skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the readme - you need to enable the theme (different than the colour scheme) in your settings file: `"theme": "Cobalt2.sublime-theme"`
Amazon has a history of creating web applications (I'm thinking about their MP3 cloud drive) and then seemingly abandoning all further development. Either they have small teams of developers that move from project to project, or it is outsourced.

I'm not confident in Amazon's long term approach to these products.

I'm a advanced-amateur photographer and half of my photos are RAW format, not JPG's. I'll be surprised if this offering supports any format besides JPG.
http://interbot.uservoice.com/forums/271962-general - The right link for feedback.
>>People and brands on twitter are just spam, not worth following.

Your usage of twitter is completely opposite of mine. People & brands are the only things I follow on twitter.
great way to gather the tools you want, work make your work easier, set-up work consistently with others or in an org.
Mobile Health Innovation in Developing Countries
It's WebkitCSSMatrix dependent. Did you even try to make it work with one of the polyfills for CSSMatrix so it would work on Firefox?
I would love a darker variant of this theme. Everything is so bright... !
OTA update should be showing up any day now. I don't think specific dates for specific devices have been given, but it was supposed to start rolling out yesterday.
I bet if you work out how many nodes and attributes are in that XML file, multiply that by (what's a good size for a C++ object? 256 bytes?) and I bet it's a substantial fraction of that 1.5GB.
well maybe Dropbox isn't so much better

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/dropbox-rice-controversy/

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
> even though you just discovered it and didn't necessarily cause it

Whether you caused it or not is irrelevant. The only issue on the table when confronted with a defect should be: 1) how do we fix it so the customer does not get shitty product; 2) how do we improve the process so that such defects are not introduced in the first place.

If there are people who do careless work and consistently introduce defects, that's a wholly separate issue to be handled through separate channels. If you mix the engineering issue, with the HR issue you will create a culture where people would rather let defects get to the customer than get in trouble for raising them internally.
May I ask what makes the differences between these logging platforms and why do they differ in speed?
Does it do selective sync? e.g., HOME:/media/pictures contains folders for 2014...etc, and LAPTOP:/media/pictures/ only contains 2014, and any changes to LAPTOP:/media/pictures/2014/ get propagated to HOME:/media/pictures/2014 etc?
> Since FoxPro many years ago, there is not a single acquisition by Microsoft that turned in a great product or an improvement to the end user

Plenty of FoxPro stuff ended up in SQL Server. Client cursor engine is the first thing that comes to mind (RDO, too, IIRC). The product itself was allowed to languish, but the good parts went into other things.

But for the most part I'd say you're spot on. I can't think of anything else that ultimately went on better things under Microsoft's flag, or benefited other products with the acquired product's technology.
"Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations."

So they're reading the files in Dropbox and its contents to know they're Office documents?
I replaced one of my smoke detectors with a Protect, planning to replace another. Just really like the look of the product, plus the pathlight feature (it shines a light for you at night if you walk past it) which is a nice plus.
I think it's more reasonable to not have a car than it is to not have internet, but that's probably a minority view. In any case, I have internet access, but no cable subscription.
I've yet to see a developer who says "well, that's easy" about a non-trivial problem actually follow through and demonstrate it to be true. Normally because they spend 5 minutes looking at the problem and see the complexities multiply like a virus before their very eyes...
does Amazon have 2 factor auth? considering the recent iCloud debacle, this would seem like a smart move. I see MFA [1] for AWS accounts, but not sure if that rolls over to the regular login as well.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/
Things are different around here. Teams are expected to deliver great products on their own, not rely on some artificial lock-in to force adoption. You see this all over - we offer Linux on Azure, you can federate AD with Google Apps, we release dozens of apps for iOS and Android, and we are opening up many many APIs for rich integration. (Opinion my own obviously).
All the major cloud vendors are surveillance collaborators.

... and I have to ask: do they have any choice? Can you say no to the national security state? If I were in charge of a company with employees who have families and fiscal responsibilities, I can't say that I could. I'm sure any request from those quarters comes with an implied "we wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your company, now would we?"

The only way I can imagine a company saying no is if it were privately held and the largest investors were on board, and most of these companies are public. Being public makes you subject to all kinds of "soft power."
That was a fun one. I seem to recall it taking a day or so to generate a suitably colliding prefix pair using publicly available code. After that the rest was pretty easy.
I would greatly appreciate it if this made it into an Emacs theme, though a really good Emacs theme tends to be quite a bit more involved than a ST2 theme, since there's so much more to theme.
We had a thermostat that was just plain confusing to program, plus it was damned ugly.

