skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their reasoning seems to be gimmickry. I've read several excerpts that state that they are considering this because the "young crowd is demanding eco-friendly vehicles". This is a terrible reason to just build an electric vehicle.

I think they need to take a cue from Tesla and make it all about the neat features that Electric vehicles can provide, such as quicker acceleration, no transmission, etc. Just my 2 cents anyways.
Very cool. What's the current best tool to help make the .srt file? e.g. the current best-of-breed text recognition / text alignment tool. Last time I looked at something like this there didn't seem to be a particularly robust solution, especially for text alignment.
A Mysterious Sound

that can't even be isolated or really called a "sound," since reports differ so greatly

Is Driving People Insane

the article itself does not make or substantiate this claim

Nobody Knows What's Causing It

because "it" may or may not be a new thing, a single thing, or even a thing
Your first paragraph is quite right. But the second paragraph is wrong: for (non-oracle) problems quantum computers are merely suspected to be faster in principle than conventional classical computers. It's never been proven.
Your "normal day" photo shows people working on laptops in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.

Does being like a family preclude you from using desks and chairs like normal people, or I'm missing something?

Or maybe you work 10 minutes at a time and have a break. It's the only way I can imagine working in that space.
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13 year old tried to hack a Steam account, and got hacked.
Yeah but there are downsides to that.

1. What if you already have a family? When it's 5'o clock, would you rather go home to your spouse and kids, or go on a company bar crawl?

2. I am friendly with people who I work with. But if we didn't work together, we'd have no reason to speak to each other. You're going to pass out on a lot of great workers if you insist everyone be your friend. Why can't a co-worker relationship suffice?

3. If you're company is too friendly, and begins to think alike, I'd be wary of groupthink.

4. That nickname thing seems like it'd get annoying fast.
I just added a basic middleware system to Floor. Pretty much similar to what expressjs uses.

http://cburgdorf.github.io/Floor/doc/floor/struct.Floor.html...
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You can always bounce the links off of your server first to avoid this affiliate hijacking that Pinterest & others do. Post a link to a page on your server that has a javascript redirect to the affiliate page. This fools the Pinterest bot that follows shortened links looking for http redirects to affiliate URLs.
It seems to me like Cap'n Proto is better off without any inherent encryption layer. Let the user be responsible for setting up a two-way stream with their own security requirements. There's no reason Cap'n Proto should duplicate the efforts of TLS.
I noticed this too. Seems distracting as hell to have everyone in the same tiny living room. It's fun for movie night, but not a place I'd wanna work.
This article does a great job of laying out the actual situation: http://boingboing.net/2014/05/30/whats-the-story-with-the-ma...
Ya this seems like hyperbole. I clicked on it thinking it was that annoying sound from older TVs when they are just 'on' but nothing is play [no static, etc].
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Programming is all about abstraction management. Doing layouts with JS is using the wrong abstractions. CSS was originally conceived for doing document layouts but it's less suitable for web-application layout. We can leave the discussion here, if the article I posted didn't convince you, nothing probably will.
When having these Native vs Other discussions, is it possible you could use something more specific than the word native? It means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For example is declaring layouts in an XML file in an Android app considered native in this case? I've heard others say that Android apps that run on the Dalvik JVM should not be considered native. Maybe you are talking more about Cocoa or Windows?
The question is whether you start over or make incremental improvements. Supporting a new layout doesn't seem like the kind of change that's worth starting over for.

That said, I'm all for experimenting.
So if Elasticsearch is a stringified (JSON/HTTP) wrapper around Lucene with simplified setup for the web app crowd, you are making a binary-fied wrapper around it. Why not skip ES altogether, or use the JSON api?
Last time I did this (~2011} "Subtitle Editor"[1] was a pretty decent solution for *nix-based systems.
On Windows, VisualSubSync[2] was all the rage, iirc.

[1] http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/
[2] http://www.visualsubsync.org/
I guess I'm confused then. I thought that quantum algorithms had been proven to be faster than the best known classical algorithms (for instance, Shor's factorization), assuming the correctness and completeness of the postulates of QM. In other words, the order of the algorithm is derivable from the postulates. Is that not the case?

I think there's a few people (t'Hooft if I remember correctly?) that believe a quantum computer will never be able to experimentally demonstrate this speed-up because some aspect of quantum mechanics is incomplete/incorrect.

Edit: Here's the thread I was thinking of where t'Hooft and Shor discuss this http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34217/why-do-peop...
Which would be defeating a strawman. I don't know anyone who claims DNN is precisely how any aspect of the human brain works.
Stub project on Docpad+BEM for generic static blogs
If you right-click on that, is it a Flash player? Are you on Firefox?
"2)a generic computer running a program is a special purpose machine: it's now doing things it could not do before it was programmed to do so"

This is of course false. It always could do them, it just wasn't told to. To view it otherwise is nuts.

