skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a good opportunity for locally processed speech to text (and therefore commands, etc) to push itself. I used Dragon Naturally speaking for quite some time for writing papers, and loved it, but I am constantly on the lookout to replace anything proprietary I use with a GPL/MIT licensed alternative.

Any suggestions?
Not sure I understand. The difficulty of lending them out should just increases the risk of lending them out and therefore the need to recoup that risk by a proper margin.

Thats not what happened when the banks regardless of contracts still gave out large bonuses many times more than the return to the taxpayers.

That simply doesn't add up.
Well, that's 180m in today's dollars, not to mention when you buy a modern plane you're paying for ultra-efficiency, modern avionics, modern safety standards, etc which increases cost, the same way you could buy a deathtrap muscle car in 60s that got 15mpg that is cheaper than a modern car. I'd rather take a cross-country trip with a Prius than a 1960's GTO. I'd rather get into a serious wreck in one as well.

Also, the lifespan of this whale is 8k hours. The lifespan of a 747 is like 100k hours. This seems more like a research vehicle than any sort of cost-efficient production vehicle. My understanding is that it was designed to transport the failed Soviet space shuttle clone.
That's one of the things that draws me to Nim in general: it works as advertised, and the documentation, while sometimes terse, is clear and complete.
for me - positive :) i like to foose (although I am not good at it)
Fun fact: Spotify has playlists like this. Keeps them under the "Sleep" collection.

But this is awesome! I love the clean aesthetic.

/me goes back to blasting bad pop music through youtube
Suggestion noted ;)
Patreon to Europe on #VATMOSS: “Not our problem, mate.”
Tools can help developers write safer code.

Yes, a good developer can write safe code in bad environment. But an average developer writes safer code in a good environment.
Evernote in Emacs
I've signed offer letters and hired about 300 people in the last 5 years, and I still consider myself chief recruiter...

Two comments:

1) This is obnoxious in the sense that it's placing a bar that other candidates don't, and it's lacking context I'd prefer to provide over a phone call. For instance, equity at our company is typically quite different than equity at other companies. Not all equity is created equal, and our cap table is very clean.

2) For the right candidate, I'd still make a best effort to fill it out despite the aforementioned comment.

To me the most broken part of recruiting is the third-party recruiting process, and yet, we still use them, because they do occasionally bring in great candidates we would otherwise miss.
Isn't it like the whole point? You use a tool which is best for the job. Like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy.
The Malala story is a really terrible example of this for three reasons:

1. Her native language is not English, so she presumably does not speak to herself in English. She is translating what she says to herself to English. She may or may not speak to herself in the third person.

2. She is relating a story about speaking to herself to other people. Just because she described it in the third person does not mean that the thought occurred in the third person. People tell stories for dramatic effect.

3. Culturally, she is very different from broke undergrads at the University of California Berkeley. Perhaps culture plays a much larger role than pronouns.
> It is fucki*ng hard to create a postgres database without using psql or connect directly to the database.

well ideally you would have a script to create the DB and possibly migrate it. IE this will create a PG database from `DATABASE_URL`

import dj_database_url
import psycopg2
from psycopg2.extensions import ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT

config = dj_database_url.config()
db_conn = psycopg2.connect(host=config['HOST'],
port=config['PORT'],
user=config['USER'],
password=config['PASSWORD'])
db_conn.set_isolation_level(ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)

db_cur = db_conn.cursor()
db_cur.execute('CREATE DATABASE ' + config['NAME'])

db_cur.close()
db_conn.close()

then it's simply a matter of `fig up` + `fig run web python manage.py createdb`
I'd love to see a review of this from someone who has tried using it for a while - also compared to Sandstorm which is similar (newer, more sandboxed) https://sandstorm.io/
I totally reject this article's somewhat Marxist undertone that RadioShack's demise was due to Americans' lack of demand for hobby electronics - rather, just generally poor decisions and a terrible rebrand by company leadership towards selling (what they perceived to be) high margin consumer junk like TVs, cell phones, and RC cars. We live in the era of Make magazine and hackaday.com. The maker community didn't vanish. They realized they could get the stuff they wanted from the internet for cheaper, and with less aggravation. (Much nicer than digging around in a RS part drawer for the one transistor you need - but can't find - for you 330MHz transmitter build.)

