skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I tried very hard to pin the article down.

I did make the comment from the comparison to the general population though.

edit: I have to say, I'm pretty ticked off you accused me of being dishonest. My one sentence blurb is a reasonable response to the context from the parent comment to mine, where the NFL players are claimed as a group that is more violent than normal. There is certainly room to point out that they have cohorts where they don't compare well, but it is not outrageous to answer an assertion about how they compare to people in general with an analysis of how they compare to people in general.
I've seen some do suicide jumps not from trees but from a deck attached to the house. A good 25 feet up and they'll land on the ground with a small thud and limp off. They'll usually be back the next day to try again and get a little closer. Never understood why they KEPT trying to get to the feeder after that first jump and likely injury.
Friendly advice: maybe also include the output of the example code in the README.
This is what I use as well. You can also just use their web app if you don't feel like downloading it.
> Either you'll make millions or nothing with that.

Or somewhere in between, more likely.
LoL was hugely successful long before it eclipsed other esports. It was successful because a very large number of people played it, your dislike for it notwithstanding. I didn't like Twilight, but I can't really question that its popularity is legitimate.
Event via New Stack: The Role for Docker, Container Ecosystems and Orchestration
Nielsen: technical error causes months of false TV ratings
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Words to Cut to Empower Cover Lletters – ZipMinis
I worked for a company that used ImageMagick for compositing images together and resizing them to one of ~60 sizes (different page locations, device types, etc.). While it worked, and it was at the core of the company's technology, it was truly the worst software I have ever had to wrangle into a production service.

You name it and ImageMagick could do it:

- Leak memory
- Perform terribly until you find the magic incantation that is 10x faster
- Output wildly different images after a minor patch release
- Remove / change options after a minor patch release
- Enormously degrade performance after a minor patch release
- Have numerous security vulnerabilities all the time, which require frequent upgrades
- Dump core more often than you might like

It took us upwards of 3 months to simply move from one ImageMagick release to another (a few minor versions ahead), and we had to do all sorts of workarounds and A/B tests to ensure the images would look right.

I heard that GraphicsMagick was superior in that it maintained some consistency of behavior between versions, but it doesn't have all of the functionality of ImageMagick. So we couldn't switch to it.

Another company that I worked for had a fleet of several thousand servers running constantly just to thumbnail user uploaded images, and it was not unheard of for it to fall behind.

IM / GM are the stock answer to process images, but from my experiences they have no place in a production system. I think this is an area that is pretty poorly served by open source software; there are lots of libraries to handle different image formats, but no good infrastructure exists to tie it all together (that I'm aware of).
I really like the Javascript Graphics used in this page to show statistics, anyone knows the library name if any?
What I like about LoL is that it combines the right amout of knowledge, skill, tactics and teamwork to be successful. You can get into the game quite quickly and have fun on a lower level but also play it intensivly without reaching any kind of horizon because the game constantly changes. And riot also provides you with an api https://developer.riotgames.com/
Integrating Kill Bill with Apple Pay
And I always thought gobutit was one word -- I've been saying it wrong all these years! I still think it would be a great name for a source code control system, though.
Show HN: MLB team colors in hexadecimal
Are We Really Conscious?
America uses a measuring system that is not normal compared to almost the whole rest of the world, is maybe what is being meant.
> Ulbricht hadn’t sufficiently demonstrated that the server belonged to him, and thus can’t claim that his privacy rights were violated by its search.

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the phone.

So any property which, at the time of a search, hasn't been "sufficiently demonstrated [that it belongs to you]" isn't protected, according to this judge, by the fourth amendment?

So for one example, if you sign up to gmail or Facebook using anything other than your real name, they can break it, conduct a search and then whatever they find is totally admissible in court just because they didn't know who it belonged to?

Isn't it now in the best interests of the police to avoid finding out who something belongs to since without knowing the fourth amendment doesn't exist and warrants aren't a requirement?

Here's what I don't get about this case: The FBI is obviously lying about how they got the information they have. They clearly broke into the Silk Road servers. However they could have certain got a warrant to do so had they just presented what they knew at that time about the enterprise. So why didn't they? Laziness? Incompetence? Or just because they knew they'd get away without it (per this)?

