skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could love flux. I've tried it many times and want to use it but when I watch a movie at night it makes it look bad. If I turn on the new 'movie mode' my screen flickers quite a lot. I end up disabling it for the duration of the movie which kind of defeats the purpose of having it.
CPU time and electric energy :)
I use my Pebble Steel heavily and get 4 - 6 days of usage.
As discussed on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349182
The Most Common API Security Hacks of 2014
It looks like all it does is make colors look terrible, it doesn't actually change the brightness (intensity of the backlight) which is the actual problem. Shooting 200 watts of light right into your eyeballs is bad regardless of how yellow it is.
Yeah that might work for me as well. The only problem I would have with that is that it's more loosely tied to customer success - so there's a chance people won't get enough value out of the service. By just charging per reservation, they sidestep that possibility and perfectly extract more money out of those that get more value.
> "Page even went as far as suggesting that everyone give their money to a corporation that was trying to accomplish big stuff."

We call that investing.
Nice. Does it report total filesize reduction across the entire pull request?
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Theologins created the first universities, no?
Oops, of course, yes that's what I meant.
I've not read it, but the author's other books have been well-regarded for years:

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improve...
Do you miss the days where you had to manually adjust the choke while driving and decoke the engine every few thousand miles? I think we're going to look back on computers of the 90s and 2000s with a similar quaintness. More people care about a bullshit-free computing experience than an abstract concept of "freedom".
A for loop seems like a weird choice for "idiomatic underscore.js".

_.each(_.range(1, 100), function (i) {
console.log(
_.chain(["Fizz", "Buzz"])
.zip(_.map([3, 5], function(n) { return i%n;}))
.where({"1": 0})
.pluck(0)
.value().join("")
|| i);
});
Why Are Cloud Costs Such an Important Operational Metric?
Put another way: "animals are vessels for souls while waiting for reincarnation". It now applies to everything souls (possibly) reincarnate into, while still being true. I think that viewed in this way, it is obvious that the Buddhist concept of a soul is not human centric. The soul would be an entity trying to escape a cycle of reincarnation (and one of the potential candidates for reincarnation is a human). Aliens could fit right in there as just another vessel.
The neat detail (for me, anyway) is that a natural uranium reactor of this sort was possible in the distant past when U-235 was relatively more abundant:

"When the ore in Gabon was laid down some 2 billion years ago, the concentration of uranium-235 would have been about 4 per cent, more than enough for a self-sustaining nuclear reaction."
It doesn't show you that info directly in the PR (as each worker doesn't know about the rest of what's going on), but I do track stats for each repo and make some (questionably useful) graphs available through the app.

Here's an example screenshot: https://s3.amazonaws.com/snaps.michaelwarkentin.com/Shrinkra...
Maybe some plan tiers based on number of reservations processed? I can't see myself paying anywhere near $20 each on average though.
A bit more important context, by "light-emitting e-readers", they really mean iPads positioned at a fixed distance with a fixed brightness.

Feels like a rigged experiment to me, frankly. "I hypothesize that reading on an e-reader has a negative impact on your sleep, let's design a study which shows exactly that."
If I recall correctly (and this depends somewhat on the school of Buddhism), all sentient beings are thought to have the potential to attain enlightenment by virtue of possessing Buddha nature. People can be reborn as animals and animals can be reborn as people. As I recall there isn't really the concept of animals being "containers." Instead, they're sentient beings that could be people from past lives or could be animals progressing through the cycles of death and rebirth.
Am I the only one who thinks that this kind of design question is the new "how many gas stations are there in Manhattan?"

In both cases, the point isn't to get the right answer, but (allegedly) to see how the person thinks. With the estimation question, the trick is to make up some plausible-ish numbers and then multiply and/or add them to get a plausible-ish result. If someone's seen one of those before, they'll nail it for sure. If not, it's a crapshoot. In theory, you're measuring whether or not someone's able to reason well enough to spontaneously estimate something off the top of their head, but comparing the number of people who've seen those question before vs. the number of people who can answer that type of question without having ever seen it before, what you're really filtering for is people who have heard of or seen Fermi questions.

A while back, someone's interviewing experience got posted to HN and they mentioned that they got asked to design a URL shortening service maybe five times. They failed it the first couple of times and got progressively better each time. I doubt the interviewers meant to measure whether or not this person had done enough interviews to catch on to the style of questions that are currently trendy, but that's what they actually measured.

I think the most common objection to this is that the point of these questions is to drill down and figure out how the person really thinks, but in empirical studies on interviewing, they find the actual evaluation of chatty questions like this is heavily influenced by all kinds of biases. Techniques that have more clear-cut evaluation criteria, like work sample tests, and even completely non-technical interviews like behavioral interviews end up being better filters. Even then, the filtering isn't "good" (IIRC, the last time I read one of those studies, work sample tests score the best, and had a correlation of around .5 with an ideal filter), but it's better.