It was a crappy business decision from the top that just took years and years to manifest as catastrophe.
Clojure client library for IronMQ v3 API
Listen any loop enough times and you start spotting repeating noises. I've experienced this even with rain loops and it's super annoying.
True, but note that if you do an actually simulation, waves act fundamentally differently in spaces of odd and even dimension.
I had the same workflow issue. Especially when all I wanted to post was a youtube link or a quote I heard. So I built: https://github.com/whistlerbrk/mail2frontmatter as a result.

In a nutshell it lets you email your blog, parses it and resizes attachments, interprets links (with plugins) and will also commit it to git and push for you. With guard you can autotrigger rebuilds as well.
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Thanks! Been about six months heads down, we soft launched a few months ago with some publishers to stress test a bit. Here are some examples:

http://www.powder.com/stories/digital-features/untracked/

http://www.bikemag.com/industry-news/grandma-attacks-sabotag...

http://www.slamonline.com/the-magazine/features/serge-ibaka-...
That won't use a parametrised query, though.
Thank you for the suggestion!! Will keep it in mind!
The one example I can find was two 42m blades from China to Denmark in 2010. I would think they normally go by ship, so maybe they were in a rush? And if they were shorter, they would use a smaller plane.
Nice to see recruiter's side! I bet if I would receive email from you, I would not respond with link to this form :)

This idea started as a joke, and more people liked it so I made it standalone :)
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Postgresql 9.4 with jsonb sends mongo to the dustbin, IMHO. If you have to write it in js close to the data or if plpgsql is too steep of a learning curve, you can play with the experimental plv8.

But you should really pick up plpgsql, it's "python" powerful, with the an awesome db (and has a python 2.x consistent API, sadly, but the doc is very good) There is a great sublime 2.0 package that makes the writing and debugging of functions in one file just awesome. Write an uncalled dumb function that has a lot of the API in it at the top of your file, and you'll get autocomplete on this part of the API.

Specifically no not miss getting acquainted with json and hstore, specifically using json as a variable size argument passing and returning mechanism, it's just hilariously effective.

cheers, and keep making this place(not only HN, our blue dot) better,
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Reminds me so much of Neal Stephenson's "The Cobweb".
Metro-North's signaling equipment is a nightmare. There was a scheduled upgrade that was supposed to have been in play by January 1st of this year, and the project is still not yet done. Proper monitoring of crossing combined with automatic breaking could have prevented this accident. But Metro-North has neither.
When financial services is a huge part of your GDP, and your country depends on a steady flow of investor dollars to keep the economic engine running, yes, there's a lot of reason not to wipe out equity as part of the deal.
Reminded me of Myst. So nice.
What an absurd comparison...

The linux kernel has 16 million lines of code, Wordpress has 300k.

Yet Wordpress[1] has had nearly as many security vulnerabilities as the kernel[2];
194 vs 257 exploits.

Wordpress is one of the most exploited software packages ever created. It is the textbook example of bad programming.

Just mentioning the kernel when talking about Wordpress is pretty ridiculous.

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2337/...

[2] http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/pr...
I know this guys from long time. Their RemObjects/DataAbstract is IMHO the best remoting framework ever done (I have use Delphi, .NET, Python, Obj-C, VisualFoxPro and test several frameworks for that).

They are supporting their implementation of Pascal for several years now, and my experience of using DataAbstract from obj-c show the interfacing is good.
There is a free app that has the same basic functionality that came out a few months ago: http://noiz.io/
I think they've got different goals.

My impression OwnCloud aims to be a replacement for "the google suite" (not search, but mail, docs, calendar, etc) -- it's really focused at the app layer. I think this is appropriate and there is a need for this.

