skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/04/nancy-writebol-ebol...
they call her a missionary
One developer did something like that. She'd use subtitiles to create .gif's of movie quotes. made a utility for it! will post if i can find the link
There's a difference in options and shares. Option value is based on lots of things like strike price, time to maturity, volatility and price of the underlying stock,etc. If a stock is 100% guaranteed never to exceed the strike price its options are worthless. If no one can buy the option from you it is worth significantly less. Many startups give options that are so far out of the money they are worthless. They will give you Options on 10k shares that you'll never be able to exercise so it may as well be 100k.

Options don't represent an equity position in the company. Percent of the company is meaningless anyway because companies will never give more than a small fraction of a percent.
Everybody seems to be taking about moving away from Puppet lately. Maybe I just don't do anything sufficiently complex with it, but I've never had any problems or gripes with Puppet. 99% of the time it seems like the thing I want to do has already been done in a well-written module on the forge.

The author seems to cite two main reasons for wanting to move away from Puppet: their codebase was large and badly structured, and their techops team didn't know Puppet well enough to manage it. Neither of these sound like problems with Puppet itself -- they're certainly not unique to Puppet. I'm not convinced that moving to a newer, less mature technology (which I assume techops don't know well either) will solve these problems.
Sadly, the theory of fatty acids proves that you are in death's doorstep, and have a severe neurological developmental delay, so any attempt to to teach you proper nutrition would be cor a benefit of strictly limited duration and anyway be beyond your capacity to understand.

As Michael Pollan says: Eat food, not what food eats, and eat a lot of it, and you might survive till Christmas.
Yes, they are making a mistake. Just look how well Unity3d is doing after embracing indies on a budget.
They've always been rescued / bailed out (IIRC) by the US government whenever they were on the verge of collapse - they're pretty big employers (direct and indirect), and I'm pretty sure it's also a matter of pride for the US ('Murca, yeah!). I somehow doubt the US government would be as inclined to bail out, for example, Google or another major tech company if they got into trouble.

On the other hand, there's plenty of competing companies that could bail out / buy (parts of) Google (or some other company) if they got into trouble - see MySpace and Digg and major web companies like that that became obsolete and effectively went out of business.
502? Oh the irony.
Very cool. would be better if it says the correct answer when i get it wrong?
"asta la vista baby" query does not result with Terminator at all!
By some trick of fate, I juust caught the launch here in Aus at 6pm (4am EDT)... Even though it was due to have happened hours ago I clicked the link to see how it had gone... At exactly 17:59:40!

Thanks for sharing the link :-)
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Next up, ANT, the fullstack web framework for projects that use the Ninja build system.
A 100kg limit is feasible, that's not yet heavy enough (I think?) to cause major damage if a mishap happens. ATM workers are handling loads like that - and heavier - with cranes and clever tools that make the pieces they handle effectively weightless (check car assembly workers for example), those also don't carry that much risk when handled right. Laws and regulations for these will be just as stringent as other industrial tools, I'm sure.
Most people don't realize how incredibly stupid humans are. They couod never survive in the wild. We have to put up fences so young humans don't fling themselves down staircases and break their spines.

What are you trying to say?
Pure CSS parallax scrolling websites
Yeah, it'd need to be combined with research going on atm with bipedal robots; they'd have to be able to keep themselves balanced.
Incredible article. My startup is growing and I'm not sure what direction to take the culture in——Noyce provides some solid inspiration.
Dark Corners of VIM
That should be easy, uploading every movie you can find.
Governments are so hard on employers... ;-)
The size of this list is scary!
> That's 11 injuries and 0.3 deaths per year. Bathtubs claim about 80 fatal and 100 non-fatal drownings per year.

I'm not a stats guy, but it seems like this comparison would be more useful if we somehow account for the difference between the number of bathtubs installed and the number of neodymium magnet toys purchased among the population.
Creating a distributed system that allows anyone to transact in any currency the wish to (fiat or digital) is the point of Stellar and Ripple.

I've been using Ripple since it launched; the distributed exchange capability is the killer feature.

All of the stuff happening with Ethereum, Counterparty, tree chains and side chains are efforts to add features to Bitcoin (and related) cryptocurrencies that already exist in Ripple and Stellar.

It's the glue between fiat and digital/cryptocurrencies.
None that we're aware of and certainly none with our mounting system.
I record the dialog for your movies. Aprt from obvious sound effects like Darth Vader voices or so, actors' dialog is changed as little as possible during post production. It's not heavily EQed or comrpessed, because that would mean a corresponding change to the room tone and background noise, which would then fluctuate unnaturally as you went back and forth between the participants in a scene. In scenes with a lot of movement actors' voices sometimes sound a little deeper than in real life, because they are fitted with a tiny wireless microphone, and there's usually some resonance from the chest cavity.

