skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZeroTurnaround closes a release management product
CBS to make direct-to-internet TV shows for services like Netflix and Amazon
Adblock was invented on the browser to stop ads just like these.
Same here. I wish people would get over this hijacking of scroll fad. It's really annoying.

Other than that, nice theme!
If you are in the U.S., it is likely listed on the Consumer Confidence report that your municipal water supplier is required (by the EPA) to provide:

http://water.epa.gov/drink/local/

It's not monthly, but they aren't changing it all the time either.

Here's some examples of them:

http://dpw.lacounty.gov/wwd/web/YourWater/AnnualWaterQuality...

http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=634

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/wsstate.shtm...
smoothlapse makes more sense to me
12 Dinge, die du über Netflix wissen solltest
Can you wash the carbon fiber dust out of the lungs?
I can confirm this. They say that the dust becomes dangerous above 650°C. The fibers become even smaller and reach the lungs.
I tried for O, but was told my resume was not strong enough, even with a PhD from a good European university, and several a-rank publications.
When I was younger, I used to work for a commercial furniture company. Most of our work was to go into closed down companies and dismantle their furniture. Take it back to the warehouse, refurb it and then resell it. Typically used cubes would cost $1-$5 cube (plus labor costs to retrieve and refurb) but then re-sold for several hundred and sometimes thousands per cube.
Tackling the gender misbalance in tech: The Women in IT Awards opens nominations
Might be, but it also shows how many C and C++ developers still don't care about static analysis tools, given the amount of issues that always get found and used as advertising material.
Sounds nice. Easy to visualise and close enough to a crucible design (toroidal volume intersected by a cube off axis and oblique to the central axis of the toroid) I once heard of in the days of Fortran.
Hydra.app taken down and renamed to Mjolnir.app
Well, taxes for individuals with out a lawyer or a good accountant. I think there if you spent the time making a deal with Quebec they would accomodate.

Secondly, it is cheap to hire someone for translation and companies should launch with multiple languages. It just increase the global audience for the product. I am sure YC could develop the capacity to translate the product at little cost.

Peixe Urbano, Baidu ... etc clones eat up the market that VC backed startup could accomodate for.

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/02/21/against-copycat-debat...

Winter... well try the rain in BC for a winter. Again I have no issue, I am from the Peg (Winnipeg) where it was -58 last year. It is the same weather as NYC and close to Boston (MIT, Harvard)

I know there is alot of development capital floating around.

http://www.investquebec.com/quebec/en/financial-products/smb...
Takeaways:

* Network partition tolerance can be designed around, assuming infinite time and money

* Network partition tolerance depends on the application

* Mitigating potential failure requires having a very long view on very fine details

* Most organizations will not be able to engineer solutions to address all network partition-related outages
Hey cool! I've been working on something similar. http://dynamictyped.github.io/Griddle/

I'm glad to see more components coming to React :)
> [Can't] React to currency fluctuations on a tick by tick basis. FX is just so fast and precise.

I don't see any reason why they couldn't aggregate prices and compute them tick-by-tick? JavaScript can run really fast these days

> [Can't] Use this in a real world setting. I can't see any privacy policy or contract indicating what happens when shit goes wrong. We are talking about money here, you can't just half ass this kind of thing.

I mostly agree and I wouldn't use it, but if you're just starting out and can't afford to build your own platform, it might be worth considering?

> There is a reason that professional FX traders mix FX spot quotes from multiple sources, we use 4 at the fund I work at and some use up to 10 sources.

We use 15 :) (Although two are internal flow from other desks)

> Plus they use FXCM which had this new out about them

We use FXCM. If they quote and fill the best price, I don't really care how they arrived at it. But that's just me.
Was it a love for Native American culture that caused the original European settlers to come to the US? No, it was raw opportunity. Unless you're talking about Native American culture, then ALL culture in the US was constructed by immigrants.

