skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. What's your experience with what.cd and private trackers in terms of the usual file-sharing metrics (seeder/leecher ratios, upload rates, prevalence of malware, media coverage, etc.) How do it and others compare to public trackers?

Also, I hope you don't mind me asking (not fishing for an invite) but: How did you secure an invite to what.cd? Did you by any chance do the interview?
> But for web-based games PlayCanvas beats out Unity clearly.

For the moment at least, if you discount the Unity plugin approach.

Unity 5, the coming version, features a (plugin-less) WebGL-export (and I believe the Unity 5 beta already supports it):

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/18/mozilla-and-unity-b...
We saw this earlier this year after upgrading to a new Linux kernel.

The solution for us was to set this in sysctl.conf:

net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1=0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1331150...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1331150...
The iPhone 4 is from 2010, the 4s from 2011, and Instagram came out in late 2010. These may be connected.

Gizmodo called it pretty much abandoned in 2012: http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-... though that was before Marisa Mayer took over as Yahoo CEO.
Well they sort of already are if you take into account asm.js and the use of emscripten to compile native-language bytecode into it. But, I guess if you already have the native code for a desktop-only app...
Bloomfield is nowhere near the city limits. Its a suburb. Detroit is all about the suburban sprawl. Its total area is massive. I think we're at about 200 miles east/west 250 miles north/south.

Its gotten to the point that some suburbs are big enough to develop their own suburbs. Notable Troy, South-field, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Sterlining Heights.

These started out as satellite cities to Detroit, but since Detroit suburbs grew, the satellite cities suburbs grew. Its just a massive sprawl.
You're underestimating the amount of effort put into simplifying and clarifying implementations, APIs, and documentation.

This doesn't imply that preceding implementers are unskilled. Part of this improvement is hindsight, but a not-insignificant part is Python's flexibility.

I can vouch for the apparently unbelievable productivity gains but I'm just not sure how to prove them!

Edit: As for not sharing these gains -- that's part of the point of this post to the official PayPal engineering blog :)
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Google's power comes not from the crawling, but from the retrieval and ranking. They use many more signals than the hyperlinks and anchor text (which is all you'd have if you crawled yourself). Indexing crawled content would have been OK in the year 2000; but today, the users demand more. Relevance is the top priority, and no one does it better than El Goog.
> An incremental improvement that, frankly, some other livery service could easily do without breaking the law (I understand that more of them are offering these kinds of apps now).

Yes, there are more of them offering these kinds of apps now, after Uber and its competitors entered the market. That's pretty decent evidence that the laws regulating competition in taxi markets stifle innovation.
What Startups Can Learn from Blizzard Entertainment
Such truths have been told before, going back at least 40 years, and the CIA is still there. Certainly they didn't want the news out, if that's what you mean.
This drug is best done mixed with cocaine. The kids call it a roller coaster. Do enough that you enter the hole or you've wasted your time and money. Intravaneous highly advised. Buy it in liquid form and cook it yourself.
Another anonymous review system. What could possibly go wrong?

If there's anything we've learned by now about "crowdsourced" review systems, it's that, without an elaborate way to evaluate reviewers, they fail. Badly. Facebook "likes", Google "+1", and Yelp reviews are heavily spammed. This just does not work.
At Clarify.io we're working in the automatic speech recognition space and the stuff the systems come up with are hilarious. There are so many sets of syllables that make sense different ways. It's amazing that it doesn't happen to humans even more.
"[T]he New York Sun dropped a bombshell of a story: Astronomer Sir John Herschel had erected an enormous telescope in South Africa that could magnify celestial bodies an astounding 42,000 times. And when he pointed it at the moon he saw a field of poppies."

In case anyone would like to read more about this fantastical hoax, I highly recommend Matthew Goodman's excellent book about 19th century newspaper hoaxes, The Sun and the Moon. It's a pretty fun book that tackles topics that range from the relationship between religion and science in pre-Civil War America, through to the relationship between P.T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe, and the rise of cheap newspapers targeted to the mass public (perhaps the antecedents of Buzzfeed, etc.)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0023RSZPA
Lock the catbox!
This is vaguely reminiscent of some of the professional tools for scriptwriters and novelists, which do in fact start to resemble IDEs: you can shuffle around characters, outlines, plot fragments ...
In the case of drugs, it's because most chemical compounds have more than one effect on the body. While something might alleviate one problem it can create an entirely different problem. Without a thorough understanding of what it's going to do to someone it would be deeply unethical for a chemist or a doctor to give someone a drug. This is not limited to illegal or untested drugs - it's unethical for a doctor to prescribe entirely legal drugs without knowing what they're giving.
A $5 billion cost overrun is a decent possibility. That's about $20K for every worker in Seattle.
Debatable on whether or not you can assume litigation is grounds for defamation. Even if it is true, it's not necessary that anonymity required the scientist to sue.

