skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments imprison people for minor perceived infractions of the law every day of the week.
Reminds me of the Running Man (1987) scene where, in supposed real-time, a video production editor synthetically composes Arnold Schwarzenegger's and Jesse Ventura's characters together in a deathmatch. One would have to go from rigid-component origami birds on static frames in this CMU paper to semi-solid human figures on moving frames in the movie. 3D models of famous actors' bodies are already made for special effects, painstakingly rendered and composited together in batch mode.

(Personal recollection: there was a solid model Shaq's head at 3d modeling company Viewpoint Datalabs back in the day. His head is huge.)

Stills from Running Man taken at about 01:19 - http://imgur.com/rQlxigG
It's the same actor from the Coin video [1]. How strange.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Sx34swEG0
We're developing a cold aisle containment solution, but it wasn't ready to be photographed.

It's the one major component that I decided to wait on deploying, since there isn't an urgent need to contain a space that is (at first) mostly empty. We're aiming to have it fully contained by the time 1/4 of the cabinet positions are occupied.
No, hence my question.
Would it? Did the FBI plant the malware on general purpose sites that happened to have some child porn, or on specific sites dedicated to child porn?
Don't you think he should look for a job while he keeps his current job?
Camarades.com is back in business and will remain alive as long as I can support it. It's older than justin.tv by a long shot and I don't have any intention of shutting it down. Acquisitions, it is safe to say, are not in the cards.
You should be able to click the 'star' icon on the far right of an app.
Out of curiosity, how would I send an email to somebody who's address is in a language I can't type?
I think they should consider opening a conversation with Mozilla and see what can be worked out.
It's interesting how the mainstream media keep screaming how sexist geeks are for not "accepting" women, but at the same time totally ignoring each and every issue any member of any not-unprivileged group has. All the while I (a self-professed geek) am wondering how my coworker manages both working 9-7 5days a week and being a dad to his 2weeks old twin daughters...
If you use CoreImage you get a ton of GPU-optimized filters for free, plus you can compose them at very little cost. For example if you wanted to crop, scale, rotate, and guassian blur an image, you can do that with one pass through the GPU instead 4.
Their choice of wording already sets this person up to not be a Whistle Blower.

Mole => Wrong Doer => Terrorist
Hover over your app, on the right hand side you should see the "Add to favorites" star.
Apathy?

We created the JSON decoder in dart:convert, the serialization package, the protobuf compiler, and one of the JSON Schema based generators. Our largest internal customer created Streamy.

If you have an easy magical solution that fits more use cases that what we're already using in real production code, and also aren't affected by too much apathy, then we gladly accept contributions to the core SDK, and you can of course always publish your own package.

I'd be very interested in seeing what a team less apathetic that the ones that produced five serialization packages comes up with.
I found myself in a very similar situation to you. I was working at a job that I didn't really like and knew that learning Rails was something that, on my own, would take many months to get proficient at before getting good enough to get a job. The way I broke out of my slump was to attend App Academy. I used the opportunity to really dive deep into Rails, and javascript, but also to meet a bunch of really great new people in a new place. (I had some previous web dev experience but no Rails and very little javascript and it was still absurdly useful :))
Or just use Skype. I've finally convinced my parents to do this after years of them not being convinced. "Calls are cheap enough," they said, "so why bother?"

What sold them on it was video. Now they love it - I even got an SMS the other day from my mother saying: "Can you Skype?"

They are in their mid-80s.
Well, you know about our "free" lunches and amazing hardware "given" by the company, fancy offices, etc. Now you know where the money comes from :-).

Seriously though, there are companies all over the place, from startups where everyone is expected to work 80 hours a week to established companies where people have kids and most employees work 40-45 hours a week with the occasional 50-60 during a release.

Some companies leverage it (the term we use her is "work-life balance").

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/eng?query=work+life+balan...
I really wonder why you seem so intent on complaining about this, while apparently completely ignoring any responses I give you.

Your entire premise that I "just don't like working" is wrong. The concept of "work" does not require employment or a commercial agenda. Had you actually read properly, you would have understood that I actually work more than most people with a job - it's just not under an employment contract.

