skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through a phase like you describe - where I was consuming media (books, television, film, anything) as a means of exploring. With exploring you're focusing on learning, on looking outward. I've only recently come back to re-experiencing things.

It's definitely best when you get to explore the historical themes of media then go back to something. For a very basic example - watch Lion King, read Hamlet, then go back and re-watch Lion King, you'll pick up things you hadn't the first time (works best if you wait some time).

It turns out this also helps me determine the quality of whatever media I'm consuming. Only particularly fantastic things keep being enjoyable. But I won't let that stop me from enjoying the latest Transformers movie ;)
The author mentioned: "a DNN with 2 hidden layer and a modest number of units can sort N N-bit numbers", does anyone have a reference to this result?
That's friggin awesome.
Alan Kay, “A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages” (1972)
Exactly this. I don't know a single interviewer who cares about the style of a resume unless it makes it harder to read. And then it's in danger of being tossed without reading.
Occupy GPL – Encourage the usage of permissive open source licenses
it has optical sensors but they don't point at the ground at its feet, they point ahead at the horizon. similarly, humans don't watch their feet as they walk, they look ahead at the horizon. making real-time adjustments to footing is a necessary part of walking. the sensors on the feet provide the data for these adjustments, but they are touch sensors, not optics.
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I'm pretty sure you just posted in public.
When I'm not sure if the kids are tuned in or not, I randomly substitute a noun with "gorilla".

Turns out they're pretty much always tuned in. But I still like to check sometimes. They've moved from noticing it, to being annoyed by it, to now making a theatrical production out of how annoyed they are by it (but are clearly enjoying it).

As a bonus, it keeps me on my toes for the time most entertaining to me to substitute:

I do not like green eggs and ham,
I do not like them, Gorilla-I-Am

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Gorilla

Goodnight comb and goodnight brush
Goodnight nobody,
Goodnight brush,
And goodnight to the gorilla whispering "hush"...
Doing it for professional reasons aside, I do get why
reading something (good/deep) for 100x might be very
interesting.

If you repeat the same word lot's of times, it starts to
loose meaning to you after saying it 20x or 30 times.
Then you keep going and it comes back. But it's different.
Maybe like... "a Rose is a Rose is a Rose...".

In literature, repeating things definitely gives it a
different meaning.

And then there are books/texts that are very dense.
Like Wittgenstein's Tractatus.. that one you'll read
a 100x if you want to understand it.
That stuff is formulaic, absolutely, which is why you don't watch movies for that stuff, right?

That stuff just becomes background noise for the contained art: be that art acting, cinematography, art direction, dialogue writing, etc.

Which is what we read for too, right? The poetry in the prose, the setting, the interesting facts sprinkled in the story, the art of the dialogue -- the story is background to the art of novel writing, it seems to me, the same way that plot is background to film.
It should get better after Windows 10 comes out. First party applications, including xbox, are getting revamped and third party apps should be even easier to make. Hopefully it will turn out that way.
pronouceable => wqyry.com ??
The iOS WKWebView situation (delayed, bugged, delayed again, de-perfed) shows theres definitely not a strong incentive to even match performance.
As Bruce Schneier pointed out [1], the price is definitely not meant to be a massive incentive -- any cryptographer worth their salt is going to be worth a hell of a lot more than our prize amount. But at the same time, we're really keen to make it easier to audit protocols in MirageOS, and hope that this Piñata "permitted breakin" is something that'll catch on. The worst case for us is that someone does break in and doesn't tell us how they did it. Let's hope the eventual winner wants to brag, and we get to improve our source code :-)

[1] https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/1215.html...
The predefined message trees were kinda terrible, "I can't wait to introduce you to my mom"?!?!?

Aside from that, its pretty neat.

Edit: kinda wish it ran data analysis on multiple threads/cores. Edit2: It seems to be taking up 61 threads right now in fact... so its doing that quite well.
I think this, in part, was what Delicious was created for.
Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool
So tired of crappy website analytics tools. GA is off the table. I using it, setting and up and wasting time trying to understand the new lingo around it.

Mixpanel is good, but it's more for events.

I need a good analytics tool that works in real time and shows me where my signups are coming from(exact urls, domains, etc).
Confused at how GA does this and mixpanel cuts of the urls so I can't get the full link to visit it in the browser.

This is a simple thing to ask for. Wondering if anyone here can point me in the right direction.

Please HN! I'm depending on you.
> how can I land myself that role?

Consider that there is a Senior Sales Executive out there today that you have knowledge & expertise to help. Suggest reaching out to Diretors & SVPs of Sales in the SaaS space. Linkedin is a good place to find them. Now gather intel and network. You must talk to these guys, the more, the better.

