skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some additional info:

Note: I previously posted this to the wrong category and was advised to post here instead.

Stre.am is a free app for broadcasting live video from your phone, with an emphasis on simplicity. We previously launched the iOS version, but as an Android user myself, I'm particularly excited about getting Android out the door now as well.

The app itself is designed to be as self-explanatory as possible, but the general idea is to sign up, hit the green record button, and your video shows up on stre.am with as minimal of a delay as possible.

From a technology perspective, the mobile clients are 100% native, and the backend services use a combination of Node.js+Express (web), Java+Play (api), and Scala+Akka (video transcoding/streaming infrastructure). I'd be happy to answer any questions on that front.

Thanks for reading!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparc.stre...

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stre.am/id852662600

Web: stre.am
>> Too much progress too fast with a bit too much disregard to astronauts' lives.

We live in a much different world today. Back then if someone died (and some did) they were heros, lessons were learned, and we moved on. Today everyone is so afraid, even the military has a low risk tolerance. But remember how WWII was won, on D-day they basically thew bodies at the enemy to achieve a foothold. People did what it took to achieve goals, even at great cost in dollars or lives. It's just not like that today so it seems rather unbelievable.
My guess is that he was commenting on the fact that all of your interests are TV shows. I would have listed things like hiking, photography, boating, gardening... for myself.

You listed 25 things, and the biggest stretch from the TV theme was a pair of directors. I think that says more than any of the specific shows you liked/disliked.
Great list. Maybe http://programmermeetdesigner.com/, though it looks more about finding long-term co-founders.
Let me know how it goes.
As a mostly-Java, Android and web apps type of developer who's only recently gotten into ObjectiveC iOS app development, I have two questions for the community:

1. Will Swift be cross-platform or is it going to be strictly for MacOS X and iOS app development?

2. Will Swift apps run on older versions of OS X and iOS? I've seen differing opinions (e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24001778/do-swift-based-a...)
I don't see the US wanting to conquer territories of any nation, or doing anything severe.

I just see their desire being able to exert influence wherever needed, even with actors that at the moment don't really need to take notice.

In addition don't see at point where the US will see its military capability being challenged as an acceptable situation to its leaders, congress or population at large.

The main reason that Reagan's SDI (Star Wars) was so significant was that the US knew it couldn't be done at the time it was announced, but the USSR knew it couldn't be achieved by them in the foreseeable future. This provided real impetus to bring the USSR to the table.

Do you really think the US likes what is going on in Ukraine, or the Spratly Islands? They don't really care if its right or wrong, just that want to be able to suggest that no one goes against its wishes, and then no one does without question.

If you can do this with a symbolic weapon then its easier.
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>Turns out space folks are great at sharing knowledge!

I've read that one of the problems a new moon-or-beyond space program would have is that we are so far removed from the Apollo program that all institutional knowledge that was gained is gone because most of the engineers on those projects have passed away.
Yup - saw that one in the theaters. Unfortunately for anyone that has sailed before, Redford makes a bunch of incredibly stupid decisions-as-plot-devices. Here's an article that helps put the problem in perspective: http://www.oceannavigator.com/March-April-2013/A-legendary-o...
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How would one set week start day to monday in this? Can't really see an option for that among the options.
"a whole dollar for a single BIT?"

Talk to people who fool around with homemade relay based computers or guys like me who just draw schematics and then visit your typical supplier like digikey or mouser and search for 12 volt coil latching relays, which are basically elecromechanical single bit storage devices (aside from other more "practical" purposes).

You're looking at a good $4 to $7 bucks. Per bit. Non-aerospace rated. Made in China not USA.

This is why core memory was popular, being a lot faster, smaller, and cheaper.
>what do you do with the rest of your life now? Well, all of your skillset is based around your business. You probably don't have a ton of things that give your fulfillment outside of that business.

Spending time with family/starting one? Other hobbies besides bongos? Why are you being so dismissive towards music skills anyway? Developing OSS at your own pace? This is some kind of odd tunnel vision.

>because you felt a lot more fulfilled when you were disrupting the world than being a person who's bad at playing bongos.

