skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - I use Twitter a LOT to communicate with people I'd otherwise have no access to, because I don't have their email or they are too busy answering me through the company mailbox. Twitter makes everyone (except for celebs) reachable. If I need some guy at Google who write library X, I just send him a tweet.

That one is a killer-feature right there I've managed to discover lately.
Twitter completely sucks, because if you are just a normal person doing normal things noone will ever care about you.
BUT, in case you're interested in some very specific topic and the contributing people then you should give twitter a try...
Do we need another framework? For learning, sure. But for production, it's better if we contribute to existing framework instead. Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
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I agree. Those learning path is best for a deep understanding of how go works in the inside.
Interesting how Peter Thiel who froze $45,000 of assets of Facebook competitor Diaspora* has taken a special interest in bad mouthing Twitter, call them "horribly mismanaged" etc. It's very clear he wants Twitter to fail. Peter Thiel influenced the debt downgrade with his comments. Knowing how the world works Thiel may very well have called up an analyst and played some dirty tricks as in the case of Diaspora*.
>> A 10X improvement in energy availability (the supply curve) would have an economic effect that permeates everything.

It is a bit like bandwidth. Everyone agrees that having gigabit internet to every device in the country would be benficial bur we can't agree on who should provide that.

As a society we pour most of the money into large providers who have a vested interest in highly centralised systems. What we really need is thousands of small provders who optimise for efficienct delivery of the actual product. Society needs to invest in energy and constantly spending such vast amounts on single projects seems risky. It may deliver energy but in the long run prices will still go up.
>The site said investors had averaged net gains of 1 percent each trading day during the past five years.

How seemingly intelligent people (the guy was a doctor) read this and don't think "too good to be true" is beyond me.
Of course. I wasn't challenging the bond rating, just the parent's notion that user engagement isn't a valuable metric for Twitter.
Probably mobile traffic gradually was taking over and users on mobile searched less for "facebook"?
One difficult part of doing event triggered processing is in the progress reporting and keeping the code related to it simple. I wonder how they deal with that.
Out of curiosity, what are you doing that you end up reading a lot of K code?
Their share price is nearly irrelevant to success since they can easily raise money through debt. They went to markets asking for 1.3 billion and offering nothing in return and the market said "why not 1.8?" If they were raising money through secondary equity offerings the their share price would matter. This debt rating also doesn't matter except to the chumps who own the debt. Twitter already has the money in the bank and 1.8 billion is a substantial amount of capital any way you look at it.
vi and/or vim elitists... I've always have used nano, but it seems that's not good enough for CentOS/RHEL guys.
Except that ergot affects rye, not wheat.
I wrote plenty of things nobody but me will ever use, and I'm happy I reinvented lots of wheels along the way. I learned, I had fun, and I still like the results. Not all programming has to take place in a corporate cog-style environment, and not all articles about programming have to justify themselves in that environment, or for sites with millions of visitors. If it's not good for your job, don't use it for your job, and let me do what I want in my free time. If I was a better programmer, I would insert a snarky question about who will program the frameworks of the future if nobody knows how to do anything from "scratch" anymore. I'm just glad we're not that stuck up about HTML and CSS: sure semantic clean things are nice, but nobody would honestly say "god no, don't EVER Write your own CSS, use Bootstrap and tweak the options! It's just too hard, too many things can go wrong." I can see that with crypto, but a "web framework"? Nah. It's more a hello world thing, nothing to freak out over.
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In similar lines here are my observations as a heavy business and personal user:

1. 140chars limit had a goal and philosophy which conflicts now with image attachment flood. Most "interesting" content is typed or pictured in the attachment and the 140char limit is simply worked around

2. Twitter UI is too clunky for what it does. No progress since 7 years I'm using it.

3. Twitter mobile apps don't work properly when mobile. You can't favorite, retweet or comment properly while in an unreachable zone. My 2008 hobby Android 1.1 app has a local queue to cope with remote updates, inserts and Twitter can't implement this?

4. Families aren't on Twitter. Friends to a certain degree. Colleagues to a certain degree. Celebrities/followers yes. Gamers no. Protestors yes.

