skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comment! Hm, I'm not sure what school you went to, but an ECE degree at Duke is not like an EECS degree at MIT. It leans much more towards the electrical engineering side of things, and very, very few of my peers (in fact, I can't think of any who didn't get a joint CS degree) became programmers afterwards. You can check out the curriculum here: http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrad/bse-degree-planning.

Edit:

I'd like to also add this point from my blogpost, which can perhaps give a better sense of my ability before I applied:

> Unlike many software developers, I didn’t start programming when I was 10. I started in college at the ripe age of 18 and took a grand total of 4 programming courses during my 4 years there. I was not a stand-out student in any of my programming or engineering courses. No teacher saw promise in me, took me under their wing, or mentored me to greatness.
I was gonna say something about feeling old because I remember the ISA bus. It was dying right around the time I started installing the family's PC upgrades myself. Nice stuff was PCI but our cheap modems and sound cards were still ISA.

I guess gamers still know about PCI, but the average undergrad has probably never heard of a sound card.
This kind of thing has existed in desktop/native form for some years. Look up supercollider.
ah yah for some reason mine showed a blank file & couldnt expand projects. refreshed & its good, this is a pretty awesome project
I've even been banned here on HN :)
The study was explicitly looking for a correlation between stock performance and CEO compensation, the compensation included bonuses and stock/options.

I'm not sure stock performance is necessarily a lazy indicator. Considering that Company Board's hire CEO's pretty much entirely on how well they can move this needle.
YouTube's new service will be an audio streaming service, not a video streaming service though. I'm not sure why they think they can just make a slight modification to their licensing agreements and roll their video catalog into a music catalog.

The record labels are completely right to be demanding better terms here, just like they would get from Apple, Spotify, Pandora, etc.
Future expectations about stocks affect their price today. If a company is known to be in trouble, its shares will already be cheap. (A few people, most notably Warren Buffett, can reasonably disagree with this, because they're already very rich from beating the market. Everyone else should just assume that Warren Buffett has already traded the share down to its appropriate price.)

I suspect that the overconfidence explanation given in the article is closer to the right explanation. I was suspicious at first, but then the article gave figures about mergers. It's widely known that mergers usually don't meet expectations, so maybe overconfidence would lead a CEO to think they could escape this statistical fate.
Thanks! Added to title.
To be fair, you can't exactly "force" an android or an iOS device to update either. It's easier to coach users to update but goddamn would it have been impossible to get s40/60 users to move even one version up.

I recall doing an s60 software upgrade and having it crash halfway through, which somehow bricked the baseband and the operating system of the device. Go figure.
> YC S12 company Instacart is well on its way to being one of the iconic companies of our times.

I'd normally dismiss talk like this, but given who said it, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Can anyone shed some light on how Instacart has become just as "iconic" as companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft?
I too am a fan of the UI Bootstrap typeahead - it's simple, and works nicely. It's not as robust as select2 or whatnot though as you've pointed out.
This is a sales pitch. There's no actual content, and OP is a 12-day old account with only links to coursmos.com :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Julia_Eremina
Is it possible to make new works based on Tarzan? It appears that Burroughs was a pioneer in the strategy of "trademark the characters, assign ownership to an eternal corporation."
Buying a 4K monitor for gaming is the essence of not getting it.

I want a 27" 4K monitor for coding. The Chromebook Pixel just makes it a nuisance to go to work and code on these shitty 25" 1080p monitors. At least at home I've got 27" @ 2560x1440 which I can actually get some shit done one.
That happened! And that was also 6 years ago. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/08/08/22/1341247/red-hat-fed...
Holy crap! This is great!
I didn't have trouble rationalizing my pre-order of this LG Ultra QHD (3440x1440) for $999. It's not 4K, but it's very competitive.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JR6GCZA/ref=oh_details_o...
Long article is long. Funny, I was a huge fan of Niven when I was a kid but only read his SF books, never his fantasy.
The monopoly bit is a subsidy, sure there are strings attached but they could also be attached to using government land like roads. Afterall good luck building a network without crossing a road.

I don't agree with Kushnick, my point is if a company advertised bubblegum for 50c and charged 90c when you got to the store it's illegal false advertizing. The telecom industry is vary much in favor of being able to do the same kind of price manipulation.

PS: Subsidizing undeserved or low population areas is paying for the last mile, it's not like they don't get to charge the new customers.
A White House petition to help both citizens and cops
Very interesting idea to make people contribute more contents...but I'm not too sure how this would change or contribute to the existing paradigm of mobile conversations.
See You on the Darknet – Why we don't really want Internet security. (2004)
Sorry, I don't see why you consider what I wrote "inflammatory". Children in developing countries starving and going blind is the status quo. Opposing an existential solution without bothering to provide an alternate existential solution is de facto preferring the status quo. This should not be a controversial statement.
It would sit along side your Dovecot server. The Switchboard core subscribes to events in a folder (using IMAP IDLE) and issues change events to connected workers.
Anyone have a link to the legislation?
> Any allegations to the contrary would require proof on your part.