Realistically very few of these startups "disrupt" anything. Are there that many people who can only be satisfied slaving away at startups?
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Well, if we're doing farmyard animals, fesuffolk can I suggest "Gets my goat!"... which, obviously, bleats out programming antipatterns? I'm sure we can modulate the JS text-to-speech appropriately...
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What is Pythonic? (2005)
Highly skilled, or talented labor often has difficulty scaling.
Also new to me - added to our list for an upcoming update. Thanks!
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Curiosity killed the cat, I just tried "www.e-airbnb.com" and surprisingly it redirects to "www.airbnb.com"

Seems it is not a fraud website, why?
Most of my iOS client projects are dumb wrappers around a JSON API. Even with the most mind-blowing language in the world, I would still be worrying about session timeouts, client-side persistence and navigating a tree of view controllers. I don't understand why people get so excited about Swift while the APIs we need to build actual apps only grow more and more bloaty.
Might be worth while looking at the video below for more Pythonic gems like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go
I'm gonna call that a success! Did you ever get to the bottom of your pizza-eating trauma?
"have more computing power"

Unfortunately that means nothing. That would imply someone with control over an iphone (apple, etc) could do "more" than the apollo, which is obviously not happening.

Real power is what you can transform those computations into. Obviously the Apollo computer was far more powerful because it could transform those calculations into landing on the moon and returning, whereas a comparatively powerless iphone can, by itself without infrastructure, do little more than play Angry Birds.

If you're trying to land on the moon, or mars, an iphone is utterly useless and doesn't have even a fraction of the "power" required. It just can't do it. Doesn't have the I/O or the reliability required, not to mention the lack of software.

It is very much an apples and oranges comparison.
We're really wasting our time on this? Seriously? Too much time on our hands.
Not to forget:

0) first animals in space: US fruit flies.
is there a site (or market) for Linux sysadmin freelance work?
>> NASA is currently "live" streaming the mission:

Like an old man telling a story about the good old days. Because, you know, it was the greatest thing NASA ever did and it was 45 years ago.
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This is an amazing idea.

Not only does it increase feedback for the redesign, causing more stress testing, more user feedback, more usability testing, etc.

But at the same time it gives users a taste of what they are missing behind the paywall, which will likely cause a subscription once the pay wall returns.
Do you think it would be rude of us to add duckie.me to the list of external links? :)
I'm a bit confused, how are we supposed to use this without node? Definitely interested in the standalone version.
Bookmarked to come back once I finish my current projects. A couple of Django sites for Django developers:

- http://www.djangohire.com
- http://www.djangojobs.net
- http://www.djangodevelopers.net
- http://djangojobbers.com
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There's already sophisticated software running that scans your email for spam, I imagine this would be another (complex) rule.
I don't understand these old bilionaires. It seems there's so much work to be done, and possibly a great deal of low-hanging fruit, in anti-aging research. Who's to say what Aubrey de Grey et al would have been able to deliver by now if given a few billion ten years ago?

You can't take it with you. Give it to science, FFS.
So someone made the wrong choice - font vs image.
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I'm not entirely sure Einstein meant it the way it reads on the surface. He always came across as a people-focused thinker to me. Consider his other popular wisdom:

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Is there something I'm missing?
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Devil's advocate - if for some reason you're using "while(<constant evaluating to true>)" to do something other than wait for some kind of event, and if whatever you're doing is fast but repeated a huge number of times, it's possible that you'd see some speedup in the overall program by using a "faster" conditional evaluation (assuming that it's actually evaluated at runtime and not compiled away because it's a constant value).

I am having a really, really hard time contriving a reason for this, though. It may be my lack of imagination, but I feel like the only reason this would come up is if you deliberately designed a system specifically to make this an issue.

Honestly, you could take this question a bunch of ways. Maybe he's just trying to ask about whether the speed of a cast-to-bool depends on the value of the thing you're casting, maybe he's trying to get you to see that the compiled code won't even evaluate the conditional at runtime anyway or maybe he's trying to get you to realize that you'd almost certainly not care because even if it were evaluating the conditional, if you're using while(<true>), you're almost certainly waiting for some event, so the only thing it could possibly affect would be polling speed, negligibly.
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When they finally did get barcodes they wrapped around most of the product so they could just whizz them past the scanners. They're still fast, but it's a more frustrating to keep up, whereas before, you were kind of in awe.
why would you trust a company that runs a mostly-illegal apartment rental service?

Because the law hasn't caught up to reality yet.

Airbnb has made a significant positive difference in my own life. I would've been in a bad spot if not for the places I found via Airbnb. No idea whether the transactions were legal, but in the end I found a place to live and the host found a tenant. Win-win.

The problem is when people rent these places and then throw loud parties. The neighbors' rights are violated in that case. I don't know of a good solution, but I don't think it's worth sacrificing the entire platform due to that problem.

EDIT: It seems like if people here were given the option of either casting me out into the street or letting me rent an Airbnb apartment, some would honestly and truly choose the former.

