skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prevailing opinions in the past have been that it's fine to post links to your own material, provided it's relevant, and you don't swamp the site by posting lots in quick succession. If it's relevant, interesting, insightful, and/or useful, then it doesn't matter if you wrote it, or you found it somewhere else.

Try posting one and seeing if you get any response.
5.10 in production? Surely you're joking! 5.8 or bust.
Would be nice if you can add or link something like a registry with skeleton components / plugins / snippets that people create and publish.

It could be a github-wiki page, so that everybody can add their components.

It is always hard to find matching components.
Loggers Accidentally Cut Down World’s Oldest Tree in Amazon Forest
PETOOH – a fundamentally new programming language
I just read through your article, I loved it, Thanks for sharing. Here's the script he used if anyone else is curious: https://github.com/runn1ng/runn1ng.github.io/blob/master/pir...

You mentioned you had to switch computers multiple times, about how many times was that? Sorry on the off-topic...
Regret reading.
The other option is ribbon tweeters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeter#Ribbon_tweeter

They sound great. Sometimes too great.
Communication App Works without a Cellular Network
I personally found that moving from Perl to Python, I gained a lot, despite taking on a new language. Django was way better documented (for relative newcomers to web programming) than the Perl options I tried, and the Admin application got me up and running with something usable pretty quickly.
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If they willingly put them out there with the intent to facilitate crime, yes.
Google translate has huge amounts of training data. I'm not really sure what you are suggesting.
That's a really nice hack, I fear though that the next generation of "broken by design" consumer electronics devices will make use of much more sophisticated DRM technologies to make sure you only use them as intended by the manufacturer.

An example is the German startup Bonaverde (http://www.bonaverde.com), which manufactures a coffee machine that not only grinds but also roasts your coffee beans. To make sure that you use only their certified (and pricey) coffee beans they include an RFID chip with each package that you have to scan in order to start the brewing process. No tag, no coffee.

There is also a Gizmodo article that nicely sums up the Bonaverde story:

http://gizmodo.com/kickstarter-project-finds-exciting-new-wa...
This is a perfect example of why I would never do business in America unless I have deed pockets (millions at least) to pay for an army of lawyers.

Any random douche with a law degree can potentially close your shop if he doesn't like you.

I'm afraid to see what will be the fine that the Chinese restaurant will get.
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How can an office with 55 engineers cost $100 million a year?
This!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroPress

Costs about 20-30$ and makes great coffee
A simple yet effective solution to my coffee needs :)
I would be very, VERY sceptical - the moment he brought in evolution, he argued a theory based on (and nigh-identical to) group selectionism. Except group selectionism has been thoroughly debunked, to the point where he might as well have been spouting Lamarckism - read "The Selfish Gene", by Richard Dawkins.

Put simply, you can't just jump from looking at individual survival to looking at a group's survival, because any individual could just be a free-rider. More importantly, what's actually been observed is that group selectionism simply doesn't happen in the real world.

So while anything I said about the rest would be mere opinion, there is at least one multi-paragraph section of his argument that is a GIANT heap of shit.
What about Youtube? It streams huge amounts of illegal content everyday, and it's not just indexing it, but actually hosting the content. Frankly, there would be no YT as it is today if it wasn't hosting tones of music videos illegally.
JavaScript vs. the Web Stack
Not true for Perl6 at the moment. Perl6 is an entirely different language with its own implementation. At the moment it will be either on par or slower than Ruby. For some select numerical operations Perl6 is faster than Perl5. But for the rest it's between 100x and 10x slower than Perl5. This is what is being worked on now up to the official release of 6.0.0 though.
Forbes smokes out fake New Republic story on hackers (1998)
Seems to be dead already. No code commits since early August, /r/bit451 has tumbleweeds...
Qt 5.4 Released
> Programmers create software. Lawyers create law.

That's the reason I don't consider legislatures to be programmers.
TPB was by far the most popular pirate site in the world. It is for example the only torrent site I regularly see mentioned in the news. To know of any other site you have to be fairly into the pirate scene and follow relevant blogs and forums. Very few people bother to do that. The vast majority of people who just want to see Guardians of the Galaxy without paying probably only know about TPB.
great to see it coming back. for those that still something tad bigger (also feature wise), but not yet a bootstrap big, there's http://responsivebp.com/
I would love to see something simpler, think Kad DHT meets Bitcoin. I could share a hash with you, and from the command line you could simply type "fetch L9ThxnotKPzthJ7hu3bnORuT6xI" just as you'd use wget.