Otherwise, I could argue that when you think about things, you are activating new pathways in your brain, forming neural connections that didn't exist, and otherwise changing and programming the state of your brain to know and do things it could not before.
Right. And it's not just that the typing is static, but that you are using it properly. Cf:

struct price { int value; };
struct quantity { int value; };

int placeOrderUnsafe(int price, int quantity);
int placeOrderSafer(struct price, struct quantity);

...

placeOrderUnsafe(quantity.value, price.value) /* does the wrong thing */
placeOrderSafer(quantity, price) /* caught at compile */
Wait until you hire someone who seems perfect and (a couple years later) turns out to be the family's "black sheep". And have you ever noticed how clique-filled large family reunions can seem? I predict your coziness will disappear gradually as you grow.
I'm not sure why you're so hostile to this. Perhaps I'm just misreading your words.

Various "mysterious" noises are heard across the workd and cause problems for inhabitants. The noises are mysterious because it can be hard to work out what is causing the noise.

Noise is used as a tool by torturers. Tinnitus can sometimes lead people to attempt suicide. It seems fair to suggest that an unstopping unexplained noise can cause extreme distress. I dislike the wording "driving people insane" because I work in de-stigmatising MH problems, but the meaning is clear.

Here's an example of a mysterious noise from England.

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/HUM-KNOW/story-20347005-detail/...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

EDIT --

I'd be interested to know what happens if they build a chamber that is provably isolated from "The Hum" and put sufferers inside it. Do those people still experience it? Even better if there's some kind of double blind way of isolating / not isolating the chamber from the Hum.
It's definitely not for want of trying. Every other week sees a new recruitment site pop up.

The recruiting system we have is very well entrenched.

I note that when we go through this process as passive participants we further entrench the established norm.
" (Unfortunately, this doesn't mean you should send people a crafted hash.)"

New idea for a recruiting cryptocurrency - prove you're serious by hashing my profile a couple billion times.
Why did Gfycat win? I've always wondered.
> Firstly, it’s important to remember that when I use the word “family,” I don’t mean the literal sense of the word.

Just don't use the word family then.

Since you didn't stop there, though...

Nah, your company isn't a family. Because when financial shit hits the fan everyone will split in every which direction and be very unlikely to ever interact with you again.

Culture, and a good and fair culture at that, is what companies should be striving for. Pretending to be a family when that won't be reciprocated 100% of the time (or at least nine-nines of the time, because hey, no family is perfect) like a real family is manipulative.

Scenario: I'm your VC and the latest numbers force me to tell you to lay off 75% of your employees. Go go gadget, deploy this "family" thing you speak of.
Okay, so take my question and s/HTML/hierarchical file systems/ or s/HTML/C/ or make any other substitution. Why ditch something just because it's old?
I'd like to do something like this, my problem is I generally don't know anyone I trust that much that is also technical enough to make use of it.
So dumb for not doing this.
Yes, but it's about 2 decades too late. All the "...on a computer" patents that cover the big things -- selling books, taking a picture on a white background, measuring distances -- have been done and extracted their costs from the industry and consumers.
You would not notice because it's practically the same. All files have the same names (afaik) for example. They are compatible, and eglibc was like a drop-in replacement. I believe they share nearly all code.
Thanks, I'll get the team to look at this.
In the linked paper [0], they actually tested that point: after applying Gaussian noise to samples, the model could still recognize them half the time[1], despite being nearly unreadable (to me).

[0] http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/docs/understanding.pdf
[1] http://puu.sh/9B4eG/1e9f7eb56b.png
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Thoughts?
Shor's algorithm is exponentially faster than the best existing classical algorithm for factoring. But that doesn't mean there's not an exponentially faster classical algorithm which would be comparable in speed to Shor's algorithm. Some noted experts believe this is possible, and even likely. Richard Lipton believes it, and claims that Peter Sarnak does too:

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/sex-lies-and-quantu...

Yes, 't Hooft and others, including Leonid Levin and Oded Goldreich, believe that quantum computers won't function because of quantum mechanics breaking down. See, e.g.:

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/on-qc.html

http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/lnd/expo/qc.htm
Here is another article today bashing the D-Wave Two computers: http://www.wired.com/2013/06/d-wave-quantum-computer-usc/

These machines are testing a completely new computing concept. We're trying to learn how they work so that we can apply that to building machines that can actually outperform traditional computers, and once that's achieved then the potential benefit will be enormous.

