skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joel, I like seeing how well you're doing. I truly wonder how much of it is luck, but I really hope that only very little of it is.
Since Fitbit has an API, what is stopping developers from making a Fitbit-to-HealthKit data transfer app?
I'd try rawspeed instead of dcraw. Much faster and cleaner code and the latest version supports almost all cameras.
America has gotten pretty bad at tunneling, and it's much more expensive here than in Spain or France.

Madrid buried its M30 high for far less money:
http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/projects/m30_madrid/
Note that the project included two contracts that included >4km highway tunnels, neither of which cost more than $1B USD.

There were differences, of course. But read up on American tunneling costs versus those in Asia or non-English-speaking Europe, if you want to better understand why we can't have nice things.
Changing the title from the original "#define CTO" to "Define CTO" does not seem particularly helpful to me.
Food Scores from the Environmental Working Group
> required to show photo ID (which they could not have had)

Non-citizen (and never will be) but I sure as hell have a drivers license, and like one held by any citizen it has a bad picture of me on it.
Photo ID is already used for everything.
Warning, the outcome of all those words seems to be "We tried to find out, but we still don't know if there has been or could be an impact".
>What are they going to do if Apple in particular rejects CurrentC as an app?

File an anti-trust complaint? One need not be a monopoly in order to face anti-trust charges. E.g. See the ebook price fixing charge.
Some relevant interesting StackOverflow questions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4196453/simple-and-fast-m... (my own :))
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75891/algorithm-for-findi...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/596262/image-fingerprint-...
Improving Angular web app performance example
Great point! We A/B tested a bunch of different ones, we haven't managed to outperform the current one. We'll certainly keep testing it. I like your hypothesis!
I'll second my name-twin's sentiments and add:

It's fantastic to see a dividend based model being introduced into early round VC fundraising. It's an alternative to liquidity and something that should/can move upstream. Bravo to Buffer for leading the charge.
> ISPs in the 90s never cooperated to form a neutral standard for content design and layout because there was never a standard that could possibly serve any one of their interests without coming at an expense to every other member in a coalition.

Could you explain this further? What standard would ISPs be developing in the 90s for content and layout?
I'm curious, what ID can be assumed to be proof of citizenship? The only thing that springs to mind (I'll admit I'm not american, but have a little experience there) would be a birth certificate. Which generally doesn't fall under 'Photo ID'.

(Genuine question; I realise such matters very wildly from state to state, and my experience is limited to Michigan - which didn't have this requirement, and I don't believe issues any ID other than drivers licence, or a 'state ID' - a voluntary substitute for the drivers licence where the licence isn't held)
The CEO of my employer[1] still programs 'from time to time' [2] and I would say understands the role of good management better than 99% of CEOs out there. That the firm is privately held means that he's certainly fulfilling his responsibilities as well, if fiduciary duties matter to him. Ultimately, outcomes are what matter and few have better track records.

[1] http://www.sas.com/en_us/company-information/executive-bios/...
[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/05/12/an-intervie...
So the Scunthorpe problem is in effect?
I'm a non-citizen with a valid photo ID. Looking at it right now, there is no obvious way of determining my immigration status from it. IIRC all I needed to get my ID card was my SSN and some other acceptable proof of identity. Presumably the state has some means of matching my ID card to my immigration status, but it's not obvious just from looking at the card.
Just out of curiosity, how did you overcome slow HTML5 canvas' getImageData and pixel reading from an image affected by CORS (tainted canvas)?
I've heard 'seagull management' or something similar too. They fly in, shit all over everything, and leave.
>That doesn't make the comments less true.

It doesn't. What it does is give us less reason to believe that the comments are true.
World's First Virtual Global Hackathon from Koding.com
> "people with egos tend to have a hard working self image"

I guess I haven't seen this much! Yes, if you're a shrinking violet and can't put yourself out there you will have a hard time succeeding in almost any domain, but the ability to do so can be learned.

