skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The expo definitely has it's tradeoffs, but I've been to dozens of hackathons now, and before we switched to the expo, the endings were significantly lower energy: https://medium.com/how-to-throw-a-hackathon/635563ceab2f

Expo definitely favors larger teams as we only allow one person to demo from each team at a time, leaving the team members to swap out and check out all the other hacks. While the demos in front of everyone may be more fair, the expo builds community and gives people the opportunity to get immediate feedback on their pitch/product even if they dont win a prize or make it to the final round.

You should've seen the energy in the room.
In terms of ideas, how to scrape Javascript-heavy sites. This one has broken me and the Import.io helpdesk: http://www.usrentacar.co.uk/. I'm now trying in CasperJS/PhantomJS but no joy there either.

I'm looking to buy a house, and not all local estate agents post to Rightmove (or some post with a 24-hour delay). Trying to submit the search form on the agent's own hideous website, parse the results and get a standard structure between them all is hideous - I gave up in the end.

Once I have the data the challenge is then analysing it (geolocation, how long are the commute times, distance to amenities etc) which is its own separate challenge
According to accounts at the time, the original team on this project was working late nights long before the failed September deadline. Their attempts to inform government that they will not make it were cut with "failure is not an option". Are you saying that this situation would be impossible with in-house team? There were reports of contractor fighting government over scope, are you saying that in-house team would win that fight?

There was no one in government side with power to say "no" to features and with power to prioritize. Are you saying that such political power would magically appear in someone if they would use in-house team? There were reports of stressed governments people coming to contractor site in person all of sudden and forcing developers to show them not done yet hopefully cool features (nope not login, none of them cared about sign up and load problems). I am not making this up. Are you saying that the same geniuses would left in-house team alone?

There was no one officially responsible for integration of parts done by various companies and integration testing. Would the same management put aside time and resources for that work if the companies would be replaced by in-house teams? Well, maybe a little on this one, but I doubt they would put aside enough.

Plenty of outsourcing contracts have set price or deadlines and penalties for breaking them. Plenty of them are not paid on hourly fee basis. At least one of contracted companies has history of failures under their belt, so they are hardly innocent in the whole failure. That does not make government management more sound. It just makes them equally guilty at worst.

"For an in house team who do their own maintenance, the same things mean embarrassment, late nights, and possibly getting fired. So scope creep and avoidable complexity are bad for the in-house team."

There are few problems with this assertion:

* Scope creep is problem beyond the tech team. Scope creep happens to in-house teams of private companies as often as it happen to contractors. That one can be solved only someone with real political decision making power cooperates.

* In-house team does not get much embarrassment after failed deadline and firings usually does not happen after them. The thing is, if the management is competent, management knows the deadline will be failed in advance and have a plan for that. Deadlines are failed for various reasons overly optimistic estimates being the primary one.

* Most importantly, good management does not fire people after they failed important deadline due to laziness. Good management replaces lazy incapable people long before and does not assign mission critical tasks to unproven people. Management that ignores problems and then comes in all guns blazing after predictable failure is bound to build quite horrible in-house teams.

Managing contractors is somewhat different then managing in-house team, but both require sound management to succeed. You might be somewhat better at managing one vs another, but you are unlikely to be great in managing in-house team while being total failure in managing contractors.
>Weekend homes are a different beast of course but the anger comes from basically the same place: the perception that "outsiders" are making housing unaffordable for "locals".