I am not sure if the Nest has saved me any money but it looks a lot nicer on the wall than our old thermostat, and really is nice and easy to use!

I still find myself showing it off when friends come to visit...need to stop doing that probably. :-)
Yes, there's always something to optimize, but also shipping is needed.

I'm not sure what the -5v was used on, but apparently it wasn't a huge issue.

It doesn't matter anymore. It matters what you can learn with it.
If you dislike that popup iirc there is a service that starts up to facilitate this behavior, simply turn that to manual and you are good.
Biggest Misconceptions about Firewalls Everyone Believes
Pedant:Doubling is geometric, not exponential. Right?
Nice ideas. The 'undo' gesture is still a little bit too 'allowing' to me. I mean the point where I switch from selected-contact to alternative-contact is a bit too obscure. Plus the animated circles are a too heavy on the user at that point. A more discrete animation would ensure the intent is right. The visual lingo for going forward could be different to help discrimate.
Rules for creative success in the Internet age
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I have a company in NY looking to buy NY, FL, MD and NJ Mortgage leads. Anyone able to generate exclusive leads?
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Don't worry-- I closed the unclosed parenthesis.
Needed to restart before the Sidebar updated - but looks good!
Constant Energy Diffusion in D3
A better cynical view is that this is about lockin. You're much less likely to cancel your $99/year account if you'll have to transfer terabytes of photos to a different provider.

Acquiring new customers is always significantly more expensive than retaining existing customers.
Yahoo Pure.

Most of the time I don't need those fancy features of Twitter Bootstrap and Pure has been my go to default.
As your link says, the 15th district no longer exists. It's likely that you are now in the 12th district.
Did you think they were not?

How do you think they generate thumbnails and such?.
Show HN: Product Hunt for the Outdoors
Hashcoin – Cryptocurrency Mining Is Back
I do not understand why people code on a dark background. I get the CRT retro aesthetic, but it is less readable on modern screens. Reflections on glossy displays become a problem. When was the last time you saw a website with a black background?

I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better.
Storytelling for Startups: “What do you guys do?”
Her friends do.
I guess this is the system being used: http://www.scytl.com/products/election-day/scytl-online-voti...

it would be nice if they posted the source code...
Mystery solved: Bizarre object at the center of our galaxy identified
If you want shitty work that creates a mountain of technical debt, I can do that (no, really, I'm a natural at it).

If you want a thought through process that covers all of the points as best I can, I will do that.

Align my incentives. But don't complain because I do the optimal thing
OneDrive is already integrated into Office. Microsoft is just ensuring that Office is a platform that everyone uses even if they don't use other Microsoft services.
I find iOS 7+ design language to be very clean and legible compared to iOS 6. When screen real estate is limited, all of the bevels, divisions, and shadows adds a lot of clutter where they can't be afforded.

This is a good example: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3776/9025739956_f90cce7276_z.j...
If you can't have a good relationship with your stakeholders then you should find a new stakeholder not sweat what someone else is willing to do to get ahead.

In the end if you're reasonable and can show you've hit the nail on the head often enough to be trusted then you won't have conversations about sand bagging.
Yes, this is true. I only discovered wakatime a few days ago. The major difference at the moment is wakatime's free plan only includes 1 week of data retention, whereas Koala's plan includes indefinite data retention.
Ask HN: Public domain vintage/archive video footage?
Maybe there is somebody here who could help me clarify licensing laws. I am interested in finding some old video footage (short clips of cartoons, dancing etc. from < 1970) that I can use commercially, i.e. they will be a part of a resold product

I have looked on popular video stock footage sites like Pond5.com but from what I understand, their license won't allow you to modify or resell the video footage (I'm open to correction here).

I presume I should be looking for public domain material in which the copyright has expired. How can I find this and how can I be sure the copyright has indeed expired and I am ok to use it?
You're not being cynical. That's exactly what they will do and much more. I would only upload files that you don't mind sharing with your spouse, kids, and friends. And that goes for any cloud services, not just Amazon.
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Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
>To prove that the competition was fair, we will add a command that returns the keys used for encryption as soon as a winner is announced.

So, using a bug-prone process (software development) we will alter the software after the fact to introduce a feature which, if it escapes the sandbox and gets into the wrong build, will potentially reveal the secret keys of all users.

Am I reading that right?
I tend to have a darker, more cynical view.

Asking for an estimate is often a power play or "microaggression". It's more often about showing dominance than any legitimate business need to know this unknowable quantity. It plays a programmer's present self against her future self.

