skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing some early laser based projectors awhile ago that produced something reasonably usable inside during day time. But that was 7 or 8 years ago. I've heard that there are some laser-based pico projectors about to come out, they might be better vs. an LED based projector.

There's some tiny bluetooth keyboard projectors that now use green laser light and are very bright.

Here's a vendor that apparently sells them (but I couldn't find any pictures of the green keyboard versions).

Some of their interesting devices

http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/misteex/

http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/vk300-iphone-docking...
The NY Times did this using Amazon Web Services to process all their TIFFs (into PDFs, but thumbnailing isn't really different). They uploaded 4TB of data to Amazon over the internet, but today you could just send them a hard drive and they'll copy it onto S3 for you.

NYT: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorat... and http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/the-new-york-times-...

AWS Import/Export: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
I wish Google provided an API to lookup a sender's reputation so that even a locally deployed spam filter could use the information.
> I don't think it's appropriate to call out Dave's contact info publicly like this...

I do think it's appropriate to call out Dave's contact info publicly like this...

We have reached an impasse.
I guess it's worth asking, why not just take 30 days to do it? Just work on something else until it's done.
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When visiting NYC I found it insane that those flimsy cards are the normal monthly tickets. I'm comparing this with the Oyster card in London which is a normal RFID card – I've had one for 5 years and it still works perfectly.
I'm curious if you could force them to take cash by paying during a grace period at the beginning of the month. If the month already started then your contract could be setup so that you already owe them all the money for the month. If you owe them money then paying cash is basically _always_ a legal payment option, as in, they cannot refuse your money because it's cash and then say you didn't pay. Make sure to ask for a receipt.

This assumes you're in the US though, and you would have do get a kick out of yanking their chain, willing to play the game, etc, but it could be fun/funny.
One of my coworkers showed me this app this morning - we both agree that it has one of the worst onboarding experiences either of us has ever seen. After a barrage of permissions prompts, you're dumped into eleven screen paged tutorial with no skip button. Really?
Anonymous largely has nothing to do with 4chan these days anyway. They had a brief, but important time around 2006-2009 on 4chan but they have no connection these days aside from their shared history.
No, by 'market rate' I mean what other payday loan shops are charging in the area.

The real problem isn't the loan itself, even if it seems exploitative: if someone is in a cash crunch, it's perfectly rational to pay something like $20 to get $200 today (that seems to be what places near me advertise, at least as introductory rates) so they can pay their rent and not be evicted. The problem is the cycle they get into where then they're $20 behind for the next one. Then they get another loan and they're $40 behind for the next one, and so on.

So you catch people that are already in the cycle, fix their immediate need (they need $200 to pay their rent), then help them figure out a way to solve the larger problem (have cash on hand in time for next month's rent) and break out of the cycle.

So the 'mission' of the shop would become to put themselves and all other payday loan shops in the area out of business due to a lack of customers.

Of course, this assumes that the root problem is a lack of planning or education about personal finance. Maybe an outsider's perspective would help. Or maybe that's completely the wrong assumptions, I don't know.
Well, you could mail the money. Using the national postal systems that exist in both countries that have established means of transferring mail long distances. Same as the farmer in rural China could send a message to the Google engineer.

It costs money, yes, but if you're sending a one off message and it's not time citical, it's not unreasonable to say that sending the message via email is cheaper overall.

Edit: which isn't to say that communication via the Internet isn't really cool, just that it's not actually free, nor would it necessarily be cheaper than sending a message via other means, depending on the circumstances.
The audio edition is cheaper through audible.com :

http://www.amazon.com/Big-History-Bang-Earth-Humanity/dp/B00...
Profit in this case is generally a quantity calculated by accounting rules (US GAAP probably) and is a different thing from wealth created. Amazon has produced a lot of wealth for it's shareholders, enough for Bezos to be worth ~$30bn build spacecraft as his hobby. The difference is more obvious with a company like Facebook. Say they spend $1bn building the company from zero to 500m users and at the same time receive $1bn in ad revenue. Their accounting profit is $0 but their wealth is a lot due to the value of the 500m users. There are advantages to keeping the GAAP profit near zero because you pay no corporation tax that way.
Too easy for spammers to utilise to game the system. Just make a new domain (reputation 0) then keep on sending different emails to see how the reputation changes. The linked reply kind of covers this (e.g. security through obscurity).
I think this is at least partly just the angst and cynicism of youth. A sizable portion of the baby boomers felt the same way when they were kids, and look at them now.

People who plan for the future will win the future. People who never expect to make it the future will be surprised when they get there (maybe a good surprise, but maybe a bad one).
I wonder if Google uses "shadowbanning." If a spam account emails another spam account, is the email filtered?

