skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A former client was on Shark Tank. The pitch in-studio was 2.5 hours and of course only 7 minutes was aired. The interest it generated (in terms of downloads) was enormous. It nearly filled the Heroku database during the show - which we quickly upgraded after it aired.

A good metaphor for the negotiations before and after airing and the actual on-air pitch is an iceberg. 5% is visible on-air and 95% of the interactions with the sharks and their team is never public. What actually happens in terms of an investment may never be made public - from promise to make a deal that falls apart to an on-air rejection that is later turned around into an investment.
3D Paris apartment shows what Unreal Engine 4 can do
To Ƀ or Not to ฿ – Down the Rabbit Hole
The average citizen doesn't care as long as they get their bread and circuses.
FYI, St. Thomas More, who coined the term Utopia, seems to have been intentionally ambiguous about whether the term was a transliteration of eutopia (good place) and outopia (no place).
The argument of the article is that Netflix's dataset doesn't really help them make decisions like what the content of their next documentary should be. It argues that what happens instead is that Netflix's programming honcho, Ted Sarandos, picks projects based on the person who's putting them together, looking for creators with a solid creative track record and an existing cult following:

> I began to sense that their biggest bets always seemed ultimately driven by faith in a particular cult creator, like David Fincher (“House of Cards”), Jenji Leslie Kohan (“Orange is the New Black”), Ricky Gervais (“Derek”), John Fusco (“Marco Polo”), or Mitchell Hurwitz (“Arrested Development”)... I do think that there is a sophisticated algorithm at work here—but I think his name is Ted Sarandos.

So take the case of the Nina Simone doc. It was directed by Liz Garbus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Garbus), whose previous films have been Sundance- and Oscar- fare for a few years now. So it could just be that Sarandos looked at her track record and decided that Garbus was an up-and-coming talent, and that mattered more than the specific content of whatever her next project was going to be. He was just betting that a Liz Garbus documentary was going to be great, no matter what story it told.
The UX Reader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8960995
I'm trying to reframe what Netflix does as something that is already done - we just tend to use different names for it in those other domains. What's new is that we're doing this old thing - processing massive amounts of data, extracting the relevant facts, synthesizing those facts into a coherent story, and presenting that story to decision makers - in new contexts.

In the Netflix context, what is mostly called "data" is called "intelligence" in, say, government decision making.
It's about more than "I can save the most of my time by arbitrarily interrupting people because my talking is faster than my typing".
That's what I'm getting as an opening screen: "The application Pacifica (process com.pacificalabs.pacifica) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
Because if you give someone a URL to C code and they run it, you have effective gotten them to remotely execute your code ;-)
Monetary cost isn't the only cost.
Business Plan for Growth
Monetary cost isn't the only cost.

Also, humans are prone to error and many other inefficiencies. They get sick, quit, fluctuate in performance, require attention and care... you say "cost" like it's some easily calculable number, but it's a whole boatload of intangibles that just... disappear if the computer does it.
If you think React seems interesting but JSX is a turn-off (or in my team's case a total non-starter), you might want to check out Ractive, http://www.ractivejs.org/ .

It uses some of the same ideas like a virtual DOM. Here's a writeup by Ractive's developer where he compares it to React: http://blog.ractivejs.org/posts/whats-the-difference-between...
Funny how he brings up the Bryan Cantrill comment. Many years later, that same guy threatened to fire a guy he didn't even employ for reverting a gender neutral pronoun.
Surely, the Apple employees use Apple's property when creating value. The employees -- presumably -- don't own the desk they sit at, the computer they use at work, the building in which they work. And they don't pay the bill from TSMC when wafers need to be produced -- Apple pays for all these things. It is able to do this, in part, because it has hoarded cash.

I'm sure you wouldn't claim that it's possible for the employees to create the value without the assets owned by Apple. Does the Apple employees have the savings to pay the $100M bill from TSMC, when a new generation of SOCs need to be produced? They would certainly all have to work from home, because they wouldn't have a building they could all sit in, without using the property of Apple.

