skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good on this guy. Enjoy your family and your life, mate.
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What is a missle but a miserable pile of Kalman filters?
Well, this discussion is just not going to go anywhere since you're ignoring the context of it.

It was me linking to my friends in my sign-off post on social network accounts and I was informing friends that if they wanted a summary of what I thought without having to contact me or listen to me rant for 30+ minutes, they could read a paper I agreed with or talk to me directly.

Have a good day :-)
This is cool. As a non-photo editter, can someone explain to me this statement?

"the user (c) interactively aligns the model to the
photograph and provides a mask for the ground and shadow"

What is a mask for ground and shadow and how hard is it to develop one?
Ages ago. Photo editing is almost as old as photography. It just used to be a whole lot harder. For a particularly notorious example of high-quality pre-computer "photoshopping", see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Sov...
I wasn't aware that work had resumed. It was just a few days ago that kolo reported the layoffs and shut down and I don't catch that very often. It'll be interesting to see if it's the plant or something else.
Thanks. The more I thought about the choice the easier it became.
I don't think it's strictly for books.
> This isn't quite accurate: a lot of Stellar's mechanisms are set up to allow transactions to flow despite the lack of a trust path. For example, this is the main function of the stellar currency.

I'm not talking just about the currency exchange process itself; I'm also talking about the "ledger" mechanism and maintenance of it. Stellar seems much more reliant on trusted third parties.

This story gave a lot of detail about trusting specific third-parties, but treated Stellar as a magic inherently trusted mechanism for IOU exchange above reproach. Thus, it gives me no confidence or inclination to trust Stellar itself.
I will put a hat just to take it off.
Yes, to demand it. My point is you can demand whatever you want. (Unlike the cleaning staff, who can "be shown the door if that's how they feel about it.")

It's not like being exempt means an employer is not allowed to offer you overtime pay. They can still do it. You can still demand it.
It is the job of any lobby to carve out exceptions to rules. From the NYT article above:

"...Under current rules, if an employer declares that an employee’s primary responsibility is executive, such as overseeing a cleanup crew, then that worker can be exempted from overtime.

White House officials said those rules were sometimes abused by employers in an attempt to avoid paying overtime. The new rules could require that employees perform a minimum percentage of “executive” work before they can be exempted from qualifying for overtime pay.

“Under current rules, it literally means that you can spend 95 percent of the time sweeping floors and stocking shelves, and if you’re responsible for supervising people 5 percent of the time, you can then be considered executive and be exempt"
Another argument is asymmetry.

I would not be opposed to having every bit of my life tracked IF I could also track and datamine every little detail about the people in power, the governors, the local police, the algorithms used in processing my information and the names/dates/places of people who ever see my information or a derivation thereof.

It is time to turn that argument back on its proponents:

- Dear local police force, if you have nothing to hide, why do you object that people show your location in real time?

- Dear Senator, if you have nothing to hide, why do you object we see in real time your phone logs/emails/credit card transactions?

- Dear Insurance Company, if you have nothing to hide, why do you object we access you risk model?

- etc.
I can't speak to why patio11 dislikes BTC, but I can speak to what Stellar's trying to do. If it's helpful, there's some decent documentation on what Stellar's trying to do (at a social level) here: https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/.

At Stripe, we've had to integrate with a number of backend financial providers. Stellar is trying to be a single system anyone can plug into that gives you global coverage. There's a lot of power to that, and a successful Stellar would help us focus on the core of our business (making payments seamless) rather than maintaining a bunch of integrations.

I'm happy to answer any questions about what Stellar's doing/how it works: I'm gdb@stripe.com.
It looks like it specializes in pre-orders, but they also support real-time charging.
having felt prey to the "ok google now" scam i will pass this one.

i know i will only be able to control minimal navigation and calls options.

no other app will ever play along. e.g. you skype calls will either block everything or only show up on your phone screen... to the point integration is so bad you still have your phone on the holder next to that screen and in the end you are using your phone directly more than that projector.
What other sites offer similar TV streams like JTV did?

I have used JTV for marathon watching of so many popular TV shows for the past five years.

I may not really be watching, but when working on your latest start-up or idea it was always good to be watching marathons of my favorite show in the background.
True, so don't engage in behavior like child porn worth burning a zero-day for.
Congrats mate!
that means the user marks the boundary of the object to be manipulated, the rest of the image (including the object's shadow) will be treated as the background. This separation is called a mask in image processing lingo.
Thanks for the downvote...

patio11 if you are reading I mostly linked to the above to get your take on the idea that we can get even more subjective than transitive exchange rate finding. Maybe the Wired article is shorter: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/
TL;DR: Wealthy executive has freedom to choose to not work.
A mask in photoediting is usually a gray scale image that is white where you want to remove things and black where you want to keep things and often is in-between where you want soft edges.