I think the appeal for the case to drop is not to discourage discussion of anonymity in review, but that it isn't discussion. A jury panel that decides to outcome of a paper could make science worse off than through a panel of peers.
This is why HN is great: industry experts on-hand. Thank you so much, I'm going to dig right into it this weekend.
Northern Michigan (extreme north) is dirt cheap. Yes your looking at a 8+ hour drive to get there, but excellent winter sports, and out doors stuff.
Wow, this reads like technobable from bad sci-fi :) I mean too good to be true kind.
So that is why tv and movies nowadays are so bad.
Maybe the fact that Java developers expect "typical" object model in JavaScript which doesn't exist, and JavaScript developers can use lot of their constructs in Java just fine (with the exception of functions which are not very different in Java, just more tedious).
It is dead. More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia_Search .
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo
Jon Carroll at SF Chronicle has written a lot about mondegreens both in the pages of the Chronicle and in topics on The WELL for years.

Here are some of his classic pieces on mondegreens:

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/JON-CARR...

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/JON-CARR...

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/JON-CARR...

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/JON-CARR...
I'm calling it, this is gonna be huge.
That's not especially meaningful -- if there's a hipster-reactionary position to be taken on construction projects, the Stranger will take it.

The Stranger has a long history of fighting losing fights to keep things more-or-less the same -- unless the alternative is trendy and/or guaranteed not to impact Capitol Hill. For example, they'd prefer that the viaduct be replaced with a "surface boulevard" that has a fraction of the throughput, thus all but guaranteeing decades of gridlock in downtown Seattle (which they like because it "discourages driving", because they heard that San Francisco did it...and most importantly, because it doesn't affect their lives either way).

Meanwhile, they complain constantly about light rail on the hill, but they campaigned heavily for the monorail-to-nowhere. Why? Because it was a monorail (cool!), and the construction wouldn't affect their favorite neighborhood (even better!)

Point being, it's not difficult to pull an article from the Stranger predicting doom for a major urban planning initiative. That's practically their stock in trade.
A lot of approximate conjecture equations are only really true for very large numbers.
Lenovo ThinkPad T440 running Windows 7 (not by choice, standard issue for my work).

I just launched it and timed it at 28 seconds. Then I closed it and launched it again and it took 3 seconds, so I assume there's some sort of caching going on. But basically Atom is too slow and bloated for what I need it for, which is just editing text files, CSV files, XML files etc. Sometimes I really need the multi-line cursors for a CSV though, and I'll use ST2 for that, as it seems a little snappier than Atom, although it also takes a little while to start up.

When I write code, I use Eclipse if it's Java (for work) or emacs for everything else (personal projects). I think I'm just going to install emacs on my work machine and start using it for all my text editing needs though.
Pipeline monitoring? Healthcare software? How in the world will anybody ever make any money in oil or healthcare?

Seriously, keep in mind that for all of the companies in Silicon Valley that do truly groundbreaking or meaningful things, there are many more startups that fall into one of the following categories:

1. Doomed to failure chasing inane consumer internet ideas that 50 other companies are chasing.

2. Doomed to failure leeching off of other startups, something that won't be viable when the current cycle ends.

3. Doomed to failure pursuing legitimate opportunities that their founders don't have the domain expertise to exploit.
So, BitTorrent's vision is that "The Next Internet" (aka the Decentralised Web) will be closed?
JavaScript Promises Naive Implementation
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Anti-workflow apps
Sorry, I was kind of including the Greektown area in that general area. I don't really gamble so I usually don't go their but the food is pretty good. Most of the stops on the people mover seem to be decent neighborhoods as well.
I don't think that's it. It doesn't match what I see or what I hear. What I see & hear are that "Drugs are bad, mm'kay?" And while, yes, I'm referencing a comedy show, I'm referencing the whole idea from the show, including the idea that people have been just so hammered by the propaganda that what they know is "Drugs are bad, mm'kay?" and can't even make a half-logical anymore after decades of thoughtless propaganda on the topic.

And, even more importantly, the second-order effects that people know they are socially expected to posture the belief that drugs are bad means that people say it all the harder so they look even holier than the person next to them, by being seen to condemn it even harder.

But I never hear anybody say "Omigosh, those guys might have a good time on a therapy drug, that can't be stood for!" That is, frankly, giving them too much credit, much as I hate to say it. Long before they're thinking that deeply about it, they've already hit the "Drugs are BAD!" button and stopped thinking about it. Behold the perils of demanding that nobody be allowed to think about certain things.