So in parts of England, Cornwall for example, the house prices are over ten times the average local wage (due to Londoners buying them up as holiday homes). I don't see how that can be viewed as a positive thing.
I don't disagree, but I've been continually impressed with how "pound shops" (dollar/99 cent stores in the US) have coped between the mid 90s and now. It seems advances in logistics, manufacturing and the ease of international trade have counteracted inflation to a certain point, at least when it comes to the cheap crud those stores tend to sell :-)
Agreed, but in Western Europe it is party time for criminals from Eastern Europe. Just read this (left-leaning and pro-european) newspaper article: http://bit.ly/1q6fWur
I wonder if vibration would suffice? Depends on the state of the roads I guess. ;)
Well, it's worth noting you'd have to consider the risk to pedestrians, bicyclists, and people in other vehicles as well. Not that I have any reason to think they're more dangerous than normal cab drivers, who are shockingly reckless, at least in my experience as a cyclist.
Irrelevant things
I was really surprised by the easy availability and affordability of cabs here in Dublin. I used the €25 free credit from Uber and promptly uninstalled the app, but mostly because the CEO seems like an asshole (this is going to get downvoted, but whatever. I hate knowing my money is going to a major douchebag.)
That's $29,999,995 more than it needed.
Show HN: A gamexperiment about parallel timelines, classic Pokemon
I don't see this being the same market at all. Gopro is marketed at adventure and sports. Polaroid is pushing this toward the average Joe. With a $99 price point it's well positioned to displace gopro.
What about something like Microdots which can be applied to the frame and other parts? They seem to be common in places to deter theft of cars and other items

http://www.mydatatags.com/
But "our cars are very reliable and no longer very likely to get stolen" is.
State of Emacs packages for Clojure development
...so basically we're at the "robot butler" stage of Cylon development? That thing seems a lot like the common household robot in the (new) Battlestar Galactica pre-series "Blood & Chrome".
You really don't see the benefit in being social be to the people around you? It doesn't have to have an intimate relationship.

Do you just ignore the people you work with as well for similar reasons?

OK, one reason off the top of my head. Say something suspicions is going on outside your flat. Someone that could be checking out your house wanting to break in. A friendly neighbor may go up and ask in a non threatening way if you were expecting to see John in just now, and could he take a message for you. Ignore your neighbor to the point he doesn't even know your name, and guess what. He won't give a shit. Which scenario is more likely to get your place broken into?
Thanks for the thoughtful insights. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
News crew robbed while reporting on “sketchy” neighborhood app
Modern electronics don't really need that much, and/or the dynamos have improved. I had a bike with 90s-style dynamo and it was indeed a slight pain. Today I ride Bixi/Alta bikeshare bicycles - they have something to power the lights, but any impedance it creates is too small to notice.
Do you find police interested at all in helping recover a stolen bike?

Unless you hand them GPS corordinates and a photo of the person taking it, they aren't going to do anything.
I love this. I'll refer back to my post from several months ago about the poor performance of the Linux network stack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286584).

> 1. Data Plane Development Kit, which lets you skip the kernel IP stack (which takes thousands of CPU cycles to process) and do packet processing in userland taking just tens to hundreds of cycles per packet. http://dpdk.org/

I wish OS developers saw this as a problem. There is no reason kernel stacks should be so slow for tasks where all processing is done in the kernel. (For packets destined to userspace, you've got the syscall overhead to deal with.)

I recently tested the Linux network stack's PPS performance with an Intel X520 10GbE NIC. I used Debian testing, with the 3.12 kernel. My destination machine was an i7-3930K at stock speed. I wrote a simple kernel module adding an NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING hook returning NF_DROP with no processing, which would be the simplest possible code path. For a packet generator, I used another older machine with another X520, using the "pfsend" tool included with PF_RING, and the card in PF_RING DNA mode. That was easily able to saturate the link at line rate (14.8M PPS).

The result: the kernel was only able to sustain about 2.8M PPS.

I then loaded the DNA driver on the destination machine, used the included "pfcount" tool, and no packet drops - it was receiving the full 14M PPS.

I tested DPDK recently and had similar results.