5. Facebook, LinkedIn implemented the "follow" feature quite successfully.

6. Notifications work, Discover not much.
Oh, absolutely. There is no substance here, but it looks bad, and in the stockmarket that's really all that matters. That's why you can have CEOs from companies with solid fundamentals ousted when the company has two bad quarters in a row. It's a ridiculous system that focuses on the short term only. Twitter raised money with the express intent of investing it, not to hoard it.
If you are bicycling for one hour in a hot and humid area, aren't you going to sweat about 0.5 L as well ?
Show HN: Gucci.com website design
http://www.gucci.com/it/home
"
Gucci generated about € 4.2 billion in revenue worldwide in 2008 according to BusinessWeek magazine and climbed to 41st position in the magazine's annual 2009 "Top Global 100 Brands" chart created by Interbrand.
"

Why the hell is this website designed like the 90s?
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This is the "conclusive evidence": http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/siteassets/6-aktuellt/nyheter/2...
You're assuming that when they say "912 computers per rack" they mean 912 4-core servers per rack. It's a reasonable assumption, that's how I interpreted that statement when I read it the first time. Nonetheless, I'm quite sure that that interpretation is incorrect.

If you watch the video carefully, you'll notice that their rack/case contains 16 cartridges, and each cartridge has 18 servers on it. That indicates they have 288 servers per rack. 288x4=912, so I believe that when they said 912 computers per rack, they actually meant 912 cores per rack.
"1% per day average, no risk of deposit loss. "

I already thought forex trading individuals weren't the sharpest, but COME ON PEOPLE.
For the vast majority of low end DSLR shooters, buying a fast prime lense (eg. 35mm 1.8 for 1.5x smaller sensor) will have the biggest single impact on their photography. It gives them much more headroom in low light and much shallower DoF for portraits.

It's also much smaller and lighter than the chunky 18-55 the camera probably comes with.
I think they should keep the 150 characters as a limit for website
Show HN: Video++, a Real Time Video Processing Framework Using OpenMP4 and C++14
that sounds like an interesting concept, similair to part of what something I am working would like to acheive. Are you providing a structure or allowing 'interviews' to be whatever form/structure the interviewer wants?
good luck, its a problem i havent seen solved properly yet!
I found the common idea that the best camera is the one you have with you, so your opinion shouldn't be at odds with most of the community.
That's not even remotely related to the topic, isn't it?
The question is: Should you build a web framework in Go?
The original source talks at length about why you shouldn't use the Martini web framework, and links to another post where Jeremy Saenz (Martini's author) more or less disavows his creation (http://blog.codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-ma...). That's an interesting read, I'm surprised that I missed it earlier this year.

I'm also surprised to read that Jeremy has written a more idiomatic successor framework... and named it "Negroni" (http://negroni.codegangsta.io). I don't know if I'm being too hyper-sensitive as a contemporary American, but is this just absolutely cringe-worthy to anyone else? I don't think I could evangelize this at work for that simple reason.

"Oh hey, go check out the 'Negro' framework! It's written by the guy who goes by 'Code Gangsta', and you can read about it on his blog in between YouTube clips of him rapping." (yes, seriously)
In October, Twitter reported a disappointing 7% fall in timeline views per user - a closely watched measure of engagement - despite a 23% growth in its user base in the third quarter.

"Despite"? Not "because of" by any chance? That would be my first thought, that they simply diluted their hardcore audience.
>recently their monetization offering (advertising platform) has become far more impressive.

I wonder whether a saturation point will be reached with regard to our willingness to view ads in general. More specifically, might this happen in a way that impacts the viability of ad-supported models that rely on the "build an audience, then ad them to death" approach?

Google Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and others all command a great share of our attention and rely largely on the model. Youtube also seems to be showing more ads. I have also noticed that some sites which feature, say 1 minute or less news clip videos, show 15-30 second ads before each one. Personally, I have stopped using these because I find it obnoxious. I get that they need to make money, but at some point, they crossed my personal threshold.

The net is that we are more and more inundated with ads, and I wonder if the effectiveness of those ads will wane to a point where their value can no longer deliver the massive value upon which so many companies rely.
Once a month she feels terrible... Think she might have another more common problem there, maybe?
Resharper is an add-on for Visual Studio, it doesn't exist as such in IntelliJ.
They could work on a conversation view, and to not count the @mentions in the character limit.
Food is a good case to examine in thinking about energy problem from a consumption or supply point of view, because on one hand we are really splurging energy and land area in food production - all that meat production requires 2-3x crop production, not to mention untold animal suffering, for our luxury munchies.
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Great article. None of the usual hipness or romanticism BS, just cut & dry. I love it.
Helm is amazing. Helm all the things.

One of my favorites is helm-hoogle for completion of Haskell type signatures, function names, etc...
GitHub code review is terrible. I don't blame them for not using pull requests in the least. If not being able to pull is enough to stop people from contributing, how much is their contribution worth?
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> can I sue them if they refuse to sell me one?

