skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A segment which did not exist prior to their changes, thereby increasing their conversion rate from X to 11X, as there was a 10X increase in conversions post-change.
For python 3 there's also concurrent.futures:

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
...
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as executor:
executor.map(create_thumbnail, images)
Afghanistan real time combat: violent battle with Taliban caught on camera
Meet Baton, the ultimate handoff tool between Android devices – CNET
Did some Googling:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048085

Now I'm off to read the discussion myself
What's horrifying about it? Many people have been wanting to store their stuff on the cloud for decades. In fact, geeks HAVE done it for decades with Rsync. Now it's happening for the masses.

One may not like this, because Snowden, but I don't think most people really are worried about that.
Or, you know, alternatively, maybe online harassment is actually a problem.

But you're right, a massive government/capitalist co-conspiracy working to end your right to anonymity is definitely the more reasonable explanation...
BumpTop: 3D Desktop goes open source
Here's the man himself at TED.
http://www.ted.com/talks/anand_agarawala_demos_his_bumptop_desktop?language=en

Nicest guy in the world too.
I'd really like to see this kind of map for scientific publications. That is, instead of users linked by likes and such, a map of publications linked by citations. It seems this would make it easy to find the big papers in a given subject. I've looked and it seems like there are a few attempts at this out there, for example by IEEE, and Reuters (behind a paywall?), but the ones I've seen don't quite get it right. Maybe I've missed it, or maybe it's more difficult to do than it sounds?

A world map of science publications. I think it could be an awesome visualization, but more importantly, it would be really useful.
You understood my intent perfectly. Thank you.
On the internet, the native currency is attention. You fight back by refusing to pay them the attention they crave.
For sure, with any change comes risk, but at a rapidly growing company there's even bigger risk with lack of change. (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-old-guard/ has some good perspective on this, I think.)

In any case, of things that keep me up at night, falling into a boring role is definitely not one of them :).
Thanks so much for all the love, HN! I'll do my best to address everyones' questions in one post:

1) Cross-platform support: ZenHub for Firefox, Safari, and mobile is coming soon - how soon depends on how much our current user-base wants more platform support vs big features we have spec'd out. No worries here :)

2) GitHub API rate limit: GitHub has worked with us to lift the API request rate limit for users that need it, we're also limiting the GitHub API calls we do have to make with caching systems and other tactics, for eg disabling polling when you're not looking at the board. TLDR: we have no worries here either.

3) Major GitHub UI updates: these do have the potential to break some functionality, but our major feature (the Boards) is pretty robust. Also, we're really fast and can react to GitHub's changes within minutes if not hours. We're now working with GitHub to get a heads up on changes that may affect our product, so again - no worries.

4) Transitioning from Huboard / other tools: should be painless: you can even use both products in parallel during the transition period and pick the one you like best (hint: it'll be ours!)

5) Errors with our homepage (zenhub.io): we're fixing issues as quick as they pop up, bear with us :)

6) Other comments or requests: please vote on feature requests by creating new Issues or +1'ing existing Issues on our public GitHub support repo: https://github.com/zenhubio/support/issues
What tools do institutional investors use to evaluate VC funds?
It occurred to me that I do not know anything about how an institutional investor (pension, endowment fund, etc.) chooses venture capital funds in which to entrust money. Does anyone have experience with this process and the tools used in it?
How a Canadian company you’ve never heard of took control of the porn industry
>However, given the climate at the time, it's not obvious that a different man in the same position wouldn't have acted the same way.

this is why there are things defined like "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" and Nuremberg trial which affirmed the principle that "just carrying out the orders" and "a different man in the same position would have acted in the same way" isn't a valid defense at least in case of such heinous crimes.
I can't recollect the name of the person, but once I read an article about how the CIA hired a high ranking German official responsible for nazi propaganda and the he was working as head of CIA's history department rewriting and whitewashing the history of US involvement in Europe and basically doing exactly what he was doing before but this time instead of jews his targets were communists.
Pretty much insane. I'm not sure if they asked this from their other candidates but if they did, they probably eliminated 99% of all the other great candidates just because they would refuse to waste a week of PTO just to deal with this request.
They could try a different port - some systems won't bother.

They might also use TLS with null cipher. That should be not-so-intensive, even on a tiny processor. And it could be enough to defeat some packet-modifiers (they may notice it's TLS and not analyze), while maintaining HTTPS compatibility.
18 cycle latency for memory access is way too low as well.
About the project:
http://todomvc.com/

Link to other examples:
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/master/examples
Excellent reply. I confess to finding the US system mind boggling. The whole concept of "voter registration" and its being controversial and source of discrimination just boggles my mind - as does how ridings are determined.

We have pretty much a single voter's list: We have a federal organization responsible for maintaining the federal list, and it shares information with its provincial counterparts, and vice versa, and they each cross-check their information for integrity purposes.