To create these in photoshop you can use the magic wand tool and it selects things with similar colors. But you can create these types of masks in a variety of ways.
I misread the title blogpost and thought that someone had just hacked the servers and changed it to "A Fractal of Bad Design".
If visiting the site itself is prima facie evidence of wrongdoing -- like child porn -- I disagree. In the case Silk Road, I agree: users could merely be motivated by curiosity and therefore browsing isn't on its face a crime.
Ah nice, appreciate your response. I am sure more exchanges will pop up soon. Also, just realized there's https://www.stellar.org/stats/ for basic stats about Stellar and its distribution so far.
A counter-argument is that overtime implements a necessary feedback loop against poor management and project planning. Overworking creative staff may not be optimal for innovation.
"Your account is now closed, and you will be unable to access any settings or content"
I had string of crappy jobs to get finally a good one. I worked at a dead end e-commerce company that's now defunct that provided its own in-house platform to sell to customers for e-commerce sites. It was miserable, everyone could see the company was on life-support, including the owners. The practices we used like editing code on live sites/servers was insanity. I forced myself to start using Git, making me the only one using version control and sneaking in best practices to hone in skills. I took what I could from the job to benefit me (taking on a project to make a mobile version of the platform). I hated the job as the work environment was toxic and it was affecting me outside of work. Even to this day, I have the occasional bad dream of being forced to go back to work for that company but having some sort of exit plan, even vague as mine helped enormously.

Picking a project and assigning it a tech stack is the best way I've found. Simply doing tutorials for the sake of tutorials takes superhuman dedication. My motivation grew also in parallel with the work conditions spiraling downward.

Long story short, I scored a job oodles better than the horrid job and make significantly more, and have happy coworkers and bosses that care. Plus, I've picked up a lot of skills here which I'd never been able to at my crappy job.
Then the fact you don't face the same problem that we do, doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exists.
To be clear: I think it's _great_ that we went out of our way to get those doctors back to the US for treatment. If it would be resource-prohibitive to help everyone, I think it's important to help the helpers first, and we owe that to them.

But the issue with experimental drugs is not one of resource constraint. We _could_ give them to anybody who asks. It's not that we gave them to the doctors because they are more deserving, but rather because they are insiders to the system and thus can get strings pulled and rules bent.
It clearly isn't. I highly doubt people who work 10-12hr days actually really get efficient creative work done for those hours.
So where were you fear-mongers when car radios were introduced, or when drive-thrus and eating while you drive was introduced, or when tape players/CD players were introduced, or when mapping/full touchscreen devices in cars were introduced?

This whole "distracted driving" thing is horseshit. If the road is your PRIMARY focus than you can do all of the things I just mentioned and not die. It's really that easy.
Timezones are fairly simple to handle, it's Daylight Saving Time that brings an inordinate amount of difficulty. Some timezones observe DST, some do not. The switchover to/from DST is at different dates for different timezones - often even different dates for different years in the same timezone! DST makes date/time calculations extremely difficult and error prone. Eliminating DST would be a huge step to bringing some level of normalcy back to time.
Do you have to make sure that email body is empty?
i could have written this. our "designer"/self-professed "front end guru" does everything wrong. everything. i've had to teach her what javascript callbacks, closures, constructor functions, and hoisting are. she's rolling her own "front end framework" (table-based layouts with a few breakpoints thrown in) and separates the code into dozens (dozens) of different CSS and JS files. i'm also getting paid shit wages. but i basically spend 90% of my non-work, non-sleeping time learning and creating things so i can have a portfolio. i don't have a CS degree, so i am taking OCW courses and MOOCs to fill in my knowledge gaps. i'm going to start building an app for a friend soon so i can put something on my github. i cannot rely on my "real" work to provide me with a meaningful portfolio. i recommend you do the same.
Awesome project Shalin, great to see you using your coding powers to tackle serious problems!
Parse seems very awesome, I am only a little concerned with they excessive pricing for the database storage (200 usd/20gb/month)
It's a reference to a fairly well-known piece of PHP criticism:

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
> I only took this job in order to buy some time and create some interesting things but this job barely leaves me any time to do so.

If your interest is in creating "interesting things," you should focus on the ways you can scratch this itch. If you go into your next job looking to "buy some time" you probably won't be any happier than you are now.

> I feel I should know modern frameworks like Rails and Angular to have a better appeal...

Software development is software development.

A lot of jobs, even at prominent/"hot" companies, primarily involve CRUD applications and mundane development tasks ("grunt work"). Proficiency in Rails or Angular might help you land a new job, but it's worth contemplating the very real possibility that the nature of the work at these companies won't be any more engaging to you just because your employer uses a framework du jour.
Why piss on someone elses bonfire? If you don't like what he is doing, just dont donate.