For these kinds of questions, even if you haven't seen the specific question before, there's all sorts of interview gamesmanship that helps tremendously. One thing in the blog post, not spending an hour on requirements gathering, is an example of that. In real life, if you're going to write an application from scratch, spending more than an hour on requirements gathering is perfectly reasonable for a lot of problem domains. But if you're playing the interview game, you know that you have, at most, an hour to sketch out the entire problem, so you have to cut the requirements gathering phase short (but not too short). The post mentions that this gets at real skills. That's true. It does. The problem is that everyone who's seen this kind of question five times is going to be good enough at the interview gamesmanship that they don't need to have good real skills to breeze through the "don't spend too long talking about requirements" sub-filter.
i'm not sure what it is, or why i would want it. or even what kind of optimising it does

i'm not complaining, just suggesting that you should work on your homepage to make that crystal clear, it'll help with people who might want to use it but don't know it yet
I am using the one from Fedora 21 which is definitely pre 1.0 and bridge support seems to work fine with KVM.

What issues have you had?
The most advanced, at least in terms of haptic based cryptography, is owned by Bank of America in the US. When reading through the USPTO, I didn't see anything revolutionary owned by JPMorgan.

To me the awesome news here is that while the leak happened, it's accountable 100%. That's very swift closure compared to many, many other data breaches of the past.
This is an ape, not a monkey.
There is also Redshift [0][1], which I've found easier and simpler to use/install on Linux (but I've researched f.lux long time ago, so things may be different now). I remember that at first I couldn't stand that everything was kind of orangeish, but after a while I honestly didn't notice it anymore. From my personal experience, I can tell that it really made my eyes suffer less from long sessions of copmuter use.

[0] http://jonls.dk/redshift/
[1] https://github.com/jonls/redshift
This is only our perception. Other creatures could have created their own mythology.
Literally no one is doing that.
I'm assuming this is file size optimization for website use? It would be nice to see a video demo of this before I hand over my GitHub credentials. :-) Call me Mr. Paranoia if you wish; I apologize. I'm sure there are best intentions here.

Nice idea to be honest. Wish I'd thought of it. :-)
If it doesn't, use qsort. C++ lets you do that.
This is from March...
maybe making an effort to pursue women workers (e.g send job opening notifications to organizations like SWE)
Interesting idea and quite clever way to integrate it with github. Very nice.

Does it cost money? (if so, how much? if not, would it cost in future?) Does it continuously monitor all images or can be launched as a one-off task? I think some details are still missing.
This is rather different for Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder. For BCC, see the numerous articles on my www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ page about content creation/SEO. It's fairly straightforward -- nobody else on the Internet wants to rank for [owls of east asia bingo cards], I do, I win by default.

For AR, the entirety of the magic incantation is a) getting a small handful of links to it and b) exact match domain name for [appointment reminder]. I'm literally embarrassed that this is the only thing I've done. I mean, I knew it would work, and it did work, but I have always felt like I should be doing substantially more and more complicated marketing.
At what point did the French navy isolate Britain? Britain blockaded French ports from 1803 onwards and the French were demolished in 1805.

As for being outnumbered, the British paid lots of other people to fight Napoleon, and they outnumbered him substantially. (It's a bit like the US claiming to be fighting long odds today.)
If std::sort pushes something out of icache, it's to make room for inlining swaps and compares. I'm skeptical that the other things bumped from icache should be kept hotter.
Highbrow – personal knowledge hacking tool
That's a statement I like the sound of, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by it. Care to elaborate?
Thanks for the feedback - definitely know that there's lots of work to do. Planning on adding a short 30 second video running from sign up through to viewing the pull request.. surprisingly difficult to do smoothly without a bunch of "um" and "ah".

More work on clarifying things will definitely be happening.. I've just put off showing this to people for too long already. :)
It's actually mentioned in the 4th paragraph that they do use a 2FA system.
I think it's fair to say that an iPad was not "designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals."

Ironically, its size and backlight make it very poor for that purpose, but its ubiquity makes it easier for the iPad to fill the role of the e-reader in addition to its multitude of other roles.
That wasn't one of the approved techniques.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/09/list-13-enhanced-interr...

Tell me which one of the approved techniques fits the definition of torture.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.

That being said, this whole conversation is academic: we haven't seen any evidence of life beyond Earth. If we do, we'll be able to have this conversation in a more useful way than the mere speculation that's available to us now.
Yeah but when we can't make the computers do what we want it is a problem.
Exactly - well, anywhere you have images which you want to make sure are as small as possible (without losing any quality). We've had some success running this against repos for iOS apps and reducing the size of the bundle.