Even Native Americans were immigrants as they crossed the Bering land bridge ;)
Mandlebrot set a bit over the maths level for intended group, but other repeated maps like logistic equation might be OK. I'll go with the cylinders first!
Have you ever attended a GDC or used console devkits?

Valve will have to do lots of work just to try to pull off the same quality of developer support console vendors offer.
And apparently Acer is about to ship a Chromebook with the K-1 as the graphics card: http://gizmodo.com/acer-chromebook-13-hands-on-gaming-guts-i...
8 Unusual Businesses From Rural India
Google early on made decisions about code size that made sense at the time, but now seem to be a serious limitation (at least in the interim). FB's decision on getting around this architectural limitation isn't all that bad. What I don't understand is how their solution can affect other applications. As an iOS dev screwing up my app is one thing but being able to screw up other apps seems like an even worse architectural problem.
I'm not arguing for complacency, but comparing the transmissibility of ebola to the flu is just simply inaccurate.
There are also a lot of great smartphone apps. Select OS scroll down and there is a table which apps allow you to edit: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile

Pushpin is my favorite for iOS right now, because you can just mark the location and while moving on you can select what type of POI it is. It's also all in your edit history so at home you can for example then look up the restaurant and add more information in the browser. http://pushpinosm.org/
I'm curious what everyone is talking about, I'm also on Mac, but I haven't noticed anything unusual about the scroll. It might have lagged a little bit initially (not really sure), but other than that it seems to be functioning normally for me.
They're racing against other cars, cars to the right, cars to the left, cars in front. I don't see what the aerodynamic profile is meant to inform us?
Stocks in the US are quoted to 2 decimal places because of reg NMS rule 612 (the subpenny rule). Any displayed quotes above $1.00 are priced in pennies and below $1 you can quote in increments of $0.0001. Trades can however happen in subpenny increments. For example retail internalizers may offer subpenny price improvement (e.g. market is 20.00 x 20.01 - retail market sell order gets filled at 20.0001). Also non-displayed bids and offers may exist at subpenny increments (e.g. market is 20.00 x 20.01 and there is a non-displayed midpoint peg buy at 20.005 at nasdaq - incoming marketable sell will match and print at 20.005).
Not sure about that. If you are in Tech (or IT as they like to call it here), you can probably qualify for the Knowledge Migrant permit ance chances are the process is a lot faster. Took me about 10 days to get a work permit in the Netherlands but I did have an employer willing to sponsor me. Another friend of mine (also in IT) took him about 1 week also.
People especially. I get very cross.
I have and it's awful. I want to just type in the street address of my office in St Paul and have it find the right thing.

Instead I have to type in the full city, state, region, etc. It doesn't know "St Paul" so I have to search for "Saint Paul." It gives me three different results for "Raymond Ave". Two are in the same city, except "Ave" vs "Avenue". None of the three are in St Paul, but my office very much is in St Paul. Which one do I pick? I picked one and it doesn't contain my street address, so I can't pick anything. Now what? I press Back to select another of the three identical street names, but it doesn't remember what I typed so I have to type R-a-y-m all over again.

And that's just trying to find an address. I haven't even gotten to the directions functionality. It's a usability nightmare.
Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem
European countries immigration systems are not equal. Just getting a job in Switzerland if you are foreigner is considerably harder. The employer has to demonstrate that no native would be able to your job. The government will send him unemployed locals and employer has to write what exactly disqualified that local. It is considerable hustle, so most of them do not bother.

Plus, as a foreigner in Switzerland, you will always be looked down upon. It is hard to get accepted as equal.
I think it's just that his website is under heavy load from HN users and it doesn't seem to be using a CDN.
My wife and I have been doing this for the past 5 years with two children that are now 3 and 5.

The key enabler for both of us has been working remotely. We have a good preschool just across the street, so there is no commute to work or school for either of us. In the first year for the second child we had an in-home nanny and we were both in the house in the event that she needed something.

This arrangement provides enough cushion to absorb the occasional out of town trip, sick kid (we trade off when that happens), and just being around to let the lawn guy in, house cleaner, etc.

