skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bacula. http://bacula.org/ At my company we are using it for server backups. Linux desktop would do too. Google says it's possible to use Bacula Client on Mac, but you'd need to figure out yourself.

Bacula is actively developed. http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bacula/log/?h=Branch-7.0 No risk of being unmaintained at some point, since they build commercial stuff on top of community Bacula.
If your monitor has a VESA mount, I'd consider getting an arm that connects to your desk, and use your existing display.

Something similar to http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C2914C/ref=wms_ohs_pr...
This looks nice, but it's been a long time since I've worked in a organization that would need this so it's hard for me to comment on the value it would bring. I'm curious, though: can you provide anonymous feedback?

However, if other hackers out there are looking for ideas, I think there's a strong need for something similar to this but targeted at businesses with younger, wage-based employees. Think restaurants, hotels, and retail businesses. Their needs are slightly different but I think a feedback tool would be valuable.
What is their internet connection, fiber? Surely they must have a special contract or multiple providers.
I have a low power i3 I use in a nas freebsd box for the same reason.

The things a bit overpowered even for its use as is. I even started setting up vm's on the box to give it more to do.

I also love these low power cpus for desktops/home systems. When they use less power than a lightbulb, i'm all for it.
> I'd like to see an API clean up (ie. rewrite from scratch), a common shader compiler frontend, a common shader binary format and common tooling like benchmarking and profiling tools. Perhaps even a software emulated "gold standard" implementation.

Even just having the common binary format there would be a huge step forward. It'd let the community take care of the rest if khronos doesn't bother with it. The software emulated standard implementation would be really nice. things like mesa's piglit would be great for using it as a test suite.
The functionality to find restaurants nearby is in OSMAnd, as is the functionality to search using text. It isn't very intuitive.

On the recent version I have installed, when you bring up search there are icons at the top that switch between different types of search. The stylized "i" has the POI and text search.
Showstopper for me. I couldn't imagine using a dashboard (or anything, really) with such lousy scrolling.
Yup. That's the saving grace here. "Uh. square doesn't integrate with my existing {healthcare|HVAC|puppy mill|spa treatment} platform." will keep him going.
Show HN: jQuizzy – Easy, embeddable interactive quizzes
Parenthoods (YC S14) Launches a Mobile Network Just for Parents
Sounds like the title of the paper should be "The Network is Unreliable, but it Usually Doesn't Matter."
Hello there, HN! The guy behind the jQuizzy MVP here. Happy to hear any feedback/critique/questions you may have.

As a bit of a background, the first version of jQuizzy was a lightweight quizzing engine that I built when I was at Nettuts and we needed to run a few quizzes but had no viable options. As it was received well, I put the frontend only code up for sale on CodeCanyon where it brought in some useful passive income and has been bought over 700 times at around $20 a pop: http://i.imgur.com/R3IZegJ.png

After being bitten by the "start something right now or you'll explode" bug and brainstorming multiple ideas, I figured this idea deserved the first shot. I've been working on this for what feels like so many late nights and weekends now. I've realized I'll never really think it's ready or polished enough so I'm happy to finally let go and ship it.

I'd love it if you could take it for a spin and let me know what you think. Positive, negative -- it doesn't matter what kind of feedback you have about the application itself or the quickie landing page I've put together. Thanks again for your time!

PS - No SSL for the beta yet. :( I'll be a good dev and implement it way before I start writing the payment code.
that doesn't include the cost of hardware but I guess it is negligible... and I thought mining was not profitable at current prices.
Not a bad idea, but I'd like to leave the TV as is and get a new monitor to use exclusively for work stuff.
How to escape your boring life
A counter example would be nice.
Swift Operators
Still, it looks like 5 nanometers is the end of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nanometer

Not that it will necessarily be the absolute end of Moore's law, as hardware manufacturers are trying alternative approaches to keep ramping up power, e.g. Samsung already sells its 850 Pro series SSDs http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_6?url=search-alias%... made with its VNAND memory http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/html/pr... which fell back to 40 nm from 840 EVO's 19 nm, while going 3D, which seemed to improve both speed and reliability. Now they have a bit more runway in their Moore's law, but still not much in sight.
Another example of Google squandering a good thing. They had appointments built into calendar, pushed Google apps to businesses, then promptly shut down appointments.