I know that's probably not why it's private, but it got me thinking.
Btw, this is written by Mike Hearn, who'd I'd like to nominate to hacker of the year. Super cool guy, mad respect to him :)
> If we're analysing it and getting it wrong - how can we reasonably assert that the average, passive consumer is correctly informed?

These are two different sets of knowledge. For the buyer to be informed requires only that they know what they're getting (probably this rounds to three trips for $9 in the minds of most, I'd wager) and what they're paying (clearly marked). If it's worth it to them at the time of transaction, the transaction happens. Simple.

None of the rest of this stuff matters to the buyer. They've paid $9, they've got three trips, and there's a little bonus money left, encouraging them to keep the card instead of tossing it and worrying about the $1 for the next one later.

Suggesting that the buyer should be incensed at the seller because the seller is somehow unfair, but only in a way that didn't affect what was being sold and for how much, is more politics than economics.
I'd pass this one. Resolution is nice. However its surface area doesn't do justice for that number of pixels. I'm having 30" 2560x1600 monitor, and any upgrade from that needs have both bigger physical size AND more pixels. Improving one without the other isn't good enough. Yes more pixels give nicer fonts and better image quality, but bigger area is needed to actually use it effectively. When considering down sides of showing it as two separate displays on Linux I'd say "These are not the monitors you are looking for."
It wouldn't be in Google's best interest to do so. First, it could be used by spammers to lookup their own reputation for a given IP or domain before deciding whether to move on. Second, it would enable competitors to use some of Google's hard work in their products.
Some manipulation tasks require force control, too.
I suggest the other top HN article today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274677 where the market is clearly rewarding the long term strategy of Amazon.

This applies to any stock with a high P/E ratio.

Also, anyone with a spare $100 can get started investing in securities.
"The departures meant that executives with intimate knowledge of JPMorgan’s systems..."

Working most of my life in financial services, executives dont have intimate knowledge unless the systems in place happen to be the same ones they helped build 10-15 years ago (which is true in some cases).

I still consider myself hands on, although not cutting code on a daily basis, and I dont have intimate knowledge of those systems. They will still phone me at 2am despite that.
SOAP is not a clarified, less-ambiguous, consistent standard developed from REST for the same role. (Heck, they aren't even the same class of thing -- SOAP is a protocol, REST is an architectural style. And SOAP is signficantly older than REST.)

RSS:Atom might, arguably. be very loosely analogous to Markdown :: Common Markdown.
It doesn't have to be a zero sum game. In this case, the company gets more work out of you, and you get a free haircut.
That's a very good writeup, and his points are important for anyone to consider before proclaiming support for the CommonMarkdown effort. I wish there were way more discussions like this of the technical merits of CommonMarkdown than the name.

While I'm very supportive of some kind of sane Markdown specification, it's pretty disappointing that those with the biggest audience to push a specification have created such an apparently poor one. And after 2 years! Spec-by-examples, especially for an inherently ambiguous and forgiving syntax like Markdown, should be known to be a bad idea.
Ok, I had challenges with statements like this in the article:

All of this means that it is not possible to write a simple rule for when a paragraph (or other block element) ends.

Except there is a very simple rule, block elements are terminated with a blank line. The argument that changing

line 1
--- < this is inserted between two blocks
line 2

Really changes the 'line1' from a block element to a header element (its no longer followed by a block line) which has not a lot to do with parsing but more with lexical analysis. And then later the author reveals what is perhaps their actual thesis statement "Markdown became so popular because it was simple and somewhat extensible." which I would agree with if the period had landed three words earlier in the sentence. :-)

CM is a nice spec for a "markdown like system" :-) with many of the ambiguities rubbed off the edges. Add tables and I'll totally switch from multi-markdown to this more 'elucidated' specification.

I'm really surprised that so many people are hung up on Atwood et alia trying to bring some explicitness here. I've been using Markdown(tm) derived systems for a few years now and have felt the pain of many of their points directly.
You'd have to consult an attorney for a thorough answer, but my understanding is that US federal law requires public school districts (K-12) to provide an education for every eligible child. The ADA applies to children with disabilities, and districts must provide their special educational needs as much as can be done (there are limits of course but expectations are high).

Schools often don't look for kids who need beyond average services, and may defer, even resist doing so unless parents make a point of pushing the issue. I've known parents who have taken schools to court to get cooperation. Too bad that's necessary, schools invariably relent. It is the law.
After ReactJS (and the similar frameworks, like Mithril, Mercury etc.) I don't think this is a good idea (if not for other things, because you cannot have a component inside other), but I used to like AuraJS[1], that is somewhat similar (but has also events being passed from component to component).