There's also a need for "a platform which allows users to run arbitrary applications on a server in a secure sandbox", and certainly you can hypothetically build what OwnCloud is aiming at on such a platform. But it's going to take a lot more time and be harder to get right and be reliable and be easy to install and run.

I think OwnCloud is trying to be as easy to install and run as possible, to get a replacement for the google suite wwith apps that work as well as possible and are as easy to use as possible. I think this is a good goal, and they are making reasonable choices toward accomplishing that goal. I am not sure how well they've succeeded.
The reason Netflix is tricky[0] to run on Linux is due to DRM in Silverlight, which is maintained by Microsoft.

Linux can run Silverlight applications in general using Moonlight. (Broadly speaking, Moonlight:Silverlight :: Mono:.NET). However, the DRM is not available on Linux, and was non-trivial to get working under Wine until November 2012, when someone finally published a straightforward way to patch Wine to run Netflix.

Nowadays, Netflix has also switched to using HTML5 DRM when possible, so it is possible to watch Netflix on Linux using Chrome (not Chromium). However, it's worth noting that many distributions ship Chromium instead of Chrome by default, as it is proprietary software. It is still not possible to watch Netflix on Firefox, as they have not yet implemented EME (HTML5's DRM). Because of the way HTML5's DRM works, there is no way to produce a fully FOSS browser that can watch Netflix; the DRM extensions have to be purchased uner a proprietary license.

OP's wish was to be able to access Netflix or a similar service while using only FOSS software. That is still not possible, and I don't see a way for it to become possible anytime in the near future, at least until the MPAA finally gives up DRM (the way the RIAA did).

[0] Not impossible, but definitely a pain.
I found it a bit frustrating.

They talk about C interopt, but I didn't find any nice explanation about how to create something like a struct, that C APIs often require as their data input.
fascinating idea! I assume you have an interest in diving and ocean exploration yourself. Are there existing products catering to this niche? Is this a for-profit venture?
Thanks for the awesome :)
Give it a try and let me know how it goes :) That would be great!!
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I've never had any interaction with the government that was even 1/4 as screwed up as the health insurance/hospital pairing. It's astonishingly bad.

I can only conclude that the people saying things like "think healthcare sucks now, wait 'till the government's in charge!" have never actually had to personally deal with the healthcare system.

Actually, the only thing that's hit the "1/4 as bad" mark is the health care exchange, and my problems with it are chiefly attributable to 1) no standard Internet-Age-friendly national ID card or similar, so identity/citizenship issues are still ad-hoc "send us a fax and mail us a copy of your drivers license, social security card, and birth certificate" nonsense, which is a problem with far more than just interactions with government, and 2) private health insurance is still a major part of the picture.

It's like a machine to generate stress and take your money, with treating illness as a side effect. I'd gladly take single-payer over the dubious and mostly not practically available "freedoms" our current system affords me.
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I wonder if there's a correlation between the higher turnover of motivated professionals and the rate at which large companies get hit with security breaches. The people who are most able to move employment are the ones who often are the most competent. Even setting that aside, it takes time, familiarity with company systems, as well as competence - and security is unforgiving.
>That an Objective-C compiler exists at all is because of GCC. The fact that we can see and examine the source is because of the GNU GPL.

Yeah, no. They contribute the same to LLVM -- and even more than they did with GCC--, while still nobody "compells" them.

Plus Apple released lots of other Open Source stuff, even when not compelled by GPL. Nobody forced with respect to Darwin for example.
Keep me safe
We just launched our one-year-in-the-making venture Oceans to the world.

Together with the world's diving community, Oceans is set to map the teeming oceanic life, vivid landscapes and fragile underwater environment, making it available for everyone to explore.

Oceans is all about co-creation. We are building a community for divers and explorers worldwide, allowing them to share and discover dive sites and observations across the world’s oceans. Built with the user in focus, Oceans makes it easier than ever to check-in diving adventures and interact with divers around the globe.

