skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes, Yes.. I ve always felt being left out when all my friends went on to become developers (the job that I admire the most) and when they are discussing about the problems and quirks they are doing in their respective jobs, while I on the other hand stuck at a SysAdmin position (but its going to change soon.. :) )..

All that time I ll just say to myself, "This isn't the end".
I watched that whole series a year ago and was fascinated. I believe it has been posted here before but it's worth repeating.
Does anyone have any experiences with HackerRank to share? I'm curious.
Ask HN: Is it reasonable for a web service to go down because of high load?
Today there is a window of 1 hour (extended to 3 hours) to pre-order the OnePlus One phone.

Their servers were OK just until the pre-orders started, then their whole website went down, then their login service went down, then the preorder they were showing didn't load from DB half of the time and lastly, confirming the order through PayPal gives an error.

I understand that they are under heavy load but:

1) They knew the exact time when there will be heavy load.

2) They could have done load testing.

AFAIK they also have their own servers instead of using some kind of PaaS (or IaaS) that scales instantly.

Do you think that today it is still reasonable for web services to go down because of high load? It is OK for a blog hosted on DigitalOcean to go down if it went viral unexpectedly but what about online shops that knew exactly when the spike in usage will be?
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It's worth noting that with HDR+ enabled on the Nexus 5, you can no longer enable the flash or timer. And the processing time can feel frustratingly long. So leaving it enabled all the time doesn't work for everyone.
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"Oh wait Roku has both of these things."

I greatly enjoy the wired ethernet on my Roku because nothing wireless interferes with my streaming.

Wireless + streaming = bad experience. Oh sure, plenty of marketing, and plenty of wishful thinking that it would be really nice if it weren't true. I've had my rec room roku hooked up wireless and wired and I'll never voluntarily stream wireless again as long as I can plug in a cable. Just better / faster / no interruptions ever.
Experience with regards to working with them or getting hired via it?

If getting hired via it, I do have. So far, 5 out of 6 jobs I applied used hackerrank for initial level screening on programming knowledge.

I ve also worked with them in creating few interview questions, but its via freelancing.
Does investing in people as opposed to idea + people contribute to this situation? As for ones who invest in the idea, since they look for ROI over a considerable lower risks and hence over shorter period of time, I suppose the ideas that can mature rapidly are given preference over the hard problem that may take a decade.
NES Port of Leisure Suit Larry
How I work on my Mac
Fed up, US cities take steps to build better broadband
If you already have and use Prime, and want to be able to watch Prime (and non-Prime, rented/purchased media) on your TV, it's a relatively cheap way to do so (especially at the discounted $19). Plus it offers a bunch of other services into the bundle (Netflix, Hulu etc.). If you already have and use a Chromecast, not much use really except for Amazon content, which doesn't work with Chromecast (presently, at least; no idea if they plan to make it work or not, they may wish to restrict their services to their own hardware). If you currently have neither, Fire Stick might be a bit cheaper (with the Prime deal; non-Prime users can apparently take out a free trial and get the reduced price too), has a remote instead of relying on another device (phone/tablet/PC) like Chromecast does, supports different services (most notably Amazon's own service for Fire, HBO Go for Chromecast), has an actual interface and on-device apps, rather than again relying on external devices for these. Of course, if you have a Chromecast on your TV(s) already, none of these are probably enticing reasons.
User generated reviews are among the most useless things on the Internet. The SNR is unspeakably awful. I don't pay any attention to ratings on Amazon, etc. I wait for a detailed review by Ars, Anand, Tom, etc, or the equivalent for products in another field.
> HTTPS would be great but we don't transmit any personal data so it's not a high priority right now.

You are sending people's orders around the web. I'd consider that "personal".

None-the-less, use SSL, there is little reason not to use it these days. And as others have pointed out, it's the only good and easy way to guarantee what you send to one of these printers is what it actually received (no carrier tampering of your packets, etc).

Just use SSL.
The creators of Smalltalk encountered the difficulties you're thinking about while they were using Smalltalk for different projects at Xerox PARC in the '70s -- and addressed them.

Simple Smalltalk implementations are in 4 parts: the Smalltalk VM, the Smalltalk image file, the sources file and the changes file.

The image contains compiled code and objects, the sources file contains source code for some of the compiled code in the image (at least the source code provided by the vendor), and the changes file contains a log of changes made using the IDE.

Re-doing the changes recorded in the changes file should be sufficient to recreate the image up-to the last change.

In the late '80s multi person configuration management systems were developed for Smalltalk, see --

http://books.google.com/books?id=odx8WIDOcyIC&lpg=PA136&ots=...
I'm glad the tone police are here to make irrelevant arguments about valid points.
I have a Nexus 5 at the moment and while the pictures are not amazing, what boggles my mind is that the camera sensor and the phone's screen don't have the same aspect ratio!
Why would they? Those customers have already paid for their old device. There's no more value to be had there.