According to http://www.dwavesys.com/d-wave-two-system as you scale up qubits the power demands do not increase. That alone has huge potential.

Maybe new materials need to be developed to see the full potential of these computers, lots of research needs to be done. Why are all of these articles so pessimistic?

NASA, Lockheed, and Google purchasing these multi-million dollar machines should indicate that there is at-least some potential and value in the D-Wave computers, even if in the end they just learn what D-Wave did wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdHDHEuOUE

"We don't know the best questions to ask the quantum computers, that's what we're trying to find out now."
Also to explain that strange "adjunction" comment, currying results from the notion that the things of type

(a, b) -> c

are exactly equivalent to the things of type

a -> (b -> c)

An adjunction (F, G) occurs when the things of type (F a -> c) are equivalent to things of type (a -> G c), so if we pick F x = (x, b) and G x = (b -> x) then we see that currying is an adjunction between (,b) and (b ->).
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Hi,
I'm currently a rising Senior in college and I would like to be as marketable as possible after graduation. I'm most interested in mobile app development and have worked with Android for over a year with a few apps on google play here and there.
What is the best route for me to take to make myself more desirable as an app developer? My plan was to redo an app in iOS and then pick up a cross platform like Xamarin for a larger project.
Is there a more efficient way for me to spend my last year before looking for jobs?
Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917749
Stripe and Braintree are both payment gateways so in theory this should be feasible.
Yep. The whole "no transmission" thing really is a huge lure on a motorcycle. There's a huge segment of the population that doesn't even know how to use a manual transmission in a car, let alone on a motorcycle.
This is the paper in question: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/06/18/science.1...

Which appears (I can't tell, paywalled) to be an update or this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2910

I don't have to time to read the article properly right now, but doesn't look like they did anything ridiculous in their choice of testing algorithm.
I actually recoded the SaturdaysNYC frontend with Ginlane, around the same time I did this. Great team at that agency. http://www.saturdaysnyc.com/
In real life, as opposed to thought experiments, it's hard to tell when, where, and in what circumstances you will meet someone again. I don't think it's ever in your best interest to screw anyone over.

We exist in a web of relationships with membership in overlapping but distinct communities. As entrepreneurs we can be seen as agents of chaos by the status quo but our aim is innovation that leaves society on balance better off.

Of course we have to make a profit for our businesses to continue, but there are other gains that come from entrepreneurship beyond the financial that lead us to invest in our employees education, to invest in our communities and to “leave a little money on the table” when dealing with partners and suppliers in the interest of good will and future relationships.

Business is situated in community and a social context: a good reputation as fair dealer committed to the values of the community, as evidenced by actual kindness and charity will create more value in the long run than treating every transaction as the last one you will ever do with the other party.
TL;DR: TokuMX (MongoDB upgrade) through Redis with Go on the back end and Node.js for the API.

The biggest take-away for me was that someone is selling ($2500/server/year for hot backup + support) an improved ('accelerated speed for inserting data as well as compression') GPL2 MongoDB.
Awesome job. Curious did you investigate fluentd (http://www.fluentd.org)?

Also, seems a bit odd to use MongoDB for write optimized work loads, since it essentially has a global write lock. Doesn't Cassandra perform better at writes?
How many of your employees would come to work if you didn't pay them? How many of your employees would continue to work for you if they were offered twice the salary elsewhere? My guess is that none of them would, and while they may genuinely enjoy working for your company, they're really working there only because it's the best deal they can currently get.

From the other side: if your company's revenues suddenly plummeted, would you take on personal debt to pay your employees' salaries until sales improved, or would you lay off your employees?

See, it's not a family, it's a business.
The female version of guy is gal, I believe. You could write guy/gal. The word "person" is probably the only gender neutral substitute available.
This part was murky yes, but whatever the policy, they didn't shut me down...
Yeah, but was it your choice of DB that killed you or something else? That something else is always more likely to happen and more dangerous than 'oh noes all my data is gone stupid mongo/couch!' as if that ever really happens.
Thanks for that link! Definitely a case (for me) where the news around the original outrage reached more than the truth.
I think we can all agree on what you said. But I will not agree that there is one universal, external common cause for all these things, an elusive mystery. But this is what the article claims.
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I'm not as up on Quantum Computing as I'd like to be, but the title seems to imply that QC as a concept is no faster than regular computing. Which may be true for general purpose computing, but that's never what QC was intended for.
While a cool option, they make it sound offering bare metal compute is new. SoftLayer was built on this model ...
They have a cooler name, I guess. It's not like MediaCrush isn't around, though.
For the record, people don't work here only on sofas and floors. Everyone has desks and most people work at them. But once in a while, I enjoy working on a couch.
I wish I'd obscured the amazon links behind bitly, or my own server, or anything!
> sounds like a jet engine turbine

Well, so much for the hope it might quiet down the disruption from at least some Harley riders.

