skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time that we switched to pylons and decided to punt django, flask didn't exist. I believe it was some time on '07 or '08. I'd check, but I also think it predates our switching to git from subversion...

Personally I like flask a lot and it's come a long way. Also, when spez and I moved on to hipmunk we started using tornado.
Lots of non-dutched cocoa products are out there. However, after a brief look into the subject after reading this article I read that a lot of the beneficial compounds are removed in commercial chocolate products because they are associated with bitter flavors.

And agree that the study should not be considered without looking where the money came from, but at least they explicitly noted it was funded by Mars.
"AS AIS DEVELOP, WE MIGHT HAVE TO ENGINEER WAYS TO PREVENT CONSCIOUSNESS IN THEM—OUR MOST PREMIUM AI SERVICES WILL BE ADVERTISED AS CONSCIOUSNESS-FREE."

No. Simply, no. We don't understand consciousness well enough in our own minds to understand how to stop that mechanism happening in another mind. As of yet, we have no mechanism that produces any of the insightful, creative, general intelligence that we see in humans. Even basic biological processes like walking over uneven terrain, flight by flapping of wings and picking up novel and oddly-shaped objects that haven't been seen before are challenges that we haven't even begun to master.

The hyperbole of these articles makes it seem as if creative machine intelligence is right around the corner. What we have done is make statistical pattern matching algorithms. They aren't learning in the way that a child learns through repetition. We simply don't know how general intelligence works well enough to do this.
How much I possible to make money online?
Hey guys how much is realistic to make online via Affiliate Marketing, Online Marketing, Running Blogs, Freelancing, whatever?

10k pa 100k pa?

Whats realistic?

Thx
tyler
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Unless your closed source commercial product is a service, in which case you don't need to do anything, since pHash is GPL not AGPL.
Based on the fact that you can test this via visiting an URL, I'd guess it is. I think v2.0 of the PS4 firmware is about to be released, maybe it's fixed in this version.
In order for Apple Pay to be facing a "challenge", wouldn't there have to be, say, an actual competing product, as opposed to some unwise executive at RiteAid deciding to unilaterally disable NFC readers that they already have paid for (amazingly childish) and placed in their stores, along with mumbling about some maybeware solution that they might ship in 2015?
But what about the personal information you require to begin the trial?

Are you going to use it for validation purposes?

Are you going to send introductory emails to the user to help them discover the features of your application?

Sorry to be the devil's advocate, but you need to explain clearly in the privacy policy why are you asking for personal information, and how are you planning to use it.
Coincidentally we were just discussing the Chinese Room [0] on IRC.

It's a philosophical debate, but the short version is No, a google search isn't conscious. It's AI, or machine learning, but it isn't self aware.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
It tracks step counts and syncs them to my phone. That was all I wanted.

Now it doesn't do that correctly.

But my new iPhone has an M7 and is tracking my steps. There's a good chance my FitBit app will get deleted soon.
Flask (2010) wasn't around when reddit was (re)written (2005).
That is a good question. I would not use such a service because of the trust problems with secure communication.

Mmmmh, but I could use a proxy on my own server, through which I route my VPN traffic anyway. Of course, such a proxy product must be light-weight and easy to use. It should be a proxy that I can trust - OSS or self-written. It should enrich a page with a button which sends me to a block configuration for that domain - like that one you would get from a adblock plugin.... git init... ;)
Why are my page_faults so high in perf?
This absolutely blew me away. Brilliant performance, excellent introduction tips, no sign up to get started, just drag a bunch of photos on top of it and you're tweaking away.

I'm definitely bookmarking this.
The front-page of the website is extremely laggy for me. I'm using the latest Firefox with Arch Linux. The framerate drops down to about 1 or less.

EDIT: The app itself is fast.
I reckon with the the lack of UI innovation. On tablets and photos there are quite some newer designs in terms of adjusting the knobs and values while leveraging gestures.

Waterfall design is a lazy starting point. The innovation in this app is making a usable WebGL editor that handles multiple editing sessions without suffering serious memory issues and crashes.
> Nuked from orbit by mods.

No moderator touched that post. It was killed by user flags. (Also, why on earth would we "nuke" a post sharing original work done with the HN API? That's why we made the API in the first place.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515160

Reposts of user-flagged items, though, we do tend to penalize. Otherwise flags wouldn't mean very much.
Two record-breaking freefalls
Cool, just wanted to report the case. (got downvoted, not clear why, I'll maybe delete the comment if this continue)
Sure! I wrote a dry blog post about it actually.
http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/

@krapp there were some challenges building out a great model but you can download the whole repo and pull out just the machine learning part and see what I did, I have it commented out in an iPython Notebook. :)

The Repo: https://github.com/kevinmcalear/hater_news

It basically uses word tokenization using scikit-learn's count vectorizer and some extra features I added like "bad words", ratio of bad words to total words used, speaking in all CAPS, and a few other features. I then took the features and use logistic regression to predict the likely hood that a specific comment is insulting then average all a user's comments into one score.

