skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a workflow within an application that includes image processing in various ways (resize, artifact reduction, region of interest, facial placement, person recognition). I have been doing this using a queueing system previously and some custom workflow, the process is actually rather complicated in order to make it cost effective. I have a new solution using Lambda instead of my previous process. So far it's working quite well.
It's not technical features so much as an open governance.

More apropos is egcs, where the FSF eventually abandoned their gcc and blessed egcs (and their maintainers) as the official gcc.
24 days of Rust – racer
Remember the Yellow Pages[tm]? It was a free product that made a huge amount of money by charging businesses to be included/advertised. Google Maps is the new Yellow Pages. "Let your fingers do the walking."

Many GPSes have "live google" functionality. I have one that allowed me to search for the nearest gas station or restaurant while on the road. There is huge value to Google from that.
Ideas are nothing. Timing and execution is everything. Just because something might work in today's world (when it didn't before), doesn't make it a good idea.

Marc Andreesen: "1/A thing I believe that few believe: Almost all Silicon Valley startup ideas from qualified founders = great ideas. But some are too early."

The whole tweetstorm is a good read.

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/502476823402270720
It's related in the sense that the book draws a lot from the sequences, and they are mentioned in it (see http://hpmor.com/chapter/64, for example.)
> despite good intentions, V8 breaks node.js frequently -- and debugging those problems is a time-consuming and arduous task requiring a great deal of technical sophistication

Can you provide some examples? I'd love to see some debugging war stories.
I was skeptical at first on the concept of how much 1 hour difference can make but given the reputation and the outreach of this initiative now I believe that it can really contribute to a better world for programmers.
> Send directions to a mobile device.

Yeah. How is this not a thing?! I imagine a lot of people search for things on their desktop and then want to "push" it to their phone for navigation, but yet I have to re-enter the zip into the phone to do so.
Toshiba Launches the Shared Board (TT301)Business Tablet with 24-inch Display
Thank you for sharing your heart breaking story. I'm really happy you sought out the help you needed and deserved.

> The Army needs less psychiatrists and more psychologists
s/Army/North America

We are fixated on taking a pill to fix things. I thank big pharma, amongst other things, for this.
I'm an RPI alum also, having graduated well before Jackson became president. The few people I know who are still actively involved with RPI don't like her much, and I think the inflated salary is a big part of the reason why. (Of course, most of the people I knew at RPI were malcontents to begin with, so maybe that's not a representative sample...)
I vaguely remember something called Boo.com that tried to sell t-shirts.
From what I recall, they warmed their offices by burning money in gold fireplaces and insisted on traveling by elephant. Of course these days that kind of behaviour is considered showy and inefficient and so the investor's cash is now spent on social media campaigns instead, which is a much more direct method of achieving the same result.
Wow $50 - $125 a month? Sounds like a great way to set up for six months and just have a crash pad to explore Asia with for a while.

Any pointers on visas?
Does Deep Learning on this scale offer any obvious benefits for genomic analysis? Does it make sense to use data from the 1000 Genomes Project (or similar large-scale sequencing effort) and perform association studies?
That's not a lot of help when I'm driving down the freeway at 65 MpH. It needs to be within the app.
Internal agency procedure should be 100% transparent. "This is how we do things in this department" isn't a valid excuse for anything.
For the canvas prints, but the poster prints are a really good price. Most are less than half the price of FedEx Office and price competitive with the few poster sizes Costco does.
>> Investigations into his behaviour started after emails were found in which he agreed to hand over inside information in return for payment.

I'd be curious to see how exactly this occurred. The above blurb is the only mention of it in the entire (super short) article.

I'm curious for two reasons:

1) I work for a big tech company and have a technology consulting services company on the side. I'm curious to see how my outside emails may be eavesdropped upon.

2) Were those emails obtained legally? I can't imagine he was using his apple email to send the emails, does this mean they went through his personal email? If so, was this done legally?
I'd have to agree with you. As someone who works in print, I'm usually surprised by the prices the fulfillment services are offering. I actually am preparing a beta launch of a service to offer all of these same products (kind of creepy coincidence) because I do feel the market is lacking. We already have all of the equipment in place and running, along with fantastic discounts on bulk shipping, supplies, packaging etc. Our pricing will be about 25% of what is shown (give or take a small amount). If you are interested, I'd love to chat with you and see if we can work together.
Not listed in their philosophies, but consistently embodied in their work, is excellent documentation. They seem to treat good documentation as important as the rest of their concerns, and it's not unnoticed. Others should take note.
That simply isn't true. BitPay, just one bitcoin payment processor, is processing for over a million dollars worth of merchandise per day [1]. That's real people buying real stuff.