When you file your income tax, which is done exclusively federally, except for in Quebec, you can check a box to share your name and address info with Elections Canada for purposes of maintaining the federal list. The provincial agencies use all available provincial and municipal sources of information to cross-check their lists with data obtained from the federal agency. Door-to-door enrollment is pretty much never done, except when there are major changes in an area that have yet to be reflected in the various sources of information.

That same independent federal agency sets federal riding boundaries based on population; it was created about 50 years ago to prevent jerrymandering and works pretty darned well: The government does not get any say in setting riding boundaries (we have a pretty transparent auditing system, which helps).

In fact, in Southern Ontario, the provincial ridings are aligned with the federal boundaries, so the independent federal agency is scrutinized by the government of the most populous province, as well as by the federal auditing arm.

Several weeks before an election, each registered voter gets a card in the mail with their polling place and, in the case of municipal elections, at least in Ontario, their ballot colour (we have four independent school systems, don't ask, sigh, and the ballot ensures you get the correct school board candidates).

You arrive at a poll with your card (optional, really, if you know what you are doing, they have all the same info) and a piece of photo ID and you are checked against the published list. If you aren't on it, you can register at the time, but I don't know the details, never had to do it.

This morning as my name was being crossed off the list by the volunteer at my table, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the names of my wife (out of the city today, voted early) and my daughter (in school downtown all day, voted early) were crossed off in the actual printout provided to the polling place, not crossed off by hand.

Oh, and in Ontario, at least, we pretty much use the same ballot and tabulation system for all elections. No hanging chad, no arms to pull, no electronic screens. A piece of paper, a marker, and a "privacy screen": you mark your ballot, slide it into the screen, take it to the returning officer who inserts the open end from which the ballot protrudes into a scanner, which pulls in the ballot, scans it, tabulates it, and slides the ballot into a locked box, available for hand recounting afterwards.

Nice and simple and effective and completely non-controversial. The Bush-Gore election honest-to-god boggled our minds.
Computer vision assisting business card case from Evernote
Don't hold back your Ruby programming
Productivity. Interpreters load code changes during development without any issue. Compilers usually create incompatible versions of the same class, throw errors and hamper productivity.
The segment did exist - users who added a custom theme. Of that segment, they converted 10X more than those who didn't add a custom theme. Ghost then responded by making it easier to add a custom theme, but we aren't told what effect that had on overall conversion.
looking at all the recent popular languages they all interpreted languages, (javascript, Java, python ...etc).
Is it because of platform independent, security, availability of interpreters, dynamic nature of syntax...? what makes them more popular.
Gemstone III was the first online multiplayer game I was a part of. I must have played 20 hours a week when it was free on AOL!
A new browsing URL scheme for Browserling
I don't need keys, apparently. We had a rash of thefts in my area, and I ran into a cop at the local coffee shop. I asked him about it, and when he found out I had a manual transmission he laughed and said I had nothing to worry about.

Apparently the kinds of thieves who steal mass market cars are mostly younger guys who can't drive stick. Of course all bets are off if you have a classic Bugatti or something along those lines.
This link points to a stupid blank page. I disable noscript and I get a stupid horse video. You suck!
SPDY is an alternative to HTTP that avoids at least Verizon's carrier shenanigans.
Layout and functional testing framework (galenframework)
How to write a simple recommendation algorithm in Neo4j
>given the climate at the time, it's not obvious that a different man in the same position wouldn't have acted the same way.

You could make the same argument about women who slept with German soldiers, but they were punished in the streets while people with administrative skills were quietly excused. I don't know if nraynaud meant to focus on Papon per-se. I think he wanted to draw the sharp contrast between how those with skills were treated v.s. how we treated those who were of lesser value to the state.
Interesting how Texas and North Carolina managed to avoid the corruption endemic in their neighbors. In the case of Texas, though, there is plenty of localized corruption. Dallas proper and its southern suburbs are dirty as shit. The northern suburbs, not so much. I get the impression Massachusetts has something similar, with Boston metro being far more corrupt than the rest of the state.
Space Shuttle STS-93: We don't need any more of those
Hey Jason, that's actually pretty true. We found a segment which converted 1,000% better and then managed to increase the number of people in that segment by 370%

The title of the post is "How we Figured Out What Makes People Love Ghost 1,000% More" - which I think is still pretty accurate :)
Yep, we're hiring engineers in SF and US timezones: (https://stripe.com/jobs/positions/engineer/), and hiring for a variety of positions globally (https://stripe.com/jobs/).
Thats actually kinda cool!
Mass Mosaic aims to make everything on-demand
I guess if they have ACH access they have everything they need to launder money so the rules would apply. The only ACH thing I have setup is my paycheck and it wouldn't have phased me to give my SSN at that time.

