skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Widths are not fixed. A tall skinny building might be drawn over a short wide one.

Also, you end up as N^2 degenerate case if the buildings form a pyramid.
Is Haxe functional? I didn't think it was.
Where are the biggest data centers located?
On those early consumer 8-bits, the command shell WAS the BASIC interpreter. You turned the computer on and you were right there in the BASIC environment! You couldn't do anything without typing in BASIC commands.

Your other points are OK, but it really wasn't like a Bash shell. An interactive Python command-line is closer, but it's still a stretch.
Right about what? That their precious libraries don't have enough syntactic support in the current Scala toolchain? I mean sure I guess they're right in that sense.

My argument is not just about the personalities involved but I admit that is a large part of why this leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I think these libraries are a really nice way to bone up on theory and see how certain abstract concepts get expressed in something that is computable. None of that is the issue. The issue is that there is now going to be an unnecessary choice involved in what toolchain you are going to use even though the choice is going to be completely irrelevant. The enterprise guys are not going to use anything that is not backed by service/stability guarantees and the group that is going to use the alternate toolchain is potentially going to diverge more and more from the stable branch. It just feels like a whole bunch of wasted effort. There are many examples of this happening already. The biggest example being D and the fork of the standard library in the early days. The other examples are python2 vs python3 and perl5 vs perl6. Going by historical examples this is going to be a complete and utter failure.
It is not using the actual Tor network. They developed a Fork of Tor utilizing UDP and trading speed for some of Tor's anonymity guarantees.
Wow, so much more accessible than trying to do it with Photoshop. Is there code for this as a library anywhere?
I also noticed a high frequency of "X made simple" or "X made easy" headers on the landing page.
[citation needed] ?
Easily add live video chat to website or app
Some links:

https://blog.mozilla.org/mrbkap/2013/08/12/the-old-html-pars...

http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1138169545&count=1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324875
Cavium's products have traditionally been geared more towards high end routers. Their chips have traditionally had massive amounts of networking bandwidth, but very little I/O for things like storage, or even RAM. Their ARM stuff looks like they may be about to change that, but details there are still rather scant.
This is a wonderful post. One minor aspect which nags me is that when I read "any function", I think any "effectively calculable method". But regular feedforward MLPs are not Turing Complete (will you be going over recurrent or recursive networks?). If so, it would be useful to note this distinction as I've never seen that point for confusion dealt with properly in one place.
I thought this is a really good startup generator, until I realized it's real ...
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Preferably No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby On Rails, Javascript, Backbone.js, JQuery, Python, Java, HTML/CSS, SQL

Resume: http://andretran.io/#resume

GitHub: https://github.com/andretran

Email: andre.n.tran@gmail.com

Born and raised Canadian Eh, I bleed maple syrup. I'm mostly self taught, officially my background is in Business Finance and Economic. I'm definitely open to project management, but preferably looking for a full-stack/front-end web dev position.

I'm looking forward to your emails!
Wow, a blast from my distant past... a link to the copy/paste detector:

http://pmd.sourceforge.net/pmd-5.1.3/cpd-usage.html
The same arguments as in the original Cybenko paper, or the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, lend support to the idea that SVMs are universal approximators (with most typical kernels). This has been proven by a couple of authors.

I'm not aware of universal approximation results for random forests, but since they have the same general construction, this would not be surprising.
No. Bitmessage is essentially a decentralized version of alt.anonymous.messages.
1) Focus on the functional use-cases and not code.

2) Identify integration points to other systems and ask why they are there

3) Realize that a "big-bang" rebuild never works and that it's better to break up the system into smaller pieces and replace them piece by piece.
it is super
A "neural net" is what a computer scientist decided to call something that he thought behaved somewhat like a now dated abstract model of what individual neurons worked like, from a period when neuroscience was really in its infancy.

