http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v990416, "Scoring efficiency on the Farnsworth - Munsell 100-Hue test after brain damage"
Probably because most financial advisers are thinly veiled salesmen masquerading as financial experts. If you do want an adviser, you want to make sure they have fiduciary duty, if not, you're just as likely to get dumped into high load, high fee funds that just pad the pocket of your "adviser"
Presumably, a thin client will transfer more data than a thick client. Potentially, making that cost significant.

Though maybe it has some clever caching system that reduces this?
An Umbrella in the Hurricane: Apple Limits Mobile Device Location Tracking
Can't believe nobody has thought of a syringe with a needle as a metaphor for sharing. </sarcasm>

Ok, ok, how about wrapped candy?
SwiftWeather: a fully functional iOS app writen by Swift
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* Swift Programming Language
* Cocoapods
* AFNetworking
* Core Location
And don't forget that HTML + JS + CSS came from a completely different use case than Java, so there's a certain amount of parsing overhead too. Whether or not there being more native code in FFOS can counterbalance this overhead is yet to be seen, but it will be interesting to compare.

(In any case I would like to see more native code apps for mobile devices, as they are naturally more resource-constrained.)
Nah, the companies pushing these contracts are the ones exhibiting distasteful behavior. That page is very tasteful.
Knock to Unlock 2.0
>> people who really care about promoting women in tech
>> should just hire her to talk on whatever she normally talks about at tech conferences. In some sense, hiring women to only talk about "women in tech" is keeping them in a pink collar ghetto. It sort of assumes she has no real expertise to offer that would matter to REAL tech folks: You know, successful MEN.

Pretty much this. (I wrote the article in question.)

I'm not even saying we shouldn't talk about women in tech. I have absolutely no problem with - and in fact encourage - discussions about ways to improve diversity at conferences, online, wherever we can.
The box with arrow icon originated as an "action" icon -- like, "take some action on this item".
Yeah, I wasn't offended. I was disappointed.
Translating 'share' into chinese yields this nice character: 共

It's unique and memorable after you learn it. Not like the million other arrows we have in icons.
Well the poor don't necessarily end up with bad phones, there are a few indigenous phone manufacturers like Micromax [1], Maxx Mobile [2], Spice [3], Intex [4] etc. that have carved out a market for themselves in the past few years. These brands manufacture phones with features quite comparable to "good" smart phones and are comparatively very affordable. So, unless the consumer is brand conscious, its possible to get a smart phone with decent features and data support at affordable prices.

In fact, Spice and Intex are the manufacturers that Mozilla has partnered to produce the $25 smart phones.

[1] http://www.micromaxinfo.com/mobiles/smartphones
[2] http://www.maxxmobile.in/mobiles/smart-phones
[3] http://www.si2imobility.com/spicemobiles/
[4] http://www.intexmobile.in/Product.aspx?PCatId=3
That argument hasn't worked well for torrent sites.
Depth of field is the area in front of a camera where objects are in focus. Objects closer or farther are out of focus in some proportional manner.

In some tests I'd define a 3D camera with a specific depth of field that matched the distance to the object I wanted to be in focus. Say I had an array of view ports onto documents, processes, or images, the one selected would come forward to the focal distance and be in sharp focus. I tried using the effect both coupled and decoupled with actual distance. To me, simply blurring the element without having the effect being tied to distance did not seem nearly as effective. I also played around with having selected, but not active objects coming forward of focus.

I also did some tests with "constellations" of documents connected by lines. The lines could indicate a path, a hierarchy, connectiveness, or dependency. The browser would allow you to spin the viewpoint, zoom into and out of groupings. Depth of field here, as well as aerial perspective (greying and blueing far away objects) made for a very nice effect, and seriously improved navigational awareness.

These were all animations, not actual interactive demos. Very exploratory in nature. Never got enough interest to go deeper into it.
The VPN secures my data up to the VPN, but it's unencrypted from the VPN to the host.

That might help with the casual Wi-Fi snoop in the coffeeshop, but it's still hoovered up once it leaves the VPN.
Precisely. I'm an expert on being this particular woman in tech - which is a far cry from knowing what it's like to be other women in tech. Our stories are widely varied, and my experiences are not an accurate reflection of many other women in tech. I do not speak for them, only for myself.
The problem in Python is that type errors end up being reported later than they would in a typed language. For example, if I have a function f that expects an object and call it with f(None) its not going to immediately give me an error. Its only going to give an error when I try to call a method on that `None` and depending on how my program is structured the line with the erroneous f(None) call might not even end up appearing in the final stack trace.
You might have to type http:// in front, but those domains you listed may not have been set up with a www server? Mobile safari works fine to open for example http://nic.guru/
Elaboration time... I did this in the UK, similar likely applies in the states.