I just recently noticed They slipped appointments back in to Google Apps Calendar, but it's still just wonky and not integrated well in typical Google fashion.
Wall Street Analysts: High Inequality Makes Us Vulnerable to Crashes
It looks like both co-founders are engineers (or technical, at least), maybe they just want additional help and are offering a "founder" title in return for the risk of joining such a young startup?
http://algorithmia.com/about
trends sorry .... english is not my native speaking.
I don't know much about the civil service, but I know that most provincial assemblies have expense disclosures, at least for the elected officials, e.g. [1], [2]. Federal cabinet ministers also have to disclose all of their office expenses (can't find a link, but I know it exists).

[1] BC: http://www.leg.bc.ca/Mla/remuneration/index.htm
[2] Alberta: http://alberta.ca/travelandexpensedisclosure.cfm
From Wikipedia, Intel also has quad-core + hyperthreading mobile CPUs, with model numbers 4700 and up. The top mobile i7 is about equivalent to a 4770S desktop chip, but with a bit lower TDP.

So don't lump all the mobile parts in with the ultrabook-optimised chips.
We're aiming to do monthly crawls from this point on. The main hold was automating the intensive manual steps of our crawl process. Now we have scripts that make running our 100 node EC2 cluster and processing the terabytes of web data relatively trivial.

If anyone wants to discuss sourcing well distributed crawl lists for billions of pages per month, we'd love to chat. We want to make sure we cover a diverse variety of languages and domains. Given that we're trying to get a good sample of the web, that's a difficult proposition!
AKA: The chip that will finally let you buy a retina Macbook Air.
they can change the client's code at any time (this might be a Bitcoin flaw)
HOLA FACU:D!
And many of you are hesitant about using high-level languages like C because of the performance issues.

Well, we seem to have overcome that worry. I think most programmers of that vintage must be horrified by the amount of bloat in modern computer systems. I gave up worrying about not knowing what every file in my operating system does several years ago, but I still feel bad about throwing in the towel.
The NSA reaches out
> This is why I oppose the luxury shuttles. If you want to work in Palo Alto, Sausalito, or Mountain View, I think you should live there.

The problem is that the residents of Palo Alto and Mountain View don't want more people to live there.
Anecdotally, UberX will take you from East Hampton to Montauk for about $70-80, so prices have definitely come down this summer.

Getting back from the Surf Lodge, however...
Thanks for your input. Regarding insurance companies and healthcare administration, I don't think those are problems to be solved by MDs or even PhDs but rather issues to be solved by already existing tech automation companies in coordination with legal experts. You mentioned radiation oncology is a dying field. Could you elaborate on the future of the various specialties (maybe top/bottom 3) as far as you can tell?
I like Facebook. It helps me keep up with friends in distant places. If you find it to be pernicious and intrusive, don't use it (or use it differently). Don't impose your dislike on others. "Peeing in the pool" is a great metaphor in that regard.
First-person Hyperlapse Videos (Technical)
Like many statistical tools, the height charts doctors use are gaussian distributions and the inferences drawn from where an individual falls on that distribution do not boil down to "bigger === better."
@allegory could you share the the script with us ?
One thing I'm looking forward too more than the power saving advances are the arbitrary precision maths they are starting to finally add. Albeit just integer , add and multiply instructions for now, but a good start.
I love it. I played around with starting something just like it a few months ago.

Thanks, I'll sign up
Either this was created by someone who had no CS experience or it was created by someone who is a developer but is equally clueless.