Your brain is not a neural net.
> how does the number of hidden units required behave as a function of dimensionality of the input domain

If I recall correctly, a non-linear problem can be solved as a linear problem if you consider more dimensions. The hidden layer add dimensions. So, it's not a function of the input domain but of the problem domain, which usually isn't explicitly known.
RISC chips have done this for a while. Oracle's T5 Niagara was something like 256 execution threads per socket. Power8 (also a RISC chip) supports 96 execution threads per socket.

Most of a modern x86_64 chip is cache, and other System On Chip components (memory controller, PCIe controller, built in GPU), not necessarily what in the 80's and 90's we'd call the CPU.
I think twitter generates answers based on the client's Accept-Encoding header. Well, I assumed that. Come to think of it though, it does seem unlikely and you make a good point.

I did not downvote, or if I did I did not mean to, op's comment certainly did not deserve it.
So, we're supposed to tell the vegetarians, "No, you don't get fake meat" and the Linux users, "No, you don't get to do office things"?

The point is they still want (enough) to do those things if they can do them without compromising other concerns. And they want that even if those things aren't done as well (which is certainly usually the case for fake meat). If they didn't want to do those things enough to compromise, they wouldn't do them (and this certainly represents some portion of both populations). If they wanted to do them and cared more about the fact that the alternative is poor than about their other concerns, they would be eating meat or using Windows. Making the alternative suck less decreases the push away from vegetarianism or Linux, as spreading ethical concerns and improving package management and such increases the push toward them.

I don't think "Linux should play to its strengths" is a crazy position, necessarily, but I also think characterizing the other side as not having a point is disingenuous - in both the vegetarianism and FLO cases.
It says not to do this very clearly when you register your clientid.
Hahaha, no problem.

Static Analysis would be my second step, but first I'd have a look at the architectural documentation. I can't imagine that a project of this size wouldn't at least have a Powerpoint explaining the structure and concepts of the code.

Then it's time to start using tools.
Even celebrities don't matter enough. Everyone will get real security once hackers start targeting private equity and hedge funds.
This looks like a collection of startups whose web site is vulnerable to click jacking [1]: they all allow to be embedded in an iframe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking
True. But on the other hand, its still (against all reason) too hard to actually do anything with such massive archives unless you really prepare for it .. like you, I have more than 15 years of email collected over the decades, but actually being able to do something productive with it depends on just how much time I want to spend setting up a system that can handle the mbox files of the 80's, the Eudora archives of the 90's, the Mail.app sql-database of the 21st Century, and so on. It has persisted, dear mail-format, but oh what a mess it still is after all these years. I'd kill for a solution that just gives me my own full-text search engine to query/manipulate this archive, without first having to configure stream-plugins to do text conversions and so on. I guess this is one of those cases where I should just set up a dedicated Linux machine (finally, a use for an rPi!) with all the years mails, and promptly set a text search tool on the problem .. trouble is, can I do that without having to train the thing to handle SMTP headers first? Intuitively I'd say "probably this is a done deal out there somewhere" but a part of me still cowers at the idea ..

(And before anyone mentions it: no, google is not my solution. I want to do offline manipulation of decades of mail archives .. not just turn it over to some Entity, Inc. to solve..)
HN.

Even when it publishes stuff from Ars or wherever, I often skip the article and just read the comments here because they're much more insightful and if there's anything good, the commentators here know better.

The demand at news sites that they keep churning out news no matter what is what lowers their quality. Sometimes there just isn't anything worthwhile to read at the moment about a topic.
Slack: Preferences
This, 100x this.

You and your team don't just have to build an understanding of the code (e.g. frameworks, patterns, DB's, etc.) but the app itself so you can truly understand it's purpose.

Your rewrite won't (hopefully?) also be 100mm lines so being able to understand the high level purpose of the app completely and then diving deep from there, you may (hopefully) find many places where the system can be simplified.