I also modified the Linux ixgbe driver ixgbe_clean_rx_irq() function, and added a step in between the "fetch packets from RX ring" and "put packet in SKB and send to network stack" functions. Even when I added a bunch of useless comparisons for each packet, I was able to get ~12-13M PPS. I could get line rate by just dropping and not doing any processing.

sidenote (not included in the above post): I also tested FreeBSD. I'm just going off memory here, but it did sustain higher PPS than Linux (same hardware) but not anywhere near line rate. So netmap, PF_RING, DPDK, others are still the way to go if you want to do line rate processing.
They can switch to peddling projects that cost 5 bitcoins. That should improve their profit margins too.
Both the Commodore and the Falcon have wheelbases over 2800 mm. Neither are luxury cars.

I agree that is an outdated rule.
I have been a regular buyer on fiverr and the transition I see so far is that the Gig is often just a "sample", while the main service offered is in the form of extras (which can be of any value like $10, $50, etc).

Example: http://www.fiverr.com/calimode/your-professional-and-kind-sp...
What’s the Brain Got to Do With Brain Training? | Psychology Today
My sole experience with Fiverr was terrible. I paid $35 to their highest-rated logo designer, who promptly delivered the worst logo I had ever seen. I'm not usually one to complain, but I was so unimpressed that I told the seller that I was not happy with the logo. His response was basically "I don't care. See ya!" I will never use Fiverr again. I've had much better luck with Elance.
Now thats some good documentation.
> with the general full support of the public

Often the public has full support for causes that will bite it back in the long term.
My guess the emphasis on these packages would be because subscription based revenue models are more predictable and stable. Too many choices confuses people, so they keep it simple.

$3.00 per task (for the smallest plan), perhaps they found when the call it out that way - anything higher and folks would rather do it themselves. Anything cheaper and it wouldn't be profitable, but $15/month is something people are willing to spend.

I don't really know, I'm just speculating...
It wasn't a comment, it was CmdrTaco's reaction in the blurb: http://slashdot.org/story/21026
To put things into perspective, maybe he's right in saying that bikes get moved over the border to facilitate the resale. Your stolen bikes probably end up here in Germany. It's the EU single market. :) On general principle Germany tends to export more than it imports, not sure if that also applies to stolen goods. ;)

I doubt the thieves go to so much trouble, though, I expect my bikes that got stolen -- happened a few times -- ended up resold in the same city or in a neighbouring town. Wouldn't be totally shocked to recognize my own (well, formerly) bike in the local classifieds.
Do we have any evidence of lives saved by the ObamaCare website? Or conversely, people that died when it wasn't functioning correctly?
Yes. I drive my 2010 Honda insight hybrid for both companies, and it started with 90k miles, so realistically its worth squeezing everything it's worth out of it.

Also I think the parent post's history is incorrect; Lyft was a pivot of zimride. And Travis kalanick had a famous speech where he 'declared war' on Lyft... There's also some history about how part of the motivation for Lyft was that cabs treated lgbt clients really poorly, but I am unclear about the specifics on that.
Just implement this small feature
It's worth spending time to automate things. But this can look like the same overhead you were automating away. I've worked without an ORM, and I found it just meant I wasted my time implementing an ORM in my application code.

Small codebases are valuable. Delete code ruthlessly, and avoid languages that make you repeat yourself. But eschewing tools or libraries is the opposite of this.
Not every browser supports the latest version of the HTML5 plug-in.
I Have Failed
> Did he have any reason to believe Twitter was more likely to fail

Whether or not Twitter is more or less reliable than any similar alternative doesn't really matter that much, especially if none of the alternatives offer anything more than best-effort service with no guarantee of reliability.

The fact that Twitter was (at least superficially) suitable for this sort of application was probably not intended by Twitter's developers, nor was the existence of the pathological corner case that ruined OP's fish tank anything more than a unfortunate coincidence.