[1]: http://aurajs.com/
Yeah, I expected a discussion of vowel mergers.

Who says cot and caught the same? How about merry, marry, and Mary? We can make our own phonological fun.
More love for Ting here. Just works, inexpensive, used phone from Glyde remains very satisfactory.
Is Bill Gates' email address secret? I just imagined he had a secretary go through it.
A bot that doesn't require coding.

We found that a carefully curated bot can be very valuable.

Included in the infographic are tips to curate the feed effectively(without future human interference or programming skills).
Killing Twitter: Why Algorithmic Timeline Spells the End of the Revolution
>The world is bigger than our bank accounts (sad, I know).

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Why? I mean, seriously, why? Public companies exist to fatten shareholders' bank accounts. Privately owned companies exist to fatten their owners' bank accounts. I submit that the world is no bigger than our bank accounts.

Also regarding founders giving up large amounts of equity to VC's so they can afford developers: there is a very simple solution. Give employees more equity. Take out the middle man.
Ask HN: Any recruiters from bay area here?
I am looking for a change and would like to touch base with you. I am a developer with 10+ yrs experience.

Please leave your contact emailand number.
>> A chaotic system has specific properties that we would be very pressed to identify in human behavior.

> You think that it would be difficult to show that human behavior has sensitive dependence upon initial conditions?

No, I think it would be difficult to show that human behavior meets the formal definition of chaotic.

> ... how could you possibly avoid an extreme dependence on initial conditions?

To see the problem, imagine proving that human behavior is not sensitively dependent on initial conditions.

It's not about whether it's so, it's only about demonstrating it to the satisfaction of a scientist.
I dunno. It's probably something lame like bgates@microsoft.com :)
There's a crunch at today's salaries. Plain and simple. Increases salaries and a lot more talent will appear. Most people are no longer willing to work at the rates corporations want to pay. Simple market forces at work ;)
I hope you're right because I just ordered one based off what you said :)
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Don't fork a new process for each image, write something that uses the imagemagick library directly (or another library if you prefer). Don't do them serially, use threads so you can make use of all your cores.

That said, even serially 5 seconds per image seems very slow. Are you sure you're not hitting network latency from a remote filesystem or something? If so do some bulk copies to get the data locally then work on the local copy.
$6-7 at a local grocery in St. Louis, MO
You're aware you don't have to accept the salary offered, right? You can take less, and I even bet few employers will complain. I gonna let you start the trend and I'll hold back though.

I think you misread the complaints: to my ears, they are more about "how on earth is that useful" or "another company solving the problems of young upper middle class urbanites" (viz Breather [1], or the 5 (and growing!) laundry startups respectively) [2].

Finally, businesses need to reach a mutual agreement with their employees. Startups and small companies are amazingly stupid; the standard playbook for creating a business is do things big companies can't that you can because you're small, ie make your smallness a positive instead of a hindrance. Somehow, none of them are willing to do that with employees. So, for example, I'd love to work remotely. Virtually no companies are interested. I've also repeatedly offered to trade 10% of my salary for the ability to 4 weeks of vacation in a row, but no-one accepts the offer. If you choose to compete directly with {goog, fb, etc} then you're competing on their terms and will probably lose.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/04/breather-series-a/

[2] I submit, w/o proof, laundry startups are a symptom of how shitty a city sf is. In a real city (ny) there are wash & folds near your apartment; you hand them a hamper and either pick up clean clothes or they drop them off at your apartment. No need for smartphones and deliveries and other bs.
We would be happy to help at imgix. We currently process tens of millions of images per day, including large images like yours. Feel free to contact me at chris (at) imgix (dot) com. Link: http://www.imgix.com
I poke fun at the OP in my comment (as of right now) above, but to more seriously discuss what I brought up (would literal titles render quality content less discovered) but I have seen title changes on HN that made me glad I read the article before the title had been changed otherwise I would have missed it.

Edit: to further expand, there have also been articles I click through to with "linkbait" titles, that ended up being poorly written or not what I thought they were going to be about. I close them after a couple of paragraphs (and don't feel cheated or tricked). Were I on another community I might be more wary of links to crap but since HN tends to skew more towards quality stuff I'd rather let the "linkbait" if enough of the community thought it was good enough to get it to the front page. I get suitably more discriminating when browsing the New section.
>we had put sufficient pressure on spammers that
they were unable to make money using their older techniques

Could anyone comment how spammers make money actually?
everything requires memory. You are being obstreperous. Memory alone against considered, analyical skills is the issue here.
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BitTorrent announces they're joining Internet slowdown protest
You missed the critical "within seconds" in the original message. Email is near-instantaneous.