Are you really not exaggerating? 100mm lines of source? Yiiiikes...
Every game company ever disagrees that vector graphics are inherently slow. They just need to be designed to work fast.

SVG just happens to be a very slow implementation of vector graphics.

And my point isn't that they're better than a 300 dpi image, it's that they're better than an infinite list of high-DPI images for every twisted combination of DPI and screen-size.
Right! Most of the problem is unauthentic email - spam. Why oh why don't my peers sign their email, so I can test the signature and even file them by source/topic? This seems dead obvious.
Question (since you seem to know about the Phi) is the Phi x86_64 (and its extensions), or is it as black boxed every other GPU like device?
Here's a login. You can also make one up (no email verification required).

No affiliation with the creator, btw, just thought it was a cool demo to share.

Username: demo@demohackernews.com

Password: demodemo
How is it SELF-scraping. Isn't it THEM-scraping
Does someone have a link to the specific evidence that all the leaked photos came from iCloud? All I've been able to find to far is speculation.
I think it is misguided to call this an act of ego, like Miles says in the announcement Typesafe has different goals, and milestones that don't necessarily serve the whole community. There are actually tons of nice small changes that haven't been implemented for various reasons, and I see this as an incubator where people can try out experimental extensions of the language and reasonably package them together, ideally porting them (if they are good) back to scalac itself. This isn't much different than people reimplementing Python or Ruby, or adding experimental extensions to Haskell (go look at how many different Haskell compilers there are). Personally I'm always interested to see what directions people can push software in when not motivated by money, or publications.

I think it is also important to remember that these people work on stuff for free in their free time because they enjoy it. They are free to pick designs and approaches they like, and have zero obligation to contribute to popular libraries, regardless of their supposed merit.
Interesting, my wife and I are leaving silicon valley and moving to a house on a lake in a remote area of another state....We really feel like the goals we have are accomplished easier with a more remote lifestyle..
Oh come on, you would really trust a site for which ads seem to come from NRA?

Also the debunk [1]: "There is an article circulating the internet that is filled with half-truths and misinformation. It is posted on a website called “Political Ears,” which is listed as a “satire website” here. Unfortunately, people are reading this article as fact."

[1]: http://www.alsa.org/news/archive/debunks-article.html
When you go above the 1m-or-so LOC it gets much easier to move to more data-driven designs.

Of course the OP could be including all test cases, data etc in his LOC; in which case you could easily reach the hundred-million LOC mark...
you can check a hash without uploading the file in question. VT only stores a set of results if it has seen the actual file, not if a hash is checked against it. This is why, when doing incident response, a lot of people suggest not uploading suspicious files to VT, because it lets the attackers change up and start using new malware
Segment.io (YC S11) is hiring junior sales people
Interesting, my wife and I are planning this now. I posted a comment about it.
Well, Alpha and MIPS (and some supers before them) had 64 bit addressing to handle more than 4 GB of address space. The 7030 had just a handful of memory and no vm, through it did have a 64 bit word size. ARM and x86 have been able to handle 64 bit numbers without anyone claiming they're 64 bit.
You can search on a hash, so I imagine they would hash it themselves and just perform a search.
Ask HN: Lost Productivity
I was sick for almost two weeks. For that time I was not working. Today is my first day back. Productivity is hard to come by. Any tips on getting it back?
> If I have to run Windows applications, I want Windows, don't I?

Sure, and if you want Unix applications, you want Unix(tm), of course, like Solaris.

Dvorak has had plenty of time to understand the benefit of having a re-implementations of proprietary API's.