It absolutely sucks that OP's fish died, but if Twitter explicitly disavows any sort of loss because of the possibility that their service might change or fail, it's doesn't seem reasonable to just ignore that and assume otherwise. Especially for an application where it doesn't matter if the service is up most of the time if it ends up failing during the brief period where it's needed the most. And if you are aware of the limitations of some aspect of your system, it then becomes possible to design redundancy into the other parts to compensate. I hope OP's next fishtank adventure keeps this in mind.
I went on a hunt for a few of these when I was in Stockholm recently and it was a bit disappointing. We couldn't find a sign at the globe and lots of places were shut. Venus is now a building site and we couldn't find Jupiter at the airport. We found the Earth and moon, Mars and Mercury (from a distance). It is a good way to explore and you get good value out of a T-bana pass.

Edit: If anyone is interested I can write up the hunt. Got some good photos. It was this or a visit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby and I think the solar system was the best choice. They should really promote these attractions more.
open GPU drivers will enable native Linux + Wayland on them.

I too would like a personal handheld unicorn, but I don't think it's likely to happen.
Hi there,
adding to the discussion a little late, but grateful for your comments on this one.
We at the small Munich-based start-up cliqz are heading in a kind of similar direction - please have a look at
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/cliqz-beta/
German-heavy at the moment, but going international soon, hopefully by the end of August.
Please let me know your thoughts - we would be happy to take your suggestions and together with you make it more "amazing"!
Thank you!
Richard
(richard@cliqz.com)
Bosses don't like their own 'lower performance' pointed out to them...
For a less steep learning curve I recommend Deluge's WebUI.
What textbook would be recommended for someone wanting not only to accept the challenge, but also to get some theory under their belt at the same time?
My first hack was a bulletin board I wrote in 1984 for a Commodore Vic-20. It had multiple message areas ("rooms"), private mail and an online game. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. There were about sixty rooms with topics ranging from string theory to general chit chat.

It was very popular even though it had only one dialup connection at 300 baud. The average user spent more than an hour on it.
I wouldn't move to GitHub even if it was to provide private repositories for free (which it doesn't). BitBucket just works flawlessly for my needs.
Immobilisers have absolutely slaughtered car theft (this is not news, I referenced this trend in a talk I gave a couple of years ago), but this makes them VERY vulnerable to being hacked. What's more most immobiliser systems are poorly engineered from a cryptographic perspective, for example, some can be overridden by simply telling the ECU to start up via a plugin cable, others are simply broadcasting static repeating codes meaning you can gather the codes with a fixed receiver in a car park and then go collect them later.

When a sufficiently smart criminal starts making kits that let you hack immobilisers, theft of those models shoots up dramatically. BMW has suffered from this effect badly. Their engine security sucked and owners became magnets for car theft.
I scraped around hundreds of the major universities of US for one of my client. And he used the data to build a mobile platform for students which integrated different services. I mainly grabbed course, class routines, bus route and email of both professors and students. I still have around one and half million of email address of academics.

I also did some e-commerce information scraping.

One of the most interesting one was for a data selling company. They asked me to collect data of geo information, disaster, finance, tweets etc. We used to apply ML and statistics to give forecast with historic data.
Rapidly goes over my head, but seems really neat. I'd love to see this for a mainstream language (esp. one I use). Right now the solution seems to be to write an API that sort of imitates the literal you want (in C# using fluent extension methods [i.e.: static methods called with the dot operator against the first argument] to imitate SQL, for instance).
In islamic countries with sharia law, nobody steals, since you risk loosing a hand. Not that I recommend that approach, but I'd be careful with such statements.
That seems to be the case. Under "How do I get it?" it says:

> You will need a Linux or UNIX computer to host Guacamole.
From http://www.mydatatags.com/how-it-works/how-microdots-work

> Step 4

> Recover Your Property

> If the police or a good Samaritan find your lost or stolen assets marked with our microtag technology and contacts MyDataTags, we will inform you and give you their contact information so you can recover your personal property.

So it's a serial number that nobody will notice (1mm black dot) or be able to read (I would assume it's gunk to be scratched off, not taken to with a magnifying glass).