I used training data from a kaggle competition and was able to score near the same level as the winners but it will definitely be improved as I keep working on it.
I worked in the online advertising industry for a number of years at my last job, and I can pretty confidently say that the worst thing that software like this might do is potentially earn a bit more money for some publishers using the ad networks that are being blocked (if they're lucky enough to be running any pay-per-click campaigns).

Nobody in the industry will even take notice that this exists. If they do accidentally come across it, far from being scared or "taking notice," it would at best circulate around a few internal email lists to give everyone a good laugh.

In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if this was actually developed by an ad network as a joke--they know that ad-block users aren't going to be making them any money anyway, so why not put them to use as what would essentially amount to a free bot network of very natural-looking traffic to send to their advertisers? Sure, it might lower conversion rates by a fraction of a fraction of a percent, but any amount of natural-looking traffic coming through to advertisers that isn't obvious bot traffic only increases the perceived quality of the ad network. It's much easier to shuffle the blame for poor conversion rates off to the advertiser themselves than it is to explain away low traffic volume or bot clicks.

Bot traffic is usually pretty easy to identify--very low quality traffic all coming from the same block of IPs, geographical region, or publisher. The quality is basically a measure of conversion rate for that subset of traffic compared against the average conversion rate across the entire network. In the (unlikely) event that something like this product catches on and sees a high enough adoption rate to actually affect the numbers across entire ad networks, it would lower traffic quality equally across the board, thus making it essentially undetectable. It's when that starts to happen that advertisers and publishers start to get desperate and we start seeing them play new and shadier games. You might be happy and safe behind your ad-clicking blocker, but grandma and gramps who don't have the technical know-how to protect themselves will start to see new fake download button ads, pop-unders, auto-playing video ads, and other gross tactics being used to try to compensate.

My time in the industry has pretty heavily biased me against online advertising quite a bit (I run ad blockers, no-referrer, strict whitelist-only cookie policies, etc), but I can definitely say that running this extension is pretty antithetical to its stated intention.
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aww I always get here too late for the cool stuff.
Just to keep ranting, this is a typical process that has been happening to me:

- Get unsolicited email by recruiter. I ignore if it's generic but if it looks like they've read something about me I answer (now I demand company name & salary range upfront to save everybody's time)

- Recruiter follows up asking for resume or call. I have linkedin complete public profile, blog, twitter, Stackoverflow, Github etc, with all linked to each other, almost never they notice.
- If somehow I'm still interested and I can't get out of the call ("my favorite call hours is email"), I schedule for a short call. I always write short, clear polite emails.
- Already here the communication stops sometimes. If there's a call they invariably want to qualify me with the salary question. I've used both the "won't say at this stage" and "inflated salary" strategies.
- Next if there's a first company phone interview (basic screening/basic tech) I always pass it, tech questions seem too basic, we schedule remote tech interview
- In the remote tech interview I tend to fulfill the objectives but maybe I'm too slow or I'm not good at communicating or something. They say they'll call me for the next interview.
- Then they stop communicating.

This cycle has happened to me several times recently, with several of the HN's "Who's hiring" companies. Only company which replied with a result was Facebook (wasn't a perfect match in any case) and a company in Idaho, it seems people in SV can't be bothered.
Yes, but it is a very difficult line to walk.

The difference between "have you considered using X?" and "I tell you to use X", the difference between "can we hit date Y?" And "we must hit date Y so start cutting corners"

Authority as a position is a difficult stick to carry - if you are telling people "my way or the highway more than once of twice a year" you are over doing it.

"I feel uncomfortable with this architecture" or "this will take longer than you hope" are all indicators you are doing it right. Stop hearing those and you should worry.
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Buffer Wants to Raise $3.5M at a $60M Valuation-Here’s the Term Sheet
Im unclear about the difference - how is turning off support for NFC (and with it apple pay and google wallet) not rejecting it?
Do you have suggestions? When I look at applications oriented towards prosumers and professionals like this, photoshop, etc. I think the point is to give complete control to the user.

I don't know anything about photo editing.
Are the days of forced bundling numbered?
Not including them. It was an just an afterthought.