This whole thing is just so amazingly tone-deaf of a move. They don't want you to use Apple Pay, they want you to use something that doesn't even exist outside private beta, so they take away your choice.

On the other side of the equation, Wells Fargo is offering $20 for trying Apple Pay with their cards.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/27/wells-fargo-apple-pay-cr...
Because it is negative [1], even if it sometimes might be an appropriate response.

[1] http://i.word.com/idictionary/hate
I got hater scores of around 2.5% on both my accounts. On each one, the most hated comment was the one where I took the most pains to explain that I liked the user's main point and was just trying to clarify/disagree with a small part, i.e., to be sure I was not dodging the central point.

Reading them, they come off as passive-aggressive. I think that's a useful discovery for me. Thanks.
I suspect before steering wheel locks this was probably true - you could start my old mustang by shorting the right two contacts with a screwdriver.

Of course you didn't have to jimmy the lock. A coat hangar worked just fine.

Cars used to be laughably easy to steal by today's standards.
From the blog entry[1]

Some Final Thoughts.
- Sarcasm is hard to detect.

Reminded me of park or bird[2].

[1] http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/

[2] http://xkcd.com/1425/
"Have you looked at them?" Pipino said, holding up a fork. The craftsmanship was impeccable. "If you don’t take them, it’s a sin," he declared. "Plus, they’re worth about a million lire." That was roughly $100,000. Claudio nodded and moved on.

In 1991, one dollar was worth about 1,200 Italian liras, so a million liras would be about $800.
This is just speculation but I do not think that the thieves in this case are doing anything particularly hard. They probably aren't reverse engineering the locks or cracking the encryption. What is probably happening is that somebody within the dealership or company is getting their hands on the digital keys and selling them on the black market.

The key difference (no pun intended) is that previous the thieves had access to physical master keys but they still had to go from car to car to find a suitable match. But with keyless systems they can probably find a way to scan a whole parking lot in a few minutes. Makes it far easier. Also, it's easier to copy a digital file without being noticed as opposed to "misplacing" a physical key.
Woah, I always pondered the idea of doing a formal language for this but it's awesome to see someone else's take on it. Thanks for the link.
A 61M-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (2012) [pdf]
Maybe that's secretly the point of the post — the CTO title itself isn't going to magically provide meaning for you :).
> What web servers/stack are Lispers using these days?

If you're using Clojure, ring + tomcat, etc...
Looks great. Any chance this could be bundled as chrome native app ?
Similar to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pixlr-touch-up/jkl...

For a photo editing app, I hate opening up the browser.

Also curious, If the app is using emscripten in some way for the photo editing part.
Ah, looks like non-remote (or, well, as you said, at least US timezone-only), thanks though.
I still don't understand what's the problem here. User must be aware of the order of a choice and insert his language extension accordingly. Paying some attention to what you're doing never hurts anyway, and it's hardly a blocking issue barring PEG adoption.

I normally do this sort of things by providing a number of extension points in the grammar, in the beginning, middle and the end of a semantic entity, instead of simply concatenating grammars (e.g., see such extension points here: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/clike/blob/master/clike/... )
Noise Is Your Friend
The Shift Away from Design Agencies Has Started in San Francisco
Your grasp of false equivalence is impressive.
Humbly submitting the way I work on my book for learning Haskell:

https://github.com/bitemyapp/doc-workshop

Uses Pandoc, compiles markdown to LaTeX, LaTeX renders to PDF.

Dynamically re-renders the preview of the PDF as I save my markdown files.

Pandoc admits inline LaTeX in the markdown documents themselves.

Auto-rebuilder script by http://twitter.com/mwotton

Learn about Pandoc here: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

I edit in Emacs, but you can use whatever obviously.
The liberal/strict thing is a terrible idea. It introduces completely busted behavior.

Consider a client that emits \n instead of \r\n. How do you handle it? Liberally? OK, treat 'em like CRLFs. Now you read \n\n. Everything after that is content, right?

Oops, you're now ignoring headers, potentially security-sensitive ones.

I've run into this exact bug in production, leading to a security problem. The client, proxy, and endpoints had different ways of handling CRLF. Some would treat \n\n as the end of headers, some not. Exploiting this, clients could route requests through the proxy and add special headers that only the proxy should have been able to add (like X-Client-IP).

Apart from this, the whole "robustness principle" just leads to a bunch of guessing and even more incompatible implementations. See HTML as another example mess.
Freeman Dyson, another important physicist, wrote this a few years ago:

"I changed my mind about an important historical question: did the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring World War Two to an end? Until this year I used to say, perhaps. Now, because of new facts, I say no. This question is important, because the myth of the nuclear bombs bringing the war to an end is widely believed. To demolish this myth may be a useful first step toward ridding the world of nuclear weapons."