In my experience, when someone says "ego" it usually means "asshole".
It should be available. My dev phones are U.S. based and I didn't know how to test/verify it running on a non U.S phone. Any ideas out there?
I just finished writing about distance hashing functions with a slightly different angle. I visualized the distances between a bunch of images using two different techniques, one of which was pHash (discussed in the parent article). Mine isn't quite as in-depth performance wise, but it makes for pretty pictures. Some of my work is here: http://www.josephcatrambone.com/?p=619

I'm going to upload the SHA distance tonight.
Retailers want nothing less than universal digital payments. I'm not sure why you would think that they wouldn't. This is about Apple's solution vs. their own solution.
But the first company to crack getting HR affordably and reliably without a separate strap? Take my money! A watch that can do it well - in rain, freezing weather, with salty sweat, or sunshine - would be incredibly cool. The strap is by far the weakest link of Garmin and Polar watches.
Why fear is trumping science when it comes to Ebola
This goes double if you're hosting on Heroku as you won't be able to correlate the changes Heroku makes with issues showing up for you. They're lucky that they hadn't pushed a change at the same time as Cowboy changed, or the debugging could have taken even longer.
1) It's zoom forward on many mac computer touchpad, the max zoom isn't 100% but is currently limited to a good memory performance level, we will add "read" 100% inspection

2) We've seen people requesting RAW image editing, and technically it's interesting for us to find a way to support that, this could be an open source effort. On the C/C++ community, dcraw.c already support all brands of cameras for RAW.

3) Nice suggestion on the controls!

4) That was a dirty hack but good to hear that people're using it..

5) We will add that.

Thanks a ton for all the suggestions!
How a Band of Rebels and Pioneers Launched Wired's First Website 20 Years Ago
Well Cygnus was pretty big and pioneered the free software business model, forking, and a whole bunch of things like that. TLGnet was one of the very first ISPs.

I also did an enterprise DB company, Zembu, that pretty much sank without a trace (the tech ended up in DB2). I made a drug at Talima that is still in trials so who knows? Terrajoule.... well the jury is out.

And castAR I plan will be huge!

You can see some background by looking me up on Linkedin: D. Henkel-Wallace. I should resurrect my Wikipedia page.
Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher
It's been a while since I went down this rabbithole, but I think it is required via spec, but only if your SIM card has that feature enabled ... and no carriers anywhere (globally) enable that feature.

So I would be interested to see what happens if you insert a SIM card with security checking turned on, into an iphone...
> I can very easily see that being fraudulently exploited, or just plain misunderstood by new immigrants.

Particularly when you're getting letters in the mail urging you to vote and telling you how. I've been getting a lot of those recently.
If one of the founders is reading - why not taking the money in the bank as dividend right before the fund raising (with full disclosure to the future investors, of course). You get a similar amount of money (although sharing it with the early investors), but all the money you're raising goes to the company, which I assume is a simpler model. Wouldn't that be simpler?

Best of luck with completing the round, and with future growth!
That's like saying that joining the * party in USA is unethical because of the despicable things our military and contractors do. It's unhelpful.
My suggestion is to skip flux until you feel pretty comfortable making simple apps with just react. Ignore the links here and just focus on understanding the code on https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Examples
RESTifying your business data with REST APIs
> A non-citizen driver's license isn't proof of citizenship, and that is what is required by voter ID

[citation needed]

Everything I've seen listed a drivers license as acceptable.
There never was one, which is the point. Compuserve had a weird compiled binary format. AOL had a similarly weird proprietary format, Prodigy was a vector based system that could never work with anyone else, and there were countless others (Genie, etc). Meanwhile, HTML came along over PPP, and that's when the entirety of corporate america, and residential dial-up users joined the network. The same thing is happening now with the mobile payments industry.
The support is incomplete and we're still evaluating memory issues with IE as well as their toDataURL. We're two developers and as soon as we have more bandwidth we will start to support IE.
One possible fix would be to only allow an account to bind to a device ID if that device ID wasn't already linked to another account. This would prevent you from just fishing through their info by linking your account to random device ID's.