Sibling comments have pointed out the problem with this statement, but I'm bored, so here's my proof:

There's no legal porn on YouTube. What porn makes it past the automated filters in place to prevent its upload is summarily removed.
>>To post an item for sale all you have to do is add #forsale $<dollar_amount> in the description and your item will go for sale imediately.

>>All your followers have to do is comment #buy on any item you have for sale and the item will be purchased for them.

Interesting implementation, great concept. It seems like a decent amount of consumer education would have to be done to get them on board with #buy. This idea is also subject to all the risk that goes along with complete platform dependence.

ie: if it gets big/popular enough, what's to stop Instagram/Facebook from killing it and implementing their own proprietary version?
http://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects

For the uninitiated.
I would like to see something that helps create useful, specific scrapers for languages like Ruby and Python.

It's annoying to have to run scripts multiple times, tweaking it after each run to get exactly what you need. It's a waste of time...
I would guess that the interesting comparison isn't this vs. alternate FPGA approaches, but this vs. alternate OpenCL targets (GPUs, especially). For people that already have OpenCL written to solve their problem, they're going to want to know if the performance will be better per unit cost as compared to whatever they're running it on now, and it sounds like at least in some cases the FPGAs will do better than GPUs, so it's still a net win even if you could do it even faster by writing Verilog.

Obviously it won't work for every problem, but the problem classes you mention being a poor fit (state machines, etc.), nobody is using OpenCL for anyway... super-branchy code like state machines performs badly on GPUs, which are currently the main OpenCL targets.
Still no access to the current playing track which means I have to continue using last.fm which feels a bit hacky :/
Mine's worked fine thus far. What iOS version are you on?
The wording is a bit ambiguous — “server-side email processing” refers to processing emails which are stored with an email provider, e.g. Gmail. IMAP is used to interact with the email providers because it is a mail retrieval protocol, and is widely used.

If we were doing “server-side email processing” of emails as they were sent, SMTP would have fit in.
LG 34" Ultra QHD (3440x1440) available for pre-order $999.99
Sharing Supercollider snippets was a thing for awhile on twitter. THE FUTURE IS NOW.
I don't know. Living in NYC has taught me to make-do with less stuff. Storage space and closets are at a premium here. One thing that is great, I don't buy things to keep in the house, like books, or stuff from Amazon without really thinking hard about it, or if I know I can resell it/give it away later. In California, i would just go to target if i needed something.. there was always somewhere in the apt to keep/store it.
Also if you have the raw feeds you can try to detect suspicious activity and then use that activity as a signal for your own trades. If you trade based upon public data (what winds up being insider trading) without knowing the inside information is it insider trading?
Taking all that at face value it certainly disregards the actual user, who in the vast majority of cases will not be subscribing to this new service. It sounds like Google+ all over again; where Google is spiting the vast majority of its users (removing content that they wish to see) in order to launch a (likely to fail) service that directly replicates one or more services already widely available.
This is a great writeup. It's not as FUD-y as other's I've seen.

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/06/13/centralized-mining/ is another good read. Where OP's link is more technical, this BCF link factors in the other side of things -- what would happen if someone actually did take advantage of this vulnerability.
Hoe online Euro- Millions spelen?
I can't agree with you more. This would have been a nice study if it didn't reach any conclusions; just laid the data, pointed out all the possible reasons why their analysis could be wrong and paved the way for a better study.

One example, their data only covers from 1994 to 2011.

PS: Direct link to the study http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572085
this is really cool... it is really hard to see how the math ends up making music though. I almost would have an example of a scale or a 4 beat measure. very interesting stuff.
I have to agree with jaaron. I graduated with CS and wanted to stay in the city. but tech jobs in Pittsburgh are hard to come by. I had to leave in order to find work. even if there were (and there aren't), its basically an island. a 3.5 hour drive covers jobs from Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.
I prefer the individual emails for each startup so I can read the startup name and first line of each description quickly. This is what my email folder looks like right now[1].

It quickly builds up to 100+ emails if you don't check it every second day.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/oUNaFSO.png
Are there many people who are not about individual liberties? I mean that as an honest question.
> 1 bead per million sq mm

Perhaps better expressed as "1 bead per square meter". :)
seems like this is really a window for executing javascript, no? where's the DAW?
I'm really curious about the relationship of CEO compensation and employee satisfaction/morale in companies. I have lost count of the number of times I've heard about a CEO, COO or CFO getting 8 figure salaries while the rank and file employees had to forego their bonuses in a touch year. I cannot begin to imagine how devastating that knowledge is to employee morale.
> Blackmailing is a piece of cake, because completely normal and legal activities such as watching porn are enough to defame you.