Seems to me like Apple and its employees are in a symbiotic relationship, that benefits both parties.
I like that idea too (I'm the developer), but it does mean that string data would be an enormous number of folders
Drive such a thing thru Amazon Turk perhaps?

Might just be the "killer app" for Turks: get paid to watch movies!
Note that vote rigging doesn't work.
Please no. Pictures of text are such a bad idea.
Artificial general intelligence capable of recursive self-improvement.

That's really the concept which underlies the heart of the debate, and how people can so casually declare it hype and not give it serious consideration is beyond me.

It almost seems self-evident to me that such a thing could be incredibly dangerous, the only question then being how close we are to developing it.

>If you think a new life form will soon exist, the bad news is you probably don't know jack shit about AI research, ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2mh8tn/elon_mus...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: ideas cannot be "stolen", because an idea expressed is an idea shared. The moment Steve Jobs announced the iPhone is the moment Apple freely gave the world the idea of a keyboard-less and stylus-less touchscreen smartphone. Google didn't have to break into a vault to learn about this.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/give_it_to_me.gif
Unfortunately, it is not free. You have to have cable to watch it in most cases.
Show HN: A React 0.13 isomorphic flux example
Wow badass. Hopefully this is still up and running when my current noncompete expires.
No no, this was my idea that I was planning to do someday, as soon as I got rich.

Just kidding, great stuff. I hope this lasts and grows.
My pre-C solution was Go. It bootstrapped pretty fast, but I actually ran into a problem where my large embedded data structures (hash table, bloom filter, etc) took a very long time (hundreds of milliseconds?) to initialize. I guess it has a startup cost for embedded data. Go also has a slightly larger binary size, which may or may not have affected startup time on the CTF worker boxes.
Long-awaited Bloomberg Business launches
In that article, Murphy calculates the difficulty of doing it with lead acid batteries which seems more of a strawman than a serious attempt to estimate requirements for a storage technology to match up to renewable power sources.
I was impressed by https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/
Really? This isn't Reddit.
Great idea! How are you about startup founders visiting? Coz I just applied for a couple of days next week!

(ps: Anyone else going to the SaaStr Annual in San Francisco on Feb 5? I'm stupidly excited about it! I live in Minnesota and we don't get cool stuff like that here.)
Alex Pankratov, the developer of Hamachi, discusses his approach here: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi
Bing Maps is in the main Bing app on iOS, rather than a separate app.
Announcing React Native
Thank you, that example makes sense. You see, as an experienced developer I would never think to intertwine my logic into my templates, so it's hard to envision what a junior developer might do.
I've previously used it to "queue up" asynchronous poll-style AJAX in controllers.

e.g.

flash[:pollers] ||= []
flash[:pollers].push({:url => {:action => "foo", :controller => "bar", :id => 42}, :interval => 1000, :callbacks => "whatever"})

This gets consumed by a helper method in the head of the my templates, which, if any pollers are present, does jQuery.ready() and then fires them.

As to why I'd rather the controller taking care of this than the view, that's largely a personal preference thing.

A frequent pattern:

@lots_of_models = Model.find(...)
@lots_of_models.each do |model|
unless model.some_expensive_calculation_is_cached?
model.send_later :some_expensive_calculation #queue workers do this out of process
add_poller("model-#{model.id}", :action => "expensive_calculation_results") #convenience method with intelligent defaults
end
>Do you think Amazon gets raided?

Did you hear of Lavabit?

Do you know they can force Amazon to handle access to all your running instances and you simple will never be informed?
My Essential .NET Developer Toolkit
The big issue with forced vaccination is overlooking toxic ingredients in the vaccines themselves, which big pharma has an incentive to use as adjuvants because they are cheap, cheap, cheap, and their lobbyists have granted them immunity from being sued. Stuff like mercury, aluminum, etc. Show us where the mercury free, aluminum free vaccines are and the issue goes away. Everything else is just politico-theater propaganda.