Definitely planning on making a short demo video soon!
I'd think Chesterton would have had something to say about it but I'm having a hard time finding any references. I would posit that there's some relevant material in The Everlasting Man, though.
Do you realize that North Korea didn't develop by itself but was created by agreements between the US and the Soviet Union? The US even blocked democratic elections that would have avoided the split. North Korea is just as much a product of American intervention as South Korea. Perhaps it didn't have American guidance, but it was a deliberate creation of America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea
Napoleon complained of "Pitt's gold" that Britain sent to the continental states in the coalitions. But there were 7 coalitions in total - Napoleon kept defeating them on land, so Britain couldn't rely on them.

I'm just getting stuck into Robert's "Napoleon the Great", my Christmas present to myself!
Been following Algolia for a while.
Very impressed by their product. it really hits all the sweet spots - concise, does what it says and does it well, and very developer-friendly.
kudos
Fun side-project, kudos. Also for humans: https://imageoptim.com/
> And I’m furious. Because this is tech journalism at its sexist worst.

So if a CEO who just happens to be a woman is criticized, it can only be due to sexism?

That's quite a stretch.
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Exercising how? Physically? Mentally?
Even one small paragraph will help, something like, "When you click on the button, it will spin up a bunch of workers (1 for every 10 images). These will optimize the filesize of your images in parallel, and then push the changes back up to a branch and open a pull request for you to review.

There's no limit on the number of images - it can optimize hundreds quite quickly - 50 is the number of parallel workers you can have"

(i stole this off another of your comments and added filesize after optimise)
Sounds good to me! Keep up the happy hacking. :-)
Skill Swap: We'll teach you to code for some help with growth
I'm puzzled by the movie watching use case. When I watch a movie I always want to see it reproduced as accurately as possible, even at night.

I use it when working evenings or nights. Writing code or reading documentation is a much more soothing experience with it enabled for me.
They may be ultimately arbitrary, but until you come up with a final conclusive objective ethics, proven metaphysically beyond questioning, the rest of us have to make actual decisions today. The UN, as a collective body, defines various normative concepts, e.g., by defining "human rights." If you have issues with them, you join the proverbial mailing list and state your case.
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At the moment it's free for both public and private repos, but the plan is to follow the standard "Github tool" pricing (free for open source, paid for private / organization support). Happy to hear what people think they or their business would be willing to pay for a tool like this. :)

Right now it's a one-off task, but I've done some work on using Github webhooks to trigger image optimizations directly on a branch while you're working on it. Not sure when this will be available though.
And that's why I have more respect for Bill Gates than for Larry Page. Sorry.
Your concern is valid, especially since it includes measurements on a real project. But I'm not sure it's a major concern. One can (and you already do) use qsort when binary sizes become a concern.

This is an interesting optimization, but it's not suitable for a beginner-to-intermediate C++ audience, which is who Stroupstrup is addressing. The sensible default is to use std::sort.

If someone can (and it looks like you have) measure a benefit in doing something special, then she should have at it. If an entire project, again with measurements, can prove that std::sort shouldn't be its default sort algorithm, that's fine too.
Ruby: Lotus v0.2.0 is out – Code generators and a lot of new features
Compared to corporations, animals, and especially our great ape cousins should have as much or more rights.
This and the other things I mentioned in my response to that article ( https://medium.com/@deinspanjer/the-catgenie-doesnt-eliminat... ) could certainly turn some people off of the idea of using the machine entirely. That said, it all depends on your situation and how much you enjoy having cats and how much you hate regularly cleaning out the liter tray.
I'm no historian or geographer but I never thought of considering the north African cultures of the time as not European, since Mediterranean at a time seemed a uniting force and not a dividing one like now. Perhaps my European-centric vision talking.
You are talking about legal rights, not human rights.
Good IRC channels
I've been on the #hackernews channel but no one ever talks there. I'm looking for a some good IRC channel suggestions - channels like HN... Nerds like me that like hardware/software/new frameworks/LINUX!, etc etc. I've tried lurking on places like #archlinux, #ruby, etc. But most of the time its people asking "How do I get my laptop keyboard controls working in Arch?" etc. While that is all fine and good, I'd like to read some real discussion!
Can people at least stop saying that f.lux does nothing? I have used it for like a year now and it has profoundly improved the length of time I can look at my computer screen. Also once I started using it I didnt have the slight double vision you get from staring at bright blue light for long periods. The study may be shit, but f.lux is effective.
That's correct - I would like to learn that way. I was wondering if there is any code teaching resource that actually bridges the gap between the relatively basic and abstract content on e.g. Codecademy, and actual implementations 'in the wild'. Ideally something like the annotated Backbone documentation linked by bzalasky, but for a complete website (although the Backbone links are a great resource and I will be checking them out).