I suppose you could argue that several million dollars a day doesn't amount to a "huge role," but let's not pretend that it's just hype and mining.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-now-processing-1-million-bitc...
The royalty systems are created for paying the pop industry. The niches and the long tail gets nothing, because it's divided according to stakeholder size and by playlists from major radio & broadcasters, not a fair cross section.
Oh that's great news! I've been using Influx for about a year know and I'm really happy with it already. Hopefully the upcoming version 0.9 with BoltDB will even better than the current storage engines.
I'm also contributing to one of the drivers and most of the time it has been fun using it.

@Paul, are you still going to release a preview of 0.9 in december or is it delayed to celebrate the news? ;)
Ah yeah, I pulled PSD and PDF support right before launch, needed a little more work for those. So, that text was with regard to those file types. Thanks for catching that!
Almost all numbers contain the sequence 861523871623871623871263.
FYI: You can invalidate Public DNS's and OpenDNS's caches manually:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
http://cachecheck.opendns.com/
That looks awesome, and not just for games. Thanks for the recommendation!
Head Start Higher – Hyderabad Event(Hiring for Startups)
The Best Books I Read in 2014
I finished it but certainly can't claim to have understood everything in it. I read it on and off for several weeks so it definitely took some effort for me.

It's an incredibly dense book. There's nothing else out there quite like it. Penrose also has a pretty idiosyncratic method of presenting ideas. This means that sometimes you can't cross-reference his explanations even if you want to. He covers some exotic and nonstandard topics as well. I haven't personally seen his diagrammatic notation for tensor algebra anywhere else, for instance. And the book was my first and only exposure to hyperfunctions.

The "trick", honestly, is to already have some prior exposure to most of the tricky mathematical ideas, like differential forms and fiber bundles. I was by no means an expert on differential geometry but I'd been exposed to it a few times as an undergraduate.

The other "trick" is simply not to skip around. I was tempted at first to browse and read whatever topics interested me; this book is not structured that way. He constantly references backwards in the book, and even if you know the mathematical material some of his references can be confusing. This is probably the greatest weakness of the book. For instance, gauge connections aren't really covered fully in any single section of the book. They're discussed briefly in the chapter on fiber bundles, and then again in the chapter on electromagnetism, and then again I believe in the chapter on quantum mechanics, and none of these discussions is complete, but they are if taken together.
Almost all numbers contain all ten digits.
That driver was accused of raping a woman in a taxi he was driving in 2011, not convicted of. Holding an accusation against someone is a really shitty thing to do - innocent until proven guilty and all that.
>Oh for goodness sake. The point was, as an employer or potential partner, you want someone who will be effective in that role.

That's how I understood it too.

I was pointing to the inhumanity of treating people as mere means to an end ("not effective") especially in the case of pregnant women (which translates to women should either not get pregnant because its bad for business or be unemployable when they consider to do so).

You say it's just a "statistical argument". That's what I responded to, too: that's it's not OK - at least to me - to do mere statistical arguments when moral judgements are involved. Or rather, it's ok to do them as science, but this is not that, this is how actual managers and employers think and treat employees.
Any chance somebody could cite a source for the "10-100 times more productive" thing? Seems more like a myth to me.
I prefer a different promise of the the future.
This game is definitely not pay to win. In my opinion, the challenge level is perfect. With a bit of practice, you should be able to beat every level. Then, going back and 3 starring every level will take more skill and practice and maybe some light item usage (which you can earn via playing, since you only need to use them occasionally).

If someone is really that bad at the game that they can't even win without using a ton of items per level, then yes, it's pay to win. But if it wasn't pay to win, they would just be stuck and couldn't play at all.

The game isn't freemium either, and it's not designed to be pay to win (I'm a successful freemium game developer).

> Do these games have a large following?
It's widely considered to be one of the best tower defense games on iOS.
Imagine a game like minecraft, but you only get 10 blocks. Now you will compose an infinite number of saved games using anywhere from 1 to infinity number of blocks and each time you place a block in each saved game, you pick a block randomly.

Some saved game will be a single block, and others will be infinitely vast. Larger than our real universe, containing every block. It's not a stretch of the imagination to see that the majority of the games will contain at least 1 of each of the ten block types.
Thanks! I'm using a vendor for fulfillment. Ordered several test prints and loved their quality.

And I'm using Jcrop for cropping.

http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html
I agree with what you said with my limited experience. I hope it's anecdotal nature is good enough.

I worked in a company that went from doing software gigs in general to be full mobile gaming company. Before it was quite standard Agile style company: Scrum, code reviews, TDD, cross-functional teams (front end devs knew how servers works in general), focus on quality over quantity (one dev, rotated weekly or biweekly, focusing on fixing bugs), separate concerns.