That and wtf's the use of flu shots if they give you last year's influenza strain which will do nothing for this year's?
These are special circumstances.
Nearly: We worked with one particular coder from Virtus, who was a (very good) NL person, who worked with us to implement the original engine that we and she designed (I've still got my original design docs - at least the ones that weren't written on Groucho Club table cloths…). What made Spookitalk (itself about the fourth title it had) so effective was that we combined the outlook of engineers (who always try to disambiguate) and writers (who play with the ambiguity and 'noise' of natural language) to create an engine that was explicitly focussed on delivering the illusion of intelligence by whatever means - a large proportion of the later work was focussed on just that - handling and interpreting the contextual and colloquial 'noise' around a conversation and using it to deliver appropriately smartarse responses. In that regard, Spookitalk was the spiritual successor to ELIZA.
Ha! Just contact me. We'll make an exception for you. :P
What about the actual url...

`/department-justice-80-percent-tor-traffic-child-porn`
Is there more information somewhere? Or just a tweet?
What a weird strawman article. Did the author really think Netflix produced television shows in the same way that Siri suggests gas stations? Any blockbuster-finding algorithm (or any other component of this decision) is going to have false positives and require human intervention.
A great deal of the data Facebook has must be derived outside of things you have posted yourself. They build and hold a lot of data you do not explicitly consent to share.

Facebook really wants your activity to be based on your real identity, and making associations between you and other people.

Facebook shouldn't be used as a tool for organizing political rallies if there is concern for privacy. Connecting to FB via Tor does not isolate you from much.
Thanks for the correction. I've made that the title, but if anyone has a better suggestion we can change it again.

(The reason for not using the original is that we don't want clickbait tropes like "The Secret Celebrity Foo That Bars Have Been Bazzing For A Bazillion Years". A good HN title is accurate and neutral.)
Mesos-DNS has nothing to do with data persistance on mesos. It is just another implementation of cluster service locator.
Its on ABC. You don't need to pay for cable for access to ABC.
You should make a Couchsurfing profile too.
We might invite some founders, room permitting :)
That Forbes article was also written when Apple's market cap was "only" $483B. As of today it is $680B.
I'm Noah, Brooke's partner in crime at Staffup Weekend. To me this has always been an emperor-has-no-clothes situation. People seem to think in terms of "hackathons" whereas we more simply think of things as "doing the work." Since when did resumes and brain teasing interview questions and all this nonsense become MORE obvious and sensical than DOING THE WORK. Let people DO THE WORK that needs to be done and you can save dozens of person-hours, lots of frustration and heartache AND get a better hire than the "traditional" method.
Introducing the Revamped Flurry Developer Documentation Site
https://twitter.com/fbOpenSource/status/560506714382802945

Looks like it's not being open sourced for a while, but apparently the attendees are going to have some hands on tomorrow.

2015 seems like it's shaping up to be the year of React!
GitHub Tries to Grow Up
I am also curious what are objective reasons to use OS X (apple laptops) over Linux for code developers?

For code developers Linux is better, it's free and open, all sorts of trendy things more convenient to test and use on Linux, there is everything could be configured (and you will have to configure everything :)) Even for not code developers but picture/3d it's better to use laptops with pro graphic cards (FirePro/Quadro) than apple laptops. Also OS X is proprietary, so if you are conspiracy theorists it's probably not the best choice.

Currently I'm using Dell E7440 (FHD IPS screen (no touch) and SSD is essential) and Arch linux + Gnome shell (there is also win 8 as second system, just for case), and I'm happy so far.
I'm sure it can be golfed further with the illegal opcodes that I am not familiar with.

Possible. But not necessarily. Long time ago I reviewed the many illegal opcodes of the 6502. Many are simply doing nothing and most of them are not useful at all. The few that are useful give little benefits, because they can be used in very very few situations. I finally did not use them, since I don't wanted to break compatibility with 6502 successors (which where very few, finally).
Pivotal People–Michael Coté on Joining Pivotal and Building Better Software
How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors
Whatsapp desktop client
This old chestnut, huh.

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/7/7344963/scientists-scammed-at-l...