But generally what you hear is very close to how the person actually sounds - although their accent or inflections may be adopted for the purposes of their role. This can be a bit jarring; I've worked with method actors who maintain their screen accent at all times during production until the film is done, so when they switch back to their regular accent after a month or so it's extremely disorienting, since I've been listening to them in my headphones day in day out for weeks, and am paid to pay as much attention to their voices as the cinematographer pays to their faces.

Some actors go even farther in support of their public image. Rock Hudson had a somewhat high voice that producers deemed incompatible with his looks, so during production he would warm up every day by shouting for 20 minutes and gargling with orange juice to inflame his vocal cords, and of course he smoked a lot too. What actors will do to themselves in pursuit of screen presence far exceeds anything I've ever been asked to do in post. Editing dialog is more than enough work without trying to sculpt people's voices.
Hey,

A good feedback, thanks!

> XPath selectors just plain suck.

Scrapy supports CSS selectors.

> The item pipeline is way too straitjacketed. You have to do all sorts of fucking around with settings in order to make the sequence of events work in the (programmatic) way you want it because the framework developers 'assumed' there's only one way you'd really want to do it.

Could you plese give an example?

> Scrapy does not play well with other projects. You can integrate it with django if you want a minimal web UI but it's a pain to do so.

This is true. But it is a pain to integrate any even-loop based app with another app that is not event-loop based. It is also true that Scrapy is not easy to plug into existing event loop (e.g. if you already have twisted or tornado-based service), but it should be fixed soon.

> Tons of useless features. Telnet console? wtf?

Telnet console is a Twisted feature; it came almost for free, and it is useful to debug long-running spiders (which can run hours and days).

> It's assumed that the 'end' of the pipeline will be some sort of serialization - to database, xml, json or something. Actually I usually just want to feed into the end of another project without any kind of serialization using plain old python objects. If I want serialization I probably want to do it myself.

If you don't want serialization then you want a single process both for crawling and for other tasks. This rules out synchronous solutions - you can't e.g. integrate a crawler with django efficiently without serialization. If you just want to do some post-processing then I don't see why putting code to Scrapy spider is worse than putting it to other script and calling Scrapy from this script.

> For some reason DjangoItem didn't really work (although by the time I tried to get it to work I'd kind of given up).

This may be true.. I don't quite get what is it for :)

> IMO this is a classic case of "framework that should have been a library".

It can't be a library like requests or mechanize for technical reasons - to make crawling efficient Scrapy uses event loop. It can (and should) be a library for twisted/tornado/asyncio; it is possible to use Scrapy as a such library now, but this is not straightforward; this should (and will) be simplified.

> * mechanize - to mimic a web browser. I used requests sometimes too, but it doesn't really excel at pretending to be a web browser, so for that reason I usually used mechanize as a drop in replacement. * celery - to schedule the crawling / spin off multiple crawlers / rate-limiting / etc. * pyquery - because xpath selectors suck and jquery selectors are better. * python generators - to do pipelining.

Celery is also not the easiest piece of software. Scrapy is just a single Python process that doesn't require any databases, etc.; Celery requires to deploy a broker and have a place to store task results; it is also less efficient for IO-bound tasks.
ChefSpec and Test-Kitchen are really awesome. I tend to see Chef as a framework for automating infrastructure, not as a scripting language/environment to define resources.

Chef pays off in large scale infra or highly dynamic environments but chef-solo is still a bit lame (I juse knife-solo for that[1]). So most people seem to start with no-devops, shellscripts, puppet/ansible… later they will understand why there are more complex/flexible solutions out there.

It also depends on the background of the DevOps people: Coming from software engineering, you're probably familar with concepts like DRY, YAGNI and principles of clean and robust code. However when your team consists of people with admin-background, they have probably no experience and will write very bad code especially in less strict scripting languages. They are probably happier and more productive with strict configuration files (e.g. YAML) but in the end, they need to start programming…

[1] https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo
Should You Start Being A Skill Hacker Today?
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I can’t help you with the chair other than to advise going out and sitting in a few until you find one you like, but I can suggest getting a silicon wrist rest [1]. I spend most of my time typing (only 8 to 10 hours) and I find they really help me avoid neck and shoulder pain.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fellowes-Crystals-Keyboard-Wrist-Sup...
Preliminary bitching while it's downloading: 125mb for an Excel plugin? WTF?
I'm an advocate of getting rid of speed limits completely. Rather than having speed limit signs, post signs that suggest the highest speed for reasonably safe driving. If there is an accident that causes you or someone else damage, the court can use those signs as a way to say that you went against better judgment and assign a greater punishment.