You'd have to know the email address associated with the account, but that of course means you are using the device ID as the username and the email address as the "password", which is still pretty bad in my opinion.
I don't think a well-managed software company should keep everyone 100% allocated to their primary function. It's too brittle and it leaves too many potentially game-changing ideas unexplored.

I would be happy to work at a company where everyone spends 10% of their time on skunkworks-type projects, or cross-training in a totally different part of the organization, and that would include the CTO sometimes writing code.

(Obviously little startups don't have this luxury, but in those cases the CTO is justified in coding anyway.)
I'm not sure if I value my confidentiality more than the unlimited talk/data/text plan on which I'm grandfathered. It's a hard change to make, especially considering I no longer see the tracking data after I disabled it in my settings.
But then the CTO becomes the deskside support for a critical tool that's helping everybody get their job done...
Ask HN: Have founders spoken about disabilities affecting business interactions?
I'm an imposing 6'4" and 230lbs but an arthritis-like condition has left me with a damaged right hand and wrist. Shaking hands causes mild to severe pain, and my size tends to invite joint damaging handshakes from a lot of alpha males. As a result, I resort to fist bumps and left handshakes that often take some explaining. Have any other founders faced similar problems?

Any creative handshake ideas are appreciated. High fives are hit and miss with the over 50 crowd!
"We don't have enough test coverage to ensure that we're generating RFC-compliant output" is objective. That's not a personal though, feeling, or opinion. If you wish, you may generalize that to "we don't have enough tests to catch an error that made it into the shipped product".
The Netscape Dorm
Thanks! Will try this out!
This is really great. It was a fun read. Although I'm wondering why the routing table definition in startServer() here(https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb/blob/master/main.go#L85) isn't closer to the api.go module. Is this a gin convention or just personal taste?
> what ID can be assumed to be proof of citizenship

A passport, but a drivers license is acceptable for voting.
rawspeed won't let you extract the thumbnail. Also, the reason I suggested dcraw is because it's one C file and that makes things a lot easier, especially when compiling to javascript.
It is more likely that non-citizens in foreign countries through the use of PAC donation can decide and influence our electorate than illegal fraudulent voting. What is so scary is that anonymous PAC money is legal!
That makes sense on a small scale. But with big retailers, the calculus changes a bit. The data a big retailer gets from my purchase history: when I come in to the store, what I buy, etc., is potentially very valuable.

CurrentC would allow my purchases to be tracked across multiple major retailers and aggregated. The value there is incredible. Possibly worth more than the merchandise I buy? Very possibly, I'd think.
> File an anti-trust complaint?

Good luck to them with that one. "Waaaah! Apple blocked our payment service!" "Why'd they do that?" "We blocked theirs!"
JS numbers are doubles (64-bit floating-point numbers).
Statistics without the agonizing pain
You could just wear a wrist brace from the local drug store to make it clear that hand isn't used for hand shakes. I wear one 24/7 anyway to avoid tightness in my wrists from too much coding.
Personally I would guess that systemic voter disenfranchisement has a much bigger impact.
I'm not referring to the photo ID presented at the polling place (which is not proof of citizenship, but of identity), but the normal voter registration process used by the state (which typically has other identity and residency requirements) and is then verified by photo ID.

EDIT: The terminology with Voter ID can be imprecise and confusing, and I admit I used "voter id" where I meant the registration and voting procedure.
This is anecdotal still unless you control for other parts of the diet, such as total carb intake, total sodium intake, and/or dietary fiber intake.

When many people stop eating gluten, they often just stop eating so much bread, usually lower their total carb, sodium intake (there's tons of it in bread), and often sugar and other things as well, sometimes substantially lower.

Occasionally the opposite is true if people start swapping out large amounts of glutenous products for sugary fruits.