And why the overreaction to their mentioning anyway?
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It was tuned for that particular task, but the core tech is much more general - the current main application for which IBM is selling the Watson platform is healthcare, which is "a bit" different from answering Jeopardy questions.
What made you choose clj-http over http-kit?
>Database stored procedures almost invariably involve writing Python (or whatever) inside of SQL/DDL

What? They can involve that, but it is very variably. I never do that. I find python, perl, etc are much worse than plpgsql.
to be fair, I misunderstood you as well, you implemented self checking between nodes. That's not as obviously broken...
> and I hope they gave a similar option to their employees who have been with them a long time.

Looks like they did. Up in the article they say they're splitting $2M among the two founders, and later it says that they're taking in total $2,5M for cashing in founder and employee equity. I assume the $0,5M is the employee part. Seems like a small fraction, but I assume most of it goes to the earlier employees (and then only those who opt for it), so it might be a year's salary right there anyway.
For another take on the Reddit rewrite from Steve Huffman see:

http://www.pyvideo.org/video/234/pycon-2009--keynote--reddit...

25m 40s
The Pebble app/iOS app syncing used to be buggy as hell (retrying a few times might get it to sync). The updated iOS app seems to sync reliably now.

As for sleep tracking, as far as I can tell you have to push a button at bedtime. Don't care much about sleep tracking, so I haven't researched to see that my assessment is correct. Still, not a big deal to me when I do use it.
Should be fixed now! :)
I think not integrating with HealthKit is a strategy decision, not an issue of resources.
Customer segmentation and personalization: How to combine 2 powerful techniques
"The internet is covered in trolls who are filled with hate. It's time we started to expose them and put them in their place."

Can't say I agree with that sentiment. It comes across almost as bad as the hate it proclaims to wish to expose.

I don't think the Internet is covered in trolls, the trolls are an extremely small percentage of users.
OTOH, the alternative to ad-supported content is paying directly for the content you want to read, which is even worse from a privacy POV because publishers will know exactly who you are instead of only knowing which "demographic" you belong to.
Apple faced the same sort of defection with the iTunes Store. Not every music publisher allowed its music to be sold there at first. Music publishers also put together competing consortiums to distribute emusic through companies they controlled. It's perfectly rational for them to want to do this (it's been said that while more music is bought than ever before, recording industry revenues have been cut in half) but it seems unlikely that a CVS/Rite Aid consortium will release a product more popular with consumers than Apple's might be.

But it still might take several years for other competitors to give up and join in. And, of course, anything can happen in that time.
On Ubuntu 14.10, with Chrome and WebGL enabled I get an unsupported browser message.

Here is my UA:
>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36
Yes, and that is very, very possible. In any case, doing that would give you some relatively painful quantisation error, which is why the HDR approach works better.
This hardens your messages against passive eavesdropping of the wireless signal, but not a targeted attack with a bogus tower, right?
A lot of the decisions made in designing web.py were also carried over to tornado's web framework (which not coincidentally is also a web.py).

At the time (and I have to admit my memory is a little foggy as it was 7 years ago), I believe we mostly switched away from it for maintainability reasons. It wasn't under active development, and we were in the middle of a complete MVC rewrite to impose some order on some otherwise organically grown code.
It's totally subjective.

I have never had 20K in my pocket, just 5K. But when I plan to withdraw money, I dress less than nice, I don't shave myself, I may use my uglier shoes, etc.

And they I forget the money. So I don't look funny, because I'm not thinking about the money. I'm probably eating something bought in the street, so I'm focused on the food.

But of course I do agree with everything you say.
Very impressed by the performance. With a 10mb png I don't notice any lag.

Is it just me or is the mousewheel zoom backwards? Max zoom seems a bit weak too.

I notice you mention RAW support. Is that really your target market? It seems like people shooting RAW would probably be using a dedicated solution most of the time.... maybe not. As far as I'm aware there are multiple different raw formats from different manufactures and adding support for all of them would be a huge undertaking.

If I am to be honest, I don't like how the controls are. The text size could be 1-2 pts bigger. The whole popout thing seems pointless as the space isn't used when it isn't popped out. I think either fix it or make it user controlled and go all the way in with a tab.

The ?/? in zoom isn't very clear that that is editable. I think the ? should go in a text box.

I think it would be nice to see a custom scrollbar as well for the menu. It seems to distract from the look of the website which I like a lot.