Except repeat business from happy customers, but who cares about that?
Thanks man. Any specific ways you've used it?
From what I can tell, I think a lot of people in healthcare view HIPAA as poorly written, and more or less a bureaucratic obstacle to doing their jobs effectively. Part of it also is that all the EMR solutions are so terrible that to try and do patient care entirely within a given EMR is so painful, people do the dropbox/email route to get around their limitations.
I think it should work for shadows also? Adding together 10 photos taken at 1/100s should give the same amount of light as one photo taken at 1/10s.
I remember building lego cars which had a differential: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/courses/cs54-2001s/images/le...
Installing AdBlock Plus = smart? Doesn't looks like a lot of thought went into this comment...
The automatic alignment helps prevent ghosts from camera shake. But it would be interesting to see how they avoid ghosts from moving subjects like leaves in the wind if they are effectively exposing longer (by taking several photos in a row).
Amazon allows you (in the purchase flow) to mark an item as a gift without ordering gift wrapping (or shipping it to a third party).
Could you elaborate on the "awakening phase"? I might be going through that...
Bolt: A mobile first static site build system
See http://www.lively-kernel.org/

Incidentally Dan Ingalls was a member of the original Smalltalk project.
AOE II is one of my all time favorite game.
if you buy a batch of beaglebones from adafruit.com or another, perhaps larger mid-tier distributor, you can likely get a discount per unit.
Finally, somebody being smart enough to give unlimited storage. One of the primary reasons gmail took off was unlimited storage, at a time when people were very space conscious and had to keep deleting emails.
Ask HN: Do we still need Shopping carts for online stores?
> Why? Every driver is identified and known

Because every taxi is marked with a number that I can see. Uber cars are just random cars. And Uber is just one of many services employing any warm body they can find.

The rest seems like generic Argument From Libertarian Fantasy, with the apparently requisite bad grammar and bad-faith assumptions about my views. And of course it's from someone who won't publicly stand behind their arguments.
This may be slightly OT, but is it unfair of me to assume that science reporting done by mainstream outlets is at worst so inaccurate and at best half true; to the point that when it involves subjects I know little about, I simply avoid the article entirely, and wait for a reasonably credible source to comment on the matter?
Show HN: A HackerNews clone, host it yourself.
Yes, I would have written a test to confirm that input_a generates output_b. The first half of that function is nothing but a string builder and easily testable. If they were copy-and-pasting the actual output to get the expected output, then yes: they screwed that part up.

I'm far from a TDD purist, but it's clearly true that they're not sufficiently validating their code. If they had been, this would not have happened. I'm not saying this as an attack on their skills as programmers, but as caution to others reading the story: you have to - have to - test your stuff.

It's one thing to lean on third-party libraries and expect them to mostly Do The Right Thing, especially if they're popular and come from a culture of valuing test coverage. If you're writing a Rails app, for instance, you might be forgiven for not writing your own independent validations of the Ruby methods you call. But writing string-building code to implement RFC-defined network protocols? You should have some confidence that your program is generating the output that the other party will be expected. Especially with something as commonly proxied as unencrypted HTTP; you just have to assume that your data will be traversing and analyzed by systems 100% outside of your control.
> The blogspot fails to discuss why Samsung Galaxy S4/S5 HDR results are much better than my Nexus 5's

Well, $300 price difference can buy you a lot.

Now I get it. Comments like this one must be why Google felt pressured into making the next Nexus phone so much more expensive :P
> CALEA does not require key escrow, nor, so far as I know, does PATRIOT s.215.

As far as is publicly known, this is correct.

> Occam's Razor suggests to me that the popular idea that big tech companies spy on their users for the USG is fallacious.

But that the second part doesn't, at all, follow from the first.

For example, telcos have spied on Americans for the government since there were telcos. At best, you could argue that the heavy lifting is done in NSA equipment in terms of DPI and word-spotting, etc. But there are plenty of technology companies that are ass-deep in spying on the American people.

I suppose you mean that it isn't obvious that Google and other companies with a strong reputation for being careful with customer data are spying on Americans. OK, it isn't obvious, but let's go back to the first premise: CALEA doesn't require companies to break encryption to make surveillance possible. IF there isn't some hidden agreement about that, why are there exactly zero major services that provide user-controlled keys, end-to-end encryption, and web-of-trust key exchange?

All of these companies could get past any suspicion of surveillance by providing the means to be truly private. None have done so.
DPEOT a Python file storage framework for the Web World
I think coverage of the Challenger explosion is way above the Kardashians. And I'm not idealizing it based on recollection. Try actually watching some old broadcasts. It's the difference between the Internet circa 2001 and the Internet circa 2014 (it's a lot easier to hide crap content beneath flash and dynamic JS widgets than it is to do the same in plain text).