Are you a diver or explorer? Join us on oceans.io!

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Co-founder Oceans.io
It's understandable that they require a few extensions, for concepts from other environments. Some of the limitations are unfortunate, though.

"Patterns are not supported in Switch cases, yet"

:(
(2010) Classic Fogus on OOP and FP
My shop teacher got the pictures from manuals, so I guess that was the best he could find. I wish it were like the rest though, just because it would be more consistent
Actually the first version of Noisli has been launched in September 2013 ;) ..and Noisli is free too :)
Same, I was like BUY!
Oh, it goes deeper than that.

One of the many reasons why LLVM is taking off is because it provides an API that lets programs hook into the compiler, which means IDEs can deeply integrate with the compiler. For example, IDEs can highlight errors based on where the compiler says errors are instead of having to run its own parser for the language.

Why doesn't gcc have this feature?

Well, it was proposed, but it was shot down because RMS doesn't want proprietary tools to be able to hook into gcc. In fact, gcc was deliberately designed as a monolithic application with no API specifically to keep third-party tools away from it.

So yet another reason why people are moving away from gcc is because llvm/clang enables you to have better development tools. GNU is being killed by its own religion.
While I must agree that DMCA+GitHub is a dangerous combo that feminist programming language "project" is literally just troll bait. It's a hoax on the cost of some misguided person who literally thought that programming languages can be sexist.

Everybody laughed, I pulled out a lot of my hair, joking about sexist hammer and homophobic wrench. I can see why GitHub didn't feel like hosting a troll fest.
We keep working on enhancing the service and its features :)
Sorry for the annoyance.
Nope, at least not in MIT's case, which would hardly be paying attention to trade schools while they were inventing a very large fraction of the field! I can find out more precisely when the 6-3 major was created if you wish, but I'm almost certain it was before 1980 (at the very least I think I would have remembered it was brand new when I declared 6-3 at the end of the 79-80 academic year).

Any delay happened because CS departments, at least in those days, came from either Math or EE departments, the latter in MIT's case. So people initially just got majors in the original field before a separate degree was broken out.

And in the case of MIT and perhaps other departments starting from EE (I get this impression about UCB going only by required undergraduate courses), there is no "pure" CS degree, since the department believes you can't entirely separate it from EE, and vice versa. So students have to do core courses in both (or now 2 ones that combine both), and the degrees are in both, with an emphasis in one or the other or neither. As of later, the latter course was preferred by most majors.
Thanks! Yes, long-time divers. The app is free, let's call it a for-benefit venture :) /J
It's important that parents know how to deal with the matter, otherwise you get http://www.sonichu.com/
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The Netherlands has actually way more choice in parties to vote for than just two or three. Smaller parties have pretty decent power to influence policy, as long as they get enough votes for a single seat. The difference between zero (no voice) and one seat is much more important than the difference between one, two or three seats.

And even the larger parties are not at all identical, especially when compared to the US' Democrats vs Republicans (although I am aware that this is in the US largely due to the "gridlock" mentioned in the article). Also, even the larger traditional right-wing party VVD is relatively left-wing when compared to US politics--they even consider themselves "liberals", to the point that the word itself is often associated with right-wing politics (the previous chairwoman Femke Halsema of our Green Party sometimes explicitly referred to herself as "liberal", to mess with this preconception, and try and reclaim the term).
(accidentally posted this to the root of the story)

Postgresql 9.4 with jsonb sends mongo to the dustbin, IMHO. If you have to write it in js close to the data or if plpgsql is too steep of a learning curve, you can play with the experimental plv8.
But you should really pick up plpgsql, it's "python" powerful, with the an awesome db (and has a python 2.x consistent API, sadly, but the doc is very good) There is a great sublime 2.0 package that makes the writing and debugging of functions in one file just awesome. Write an uncalled dumb function that has a lot of the API in it at the top of your file, and you'll get autocomplete on this part of the API.
Specifically no not miss getting acquainted with json and hstore, specifically using json as a variable size argument passing and returning mechanism, it's just hilariously effective.
cheers, and keep making this place(not only HN, our blue dot) better, F
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Nobody cares for those. We're talking at the level of Google YouTube, Facebook etc here.
I don't think the bonuses is a problem per se. Companies should be allowed to pay their employee however they want, being true to the contract the employee signed, of course.