Your suggestion and the other commenters' are great - thanks!
> Does compile time really matter that much?

Yes. Which is why C++ needs modules. It's a big problem when people have to alter their designs to work around their tools (compilers, in this case).
I hate giving out write access to my repos to somebody I don't know. How about creating pull requests automatically instead?
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Napoleon didn't tear down the ancien regime, he was still a very junior officer when that happened. If anything he turned a Republic back into an Empire.
.Net has OrderedDictionary as well now.
The difference here is that the Monopoly question is asking the candidate to reason about how to solve the problem with a computer program. The author admits that there can be biases, but isn't that the case even with work sample tests? Someone could have a novel solution to a problem, and the reviewer could say "oh, that's too clever to maintain."
which led to the wonky carrots being sold cheaper to me, which I'm fine with.
The problem with this question is that if you've asked someone who's played Monopoly a lot, also the old DOS version, and the latest EA versions - he/she might stick to concrete implementations and go in details how it could be done (since it's out there).

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/895/Monopoly+Deluxe.html

http://www.textmodegames.com/download/monopoly.html

And here complete list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(video_games)

http://www.mobygames.com/search/quick?q=monopoly
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Thanks! I was not aware of codepen.io - looks very interesting and I will check it out further. Thanks for the other link as well.
Your comment is not factually true, it is a matter of opinion, and it's jerkish besides.

We don't need someone coming in to reel off facts in a jerkish fashion. Facts aren't that hard to find.
Does the fact that some humans are suffering negate the need to help animals that are suffering?
GPUs are increasingly being added to the same die as CPUs so them being present-by-default in the future is very likely.
>Descent is written in C++ (note the "//" comments) but it's a very C-styled C++, not even with classes

That is C. Lots of C compilers supported // comments, like watcom which they used. Notice the file extension says it is C. Notice it uses absolutely no C++ features at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon
Still using ASM in 1999. Go look at quake 3 which was when id started into C++. Notice how it is barely C++. It seems odd to "suspect I am mistaken" rather than look at the evidence which lines up exactly with what I said.
I think it's not a true comparison - freedom to modify your hardware doesn't have to imply that it's a hassle to use such hardware.

In other words: does "bullshit-free computing experience" (or let's just say usability) have to exclude freedom (i.e. your options to freely modify hardware/software you own/use)? I'm thinking about that for some time and I think that (as most of the things) it's not a objective thing but dependend on the philosophy of the producer/maker. And I'm sure that there are people who want to produce well designed things (be that a phone or an app) that can be modified by users/owners (here comes the topic of ownership in the light of digital world, but that's another thing).
I believe that is what justifier was alluding to as 'shamanic preconditions'.
It was the same thing that won the battle on land. Napoleon, a artillery officer by training, was ultimately defeated by Wellington's infantry firing fast enough to destroy the French columns. The allies at Waterloo were willing to stand and die against French artillery, the French infantry in column would not stand under the fire of the thin red line.
The first few chapters of The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup 4th edition go through a tour of C++11 that will quickly show you how to use modern C++ techniques. The rest of the book can be used as a reference to learn more about specific features.
Too far off in the distant future to tell.
What Did They Say? Google Including Song Lyrics in Search Results
The Death of Food Diversity
>By helping to remove the societal pressures that create the situation that less women apply

What pressure is that? How am I supposed to remove pressures that I can't see and whose existence is almost exclusively attested to by men who insist they know what my life is like better than I do?
Replay network requests on your tests: VCR.py
Yeah, our CatGenie used to service two cats, with the second one only occasionally using it as he vastly preferred being an indoor/outdoor cat and doing his business outside. That ended last Christmas day when he tried to race a car across a snowy street to get to the "next door's garden".

That solution might not work out well for everyone.
For a serious-minded treatment grounded in a Thomistic framework see Aquinas on Intelligent Extra-Terrestrial Life:

http://www.unav.es/cryf/extraterrestriallife.html
>maybe making an effort to pursue women workers

We have, repeatedly. We got a lot of interest in our events. We got no interest at all in actually applying for a job here.
Collections are generally not primitives unless they are implemented in the language as primitives.
Yeah, understood that this could be an issue for people. I'd like to at least be able to split out granting access to public / private repos - although write to public could still be an issue..

What do you mean by creating PRs automatically instead?
We know far too little to answer the question. If there are other beings in the universe, it is only about Adam and the human race that any information is given in the Bible. I suppose it is plausible to have other created beings(with free will) who never fell in to sin and thus didn't need to redeemed.
This article is from Feb 02, 2010... What happened since?
Thanks, looking forward to spending some time on this over Christmas break. :)