In the part of America I was in, you can't get an apartment without proof of employment, unless you have more than $15k in the bank. (Something like a year or two worth of rent. I forget the exact amount.) I was between jobs at the time, and needed a place to stay to get another job. So, which illegal act would you have me do: Get a friend to say they were "employing" me as a consultant, or rent an apartment via Airbnb? Why would you be okay with the former, but not the latter? And if you're okay with neither, then what would you have me do?
yeh I think that's the point if a large incumbent Telco's share options are returning £80k tax fee (that's the standard one every employee gets not key technical staff).

a start up is going to have to do a lot better than that and more open about the cap table and dilution protection - id expect if they had a good 10x exit I would expect at least 1/2 a mil.

Back in 2000 one vc backed company I was working for every member of staff was a dollar millionaire on paper at one point - pity the coop didn't buy us out :-(
This is more of a chicken and egg thing. I did end up spending a good chunk of my life towards acquiring that skillset _because_ I needed the money and the only way to get that was to work thousands of man-hours shifting from one cubicle to another which in-turn made me good at that skill. That skill wasn't the objective, it was/is the means and I make sure I remember that.

What if that skill is only useful/usable in a 9-5 environment in a soul-less corporate environment? Do you recommend I continue to sit in that environment just to use it, since I have been using it for last 15 years and it would be a waste to throw that experience away? Let me be the judge of that, its my life after all.

I bet when we were not working, all of us enjoyed a bunch of things, right? Just because those things got sidelined in pursuit of this skill, which probably was acquired in pursuit of money, doesn't mean that when we finally have that money, we continue to sideline those things. We actually started working so that we had the luxury to enjoy those things, remember?

I truely enjoy working with computers and I probably will continue to do that even when I'm done working. But that'll be at my terms and those days when I feel like spending the morning reading the newspaper and sipping tea instead, I can do exactly that. Thats the point.

Edit: grammer
It's also potentially a good test for how you approach correcting people, especially when you're in a subordinate position. Some people can be too forceful ("you're wrong!") quite a lot of people will let it slide ("I'll implement this terrible idea because I can't say no").
The payment is done through the Airbnb site, not moneygramm

Seems like a scam that's avoidable

EDIT: Yes, I believe some people still get caught by it, looking at the AirBnb site they should make this information more prominent

This is very hidden: https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/51
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It very much reminds me of Glass Beach, near Fort Bragg California...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Beach_(Fort_Bragg,_Califo...
Personally I think Swift could really change things for apple if it could be used for server side scripting. An integration with core data, and you could easily share Models on the client and server side.

It would make it a no brainer language to use for a mobile app, because you could kill two birds with one stone. To date however, apple has made no comment about cross platform development
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Note that if you're using the standalone version, the API is published under
the rome global. If you're using CJS, then you'll have to require('rome').

You can use Browserify[1] or WebPack[2] as a CommonJS module loader.

[1]: http://browserify.org/
[2]: http://webpack.github.io/
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Just talk to Airbnb. They have really good customer support and if a host is doing anything fishy they will offer full refunds with an additional credit for a future booking.

I encountered a similar situation in Portland a couple weeks ago and Airbnb was great!
It's not the current location that's retrieved. It's the approximate location of when you sent the message (or as I mentioned previously, the location of your map view in intel if you send the chat from there) or other "alert" event.

Considering most of the alert events are location specific events (playerX captured/attacked/deployed portalX, linked portalX and portalY), playing the location based game exposes your location to other players.
Just take the assets in the `dist` directory and the API is accessible on the `rome` global.
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> You have a complete lack of imagination and perspective. Let me help you with some history

> people are starting to seriously lack imagination the way you do.

Great way to start a civilised discourse there! Not coming off as aggressive or arrogant at all...

Of course the US population won't accept ethnic cleansing, or the like, so it won't achieve that kind of dominance you're talking about, and why would it want to? Its not profitable.

Its goal with be that no one can take an opposing stance. There are multiple ways it will try to do this, but having laser weapons makes it easier against potentially competing military powers.

For smaller countries it will probably resort to its traditional proxy war/start revolution approach, picking sides as needed that align with its views.

One last thing... these things are points of view, not insults directed at you if you don't share those views. Life will be more enjoyable if you realise this.
Dependency free, apart from all those dependencies it has? https://github.com/bevacqua/rome/blob/master/package.json#L2...