Algorithms are worthless by itself.
The article says their electricity bill is $60k per month. Subtract the 3 employees salaries, say $5k per month (this is China). So you are looking at a pure profit of $197k per month.

Three other significant expenses worth considering: rent/physical plant, hardware, and taxes.
I am currently scraping for brand product and nutrition data. Having to build custom scrapers per brand is hell.

I have a dream to use something closer to OCR against a rendered page, rather than parsing DOM. That way it would be less custom, and I could say, for instance, "find 'protein', the thing to the right of that is the protein grams".

I, personally, don't know how to do this, but I'd be willing to pay for a more generic way to scrape nutrition data (email in profile :) )
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give them some thought first but I can say now that there won't be ways to "change priorities"

I think that's a superfluous feature. Priorities in Dayboard are binary - it's either important (thus it goes on your 5 tasks) or it's not.

You can sort your tasks visually though. So if it helps to have the 5 tasks ordered by importance, you can already do that now!
Great comprehensive list
It's not profitable for people with expensive electricity. Location matters greatly.
Google Invests in $300M Submarine Cable to Improve Connection Between Japan, US
I don't think Google is interested in getting into this business...
ZocDoc's offerings are a little different - they are essentially doing patient scheduling and marketing/outreach for you, and getting doctors / dentists new patients (from what I understand about patient economics, about 1 a month justifies the spend).
Many upvotes!

I used to be a big OpenGL fan, back in the GL 2.x / DX 8 days.

However the way OpenGL grew up is just insane, specially for the poor beginners that didn't grew up with the API.

Not to mention the basic stuff (texture loading, fonts, math, shader usage) that the API leaves out, whereas other 3D APIs offer some kind of support.

Plus the consoles never had proper support anyway.

To the point that nowadays I advise anyone just to use a rendering engine.

Leave programming OpenGL directly to learn how to build an engine.
Provided you avoid globals, the sky's the limit. My professional record is 17,000 lines; after a while it became a game, to see how far we could take it before somebody cracked. But in the end the project finished before anybody felt the need to split it up. It was actually very easy to keep on top of and handy to have everything in one place.

You do need some better way of navigating round the file than search, though! I recommend something like visual assist or imenu.
Two from the perspective of mission control regarding mostly the early US space program, the third about the Apollo program in general.

Failure is not an Option - Gene Kranz
Flight: My life in Mission Control - Chris Kraft
A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin
Google Plus vs. LinkedIn: Which Platform is the Winner for B2B?
As a Vancouver native - there are a hell of a lot of worse places in the world to be stuck, than Vancouver.
Google+ and LinkedIn are both vying for top position among business networks, and both have their own unique characteristics to bring value. Social media has absolutely exploded, and digital marketing has proven to be an incredibly valuable tool in a business’s advertising arsenal.

Which one brings more value? Which one is more beneficial to a company’s marketing plan?
do NOT get an md degree. it is useless. in this era of corporate driven health care that is mass produced, physicians are glorified trades workers. Real impact in the tech of health care is done by engineers. Being a physician does not allow you to implement anything in the current medicolegal climate. And understanding the reality of health care delivery does not require an md degree. Witness all the lawyers pursuing suits for many of the tech advancements of yesteryear-artificial hips, slings, implants-not to mention medications.

Future development of health tech will get hamstrung by the same sort of thing except it will be driven by cyber failures and privacy violations. Physicians will remain the fall guy for any product failure. Better to get a phd in a product that has major health implications-for example, develop a sensor for blood sugar that is non invasive, develop an algorithm and an app that predicts MI and cardiac disease for an individual. etc.

We are currently importing our physicians because other countries produce them so cheaply (just like software engineers). And we pay them a fraction of what medical school tuition accumulates to.
I've used the Blowfish cipher to obfuscate database IDs into youtube-like URLs. Blowfish has a small 64-bit blocksize which fits nicely into a base64'd URL param.
Introducing the Snap Shell
I'm guessing that these are rentals for less than 30 days? If so, your friend is making a lot of money by breaking the law. Your friend may have contempt for this particular law, so in this case, this profit is an assumption of risk. Illegal activities tend to be quite profitable because they are higher risk.