Go read my previous responses to you:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138603

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138249

Your remark about 'panhandling' is complete nonsense too; the whole point of panhandling is that it's unidirectional; the recipient does nothing useful in return, not even indirectly. That doesn't even remotely apply to this fundraiser.

I've run out of ways to say this nicely.
They announced the end of archiving of videos a few months ago. So there's nothing really to get off of your account.
FF31 on Windows 8.1. Runs really smooth.

I can't currently use Chrome on my computer because they don't support high DPIs :(
Using a HUD to read/write texts/tweets? It seems like the creators missed all the studies about the dangers of distracted driving.

And pilots use HUD's so this must be safe? That would potentially hold water, if the pilots were using huds to tweet, text, and select music while landing... instead they're using huds to display important information...

I like the technology, I just don't like the suggested use cases for it...
Where is the love for vi and other cli text editors?
The FOI laws in the UK contain a reasonableness hurdle:

http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/freedom_of_information/guide/refusing_a_request

You can't ask a state agency to do an unreasonable amount of work to generate the data you ask for & in the future I imagine that threshold will apply to the choice of data format just as it currently does to collecting the data itself.
Right, I was refering to when you need more than that.
KCBO – A Bayesian Data Analysis Toolkit
I'm the worst for not taking my own advice but I've often heard it delivered to me in one form or another when I've been in these similar situations... so here it goes:

What do you like to do? Do more of that.

Easier said than done, I know. It comes off as an awfully curt way of suggesting that you throw out your entire life and reorganize it in a way that you can toy with your passions in pure bliss every waking moment. For those of us with families, mortgages, and responsibilities outside of work such advice seems useless.

But it's not entirely useless. You just have to do more of that thing which excites you. It won't replace the drudgery of your current job (or any possible job you can get thereafter). But if you aim to spend a few hours a week on it for the sake of being happy and doing interesting things you might find an opportunity to make it your thing.

Share your passion with others. Show them what you're up to. Aim to make a little progress each week. Keep it small. Finish one thing at a time. Don't leave dangling threads. Yadda yadda.

The flip side of asking yourself this question is that you have to be honest in order to make progress. You may not actually like programming. Or perhaps what you do like programming is so niche that there isn't an industry for it (notice how few postings there are for BF programmers?). It's okay to enjoy programming as a hobby. Maybe you're actually a carpenter in a world obsessed with gizmos and you'd be better off spending the majority of your days planing and staining wood. Fiddle with computers and neat programs at night. That sort of thing.

You're not living in a Kafka-esque dystopia. There are ways to get out of your rut. You just have to shift your perspective and be willing to do something about it.
Yes definitely interested. If you get the ball rolling please do share the Github.
Hi, Matthijs.

As a dyslexic myself, I just wanted to point out (at least for those who don't know) that dyslexia manifests itself differently in many folks, so while this may be useful for some folks who are dyslexic, it isn't for all of us (like me, for example).

- Jonathan
Why not have children when you're 25, then work from 45 until the end of your life?
Arrow: Better dates and times for Python
When I need to learn something I first brain-storm a small project to work on. Doesn't have to be great or solve any world problems. Maybe it's just something for you. But in that project, be determined to use whatever framework you've set out to learn.

For me, I also have a coding blog (eonjava.com) where I will write an article on whatever I am working on. I have several articles right now that I am working on at once. I try to write them as if I am speaking to someone who has no previous knowledge of the topic so this forces me to learn it from the ground up. It might be worthwhile to start a blog and take this same tactic.
as a general hacker with an interest in learning whatever I can, I am also interested in how one would go about making one. it could be doable just onto a plain windshield, right?
To add a little clarity, a single commit reduced the load on the servers so much that 2/3 of the processing power was no longer needed.

Now read on ...
Single Page Applications with Clojure and CouchDB
Does it mean Gmail now support creating non-latin email addresses for Google account? I tried creating one now (in US) and got: "Please use only letters (a-z), numbers, and periods."
>Basically for me is very hard to understand why I should work for free ( I could want to work overtime for free, but if I am imposed to work overtime I must be paid)

If you are in software engineering, the answer is that the US pays the best salaries in the world. You are not working for free if you are salaried. You sign a contract to fulfill certain duties regardless of the amount of time it takes.
I'm curious about how the Examine team came to the price point for the Stack Guides.