Incidentally, start reading up on the sales process. Recommend reading The Challenger Sale by Adamson and New Sales Simplified by Weinberg.
Solving the biggest problem in tech today: the passive user interface
I enjoy sex too! Just preferring quality over quantity, that's all :)
Plus hookup attitude does bring variable, usually low quantity and quality, among other potential issues.

But it's true Tinder app didn't work for me, and I am very happy for those that wrote success stories here.
I would have different attitude towards it if I was say 17 again. Glad I am not :)
The Bug Fix Manifesto
A lot of Neal Stephenson's work holds up to rereadings. I've gone through the Baroque Cycle + Cryptonomicon maybe three times now, and I guess I'm due for a fourth soon.
Hack your phone: turn your volume buttons into GPIO ports
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Show HN: We give used devices to refugees
CodeDoor.org collects used IT devices and gives them to refugees in the developed world to become teachers for those who stay behind in refugee camps in the developing world. Could you please provide us feedback for the following question: "Would you consider sending us your used device (such as laptop or Ipad) and if not, why not?" Thank you so much!

http://www.codedoor.org
Pushbullet- https://www.pushbullet.com/

Share option on my phone lists the push near the top.
Desktop notification through a Chrome extension gets them to my desktop.

Works the other way too.

So I can get texts, calendar events, links, pictures, everything to my Chrome. And then even reply to texts, or send links back to my phone from Chrome. Easy.

With the help of IFTTT I can even get smart notifications to both, like latest sales of interest to me.
It's a pity f-droid doesn't support payment, and doesn't seem to aspire to being a full, polished replacement for Google Play for the average consumer.

I would've thought lots of people would be willing to pay the price of a coffee for a well built open source app, without the hassle of building it from source or downloading APKs from dubious sources, then having to manually update them.

And many average consumers would be willing to sign up to a user-friendly marketplace, with reviews and a polished UI, which promised much more curation than Google Play.
The same was true of singles bars before we had OKTinderList. Even if neither person really likes singles bars per se, having a culturally agreed upon way to meet people has some value, and once you've met your person of choice there, you don't need to ever go back.
There's an enormous difference between having an opinion which is not aligned with mainstream and being a radical.

The radical usually wants the world to convert to his/hers own views, which is why they tend to get closed minded and hard to talk with as they get older.
There is an ancient curse you can say to your enemies -- "May your OSS project be successful and your mailing list vibrant."
I would say Smalltalk is really two concepts that people don't often encounter rolled in to one term. OOP in the Smalltalk sense is message passing and is a fantastic way to structure larger programs if possible. If you think about the internet as one large system, you can see that software complexity can scale with message passing methodologies separating components, especially if you don't care about latency and ultimate performance between them.

The live environment is another extremely powerful and useful aspect, but I wouldn't say that it is OOP. Smalltalk may have pioneered it but it is something that is just good in it's own right from a tools standpoint.

I actually think the more pure a programming language is in one concept the more academic it becomes. I see functional programming as being useful at a different complexity layer than Smalltalk style OOP (and of course Smalltalk does have many functional programming features).
Passing as Black
Thanks for the suggestion, we will be updating the copy to clarify that the packages are the preferred installation method.
The swiss are no different really, they're just more likely to base their decision on your net worth.
How did you get their address?
american gods
>Cross platform .NET usually means using a native toolkit on each different platform and the result is WPF on Windows, GTK# on Linux, and MonoMac on Mac.

What are the odds Microsoft announces WPF open sourcing and maybe a wrapper of some sorts for OSX support at Build this year? I give it at least 50/50 on the open sourcing part.
No, I guess s/he means SoundScript

http://www.2ality.com/2015/02/soundscript.html?m=1
ElasticSearch vs. Solr
The author of this piece, Stephen Marche, has a great essay that appeared on the Los Angeles Review of Books site last summer, called "The Literature of the Second Gilded Age"

[1]: https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/literature-second-gilded-a...
ukd1 is right, it is to repost it. I hope I didn't break the rule about reposts(1.5 years ago may qualify as "last year or so") but I figured it is very relevant to the eigenfaces tinder story.
What a good article. Interestingly, I read this just after reading Bob Dylan's pretty fascinating speech (delivered ac couple of days ago at musicales.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-gr...

Bob Dylan stresses the importance of how many times he listened to a song and how much of an influence it had on what he wrote:

"For three or four years all I listened to were folk standards. I went to sleep singing folk songs. I sang them everywhere, clubs, parties, bars, coffeehouses, fields, festivals. And I met other singers along the way who did the same thing and we just learned songs from each other. I could learn one song and sing it next in an hour if I'd heard it just once.

If you sang "John Henry" as many times as me -- "John Henry was a steel-driving man / Died with a hammer in his hand / John Henry said a man ain't nothin' but a man / Before I let that steam drill drive me down / I'll die with that hammer in my hand."