Are we seriously debating the merits of email over snail-mail on hacker news? I hope this is merely people enjoying being thick and provocative, because the alternative is that there's some massive bubble-blindness going on right now.
I remember using dial-up to connect to my college's unix system. I fired up the email client (mail? mailx?) and was hesitant for a moment to send an email to England. I thought back to my days using BBS's and worrying about dialing out to per minute charges. I just couldn't believe I could email anyone in the world for free using smtp email.

Obviously, both of us need computers, email accounts, network access, etc but there's no per region metering or anything. The cost of sending an email to someone sitting 10 feet from me or 10,000 miles from me is exactly the same. Mike's right, this is revolutionary.
There are no constraints on history other than that it happened in the past. If a story hasn't been adequately told, it should be.
unfortunate that nvidia will chose the route of lawsuits instead of competition.
That's an expensive way to finance your purchases.

Your credit is your own business of course. But if it's just a random idea you had, you'll save a lot more money switching to pre-paid, and buying the hardware you want outright.

Plus that'll give you flexibility you didn't have before (to switch carriers when/if you feel like it, without penalty).
The Godfather, too (or maybe II).
Both BRKA and AMZN have a lot of assets that could be sold for something like their market caps. Hence the value in each. Same way a gold bar is worth about as much as a gold bar even if you have no immediate plans to sell it.
It can be also repurposed as an idea for a dystopian novel :)
This seems a lot like Burke's "Connections" series (which is very good).
Stolen Tesla Owner Uses App to Watch Cops Catch Thief
In perl, yes. Not in sed.

:)
There are plenty of intelligent Redditors. There are plenty of intelligent people with a differing opinion than you.
Mother of Higgs boson found in superconductors
Great graphic!
My JS13k entry
The V8 engine is implemented in C++ and so I'm sure Andreas has a good grasp of the relative benefits of FP and OO. In the context of your observation about inequality in the UK I find the "classless society" actually funny.
To formulate a "why" answer you need the context, which requires some degree of memorization of previous events. You can't derive the events from first principles, but you must derive your conclusion from some knowledge.
Nope, it's my experience (and a brief google will tell you the same). Feel free to clamp your hands over your eyes and sing la-la-la to suit yourself, though.

ps -- if you google why wordpress doesn't issue stable releases, it's because it's too hard. Which rather demonstrates the quality of people working on wordpress, I think, given real developers manage to do it for whole OSes, which are a tad more complicated than a cms [1]

[1] http://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-term-support
His current address is probably at his foundation.
snapclass - although this happened a lot in the past, we are now curating the platform much more and also our repayment rates are in the 85% area. If you diversify well and go for A/B rated borrowers you can definitely make very positive returns.

We are now doing around USD 1M per month, are growing the number of borrowers rapidly - which allows for more diversification and better returns (on average)
Exactly! Compare the Linux kernel project (globally distributed, world-class devs) to a team of undergrads working in the same room.

Maybe face to face has higher communications bandwidth, but it doesn't automatically win in every scenario.
Very cool, I wanted to build one myself.
How long did it take to compile the dataset?
https://www.bighistoryproject.com/chapters/1
How do you get the value back?
Not yet, but there are peer to peer boat rentals! Check out GetMyBoat >>> https://getmyboat.com/
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Basic education is a right, and you have the freedom to pursue advanced education, often subsidized by the government.
Please share.

I work for a company that uses Cavium in almost all of our products. To accomplish the performance per watt on Intel or AMD would be 1) ridiculously expensive 2) still not scale to what we can do with Cavium. We do ~20Gb of DPI in Cavium today in a construct of roughly 24 processors on a dataplane.

Intel can't touch that - and I've seen a lot of attempts. I don't agree with Miercom / Tolly or, hell, even NSS - they're all paid for results. But the Cavium truly can do the offload and it does in a $99 device, some of what people have said around QoS and other aspects is true, it's writing your software to take advantage of that.

Not to be a detractor but your sentiment seems bitter - but I'd be interested in real perspective if you have one.
They could put marks on the thighs and chests of the uniforms to denote the upper and lower boundaries.
Physics can be more abstract. E=MC^2 regardless of exactly how fast C is. You should have a general idea that "mass and energy are interchangeable", but you can look up the exact equation, and then look up the value of C.
It was in my original plan, but then I thought most users may find it confusing. Looking at it now, I guess I'll do it (I already have a change subnet option if you click on the Pi icon).