What we are reading here is the 1993-vintage Dvorak (or older). Dvorak has not changed his views in twenty years. Or, rather, we don't actually know; quite possibly, PC mag wants "classic Dvorak", and he delivers.
Thanks - it's the second kid so I know about the sleep deprivation. I certainly plan to spend as much time as possible at home (especially right after birth to help out).
Heh heh .. yeah, okay. If you really have to stay in the browser, then .. I agree. But if you have the balls: elope! :)
It's more like the plural of 'deer' being 'deer'. I don't think I've ever heard anyone attach an 's' to 'kanji' for pluralization when speaking English. Like how it might be odd to say 'sushis' or 'wasabis'. Whenever I need to stress plurality i would say 'kanji characters' or something like that. Oxford English Dictionary lists 'sushi', 'kanji', 'shinkansen', 'katakana' all as being mass nouns or having the plural form the same as the singular. The exception in the words I looked up was 'tsunami' which may be pluralized as 'tsunami' or 'tsunamis'.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/als.asp
> The code was a tangled mess of mindless duplication, half-implemented features and misleading comments.

In my experience, a lot of code is like this, and the majority of startup code is like this. I have found there's almost zero correlation between startup success and good coding practices. I have no data, but I suspect there's a negative correlation.

Before you protest, I know that your code is a shining example of clarity. But if you consider all the incentives for a startup, there's much more value in being experimental, and highly responsive to customer demands, than there is in charting a stable, long term course. People celebrate pivots like it's cool, but this is what it does to the code.

Just a forewarning for anyone who is going from a more corporate world into startupland.
I think that Maciej Cegłowski got it right in his talk [0] with the concept of investor storytime.

To quote:

"Recall that advertising is when someone pays you to tell your users they'll be happy if they buy a product or service.

Yahoo is an example of a company that runs on advertising. Gawker is a company that runs on advertising.

Investor storytime is when someone pays you to tell them how rich they'll get when you finally put ads on your site.

Pinterest is a site that runs on investor storytime. Most startups run on investor storytime.

Investor storytime is not exactly advertising, but it is related to advertising. Think of it as an advertising future, or perhaps the world's most targeted ad.

Both business models involve persuasion. In one of them, you're asking millions of listeners to hand over a little bit of money. In the other, you're persuading one or two listeners to hand over millions of money."

Most startups indeed do run on investor-storytime.

[0] - http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
Dry Spell Reveals Stonehenge Secret
The issue with inferior Linux copies is where the original is closed source and the company hasn't ported it themselves.

Office suite compatibility issues are due to the incumbent software's closed formats. Evidently, this is a smart move to defend market share.

These aren't Linux problems, they're closed source software problems.
Mail on both OSX and iOS have native support for S/MIME, which I've been using daily for many years. You can use it to sign and/or encrypt emails.

Keys are stored in the keychain. S/MIME uses a CA-based system for authentication, so the pro is that you don't even need to do key management (it is sufficient that one user sends you a signed message - and you use the CAs to validate the signature), and the key is automatically imported into the keychain. The con of the CA-based system are the same of SSL/TLS.

The only non-user-friendly pass is acquiring the certificate, which is as hard as getting a server SSL certificate; not complicated for an IT professional, but impossible for a casual user (plus, you have to pay them, unless you use StartSSL). Once the certificates are installed, the whole experience is mostly dumb-user proof.

For enterprises, OSX & iOS supports pulling the certificate from a specific ActiveDomain/LDAP record, so that you can automatically send encrypted mails to anybody in the company, even if you haven't communicated to them before; moreover, they support deployment through configuration profiles, so that it gets auto-installed and auto-configured for the end user.
Ask HN: Today a well-funded competitor launched out of nowhere
We've spent 8 months building our B2B SaaS product in our spare time, doing bespoke work to fund it and working long hours. We have a few initial customers/beta testers lined up and we're starting to test our design in semi-production settings.

Our competitor used to have an awful Windows app that dominated the niche but today their glossy SaaS offering appeared - much to our horror.

In many ways our product is superior to theirs. It's better thought our and has a superior UX.

However:

a) We've got a dev team of 1.5 persons (taking into account our day jobs). It looks like they've got a team of full-timers.

b) We've got no marketing budget to speak of (currently applying for loans)

c) We've got a fairly sizeable technical debt to pay off

If I'm being charitable we're at beta but probably more like alpha. At least a month away from being production ready.

