skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Svpply and Pinterest both replaced/appended these affiliate ID's on any Amazon links saved on their platform.

Imagine ISPs doing something like that.
Wanelo*, but yes, can't really argue with free growth numbers.
Same here, with Firefox on Linux. The grid shows gaps like the web page is missing icons when you stretch the window width far enough.
Supreme Court smashes “do it on a computer” patents in 9-0 opinion
MOMA To Host Bjork Retrospective in 2015
It's actually 4:2:0
Get Ready For Wearable Tech To Plug Into Health Insurance
I had a convoluted method using gifsicle to extract the frames and then encode as a stream of frames, but then sometime in the past year or so ffmpeg improved native gif support. This is what I use (the options are both for compatibility):

ffmpeg -i foo.gif -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf crop=floor (in_w/2)*2:floor(in_h/2)*2 foo.mp4

Works for WebM just by changing the extension, too.
Chrome supports mp4 on Mavericks (as well as on older versions of OS X).
Combined with twitter's link shortening, you could use this instead: https://code.google.com/p/furl/
Drive by Jolicloud
Can you elaborate on what you're trying to say?

MATLAB already have MATLAB->HDL, which works very well. We have a team that uses it exclusively for FPGA programming.
Show HN: WebMotion – A pleasant keyboard only web browsing experience
The counter argument is that for hundreds of years (from at least 13th C, but also older from 9th C) the word "slave" has meant a human forced into labour. It is associated with death, murder, rape, brutality.

The newer usage is not needed and could easily be changed to other better words.
Changing the fundamental format of the content is a 'front-end enhancement' now? If it's for mobile users, why not present it just to mobile users?

also lol @ your opinion about technology. even in the "linux community"
Yeah, I see it too. Very annoying.
> This summary completely neglects the fact that the paper also recommends that -- just like distorted images are added to training sets today (you wouldn't want something common like optical aberration from the camera lens screwing up your classifier) -- in the future, these adversarial examples should be added to training sets to mitigate their effects.

I've seen several articles citing this paper as proof that deep learning is deeply flawed, yet they all seem to miss the point you make above.

The other interesting result is that the neurons are not in fact individual features you can just grab and drop into another algo--the entire space defined by the model works together, through all the layers. Honestly, that was a more interesting result for me, although I don't know that it negates anything, I've just got to stop telling people that the individual units are features.

Not that deep learning is the end-all-be-all of machine learning--it's not. It's just that this paper isn't saying what reporters are saying it's saying... As per usual?

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story...
Android's layout structure could be an option. It is much easier to handle than HTML + CSS, IMHO.
How to connect Raspberry Pi to signaling network
I don't have any words of wisdom since there are too many people here who are smarter than I am that you should be listening to.

But for whatever it is worth -

I signed up to freelanceinbox to show my support.

Not sure how useful it would be since my niche is enterprise web applications but I am going to keep my subscription alive for at least a few months to see if anything converts.

I also promise to sign up for your pro community when you launch that.

If there is at least one lead that converts into a decent client every month, I'd be happy to pay 2-3x of what you are charging right now.

Good luck!
There was a discussion on slashdot (take it with a grain of salt perhaps) about a similar article.

http://slashdot.org/story/14/05/27/1326219/the-flaw-lurking-...

The comment I recalled was written by someone with the handle "presidenteloco".
Another commenter pointed this out, but what you're trying to compute is cosine similarity, in which case you're missing the normalizing part in the denominator (the product of the magnitude of both vectors). In other words, two items which both occur frequently will score higher than two items which occur infrequently, but which co-occur higher than usual. This leads to a tendency to over-recommend popular items.

When you were on EMR, you could have used Mahout's distributed collaborative filtering, which has the benefits of being correct, and requiring zero coding.

Wikipedia explains here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity
Strangely I get that same message on my win7 machine running current chrome as well as my lubuntu machine running chromium. On both when I click the "click to view on original site" link it works fine.
Why Founders Shouldn't Delegate Support Too Early
Mod_spdy is now an Apache project
whats up with the OP and barbie memes?
Project LiveWire: Harley-Davidson's first electric motorcycle.
Thanks for saying this. I can't really comment on your experiments (I;m not qualified) but you can be assured that some people are working in machine learning today specifically having learnt the lessons of pre- and post-CASP. I don't know that I agree CASP was founded specifically because people found decoys, but...

it was an special shock when I learned about ensemble methods (I think they were just called "combined servers" at the time) at CASP and saw that all our hard work (manual alignments, lots of expert analysis of models, etc) wasn't really better (far worse in fact) than a few simply trained ensemble systems that memorized what they were bad at and classified their predictions with the appropriate probabilities.