After going full game-oriented, company hired couple of people from gaming industry into higher positions - tech leads, project managers etc. Over couple of months, people with many years of experience in those big companies dismantled what was standard for me, using combination of two arguments:

- big names don't do it, so it must be wrong
- it's a waste of time

Before I quit, there were no longer code reviews (waste of time), all testing was to be handled by QA team (waste of valuable dev time), ship with issues (waste of time to fix minor bugs when can add features), single system responsibility (one dev to write code for client server protocols, one dev for UI, one dev for assets etc, that's gow big names do it).

At one of the last talks with "industry veteran", when I mentioned those things - and how negative, in my opinion, those changes are, his response was "so you are saying that whole gaming industry dev practice is wrong". At that point I thought he's right and I sound full of crap, now I believe that yes, AAA companies are simply bad development practises shops.

My guess as to why is because AAA is very strongly driven by deadlines and marketing, where you cannot simply delay release (Christmas shopping spree is coming). This idea I saw articulated on HN first and I agree with it.
I've never played Kingdom Rush, et al, but I've read reviews of some games that were ported to the PC and the keyboard / mouse control were almost unplayable.

Or they highly recommend you play with a gamepad.
It is an April Fools' video, nothing to see here.
The map companies probably want to make the customers dependent on continuing to get map data from them, rather than just using their map data as a 'base data set' to building their own, competing map data...
Even within the state of Virginia, look at the difference between Fairfax County and Portsmouth. It's comforting to think that your peers are "beating" the national average, and I think that something we miss when we read these graphs. A reminder about both ends of an average is something we need more in life.
Is it just me, or does "being a citizen," feel increasingly archaic as time goes on? The idea is still deeply embedded in society and government, and passports still speak volumes (insofar that they're valued differently), but citizenship seems more of a formality. Some are very tied to their countries of origin, but there seems to be a growing trend to simply follow the wealth--whether it be money, standard of living, etc.

If holding additional citizenship becomes a burden, people simply drop it.
Podcast interviews with YC founders
The average vulnerability bug that you're likely to get having taken those precautions (no open ports to the internet, no live code running on untrusted webpages, etc ) easily sidesteps antivirus protection anyways.

I know, security is all about layers, but the usability and performance tradeoff gained for this paper tiger protection is not worth it, in my mind.
We're trying to get the 0.9.0 previews out as quickly as possible. We're trying to get something out for testing by the end of the year, but there's still a lot to do.

In software development there are lies, damn lies, and timeline estimates ;)
On the pronunciation of IIFE
So I was chatting with some coworkers at our company's annual "Holiday Party" this weekend. I was talking about some JavaScript problem I'd been working on and casually used the word "iffy" in the solution. They both snickered and asked me if I'd really just called it that. I was kind of shocked because I was sure that's what everyone else was calling it.

Enter this morning, I recall the events of the weekend, including that conversation. So I hop on Google and find that not only does the first sentence of Wikipedia's page on IIFEs support my claims, but so does Ben Alman's blog post about the matter (http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/).

So of course I message them both with my supporting evidence. Assured of my victory, laughing to myself, I figure: case closed. Well, if you've already looked at the Wiki page for IFFEs you may have noticed that one my coworkers has already gone and "corrected" the Wiki article (unless someone's un-corrected it already).

I can't help but laugh, but also feel kind of violated at the same time.

So... How far would you go to win an argument?
What a cliché.

EDIT (to elaborate): IMHO economy (like most things) is all about trade-offs. I know the states and bureaucracy are cumbersome, but they offload risk from individuals into society (which isn't always a bad thing).

I respect your views on deregulation (and share them to some extent), but your phrase is really a cliché and does not address my comment (since deregulation is orthogonal to labor competition).
Although Google Map constantly offering to re-route me onto a slower route is a little odd (e.g. "want to re-route? It will be a 5 minute longer trip!").

I think the point of this is to be reassuring: "Hmm... I wonder if it would be faster if I took a right here to get around this backup? Ah, Google says no."

That's increasingly important as the live traffic data gets better and it's worthwhile to use navigation to pick one of several routes you already know.

Google is still not perfect in this regard, but I'm certain my batting average at being able to "beat" its recommended route to a frequent destination has been trending down for some time.
Probably a better way to phrase that is almost all numbers contain all the digits.
Even when you remember to perform the awkward bind / Function.prototype.call / Function.prototype.apply / var self = this; you still may already be inside of another context where this is not correctly defined. So then your code LOOKS even more like it will work thanks to the cargo cult magic ceremonies you've performed perfectly, but in the wrong place. It's like going into the bathroom like you're supposed to, but then taking a shit on the floor right next to the toilet, then flushing.
Once we accept that culture rather than "stressors" drives behavior (as you've just done), it begs the question of whether poor Americans also have a different culture with less "family values". So your refutation seems to have failed.