No, and you can't sue any company for refusing to sell you their product. In some cases you can sue if they refuse to serve you based on discrimination (i.e. a restaurant or hotel) under the Federal Civil Rights Act, or even a state-level civil rights act or charter, but that's a different set of circumstances. There are all manner of businesses who refuse to sell their goods directly to the consumer and sell to distributors only, and they aren't getting sued over it.

There's also the issue that using the device, period, is against Federal law, yet our Federal government is doing it anyway. They get away with it because they can[1], but you would likely end up in prison, possibly without a public trial.

[1]I think what they are doing is wrong and illegal, but until a judge puts a stop to it they will continue to get away with it.
Right, I somehow managed to misread that post. Yeah, that happens fairly often on the 1020 (not so much on 808 I think).
The US is "at war" with the entire world, even their so-called friends. You don't spy on your friends, you spy on your enemies. You don't do secret raids and secret bombings on third parties, you do that to your enemies. We've always been at war with <fill in the blank>.
In my experience effectively outsourcing of work requires clearly written, tight specifications with exacting testing criteria spelt out. In my experience the combined effort of writing accurate specs and then handling the communication with outsourced programmers is a bigger workload than just writing it myself.
Google's approach requires multiple images to be captured of the same subject from different angles in order to triangulate depth - our SIFT flow based approach can achieve similar performance using only a single image. This makes it as simple as capturing a normal image to capture one with an editable depth of field.
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This. At first, I wondered why the NTSB was getting all the design data from the company, much of which must be proprietary and, as a one-off custom design craft, not useful to the NTSB. I mean, wouldn't the company want to do its own research and find out what happened so it can fix it and resume flights? But then I realized that it's better for everyone if an outside party learns all it can and essentially debugs their design, like Feynman did with the space shuttle. One might even wonder if they aren't getting some highly expert aerospace consulting done for free.
Nice, but I don't think the problem with soft edges are ever going to be solved satisfactorily. For instance, check the halo on the guy's hair next to the cabinet in your example. Or the shirt/cabinet edge. Besides, it looks like gaussian, not lens blur, in the background.

Even manually Photoshoped images often don't look perfect.

I think we simply need more data, it can't be done convincingly with a single lens/aperture shot. Maybe with multiple shots/focus points, but even then, I'm skeptical.
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Well, I hear what you are saying, but the definition of "open source software" is: software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
This is not software, so there is no "source code" per-se. But the original high-resolution images are "made freely available and may be redistributed and modified" so I thought that "open source photos" was an appropriate name.
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There is no "satisfying curiosity and entertainment value". There is no better evidence of that human weakness than Reddit.
You are not the only one. We finally have decentralized tools only to... put all the eggs back into one basket!
If you use words, you have to have them translated into N languages. With pictograms, you likely don't need any translation.
I will bite back.

Github's corporate culture appears to be very anti-woman. There is plenty of available evidence to this effect. There is very little apparent diversity (of any sort) in their large team. https://github.com/about/team

Using Github contributes to the success of this monoculture and encourages tech leaders to revere and duplicate this model. It makes tech more difficult for people outside of that group - the white, straight, male group. It makes tech culture worse.

If I'm aware that you host on Github, I will make sure to consider what your competitors are doing before I use your service.
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I doubt ratings agencies care what Peter Thiel says about anything.
Does Frozen yogurt follow this logic? It seems like a harder sounding word might imply the health effects
I watched a German / French documentary [1] about the Yamala peninsula [2], and the impact Russian gas drilling has on the native inhabitants of the peninsula, the Nenets people [3] - It is absolutely jarring to see how the homeland of these last nomads and their reindeer herds is being cut up by ultra-modern, gargantuan Gazprom operations. Vast road networks are being constructed across the Tundra, entire gas cities are being built, there are even futuristic drilling rigs that travel on rail roads, a fast and cheap way to lay gas taps across the landscape.

[1] http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/044102-000/360-geo-reportage

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal_Peninsula

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenets_people
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd rather keep the idea of a community (although for now it's just me) and be able to curate its content.
Moreover, publishing only 10 images every 10 days, I doubt we will use a lot of space. Wordpress gives away 3GB for free and once we reach that quota, with a few buck we could increase it to 10GB, I believe.
(I am not a doctor!)

The links I found said it was at least that, possibly as many as 3L.

e.g. http://www.cptips.com/fluids.htm

> Under normal environmental circumstances, you will lose 1 - 2 liters of sweat per hour, and if the ambient temperature is high, this can be as high as 4 - 6 liters per hour.