The same thing happens with MSG and chinese restaurant syndrome. People tend to think MSG itself, and not their actual sodium intake (MSG is sodium + glutamic acid), makes them feel sick. In controlled studies with equivalent sodium intake and controlling for taste (basically two gelatin pills, one with MSG and the other with an equivalent amount of sodium), there's been no correlation.
i am interested in this as well.

the app is awesome btw!
I didn't know it was possible to save real DNGs on Android (as opposed to JPEGs inside DNGs).
I've been waiting for years to be able to shoot RAW on a phone camera.

Do you mind posting a DNG file of this photo? I might switch from iOS if Apple doesn't provide this functionality soon enough.
Heroku came back and said:

Looking through the system, I see that you were sent two emails (in August and September) as several of your apps were migrated to the new routing stack (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-improved-router). As mentioned in the documentation, the new router follows stricter adherence to the RFC specification, including sensitivity to spaces.

...and sure enough, there is a line that says:

The request line expects single spaces to separate between the verb, the path, and the HTTP version.

So the lesson is: RTFM

-G
Is logic perception? Famously (I have to take them at their word) Quantum Physics describes behaviours which require the mathematician to abandon perception and manipulate the formula "blindly". Should we disbelieve them?

Also I thought science was (formally) the creation of beliefs based on falsifiable hypothesis supported by evidence? When did the news come that it's actually about excluding intuition and experience? I think quite a lot of grant applications are going to have to be rejected henceforth, but then, how shall we decide what to observe next?
Completely off topic, and purely out of curiosity, but what's MixRadio, as a business, right now? Are you part of Microsoft? (then wow, Clojure) Or of what's left of Nokia (and licensed to Microsoft somehow)?

Where's the team located? I had expected Finland, but the OP doesn't seem very Finnish.

Btw, great work. I'm a very happy Mixradio user.
Twitter Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results
Newrelic Centurion now supports dogestry
I've learned about buffer while looking for job. (probably from who is hiring threads) Since then, I've been reading their medium posts.[1] Their values, hiring strategy, salary transparency and managing remote teams seems perfect to me and I really liked reading their posts. (Highly recommended)

[1] https://medium.com/buffer-posts
With a hard-locking differential ("lockers", generally used off-road), engagement while one wheel is spinning is ill-advised. They're generally toggled on at low/zero speed by the operator in anticipation of a traction-loss situation.

The variety of differential which does not immediately lock one wheel into another is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-slip_differential .
Drones and Cool Transportation Concept in Ok Go's “I Won't Let You Down”
Nice suggestion on the hover to edit, will add that!
This post is turning into a mega UX/UI testing ground which I'm really glad.

Local adjustment is working right now in Polarr. Spot removal is a very different game but we will see.
The bottom ads are fine imo, but the ones that interrupt the whole screen are not. Had to delete after that.
farm to toilet
Yup, great questions! We considered a number of things: dividends, loans, buying back shares without raising money, debt. Dividends for a c-corp are taxed super high (big fan of paying taxes, but you end up paying something like 60-70% tax, not a good idea!). So raising extra cash with minimal dilution (2.5% for this round) was most efficient.

Right now, all money raised goes to company, then company buys back shares from early team members - investors still get preferred stock. We're not selling our common stock directly to investors - you're right, that'd be too complicated and not in investors interest.

Would love to answer more questions on this, keen to explain our full thinking!
This is a shitty situation for consumers and I think the retailers are making a big mistake, but it is also somewhat amusing to see so many Apple fans white-knighting for Apple considering they are a company that has routinely rejected (on their walled-garden App Store) apps or app updates to already existing apps because they "duplicate functionality" (read: "compete with our stuff").

My reaction is similar to when Apple gets sued for patent infringement on dumb patents -- it still makes me dislike the current patent system for abuse, but at the same time a part of me thinks it couldn't happen to a more deserving company in a "live by the sword, die by the sword" way.
Elon Musk Compares Building AI to “Summoning the Demon” [video]
Interesting - can you describe the curriculum? Or highlight some of the differences of view that you perceived?
What sort of accuracy did you have in your sentiment analysis algorithms? I'm curious because I find the error rate in such algorithms is typically higher than any sort of variance you are seeking, which causes significant problems in terms of any sort of pattern recognition.

