skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood this view. I think there's so much wonderful CGI its unfair to group the good with the bad. CGI has the same problem AI has - when its unnoticed people don't realize its CGI, the same way people don't consider expert systems, personal assistants, etc AI.

I watched the original Star Wars movies recently. I love the set design and costumes, but my god, the aliens and effects were laughable. I literally laughed at Yoda, who looks like a second hand muppet. There's just no way to think any of that looks remotely realistic or good. The scale models look like... well models. The stop motion animation just looks terrible. It was a fine effort for its time, but today its like watching a horse try to outrun a Ferrari.

I also rewatched Alien, and my god, when they show the whole Alien's body it looks like a guy in a rubber suit. Without CGI, that's the best you can do. A guy in a suit or a crappy puppet.

>Likewise, CGI seems to encourage special effects artists to "overload" movie frames

This seems questionable at best. Art direction is either good or bad. A poor craftsman blames his tools.

>Further, CGI characters are forgettable.

Goto to Disney and watch kids completely lose their shit over CGI characters. Not only are these characters not forgotten, they will be this generation's Luke and Leia. Even an old man like me loves CGI characters like General Grevious.

>protracted dark age in filmmaking.

Ah yes, the traditionalist approach. People said the same thing about talkies and color film. Curmudgeonly old men are rarely good judges of the future or the arts.
And honestly, I think Netflix is most of the way there. HBO Go is a pain to use, the tablet app won't let me output to a TV or monitor, and it is frequently slow for me. I can't remember the last time I needed to wait for Netflix to buffer, and it seems to happen constantly for HBO.

Netflix is solid on the technical side, and their original series (in my opinion) eclipse what HBO currently offers. HBO has one show that really interests me (Game of Thrones, of course) and Netflix has a handful (House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Bojack Horseman, hopefully with more new interesting series on the way).

The only reason I'm even subscribed to HBO at this point is because Verizon gave me a few months for free, and I'll be ditching it once that expires.
Yeah, we've seen this coming. What's different is they've announced the move in detail at the link. "Becoming HBO" is no longer just a soundbite quip, it's an established corporate policy.
Follow up - what stops you, as a candidate, from discussing this upfront?

It makes you look greedy. I am greedy, but it's bad form to appear that way. In the same way you want sex on the first date, but you can't make that known before the waiter has even taken your drink orders. That's why I like working with recruiters (not the sex part)...the recruiter can get the ballpark for me (or already knows it if the company is a client) and we can decide whether to even pursue it.
> Twilio told Venture Capital Dispatch it is adding another $1 million in annual recurring revenue every seven days.

Sounds cooler than saying "growing 50% per year".
> The article fails to discuss non-monospaced fonts, which make this problem even more pronounced

I think proportional fonts makes this issue less pronounced because for more people it makes intuitive sense that you can't get string width by just counting characters, and thus they end up using proper measurement functions.
Generally, I find word clouds be be pretty useless anyway. They visually highlight the top few words (4 or 5 at most), but beyond that are obscure and uninformative.
Then maybe the real money would be offering a PaaS to create "a Netflix" that any content creator could set up?
Komodia's ring-0 rootkit could be abused by malware
Yes, but we shouldn't downplay the scale of the shift. Today it wants to be HBO, a company that pulls in around $1.3 billion quarterly in revenue[1]; before the shift, it wanted to be Comcast, which pulls in around $16.8 billion quarterly[2].

That's a massive downsizing of ambitions -- so big it's kind of surprising that a share of NFLX today is worth around 5 times what it was worth at the beginning of 2013. The hype around their original programming has successfully papered over the bigger story of their abandoning their plans to be the toll collector of online video.

[1] http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/netflix-now-pulls-in-almost-...

[2] http://www.cmcsa.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=877721
I already like this one better, to be honest. It also already has Julia and Rust support. If it were to include Elixir support as well, it'd be perfect.
post-college salaries are w/i 5% of each other when controlled for variables such as education, experience, and profession.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. Nobody cares if you can say you "achieved civilization," because that's not a term anybody has every used to qualify human achievement.