The bailout is the problem. If there was no bailout, these banks would have totally reduced the payout. They would feel the hit and have to adjust accordingly to keep the company afloat. Bailout gave them the go ahead to disregard all the losses.

It is extremely cynical for the same players to be crying for free enterprise, woe is regulation and the market always work its magic. But hey it's not their problem. We just had to be the sucker, pony up and bail them out.
>you can't expect all shows to be isntantly available in your region.

I believe TPB and kickass proves this statement false.

I don't know what 'region' I'm in, and I don't care.
I wish it would tell you somewhere that you can only have a certain amount of sounds at once, that was a bit confusing. Great work though!
> or our current civilization would burn in flames.

Wait a minute, just a minute. The way I see it, the US government didn't disarm a nuclear bomb, it just saved Goldman Sachs (and it's creditors AIG) and let Lehman Brothers die. Smart choice by Henry Paulson, I'd expect no less by a former senior GS manager.

It used tax-payer money and I'd be angry if I were an American. I'm angry at the Greek government who did the same thing (among many other things), but then again. I live in Greece, I get a choice (More than 30 parties run in the elections last time I checked...). In the US I get the feeling that you can vote Democrats or Republicans. Largely disputable policies like this, are never going to change.
Except it doesn't mean anything to say 'attach drone controls' to a helicopter. A quadcoptor has different physical performance characteristics that dictate the form of its controls. A helicopter will never behave similarly.

Quadcopters have wonderful physical properties that make them suitable for maneuvering in tight spaces, far beyond a helicopter.
I completely agree. I occasionally patronize (is it time to put that in the past tense yet?) my local Radio Shack for parts, but for the 99% of my purchases where I'm not in a big hurry and I don't need to see the item in person, they don't get my business.

They sell a lot of stuff I and a lot of other people buy. Electronics parts, cables, kits, fun remote controlled vehicles, and yes, even cell phones. The problem is not that the market somehow evaporated out from under them. The problem is that they became a crappy place to buy these things compared to the competition.
No, it doesn't appear that they do publicly.
Raspberry Pi 2 is 'camera shy'
Uber introduces 'panic button' in India – Technology – The Guardian
Both are a problem. I believe people would be happy to pay a fair price for good service. Currently, the legitimate channels provide terrible service at a price point that's too high. Given the alternative (free via torrents), why would most people pay too high a price for terrible service?
This. The time when you could build your own computer from parts has been long past.

The 3D printer revolution is something that could have brought them back to their roots, but it's not big enough (yet) to sustain such a huge company. And unless you accidentally walked past a store, you'd have no way of knowing what's on offer - they haven't been a compelling destination for a long time too.
Consistency in Apache Cassandra (free course)
Violent emoji are starting to get people in trouble with the law
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TuPAQ: an efficient planner for large-scale predictive analytic queries [pdf]
No, we mostly make it into jewelry. It also has various industrial uses. Like any commodity, some of it ends up getting stored. And some of it also serves as a shelf-stable form of collateral. But mostly it gets used:

http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml

I suspect that even a lot of the "investment" uses of gold are much more about human emotional needs. I helped someone sort out the house of a deceased elderly relative. There was quite a bit of stuff purchased and stored away: coins, silver, gold. A number were of the Franklin Mint variety, where they wildly overprice the metal:

http://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/2008/11/franklin_mint_coin...

I'm sure the guy was happy with his purchase, but as investments go it was a terrible idea. He would have been much better off putting his money in index funds.
Though the English is pretty good through most of it, there's just one or two rough spots.