I'd love to know what the best speed to drive at is, rather than having the posted speed limit be the speed at which no one drives except when the police are around.
Neuromancer Turns 30 and How It Has Changed the World Forever
Is it really the business owner? Or is it the salon/dentist receptionist.

Yes.
It's a Monoclonal antibody - those are some of the most expensive drugs there are (i.e. hard to make in bulk). Add to that how difficult it is to administer (keep frozen, thaw slowly).

We (appear to) have a way to stop the epidemic, yet we can't actually do it.
I had some trouble reading nested IF functions, so I wrote a piece of code which translates them into flowcharts: http://excel2flow.asp2.cz/ (weekend project)
There are lots of downsides to the military as an employer. The dresscode is pretty far down that list.

The biggest downside, I think? As a civilian, it is my right to walk off a job at any time. Sure, there are expectations that I'll give you some notice (and I will) but worst comes to worst? I can always walk, and the worst my employer can do is call me bad names.

In the military, those contracts? they mean something. Yeah, you can ask to be transferred around; hell, I know someone who was able to actually quit the navy half way through basic, but it was a big fucking deal.

I mean, there are advantages to the military, too. I'm not saying it's a bad choice for everyone. I'm just saying that wearing dorky pants doesn't even make the list.

The military, like most government jobs, makes a lot of sense for someone who values stability. There are plenty of skilled people that value stability over the ability to leave; I'm just not one of them.
The add-in is currently bundled with all its dependencies so it will install quicker once you have downloaded it. Some of the bulkier files include the Chromium Embedded Framework dlls which we decided to include to get the slick animations.
"As doctors, trying an untested drug on patients is a very difficult choice since our first priority is to do no harm, and we would not be sure that the experimental treatment would do more harm than good."

Really? I don't think this is a difficult choice at all there's nothing worse than dying so at that point any experimental drug should be fair game with the patients consent.

We already know what will happen if they don't take anything so why not try something else instead of letting people die all the time.
I know a couple of Hollywood movies that were shot on consumer gear, eg http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/HDV/XHA1/case_study_06.sht...

For this particular film the rather characteristic look of digital video is appropriate, whereas most productions would rather shoot with much fancier gear. But you'll find plenty DSLRs working on film sets these days, and you will see more and more convergence as high-quality sensors become a commodity. Black Magic have a pocket camera that delivers 13 stops of dynamic range.
That debug functionality is so cool.
This is why I love Dapper micro-ORM in the .NET world. It gives you the best of both worlds.

You are still close to SQL, but you get objects back. Started by Sam Saffron (StackOverflow) and used by StackOverflow themselves, it is fast, well written, concise and easy to use.

Basic usage:

IEnumerable<Account> resultList = conn.Query<Account>(@"
SELECT *
FROM Account
WHERE shopId = @ShopId",
new { ShopId = shopId });

Performance of SELECT mapping over 500 iterations - POCO serialization:

Hand coded (using a SqlDataReader)	47ms
Dapper ExecuteMapperQuery<Post>	49ms
ServiceStack.OrmLite (QueryById)	50ms
PetaPoco	52ms
BLToolkit	80ms
SubSonic CodingHorror	107ms
NHibernate SQL	104ms
Linq 2 SQL ExecuteQuery	181ms
Entity framework ExecuteStoreQuery	631ms

- https://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/

- http://www.tritac.com/bp-24-dapper-net-by-example

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapper_ORM

- http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/source/browse/Tests/...
Mortality rates for ebola outbreak vary by strand of virus between roughly 60% and 90%. This outbreak is so far on the lower end of the scale, so having a drug that reliably safes 30% and kills 70% would be a loss, whereas in other cases it might be a win. Untested drug, things can go wrong and you're giving it to people that are already in very bad shape.
Perhaps it (any pc in the world) is an exaggeration, but I can use my phone, personal laptop, work desktop, work tablet, personal tablet to connect to my always running tmux session and pick up where I left of.

And a virtual machine seems portable, but I cannot use it on my phone/tablet, and I also cannot use it on most other machines that don't have that virtualization software installed.
Thanks for the tip on the wrist rest.

I would love to try a lot of chairs, sadly there is limited places where I can (and they do not really have a lot to try).

It's just so I have some brands to maybe look into further before going out to try (if I can find them).

Thanks!
Dilbert: I have an Idea for a Startup
He hasn't really found a bug but a usability tradeoff.
For that you need auto correction;
"hasta la vista baby" gives the correct result
JavaScript Error- and XHR Log Recording With Every Bug Report
Deploying Erlang Mochiweb app using Dokku
> You weren't previously asking me why I disagree with her.

I think the onus was on you, the person posting a comment that you disagree with the author of the article, to make your argument/point.

