skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use Facetime, but I believe that the image quality is much higher than with Skype, because it's not using the relay node system. Probably more people use Skype because 'everyone' they talk to has it than because it's great.

Equally, it's hard to see how their laptops could be considered anything less than good, whether OX is for you or not.
Square's food delivery service, Caviar, launches its first mobile app
I hadn't for this project - to be honest I didn't have a clear plan for this project, it was just something I threw together in a few hours for fun because I thought the dataset was amusing :) A chloropleth is a great idea though. If I find the time to improve this, I'll definitely keep that in mind!
Nice little hack I guess, but I'm just baffled how many people seem to be comfortable to keep a camera pointed at them at all time, especially when things like this are going on: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam...
That was a terrible product design in addition to being a terrible product engineering IMHO. Holding that phone for any meaningful period of time was not enjoyable.

As a side note the 6 feels great.
Square's new restaurant delivery app lets you track your meal
Food fight: Caviar launches iOS app for gourmet delivery service
I think your 100K figure is overly pessimistic.

In any case, thanks to the leaked information, it should be easy to tell exactly how much Sony paid the people who are responsible for this mess.

Security is hard, but this looks like a lot of low hanging fruit being picked effortlessly. My bet is that just a tiny bit of effort would have made the intruders work much harder.
I think Oil and oil related industries would be good bet. Plastics, fertilizer, etc.
As a movie studio I imagine their infrastructure is used to moving obscenely large archives around as a matter of course.
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> Things like security and performance should be given. This is akin to arguing that small restaurants shouldn't care about food safety, or that small construction firms shouldn't worry about building codes.

No, it's completely different. Food safety and building codes is akin to good software engineering; on the other hand, security against hacks is more like a restaurant protecting you from a third party poisoning your food, or a building withstanding planes crashing into it. Most building and most restaurants don't offer such protection.
Can you give an example or two of the more complex issues you deal with?

I honestly have no idea.
4 Months After Acquisition, Square Launches iOS App for Delivery Service Caviar
100TB? Seems more likely nobody noticed a team carrying out some thirty-five 3TB external drives. If their network was able to maintain operations while somebody sucked out 100TB of data through their gateway, I'm impressed.
Yes, and also remeber that as you approach the nyquest frequency, the ability to encode phase is lost. People always talk abou sampling capturing different frequencies but they forget to think about phase.
I kind of had that effect at a trade show a while ago where they had huge demo displays like 12 foot /6000 pixels across and I couldn't see all the detail at a usual viewing distance but could make it out in small areas by wandering up close. It was kinda cool. I'm not sure it would have that much value in a domestic setting but in something like a museum / gallery could be good.
Delivery startup Caviar launches on mobile to replace your Seamless addiction
Square launches a mobile app for its Caviar food delivery service
So you run workloads on clusters of Commodore-64's?
And... bummer they've just scrubbed the launch for today :(
Scrub for today; trying again in 24h.
And it's scrubbed. Back to work, everyone!
Poop. Scrubbed for today.
UDATE: 24-hr re-cycle.
Ugliness is subjective: I really liked it, or more precisely, nothing about it annoyed me, and many of the design decisions on the web these years annoy me. You got me curious what exactly about it struck you as ugly. (You could reply to my email, which is in my profile, if you are worried about getting downvoted.)
Yes, it's been planned for a couple of years.
Sigh, the tired argument that because people may use a powerful feature wrongly, that feature shouldn't exist.

>they still lead to unreadable code

Complete unsubstantiated nonsense.

>If they need more things, add those things as first-class features

If JavaScript had macros we could have had 'let' before ES6 instead of writing '(function(x) { ... })(42)'. Do I really need to know that 'let' compiles to a lambda with arguments applied? No, I just need to know that 'let' binds some values to variables and evaluates the body. Do I need to know that 'cond' compiles to a nested 'if' chain to know how to use it? No.

I don't understand why people think that syntax has to be behind a gate that only the language implementors have access to. Syntactic abstraction makes talking about problem domains easier, not unreadable.
while 6LoWPAN hasn't seen as wide adoption as I would have expected it appears that much if the standard will be implemented by google's THREAD, although not guaranteed success I'd not dismiss 6LoWPAN just yet
Meh. Apple more or less markets "business" hardware to consumres. Not really that different from not buying the "consumer" models from most other brands.
"This course covers elementary discrete mathematics for computer science and engineering. It emphasizes mathematical definitions and proofs as well as applicable methods. Topics include formal logic notation, proof methods; induction, well-ordering; sets, relations; elementary graph theory; integer congruences; asymptotic notation and growth of functions; permutations and combinations, counting principles; discrete probability. Further selected topics may also be covered, such as recursive definition and structural induction; state machines and invariants; recurrences; generating functions.:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Pay is reasonably divided based on those 4 category breakdowns as well.

