skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I see this, I kind of think what the author usually means is "Is X the new Rails?". Ruby itself was around many years before Rails existed, but didn't enjoy that much popularity. Once Rails became very popular Ruby became very popular.
It has three purposes:

- potential future GUI solution to end the sad HTML5-only lock of the web;

- useful for quick dirty prototypes/samples for full OpenGL tutorials;

- generating HN karma: just find any old OpenGL sample (quality doesn't matter), convert it to WebGL, post on HN (make sure to add 'WebGL' and 'JavaScript' to title) - ka-ching!
Remember that a large monitor occupied 80% of your desk space back then.
Regional government doesn't even need a housing plan or funding. They just need to allow people to build.
for example, they fixed critical bugs in clients updates... new bugs could easily be introduced (on purpose or not)...
The Skully AR-1 helmet started quite literally as a fever dream by founder and CEO Dr. Marcus Weller, who had been in multiple motorcycle accidents before. He dreamt of a helmet that could give him HUD directions and GPS, and even let him get a clearer view of what’s behind him. He woke up in the middle of the night and spent an hour looking for this helmet, certain that it must exist in the world.
It's $200k/month worth of Bitcoin. The 'liquidity' we're talking about here is converting Bitcoin into local currency that you can purchase things with.
>> "Do you really want to live in a building owned by your employer? I lived in corporate housing when I went to a corporate school and when your relationship with that entity ends, you become homeless fucking _real_ fast."

Just make sure the lease includes some clause that requires around 3 months notice if being evicted due to losing your job. If enough employees refuse to use the housing unless they are given those kinds of assurances the employer would have to cave.
Genetic Programming: Mona Lisa Source Code and Binaries
Yep, undoubtedly they are breaking the law. But no one appears to care.

Ss I was reading your comment, I was thinking "There are so many unpermitted remodels in SF I wonder why this person actually paid for permits?" If you try to buy a house, I would say every single house I saw in SF had some sort of unpermitted remodelling, and no one cares, not even the real estate agents.

It's almost as if SF likes to penalize the people that follow the law, which is backwards and sad.
No problem, I thought maybe I don't understand some latest techno-speak ;-)
> Then, if someone writes a popular API wrapper, Khronos can take that API and standardize it as the next version of OpenGL, no design-by-committee required.

If that wrapper actually supports all the features evenly, and doesn't favor a particular implementation. Is that possible outside a design by committee?
So, does this mean American capitalism eventually gets beaten by a panda?
Agreed. I was just just about to throw money at them to read the algorithm implementations - then I realised there is no code to read.
They also only need one connection; they can simply split the data across all the workers. They will need to send shares from all the workers if they're not solo mining, but even those are less than 100 bytes each, and if that becomes too much of a nuisance they can just solo mine.
Desks were smaller, the big desktop computer and big CRT took up more space, and one was more likely to have a bunch of paper, books, and other stuff taking up space on the desk too then than today.
Regarding 2)

Why wouldn't it work for PDF's?
If you're able to get the file itself, you should be able to OCR it...

Is there anything obvious that I am missing in regards to PDFs?
Hmm, I think his first two example are parody to show how absurd the random development happening today has become.

Sure, once Silicon Valley fills SF, it can go North and fill-in Marin instead of biting the bullet and building some damn high rises itself. Also, some National Parks need to be developed to feed that Valley-generated housing demand that the Vally itself has no intention of satisfying itself.
Keep in mind also that today when we plan a desk space, we plan for a mouse or trackpad and a keyboard, and we don't do much else.

People then still did lots of paperwork and needed space for other things. Of course they didn't have space for a mouse yet.
Would this experience be any different for an American trying to work in Canada, or somewhere in Europe? I haven't tried it, and honestly don't know. But the tone of your comment is a little aggrieved, as if a non-US citizen should of course find it easy to get his dream job in the U.S. My Dad recently sold a house in Canada, and he can't get the money out of the country for six months. Why? Because he's not Canadian. The rules in Canada were written to benefit Canadians, not well-off guys from the U.S. who want to be able to move money easily. It's the same with jobs. If your dream job is in the U.S. you can always try to immigrate, I suppose. At that point a lot of these issues would go away (and I am sure that's not much easier a road).
I wasn't doing too much computing in 1985, but I don't think the issue was so much about small desks as it was large computers. Likewise, mice were larger then, too. The whole "smaller computers" is still a really recent thing, despite the recentness of the whole "computer" thing in general.
Competing with appointment reminder now ;)
Not quite yet. I usually wait until the semester is in full swing before I make purchases. Both for time and money's sake.