Simply put, $50 is incredibly high for an eBook — particularly when the site itself hosts a large quantity of that information for free.
Maybe it's opposite day?
Is there any report on what services were compromised?
Yeah, here in California we have the luxury to do good production sound almost all the time. Dubbing the voices later all sounds very different, because the recordings are not in the same space as the original production and so on. I forgot to think about that aspect, because here we always record production sound unless there is an impossibly high level of noise (eg from a wind machine or something). With modern cameras it's been very good for the sound department because they are so quiet, whereas older 16 and 35mm film cameras were quite noisy, like a sewing machine, and it required some work to prevent this messing up the dialog recording.
Exactly. It's not just the collecting of the data that's dangerous, but the absolutely belief in it's veracity.

Consider the recent google case where they reported a guy to authorities for child porn...

Couldn't any ISP simply insert child porn into someone's email and report them? Doesn't that mean ISPs could go after anyone they have a personal grudge against. Everyone will believe the evidence the ISP produces.
Not really. The networking costs to stream to that many users is huge. Google has the infrastructure to change the cost structure but it only works with that kind of scale.
shubhamjain, I'm sure you are a good developer and will be able to turn this around. :)
Using apps is no problem (if devs don’t ignore accessibility). iOS comes with a screenreader (VoiceOver) and all the default apps are accessible. Here is a (somewhat boring) walkthrough of the Camera app using VoiceOver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVDojENUGw0

Here is a somewhat more entertaining video of a blind person using Instagram, also on the iPhone with VoiceOver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1e7ZCKQfMA

Here is a video from the same guy, using an app to identify objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeB0BH8rAc8&list=UUld5SlwHrX...

Basically, taping on the screen once will read to you what you just tapped, tapping twice (anywhere on the screen) will then select that. There are also gestures to navigate the different elements on the screen (mostly what you would expect, e.g. swiping forward/backward to got to the next/previous element)

I think Android has a similar screenreader by now (no idea how good it is) and I can only recommend playing around with it to get a feel for it.

I would assume taking good enough pictures is just a question of patience and practice. There is feedback (how much, if anything, was recognized?) so it’s possible to learn and get better at it.
So if it's documented, it's not a bug? Oh man I'm about to save so much time.
No. The people in the industry already know all of the things Snowden is willing to disclose.
Silly of you to say that, really.
Apple, or any other company for that matter, can't just make something as huge and innovative as eg the iPhone every year.
Things will slow down now.
If that actually worked, it would be ideal :)
Let's take a closer look at kadabra9 and see what lies under the hood.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307606
"Ask HN: Advice for discussing a substantial raise with my employer?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100749
"Ask HN: I may have made a mistake taking this job. What's next?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144934
"Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?"

Geez, it sounds like you're dissatisfied with your career path and embittered by a lack of money and/or appreciation, and are taking your resentment out on someone who is willing to do work for essentially free, possibly out of a need to justify your own paycheck.

Kindly pull your head out of your ass, k?
Wow ... this comment is so true especially in Germany.

Most of our Software Development jobs here in Germany deals with business application at is very boring and contains mostly mundane tasks. I have worked for some companies already and i really got to think the work is mostly the same boring shit!

At my current job we have a load of "slaves" from companies like Accenture, CSC and the like... they also report the same shits from a lot of other places :(

I really lost all hope ........
This is just a subjective perception of the sentiment. In the end of the day it's just another tool that fits a specific purpose. Besides, didn't the top package contributor leave recently? https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3...
Depending on the person I'm talking to, I have two approaches.

1. Do you trust the government that will be in place 20 years from now? Most of those people are now teenagers.
2. We don't know what law changes may happen in the future. The data gathered can make you look like someone who will break one of those laws. Ex post facto (protection for someone who broke a law before it was in effect) has been overturned by the Supreme Court in specific cases in the past.
Microsoft has lost about $1.7B on Surface so far
"my nephew is good with computers - he can do that!"

Haha um yes.