1) High guaranteed, little upside
2) Low guaranteed, high upside
3) Moderate guaranteed, little upside, better QoL?
4) Low, none..., excellent QoL

I'm not sure how I'd feel discussing kernels of an SVM with someone -- to me, that feels pedantic. I generally feel that the fundamental driver to 'models no longer working' is evolving covariance dynamics (changing linkages) -- this has very little to the mechanisms of most ML tools.

Perhaps the metaphor I'm looking for is that I wouldn't expect a carpenter to be able to build and explain the components of a power drill to use it to help my house.

QuantFi is a huge discipline -- you build teams with hopefully a mixed bag of skills. On the trading side, I'd rather have someone with experience w.r.t to the market + products than math-jutsu any day.
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> software engineers wont magically fix executives handing over credentials to hackers

and all those important files were just lying around

You can't project a film without a dedicated digital link to Sony's servers in London authorising it. For some movies they send personnel to your cinema to record the audience with IR cameras. For some movies you are not allowed to let the staff watch the film for free.
Thanks. To the outside observer it seemed like the two were connected.
I have built a few free products too. I use them to advertise my sisterly paid products. A few of my free products: https://getsimpleform.com/, http://redirectapp.com/

You could try accepting donations or use it to build your portfolio for consultancy projects.
Can you do 2 or 3 without a CompSci/Math degree?
Do you think Mithril can be integrated in meteor?

Edit: I just found a blog post on that. [1]

[1] http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/mithril-and-meteor.html
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Fair enough, with the hardware cost, would be a mistake to launch without all systems in check.
In the longer term, I would expect both of rthem to be afraid of the many smaller local players in each country when they start to up their game in terms of hosting. People are starting to become wary of putting all your data in one cloud - whether it is a Google or amazon shaped one.
My takeaway from this was the narrow view in which Google's power is shown off. The airplane example is a perfect representation of this. I think what he's trying to say is someone like Google needs to find better ways to show their products and services can impact their users lives.
Ezku, very interesting indeed. Your answer actually got me really interested in Supersonic and will be starting to evaluate it for a future project vis-a-vis the Ionic Framework itself, plus Angular Material and Kendo UI.

One more thing, Kendo UI does give us the ability to include only those modules that our apps need (package customization), plus it's AMD-compatible. Does Supersonic provide customization and AMD-compatibility as well?
This post was an opportunity to discover that Rovio had much more employee than what I expected.

Angry bird looks so much like one of those flash games you can create with a single coder and a single designer I never imagined they had more than 800 people now. I would have guessed a small dozen max...
By the specs that is true. I guess I should have said best performing hardware. Having twice the specs means nothing if it performs worse.
How high is high and how low is low? I'd assume even the lowest payed quants are making high 5 or low 6 figures at a bank.
Orion launch scrubbed, NASA to try again tomorrow
The problem we found with using AppGyver is that you depend on them for your builds. Once you finish making your app, you deploy to AppGyver then go to their website and click a button to build a compiled application. Also, keep in mind that is not uncommon to wait up to 10-15 minutes for a build. When you are on the clock, this add up.

Like others have mentioned, it's a framework on top of a framework on top of a framework. You will find breaking points and get frustrated. Are you trying to use custom Cordova plugins? Well, the build failed. Here's an error report of what went wrong. Go make the changes necessary and build again while waiting for another 10-15 minutes.

So, you built an Angular application on top of AppGyver with the native navigation. Actually, you built many little applications where each one works in one of the native views. If you are trying to port this into a web app you are SOL.

These are my thoughts on AppGyver, from a developer that used their stack for a few clients. These days I'll either go RubyMotion or Emberjs/Cordova.
I second this idea. Find out who are your 'power users' for each app. Is there overlap? You can focus on one type of user, find a complementary product that pays for referrals, and link to it at the bottom of each page.
The two are connected, this is a test launch of Orion, the ship meant for taking us to Mars.
Adam Bard's recent work is a good example: http://adambard.com

As is Kevin Lynagh's http://keminglabs.com - He also made Denizen (I think) https://getdenizen.com/

I have no idea if any of these are profitable, but at least you get some ideas. Searching "site:news.ycombinator.com microbusiness" also brings up some good examples, for instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243
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No they wouldn't - it might provide basis for a search warrant if the pictured quantity is large enough, but they have no way of proving that the thing in the picture is actually cocaine vs baking sugar.