When you're using things as short as Tweets, and as broad as "general sentiment", you're probably making accuracy even worse, to the point that simpler demographic analysis or bag-of-words clustering (i.e., cluster areas by diction rather than by sentiment) yields more reliable results, even for sentiment.
AtScript: New Google superset JavaScript runtime runs atop TypeScript
I totally agree. The only time I spend coding is on internal tools and process-y things. Another benefit is that there's typically less maintenance required than with product features.

I actually wrote down some of my thoughts on it here: https://medium.com/@shl/write-code-sometimes-e7516c2b1f71
Converting PuTTY from SVN to Git
Since the article's headline doesn't reflect its contents (and would likely lead to definitional debates), we changed it to a sentence from the article that does.
I've always loved the audio from ESA's Huygens probe descending onto Titan:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huyg...
Yes, that works well with short sleeve shirts, I have a BOA brace that I use for watersports. You'd be surprised how many folks will give a hearty handshake to someone wearing a cast, though. http://goo.gl/zeT40x
Financial account providers are required to ask for personal identifiers as a result of the USA PATRIOT Act. You have to provide your SSN when you apply for a credit card or bank account, as well.

As for the rest...yeah, seems a bit much.
The theory is if you use your ID even though you're allowed to cast a vote your vote could be invalidated later. Technically you could be jailed as well.

The reason conservatives want voter ID is to prevent voting under other peoples' identity. Without ID there's no way you can even know that's happening. Which, we suspect, is why the Democrats are fighting so hard against it.

It's less of an issue in Australia because you have far fewer illegal immigrants and the system is set up such that the people who do immigrate to Australia tend to be more highly educated. In the US prior to 2008 we had something on the order of a million illegal immigrants per year stretching back almost twenty years.
I think OP meant a writeup about the switch from web.py to Pylons. I'm not sure we ever wrote that one down.
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World

[...]

3. Better algorithms

To be honest, I find the article a bit missing because of insights like this.
Connected Car platform Automatic releases teen driving coaching program
Personally I'd rather see this class of problem solved at the language level [0] through strong typing of DSLs, rather than at the editor level. Nonetheless this is still an interesting approach.

[0] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/wyvern/
Lorem Wisdom: Smarter Flavor Text
Apple responds to CVS
In-depth interviews here:

http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/10/the-webs-first...
Feds identify suspected 'second leaker' for Snowden reporters
VPN solves all of those problems.
Show HN: Airbnb to Craigslist (chrome extension)
The standard counter argument against voter ID laws is not that non-citizens don't affect the election, but it's that voter ID laws are a cure worse than the disease. In other words, voter ID laws add enough friction to the system, especially for those that don't already have one of the approved ID's, that some people who would otherwise have voted, don't.

Do voter ID laws disenfranchise more legitimate votes than illegitimate ones?
Just in case you're in the market for a "real problem", I have one for you. Especially those of you in San Francisco.

Homeless people get absolutely shafted when they go to cash their SSDI and GA benefits checks. Most of them don't have the requisite documentation to get a regular bank account, so most end up going to payday lenders, where they pay crazy fees to get a lump sum of cash that is at severe risk of getting lost or stolen.

Moreover, because of the feast and famine problem of getting a significant amount of money every month, but not enough to actually pay for stable housing, a lot of that money gets totally wasted well before the next check comes.

If somebody could come up with a way for homeless people to deposit benefits checks without getting huge fees taken out, and then create some kind of software to help them manage the money coming in, that person would be a hero to tens of thousands of poor people.

And it sure beats the hell out of calling the SF DPW complaint line and having homeless people forcibly removed from the sidewalk in front of your office.