You're painting a portrait that nobody cares to look at.

That, and what you've said is just patently false by any definition in circulation.
Very kind of you to say Tim. They put in an enormous amount of work to be prepared to serve you in the field. Lot more preparation ahead, but stoked you found it helpful.
CSS grids (http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid) are on the rise too I think.
LinkedIn emails premium users class action settlement information
That was also true of many languages early in the adoption curve. The difference is cljs is hosted on one of the most popular platforms on the planet, JavaScript, so it gets to play nicely (better?!) within that ecosystem.

When the boss asks "Why clojurescript?" You can say, "You don't like it? Ok, sure, I will throw away these twenty lines of cljs and replace them with JavaScript - that will take two hundred lines of fail and a week of debugging..." The resulting look is priceless... Did you know that the pointy hair looks the same whether it is coming towards you or walking away :-/
Yes. Because it's fundamentally flawed. You will not beat physics because you wish it. It will always take the same (relative) amount of power to escape earth velocity. Shunting some of the friction to entropy on substances (wear and tear) in sizes/lengths/stresses that are affected by atmosphere and space junk, leads to a more complicated and less reliable mechanism for transport. You STILL have to fight gravity and air resistance with an elevator. It's bought you NOTHING of value to build.
Whoa!

For some context, I've spent the last ~2 years doing the digital nomad freelancing lifestyle, and it seemed a) unfair and b) like a really great market opportunity that so many senior 20x-type devs in different parts of the world are stuck outsourcing on crummy gigs while geographically privileged junior (and senior) devs pull down crazy-high rates. The market's not really solving the problem, everybody just seems to operate an outsourcing pipeline and vacuum value out.

I moved back to the States a while ago and got in touch with some friends to set this up - unqualified.io

Obviously it's still very early days : )
OK. You are right. I worked through the whole problem meticulously and figured it out. It's actually rather easy to explain once worked through, as follows:

The odds of initially choosing correctly are 1 in 3. In that case if you switch you will loose, but if you stay you will win. The odds of choosing wrong initially are 2 in 3. In which case if you stay you will loose, but if you switch you will win. So it is actually that simple. If you always stay you will win 1/3rd of the time and if you always switch you will win 2/3rds of the time.

It only seems like it should be 50/50 at first blush b/c that is what the odds would be if you choose to stay or switch arbitrarily. That is also why if you write down all the possibilities and simply add them up it will appear to be 50/50 too (which is what I did).

The only thing I still can't quite figure out is exactly how the exposure of one of the renaming two doors increases one's knowledge. I thought I could take the list of possibilities and eliminate those that no longer apply and then add them up, but that doesn't seem to work.
but just when will this bubble burst and are there any metrics or signs we can find that have suggested the bursting of subprime mortgage debts in 2008?
From Andrew Chen: "There’s only a few ways to scale user growth, and here’s the list" http://andrewchen.co/theres-only-a-few-ways-to-scale-user-gr...
Depends on which part of the internet. (The context of the context ;) )
Off-topic but fastclick is mostly uncessary at this point: http://developer.telerik.com/featured/300-ms-click-delay-ios...
With Macs you have multiple options. The first being much easier than a typical Windows PC.

1) Boot into Recovery mode (Cmd + R), then use Internet Recovery [1] to install OS X. This works even if your HDD or SSD is completely blank. All Macs from around mid-2010 onwards are supported. [2]

2) Download the latest OS X installer from the Mac App Store, then either use the bundled 'createinstallmedia' command-line app to create a bootable USB flash drive [2] or a third-party app called DiskMaker X [3].

[1] http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT4718

[2] http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202313

[3] http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201372

[4] http://liondiskmaker.com/
> Implicit in this claim is the idea that somehow we need someone to own things. Why is that exactly?