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37798/...

And so on and so on.
As a screenhero and Slack user I'm excited to be able to experience one experience across both products. They're both best in class in my opinion.
Drone [0] seems what you would like to use. Define all your containers as service containers and create/define steps to test how those service containers co-operate.
Of course, you must test each service container individually in separate drone builds.

[0]: https://github.com/drone/drone
I had to implement buffered IO due to syscall overhead (the CTF solution called fgetc() and relied on libc's buffering for speed). My first working non-buffered test took on the order of seconds and made several thousand syscalls. When I mentioned optimistically buffered IO, that was "just flush on EOF, don't even look for newlines". Reducing the syscall count definitely helped.
Ruby – 3 Ways to Monkey-patch Without Making a Mess
Etcd 2.0 Release – First Major Stable Release
This is a little off topic, but how is the battery life on your Macbook Pro when running Ubuntu? Last I looked Ubuntu ran fine, it just cut your battery life in half (actually both Windows and Ubuntu cut your battery life in half, when ran natively/bootcamp, and not via VM).

So has that improved at all. It certainly hasn't on Windows on a Mac (the Apple bootcamp drivers are really unoptimised).
I think it does need to scale.

What happens when after a bus event? Someone else has to watch every film in existence? It is not enough to just watch the new films - you have to have a memory of all other films in order to make that association.
Screenhero reps, do you have a gameplan for being able to "invite" users for one time sessions? This is what I often need Screenhero for.
Ask HN: Safe languages available on all major platforms?
I'm thinking about an application that I'd like to deploy on all major platforms (OSX, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android). My go to language is C++, but I'd like to use a type- and memory-safe language (goodbye, buffer overflows). What are my realistic options? Rust, golang and ocaml come to mind, although it doesn't look like there is official ocaml support for iOS/Android. Any other good options I'm overlooking? Any experience you can share? How is integration with native libraries and services (e.g., UI, networking, file system)? Thanks!
Really? I was pretty sure the "Je suis Charlie" slogan was meant to indicate support for Charlie Hebdo, not for the people who wanted to kill them.
I keep hearing a categorical "you can't do P2P on mobile." I intend to fling myself at this problem like a drunk seagull soon, so I'll blog on it. I think it's possible, but with a number of special considerations around wakeup-quantization and general power management, some protocol augmentation, and a high tolerance for nodes appearing and disappearing.

Primer concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_coalescing
Muslim here. I do think the people who draw pictures of Muhammad do so fully knowing that it will offend Muslims. The only message they're trying to get across is "we don't like you".
Taking AWS S3 to the limit
Symbol GC in Ruby 2.2
Thanks. I feel really good about the "solve their problem" part. The problem I'm trying to solve is engineers working on large, complex software systems who can't fix things because they don't have access to the information needed to fix it - it might be locked away in silos, or in opaque enterprise tools, or simply lost (you applied that patch - do you know what it looked like before you applied it?). I've worked in that field for 20+ years, and talked to literally hundreds of engineers about it. When I start hearing phrases like "holy grail", I'm pretty sure I'm solving a real problem. :)

The trick, though, is the subtleties. The transition from "this is a great idea" to "eating my own dogfood" taught me tremendous things about the product. The transition to beta will teach me a lot more. What I want to do is make sure the data is as useful, well-structured, and accessible as possible. I don't think I can do that without real-world testing, but what testing approach is best?

This is where Slack excels. Lots of companies make IM clients. Why is Slack so far-and-away better? What did they do so right?
Be careful, I think you get alotted free machine hours. This means that if you use multiple micro instances you will spend those free hours more quickly.
The Venn diagram of young gamers and the entire population is pretty substantial, so I'd be cautious about overvaluing this correlation.
FCC warns against Wi-Fi hotspot blocking and hints at further crackdowns
This would be amazing. I use Screenhero all the time for work, but every so often I need to help my mother with something on her computer and there is no free solution available that is better than Screenhero.