Honestly I hope they fight this case on that matter of law and it gets thrown out. We cannot have the fourth getting chucked out any time someone invokes anonymity, that's not how it was meant to work.
The Danger of User Interviews
So in many ways, this is like having a FUSE/Hurd translator implementation directly from the browser, though it also provides a mini-Unix environment due to needing to implement corollaries to some Unix utilities.

The scope of this project is definitely what makes it nifty.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? It would be incredible if true.
Ask them:

How do they ensure that the code they deliver to their teammates is of high quality?

Regardless of domain, the principles are the same -- answers that can be understood even by a non-technical person include "peer review of my work" and "assume good faith when a person provides feedback on your design and results". If you do have a technical background, then the technical answers provided should apply to all types of software development and technical operations. You don't need to specifically have iOS experience.
> Maybe you already understand all this

Yes I do. Every single item. I just feel for the hapless student that is required to send a compressed archive of his work to the teacher, and is using tar for the first time.

There's only one little exception: I didn't know GNU tar doesn't require the '-z' flag (which by the way means 'this is a gzip archive') when extracting tar.gz archive. Anyway, I bet my hat that the '-z' is required if you compress something and output the result to the standard output: there will be no '.gz' hint to help the tool magically understand you want it compressed. If you omit it, tar will likely not compress anything.

The '-f' option is the most aggravating. Nobody uses tapes any more. Tar was doing the right thing, but no longer. -f should be dropped, or rendered optional, or replaced by '-o' for consistency with compilers… As it is, it's just ugly.

> It feels to me though that when people have issues with something like the unix command line its because they just wanted to get something done and memorized an incantation to do it. There isn't anything wrong with that of course […]

Actually there is. The users want to do something (usually a very common case such as compressing or decompressing an archive), then they have to memorise an arcane incantation. Yes, tar can do much more. Yes, the command line is powerful and flexible and more. This is Good. (Seriously, I miss my command line whenever I have to touch Windows.) On the other hand, some common cases are just not well handled, and it is full of idiosyncrasies that have nothing to do with the aforementioned benefits.

When the user wants to decompress files, it should not be more complicated than 'decompress archive.tar.gz'. Though thanks to an uncle comment, I now know of the 'unp' tool, which works just like that: 'unp archive.tar.gz', and you're done. (And the man page is refreshingly short.)
The tests don't really work. All the athletes are on cycles of daily microdosing protocols that to date are undetectable. It works for EPO as well as androgens.

If you have any question whether an athlete, model, or actor is using drugs it is safe to assume the answer is yes.
Snapchat Says Third-Party Apps to Blame for Any Hack of User Photos
Reactions to Snappening – Seel App Will Keep Your Joyful Photos Private
Hack-E-Bot: affordable + open source robots
Sorry about that. I've replaced the image with another from Wiki Commons.
Love momentum!
No need to compile your own kernel, or get a huge x86 board. You can use an Atheros-based TP-Link router with 100% free software, bootloader and firmware included. There's no reason you can't update this.

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireles...
There are other honesty vendors? Who else is doing this?

Plus, like vlunkr said, I don't know the guy, if I wanted the honest feedback of random strangers I can already get that for free on the Internet. It's not exactly like brutal honesty is in short supply, and if you target the right places it can be articulate as well.
For all the vb.net detractors, I'd suggest you this blog post "in defense of vb.net"

http://bugsquash.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/in-defense-of-vbnet...
I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and I actually miss it. Yes, it was ugly, but it gave people agency. Facebook forces every single person to "look" more or less the same. I imagine there has to be at least one kid who got into CSS styling by trying to make their MySpace profile look cool, introducing them to web design...

Facebook's enforced "look" is sort of the equivalent of a school uniform, except for everyone, and it's stifling.
After playing something like Falcon BMS you'll have all these radars memorized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3pmXvnc0k&hd=1

It acutally makes the sim quite fun to play, although you do have to get past that learning curve. I think for me it was the learning part that was kind of fun too
Warner Hid References to “Robots” and Its Deliberate Abuse of Takedowns
This is a really good concept. Not sure docker as configured will provide sufficient isolation, but with strict SElinux/AppArmor controls it is going to be way better than just hoping something you got from a PPA/pip/npm is safe. It is also good to see this as a security-in-depth component. Maybe those bash exploits wouldn't have been so catastrophic if everything touching the outside world was confined by default.