> Sorry, but that's life. I leave work and am often too tired to hit the gym, much less come home and work on my side projects, but I find a way to do it (usually) and save money little by little.

No, that's your life. That you don't have what it takes to change it doesn't mean that someone else can't. Your whole message comes of as kind of bitter and whiny. By your own admission you'd love to do the same thing as the op, but because you wont get others to foot the bill no one else can?
Foul! At 1 min 22 the chair has features that are neither in the original photograph nor in the stock model (the tubes below). The result is far too good to be produced by such a simple approach. I mean the shadow of the chair moves as well, which means they model the floor as well and somehow the tools also miraculously knows how to fill what was in place of the chair...
Your sentence "[...] out of 8 hours, I barely write code for 2 hours" contrasts with the next sentence: "[...] but this job barely leaves me any time to do so."

I am probably misinterpreting, but if you wanted to buy some time I would have thought this meant accepting this job to pay the bills, and then outside of work hours picking up other skills to create some interesting things, which sounds like the right way to build up your portfolio and skillset, especially if you've put in your required 8hrs/day in the day job.

I understand there are family commitments or other activities that may take up time, but in light of your implied situation (i.e. having to accept a less-motivating job to pay bills and buy time), you may want to consider either pushing for a new framework at work (which sounds like an uphill battle), or looking for another job.
Hardly.

Almost all email moves between only a handful of companies. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple. Between them they dominate the landscape. It only takes a handful of engineers and product managers at these companies to decide "let's do this" and pretty quickly such email addresses can become a reality for at least person to person mail.

Of course for them to become usable for signing up to websites, mailing lists etc, will take much longer. But people may not mind having two email addresses if they can put one on their business card.
I like this. Though i would make those button a little smaller and headline a bit bigger and maybe give an option to enable images?
How Cortana made the leap from Halo to Windows Phone
What happens when a cast is invalid?

You have type-safe casts in Haskell, for instance, where the failure is reflected at runtime.

cast :: (Typeable a, Typeable b) => a -> Maybe b

Those are alright.
"We compute a mask for the object pixels, and use this mask to inpaint the background using the PatchMatch algorithm [Barnes et al. 2009]"

PaintMatch algorithm: http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php
It doesn't mention the fact that one day all missiles will come home.
Highly debatable. As pointed out in the comments of the article, the FBI would not require a special warrant to watch people going in and out of a crack house.
Show HN: Overview of issues people submit to bug bounty programs via HackerOne
Well, you may be shocked to hear this, but not everyone is in the exact same situation as you.
Its there. http://leg.gy/about
This is an artifact of how Tor works. VPN services don't suffer from this issue because all traffic gets routed via the VPN at the operating system level.
i would like to know more since i don't see that way.

all my writings, drawings and 3d designs are share with non-commercial licenses. code is always gpl.
If you prefer the console, pudb is an absolutely fantastic curses debugger. I love it.
I applaud this decision. It is very easy to get sucked into "Well, I need to do this so I can support my family, etc." which is by no means a bad idea. After all, every loving parent/spouse wants their family to be stable and well provided for.

At some point - after your work has paid off and you find yourself in a relatively stable place - it is worth asking that question. Success [in terms of finances, accomplishments, etc.] means nothing if you have no one to share it with[1]. I'm glad you made the difficult decision to invest in the people you love and care about. Kudos.

[1] By that, I'm not saying we should overlook the impact one's 'success' [ a loosely defined term] has on others. It is always hard to decide between solving a problem - especially one which you are passionate about - and investing in the people you love.
Awesome, thanks everyone who helped save the videos!
"compose new tweet". for fucks sake, pull over and use your phone.
>'They have the wherewithal to go find another employer if they feel they're being treated unfairly.'

That completely misses the point.

The parent is observing a behavior in the industry as a whole, not a specific employer.

Argue that the industry doesn't evidence this or argue that programmers should become plumbers, but boiling it down to 'go find another job' is nonsense in the context of an entire industry demonstrating the issue you mean to avoid.
FWIW, in some US states you can request documents be provided in electronic formats. The Federal FOIA law is fairly weak.
"Like - having the same characteristics or qualities as; similar to"

Who decides what is worth compromising basic security and a zero-day? In the recent past, the US federal gov't has shown itself far more hostile to those who challenged them, or ratted on their actions than actual dangerous people. Is the "similar to" being a whistle-blower? Maybe being person who criticizes the policies of the gov't while being employed by it? If I trusted my gov't to restrain itself to child pornographers and actual threats to the country (not government, country), I'd sleep easier.
Twitter is testing showing you tweets from accounts your friends follow
“Chunk Scatter”, an HTTP chunked encoding analysis tool
I am a Dane. We use the latin alphabet plus æ, ø and å. Some names, like Søren or Åse, can't be written in pure ascii, but the people who have these names tend to just have addresses like soren@whatever.dk or soeren@whatever.dk. It seems preposterous for me to risk breaking the web over something so relatively trivial.