Also we live in a low cost area and work remotely for CA-based companies so our income is in a sweet spot.

So my advice is to start paying for lawn/house care and find a way for one or both of you to eliminate the commute. This will allow you to keep working while making you feel less overwhelmed.
I'd love to be able to hit the reset button on my FB profile, undo all the profiling they've done on me and start again. Same thing for Google. What does it look like to be a vanilla user?
I'm A Thinker, Not a Do-er
What does your development community look like?
Cloud 9 IDE 3.0 Now Runs in Ubuntu Containers via Docker
until they're blacklisted by everyone because nobody revokes their compromised certs because it costs money to do so

StartSSL's heart is in the right place but they're throttling the edge and very close to being ostracized completely.
"It will make tons of money, sure, but their integrity is worth far more."

Tell that to them when they go out of business.
Hiring has been a bit tough here, but we have also tried Ireland, Bulgaria..etc... Good people are hard to find period

My kingdom for a fullstack capable graphic designer.
I am a Canadian-American, and I wish Canada actually did more to exploit US immigration dysfunction. Unfortunately, I think the weather gives Canada a bad rap. I'm not even joking, Canada needs a tropical island. That's really the last step to really compete with sunny California.
I'm using Locus Pro on Android - I don't think it's using OSM data exclusively, yet I wouldn't go back to Google Maps: the ability to have truly offline, vector maps (not "eh, just cache these few tiles, that should be enough") and track recording are the killer features for me.
Loved it! Also check the panels page, nice compositions! I decided to use this in my.project. Good work!
Though I'm all in to scientific development and the benefits of these new materials, I still want to point out, that nor carbon-fiber or graphene exist in nature in large quantities for more than one reason, while diamond and graphite do. Now the question should be .. why is that?
Well, with respect to Google search, you can just use an incognito window.
Startup Institute Boston – Summer of 2014 Class [Slideshow]
Entitled? No, you have to demonstrate you can get a job (to get to work in Sweden. Other countries may have other rules). Either by actually getting a job or by showing you have required skills.

There are no limits apart from that.
Tesla Invites Hackers for a Spin
Well, the first version took weeks. I'm sure it will only get faster.
Game of Clowns
Reduce size of animated GIFs, automatically convert to WebM and MP4
Mostly I want it to be smarter. More automatic. I know that's a very hard problem.

As an example, I used YourNavigation.org. I zoomed in on my rough location, containing St Paul and Minneapolis. I typed my office's street address into the side bar thingy, hit enter, and... ended up in California. Whoops.

Okay, type in the city name too, and it found the right place. Great! Now as my destination, I typed in my home address, including the city name. Not found. Dammit, I'm going back to Google Maps. (Actually, I tried 4 or 5 variations. Turned out it wanted "W Streetname Ave", not "Streetname Ave W", even though that's what it says on our street signs.)
Startup A-list: 100 of the top posts from Fred Wilson, PG, and more
Animated GIF-based videos are spreading like wildfire around the web. Cloudinary can automatically convert these animations to MP4 and WebM video formats to dramatically reduce their file size and bandwidth usage while improving viewer experience. You can also dynamically resize, crop and manipulate these animations in the cloud, to best match your graphic design.
> If its true, it has no effect.

As discussed, it would mean, for example, that we cannot judge anyone (and at the same time claim to be rational).

To give an example: The death penalty should no longer exist, because it is solely "justified" by judgement along the lines of "person X is evil and therefor doesn't deserve to live". There are no evil people, only people who do what they have to do, given the variables in "their system". That means there should be no "punishment", but emotionally neutral measures to prevent the suffering from happening again (i.e. locking the person up). It's pretty clear to me that a much more humane society will be the result of this understanding. And who wouldn't want that?

Edit: "rational" in the sense of "logical".
That's it! Why doesn't Microsoft add this to their store or, better yet, bundle it with Windows 8 and Windows phone ??