Very cool overall. One thing you might consider for monetizing is https://www.theprintful.com/ or a similar website and let users get posters/prints and such directly from your site and all you have to worry about is integrating an API.
...Esp. when said hiring organization might not have issues with "unethical interrogation practices"
Why don’t they just call CurrentC “ZuneBucks” or “PaysForSure” so we can get this over with?
I assume flag killed was something mods could do :x I know they can super flag posts, I assumed that is what [Flag Killed] meant.
Probably on par with "light treason".
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Ask HN: Does anyone recall an S3 videocard easteregg that fired on 3/3 annually?
During a job this week I ran into an old school IT guy that had a very interesting story to tell: He worked to support a number of windows users back in the days of early windows and a large number of these users were on S3 chipset graphic cards with associated bios. According to the story some prankster had placed an easter egg into the video bios that caused the displays to start shaking on the 3rd of March every year (presumably because it was S '3' and the date spells 03/03).

Does anybody here remember that? Is the backstory behind that prank known? I can't find any reference to it using Google, but maybe one of you remembers this and/or is wiling to share the backstory. Thanks!
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I'm not expecting to have someone doing everything for me handholding, but I still haven't found a recruiter that hasn't lied to me or stopped sending emails or skipping appointments or is not completely clueless technically about the job position or me, and I'm pretty sure this is all across the board, I'm nobody special.

Like you said, with a bit of effort it will be great. The issue imho is that recruiters have no barriers of entry, so it's like realtors or financial advisors, a few good people in a sea of weasels, unfortunately while I found good people in those professions, not in the recruiting area.
SF Supervisor Candidate Running on Campaign to Nuke Silicon Valley
Nice how-to for DANE plugins: Check all websites easily
They're still selling the One and Flex at $100.
Is it actually the case that the OCR can do that much better given more time?
But to be fair, you could call anyone who joined the party a Nazi. I would imagine this meant that any career minded scientist who wanted government funding become a Nazi. That hardly meant they did anything unethical during the war.
[flagkilled] means that a post was killed by user flags. I got tired of typing "This post was killed by user flags."
Score: 4.65%

Worst Comment: "You're just making a caricature of yourself."
I have T-Mobile, and I have to say, I've been quite happy with it and I've been just waiting for the other shoe to drop. The only negative thing I hear about them is people don't like the coverage area - which doesn't bother me because when I switched to them they were the only company that offered wifi calling (meaning I can comfortably use my phone at work and at home, where I spend 99% of my time, for the first time in 6-8 years).

Do I just have a rosy outlook, or is T-mobile's limited marketshare such a problem that they're somehow disciplined into being an actually good mobile carrier?
Sorry, good point. In my head I was thinking "except when using the native procedural language", but it appears I didn't get around to actually typing that bit.
That's right, good eye Egbert and thanks for chiming in with the details! Interestingly, Leo and I have been doing this for almost 4 years, whereas most of the team is much earlier in the journey. We have a couple of the earliest members of the team taking some liquidity, however most chose not to at this stage (we offered it to everyone).

Thanks, guys!
This sucks. I don't know why the mobile payment space is so competitive. It would make more sense to me that any retailer would accept as much different sources and methods of payment as possible to make the purchasing user experience as seamless and easy to use as possible.
So, carry $18,000 and it gets seized by highway cops because law-abiding people just don't carry that much cash http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st.... But take it to the bank in two batches of $9000 and it gets seized by the IRS because law-abiding people don't avoid large deposits.
Check out Flask's MethodView
Unless payment goes through some kind of anonymization service.
The problem I had with this article was that there was no substance on what they actually did to create the product and start a company. How did they arrive at the idea of AnyPerk, what did they do? Did sleeping in the TacoBell parking lot or sharing a bed in a $10/night hotel do something for their startup other than low burnrate. How did this help them?
Seems they had a (wrong) idea in their mind on what you have to do to start a business in America and in the end they contributed more to that idea by only telling a story of sharing a bed/sleeping in a car. Someone naive may come along and think if I sleep in a car in a parking lot, and sacrifice my privacy I'll have a successful business. There was more to this story and this was their opportunity to state that. I wanted to hear about how the idea came about, how they created a site, then they spoke to and contracted with x number of vendors to provide these perks that they are essentially reselling.

Pretty weak article. I would have said that its not worth being on front page of HN, but comments are interesting.
The pragmatism of the present rarely considers the lofty disapproval of the future as a factor worthy of consideration in matters of espionage, state security, etc.

Wrong or right using these resources was certainly in their best interest.
Came here just to see about RAW support -- I think that's the only thing stopping this from being a legit competitor to lightroom, which says a lot so nice work guys! One other thing I would miss as well is the ability to auto-correct distortion through the lens profile. This is super quick and easy in lightroom and it auto-detects your lens from the image metadata. This typically reduces the vignette, so the ability to add that back in is nice as well.

On a totally separate note, I feel like you guys are positioned in a spot to solve the photographer storage problem as well, which is detailed remarkably well here: http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers/ -- a service like this is something that I know I would pay for and I'm sure it's the same for a number of others.