That will be the one I more than likely go with. I was worried about 2GB of RAM coming from a Windows background, 2GB isnt anything. But apparently it runs fine in Ubuntu.
I saw it in the app store. Apparently it just imports certificates into
Android's cert store -- something that you can easily do with a browser, email
or file sharing app.

But it's a sign that support for self-signed certs is coming. Along with this
pull request, that he just closed (not sure what the status is):

https://github.com/rfc2822/davdroid/pull/194
Haxe would be a perfect language to express shared algorithms in. Grab an algorithm, and transcompile it to your favorite language.
White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ headed by HealthCare.gov fixer
A Holographic Origin for the Big Bang
Boost VC's official response to the BitLicense. Please sign
I think he means that the licensing of MS is so much fucked up and confusionary ( It is basically the only thing I really hate of MS) that in the end even trying to do your best to have a perfect coverage, you end up with something wrong.
"There a deep emotional issues causing your anxiety, probably from your childhood."

Um, what?
I have an old blogpost around the same idea that many people contributed versions in different languages to: http://kvz.io/blog/2009/06/10/create-short-ids-with-php-like...
Hope it's useful
As a general rule, if you're a newcomer why would you bother with the old thing when you can skip it and go straight to the present and future?

I'm waiting until Sept before I jump in with Swift but that's only because I've got one more release before iOS 8. After that, I'll move to Swift for all my new code.
There is no reason factories like this would WANT to disrupt the Bitcoin network if it's their source of income.. If any organization can get enough hashrate to topple the network, they will lose all that money by toppling the network.
We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won't Do Anything About It
That sound pretty good to me! Can you tell me about the salary range of those MD/PhDs doing research and about the cut such an institution gets? I'm asking I'm guessing the hours that your institution are sane (read: 9-5ish)? Thanks a bunch.
It would be so neat if password management software would rotate passwords for you. 1Password is 1/2 way there issuing alerts but when you have 50 - 100 alerts it's a long and boring chore changing them even once.
One of my favourite passages discusses what they tried to discourage in the office (from Chapter 11 – http://www.wordplace.com/ap/ap_chap11.shtml )

> Things like celebrating birthdays, throwing baby showers, collecting for gifts, selling Tupperware or Avon, managing sports tournaments, running betting pools, calling home to keep a romance alive or hand out chores to the children, gossiping or flirting with co-workers, getting a haircut, going to a medical or dental appointment, running to the cafeteria for a snack, coming in a little late or leaving a little early, taking Friday afternoon off, and griping about working conditions were all inappropriate when done on company time.

This stands really in stark contrast to companies today. Can anyone who has been in the industry long enough chime in on how they feel changes like these have affected things like morale, productivity, etc?

Edit: grammar.
Sure, there is a 47W i7-4960HQ in rMBP which has significantly higher power consumption than what I am looking for. If you look at low power U versions of i5 and i7, they seem almost identical (with i7 having larger cache and a bit higher frequency; both are dual core and have hyperthreading). In desktop, you can see i5 is without HT contrary to i7.

If Broadwell can bring 20W quadcore i5/i7 - that would be even better! Currently only BayTrail Pentium J can offer that.
Grids and Graphs
Becula is fine on Linux [server], but I'd never run it on Windows Server again, it has no effective IO throttling (just number of concurrent jobs throttling, which is ineffective). On Linux you can fix it using security groups with limitations placed on IO specifically (at the kernel level).

It is better at several large files than thousands of small files. In fact when you throw millions of small files at it it chokes pretty bad (CPU skyrockets). So if you need to backup an SQL server data store you'll be just fine, but thousands of XML files? Maybe not.
The story of the WWE and some of the larger-than-life people that made it famous is simply fascinating.

In particular, the story of Andre the Giant is one of my favorites:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1930105-remembering-andre...
Would love to but not at the minute because it has hard coded credentials for eBay API in it. It's on my list as a TODO to tidy it up. Will stuff on github and post a Show HN on it soon :)

I've got one that monitors amazon prices for sudden lows as well.
of course, it wouldn't be hard for a facebook engineer to write graph queries that would ignore such obvious noise, thereby preserving the original information they had on you.

You'd have to slowly blend it in to your normal activities so that the abnormal behavior would be harder to classify.
The pi man
I remember people at my first job freaking out on how fast I could navigate complex GUIs with the mouse.

It probably helped that I played RTS and FPS for years, lol.
Currently, you can play through the solutions using the left and right arrow buttons underneath the board.
ZocDoc is certainly different, but for a small office $240 a year is easier to digest than $3600 a year. If it's for a group practice, then it's a different story. I don't think ZocDoc is particularly great with marketing and outreach, it's basically Yelp + appointment scheduling.
The best beer in baseball
Show HN: Yett – Stellar network stats
Nonsense. If anything, the nature of our civilizations have caused the atrophying of "debate muscles" and technology has allowed us, more than any other time in history, to actively research more viewpoints and narratives than ever before. The information/medium is there, the problem is the people.
It's not that we don't have the ability to be responsive, and somethings are. My desktop is still laggy at times, (though it's gotten a lot better when I switched to a lighter DE (for obvious reasons)) and my phone still has issues just loading text messages without me having to wait multiple seconds.