See also:
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v6/n1/nchem.1821/metrics...
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-... (note, 4 of the 6 projects awarded specifically involved physical modelling of proteins and the fifth was a drug-protein binding job)
http://research.google.com/archive/large_deep_networks_nips2...

none of the above are coincidental: the first two links are specifically because I went to Google to use those GPUs and CPUs for protein folding and design and drug discovery. The third project is now something I am experimenting with.
It seems the navigation disappears entirely when you shrink the window. I would think they would implement their "hamburger" icon?
Any step in lowering the barrier to civic activism is a good one. Thanks for building this tool.
That sounds very weird but different job markets I suppose.

Why do you think that is?
It's pretty common for sites to change referal links like this. I think the rationale is "my site, my bandwidth, my referral money." Can't argue with that!
446,743 /etc/hosts entries for blacklisting
From a job seeker approach, I'd think the 'opposite' of this is also effective (and what I'd suggest). Particularly the proof of work inclusion, which shows employers and hiring managers that you took some care in the contact. If someone emailed gdb and included much of this same information, I'd hope that they'd likely get an interview.

Hey gdb,
I just read your blog post about Open Source Retreat and love how Stripe is supporting the community. I'm a senior engineer with KNOWN COMPANY on the KNOWN PRODUCT team. Would you be interested in getting together for a cup of coffee to talk about what it's like to work for Stripe?
Ask HN: How does a company insure against data breaches?
You can of course achieve the same "the top guys at this growing company are sufficiently interested in me for this not to be an HR-lead timewaste" effect with a senior non-recruiter email that's actually honest, more along the lines of

My colleague Bob was impressed by your [personalised details]. I've asked Bob to look for people with X and our stack is based entirely on Y which I understand you're very familiar with. If you're interested in working on Z in future perhaps you and Bob could grab a quick coffee, and if that works out I'd love to have the chance to learn more about [personalised detail] for myself at some point.
Do large SaaS firms tend to carry the same kind of cyber-liability coverage?
mp4 is "bleeding-edge"?
So the cease & desist letter could've been just an over-enthousiastic legal employee?
Referly (now defunct), wanted to bring this kind affiliate money to everyone.
http://www.businessinsider.com/referly-ceo-on-zombie-startup...
Dear Hacker, the universe of equity crowdfunding options is expanding.
GIF can have individual pixels that are preserved frame to frame, but an MP4 can do much more. A GIF is lossy because you lose color information.
I'm glad I went!

My take-away...
A lot of the things they've mentioned was stuff I already heard/known. That said, it was great to hear them again and again.

I really like the cadence of
1) "No excuses. Just Do It!"
2) "No one knows what they're doing and that's fine"
3) "The Net is truly a level playing field"

Anyway, those are my little tidbits. Back to coding!
Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring
I noticed it once, and then I kept watching and couldn't see it again so I thought I was just imagining it.
I'm begging, please, just fire me
But that's your choice, as was Twitter's choice to make a modification compatible with the majority of its users.
Sorry but H264 does not use JPEG for its keyframes, although it's not very different. There are a lot of differences between GIF and H264, like H264 specifies that you can use multiple reference frames, which is not the case with Animated GIF. Also H264 has motion compensation, which does not exist with GIF.

GIF basically rewrites completely a part of the picture, while the remaining part is reused. And if you consider that a rewrite of a small part of the frame to reuse the remaining part from the previous frame is just displaying a new gif on top of a part of the old one, the you can consider that it is a sequence of independent images. Maybe they don't all have the same size and are not meant to be displayed at the same position, but they are independent in the sense that you don't need a previous or future frame to display one frame.

And I wouldn't refer to GIF as lossless, except maybe if your original animation used only 256 simultaneous colors per frame. You lose information by down-sampling your colors.
Identity and Authentication Using Physical “Stamps” and Salesforce1
Not quite true yourself :).

GIFs store deltas, true, but they are still raster images.

H.264 on the other hand contains specific techniques for compressing sequential frames, including things like recording only pixel motion for some frames. You can see it in those "corrupt movies" gifs (which on twitter would be mp4s... talk about irony) where you take a clip and remove some keyframes from it - then transformations are applied on the wrong blocks and you get really weird things like someone's head splitting open and stuff flowing into each other.

Additionally keyframes in movies are usually compressed with even more loss than standard jpegs. In most cases only the Y channel is recorded at full resolution and the two colour channels - U and V - are recorded at half.

There is also motion-jpeg which really is literally a sequence of jpeg images.
The introduction date of the format doesn't seem very relevant, since what we are talking about is native inline browser support.
@addy nice!

so what's the goal here.Why would one use this over bootstrap/foundation/x css framework?