But you apparently can only take in about 0.5L and process it safely.

e.g. http://www.hammernutrition.com/knowledge/hydration-what-you-...

> Dr. Tim Noakes collected data for ten years [and] showed that endurance athletes who consumed from 16-24 fluid ounces per hour (approx 475-710 milliliters) typically replenished as much fluid as is efficiently possible

And

> Dr. Ian Rogers suggests that between 500-750 ml/hr (about 17-25 oz/hr) will fulfill most athletes' hydration requirements under most conditions
That's exactly what I was thinking. As a programmer, it made sense to me.
On the other hand, it's in the rating agency's interest to give poor unsolicited ratings, to "push" companies into paying for solicited ones.
with your toes??

I demand that youtube video now. Amazing skills abound!
Well that's the new age @mattzito test the possibilities! We have still to receive this - we are patiently waiting
We're primarily targeting providing depth of field adjustment tools for video as having multiple frames of data to work with obviously makes the task easier (although we can still get great results with a single image).

We're also experimenting with other filters, not just Gaussian - it's the depth extraction part that we've been trying to innovate on.
This is the second time I've read this article.

Or, gotten sucked into this article, more like.

In bright light outside, I expected a fair fight between the phones and DSLRs. In dim light, I expected the DSLRs to eat the phones for breakfast.

So, how do they compare? I thought I knew. It turned out that I was completely wrong. Read on to find the answers.

In what way was he completely wrong? DSLRs eat the phones for breakfast in dim light, while they have a narrowish margin (against Lumia 1020) in bright light. The first page sets you up for a surprise, but it never comes.

Of course, the lens you put on the DSLR makes as big a difference as you're willing to invest. That's why they'll never really be comparable.
For all we know - there is someone who is sitting there - being a killer assistant to the beta users! Do things that don't scale :D
> For example, sometimes specifying remote and branch is done as "remote/branch" and sometimes as "remote branch".

AFAIK those usages are semantically different, and consistently so. For example, git pull actually is "repository ref" rather than "remote ref", and will go over the network to fetch the current status of ref from the given repository.

git merge, on the other hand, is simply "git merge ref"; when ref is of the form remote/branch, it will merge the current local state of remote/branch, which should be the state from the last git fetch. git merge does not access the network.

So: semantic differences, represented via different command line syntaxes. It's actually pretty reasonable, and it's pretty obvious if you've taken half an hour to understand the underlying data model of Git.

> Common actions often require obscure command lines, like "make a new branch" which is git checkout -b instead of just "git branch".

Actually, "git branch" is the command to create a new branch. "git checkout -b" is a shortcut for "create a new branch and move to that branch".
I used some library, something didn't work, asked a question on Stackoverflow, didn't get an answer. What to do?

Twittered the author, he twittered back, telling me that there's a bug, and here's the workaround, and invited me (and all his followers) to try that new product that replaces the thing I was using.

So it's a unique communication tool which found a sweet spot with opt-in, brevity, low involvement, and publicity.

(It's can also be anywhere from crappy to decent as a social network, a news aggregator, a blog site ... but I wouldn't bother with these aspects)
If you only use pictograms, there are some that nobody understands.
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> Speaking from the trenches here. [...] Tech is in most banks a back office thing (especially if we are not talking about algo trading). They earn shit.

You are in the wrong trench, my friend. High performing developers and systems folks are extraordinarily well compensated at the higher end banks and hedge funds.

When people change jobs, it's usually for another job in financial services, largely because most technology companies cannot even begin to touch the total compensation for such a person.
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I actually have the opposite reaction in a way. When I hear ice cream in my head, I hear something like Julie Andrews saying it, and it sounds sweet and light. With cracker it has a thick American accent and sounds harsh and dense. I am from the US.
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> The graph is misleading at first glance because the phones and the cameras sit on different scales...

> Note that the scales for the DSLRs and the phones are different and not directly comparable...

It looks like graph is misleading at second glance too. :)
Author is comparing the steepness of the curves, which is closely related to scale. If you change the scale for phones you can make their progress much slower.

Not saying the phones won't reach DSLRs in terms of image quality, just that this graph should not be interpreted in this way.
In my mind C/C++ converts to a certain style of C++ coding popular among competitive programmers for example. You write C style simple code but use the C++ libraries etc. when it best fits the case. Some would call it just the C style C++ which is considered bad and ill-formed in general, but I do find it is an excellent style for certain type of problems.