They may not be killer apps but it is one way for Microsoft to distinguish itself from Apple and Google.
Just a very tangential point to the post, but the author mentioned a FB employee trying to connect him with the PR department. Exactly what does FB have in mind in doing that?
Nice -- I didn't know about this site. Added the component I've been working on to it :) Thanks for sharing!
Definitely needs something like this. I mean Brasov and Timisoara have a cost of living of about $2000 - now that would mean you'll live at least an upper-middle-class lifestyle.

For one person you can probably get by with about $1000 easily.
On the topic of free e-books related to signal processing, I really love this book by Vivek Goyal, Martin Vetterli, and Jelena Kovacevic: www.fourierandwavelets.org

I think their treatment of the subject is more 'modern'. Classical signal processing is the stuff that you will find in Orfanidis's book in the OP and other classics such as Lyons, Oppenheim/Shafer, etc. Modern signal processing involves more harmonic analysis. There has been a lot of work, since the late 80s in the areas of wavelets, dictionary learning, etc. which you won't find in 'classical texts' on signal processing. In some universities these topics are taught in 'advanced' signal processing courses, at honors or graduate level. I hesitate to call this kind as 'advanced' signal processing, because I feel you need the same kind of prerequisites for 'classical' and 'modern' signal processing: linear algebra, Fourier analysis, basic probability, 'random processes', etc. In fact, I think 'modern' signal processing taught at the undergrad level also has the added benefit of being a gentle application-oriented introduction to real analysis for EE students.
How to find a technical co-founder?
Thanks. I looked at the Acton report: http://dpw.lacounty.gov/wwd/web/Documents/Water%20Quality%20... and it stated specifically that chlorine was being added (not fluoride.) Also, fluoride as 0.19 (before or after fluoridation?.. it wasn't specifically stated that it was being added, only that it was to help with teeth strength as a table note. NY was 1 ppm) But what I think is needed is precise analysis of ALL constituents of the actual fluoride additive used at the treatment plant. Some of those constituents could corrode pipes too (let alone one's body,) leading to further contamination. The people supplying the fluoride can provide that type of information, and it can be linked from those water websites without much effort.
Yeah, I'm more likely to go with this option, rather than spend over a grand on a video that may end up looking like crap anyway.
Communicating Between Controllers In Angular
I'd like to see what percentage of app sales come from Gingerbread. My guess is that people that are willing to buy apps are not* using a 3 year old phone. (*edited)
Disney:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/33.81185/-117.91878&lay...
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/28.3690/-81.5488&layers...
I guess you never worked on a ‘business’ application (as opposed to ‘social’ app, or a ‘game’)?

For example, let’s look at the screenshots below from a typical line-of-business app (AWS console). How do you think the UI should look like, without using tables?

http://www.gregarnette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ec2-re...
You should try and get implication and conclusion sorted out. I think you slipped in a negation somewhere.

If there is no free will and I stop judging, then yes, obviously we can stop judging.

But if there is no free will and after your explanation I still judge, then no, we cannot.
The correlation in Europe tend to be between parental education level and child education level. The correlation between parental income and education level of the child is weaker.

Being educated does not imply being wealthy.
They do frame selection first, then create a 3D scene from the fewer frames. So that light pole might not have been in enough of the chosen frames to get a good 3D model of it. And the first stage has a pretty low-res 3D model because the number of points just gets crazy, so the light pole probably wouldn't have been modeled anyway.
Yup, this comment times 100. It looks nice on Windows. But it's just terrible on Mac.
If there is no free will, then it is spurious to claim anyone is 'rational'. That loses all meaning.
One of the jobs of the PR department is to fill in reporters with details about the company's activities.
Should I study towards a MD/PhD in light of advances in AI/robotics/automation?
I'm considering becoming a radiation oncologist. Specifically, I would like to do a BSc in Electrical Engineering plus pre-med, followed by a joint MD/PhD (EE) degree. A BSc takes four years, and MD/PhD programs take an average of 7-8 years. On top of that there is a one year internship and a residency requirement of at least five years. All in all, it would take me 18 years to get to my dream job; even if I did away with the PhD and only went for a regular MD, it would still take 14 years to become an oncologist.