Do you intend to integrate this with other frameworks you've written and other Google products like polymer/angularjs? My point is are you developping a coherent ecosystem or are they just independent tools?

thanks.
Brute force is a pretty expensive way to get more I/O. Coincidentally the other day I measured 50,737 mixed random IOPS under KVM and 104,518 IOPS under Docker using the same hardware. Could I have bought even more SSD to improve performance under KVM? Maybe, but at what cost.

Rackspace is definitely disrupting themselves with their cloud product and today we can see that they're not doing it half way.
But how are you going to hover over an image on a mobile device?
-3 Karma

Do better. Be useful to this community.
I wish I had this in my tool belt a few months ago when we began working on our web application. The core of our project can be reduced to something like web-starter-kit but we had to get there with many, many hours of hard-earned knowledge. I also like the leanness and cleanliness of web-starter-kit, it's really a nice collection of best-practices and pre-configured tools.

I will definitely incorporate some pieces into our existing project and use it as a base for our next ones.

Thanks guys!
that's simply an ignorant response, you clearly have not read the news for twenty years.

these laws exist, they are being passed every year, congress is currently working on legislation to de-fund the DEA in medical marijuana states, but some states actually have completely broken laws that won't be revisited because the voting populace says, "we already did this!". See: New Mexico.
gfycat.com and others have been doing this for a while.
Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule.

We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need something is a great motivator, so we built cronitor in a couple of weekends and are putting it out there. We'd love feedback and suggestions on how to make it better. Thanks!
You'd have the same effect (you don't know what specific call failed) if all of the comment lines said "return err", which is a common pattern in Go. The Scala approach mentioned is just sugar for that. You can of course handle each case separately if you want in Scala, just as you can in Go, but the common pattern has sugar.
Saying `Do It On A Computer' Not Enough To Save Patent, Supreme Court Rules
Thank you! We needed a tool that could easily allow us to set up campaigns where you could directly tweet your legislators.

In the past 24 hours we have been rallying support for a bill that is hitting the floor in a few hours which was on HN yesterday -> https://shutthebackdoor.net/

We have had over 5000 calls and hope that we can target legislators on Twitter also.
More like, "stop using technology from the late 80s or go fuck yourself". GIF is awful and nobody should reasonably expect sites to accommodate it anymore.
15 Amazing Redesigns of Famous Websites
This actually kind of freaks me out. Might it be possible that there is a way to corrupt brains?
Hey, I wrote that! +1 on what you said about tech stack, but I think fewer recruiters focus on tech stack these days. I think you are more likely to find recruiters with depth in a specific geography than a single language/platform.
JPEG does the same chroma subsampling as H.264
Just a nitpick, JPEG always encodes the color channels at half resolution. It's amazing how difficult it is to notice this, though.
If you enjoy ME, be sure to try Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II, which easily measure up. I'd say even better, but that might be my fondness for that particular universe (the universe of KotOR is much richer than that of the movies).
Encode as image frames with enough redundancy to survive mp4 compression
They do seem the most popular. Neither is open source, sadly.
The runaway escalation of corporate-feudalist surveillance business models will continue until people actually care and modify their buying / usage behaviors accordingly. It will escalate until the market rejects further escalation.
I quit cold turkey, but it took me a couple of tries to stick to it. I never thought about replacing it with anything. I just kept thinking about how I couldn't climb 2 flights of stairs without going out of breath, how my hair, clothes and fingers always stank, how smoking has taken over my life. I think it was the control thing that made me quit for good. I didn't want the cigarette to control my life.
We Want to Train 10,000 Oregonians to Code
Huh? HTML is older than GIF images. Should we stop accommodating that too?
For what its worth, I have a quite fast MPHF implementation that uses an average of 3.2 bits per key.

https://github.com/ahmetaa/zemberek-nlp/blob/master/core/src...

it is used for language model compression. Also there is a Dart implementation as part of a small library.

https://github.com/ahmetaa/poppy
> Think something like an SD Card in a solid-state machine.

Ah, that's still way better than no disk. I was initially worried about having to deal with PXE. I wonder if logging will cause trouble for the SATADOMs. I'm guessing they don't do much in the way of wear-leveling.

I didn't recognize your nick at first, but we worked in the same office. I was part of the Cloudkick acquisition. I left Rackspace in August of 2012 to start Floobits. Small world. :)
Australis Performance Post-mortem Part 5: The Customize Mode Transition
Yes, MAXOS is a variant of SOA. And, service architectures seem to have won the test of time. However, the modern version of service architecture has a very different management philosophy from the SOA of the last decade. The old SOA was to put components in place with a top down design. The new version is designed to evolve with lightweight and bendable protocols, peer-to-peer interactions, and continuous integration.