As a slightly related anecdote, a friend of a friend got caught with 11 grams of cocaine (supplying for a party, I think) and by the time he got to court he was being charged with possession of 4 grams, which reduced his "years in prison" with "a few months probation and a fine". No mention of where the 7 grams went in the months between.
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Most people I know like Apple and Google. The carriers are the ones that have screwed up Android.
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I see this from totally a user experience side. NoCAPTCHA isn't about defeating spam (you're right, the spammers are going to solve it/hire someone to finish the job etc) - it's about making a better experience for the humans, while slowing down the spammers a bit. (contrary to current recaptcha system that slows down spammers a bit or not at all, and makes life mostly more crappy for humans)
Nicely done, but if you are really trying to be a framework for internal apps (vs a design framework like bootstrap) - I would focus on adding a couple of more admin-like components (such as grids vs tables with the options associated with grids).

An opinionated admin framework would be a huge win. For what its worth - semantic-ui.com has a couple of neat compenents that are also worth having (cards, steps/wizards).

Watching this project now!
I'm not sure I agree, but I think I can see where you're coming from.

Political parties and loyalty to them tend to devolve into something fairly absurd. But, at least this is using the instinct for what it's meant to be used for. Making factions and tribes and getting your tribe into power. If the tribe Chiefdom is up for grabs, get your clan's main man the hat.

That's what this instinct is designed to do.

Loyalty to a brand of shoes or phone or whatever and developing a tribalism over that is a weird absurdity. With a prospective chief (or president) there is at least the theoretical possibility that your candidate represents your interests and gets your support that way. With brand loyalty, we can't even pretend that's possible. You're loyal to the brand because of an instinct being hijacked, for sure. It's like being loyal to a fictional character, being sad because a couple break up in a soap opera, or getting a mouse all excited with a pheromone soaked cue tip.
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Candy Japan is a great example, and the creator regularly posts updates on his blog/here on HN
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An acquaintance of mine once made a living by selling legos online by the piece. He'd buy sets and tear them down, sort them, etc. Apparently this can be profitable especially if you can get a lot of hard to find pieces.

This was back in like 2008, so I have no idea if the site exists or if he's still doing it.
Angry Birds had excellent design (Visually), something that has made both Rovio and King stand out.

I think Rovio just tried to monetize (and merchandize) too hard, in a way not fitting the mobile model. They should have tried to focus on growing horizontally and making the Rovio brand bigger than the Angry Birds brand.
Installed on Android. I went to invite a friend to try it out, there is no invite or share feature. Hope this helps!
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinfaq.htm#spinfaq9

Nasa and Nasa-related contractors did not invent MRI and CAT scanners, but they contributed significantly to the technology as well as related aspects like digital image processing (developed at JPL for processing Moon images).

I mean, probably MRI and CT scanners would have been developed anyway. But space research definitely helped move things along.
Note: a company put a single Apple blogger under an MRI not as part of a study or "a report", it was one scan that was paid for by a documentary series called Secrets of the Superbrands hosted and written by comedian Alex Riley ("Britain's Really Disgusting Food" and "Movies' Greatest Cars")

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2203728/?ref_=tt_ov_st
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Generally you would use an expand/contract migration pattern.

You deploy a schema expansion so that both the new and old code will run, deploy the new code, and once the new code has been validated you deploy a schema contraction.

http://exortech.com/blog/2009/02/01/weekly-release-blog-11-z...
This is dumb.
Why not a system in which the developer provide his inputs as well as the affected user all done by a dll that's carried by all the appliations on the company that fills the correct TFS (or Git/Svn/Etc) so you can get some interesting data?
So many things to log without user intervention, plus his data, OS, version, date, apps running, stack trace, you name it...

and in the name of down voting, the idea of this news and post was done by hipster from a cafe...

" I have the perfect picture of a monkey or maybe a nice cat gif"

so 9gag does.
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My personal belief is that we have more power as consumers than as voters.
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Good point. He is nutty, but still is right on.

I work in Emergent technology/ R&D at a university, and we get questions like "what can I buy that will just work"? I look towards Free Software, and what is published. If there's a free software solution for it, it'll never go away. However, if there's a loose corporate control, then it probably will fade. But if there's iron-grip control, the device will go away as soon as something shiner comes out to take its place.

That last one is Apple.
> It was broken because it had evolved into an unrecognizable system that was incompatible with what science, in an ideal world, could have been.