Tragedy of the commons. When scarce resources are communally owned, they tend to get exploited even worse than when they're privately owned.
>>yet the pictures are small and hard to distinguish

You should click the "view full edc" link below the picture: http://everydaycarry.com/posts/4874/Type-Designer-Carry

>>they don't even offer an explanation of what the product is, why the person carries it, why they chose that product or what they use it for.

It is a interview with the guy answering what products he carry's with him- Some interviewees offer more on the 'why' than others of course. You can also click on the items in the post to see what they are as well. There is also a list of items next to the photo. Hope this helps clear it up!
Can someone tldr; this?
<smile>
> launching from the home screen

https://github.com/cubiq/add-to-homescreen
So keep grinding even after the serial's no longer visible?
I haven't had much time in the past month to help out with Rust, but I'm excited at how things are proceeding. Conceiving, proposing, and implementing I/O reform in the span of a single six-week alpha cycle is very impressive, to say nothing of the sea of tweaks and refinements that have appeared in the same period. That said, I see this as basically just a "heads down, working furiously, nothing-to-see-here" release... six weeks from now is when the real action starts. :)
Stetho: A debug bridge for Android applications
That is awesome Howard. If I had a use for 150 switches I would certainly consider contributing. Something else you might add to this page which may help would be an STL file that could be 3D printed for a keycap. Looking at what is provided I don't think there is quite enough information to make one and you would definitely want to test fit it for validation before releasing something like that but it would give folks most everything they needed for building a custom keyboard.
I thinks it's too early to tell if there is or isn't a danger. Preliminary studies in controlled environs have not found cause for much concern, but others are calling for more rigorous examination. Personally I dont think there has been enough research taking into account people playing multiple hours a day on these surfaces, so id rather see more studies into exposure.
A really interesting question. I think that artificial ideas are the way to go, provided that you can find a way to develop a strong interest in the subject somehow. In my personal life I tend towards minimalism, but in my professional life I really enjoy the simple act of making the numbers go up, so it works for me.

In the recent past I've found good success in the birthday ecards space, and the astrology space, and both are "artificial". Right now I'm exploring religious themed apps in Android and iOS, and that seems to be going really well too, even though I am not an evangelical christian.

Anyway, without strong interest in a topic you cannot succeed. But it is possible to develop an interest in a subject ex post facto.
How hackers could attack hard drives to create a pervasive backdoor
He also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.
No person said it with words. Websites said it with their behavior.

There isn't even a widely supported, idiomatic way to switch between high dpi and low dpi images for crying out loud. It's been at least 5 years since such devices were common and wide spread.
My fancy looking website doesn't have to look good on somebody's office computer. If they had a good firewall, it would probably be blocked anyway. Also, people still on old IE are used to seeing websites all busted up.
I don't think heat treatment works... tends to change the hardness of iron-based alloys too much, often a big deal for a firearm (less clear though, whether it's relevant to VINs).
If only they had some sort of advertising channel.
Who says we want to be a startup? We want management costs to be as low as possible. The trust network should be a free resource to make freelancing better for everybody, the co-op just houses it.

We're only looking for devs at the moment for the same reason everybody else is - we've got way, way more work than we can handle!

All surplus value to the creators of value : )
What do these tests actually test, and, practically, how much does this improve the stability of, for example, NetBSD servers? How many tests are there? Was this critical bugs? Otherwise I can't really gather much from this article except for some numbers.
You try to fit the marks to a normal distribution. It assumes that all classes/courses have the same distribution, with the same midpoint and that the only variation is that the test was too easy.

So, (simplistically) if the expected midpoint is 75, and everyone is in the 95-100 range, a grade of 97.5 would be shifted down to 75.