This would be a hash of an index file that describes the data, broken into small chunks. Now your client goes back onto the network and finds the cheapest way to retrieve all these chunks. You could set a default, "5 cents per GB" that you're willing to pay.

Servers could monitor the network and see what's being requested often, and pay to download (and re-serve) these chunks themselves in the hopes of profiting. When files become rare, servers could charge a premium.

Bitcoin is not a micropayment system, so paying per chunk would be expensive. You could pre-pay, say 1GB at a time at first, and slowly build up a trusted reputation where you only pay afterwards (by reusing a bitcoin address as your "identity" that you always send from). You'd work out a "contract" (signed with your sending address), give it to the server, and if you skip out on paying they could use it as proof of nonpayment which they would share with other servers. (Maybe all servers have a blacklist file they share for free). They could try to send you bogus data, but since you can verify by-the-chunk you wouldn't request more chunks from them once you've received a piece that fails a hash.

Once you've got this network in place, you could build any of the things the author in this link is describing. My hope, a Usenet 2.0 style protocol. The whole thing is very exciting. But first you need a simple, generic, data-for-bitcoin network.

Everything I've seen so far in the bitcoin/storage area (maidsafe, storj) sounds overly complicated and downright scammy. I don't want to back up my data to a p2p network. I don't want to have to purchase a new altcoin to use your network. I just want to, for starters, type "serve [file]" or "fetch [hash]" on the CLI and have it all magically work behind the scenes. First place I'd see this taking off is sharing porn - yay! From there, after time, it could become the backbone of "web 3.0".
I didn't say there was no value in it, just that real life will give you a lot more that reading about someone elses experience.
The WhatsApp news feed is more relevant and engaging than the Facebook one
Site of electrical engineering
If you're on Chrome just install this extension to disable the login prompt and allow you to view Quora without a login:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-quora-login-...
Fractals have no inherent dependency on microprocessors. Microprocessors can be used to generate fractals simply because they can execute the generation rules of a fractal, but you could could likewise generate them with anything which can perform a specific affine transformation, for instance a copy machine. An affine transformation is simply a linear transformation together with a translation, for fractals the linear transformation would typically be a scaling composed with a rotation. You could easily imagine how you might follow such a simple growth pattern, just iterate the same scale rotate and translate operation mechanically so the branches look like the whole thing.
Ooh, I don't remember frankly, it's almost 2 years ago now. I can admit it now - I run it on my school's network that has about 50 computers. I would say I switched computers about 10 times.

I am not sure if it was anti-spam or anti-ddos or just anti-scraper measure.
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Ha! Great reference, iirc the humans put a pusher plate under a battle ship (uss missouri?), launched into orbit and pummeled the aliens. I also recall something about fighter craft and 16 inch cannons. Great read.
Thirded. I feel like an idiot for it, but I do click and read the Quora digest links in my email. They've got an excellent recommendation system set up for that (SVD?).
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I didn't realize what a prize it was to buy a hardback edition in the mid-90s. Now I keep the e-book on my tablet for reference. Not that I have to refer to L-systems often.
What is good about namespaces? Well, it is ability to say something like

(require [blah-blah :as b])
(b/map f xxxx)

The key idea here is not to shadow map in global namespace, if there is one.

Of course, we could just name procedures like, say "list/map" and "this/that" and this is the simplest but clumsy solution.

The great idea from Erlang, is that we could export just few procedures from a module, and hide all the helper procedures, so they will not pollute the global namespace.

Together these ideas are good and, perhaps, worth implementing. But do not forget that just naming issues could easily be solved by having packages and "qualified imports" or "full path" naming like "list:map" or "list/map".
Good reply, thanks. In case you have a pet today, are you having any digital relation to your physical vet clinic? Such as a app with all communication, suggestions, pet data etc.
Not officially. But most people and the media tend to make that mistake. If you are talking about something someone did as president then it is OK to say something like "while in office President Clinton did...", but if you're talking about something Bill Clinton did after leaving office you should say "Mr Clinton" or "Former President Clinton"
I had forked you, but after reading this I decided to remove the git repository too.

I think reCaptcha is overused by services that should be publicly available for automation, specially in Brazil. I think this is a bad use case for reCaptcha or any other captcha system.

But I also understand that the majority of reCaptcha users are fighting against spam, and the public description of their javascript engine could really hurt the Internet.

Anyway... congrats for your work!
We went to very different colleges, I guess.
> Now let us go and ignite a firestorm, planting the technological seedlings of the future over a trail of obsolete overgrowth!