Maybe I'm missing their key point, but on a bicycle the reasonable responsible buyer will just run the serial through whatever stolen registry is most popular in their area, not scour the bike for tiny secret illuminati codes.
I pass through Ericsson Globe almost daily but never realized that I'm travelling in "Solar System"
..one of the Ali-alloy trucks? Um, no.
Dalton Couple Shine On International Stage
How To Generate Strategic Content for Social Media?
Titanfall Vs Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Who Copied Who?
If I remember correctly the iPod lacked some features that could have been expected from the product when the first version came out (the famous "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." quoted else where in this thread. Also, firewire). But the features that were in the iPod worked fine. In this case however I agree with the parent who says the video, the only thing this cube is supposed to do well, is pretty terrible looking by 2014 standards.

Here's a still of the video for reference: https://i.imgur.com/wIF1SFt.jpg

There's so much wrong in this picture I'm not sure where to start. And that's a promotional video!
Only the web application is Java, guacd is written in C:

http://guac-dev.org/doc/gug/guacamole-architecture.html
http://pages.umpi.edu/~nmms/solar/ is another version of this idea.
analogies are failing me here. But the best one I have is this:

A bicycle requires less maintenance and is easier to build repair and operate than an F1 car. Taken a step further. The complex nature of the F1 car and competitive nature of F1 races gives far greater advantages to secrets which may give the team/car the competitive edge.

I don't like the fact that this is where the graphics industry is and I wish that they would simply compete on hardware and the tech was all open. but I do prefer nvidia on linux to any other GPU because they have the performance I'm looking for. Also their linux drivers are far better than AMD's.
The paper looks more anecdotal than scientific to me. No tables, no graphs, where is the data coming from?
How accurate is it? It seems that a lot of locations were picked because of them being in museums and other significant places. I guess if it was really accurate they would end up in more inconvenient spots.
A BrowserSync Primer
> If anyone is interested I can write up the hunt

Please!
Wearable technology: looking at the data behind the buzz
Very poignant... as he ended up going the way of Neil on DPS. Very sad day, -- Not too many actors I'd feel this upset about.. Tom Hanks would be another sad one to see go...
Maybe the museums were placed first?
In France there's Bicycode. The sole increase in risk of a bike being visibly tagged vs one that is not is enough to make the baddies pick the other one.

Also there are actually two types of bicycle thiefs: organised groups that load them by the truckload and opportunistic folks that know most locks are trivially broken and just want a cheap ride. You'd be surprised how many times I witnessed guys just carelessly dropping "their" bike once arrived.

[0]: http://www.bicycode.org
In my experience, Fiverr isn't good with creative work. It's a system that values volume and you're likely going to be getting someone who systematized things as much as possible which leads to a lot of canned fulfillment. That tends to be terrible for creative work.

Fiverr is worth trying again but next time use it for non-creative work. Also, don't allow yourself to get up-sold initially, keep things at $5. Toss a few fivers around and experiment. Like any network of people, you'll have some terrible participants and also great ones.

BTW - out of curiosity, would you care to link to the logo?

Edit: reading more about copyright infringement of designers on fivver. This is a huge problem. I would stay away from any creative work from anyone on fivver, regardless of their rating. Especially for something as critical as a logo.

Also note that most stock photo companies specifically say that you can't use their images in logos so you can't even buy the stock photo if you're comfortable with the stock photo as the logo.
Avniverma.com
Code of Cthulhu
(archive) Robin Williams AMA on reddit
>I'd imagine that Uber drivers reduce the risk to their passengers by displacing more dangerous drivers and reducing the number of vehicles on the road.

Sounds most likely to me. Someone who drives 100k miles/year will on average by a safer driver than someone who drives 10k, both due to a wider experience base and by being far less likely to do something to jeopardise their license/insurance and hence their livelihood.
Shhh, innovation
Shouldn't this be solved on the client level via proper adapter support?

I like how it can be attached to a black box though.