It does penalize students for having really smart friends and getting together to take a difficult course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_on_a_curve
Not to rain on our parade, but IO reform discussion started in the middle of last December, so it's been longer than that.
yes sadly this could be one bullet point. "Avoid acting in a meaningful way on advice in any startup advice post" Case in point here:

1) In general, avoid the kind of stuff that might be in a movie about running a startup—meeting with lawyers and accountants, going to lots of conferences, grabbing coffee with people, sitting in lots of meetings, etc.

then 2) "Don’t underestimate the importance of personal connections"

so make sure you're working and nurturing personal connections but don't do that by grabbing coffee with people or going to conferences. Wait what?!

I'm picking on Sam and that's not really fair because every list of startup advice has these seemingly contradictory bullet points throughout. My advice would be understand whether you're an extrovert or introvert and technically gifted or market understanding gifted. Go work for someone who has that same profile and watch what they do. Then go cofound with someone who is the opposite of your profile (an extroverted market understanding individual if you're an introverted developer) where you know you'll mutually respect each others differences and won't murder each other after 6 months. With the two of you (or 3 possibly) covering those 4 bases you'll build the right product for the market and will build a culture where a broad range of employees feel comfortable and will always have someone to work with investors and customers and someone else making sure you're not taking your eyes off the critical internal stuff.

Work out if you're the Edge or you're Bono and then find your other half. The rest is all gut and while you'll screw some things up you have the building blocks to succeed.
A tiger with down syndrome made the news a while back.

http://www.pbh2.com/wtf/meet-kenny-an-inbred-white-tiger/
Being a french that always do EN and FR multi locale websites, I'm quite surprise of this question :) The french text is almost always longer than english one. Not sure if it's about word count, though.

Also, something very common for french people when learning english is to try to translate their french sentence exactly. It always seems over-complicated in english, and quite pedantic. With time, we learn to stop trying using the same words and try to express it directly in english. We realize at this point english sentences are always way more simple. But here again, vocabulary complexity says nothing about word count.
Thanks Adam - we're rooting for you as you head out. Building a business serving developers is indeed as difficult as you say, but also - to be fair - an endless amount of fun.

Certainly nothing we'd rather be doing.
The hype over driverless cars: is it overdone?
Sounds like when you teach a class, you are doing so in a way that suits girls better than it suits boys. It also sounds as though you don't understand why.

As you say, smaller classes would probably help, however what would also help is to actually try to understand why your teaching methods are less suited to boys than to girls.
If someone from Netflix is reading:

> We win those moments of truth when members expect Netflix to be more pleasurable than their other options

Can you please make it easier for me to find my "Recently Watched" TV Shows? That would definitely make my experience "more pleasurable".

Also, please stop showing me movies I've already rated. I've seen those. Just show those to me in the "watch again" list.

Platform: Website
one thing im curious is their pay as you go model. we rarely see such pricing plans but wonder if there's any extensive study or analysis into this vs recurring payments.
School may be necessary, but bad schools are not.
Awwww. I love it when we're all so happy!
50% per year sounds pretty damn cool to me ;)
Sampling is a complex topic of its own, but sample size has far less to do with research validity than sample selection.

In the case of literature, random sampling is arguably far less valid than selected sampling of, say, top authors.

The interactions here are complex. There are a finite set of published authors, they're selected by editors, works are bought by the public. So there's both nonrandom and popular selection. Works themselves typically contain many words either from the popular argot or not (e.g., Joyce).

And if you're going to sample from large sets of works, say, newspaper and magazine articles, you'll run into issues such as style guides which often dictate terms that must (or must not) be used.

It's a difficult field to research.
I'm just going to assume Betteridge's law of headlines is in effect. If the answer to this was "yes", it would be phrased in a declarative rather than interrogative manner.
It's true that lots of changes are still happening now, but this is because breaking changes won't be accepted post-1.0 and so everyone's getting it out of their system. :)
I have the same experience in Portuguese (my native language). Romance languages tend to be more verbose (also anecdotal personal evidence). But, in a way, my feeling is that modern English has substantially more words than Portuguese – which, I suppose, makes sense. English is under a much greater creative pressure due to its wider audience (English as a global language).