You can't join a discussion with "I disagree" and not say why.
I think many companies have additional services that are free just to attract clients. For example I found a good on-line service North and Loans here http://northandloans.ca/ that provides payday loans. And this service is completely free for clients. It's a reliable service that matches the potential borrowers with the direct loan lender. So the client just need to confirm his or her solvency and fill in the application form. Everything else is done by the specialists. The money is transfered through the bank.
You'd be better off learning to lip read.
I'm the frontend developer of Muut.

We are not using Docker on the main API server since last time we checked it out the CoreOS / Docker combo could not deal with the load we had. Now that both of these are much more stable we are going to have another shot.
Xamarin recently hired the maintainer of Mono on Debian to work on getting Linux versions of Xamarin working
Gently put your fingers on a (cheap) speaker cone and then play back some music.
nice!, does it have OCR?
Just heard of this project for the first time. Their website seems very salesy and lacking the open source spirit.
IMHO, the concept is novel. Having worked in BI/data analysis fields, I have seen a fair share of large xls files with complex calculations. Can't really try now since blocked at work but will definately give it a shot on home pc.
Great would really like to hear what you think. My email is fraser@useslate.com if you have any feedback.
Time for grumpy HN comment #1:

Sounds like a perfect candidate for a "Thanks for being part of our incredible journey, we have been acquired by ntrepnr! Isn't that awesome and wonderfully great! Oh, by the way, you have 7 days until we delete all your receipts." ;)

Why would you put important things like these in the butt? Why does one need an account? Why share receipts with a third party?

What is your exit strategy? Do you have export functionality already built? Where are the terms of service? Privacy policy? How is the project funded?
BMW Launches Its Answer to Tesla’s Supercharger Network
Disclaimer - I have little know how of ORMs and haven't developed anything more than scripts for a long long time.

What happened to 4GLs when the web came? i.e. It looks a little like this would be a solved problem if there were a open source web 4GL language that integrated SQL into say, python as deeply as SQL is intergrated into Oracle PL/SQL or Ingres OpenROAD whilst providing a decent web app framework to go along with it.
Google News Publisher Center Launched
Amid backlash, hotel rescinds $500 fines for “negative” online reviews
I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment here, but:

This thread brings up many different hazards from our everyday lives and compares them with neodymium magnet toys. Is this a fair comparison?

We interact with most of these hazards every day. Any given kid would be educated about electric wires, hot stoves, fire, sharp objects. If not the kid then at least the parent would be educated about the dangers of ingesting bleach or laundry detergent, and so on. Yes, sadly above hazards still cause many deaths, but they also are much more widespread than neodymium magnet toys.

Now take our magnets.

- They're new and sufficiently rare. Average kid wouldn't know its dangers—average parent doesn't! (Compare to guns, fireworks.)

- They're shiny, attractive, and with funny physical properties to boot. Inviting to play. (Compare to hydrochloric acid.)

- We're already nearly blind to all the swallowing hazard labels around us.

Magnets are awesome and I definitely would buy myself a set, but the controversy doesn't seem to me totally insubstantial.
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Ha, well that certainly explains the antipathy towards squat toilets.
They did already, by the sound of the audio.
Having deployed salt to a medium sized cluster ~1500 farm machines, and around 1500 desktops, the one thing that salt won't do is scale.

Salt has a lovely system where clients attach themselves to a zeromq and listen for commands. However after about 500 clients it starts to fail silently and not all clients update properly.

The way we get round it is to run salt-call on the client at specific intervals. The other annoyance is that is horribly slow (60 seconds plus to run 100 ops (excluding yum operations))

having said that, the YAML syntax with optional python extensions is grand. Whether its quite ready for mainstream adoption is another matter. It sort of works for us.
it's not like the internet is flooded with explanations of backprop.
>Free markets are awesome eh? ;-)

Care to make your point here more clear?
Well, the chip bag weighs a few grams at most. The camera and gear weigh something like 50kg. The higher the video frame rate, the greater the damping you need to prevent unwanted vibration. Notice the tests were performed with a speaker playing back inside the room rather than a person, in order to minimize mechanical vibrations. The sensors are very firmly mounted inside the camera, trust me.
Planet Generation - Part I
In my case, its a pretty stark decision: money or time. I have an opportunity to live and work wherever I please through a long-standing partnership with a company, or make a lot (a lot) more money through one of several other opportunities but more than likely have less time to enjoy and less freedom in where I go. I feel that both my career and life path hinge very closely on my decision, but I already have very strong leanings for the former. It is more difficult because I have a lot of friends and colleagues who do not share my philosophy on having a much stronger life balance.
I bought an exercise ball. It really did help strengthen my core. The "best" part was that, you know how people say you shouldn't be sitting down for too long? The exercise ball was so uncomfortable that I was forced to talk a walk every 45 minutes or so.

I don't know if people with back issues should take my advice though.