If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you'd have written "How many roads must a man walk down?" too. "

Dylan says this repeatedly about many of his songs (I really do recommend reading his speech).

I do think there's some merit to this (though of course I don't think it's quite that simple). It's also interesting to keep something in mind. It's easy to do some things 100 times, it's harder to do other things 100 times. I've listened to plenty of songs 100 times - I think the interesting thing about Dylan was that he was listening to these songs with an unusual engagement, and that they were (at the time) somewhat unusual songs to be listening to 100 times.

I'd say it's hard to read Joyce's Ulysses 100 times, but Ulysses isn't an undiscovered work. Probably the real key is to listen to or read something 100 times that people don't realize understand the value of quite yet and that takes considerable time and effort to understand. That takes some passion, and a willingness to be considered a bit odd.
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and they say all this without mentioning io.js...
Your last line more or less captures my "intent".

The idea is that if someone can reconsider the need for shared libraries, then could she also reconsider the need for ELF?

But maybe there are other pertinent reasons that ELF exists, besides shared libraries?
Right, but I think a patch on an existing law is maybe not enough. We need a thorough re-examination of intellectual property. I'm not holding my breath though; as long as the conversation about IP is driven by big media, rules are only going to get more restrictive, not less.
Cities need to be able to earn digital badges
I love books a lot, and I like to think that I like them "deeper" than most people– I reread almost everything I like at least 2-3 times. But yeah, 100 re-reads is something you only do if you're goddamn hell bent on deconstructing it. (I haven't yet found a book I feel that strongly about.) Otherwise you're probably better off reading more books and getting more context.
> How about this: I like published formats that become standards as and when they gain multiple implementations.

That is how the standards process generally works these days.

> The web features we use are there because one vendor or another implemented them, experimentally (again I refer you to javascript, or the <img> tag), and they became standards some time after that.

That was a long time ago, when there were few browsers and the Web was much smaller. Nowadays, whenever a browser ships anything, content immediately starts relying on it, and it becomes frozen for all time. None of your other examples have billions of pieces of content; the probability that some content starts relying on the random corner cases of whatever you ship is almost certain. That is one of the most important reasons the standards process exists: to allow multiple vendors a seat at the table in order to create something that makes sense, as opposed to sitting down, writing a pile of code, having content depend on the random bugs and corner cases in your implementation, and forcing all other vendors to reverse engineer your code. (Being open source does not make reverse engineering free, and doesn't even make it that much easier: the HTML5 parsing algorithm was reverse engineered from IE6 without looking at the source code.)

> This is the model that works, and google is trying to continue it. Best of luck to them.

It's also what got us quirks mode, the content sniffing algorithm, the gratuitous complexity of HTML5 parsing, marquee, blink, and the incredibly underdocumented and hideously complex tables specification. I could go on.

You're portraying CSS2 as a failure, but CSS2 is actually a great example of something that is implementable by virtue of being standardized. CSS2 only looks bad because you can go to the standard and look at the complexity, but automatic table layout (what we had before) is much worse, being defined by a pile of C++ code that few people in the world know, with corner cases and weirdnesses a mile long. To this day, table layout is essentially implemented by reverse engineering Gecko. As someone who has implemented both features, I much prefer the former.
Had the same problem popping up just after upgrading to Yosemite.
Decided to do a clean install a couple of months ago as I saw other machines on my network didn't have this problem. After the clean install things are working out as expected again.

Not what I really wanted (checked quite a bit around for a solution without finding any), but at least I don't have this happening multiple times a day.
There are better, more reliable ways to do this than redis. NSQ for example, in a reactive (or log-based) pattern.

Regardless, your goal should be reducing shared state as much as possible, since synchronizing it among distributed systems is a Hard Problem(TM).
You could totally automate this by using lob (https://lob.com) for card fulfilment.
As I understand it, the counter arguments are:

Not all of those architectures and variants are important going forward (I'd actually be very interested in lists of them).

GCC was designed for and has been thoroughly maintained to be less maintainable (one of the major points of these recent prominent debates).

C++ is more maintainable than C. (I don't know that I buy this at all, in fact, I'm about to dive into LLVM's source code to see if it could possibly prompt me to revoke my oath to never program in C++ and Perl again unless absolutely necessary :-).

The last two, plus LLVM's Bazaar model of development in part enabled by those technological differences, means it won't be an unmaintainable mess if and when it grows out like that.

I have no idea if this will be true. I'd like to hear from seasoned developers who are also seriously familiar with the LLVM architecture, development model and code base (per the above, I rather hope I won't become one of the latter).
> Of course, the fact that you need a full DE to easily mount a usb stick as a non-privileged user means the whole thing is already failing hard. This is not how this should work.

This is not true. I use udiskctl (and thus the udisks2-polkit-dbus based machinery) to mount pendrives in a vty on a regular basis.