Using your example sentence (armchair laboratory):

[0] É quase sempre mais curto em inglês do que em português.
[1] It's almost always shorter in English than in Portuguese.

11 vs. 9 words.
I'd been looking at things from the developer side of the table so long, I wanted to explore the problem that people who need contractors face.

Good point re: risk/reward. Guess I just decided to use a founder as my example and then ran with it. But I agree - clients paying you with revenue (or at least investment) are preferable.
Looks much more interesting that what they have on reddit (They have a huge EDC subreddit), which is basically people showing off their concealed guns and knifes.
Tip: Nobody wants to hang out with jerks. Don't be a jerk.
I had Hulu, but a paid service showing the same unskippable commercials over and over again was just too much.
Isn't that what I said? Your overall odds of winning the game are not 50/50, but once you are at the choice, if you are choosing between two doors at the end, you are then at a 50/50 chance if you swap.
The Amazing ETF
Probably best to talk to a lawyer.
HTML5 outliner
Komodia/Superfish SSL Validation is broken
What 'damage' are you talking about with regard to the homeschooled kids?
Super Smash Bros. Wii U Tier List 2015
I think this might be something that Netflix is overlooking. The community-like aspect of watching something simultaneously with the rest of the word is extremely powerful. The Twitch generation could prove that live broadcasts or some kind of time-locked release schedule is much more likely to build momentum.

Granted, Netflix's data is probably much more convincing than any vague feeling of community, but I wonder if the "indulgent viewing" they mention is the side-effect of our brains failing to cope with sudden overflow of stuff to consume.
Agree, just wanted to get some thoughts from the community. Specially from people who experienced similar, or lawyer:)
I suspect a lot of this is per user.. I too have been using linux since the early days (slackware 1.1 which was kernel .99 or something like that). . I used linux on desktops and servers.. had tons of issues in the early and middle years with laptops.. but these last 4 or so years I have been running Ubuntu on a bunch of laptops with no sleep issues.. no battery issues.. no tinkering.. except to get the 3rd screen working with my lenovo.. then again never got that working with either of my macbooks.. so individual mileage may vary.. personally I like Linux.. but I'll probably have to go back to Mac simply for Office.. too many office docs come my way that don't work in Libreoffice..
Yes. To scale you would need an awful lot of this though. (I believe that biomass is relatively fixed, but would like someone else to delve into this more, as I don't know if the full dinosaurs -> oil -> gas and fertilizer cycle is a closed loop or not)
That gandola won't be cheap to build. Better solution is to auction spots or set price high enough that only limited number of people can afford it.
> Part of his grading regimen included measuring the margins of our papers to ensure we followed instructions, subtracting 50 points for each margin that wasn't exactly 1" from the edge of the paper. And that was before he graded the content.

Jesus fucking christ, how can a teacher get away with that shit.
Me too! At the moment it's an LLC run according to co-op rules through my PayPal account. Obviously this won't scale : )
I'm replacing CoffeeScript with ES6 because I think it's a better language.

CoffeeScript is beautiful, and was a nice stopgap, but there are some surprising syntax edge cases. There are also a lot of people who don't know or refuse to learn/use CoffeeScript for whatever reason. ES6 is the way forward for those people.

Also, ES6 generators + promises + Bluebird's "coroutine" function is an awesome way to avoid callback hell. It's similar to ES7 (and C#) async/await, but works everywhere (via Babel) today. IcedCoffeeScript and streamline.js are kind of similar but don't use promises.

EDIT: I see CoffeeScript actually supports ES6 generators now.
If you are looking to install Linux on an Acer C720 or HP 14″ Chromebook this is the right distro for you. More info here – http://www.bodhilinux.com/w/selecting-the-correct-iso-image/
Well until the most recent update, I didn't see ads on Hulu. I haven't looked into making that happen again yet.