My point which you're ignoring is that the existence of competition from the crap forces legitimate media down market. For the cost of a cable subscription, CNN is a lot crappier than it was 20 years ago.
Proprietary? Please note, you won't get a lot of interest from HN for proprietary closed source code.
>> Amazon has no obvious way to search for a book in a series.

Try typing something like "Jack Reacher series" into the search box and look at the search suggestions as you are typing. Amazon's actually pretty good at helping you find this sort of thing - which makes sense, given the likely propensity of consumers to purchase all the items in a series if they're available and Amazon's financial incentive to help the consumer do so.

Third-party listings, on the other hand, are more of a challenge. Limiting your search to Prime-eligible items often helps quite a bit.
Last month I was considering buying a fitbit flex. Then I did enough research to realize that they were probably about to announce new products... so waiting was the sane response. Unfortunately, in that time period they've started feuding with Apple, and that makes them a no-go. HealthKit is actively being useful to me at this point, so I want anything I buy to work with it.

Maybe the Apple Watch will be more compelling to me than I had initially thought?
How about having numbers in the circles?
Bitcasa already did this, but they revoked the offer last week after offering it for two years, due to abuse:

- http://blog.bitcasa.com/2014/10/23/important-we-are-upgradin...
Watches are almost entirely about style; otherwise everybody would wear one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Casio-F91W-1-Classic-Resin-Digital/dp/...?
I'll respectfully disagree; the point was that civil disobedience is valid and necessary when a law is absurd or doesn't serve the good of the people. The fact that one of our founding fathers said it makes it no less relevant or profound today.

And I don't even like Uber; I think in general they treat their drivers like crap, and I realize that they are only flouting this law because it stands in the way of their business model. But just as with Tesla (a company I do respect), they are breaking new ground and showing the rest of the country that these archaic laws exist only to protect the establishment. The laws should be reexamined, and if the people find that the laws are incompatible with their needs, the laws should be changed.
Gmail didn't have unlimited storage at launch; it gave 1GB of storage, which back then felt like unlimited (relative to Yahoo's 50MB limit, anyways).

OneDrive had a 1TB limit before this announcement, which isn't as dramatic of a comparison.
Thanks for checking us out SwellJoe!

I think what I've discovered is that the Hacker News community is more tech-savvy than originally thought. Sorry about that! Obviously we're missing some of the technical details of what we're trying to do. I'm going to work on a blog post to help clarify things, but for now you may be interested to know that SuperTCP is essentially a kernel-based TCP proxy. This allows us to–with only changes to one side of the connection–tweak every aspect of the data transmission as long as we stay within TCP's defined restrictions.

Yes, we tweak initial window sizes and lots of other things that can be easily changed on most operating systems, but our main differentiator is how we detect and utilize the available bandwidth, or really how we react to congestion when we see it. SuperTCP tries to be better than the other congestion control algorithms (CUBIC, Reno, NewReno, etc.) most operating systems support. That's where we're better.
HDR in my Nexus 4 allowed me to take almost focus photos on live music events, until it started to crash the camera / reboot the phone, oh well.
Taco Bell's Twitter account is only following 14 people. Are you Andrew W.K.?

https://twitter.com/TacoBell/following
Outrunning depression: Exploring the link between body and mind
FWIW, I regularly type without my pinkies (the left sees most use for Shift/Ctrl and some words with a/z) and can hit 110-140wpm for bursts, with 85-90wpm easily achievable for extended periods of time. I used to only be able to type about 55-60wpm in my high school typing class, but the thing that primarily sped me up over the years was learning piano.

I'm sure practicing proper touch typing (or switching to Dvorak) would speed things up even further, but there's always the option of diversifying finger acrobatics into music.
Would be nice if you explained what prompted you to ask that question.
Sorry about that! I'm working on getting more detailed technical content out soon to answer all the questions I've been getting.
I, on the other hand, love the fact that I can use this device without having to pair my device and dealing with inconsistent app interfaces and (I fully admit this may be a local problem) missing casting icons and necessary device restarts to pair them. Having a remote as an option is great, and this device still has a phone-based remote for other circumstances as well.
Do Deadlines Help Productivity?
The Nexus 5 has a really excellent Sony camera module with 1.4 micron pixels. It's comparable to bordering on identical to the sensor in the iPhone 5s, which produces far better images.
But if each photo is just black because it's underexposed, then adding them together only gives you black.
Genomics-Based Products Are Here
Google says an alternative doesn't exist.

The closest thing I can think of is Amazon subscribe and save and my experiences with online food delivery. I wish electronics sellers like digikey / mouser / jameco had a super saver shipping option like "send me one box of stuff per month and add this to my next box, or whenever you feel like shipping stuff out." Sooner or later someone's going to get B2B chummy with UPS or fedex and make a deal for super cheap rates at a super slow speed and for some situations thats just fine. Conceptually its almost a cart its just you never complete the order you just let nature take its course and it sends itself.