As a bonus, it asks for my password (the user one, not the root one) if i'm in an ssh terminal instead of a vty, and by configuring polkit i can have it allow me (only this particular user) to put a certain HDD to sleep (and no other actions like giving rights on the block device would do) without root password.
Blank white layer on the top of a Photoshop file reduces file size by ~46%
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Why does this app weigh in at 27M on Android?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lookfor.retrop...
To save a moment of time, here's a quick check that won't save the password string to your command history:

read -e -s -p "Password: " password && grep -i $password 10-million-combos.txt | wc -l && password=""
This is the impression I got as well. Stripe's policy seems to agree to export the cards but that doesn't mean you can pick any format and requirements you want and they have to follow them.

Chase needs the cards in a specific way but without more information it's hard to make the claim that's the only way acceptable by law.

If Stripe is unwilling to do extra work with Chase to get cards exported, that doesn't seem to be "refusing to transfer credit cards to another merchant per their policy".

Can you provide some more information on what part of the transfer they object too?
Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. I've reread it at least five times now, and it's so dense with historical and literary references and parodies interweaved into its plot that I notice new things every time I reread it that I previously thought were things the author made up, were actually subtle (or not so subtle) references.

Plus the plot bounces around constantly, sometimes mid sentence, between characters and times and realities, that you get a better feel for the plot when you reread it anyway.
This is a common belief. It is, I believe, the reason Stallman wrote the GPL and the reason Torvalds continues to use the GPL 2.

But Eric Raymond convinced me that it's irrelevant ( http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=928 ):

"If we live in 'Type A' a universe where closed source is more efficient, markets will eventually punish people who take closed source code open. Markets will correspondingly reward people who take open source closed. In this kind of universe, open source is doomed; the GPL will be subverted or routed around by efficiency-seeking investors as surely as water flows downhill.

"If we live in a 'Type B' universe where open source is more efficient, markets will eventually punish people who take open source code closed. Markets will correspondingly reward people who take closed source open. In such a universe closed source is its own punishment; open source will capture ever-larger swathes of industry as investors chase efficiency gains.

"In a Type A universe, reciprocal licensing is futile. In a Type B universe, reciprocal licensing is unnecessary. In neither universe can the GPL’s attempts to punish what we regard as misbehavior have more than short-term, temporary effects."
It works on Chrome for Android!, neat! And yes nice choice of hold music :)
Here's some details on the first amendment and what is and isnt protected under the constitution:

http://debmcalister.com/2011/06/03/7-things-you-cant-claim-f...

Some things not protected:

1 - Hate speech

2 - Speech that incites violence or encourages the audience to commit illegal or dangerous acts.

3 - “Material support“ to domestic or foreign terrorist groups,

4 - Public speech made in the conduct of their duties by public employees.

5 - Slander, libel or defamation.

6 - Publishing confidential, trade secret, or copyright material

7 - True threats. Like many other areas of First Amendment protection, context, target, and intent matter in determining what is or is not a true threat. Some threats are always illegal — any threat to the President of the U.S., for example.

While the constitution is broad in its definition of what is free speech, local, state and the federal government still have some say in what they considered to be covered by the first amendment. Even in some cases it's arbitrary such as the Westboro Baptist Church hateful protests are legal, while a kid burning a cross is not.
The Ear of Sauron
I wonder if NetworkManager or polkit is doing some sort of opaque meddling with POSIX capabilities? The CAP_NET_* options, in particular. I'm grasping at straws here, certainly, but your description of the events leads me to suspect something in that general direction.
I've found that GEB is a great book to read and re-read. Not only will the math be more accessible the second time around, but the text also conceals numerous "easter eggs" that you might only find on subsequent readings, or might never find.

I've done in-person GEB reading groups where I learned lots of things from my co-readers. I've tried to replicate that experience online at http://www.reddit.com/r/geb, and there have been cases where other people have pointed out interesting things, but it's hard to get discussion going beyond the beginning of the book.

Unfortunately, it seems right now that people who want to follow-up on GEB ideas go to YouTube, where the conversation is disconnected enough that facile and wrong conclusions thrive. (No, a crab canon is not a Mobius strip. Some dude on YouTube made that up. It's not real.)
My rule of thumb is, generally, "Is the creator still earning from this product," and in the vast majority of cases where gaming software is concerned the answer is no. There is a push through sites like GOG.com to put many old games back on sale, but often it's through middle-men and holding companies and I doubt a dime of some of the more obscure titles goes anywhere near anyone who actually helped create the things.

The result is assorted holding companies picking up a few extra pennies, but a huge range of more obscure works are still the domain of abandonware sites and efforts like the Archive.
At first I thought it was to help you find random people to talk to, but this actually makes a fair amount of sense.