Also, since writing SElinux controls is so hard, this is a great way to package those controls for end users.
You nicked that from Greg Bear's Permutation City didn't you?
That self-description and his picture (of himself drinking beer out of a bottle at a bar) gave me second thought about his ability to give an advice that's different than one that would be dispensed by a typical 20-something 'bro' working in IT.
I imagine Hot or Not would do as well.
And yet Tumblr thrives on it, automatically playing music, custom cursors and all.
A lot of the success of Kenyans and Ethiopians is probably down to the economics of running (which is to say, it is an easily accessible sport to even the poor) and the feedback loop of other successful Kenyans. Kimetto, the recently crowned world marathon record holder, was a subsistence farmer just years ago (http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/from-poverty-to-po...). There are simply no western school kids growing up thinking distance running is a viable career path for them (and given what we make the kids do for exercise in school, we couldn't spot a talent anyway).

Contrast this to other extreme endurance sports such as pro cycling, where there are basically no Kenyans, Ethiopians or Africans at all to be found. Theres a high cost to entry and it requires infrastructure to train.
believe me, flying fighters really is as much fun as it sounds. It is more work than the transport guys, but you get out what you put in. its all worth it coming in for a 450 knot overhead at 600', pulling six g's in the break, then catching the three-wire aboard the carrier.
Not sure this counts as a technicality. Do all foreign objects get 4th amendment protections (the servers were in Iceland)? Can I invoke defense of someone else's 4th amendment rights -- even without specifying who that is? Both of these appear to have the answer "no", so I'm not sure this is a "letter but not spirit of the law" thing. Sounds like the judge was just doing his job.

If the servers aren't his, how can he say his privacy was violated? Therefore, the violation is contingent on establishing it was his, which he hadn't done.
Whether there is or is not any debt is the matter of the dispute! That's what a lot of cases are.

What about a mortgage that states that they take the house back if you can't pay. In that case is there still a debt once you stop paying and give the bank back the keys?

The problem here is that the language gets really slippery really fast. How many "debts" are truly legitimate? How is one even able to tell the legitimacy of a debt? We don't have a perfect oracle to tell us, only an imperfect court system. Even that doesn't necessarily get the RIGHT judgement, just A judgement.

If I sign up for a gym membership and that gym makes it impossible to cancel technically I agreed to it so I owe them, according to your logic. But we as human being also have notions of "reasonableness" which people must adhere to in order to not get sued out of existence.

For example, let's suppose that a large nationwide chain of gyms will sign you up for a membership at any local branch. And let's suppose that their corporate policy is that you can only cancel by going to the corporate headquarters in person between the hours of 10am and 2pm and to take a number and stand in line until your number is called. Is that reasonable? What if the only way to cancel is to mail a notarized cancellation form to corporate? Why won't they just let you cancel in person, with your membership card as proof of you being the account holder?

It's not as though the idea of bankruptcy just got invented and everyone is struggling to wrap their brains around it. It's been around for thousands of years. What's the difference between a general default and a specific default? What makes it OK to tell all your creditors "I can't pay, tough noogies!" but not OK to tell one particular creditor?

When I say it's OK to do that in general what I mean is that there are laws which say that it's OK and nobody is pushing to have them repealed. Further there are laws which limit the statute of limitations for individual debts, which also aren't seeing a huge movement to reform or repeal.

Would you argue that the two are different? Or maybe that they're the same and both are morally reprehensible? Or maybe something else entirely?
I no longer play, but I still watch the pro teams from time to time. One of the things that has impressed me the most about Riot's approach has been their willingness to make dramatic modifications to core game mechanics in an effort to keep games exciting for both players and spectators.

An example that indicates the difference between last year's world championship games and this year's is the ward system. Wards are items that a player can place near their current location, invisible to the enemy team, to gain vision into the fog of war, which is vital for decreasing risk in map-wide coordinated team strategies. Under the old system, pro teams often bogged down during the mid- and late-game phases as they vied for map vision superiority, and the only viable strategy was to purchase as many of the superior ward type (pink, with green being inferior) as possible and equip at least one player with a long-term ability to see invisible elements. Under the new system, both green and pink wards are valuable — the former are invisible to enemies and time-limited, the latter are visible to enemies but can detect invisible elements and are not time-limited — and all players have access to a periodic ability to place an extra ward or shut down enemy wards. As a result, the action in this year's matches has been much more consistent, as teams can still angle for vision control without losing momentum.