My question is twofold:

(1) Will AI/robotics/automation have made most health care jobs redundant (or at least reduced their financial viability) by then, making such an investment (nearly two decades of opportunity cost) futile?

(2) Provided physicians are still needed in the future, is it at all possible to start a healthcare technology company on the side to make use of my technical knowledge while working as a doctor part-time? Would hospitals or private practices be prepared to accommodate me? Would it be financially feasible?

Thank you.
Contest responds to intimidation letters from former employer
Ghost 0.5 milestone release
I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything. Also I guess you could check-in every where at once all the time.

I didn't think about the collateral damage it could cause to others, which is to bombard your "friend's feeds". This is also interesting because, well you can destory facebook in this manner. If enough people are peeing in the pool, people are going to get out.

Maybe I should write a greasemonkey script to accomplish just that. Not that I want to destroy facebook, but that if i wanted to destroy my data this would be the way because facebook doesn't give me that option.

Also does everyone else think it's creepy when your friends stop using facebook and old "likes" pop up on your feed to make it look like that user hasn't left?
Brain Training Can Nurture The Genius In All Of Us
Only up to the limits of Google being able to track you anyway. There's IP address, user agent, and any other HTTP header information your browser leaks.
Enabling Standard IoT
I've developed control software for LED panels of the kind you see in Times Square a few years back. While that was for a different manufacturer, the hardware and control techniques aren't much different. The article makes it sound a lot more high-tech than it really is. They are interesting devices, especially when you get into strange shapes, but it's basically irrelevant how big your display is. The resolution matters, as well as the refresh speed. That's where the basic challenges lie.
To be fair, that one salary is likely $100-150K/year. The median household income in SF is $72K, so you're probably going to be OK.

Plus, the partner who's not working has some very real imputed salary value. In fact, the economic value of a non-working partner is much higher in a high cost of living area than a low cost of living area. If they save you from paying for professional childcare, the expense saved may be $4K/month rather than $500/month. Ditto for other services, especially meals at home.

As a Canadian who did three years of immigration horseshit in the US with a non-working spouse, the real issue is that your spouse is making a huge sacrifice of their freedom. Being a kept person can chip away at your sense of self-sufficiency and self-worth. The people I met in my situation all left the country (the majority) or had kids (one couple).
it's possible to unlike everything you've ever like isn't it? I'll try that one day.
I'm confused on how it can screw up another application? Aren't all the applications sandboxed?
On the data site definitively.

On the general UI, so and so. Searching for a place can be confusing as the results are often verbose and redundant. Overpass is great for the advanced user (and i really hope it sticks around), but unusable for the average user, where google is miles a head (search for pubs in $city for example).

On the navigation and mobile site I'm not convinced.
Actually it says that it took 13 minutes to process 23,700 frames! :)
> Is there a Big Data / NLP / Machine Learning scene in Vancouver?

Not a big one; I could think of one or two companies but it's nowhere near e.g. NYC. But that's just specialization, just like there aren't many advertising businesses in SF.

London seems better for ML if you're into that.
> If there is no free will, then it is spurious to claim anyone is 'rational'. That loses all meaning.

No, it doesn't. I mean, the rational actor model is evidently false for lots of other reasons, but its a purely mechanistic model but for the utility function (on whose nature it is completely neutral), so rationality is just as compatible with the non-existence of free will as it is with the existence of free will (in fact, rationality requires either that there be no free will or that it be confined entirely within the utility function.)
This is for panoramas, not 3d objects right? I meant merging photos of an object from different angles.

Edit: It's not even working. Photographed something from different angles, synth it, and it appears on their website as a slideshow. Like a normal jquery slideshow except you need Silverlight®.
For me, it overrides natural scrolling (direction remains the same) but the scroll amount and position doesn't work as expected.