How can you blackmail someone with their normal and legal activities? Either watching porn is abnormal, and a source of blackmail opportunities, or it's normal and it's not, surely?
>>This is like saying, "Now that we don't have phrenology, we need a new phrenology." No, we just accept we can't figure out how people work or what kind of people they are by feeling their skulls. We live with the ambiguity and...

But that's the whole point: a lot of people simply cannot live with the ambiguity. For them, ambiguity means uncertainty, and uncertainty means fear and a lack of stability in general. Instead, they need to be told what to do and think and how to live their lives. They need some sort of compass, ideally one they share with a lot of others.

That is why religion has been so massively popular: some figures in the sky say, "this is how shit works and you can't question me/us about it" and that is sufficient for most people. They now have that area of their life handled and can comfortably think about other stuff. They can sleep well at night knowing that some omnipotent being is protecting them, and if shit goes wrong they have something they can attribute it to, like "we must have angered such and such omnipotent being."

Phrenology never played such an important role in people's lives, so its going away never created the type of vacuum that lack of religion creates for people.
If you click on that popup though, it displays the rest of the article without forcing a subscription. Much better than the New York Times in my opinion.
Because they're greedy and care more about having access to the enormous YouTube audience than being in control of their fan relationship.
Code signing key compromise has happened at least for Red Hat and Adobe quite publicly. Plenty of malware use code signed windows device drivers with stolen(?) hw manufacturer keys, too.
Adding Data Visualization Layer to Interactive API Documentation
Under what circumstances would your Google-driven car choose to kill you?
Scientology usually actually helps people at the beginning. Just as you said, everything is aboveboard. That is what makes them so dangerous; they actually help people enough to get them hooked.
Valid question.

It's worth noting that as a partner at YC, Gary has obvious interest in billing any of their portfolio companies as "iconic".

I'm not saying it's not the case for Instacart, but more saying it could be said as a doting parent. Of course your parents will perceive you as such.
Lazily Computing the Singular Function of Bold Play
Really interesting concept. Seems very dependent on instagrams leniency to let it continue existing.
& max/msp even included js but it operated at control rate, not audio, so you couldn't write synths directly as js
Interestingly, from the time this caricature was published (1904) to the time Standard was ordered to break up (1911) its market share declined from 91 to 64 percent, due mainly to raising competition. By the time, Rockefeller has long retired from Standard's management, but the court-ordered split, due to the increase in the stock value, made him the world's richest man.
Looks like being an octopus is not that safe, but owning one is hugely lucrative.
So how do you tell the difference? Because before someone's successful, a-best-entrepreneur-that-would-do-it-anyway and a delusional one look the same.
Seems $2k is just one of their milestones...

"development is split into milestones on which the features are discussed and decided upon in the mailing list with the help of the community.

a funding campaign is then setup for each next milestone which supports development and keeps the project up and alive."
I think we are firmly in YMMV territory here. :)

I always noticed that at academic conferences the casual greeting seemed to be agreement about the impending human die-off due to global warming / ecological doom / whatever.
4K is going to really not matter much for a while simply because the average computer doesn't have good enough graphics to make good use of it.

The resolution jump is huge and so you need a lot more GPU memory and processing power to do the same things at a higher resolution. Games are now really taking good advantage of 1080p, so we are another 5-10 years away from 4k being a real thing in terms of mainstream gaming.

Also, the average computer is not going to fare well in a 4k world. Sure, you might have videos on Netflix or some Blu-ray successor look nice in 4k, but good luck getting that to be a decent experience on the sub $500 laptop your parents just bought 2 years from now with a 15.6" 4k display with terrible viewing angles, a Celeron processor, integrated gfx, and a 5400 RPM 2TB Hard Drive...

High resolution is great, but as an industry we don't seem to be willing to upgrade the related components - memory, GPU, SSD unless it's on a mobile phone.
Interestingly, yes, quite a lot actually. Oh, they say they support the individual, but they are the first to cry "Think of the children". Bloomberg is one of the poster children.

The general position is safety and forced health on everyone. It is a basic control of person issue. You cannot do anything that I don't approve of. It is quite a pain in the US with all the petty tyrants running city or school boards.
Like others that have responded to this, I agree with you on principle. However, this kind of "innovation" is what they need to serve the simplistic minds that form the core user base of Facebook. New ways to share photos and videos are exactly what the kinds of people that use Facebook want from Facebook - nothing more, nothing less. Quite simply, Zuckerberg knows his audience.

Remember, these are people that vote for President of the United States based upon what their favorite rapper says about the candidates in 140 characters on Twitter. In that context, a new sharing app is revolutionary.
Twitter Bootstrap v1 (2011)
AWS with General Purpose SSD's
Well it's "attention" I guess, but is it the right kind?