Thanks for the thoughts. Your suggestion about partnering up with some companies that already have a foot in the door is a great idea. I'll definitely be thinking that through.
Have you looked at https://www.firebase.com/ (paid service)?
yes I agree that this looks like a good step, vendors should also probably release some tools to verify the integrity of their firmwares if possible.
I'd love to see some full-size screenshots if anyone wants to share.
"is really just using it as a just-in-time proxy for some other currency"

This is true of every currency. Do you think all the manufacturers, laborers, parts, raw materials suppliers of that [insert any product here] you just purchased in US dollars is paid for with US dollars?
Is there a service with a billion users? :-)
Milton Friedman – The Negative Income Tax (1968) [video]
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We changed the article's linkbait title to part of its first sentence.
I was in the same situation for more than four years. The only reason I stayed for so long was at the time my career wasn't very important to me -- my main focus was my band, and even though it was infuriating, my horrible job afforded me the time and money to be able to focus on music.

When the time came for me to think about moving on, I did a few different things. First off, I went to udemy.com and brushed up on my framework skills. At the time I was a front end developer, so I too courses in jQuery and Angular.js, then took a refresher course in Java. From there I started doing volunteer development work for local non-profits so I could round out my portfolio.

After that, my job hunt was pretty easy. All-in-all my ramp up took about 6 months or so, and it lead to me getting a job that I love.
Sorry for any confusion with the fiber optic cabling; that connects to the uplinks on our production top of rack switches. The copper cabling is used to uplink our management switches and for serial consoles on the switches and CDUs.

The excess unlit fiber capacity lets us install more switches or bring up more uplink ports for a particular rack, as necessary.

One thing that we had to cut for length is how our cabinets are built: we work closely with our systems integrator on a few rack designs that we re-use often, and they build, test and cable (with cat6) every server in the rack according to that design. Once a rack rolls onto the datacenter floor, we bolt it down, connect ground and power leads, and run short patch cables from the switch uplinks to the patch panels suspended from the ladder rack above each cabinet position.
Good tip. I've been looking seriously as some standing desks. But is it exhausting to stand for a full day? And what do you do footwear wise? Is barefoot standing the way to go?

Thanks!
Yeah, I've added the functionality to toggle the article on headline click, such a obvious thing that you don't think about it. Still, I kept the Read button for extra clarity.
OwnCloud 7 pulls in users and open source developers
No questions, just a congrats :-)
Yup! He's the guy behind Sandwich Video, which makes a ton of ads for startups: http://sandwichvideo.com/
From experience here is some of the CM tool downsides that might help you

Chef - Ruby DSL is hard if you don't know Ruby. Lots of infrastructure to manage (if not using hosted Chef). On the fly orchestration requires 3rd party tools or Enterprise License.

Puppet - Custom DSL is json-y which for some is easier than Ruby. Scaling problems because puppetmaster compiles the manifests (instead of having nodes compile). 2 tools/interfaces for config vs orchestration (mcollective) gets confusing and not very consistent with features.

Ansible - pretty much a lot of what the article said. A bit slow and custom loops/dsl sometimes gets confusing. Managing hosts file is mostly the only "infrastructure" you need, but still is annoying. No Windows support (yet)

Salt - Not as mature so it can't do some advanced stuff Puppet/Chef can do. Last I looked at web UI (Halite) it was not much to look at. Hardly any integration into 3rd party tools (most favor Puppet)

Don't get me wrong, I love CM tools and the pros list would be 1000x longer than cons. But they all have some big downsides that hopefully will get better in the future.
I do this occasionally if I'm updating an old project or something as a means of making sure I walk through the code and understand what it's doing. Might be silly, I guess, but it helps me.
Right, that's a legit concern. How about an app that quickly loads up all the language keyboards in the OS and lets you pop into one temporarily for the purposes of typing one thing in notepad or just straight into the clipboard?
Are JavaScript developers too obsessed with speed?
Async might be a fad
This seems really cool, I'd definitely want to try it out first though.
>I also agree that it's time for unions

That will definitely not help bring prestige to the field. Professions that require unions are seen as being so easy to enter that they need to form unions to avoid the effects of the free market.
The Constant Gardener, after a John Le Carre book.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/
Those are my thoughts; I'd like to hear counter arguments.
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