Heck my name is ascii compatible but it isn't available.
Blog post about it
http://blog.cowchimp.com/chunk-scatter-http-chunked-response...
It's also worth noting semantically what the type of `subtract` reads as. It says that for any two NonNegative typed values you can produce a new value in the type `Maybe NonNegative` which is the type of NonNegatives adjoined with one special "failure" value.

So this is a perfectly well-defined notion of subtraction on non-negative numbers. It reflects the obvious fact that NonNegatives are not closed under subtraction.
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I'm not a CEO, but a working dad. I find that I have met little resistance when I get up to pick up my kids at 5:30 or refuse travel (video chat is cheaper than airfare). Being constantly connected is really helpful. I have my work email and IM on my phone. I can respond to a message in between dinner and bath time. I don't think I'd ever accept a job that didn't let me get away with those things.
I believe receipts would be a good application for QR codes. The reason being that that the store probably has a screen that can display the receipt QR code and a majority of smartphones support QR codes but not NFC (e.g. iPhones).
This is way cool. But how do I know you are not going to catch a severe case of acquihiritis and die unless you start charging money of some kind?

This way I feel almost certain my data will disappear in a few months from now, so am much less likely to invest energy in building a new habit.

It's sad how cynical I've become re: cool free services. It didn't use to be that way. sniff
Great feedback, marred by a pointless "Iron Man reference was juvenile" comment. I for one found the example spreadsheet entertaining, and it made the product more appealing to me as a result.
Yes, that is the one that Photoshop has adopted and renamed " Content Aware Fill"! Details: http://www.adobe.com/technology/projects/patchmatch.html
"I'm an active Pro Account User, will I be refunded?

Yes. You should have already received an email communicating the cancellation and refund process."
While it is true that he had a choice, let's not belittle the difficulty of the decision. This isn't just about "some job". This is choosing to give up one passion to pursue others.

But yes, I agree (and I think he would too) that he is lucky to be in a position in life where he can actually choose.
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It's very interesting to see how advanced the technology inside of them is.
I suspect you misunderstood what I wrote: The army can easily discharge you even if you signed up for 3 years, with a variety of ways. However, YOU cannot quit as easily. That's a world of difference.

And re:transferring - that's another thing that's different in the army; The army can transfer you to, say, Iraq, with a couple of days notice, without giving you the ability to refuse. Ever had anything like that happen in your .com days?
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That's fine - the point is that in those cases the end-user is not the customer, so cost-savings trump user-experience.
Not to hijack your thread, may be a pivot of your idea focusing on early-stage founders.

I would like to see a weekend retreat (along the lines of Sun Valley big-wig retreat, may be not such an expensive affair) for startup founders where they can come together and discuss their challenges one-on-one or in a group, get advise from others, share their experiences.

Strictly a low-key informal/casual affairs, no exhibits, service providers, consultants, non-founders, or big speeches. May be organizers bring in one or two successful and failed startup founders willing to share their experiences at the start and end of the retreat.
I would agree, but then consider what happens after that - the FBI and similar in other countries have no other options left, and the path of least resistance for them is now to go to politicians and ask for Tor itself to be banned.

Though I hate to say it, a system that (accidentally) allows police forces to deanonymise select individuals whilst other actors cannot do so, and even the police cannot do so in bulk all the time, is not a terrible tradeoff. Snowden has made similar remarks, I believe. Of course the supply of zero-days is presumably not infinite. As pointed out, if Tor had more manpower they'd maybe switch to Chrome which is much harder to exploit. So this situation whilst it may not seem ideal is perhaps the frying pan, and as endpoint security improves we may find ourselves in the fire.

I recently proposed on tor-dev that individual relays be able to stop acting as introduction points for specific hidden services, with exactly this scenario in mind. They ignored me of course. They seem to feel invincible.
UK implementation of the EU Working Time Directive allows employees to waive their rights. Mot of Europe doesn't have that model.
So it's not a typo because it was written by a Russian?
Wow that is terrible. In Seattle, I use an online reservation system for Orange Cab, and they just show up on time the next day!

For Yellow Cab, well, they have a phone dispatch still, I actually switched over to Orange Cab just because Yellow's dispatchers are rather rude.
There's also the option of not reading texts while driving, which is safest.
Unless I have misinterpreted the results completely, it requires picking a message header first, then calculating the constants to allow for collisions. If you assume the constants are backdoored, they'd only be good for one kind of message, not arbitrary messages.
So, no. Not a consumer app.