A better analogy might the pretty girl walking home from high school, of the rather hick-ish / paleosuburban sort -- when the older dropout pulls up in his muscle car and asks "Hey babe, wanna party?"

I get about the same feeling when talking to recruiters, most of the time.
YouTube to block indie labels as subscription service launches
so is this like zeromq for mails?
I have the Sharp 4K monitor that Apple sells in its stores and it's incredible. I run it at retina resolution at 60hz (now possible on Mac OS 10.9.3+) with a Mac Pro and it looks amazing.

Very pricey, but in my experience, worth every dollar.
Just noticed this problem today. This is sad, I like to include the author's description when I share a video. Some control freak somewhere is having their jollies...
If you can make 30% returns over here in social networking, why spend billions of dollars digging holes in the ground for 5% returns?

Because a market with 30% returns is going to attract a lot more competition than one with 5%. Look at Jeff Bezos's philosophy. He's deliberately attacked a very well established, low-margin business and he's made Amazon extremely successful at it.
But where would that activity come from in cases other than the relatively few activist and hostile takeovers?
That is a good question and concern and one that investors as well as other founders have asked.

At this point in time the reward of me making it is a lot higher than the risk of them putting resources towards doing themselves. Also, it would be a complete shift in what they are doing to try to go after this. At least for now.

I could be completely wrong and get shut down later today but I don't think that will happen (knock on wood).
Hired charge pretty much the same percentage rate that most agencies charge.

>What would be great is finding out how much exactly recruiters and referral services charge.

The answer is anywhere between 12% and 35% of the candidates annual salary.
"30 fps flicker" - that's not a CRT, it doesn't flicker, because unlike CRTs, a flat display doesn't have a ray refreshing the display top to bottom.

And 30 fps on a CRT wouldn't be enough to produce stable image in the retina at all, which is why CRT TVs used to refresh at a minimum of 50Hz, and that still flickers (it stops "flickering" at around 75Hz).

With flat displays frame rate is about display responsiveness and animation detail.

So I wonder where are the claims about eye-strain coming from. Maybe because people just want better display responsiveness and they like to borrow from the problems low refresh CRTs used to cause, because it sounds scientific and legit as a problem.
How does that make any sense? The only YouTube subscription worth paying for is one that gets you out of YouTube ads (and, ideally, unlocks videos that are currently desktop-only on mobile devices, TVs, etc.). Perhaps they'd throw in audio streaming as a sweetener, but if videos aren't deeply involved they might as well just give Google Play Music All Access the needed rebranding, not re-negotiate anything and call it a day.
Sure. I was referring to this, which seems to be a summary of another article that isn't loading. I imagine the original is much more informative.

http://www.social-europe.eu/2014/06/inequality-2/
So if you want to accomplish something you have to do it, and if you have a financial stake in a company you'll over market it ("iconic companies of our time") ... nothing new here.
I did that with my first SSD system, mapped C:/Users to an separate HDD. Honestly it was more trouble than it was worth.

Using a junction point for a critical folder like that requires booting into a recovery mode and entering a bunch of incantations into a cmd window. And things will go sideways if you have to remove the Users drive at any point.

An easier course of action is to just use the Libraries functionality under windows and map each of those to write by default into your HDD. so most of my documents reside in D:\media\Documents instead of C:\Users\[blah]\Documents. Then you can also leverage the SSD speed for stuff in your AppData.
Wavepot team: really awesome stuff! love it.

At Bandhub ( http://bandhub.us ) we are looking for ways to integrate programmed music into our web DAW.

If you guys are up for a collaboration or want to discuss ideas, ping me osi (at) getbandhub (dot) com
Vulnerable people are often still just as vulnerable even when you can convince them to leave one harmful, controlling influence in their lives; they will often just search out another right after.
First of all, I should just say that I will never fault anyone for living where it makes them happy. This is solely about _me_.

Speaking of unspoken constraints, I also _need_ to be in a big city. My rule of thumb is "does it have a subway?" If not, it's probably not big enough. That constraint alone cuts it down to fifteenish cities. Not a hard-and-fast rule, but I grew up on a cattle farm. I know that life isn't for me, at all.
>There's a trend at the moment to view everything as a distributed system, but if you treat a client as a tool for viewing information and calling APIs, it seems a lot simpler.

Ok, I guess I must have misunderstood. If you're the guy whose building on-top some synchronization layer, then yeah, it's not really a problem. The sync layer is just another controller that manipulates your model or another consumer of your model changes.

If you're the guy implementing the synchronization layer, then you are thinking of distributed systems.
It's naive to not pay yourself a reasonable salary once you can afford to.

One of the biggest regrets of failed first-time CEOs is that they didn't pay themselves enough.