Her future self wants an accurate or even pessimistic estimate to be made, so there are no unpleasant surprises to management and painful conversations resulting from inflated expectations. But her present self wants the guy standing at her desk to go away so she can get back to work. An unreasonably optimistic estimate gives the powerful, annoying people what they want so they go away. A realistic estimate is going to lead to obnoxious follow-on questions. "Why's it going to take so long?" "I don't know, but experience leads me to think..." "But you see no specific reason why this can't be done in 2 weeks?" "Well, no, because there are unknown unknowns..." "Great! Two weeks!"

This degenerates for two reasons. First, managers tend to believe that, even if overly optimistic estimates are more inaccurate, the work is done more quickly with unreasonable estimates (which become "milestones", then "deadlines"). So they take this as an incentive to be more irritating because it "makes people work faster". Second, it leads to poor planning and brittle schedules and much more undesirable variance.

Obviously, the good software managers don't play these games, but they're probably 1 in 10. Because there is so much money in software, and because programmers refuse to organize and allow themselves to be underpaid, that creates lots of room for mismanagement. Developers are also to blame for some of this; because they've been in mismanaged environments for years, many of them have developed a distrust of management that has led them to miscommunicate and (inappropriately) simplify, hence the "estimates" that evolve into deadlines. Overconfidence and miscommunication are, for sure, substantial components.
I can't back this up, but I would lay odds that the influence the NSA/CIA has over the President is far greater than the reverse (and that this has been true for decades, regardless of who sits in the chair).
Is this really "unlimited" ?

What happens if I script n VPS servers with 10Mbps upload speed to generate random images and upload them to the service continuously ?
YC is now a FreeBSD donor (FreeBSD powers HN)
Both okay according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
Would you say that in countries were voting is compulsory (like say Australia) the politicians are not idiots?

I don't think the problem is that too few people vote.
You can donate to the FreeBSD Foundation here: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

Help fund an open-source OS that is foundational in a lot of infrastructure and get a nice tax write-off!
Totally agree.

Also, in boot we don't want to obtain a complete configuration before tasks run, because tasks can participate in the process. In boot a task can add dependencies or call other tasks, etc. This is why we need only one abstraction (tasks).

Just like in a Clojure program you don't have a complete configuration of values in variables before the program runs, because it's the program that creates those values. Boot figures so much out on its own that `boot pprint` isn't even a thing you would want.

Consider the hoops that needed to be jumped through to get the Maven wagons system implemented in Leiningen. In boot it's a non-issue–the environment is dynamic so you can just install wagon deps and then in the next expression install the deps and repositories that depend on that wagon. We didn't need to make any changes to boot to accommodate them.
Thanks for the mention. CTO of Kairos here.

We offer a web API that will perform 2d to 3d facial recognition which helps greatly when dealing with natural world images as opposed to mug shot type of controlled imagery. We turn the 2d image into a 3d model and then normalize the pose and lighting before performing the matching leading to higher results on everyday pictures.

Check us out at www.kairos.com
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Tesla is using the luxury market to finance the rollout to the mass market. It was the only way they could do it, because to achieve the economics needed for the mass market, you need a lot of money. It would have been essentially impossible for them to do it from the start, because they're not Nissan and they didn't have the ability to invest billions pre-revenue.

Witness, for example, the $5 billion gigafactory they're building, of which Tesla is contributing $2 billion. This only could happen because they now have access too good financing (their recent convertible bond issuance) which could only happen because of the success of the Model S. And the other $3 billion being contributed by partners? That wouldn't have happened if they didn't have the credibility coming from making the Model S a success. And in any case, the gigafactory would make no sense to build if they truly intended to keep to the "luxury EV's for rich people" market because it's too much capacity for that segment.

I don't know that Tesla will ever compete in the $25-30k market as you state, or at least not for a while -- their stated goal is a $35k car for the Model 3, and I wouldn't be surprised if that goes up to $40k at release, but that's still worlds apart from an $80k car in terms of affordability. Especially factoring in consumers' savings from gas (NPV of $10 - 15k), that gets to the point where they can sell serious volume, even if it's on the high end of the "everyman's car" that a $20 - 25k car would be.
Fair points, and I have to say I'm pretty happy with the direction MS is going in these days. I have to say that an Office 365 subscription would be really nice to have, but is just too pricey. Dropbox integration is a nice feature, but is it enough? Maybe one of these days.
How to build simple, accurate, data-driven, model-free confidence intervals
Android Lollipop rolls out across smartphones, tablets
Very cool theme.
<rant>
...and still no Amazon Instant Video on android tablets, only phone. But now that DMA is on android I can stop waiting and say goodbye to Amazon
</rant>
They could probably even purchase insurance against their loss. They just need to convince a prize indemnity insurance company that their security is unlikely to be broken, which might itself necessitate a $300 000 security audit...
I'm guessing because China.
I think the credit for error correcting codes goes to Hamming in 1950.
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Harry Potter and the methods of rationality