Edit: seems the dependencies are bundled in the distributed files, making it 55kb minified!
It may be that people are so accustomed to ageing and death, that even smart ones, especially if they were raised in the Western / Christian belief system, tend to accept death on such a fundamental level, that the idea of battling death simply doesn't compute for them. Or, is discarded as science fiction comic book hokum.
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Could've been a disgruntled developer who told the manager "oh yeah, here's a good question to ask". Spent the evening laughing and feeling good about scaring the interviewee away.
Somewhat apropos, my favorite long-time earworm: Wreck, by Gentle Giant, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6n8-b7uk9E
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Right, so when he says dependency free...
UPDATE: Uber Monday evening called Seoul city government’s earlier statement a sign that it lags behind in adopting what it called an innovation in transportation. “Comments like these show Seoul is in danger of remaining trapped in the past and getting left behind by the global ‘sharing economy’ movement,” the statement said. An Uber spokesman in Seoul denied that the service was illegal as Uber is “a technology company that connects drivers with passengers” and doesn’t directly run a taxi service with rented cars.

Anyone know where we can get this statement? Taken out of context (which is most likely was), this reads like Uber is just a bunch of whiney rich kids and makes me like Uber less. I presume they would write something that talks about the economics of Uber for a city like Seoul. For example, saying Seoul can leverage existing technology (drive costs down) and increase economics (more people in the city and more jobs for drivers).
I would object in the US, and volunteer in either Ukraine, Denmark, or Germany.

Why?

I feel like at that point, any objections to serving under the Evil Empire would be supplanted by the greater possibility of winning, and thus surviving under them.
Depending on the CPU architecture and optimization level, there could be a host of different reasons. E.g. if you compile it to a comparison against a constant, on x86 you could go from a one byte immediate to a 4 byte immediate (if the test value is greater than 255), which could cause your loop to fall out of the loop buffer depending on what's inside the loop. If that's what the interviewer is trying to get at... this is a poor vehicle for it.
I'm missing something here. How are the security concerns of open networks being addressed? Why should I trust an open access point?
Doesn't look configurable: https://github.com/bevacqua/rome/blob/master/src/rome.js#L35...
As pointed out, disable your adblock on the site if it's empty.
From the text of the article kindly submitted here: "Karl Albrecht established the Elisen Foundation to support cultural causes, and his Oertel trust, which controlled a portion of Aldi Sued, also donates to medical research."

Any working scientist who is actively involved in anti-aging research can tell you that Aubrey de Grey is not going to deliver with his approach. The current Wikipedia article on de Grey is largely written by de Grey and his close friends, and the article there about his approach to anti-aging research is written mostly by fans of his research. Wikipedia is currently a biased source. But I have been going to the complete journal subscriptions of a large research university with a medical school, with updating Wikipedia in mind. The general approach advocated by de Grey (and pursued by other researchers) is interesting, and was worth looking at when it was first mentioned, but it is not panning out as a general approach to reduce risk of aging-related health problems. I think the billionaire mentioned in the article kindly submitted here, who lived into his nineties, knew more on a practical level about how not to age too soon than de Grey does. (Aubrey de Grey has no medical training, after all.)
Interesting idea. Any real customers yet? I am still not sure how would it work for me as a customer? Would I download an app and then communicate with the businesses? If so, why can't I just tweet to them?
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Plus it was all on one page! A well written, well laid out article.
Just curious if you've had good results from the Django sites? So far I've contacted 3 of the ads over the past few weeks and never heard a peep back.

(Or maybe there's something about my approach I need to improve?)
Looks great. I've noticed that when you sort HDDs by size, 1 TB goes to the top even though there are 2 and 3 TB models. Small nitpick :)
The reason you were not feeling connected wasn't that you were freelancing. It was because you presumably didn't do anything else that gave you the opportunity of connecting with people. If you were freelancing and met like minded people in your free time doing things you like, you would have felt as much connected, if not more, as you feel now in your full time job. And would probably have had more free time.

The full time job simply put you in a situation where you got to interact with people without making any effort (except going to office which you would be doing anyway for any full time job).

Freelancing wasn't the reason for your earlier dissatisfaction and a full time job isn't the solution for anybody who is dissatisfied due to lack of human interaction.
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I think maybe don't advertise it as dependency free. The modifications to get it to native js aren't massive, but it's not dependency free. For one thing if I make those modifications I then lose all future updates (or they become a massive pain in the ass).

Edit: I'm wrong, I misunderstood dependency free. It would be great to have a native js version of this anyway.
" threatened the livelihood of licensed taxi drivers" - At least they admit who they're protecting.

And not some made up "protecting the consumer" argument.