Just today, I saw some rough notes (http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gamepla...) on changes being tested in public beta. The scope of changes is massive! Starting stats, behavior of towers, and the range of temporary buffs are all on the table for a major revamp. It would be really easy for Riot to resist improving their game under the excuse of "this is the way we've always done it", but they continue to push and innovate from within. A great example of keeping a startup mentality alive within an established company!

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On another note more closely related to the posted article: for anyone that doesn't already watch pro-level League of Legends and is interested based on this article, you can follow the remainder of the current world championship matches through http://na.lolesports.com — the next best-of-five between two Samsung-sponsored teams should be very exciting. Past matches are available via http://na.lolesports.com/vods/league/worlds and I would highly recommend the Fnatic vs. OMG game from the group stages (direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O345c46mFqY).
In python I can do:

filter(lambda x: x%2==0, xrange(10))

Is this basically the same concept?
Whatever happened to feedbackarmy.com?
A Visual Dictionary of Philosophy
To be a top notch player, yes. Honestly my brother & I were having a lot of fun the first night we played LoL. Now going back and showing someone new is painful because you realize how much knowledge was accumulated over the years. But either way, it can still be fun.
Well, the committee gave China the middle finger. I'm not sure why it wouldn't do the same to the US. Besides, Snowden is at odds with the US while Malala is at odds with the pakistani Taliban. Pakistan has about the same population as Japan, so it's important. Snowden was supposedly a strong candidate, but there are valid reasons not to choose him.
You really should be starting your titles with 'why', for that extra punch.
> Flash: 4 MB

There's your reason. Good luck getting a modern OS to fit in that. Twice that would still be crowded.

Also, it's 2.4GHz only. There's no justification for ever recommending a WiFi device that can't use the 5GHz band.
That's what a zipper [1] is good for. It gives you access to the rest of a collection relative to the current position.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_%28data_structure%29
Also - keep in mind that this type of Driver Assist is (in the scheme of things) a very straightforward problem compared to others. It's pretty easy to calculate what type of braking is required to avoid running into something in front of you based on the relative velocities.
Ask HN: Valuation of Hardware Startups
Are there any good articles on this subject? If you are an angel investor, how do you value one?
Cool job in sf
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Totally independently (there were 0 comments when I started reading) I've reached a gut feeling which I think closely mirrors WrathOfJay's.

> > I couldn't bare to see him worry about me

> That's not "me, me, me", nor does it lack emotion

Switch the emphasis around, and he couldn't bear his future success being doubted.

The story being told still comes back to the author's same universal preoccupation, which involves his own validation as a famous and successful person, or failing that one who is destined for it.

No, I wouldn't call it sociopathy, but narcissism is definitely in the cards.
Well, to quote Wikipedia he did unofficially get it:
"1948: Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi, since the prize cannot be awarded posthumously.)"
Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service:

http://talkshopwithus.com
Be aware that there is likely someone over there who thinks it's serious and worth fixing, but their manager won't let them fix it because their manager doesn't think it's an issue and would rather invest in features and make more money for the business.

If you release it, you force the manager to do the right thing, and the developer will then be officially allowed time to fix it.

Give them a deadline and drop it. Even ZDI does this now. Some companies will sit on reports for years, because no one cares.
I had the exact same immediate reaction. Facebook was a smash hit in large part because of how restrictive and uniform it was. Could it not also be said that Twitter homogenizes communication and limits personal expression?
>When someone will take apart a game for fun, for better or for worse and often both, it is intrinsic.

OP was taking apart a game for profit, not fun. Taking apart a game to because you have an intrinsic drive to understand how things work is one thing. Taking apart a game to exploit glitches to make real life money is completely different - that's why people get irritated at this and I don't think you understand that. In games with markets and limited drops, it's understandable that it pisses people off - introducing duped items lowers the value of every instance of that item in the market, which affects people who legitimately play the game. Hacking a single player game to make yourself a demigod in it is awesome because it doesn't affect other people.

I don't know who capncrunch is and I can't speak to what you perceive as some kind of HN bias, but I'm reading this thread and seeing many different responses posted by individual people. The most hostile comment I've read is yours.

Lastly, ignore the rest of the noise of this thread.

This is really obnoxious. You're essentially dismissing everyone else's opinion in this thread, whether you've read it and understood it or not. You have no idea about what OP is doing, who they are, or what they're capable of and or what their context is and you're saying "ignore all advice but mine." Incredibly arrogant and dismissive towards the rest of the community.