Where I live, the noise from them is simply awful. I wish the noise ordinances would be enforced against them. Very selfish people, who inflict that upon the neighborhoods they ride through.

Plenty of other bikes perform just fine while keeping noise to tolerable levels.
"Culture persists, family is immutable."
I ended up spending an embarrassing amount of time on the post processing because I didn't spend enough time on setup ahead of time :)

I used https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger to take screenshots. I meant to have it take a screenshot of my top monitor only, and do anything sensitive on my laptop screen, but I didn't configure it correctly, and wound up with screenshots of my active window only, so I had to do some censoring, e.g. when I needed to edit our keys file, or when I blurred out the screenshot when I had to do some customer support.
So negative because there's still a non-zero probability that its not going to work at all, ever. That there's something about quantum computing we've figured out wrong, and no benefit is possible.
What is the name of this game?
Thanks guys! I love using Twilio. I'm more of a Rails guy but I see that the design challenges will be the same.
http://www.reddit.com/r/stopsmoking
Absolutely agree. The author is a quadruple threat -- knows the theory, communicates clearly, gets their hands dirty, and is incredibly thorough.
That map looks just like a population map of the USA and UK, plus assorted English speakers from western Europe. Combined with the fact that the sound seems to grow stronger indoors, I think the source is inside their own heads. Not in the sense that they're crazy, though. Maybe as people get older and their inner ear changes slightly, the signals that are being sent when everything is silent also change, but the brain doesn't. So they interpret the "silent" signal as "the hum".

My first test would be stuffing their ears and putting them in a perfectly isolated acoustic chamber to see if they still hear it. I'm pretty sure they would.
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Hmmm, inner ear problems?

Aren't VLF radio waves supposed to be very very weak energy-wise? Why would your body pick those.
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What makes you think it is non-local? Two of the options are RAM only (32GB and 512GB). That's like memory chips plugged into the motherboard (what modern normal user computers often only have 2 to 4GB of). You would run a RAM disk if your software needed something more than the boot drive to run using that. That's why the numbers are so large.

The other option is PCIe Flash, that's a solid state "disk" plugged into the motherboard expansion slot, basically. Again since that flat out state PCIe, they are saying it is local.
wow! Can you explain more about that?
We already have one.

http://jsfiddle.net/gJP9k/
They're also negative because no one has actually proved that the D-Wave is, in fact, doing any actual quantum computing. That's been the issue all along with D-Wave: no one can prove that it's really doing anything with those qbits.
1. That's perfectly fine! We have people who work until 5:30 3 days out of the week, and work 2 days from home. Nothing about the company being a family precludes you from having your own.

2. No one's forcing anyone to be friends with anyone. And truth be told, not everyone is best buddies with everyone at work. But given the option to choose, I'd rather work with friends than co-workers. I do realize that's not for everyone though.
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Why not. Is security through obscurity better than nothing at all?
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insofar as the CAFC could even remotely be considered by such a court

Before the CAFC, patent appeals went to the regional circuits. Now they all -- every one in the nation -- run to the corrupt CAFC. Even non-patent cases like the case where CAFC ruled in favor of copyrights on APIs can be packaged off the the CAFC instead of regional circuits by including unrelated patent issues.
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If you don't live in the same country in whihch your company is based they still need a way to wire you the money. The average international transfer fee is around 8% [1]. So the 4% or so fee from Bitstamp doesn't seem that bad. You probably still need a way to convert it back to fiat, but still...

[1] https://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/en Sorry, the data is somewhere around there, but I can't point to the specificdocument right now.
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It's not clear to me why it's not straightforward to test these hypotheses. There are apparently plenty of hum sufferers out there, and it sounds like many would be happy to help with any testing that might isolate the source. There are also plenty of anechoic chambers and Faraday cages available. Seems like it would be relatively easy to test the two prevalent theories. You may not be able to pinpoint the exact source, but you could at least tell whether the hum in a given region was acoustic or electromagnetic in origin.
Hello! Original author here. I'm not sure about the best tool for creating new .srt files, but for films, you can find pretty much anything on opensubtitles.org or subscene.com (although the quality varies). You can also download .srts for youtube videos (again, quality varies).
Sounds more like a team than a family.

One of the primary distinguishing characteristics of a family is that members never exit the family once they are in. A second is that families are decidedly not meritocratic.
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I have a giant pile of smaller projects too. :(