I used to be an 'independent contractor'. I work for companies doing ecommerce / Java / Consulting work. I work a fixed term contract and leave when the project is complete.

I set up a limited liability company with me as the director and the only employee. When I get a contract (work), the client hires my company rather than hiring me directly. Depending on your specific tax laws, you pay a lot less tax using this kind of setup i.e. you pay yourself a low salary and the rest in (low tax) dividends.

This is the standard way most IT contractors operate.
Beach theft
I feel like it is too quick/busy to be valuable other than to emphasize that there is "a lot" of this going on. After that though, not sure how good it is at conveying any other information that can be acted on. Certainly does look cool.
>The quality of the sensor is objectively better.

Actually it's not. For one, Leica doesn't make their own sensors. Second, they have a very hard time with their processor software (in camera). The first model they put out a few years ago had awful color rendition and strange casts. And not that great performance in low light either. And I mean compared to the models of the era then. At least, IIRC, they smartly removed the antialias filter, or put a very soft one, which gave them a more sharpness, but that was mostly it. Nothing making the camera (M8) worthy being sold for multi-thousand dollars sans lens.

What made Leica legendary (back in the day) was their mechanical construction capabilities in the year of analogue cameras this mattered. In the era of digital they cannot compete with a behemoth like Canon making their own sensors, processors and firmware to drive them. Or even Nikon.

Of course they still make good lenses. But that's just part of the story -- and they are not that better than comparable in price high ends models from other brands.

So, no, a "sufficiently skilled photographer" wouldn't produce a better picture with the Leica. It's an inferior product in every way except mechanical construction (and re-sale value). Plus it's a rangefinder -- the precise focus capability of a DSLR is much better.

In fact most accomplished photographers today don't shoot Leica's. They did that back in the day for reporting (like Bresson or Capa). Today they use either some Canon high end (D)SLR or some medium format (if they want to signal "professional").
Where is github for zfs?
Because they are not good at diagrams? Just emphasizing the key components of the architecture.
It may not be directly associated to the democratic process for electing a government, but I think you'll find that it's still closely related to democracy in general.

Democracy is fundamentally anchored on the idea that the legitimate right to govern derives from the people, not from the sword or from the blessing of a priest. This means that governments exist to serve the people, not the other way around. The freedoms of the constitution derive from this principle.
I believe these phones are aimed at two market segments:

1. Folks will buy these instead of computers - many of whom don't have computers today. Meaning, their first computer will be a mobile one.

2. Cost-conscious/value-conscious people that would prefer a cheaper new phone over a used used phone (even if slightly cheaper from the perspective of the developed world).

So market (1) doesn't really need killer web apps. The apps are already there; the developed world consumes them via PCs, Macs and tablets.

Market (2) is interesting, especially if new Androids come down market, but I would not underestimate the impact that latent demand from these mega-markets can have on HTML5 apps, many that btw don't even exist today as native apps because they are more relevant in a developing nation.
The solution clearly is to spin a SAS (share icon as a service) startup: offer a single endpoint URL that returns one image of the requested size.

It will be a random share icon.

until we can measure how many times each user clicks on individual icons, and optimize in the future to use that previously used icon for that user. After some data collection period the user will be served the icon he identifies more readily.

Some heuristics can be added initially, like showing the android icon if the user agent is android for 90% instead of random.

Will be taking round A tomorrow by noon. thank you.
New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups
Precisely. A strong republic is more of what you want.
I would think of it more as a branch. A big branch.

The intent is to always merge in upstream from PostgreSQL.

Anyway, you do not run on top of it, changes have been made deep in the bowels of PostgreSQL.
> Meat is a luxury for the better part of our population

Yeah, i dont know in what Brazil the OP is living in.. meat is pretty much as "rice and beans" even for the poor ones.. and in no way is a luxury item

Maybe by meat he means "Picanha" and the most noble parts.. which is indeed expensive and not a "everyday meat"..

Note: i was born in the south, raised be "churrascos".. and now live in northeast.. considered by the south brazillians like low-income.. but the reality.. is far from truth..

This country is very big, and we need to know ourselves better.. the old rules and believes no more applies..

(Northeast is now in a constant uprise economically while south and southeast are pratically economically frozen)
I'm not even remotely close to being a lawyer, but I thought in the US a single-member LLC is taxed the same as a sole proprietor.
That bias came from the necessity that engineering work is mostly invisible and you can't completely generalize every concept to fit every project. You need to put in extra work to visualize a graphic that would respond to the state of the system and the concepts you are visualizing might only be relevant to the project at hand. Despite these challenges, when we can visualize certain general concepts, which apply to a wide group of systems, but engineers do a good enough job and rarely are visual designers or UX experts involved. At that point its a cultural issue and that's why I'm grateful Bret Victor is around to advocate better designed tools for engineers.