We don't live in an ideal world. The existing first-to-publish system went into place precisely because it is a solution for a world of people, not angels. This essay presumes we are angels, or perhaps living in a world where we've fallen from scientific grace.

> Science seemed to be more about prestige and personal gain, rather than a noble collective effort to expand knowledge.

Herr Leibniz? A Mr. Newton wants to have few words with you.

Sanatorium warden? Could you tell Cantor that Kronecker apologizes for calling him a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth?

In other words, when has it ever been 'a noble collective effort to expand knowledge' more than 'about prestige and personal gain' in the way that the author thinks is right?

(That we can improve things is a given, but the author's premise is that it evolved to the current system from a better one.)

> there is no immediately clear reason as to why researchers should be apprehensive about sharing their dataset alongside their results — unless they have something to hide, of course

There's a clear, strong, and well-known reason. Sharing data means that others might publish new papers from your data before you've done so.

There are also practical matters. The data set may contain personal information covered under various privacy laws.

> Research findings should be open access - freely and immediately available online to read and reuse.

While I mostly agree, there's a certain constrained view here on what "research findings" means. Does this include corporate for-profit research papers?

For example, Laurent Bossavit wrote and sells "The Leprechauns of Software Engineering". This is historical research. Why should it be open access with no cost?

I've been researching a topic where some of the foundational papers were written as white papers from a small consulting firm. They were never published in academic journals, but were cited by them. Another reference was in an IBM Technical Report. Do we prevent this sort of research publication?

> Science should be universal. Science should be disinterested. Scientists should be asking themselves how they can move collective knowledge — not their careers — forward.

Utter bollocks. Science research is guided by morals. Here's a topic that can be addressed scientifically: "what is the percentage of people who die if dropped head-first from 50 meters vs. feet-first?" Are we ever going to pursue it? I sure hope not! We absolutely must not pursue some fields of the universe of science.

What if a scientist decides "I can do better science by moving my career forward so I have a larger research group and budget in order to explore the ideas I think are interesting"? How does science (or how do we) judge if this is correct or not?
Cool video, ta.
That brings me back to "why are we trying to prevent bots?" And I'm under the impression that we want to prevent automated spamming of $web_community_resourse. So to answer your question, it makes a difference because once the really sophisticated bot is in, it starts spamming up the place.
Off-topic, but I just wanted to let you know that your website looks beautiful! A very well done to you and a great idea too!
Functional programming is nothing more than applying the rigour of math to programming.
Yeah that's really weird terminology for a VCS. I thought it was something like Puppet/Chef at first.
I forgot about lenses, thanks.

About non-locality of macros vs. functions:

Macros, being functions, provide this kind of assurance, too at the syntax tree level: you only operate on the local, current subtree.
They can indeed modify the meaning of symbols in that subtree, but I think you are taking things to the extreme. Off course, an arbitrarly nasty macro "far up in the tree" (how deep are the typical functions, anyway?) could do horrible things. Also, we must ban sugar because if someone eats too much sugar, that someone dies.

However, the average usage is more subtle.
For example, when you DEFUN a function, you are registering a function in your current environment (side-effects) through a macro, which does not dramatically change the semantics of the body of the function, compared to, say, an anonymous LAMBDA (the only change is, I think, the ability to RETURN-FROM a named function).

CL is not a functional language: you can loop over lists or across vectors, you can setf special variables and mutate strings. You have static and dynamic non-local exits (return, throw/catch, signal) and even goto's (tagbody). That does not mean that you should use them all and go against best practices and common sense.
Just because a feature could be misused does not make it irrelevant.

For the record, I have nothing against functional languages (or any other language, really (except of course PHP ;-)). It just seem unfair to attack macros. They should be avoided whenever possible, but they have some uses: C (macros), C++ (templates), and even Haskell and Scala try to have them:

http://scalamacros.org/usecases/index.html

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.6.1/docs/html/users_gui...

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.fr/2007/01/does-haskell-need-ma...

Finally: macros are not a hack used to fix a supposedly missing feature of the language (e.g. "I don't need macros because I have lazy evaluation", etc.). Macros allow programmers to interact with the compiler (reader macros, compiler-macros): they are the primitive provided to perform meta-programming tasks.
I worked on a clone of Angry Birds a few years ago and you're right with one of your figures: about a dozen people were required to pull it off in about 9 months. Definitely not doable by a single coder and artist/designer though. There's a perhaps underappreciated but quite insane level of polish that went into Angry Birds, especially with the level design.
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It's kind of like, NASA taking advantage of the Orion test flight press to get their Mars plan out there.