That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. A Text Messaging app shouldn't have perceivable load time. My phone shouldn't freeze doing a transition between desktops. Computer desktops shouldn't take time to open up a menu.

We've come a long way, and have tons more raw performance, but I just feel that we squander it on things that don't add any value.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=prostitution+internet#!/story/fore...
Desks weren't small, computers were enormous.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-... shows a desk that is way larger than the typical desk one had at home, with its separate tray for the keyboard.

Even if you had such a desk, that tray doesn't have room for a mouse.

Edit: also, mice were terribly unresponsive. You had to move the mouse for decimeters to get from one edge of the screen to the other, even if that screen had only 640 pixels.
Uber's Strategy: Appeal to People, Not Power?
Toppling it isn't the only option, though. Threatening to topple it could be pretty lucrative for a while.
> We know how to build out our cities, but for some reason that is politically impossible in the Bay Area. It's a pretty despicable abrogation of responsibility.

The most insane part is that the drive between SF and Palo Alto/MountainView on the MAIN highway (101) is surrounded by miles of uninhabited land. Especially just north of Redwood city.

I have no idea why this is the case. Are they keeping prices astronomically high to preserve marsh fauna?
Apparently Duck Dynasty is similar to Cosmos....
Here are some real time views (that might be showing) some of those LED screens. In case you are not familiar with Times Square.

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=tstwo_h...

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=tsrobo3

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=tsstree...

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=tsrobo1

The first link seems to point to one of those screens a lot of time, but you may end up see a bunch of tourist instead depending on where it's pointing...
How Twitter Cards Work (technical)
Ah, ok. Does anyone have a sense of how common this is vs. the arrangement at US airports?
Garbage collection ? pff, it's never going to work.
Basically, regional government needs a big legal stick able to knock down all local objections to building more housing the regions where the jobs are.

However, to get that, regional government needs all the other stuff - a housing plan that illustrates why you need to allow people to build near the jobs and so-forth. Given the present environment, they'd probably need a good deal of money for lawyers even once you have a state or regional legal structure giving them authority to override local regulations.
There is not enough housing and we won't allow people to build more... It must be Airbnb causing the shortage.
How do you feel when you run "top" or its equivalent on a modern OS? I feel like the barbarians have completely taken over, and if not I certainly couldn't stop them if they wanted to.
In a twisted way that's still true though :) Getting the content of the pixel beneath the mouse still isn't trivial since CPU and GPU run in parallel and the CPU is at least one frame ahead. In general it's better to only push data into the GPU, and not trying to read any data back with the CPU.
Highly Rated Movies on IMDB Needing More Votes for Top 250
actually many algorithm developers choose to share their source code on our platform. They still have an opportunity of making money because when our users run their algorithms (even if they are open source) on our platform they get paid.
White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm
I've been using this for a while now and I'm pretty happy with it. Java implementation of Crockford's Base32 algorithm for encoding simple numeric values:

https://code.google.com/p/unsuck/source/browse/trunk/src/mai...
Sorry, but in this case, it's actually N^x. Even running PCR and gel analysis requires steps where the time is dependent on the number of samples (e.g. pipetting, walking to the centrifuge, making multiple gels)
Prior to reading this my top of mind worry was wondering if I'll make it up Mt. Fuji today. After reading this, it still is.
>'Some of us deal with BEE requirements, others with a lack of experience.'

It seemed a bit aloof to give a dig to programs meant to address the harm caused by decades of Apartheid in a post on 'how not to be bored'.

However, in the context of follow up anti-boredom suggestions which include 'work as a glorified slave' on a 'super yacht' and backpack around the world it does not seem out of place at all.

What a clown.
You can definitely play media from 50 years ago... but "easily" may be a reach too far. How many people have easy access to a player for eight-track tapes (circa 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape), for instance? Or a way to play back old Super-8 (circa 1965: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_film) home movies? These devices can be tracked down, but it's not like they're sitting at most peoples' fingertips.
Looks like the article was compiled from a few different studies:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/07/when-the-beat-...

http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/drummers-high-evidence-...
I think it would not be used much other than to dislike a brand status update. It could create bad feelings in your Facebook community if you disliked someone's status update. Probably why they never have added the dislike button; it could sow flame wars -- "Hey, why did you dislike my update?" -- kind of like on HN when someone gets a bunch of downvotes.
absolutely agreed which is way in almost 80% of cases we ship the computation to the data by running in the same data centers where the data lives.
i will dig this thks
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Iris: Decentralized Cloud Messaging
Hey there -

I'm one of the developers who built this. For those of you wondering about the technology stack, here goes:

All commands entered from a browser are sent to a simple app. A WebSocket client receives commands from here and sends ACKs back to the server so it knows if the agent is "busy" running a command.