I'm also not sure why you even believe it's wrong, given that your post lays the premises for a perfectly valid selection theory leading to poor people having fewer family values. The specific theory:

I gather from your posts that you lean towards family values. I lean towards promiscuity. How does this inform our behavior? You have a motive to earn a lot of money and take steady employment (finding and keeping a wife is expensive). I'm pretty happy with the assorted ladies of Pune University and can afford to turn down boring (possibly lucrative) projects. Between the two of us, the rich one has more family values than the poor one.

Why would this effect not happen to the population at large?
Are Lyst and Lyft friends?
I'm kind of conflicted about this article. As an American living abroad, it's very, very pertinent. On the other hand, it's basically political in nature so I'm going to flag it in any case, as I don't think it's fair to complain about political articles except for ones I really happen to like.

Edit: for those actually interested in doing something, this group looks to be legit: http://americansabroad.org/
In the way back times, when the Amiga was a hot machine, I hung out with folks who were games people and they were always trying get one more erg of power out of the machine because, as they put it, "Every cpu cycle spent on the game makes it that much better." Which was clearly true in the Amiga, and the PC/AT and Macintosh II, but for a modern machine with 4 cores and 8GB of memory and a GPU that fills a 1080p screen with triangles almost without thinking about it. It seems like 'bare metal' is suddenly a hindrance and 'moving to multiple platforms with minimal rewrite' would be the thing evolution would push into game studios. Where did that message get lost?
100% Agreed. They had already been bitten by cross platform issues in the past, and instead of deciding to address them and choose a cross platform game engine for their new game, they just ignored them.

Short story is, they chose their engine poorly, and are now making excuses. Very disingenuous blog post.
Updates to Facebook Search
> keeps closing during navigation and when re-opened it has "forgotten" what I was navigating to or previously searched for

Maybe the good guys at Google need to learn about caching.
“Mr. Windows” Bets Big on the Mesosphere Datacenter OS
whats the difference? they're hiring from the same pool.
"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel
The upcoming version will have support for raw byte values. Then you'll be able to query those out based on tagged metadata and the time.

Custom processing against raw byte values (and other custom functions) should come sometime next year.
Canvas gallery wraps are comparable to WHCC's premium gallery wraps. Though they don't have backing. PM me or email me if you're interested in ordering a test print: blake@printify.io!
Your suggestion - that women should carry guns - ignores the society that doesn't condemn rape; the courts that don't convict rapists; and the police who don't arrest rapists.

It ignores the fact that people have to be 21 to get a gun and gun ownership is not guaranteed.

You migt not think you're blaming the victims but here tou definitely are. You are saying that women who don't carry guns are to blame for being raped, and for other women being raped. Did you realise that when you wrote it? Is this an example of you "asking difficult questions"?
I had a canvas printed on a cruise boat, where the prices are ridiculously jacked up, for about 1/2 to 1/3 less than the prices quoted here.
You're right, but filing a patent is not the same as getting license plates for your car. Any time you're dealing with government action/inaction and its consequences, and it's worth it to hire a lawyer, it's probably also worth it to fire up the FOIA machine. I just got a CD-R from a state agency that I need to start perusing in my spare time, and I'm not even a lawyer. If patent attorneys really didn't know about this procedure (and let me say that I don't actually believe that), then they were providing their clients with very poor service.
Most prolific people are polarizing by nature. Look at PG
I and the other editors at ProgrammableWeb.com will gladly consider press releases or even less formal announcements in the way of emails or pointers to blog posts so long as the announcement is relative to our web/mobile developer-focused audience. We can't get to everything, but one of my growing areas of emphasis coming into 2015 is to develop better relationships with our various constituencies and "announcements" are one way we discover new contacts.

David
(editor in chief, PW)
She's not really the highest paid. Most of it was a 10 year grant that finally vested. If you amortize the money over the 10 years, she's not paid more than other presidents. If anything having the pay as a retention package was probably smart and a better deal for the university.
So, just to be clear, you're claiming that the result is false?
Disregarding the broader debate, I think most would agree that the filing process for Americans who willingly comply is itself egregious.

You can be making less than the exempted amount, and still be obligated to pay thousands simply to file a return.
They did not say that they are finished supporting the PC, just that there won't be a PC port of one specific game.
Facebook Search now lets you find specific posts, not just people
I tend to get Google Now notifications for directions I've searched for on my desktop.
I suspect that it's a trade of prestige for cash. If you're the president of any of those schools, the prestige follows you for life. You can always trade down on reputation for an increase in pay later. They will always have capable people willing to do the job, and universities are institutions where the head really doesn't have much power. (View it as the managing partner in a law firm, rather than the CEO of an industrial company. The managing partner works on the good graces of the governed. University presidents can only do what the tenured faculty allows.)