Here's the rest of the text:
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/11732
Buffer Turned Down Acquisition to Raise a 'Radically Transparent' Round
We have the same reading taste, I've read those Ruby books already, I would also recoment the book "Eloquent Ruby".

I use Sinatra for small and large applications, no regrets, it is awesome.
Yes, and likewise they can decouple the low-level steering/accelerating mechanism from the Internet-enabled, high level system and have them communicate over a very restricted channel.
Can anyone from Fitbit attest for how hackable (or not) the Charge might be? I'd be very interested in picking one up if there's some way for me to push some custom information from my phone to the display (preferably without having to generate fake incoming call events).
I think "2.5 Schemas aren't neutral" is a valid point, but I don't understand the proposed (conflicting) hierarchies at the bottom. Why are we trying to place these things within a taxonomic tree? That doesn't seem to be an accurate depiction of any real attempts to build a DTD.
This is rad, however, echoing others it does seem a bit risky to trust that Github won't swap out. For stuff like boards, it'd be nice to have an option sync with Trello. Worst case scenario all of the data is there and usable without a lot of fuss.
Nope http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23487928
Heh, love the +1 button!

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/735#issuecomment-576...
That doesn't work. Strict mode ends up getting turned off by default, or turned off at the earliest problem. After all, what's the point in being so strict? I've seen security bugs arise from this, nicely commented in source with a "// spec says x but no need to be so pedantic".

If everyone can be strict in what's sent, then the problem is solved. But since that won't happen, even on accident, the only solution is to be harsh on receiving input and hope things fail early in the dev cycle.

Also, text-based protocols are especially prone to this poor handling, A: because spec writers (like HTTP's) go moronically overboard, being all creative (line folding? comments in HTTP headers? FFS!) and B: because text is so easy, everyone just figures anything goes and pays less attention.
My predecessor went with Backblaze clones for the drive and mb enclosure. You'll run into issues with the backblaze way as they have two power supplies, but one is for the motherboard and the boot drives, and the other power supply is for the actual drives. Further more, as this was a backblaze pod clone, there's no ipmi on the pod motherboards. It makes certain things a bit more annoying than they have to be.

If I were to do it again, I would stay away from using enclosures that were inspired by the BackBlaze models. Supermicro enclosures are fine.
US Embassy in Moscow Faces Cold War-Era Harassment
Two factor could easily solve this. Make it key + PIN. Or key + phone.
A lot of the time, such charges come up because the customer was unaware, not because they used it. I once made a call from whatsapp not realizing it wouldnt go through wifi, and ran up almost $150, but T-mobile was kind enough to remove it off the bill. Just customer-friendliness, more than anything else.
What I find interesting about science fiction is how difficult it is to predict technological progress consistently across different types of technology.

For example, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (written in 1966, set in 2075), space travel and colonization is much more advanced than it is in 2014. Artificial intelligence is also far superior. But digital electronics and computer networking are much more primitive. A portable audio recorder has only an hour or two capacity, and it transmits data by playing the audio sped up through the telephone. PCs don't appear to exist, and computer monitors and terminals are rare. There doesn't appear to be cellular phones or an equivalent. And there's no Internet. An AI system reads books with a scanner and a robotic page-turner.
Not to run too far away from the actual content of the post but...

I thought metal-air batteries didn't produce a high enough current to be used in devices requiring much more juice than a hearing aid?
Anonymous Photo Sharing Site
I was not justifying their method (or even saying that the unofficial/unauthorized leaks were truthful), merely offering a possible explanation of why they are allowed to happen (or, likely, encouraged).

When I said "favorable information disclosures", I meant favorable to the agency involved, not necessarily to anybody else.
This is an awesome idea.

I think what people might be missing is that even with the features you currently have, there's a market for this application already, though maybe not as a stand-alone lightroom replacement.

If you think about batching, my brain immediately starts gravitating towards real estate, headshots, HS seniors photos, ENG.

In short: drop the filters, put the "basic" controls on the left, focus on what you do best.

Kudos, folks, I'll be watching this one!
Funnily, this is the reason I adore Slim so much. In the PHP world, it gives me exactly what I require in a framework, and nothing else. Slapping it on top of a well-defined class heirachy becomes a simple exercise. I like it so much, that I'm porting it to Hack/HHVM[0]!

[0] http://github.com/LeanFramework/Lean
Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin, Says Black Swan Author
ratio's are good to have in any language, or as a library, but surely it's slower, and more memory is wasted (also hard to argue about how much exactly), and it still has to settle at some approximations for irrational numbers like PI which is used quite a lot when floating point numbers are (or at least in my experience).
Every appearance of SHOULD/MAY in a spec is just begging for bugs or incompatibility. We'd be better off if those words were banned. Spec writers would be less inclined (hopefully) to come up with all sorts of arbitrary behaviour that might happen and could be maybe handled.