How fortunate that this is the only case of that pattern in American culture.
>to avoid any pictures of people being used for marketing without the person's consent

Just FYI, someone can't safely do that anyway. That's commercial use (with a different meaning of commercial than we're talking here) and typically requires a model release form for any identifiable subject. That's why stock sites require the submittal of model releases.

>to avoid any pictures being used to advertise something that I wouldn't want to help support.

That's obviously another matter but that's why NC isn't really a free license because it restricts use in a way that OSI software licenses don't. And it does it in a very unclear way. A lot of folks would argue that a non-profit organization could use an NC photo for advertising.

Speaking for myself, it's extremely rare that I would go to the trouble of asking permission to use a photo with a license that doesn't match my intended use; I'll just use something else.
Start Contracting, launch a blog, release an ios app. Build that personal brand.
That mean's it's NOT bloated. If you have a bus factor of 1 anywhere, that means your organization is in pretty significant danger. People die, get sick, quit, or otherwise get unable-to-work'd ALL THE TIME.
My impression is that they try to re-create the text language programming experience, in part because that's what we know, in part because they access the same underlying machine as text languages.

When graphic programming languages provide an entirely new and better way of making what we today call a computer do what we want, then they'll catch on. In the current environment, I don't think visual languages can compete with the expressiveness and flexibility of text.

Plus I'd probably suffer from shoulder RSI injuries from pushing the mouse around.
Grosse Pointe is immediately outside of Detroit and multi million dollar houses are the norm there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite_International,_Inc._v.... .

> "the court must balance the defendant's First Amendment right of anonymous free speech against the strength of the prima facie case presented and the necessity for the disclosure of the anonymous defendant's identity."
I'm hoping this was written satirically...
We've been using it to render schematic symbols and PCB footprints at CircuitHub.com (this has been going on for a couple of months). I'm testing it out in other areas of the product at the moment, so if all goes well additional Elm widgets might land on our site very soon.
Getting the most value out of your AWS
Boston Tech? Didn't it move to Cambridge and change its name?
Absolutely true, but the phama industry and plenty of politicians across the spectrum go to great lengths to even prevent research into these substances.
And likely forevermore too. $10 to cross the lake round trip, increasing faster than inflation.
Author of that PR here. It may help Firefox some, but in my experiments I'm still seeing that driving canvas animations with Elm performs much better in Chrome than in Firefox.

If there are any Firefox engineers reading this, maybe there is a good benchmark to be extracted out of this observation? I'd be interested in discussing this with someone. Feel free to reach out at the e-mail address in my profile.
I've always liked "Wrapped up like a douche" (Revved up like a deuce) in Blinded by the Light.
Yup. I've also never met anyone from there at any community events.
The suit it a red herring. The point is that anonymity makes it more likely that bogus criticism will be heard, just as non-anonymity makes it more likely that valid criticism will not be heard. Anonymity is not a quality filter.
The heading seems to be overlapping the text editor for the first line. Not a big issue, but just a simple fix! Other than that, this is awesome!
Detroit has a ton of affluent residents within 30 minutes of the city that regularly venture down there for various sporting events, gambling, and other events like NAIAS. Getting them to actually move to the city is the problem.

I live 30 minutes from detroit and come from an upper-middle class household.
Seattle VC firm Madrona debuts new incubator
To a degree, but Unity 5 isn't at all like a JavaSCript app. It's WebGL approach is basically to convert C++ and C# -> JavaScript via emScripten. It is a messy approach and it doesn't really take advantage of what the web offers -- because you still create your game in C#.

I think anyone that wants to target the web primary should use something that isn't based on a large emScripten blob as their engine. This will become more and more of a liability as time goes on.

But this does give Unity 5 a checkbox besides WebGL.
I figured 2500 words was quite enough for an introductory post. It definitely has happened, multiple times, but the rather mundane specifics will have to wait til a future post :)
Grosse Pointe doesn't count? IIRC it has a literal boundary with Detroit.
Also interesting to note in the context of the union type discussions below is the use of the `tag` keyword as opposed to the current `enum` for declaring tagged unions.
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Yes, I thought about surface streets as well but I ended up feeling like it would be too forced. A cut and cover operation seemed like the best of both worlds - and hell, have surface streets on top of it for normal thru traffic. People passing from south to north Seattle on the viaduct path would zoom through with 6 lanes and no exits. If they want to go downtown, they can debouche west of Pioneer square - spend some money making sure that's a possibility. Anyway! Even surface streets would have been better than this ridiculous tunnel.
Wow. Either we're missing some important context -- or it sounds like Uber's management was basically having a "No Wire Hangers" episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc

"What did we (forget to) tell you? Contractors may not use employee discount codes! Ever!"
it's just a comparison to give you a sense of what those numbers look like, order of magnitude comparisons. I didn't find it misleading, and didn't think it meant that you'd be able to run twitter on their db on one commodity server. But it's an order of magnitude estimate to give you a sense of the scale.
If Twisted Matrix isn't on Python 3 then neither am I.
I take the opposite approach: I sign my reviews and have ever since I was a grad student. It compels me to do a better job reviewing and often leads to further discussion and sometimes collaboration with the authors. Some people don't like what I have to say, but by and large, they respect it. For many topics that I review for, the authors will have a pretty good idea that I wrote the review unless I am intentionally vague. I would rather write clearly and directly and stand behind it. It is a professional risk that I don't think anyone should be compelled to take, but I think signing reviews is generally good for science.
Front end development for a back end engineer?
Hi Guys,
What path/books would you recommend to get started on frontend development? I've been doing infrastructure/backend/devops work for a while and am comfortable with several languages, including JavaScript (NodeJS). Are there any good books to get a crash course going or to help me get bootstrapped with front-end work?

Thanks.
I'm a permanent staff member and I do actually check "algebra" and integrals when reviewing papers. Especially "technique" papers, because after the initial paper, people tend to make black boxes, so if the initial errors aren't caught then they can propagate for quite some time...I view it as community service.
That's actually a terrible reason to fund armed groups. Al Qaeda's original mission was to replace the Saudi monarchy; there were many attacks in Saudi Arabia after 9/11, they weren't talked about much. So the Saudi monarchy is not interested in helping those kinds of groups.

Armed groups are often funded by wealthy individuals for a variety of reasons (Osama bin Laden being a famous example). Armed groups funded by the Saudi monarchy are in other countries, fighting the regime's enemies by proxy (eg. the Syrian and Iranian governments).
"Hertz" just means "per second". It can be anything per second, there are no units in the numerator. It just a measure of frequency, anything per second.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz

If anything you are counting is happening 14.4 million times a second, then that thing is happening at 14 megahertz. It's just a unit. If there are 14.4 million writes per second, then the writes are occuring at 14.4 mega hertz. That's just the definition of hertz.

Haha, Google agrees, check it out: https://www.google.com/?q=4+per+second#q=4+per+second
My favourite example of this has always been "Lock the Taskbar":
http://youtu.be/WEWG6kSYqlY
HHVM has long term support from Facebook
The Flickr is dead meme is overdone. At least according to this data https://www.flickr.com/photos/franckmichel/6855169886/ is hasn't really been growing but it still has lots of photos uploaded.

I haven't studied the types of cameras used for flickr photos recently but I suspect it tends to skew toward higher-end cameras while phone photos are more likely to end up elsewhere--of course, there are a lot of phone photos.
One could argue that papers are the disease. It was a good medium, but with today's communication technology, something better needs to arise. The need to "publish to exist" in academia has gotten to the point that it promotes sub-standard work and hinders advancement of knowledge.
I certainly wasn't trying to disparage either oil or healthcare tech. I grew up around oil and have huge respect for that industry. I think my overarching point was that startups in Houston aren't sexy, they don't get coverage on TechCrunch, but there are people building some solid, necessary products.

San Antonio is similar with companies like WellAware raising a $37 million series A for oil field monitoring tech.
I don't know that it isn't a hallucinogen, but I've always heard that it's not.

Although, I wouldn't consider an out-of-body experience a hallucination, because it's not adding anything to the scene. I think it's more of a perspective shift, based on what you already know about yourself and your surroundings. I wonder if it could be experienced by someone who has (hypothetically) never looked at themselves in a mirror, or someone who is blindfolded and moved into a different setting that they were not previously familiar with.

I've experienced plenty of hallucinations, and the out-of-body experience from K was dramatically different for me. If felt more like a dream state, rather than a mostly normal state where my eyes were playing tricks on me (LSD and the like).
Even if you add 1 unit of interference at each processing stage (and since rounding tends not to be malicious, you may well do better than that), you'd need 128 poorly-implemented processing stages for a 32-bit float to be reduced to mere 16-bit integer precision - but in practice, likely more.

When it comes to clipping or loss of data on the lower end, well, 32-bit floats have an 8 bit exponent (254 reasonable values); that means that the loudest full-precision unclipped signal is 765 dB (!) louder than the softest un-quantized signal. Even with mediocre centering, that's more than enough.

I don't think 64-bit audio is likely to be noticable, even for processing purposes, outside of really specialist kind of niches.