Or you might be thinking of time kind of ebay like concept where there is no concept of "an order" its just "an item" that happened to sell. So buy 10 things make 10 single item orders. Which I imagine would make the shipping companies very happy.
Interesting. What was the screening like? I did a lot of work in candidate screening at my old job; this is a hobbyhorse of mine.

Thanks for responding!
Can Lean Startup Work for MHealth?
The name is misleading, I expected the article to be about a Starcraft parody.
Nah that's not right at all.

The big news was in fact that they would be providing end-to-end encryption with the claim that they 'do not have a key and so can not comply with key requests.' Find me some articles that don't center around the issue of law enforcement getting keys.

Encryption, including by default and including FDE existed before this year. That's not the news.

Any HN reader reading this can confirm this is the case with a few quick searches around the use of full disk encryption and encryption in general in Google and Apple.
You obviously haven't watched The Wire yet then.
What is your proposed alternative?

I run a few ecommerce stores, and I can tell you, there is a lot of "magic" that happens in the "view cart" page.

Chances to upsell more products/services, inform users they qualify for a discount (or need to add X more dollars to obtain the discount), pre-check shipping rates, etc.

All of that is in addition to ensuring the proper quantity and all the right products are in the cart before hitting the checkout page. The checkout page you want to be as simple as possible. Users are turned off by clutter on the checkout page, ie. displaying all the cart products again, too many boxes to fill in, etc. So you clutter the shopping cart page, and declutter the checkout page.

On the view cart page, we can see why a users bails on the order more clearly as well. Did they leave our site after putting in their zip and clicking the shipping estimator? Did they bail because their coupon code didn't work? On the checkout page, these things can get muddied by other criteria such as too much info to fill in (shipping and billing address, CC info, etc).

I'd argue shopping carts are a necessity.
I'd definitely be interested in reading a blog post on that. Good work with the release!
I call that a downvote, or in my current situation no upvote.
I was only disappointed that the news wasn't more interesting.
You can purchase or rent titles from Amazon Instant Video (over 100K different ones) even if you are not a Prime member.
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This is really cool. In the same space (ie real-time visualization of DDoS attacks) is DAEDALUS-VIZ, although I don't know if/where it was implemented for people to watch.
You can effectively with increase the ISO in the dark areas without increasing the noise by averaging together multiple photos
I am assuming that over time the average hotel WiFi will get faster. I also frequently hook my Macbook up to the wired internet and share it over a private wireless network, which typically solves the ToC-via-web problem.
You could use this list to discover [other keyword] if you are unfamiliar with the landscape. (For example, Isomorphic applications)
Yeah, switch to the company that has locked the world into their proprietary format for the last 2 decades.
It's unfortunate that HDR mode in Google Camera remains unavailable for phones other than the Nexus 5 & 6 -- I have a Moto X, and the app is really only useful for photospheres, since normal photos tend look awful without HDR.

Has Google discussed any technical reason for this restriction? Seems like lots of third party apps support HDR on a wider variety of phones...
You cannot physically fit a whole SSL datagram (max size 16KB) into 8KB of RAM. SSL requires multiple passes over the data to (eg) decrypt and verify a datagram. At this point, you cannot use standard SSL at either the server side or client side.

On the subject of reliablity: a 8 bit uC running at 16MHz needs a long time to do the public key crypto required to set up the connection. This means you need a GSM data link to be continuously available for a longer period.
Well said.

FWIW, one of my friends did create a small startup that focuses on sharing cat photos. The app is called "Cat Snaps". It wasn't a waste at all: he spent a few weeks learning the tools, and made a little bit of money from doing so.
How is it fair to compare the default settings, which are presumably optimized for handheld shots, to a half-second exposure from a tripod? Of course a picture with a stable half-second exposure will be far, far better than anything the defaults come up with. But it's effectively complaining that a tripod gives better results than handheld shots.
thanks for the kind words, Scott – i'll see what I can get done in the next few days to put together a write-up maybe.
Grandma recieves it from the same place law enforcement does.

We get it.

Key escrow can be key escrow for everyone.

Grandma gets her copy and so does Big Brother.
Mapping SF's streets slopes for efficient navigation (interactive dataviz)
P2P Clothing Rental for Women Launches in Private Beta
Scrum (Kanban) on Trello V.s. GitHub Issues
I have an Ultra but I would always forget to dock it and recharge. So I got the Zip. Couldn't be happier especially since their Android app syncs without my having to ask it to.
But they're not talking about an unknown entity. They're talking about the publisher of the book in question, of which there are about five or six important ones.

Baen has been remarkably successful with their ebook brands.
Easy solution: "Work on a startup"