And they're already out there, with an existing customer base from their desktop app to plunder, a known brand and a slick website.

There's 4 of us working - working 60 hour weeks.

Our only chance of competing is to go big, quickly. Not just capital but capital and an experienced organisation to back it up.

Any advice?
What I use instead of Google services
Regarding your last paragraph, there's a huge difference between a typical mortgage and buying a toaster with a credit card.

Specifically, people typically use credit cards with the intent of paying them off quickly and by applying their normal income stream to paying it. The resale value of the item purchased doesn't matter at all in that scenario, only the usefulness of actually owning the item.

Mortgages, on the other hand, are rarely taken out with the intent of paying them back in that way. The typical mortgage term is 30 years and few people anticipate staying in a house that long. Most mortgages are taken out with the intent that the bulk of the loan will be paid off by selling the house. Negative equity completely screws up that plan, which is why people get so upset about it.

That's not to say that credit card debt is somehow wise in many cases, but toasters and houses don't compare well here.
If the injunction was granted in error, the requesting party may be liable for damages. I don't know if a bond is required. This is how Über bullied the winning party into not enforcing the injunction last time they lost a similar case in Berlin. However, this time the opposing party is not a small 10 people company, but a larger union. I don't expect that this will work this time.
Distributed Computing with Apache Mesos
> For what he thought about "ill posed", etc., problems, I couldn't find.

Jaynes' book has a full chapter on "Paradoxes of Probability Theory", including Borel's paradox (or Borel-Kolomogorov paradox).

See also http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~csplash/data/notes/2010-14.pdf
Oh please!

The graph FROM THE ARTICLE shows:
Fundraising: 14%
Administration: 7%
Mission: 78% (Education, Patient Services, and Research)

The article then complains that only 27% is used for research. That's because it's not the only mission of the ALS foundation.

I hate thoughtless "journalism" like this that raises spurious complaints just to grab attention. Please don't encourage them.
Even after logging in I don’t see anything that resembles the Tinger-style swipe cards. Just text saying "Looks a little empty…". Am I missing something?
D2D2C a new Star Wars robot, or your ideal backup scenario?
You could try to reduce the lines of code by removing alle the useless whitespaces.
This is link bait. Almost 80% of their total funding goes to research, education, and helping those who suffer from ALS and their families. The rest goes to fundraising and administrative costs.

As far as non-profits go, I hold the mark to be around 80% should go to the cause. Which I feel like the ALS foundation does. Just because it isn't all going to research, doesn't mean that it isn't helping people. It is hard to base a charity entirely around research because you usually can't have a visible everyday impact on people's lives. Education and helping the families help people understand how serious ALS is and encourages them to take action.

TL;DR this article is sensationalist bullshit
Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation
High-Performance S3 with MimicDB
Quick feedback:

The "book now" call to action button is overpowered by the photo of the girl. Also, I'm unclear what I'm supposed to put in the input box next to "book now".

I also noticed a few UI quirks: http://imgur.com/a/OyBUz
iCloudHack: DropBox the More Likely Source
I couldn't pinpoint exactly how I recognized Lutus before and then I remembered:

http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

This was the first app I used when I was about 18 learning HTML...and my first real understanding of free software with his "Care Ware" philosophy:

http://www.arachnoid.com/careware/index.html
Engineers' Advice to Recruiters
Mailvelope could potentially use a plugin to do this locally, though it may complicate things.
That was not the basis of FreezerburnV's complaint, which was based on how it's done in Japanese, not English. So I don't believe SunShiranui's point is wrong. The fact that the plural of "kanji" is "kanji" in English does not establish a blanket rule that every word must be pluralized according to its language of origin. (And that is good, because pluralizing "cherry" would be a nightmare! It's an over-singularized form of the already-singular French "cherise.")