The old version of SOA focused on defining the protocols and API's that services would use to communicate, from the top down. There was a lot of effort put into standardized object definitions and CORBA and EJB, and standardized protocols like SOAP. The resulting services were put into directories and locked down. That's what made SOA so annoying and cumbersome. It was a lot of work just to set up the plumbing, and then you can't change it to do what you want.

I call the new version "service architecture" because "service oriented architecture" has such stifling connotations. This version uses a variety of protocols which are faster, lighter, and sometimes more specialized. It can include the old RPC protocols, new platform-specific RPC, connection pools, message queues, HTTP-REST, and plain old HTTP. It's not so important to define the protocols up front, because the whole system is always being tested as a unit. Reliability is being created by continuous integration, not by up front engineering and standards. There is little effort to package things into similar code objects. Services from many different languages and platforms co-exist. That's the whole idea.

That said, I believe that services packaging may converge into something portable like Docker containers. As my friend Aaron O'Mullen of Codebox said, a Web service is the new executable.
Untranslatability, examples (Wikipedia)
It is an enhancement for the benefit of front-end performance. I'd like to hear how you think that is not true?

Anyway, that is why I asked the loaded question about how many users you think there are that browse Twitter.com on their RHEL box? Hint: HN is not a good sample to answer this.

And how is a ~14-year old technology (that has been ubiquitous now for at least 6 years) considered bleeding edge?
Yeah, it's absurd. Somehow, patent applicants have been able to have their cake and eat it - they've been able to get away without having to describe how to actually solve the problem because it's obvious to someone skilled in the art, but yet still get a patent for it because at the same time it's supposedly not obvious to those skilled in the art.
Hilarious video I came across
Got in contact with these dudes and they have a lot more videos in their vault. It gets funnier and funnier. They're definitely coming up.
LinkedIn Job Search
In my experience as a recruiter, founders have a very easy time finding their first few hires as they are all from the friends and family plan - all known quantities to some degree, perhaps a 2nd degree connection at worst. Then those few hires are probably good for a few more referrals.

Business starts picking up, all employees are working at capacity, and suddenly the pipeline dries up. This is when founders (and engineering leaders) start hitting up recruiters from their past. It's also the point where the company might be on the radar of recruiters, so engineering leaders are also getting incoming calls soliciting their business.
We are well aware of various optical illusions, but are there "illusions" that be applied against other brain structures, such as memory or beliefs?
For those who prefer to get the images downloaded automatically to your Mac, I made unsplash-rb:

https://github.com/istvanp/unsplash-rb
There are experiments that can create a false memory.

Not sure if you consider that "corruption".

http://psych.hanover.edu/JavaTest/CLE/Cognition/Cognition/fa...
Huh yourself? HTML dates from 1993, GIF dates from 1987.
Another option (for supporting browsers) is to use animated webp: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#why_should_i_us...
>We don't understand how consciousness works, but we're pretty confident that we can constrain the ultimate answer to being compatible with the known laws of physics.

You say this, but show no evidence. If there is proof of this I would genuinely like to see it. I am not saying you are wrong, I just like some proof before we base everything on these assumptions.

> So you feel that it's there, but you can't define it, and it doesn't feel like it's part of our material universe.

So what is it? If it is subject to the laws of physics, then we should be able to measure it, no? Hell you cant even observe (a) consciousness. Does it have mass? Does it have energy? We can't even answer that, which is reason enough for me to question whether the laws of physics apply.

> This is where you have to take a step back and accept the things we DO know, that is, our consciousness is a product of our material brains,

Again, show me some solid proof of this. Again, I am not saying they are not related, I am pretty sure they are. But why consciousness a product of the brain? Why don't you believe they are two separate entities that interact in a two way manner?

When I choose to move my arm, my conciseness decides that, it somehow interacts with my brain, which starts firing neurons in the physical world. The consciousness becomes before the physical in that case.
An overlapping group of authors (compared with the ones that wrote the "intriguing properties" paper) recently published a neat preprint on using adversarial networks as part of the training process. The goals of the paper are different from the networks discussed here, but I thought it was really interesting.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
This is why 4chan supports WebM videos now in addition to the traditional gifs.
"Everyone can read and write but not everyone should"
Actually I'm on Chrome/Mavericks and I get the same thing.
Indeed. I'm surprised that the whole Cassowary hasn't taken off. It's been around since '99. The fact that it hasn't is probably one of the worse is better 'typathingys'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)
https://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-...
amazon would discontinue their account because the isp isn't providing value to them
Introducing Dwolla Direct
Looks cool. The "Pick this Plan" buttons at the bottom don't appear to be working, though. I'm not sure if you're aware of that.
Dark Corners of Vim
A partial bit of progress toward a better layout model: http://gridstylesheets.org/
Life at Home
I'm curious about the cross device synchronization.

Can you provide further details on this and how it's useful when web apps can not keep devices awake (i.e. iOS8).