I'm just not going to pay for another subscription just to help my mother out with tech support once a quarter...
Confirmed: Starbucks knows the next hot neighborhood before everybody else does
Scala-Flavored Assortment of Play Injection Prevention Techniques, Part I
So... the project is infringing on Comcast's ownership of shitty networks?
I don't watch much TV so I had to check wikipedia for the show. The reruns are exclusive to CNBC, but the prime time show is on ABC.
This is great for partial seizures but not really applicable for anyone with generalized epilepsy (where the origin of abnormal electrical activity in the brain cannot be pinpointed).

Tech is moving along nicely for the latter type of epilepsy though - for anyone interested, the state of the art is the "Embrace wristband" which uses electrical activity across the skin to alert before a seizure occurs. It can pair with mobile devices to send SMS alerts to friends and family - very cool:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26599-smartwatch-detec...
Exploding Kittens is the most backed Kickstarter project ever
While I appreciate your concern about premature optimization, having 2D arrays as fundamental data structures in this kind of thing is so common that it just seems bizarre that you even call it an optimization. The resulting code is just as simple and natural, after all.

Perhaps we need a countering meme about gratuitous de-optimization...
I don't need this, I have comcast.

$ sudo ping -i 0.02 8.8.8.8
[...]
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=578 ttl=53 time=15.5 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
579 packets transmitted, 364 received, 37% packet loss, time 13854ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.009/19.308/50.884/6.152 ms, pipe 2
Yep, I agree. They're faster and lighter, but starting with the 3, they're all pretty good at what they're used for. Until they make some major change, people will keep them around for a while.
We weren't: Douglas was a seriously important catalyst for the company, but so much of the work we did (some of which carries on now) was the result of the coming together of a fabulously talented and deeply eccentric team of people who complemented, contradicted and inspired each other. We had some bad luck along the way (and created a deal of it ourselves) but the final asteroid was the fact that we were weeks away from a major investment round with an NY investment bank when the dotcom market imploded - to oversimplify a very long story, they then walked away and landed us with the bill for their lawyers and their gold-plated private jets. What goes arounds, comes around: they went down spectacularly in 2008, to general rejoicing.
In K you could do:

{x}{`0:"/\\"1?2;x}/1

{x}{...;x}/1 is essentially while(true) {}.

`0: writes values to standard output.

"/\\"1?2 indexes into a two element array given the result of selecting one random result from the numbers up to but excluding 2.
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050525231654...

> In 1990 I became Executive Director of the Sun User Group. That December I headed for San Jose for SUG's Eighth Annual Conference and Exhibit. ... The second group was irate because Sun had "unbundled" its software. That is, rather than getting all of Sun's developer tools together, they had to be purchased separately. And of course, they cost more this way.

> But wait. Why purchase the C compiler from Sun, when you could get a better one for less money from the FSF? That's what a large number of Sun's users asked themselves. And the net result was a real jump in CD sales at the FSF. (Several years later, when I organized the Freely Redistributable Software Conference [February 1996] and then was Vice President of the FSF, I realized more fully just how much Sun had benefited the FSF. I'm certain this was not a foreseen consequence.)

I think that something a "large number of ... users" know about cannot meaningfully be called "obscure", else my lack of knowledge about European football/soccer teams makes it an obscure sport.
Thank you for your information! That would be really a fine feature. I love Debian for its stability (as it is said ... I just lack time, to compare myself) but the administration tools are still a black box for me and I have the feeling, that they could need a brush-up.
See also Shazam's Secret

> The hunt keeps Mr. Slomovitz on his toes. Every morning, he skims dozens of music blogs, checking for new releases he might have missed, as well as the iTunes, Amazon.com and Billboard charts, and blog aggregators like the Hype Machine.

Most weeks he also goes to local record stores to see if there is something in stock he has not heard of, or if older albums are being remastered or reissued. And he listens to local radio stations, especially near universities.

"Shazam’s Search for Songs Creates New Music Jobs"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/technology/14shazam.html
Backed and an Introduction to the New Internet
Better if the canonical name was just set in a sensible way by its proprietors...