<Insert megalomaniacal moustache twirling here>
Iceland vs. Hedge Funds
Astro Pi: Your code in space
Great book BTW! Is the Kindle version new? I ask because I could swear I went looking for this a year or so ago before moving and ended up having my copy scanned and pulped so that I could take it with me.
Sorry - "I am NOT in a position to judge"!
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API Testing Myths
Apparently syncing file changes between the VM and host via rsync leads to a lot better performance than using NFS. Worth a shot at least:

https://www.vagrantup.com/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-5-r...
http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/nfs-rsync-a...
Front end optimization experience
If you pay or donate for the content you like, I've got no beef against you.

Personally, I do pay Google for using Google Apps and I'm not getting ads in Gmail or the other services part of their Apps.

Indeed, I still get ads in their Search, but that doesn't bother me personally and AdBlock Plus from what I've seen is allowing those ads in their default configuration. YouTube is the one Google service that greatly annoys me, which is the reason for why I've searched for alternatives and so I eventually ended up using Vimeo, SoundCloud and Google Music - US citizens have many more alternatives available, unfortunately for me I'm being blocked because I'm not from the US.
Taxis in the SF bay area have always been a joke. The few times I've called them they often say they have no drivers in the area, or they claim they will send the driver but he never shows up, or they send one and it takes an hour. Hailing one in the street like NYC has never worked for me. There is no penalty to a driver if he picks someone up on the street before he gets to you, so they usually don't get to you. In Uber their rating would drop and eventually they would get fired. Not to mention Uber lets you order the cab without a call detecting your location, watch the car come to you on the map, communicate with the driver the entire time, and handles all the payment. So the innovation over taxis is enormous.
Indian Govt. crackdown on illegal taxi services in the wake of the Uber incident
This article doesn't get the point. It's old, doesn't change, conservative and outdated? Stop using it.

The big problem is that TPB was taken offline not because it was buggy but because helped people copyrighted content.
The article mentions KLF. What is that?
They use the scammmiest of the scammmiest ad networks that install adware and malware, open shitty pop ups and pop unders and so on.
Warning I probably don't know what the hell I'm talking about. However my gut instinct is that self similarity mean shorter code (dna) shorter dna (protein chains) take less energy to copy thus gives you a survival advantage (often survival for plants means getting set up and leaves out fast). An experiment was done a while back where they took a bacterium and 'unrolled the code' of the dna (seems there are deduplication routines in nature). When the result was grown in a lab it behaved just like the original but didnt grow as large.
You wont get many opinions of people's experience of Perl6 from Hacker News. Just a lot of rage and assumptions it's somehow just like Perl5, which it's not. There are only a few of us (tens, maybe a hundred very quiet people) actually writing it daily. With no official "released" 6.0.0 version it's not supported that well by Linux distros yet either. Like if you install Rakudo on Debian stable right now it would be about two years out of date iirc. In the last two years a custom Perl6 VM was written with a JIT compiler and tonnes of concurrency stuff was added! You can however easily install it yourself and keep up to date with rakudobrew http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/day-2-rakudobrew...

My $0.02 is you'd mostly want to learn Perl6 if you were after something like Ruby but perhaps with more room to express yourself and form a community and build new technologies. At least I really love the language and find it very expressive and intuitive to use and it has a lot of features useful for doing Bioinformatics built in (something I'm going to add to the P6 advent calendar on the 15th Dec). The extra level of detail ten years of design puts into a language like all the funky features working together and being consistent helps a lot. So much of the cooler expressive/functional stuff in Python feels out of place like lambda and list comprehensions. Maybe I'm wrong but I wouldn't write anything /that/ complicated or important using Python lambda or list comprehensions. They just don't play that well with the surrounding code you will have to write in a different style. I can't attest to Ruby since I don't know it well. I felt it was quite close to Perl and I'd be better placed learning Python instead, especially for a job writing code that wasn't for the web.
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I have the same Vagrant setup you do (nfs-shared app directory, everything else inside the vagrant box), and while I see overheads of 1.5-2x, I've never seen anything like the 60x overheads you're describing here. Something seems off in your configuration. Perhaps you're memory-limited and the vagrant box is thrashing your swap file every time you make a request?
Yes, thank you. Breast and thyroid cancer studies on Hiroshima survivors show HIGHER rates.
This was a blunder on my part. I've removed the paragraph on Hiroshima.
Ads are often ugly, distracting and irrelevant (in the case of piratebay often a combination of online casinos, "adult facebook" and browser games). I hope in the future most purchase decisions are made by an intelligent personal assistant for us, based on various constraints set by the owner, that should at least eliminate ads for laundry detergents, toilet paper and food.
Show HN: Crank up geeshenk's Schenkomat to find Christmas gift ideas
A band that once burnt £1,000,000 in cash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qui...