Honestly, though, I doubt there's all that much risk to this. Maybe even less than renting out to a permanent tenant (who has powerful rights in SF).

Unfortunately, SF seems to be unusually good at passing restrictive laws with low enforcement, encouraging people to test the limits and profit, and making chumps of people who follow the rules. I just paid over $8k for permits (hell, I paid a few hundred in permit fees to replace my windows and furnace with energy efficient ones). In response, SF wouldn't allow me to put a sink in my laundry room "to make sure that I'm not putting in an illegal in-law". Meanwhile, there are illegal in-laws left and right, all done with zero permits, and no apparent enforcement. Here's the thing, I don't have contempt for the law. I think that a structural engineer and licensed electrical work with required firewalls to prevent an inferno that starts in the illegal in-law from spreading next door are actually pretty good regulations.

It sounds like SF may soon allow legal airbnb with some restrictions, but like permits, this will probably be an option to register, pay money, and be regulated vs breaking the law in a nearly zero consequence environment.
As i said the problem that i have with this is that i could help a manipulative pervert to spot his next victim.

Allowing anyone to use it is a ethic problem for me.

Manipulative pervert have a natural tendency to spot people in weakness state you could just help them more with this ...

Take care of this, i think maybe a way to avoid this will be to give it access to people only with a good reputation.

(reputation system are a things that a lot of people are working on it).

But the project and the technology interest me.

Did you see the project go learning ?

There are some association that use phone line to help people and prevent suicide. Your product could be useful for them.

We can imagine them using it online to prevent suicide or contact people in private.

regards and i wish you to sucess.
The hope I've heard from cryptocurrency enthusiasts is that they stay under the radar until they're too big for any traditional organization to overpower the network.

It would certainly still be feasible for the US government to overpower the network, but it would not be cheap. The Minerscube 15 is due to ship next month, and will get you about 1.666 GH/s/$ [0]. The current speed of the bitcoin network is about 160,000 TH/s [1]. Duplicating this would cost about $96M, assuming you could get that many Minerscube 15 chips at that price, and assuming the infrastructure costs are trivial. So I would say it's still doable, but far from trivial.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#ASIC
[1] http://bitcoin.sipa.be/
Consistent Hashing (hashring) with Go
How logging made me a better developer
Do you also oppose cars and public transportation? Those "luxury shuttles" are just a means of transport. There are far more Bay Area commuters traveling to work every day using cars and public transportation than Google buses.

A lot of people don't want to live where their employers are based, and for a variety of reasons. If these folks want to waste two hours of their life each day sitting in traffic, or be shuttled around by their employers like elementary school students so that they can live in a location more desirable to them and their families, who are you to suggest that they shouldn't be able to?
$200k/month is not going to run you into liquidity issues.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880119
But they aren't. I'm pretty sure I've owned multiple machines that couldn't POST in the time it takes my current desktop to be at a usable state, and I have more on-die L2 cache than my first desktop had RAM.

The past was full of a lot more paging to disk and it was awful. I mean, sure, things haven't progressed as much as they could I suppose, but I also don't know the last time I had to wait 5-10 minutes for a computer to shut down.
I don't get that - with predetermination, there are no variables at all. Its all a mechanism set in motion at the big bang, turning inexorably toward ultimate entropy. We're just some predestined middle state right now, with no choice and no say.
Author of the article here. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
Subverting the entire Bitcoin network is almost certainly not as much as a 1 ACE problem. (Aircraft Carrier Equivalent)
if you need some advice on ML i will be glad to give you some.

I'am mainly use python for this but there's other solution.
User hostile? If displaying liked content to friends increases engagement, what's wrong about that? What would a feed that wasn't optimized for engagement look like? Facebook would already be a dinosaur in that case. People go to Facebook to see the most relevant and engaging content, what your friends like seems like a great source for this!
If the GPU is fast enough to drive a retina display.
Not quite. It will be like Mantle.