Hpmor.com
What's the principle behind gender detection? Is it based on machine learning algorithms trained with a huge pile of data, or is there some inherent geometric difference between male and female faces that I'm missing?
DoorDash (YC S13) is hiring infrastructure and back end engineers
We look for code examples, and usually talk through the examples with the interviewee to get them to explain certain coding choices so we can ascertain whether or not they understand what they have offered up as an example of their work. We also have a machine set up for them to code in person on. We are flexible with their choice of language but will ask them to perform some simple coding tasks in front of us. My team is mostly desktop developers so it's like "Query the DB - save the results to a file - open visual studio - write a program to import that file back into the database." For entry level I don't expect to see much relevant work. Hope this is helpful. My personal advice is to look at getting some certifications - even online web dev certs like from W3Schools or BrainBench - this helps to illustrate skills you have that you may not have job experience in.
Show HN: Web application monitoring with real browsers (Selenium Webdriver)
What? That makes no sense.

Dropbox has moved from "no interoperability with Office" to "interoperability with Office". How can that be a bad thing?
Yep. Oakland, CA.
Can we not do the Reddit novelty accounts thing?
prolly jus hipsters
this is a political problem, but can also be addressed as an engineering problem: https://leastauthority.com/ and https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/
It's unlikely that they're trawling your uploaded content. Dropbox does some amount of preprocessing (e.g., to allow document preview and photo thumbnails), which also collects information like MIME type. I would assume they simply ran an aggregate query against this sort of metadata, or collected these stats at the time of upload.
I can't explain why, but for me prose is easier to read on a light background and code is easier to read on a dark background. I imagine it has something to do with proportional fonts vs. monospace fonts and how the eye distinguishes the characters.

Edit: I think it may also have to do with the ability to distinguish colors used in syntax highlighting.
Why are you comparing the suburbs (SV) to the city (NYC)? You know NYC has suburbs with great public schools too?
This was my favorite part of the video, and I think it was genuine. The guy in the blue shirt and the one with grayer hair immediately afterward seemed like school kids seeing something amazing for the first time. I'm sure their day-to-day work is quite serious. Sometimes maybe it takes something simple to make you step back and realize that you really have some things in your life that are quite amazing.
Ah, they do that? That's cool!
just did a quick look. I evaluated Smugmug a few years ago, but decided it didn't quite meet my needs. But it looks like i should give the service a serious review again.

And I see that they have support for RSS and other feeds which might work for some of the integrations I want to do.
Why do you hate fun?

Edit: Why does everyone hate fun?
As an auto enthusiast, I generally feel "yucky" after surveying the comments and feedback following a Tesla press release. C&D and MotorTrend generally bias hard for anything American made, which is fine and par for the course. My discomfort comes from the feeling that journalists are making the Model S out to be a competitive alternative to a high performance automobile, which it is not.

A Model S can't make a single lap in anger around Mazda Raceway without the software putting it in limp mode to prevent heat build up from causing permanent damage. A half-day jaunt through twisty mountain roads is absolutely out of the question. It is a car that can drag race from a stop, hit a freeway on-ramp with some gusto, and give you carbon-free credentials the rest of the time.

No one shopping for an M3, 911, or AMG product who actually intends to use them for their performance is cross-shopping a Model S as a like-for-like option, but the press consistently paints the picture that Tesla is a gas-free alternative or even superior to current offerings. I don't intend to degrade what it is, because it is a marvel of modern business, politics, and a little engineering that this car exists. I simply feel gross when I see how much hype puts it up for the Model S being something it isn't.
“Shenandoah: An Open Source Pauseless GC for OpenJDK.” by Christine Flood
When I see contests like this, my first thought always goes to "But do they really have the money to pay me if I figured it out."

For big prize payout contests, I'd get a lot more serious if they provided proof that the funds were waiting in escrow until end-date/winner.

But I'm probably unnecessarily suspicious of the depth of a startup's pockets...
Watch people share that they've voted across the US
Can you actually target Facebook ads at specific users?
Things that aren't HN material will be downvoted by members. This is currently sitting at #3, and therefore the HN community has determined that this is indeed HN material.
This is a good point and largely the reason I vote. Many local initiatives have low enough turnout that you can actually make an impact. In a decent number of cases they also don't split directly along party lines, so your vote can matter regardless of the party split of your area. They also tend to be more pertinent to your community.
I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox?

Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.