It was pretty well their entire earnings from the band.
I just finished grad school (biosciences). This seems like sound advice to me. I guess things haven't changed much since 1994. Which is a bit of a shame..
Excellent points, very well stated. I could not agree more.
Ninja was cool the first time it was used, not it's a stupid word telling : "you won't get paid much but you'll work on a mac book pro"
Can't you just save an empty bag, and then fill it with any beans you want?

My general thoughts about companies trying to implement DRM is that there's always some stupidly simple hack around it. Like this Keurig hack. I guarantee that within a week or two of this coming out someone will just find another way to hack around the DRM.

Better mousetraps just breed cleverer mice.
84% of the WordPress site can be hacked: What’s Next?
or breadboarding a DAC-to-parallel-port "sound card" because the piezo buzzer just didn't cut it
I am aware of that statement. I still stand by my statement, but let my clarify a bit, I meant that its not just percieved increase - it is really there. Looking at a sine wave through a frequency analyzer, without dithering, it's hard to tell what the dynamic range is. You can turn down the amplitude until you can no longer see it on the analyzer. Apply dithering at that level and you can clearly see the signal again. You do not need to use your ears.
My favourite bit is: "Take 16 bytes of random data. No, wait, make that 15 bytes. Then hash it to four bytes to really squeeze the entropy in. Then seed."

Good article
Collaboration in the Workplace: Friend or Foe?
Nice project :) (I just lint job spec and the analysis seems right)
Enzo the Baker turns two (or why this blog is the
You made some really great points, but if Geoffrey Hintons's list of
"relevant literature" has nothing newer than 2007, then, it seems nobody
has solved the continuous update problem for fast moving fields. ;)

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/deeprefs.html

A bit more seriously, the Stanford UFLDL wiki seems to be intended more
as an initial tutorial. It's related their CS classes so it provides
recommended reading on tutorial-relevant and class-relevant works. It
may lack some of the more recent advancements, but it still seems to be
an active work in progress, and it's received about 1000 edits in the
last 90 days.

http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Special:Acti...

It's Stanford and it's class/research related, so I'm not sure if the
wiki is open to public editing (I haven't tried yet). If you have
ideas/links to improve the reading list, I'm sure they'd appreciate
either feedback or wiki edits.

I think I managed to track down the Krizhevsky paper you mentioned?

http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0534.pdf

Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I. and Hinton, G. E.
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
NIPS 2012: Neural Information Processing Systems, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Thanks for mentioning it.

As a useful resource, the Stanford UFLDL reading list still seemed worth
posting to HN. There are just mountains of AI/ML/DL/NN/... papers,
projects and related resources, so picking out interesting and useful
things for HN can be really difficult.
For the record, I'm just a non English speaker and it's really painful for us strangers to see things like this after so many years spent learning "academic" English :)

Kudos on leaving your statement in full transparency anyway :)
a band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF

they retired at the top of their fame, and burned stuff both before (their own albums) and after (a million pounds).
If you apply for a architect / VP level position, they're not going to reject you and then suggest you work for them as a staff software engineer or something (which many people would find insulting). Zuckerberg's statement about hiring talented engineers is perfectly consistent the norm in hiring at any company.
Because NSA is not the king of Sweden? Who ran pirate bay was never a secret, you just read the blog of a former spokesperson of the site. They operated by dodging swedish law, piratebay is still not illegal here. Goverment countered by prosecuting two(?) of the founders for other, unrelated stuff (hacker stuff if memory serves me right).

Hope that explains some of it and excuse the bumpy-train-ride-spelling.
> How does a senior architect get to that level and have absolutely no development experience.

Depends on what the "senior architect" role requires.

Quite often it means making boxes and slides in large enterprisy organizations.
Building Blocks for a Successful Business
You're right by the way. But I believe that my inference, based on their resume, is the correct one. Nobody takes a dip from VP of Engineering at Yahoo to a standard software engineering position.
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Suggestion noted, but please understand that we've done (and still are doing) our fair bit of experiments on what works for whom.

For example, when we want to tell HN users of Postatic, the most effective way we found was to tell them that they can create their own HN site.

I guess for Reddit users, it would be better to target it as "create your own Reddit".

"Community" is good, but there are a plenty of sites that use that word and we also need to stand our.

So right now, we're displaying what's been working the best according to the data - surely it'll evolve.
Interesting article. I'm writing a toy trace compiler at the moment and implementing side exits brings up many of the same, rather irritating problems.