Mantle caused MS to rapidly announce DX12. So it's the exact same direction where everyone else is going.

While DX is more pleasurable to use than OpenGL (I personally am purely OpenGL dev, yet I acknowledge it's weaknesses) it has similar limitations. Very limited threading model and massive CPU overhead in drawcalls.

The future of graphics api's is going to be mantle style command buffer generation from multiple threads and then sending those buffers to the GPU.
It's a simple way to do it - I think usually a good stack trace for errors or a debugging environment which allows break points might cover most of this functionality and give some other information a simple console.log would not give you.

That being said, I like the idea of tracing information the developer specifically thinks is relevant as its called and having it logged out.
Hate is an illness?

How is that different from sharia muslims who say gayness is an illness?

Anyway, reading TFA is a waste of time.
One bit of advice left out is very handy: define operators in terms of their inverse.

For example, if I have a != and an == for comparing vectors (terrible, terrible, I know, but it serves as a useful case study), I should only implement one (probably ==), and define the other as simply !(==). This helps make sure that bugfixes to one operator automatically apply to its complement.
>> Now, I know when some people see graphical environments they start whining and saying “But I don’t want to use a mouse. There’s no room on my desk for a mouse.”

How small were desks back then, not having room for a mouse?

>> Well, with Windows, for the most part the mouse is optional. I won’t be using a mouse at all during this demonstration.

I remember feeling 'cool' that I could use a Windows machine from only the keyboard back in the 90's.
It was the data extraction and selection process I couldn't get to work. I was trying to scrape a particular search on autotrader.co.uk (I wanted more up to date results than their daily emails provide, and I wanted to filter out cars that had been written off). I don't remember all the details, but I followed the tutorial video and got to the stage where you select a single item that matches your criteria and it's supposed to extrapolate from there. However I just seemed to be stuck in an infinite loop of it asking me to do this.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8049180
I don't think Bitcoin is a big bandwidth user. A lot of little/small connections.
Mining tends to not be profitable if you pay retail prices for ASICs, but if you make your own ASICs it's still pretty profitable.
Women are also expected to care for their parents in India, but the definition of 'parents' varies. If you're a widow and your husband dies, you will be required to take care of your in-laws for the rest of their lives, and this is often not very pretty.

If you are unmarried and thus, by most Indian standards, live at home, you will be required to take care of your aging parents exclusively (minus financial matters), which also is often not very pretty.

Sons are expected to take care of their parents in terms of spending money. Daughters are not b/c quite frankly, they do not have exclusive control of any money in this system. Instead they are expected to wait on them -- and the rest of the family -- by cleaning, cooking, etc.
Yeah, actually the people involved in Pop Up Gay Bar started Guerrilla Queer Bar in San Francisco back in 2000 (when dinosaurs roamed the earth). We decided to update it, make it easy for people to replicate in towns everywhere.
Google doesn't cache images but archive.today does: https://archive.today/8EX79
The Customer is King (Nikon vs. Fuji)
I started working on a tool like this over the weekend to pull down my bills, and pay the balance.

I think there is a market for something like Mint for bill paying - it's a it's a bit of a pain to remember when I have to pay all of my bills each month, and make sure to go through each one, and pay the balance on time.
AirPair (YC W14) Is Hiring an Editorial Manager for Technical Content
Check out Skobbler for OSM nav outside the US. We acquired them earlier this year and they've been instrumental in enabling us to use OSM in Scout.
True, but I don't know any 3D API which allows this except for the OpenGL 1.x style glBegin/glEnd which doesn't map to an efficient hardware implementation. This specific problem can be solved by not fetching per-vertex normals at all, and compute the face normals on the fly in the geometry shader, not sure whether this is worth it though, geometry shaders have a reputation for being nearly useless.