If you have any other specific questions, the Snap team is happy to respond.

-- Ketan
Think about it. This is an article, with its own 'share on Facebook' icon, entirely about a single persons interaction with a mechanized society, highly intricate and well and truly operating under the constraints of its totalitarian designers. Its not like we vote for Facebook features; that privilege is reserved for those with money to spend, making money, and it is an exclusive club indeed. Particularly given that those who attend to "Facebook habits", i.e. members of that church, are not in control. At all.

So yeah, count "survive a dystopian dilemna" on the list of things that are now well and truly DONE.
Great source !
It sounds like you are too large though. You will be susceptible to more problems than either of your siblings.
The past was full of a lot more paging to disk and it was awful.

Those sounds just went through my head. That noise hurts just to think about.

but I also don't know the last time I had to wait 5-10 minutes for a computer to shut down.

Windows 7 seems to take 5 minutes to shut down, even if I give it a head-start by explicitly closing all applications I can see or understand.

There are 137 "processes" and over 200 "services" running right now on the Windows 7 machine I am at. I can't watch them go away when I shut down, because if I leave the task manager running, Windows 7 complains about the Task Manager still running when I want to shut down.

There are many things that are much better today, but it seems that some things are getting worse.
For errors I'll always log the full stack trace (in JS, at least). This helps a ton for when errors occur, but I find that often times it's not explicit errors that are a problem (e.g., making sure the right message is sent and received from a queue system). Of course, setting breakpoints can give more information, but it's not always obvious where a breakpoint needs to be set (e.g., when a new person comes on the team) - for me, logging points me to where I need to set breakpoints, speeding up my development time.
In my humble opinion, they should write formal specifications which are not just targetting a C API, but may degrade consistently to a C API. With a more formal description of each function call, including predicates for parameters, and possibly the context itself, they make things way easier for user land, where these could be mechanically translated into API bindings, and thus checked automatically. If all these checks are made on the user side, then they may add a simple toggle in the API to remove the checks on the driver side. Most users aren't using the C API directly anyway, and people writing bindings would welcome specs which could be mechanically translated into their favorite language bindings. The problem might remain for WebGL though.
Innovation Lessons from Industry Giants
> And then watch rents rise across the city as land-lords queue up for that sweet-sweet subsidy cash.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. In a direct subsidy to low income tenant world, low income tenants would look the same as any others that could pay the rent.

However, when I've rented apartments, many tenants have requirements for who they will rent to (such as income equal to X times the rent) - and so such a direct subsidy program would probably also need some sort of provision that forces landlords to consider such renters "equally." If anything, I doubt landlords would be queueing up anywhere for the right to rent to such people.
>What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature?

Maybe its more likely that its a reflection of those who have the power and influence to game the Facebook algorithm; i.e. those who are most heavily invested in the need/right to influence social perception. The right-wing are currently invested in this business with much to lose. Why is it such a surprise?
4 Opportunities for Innovation in Health Care
Combined with the fact that ammonia can be used as a fuel, they are making fuel out of air & water in that case.The question being , how soon are we going to run out of air and water.

[a brochure] http://nh3fuel.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/nh3brochuresept20...
[keynote Tenth Annual NH3 Fuel Conference, September 23, 2013]
http://nh3fuel.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/nh3fcx-keynote-st...
It seems like you have only a single base unit of measurement; the rigid powers-of-ten scaling factors prevent any other useful base units from being applied, e.g. there's nothing that approximates a foot in the metric system. So it seems a bit disingenuous to treat a centimeter as a distinct unit when it's really just 1 x 10^-2 meters.

The whole "conversion factors" thing seems like a superfluous gimmick. Why would you start working with one unit, then spontaneously decide to start using a different unit in the same context? But in the unusual circumstance where you would need to switch units, perhaps due to a shift in the scale you're operating at, the metric system still prevents you from using a unit appropriate to the context, and limits you to only scaling a less appropriate unit up or down by a power of ten.

It really is just scientific notation re-implemented in a bizarre and arcane way. With customary units, you can still represent quantities with scientific notation, and use inches, feet, miles, etc. as your base unit as the context demands, but you've still got a variety of base units to choose from, each more optimal than the others when operating its appropriate context.
Why not use coloured coins (Bitcoin) or something like that instead of the Ripple/Stellar scam?