skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Moto looks like it's trying to be beautiful and classy, but the size and the fact that the screen isn't actually circular kind of kills it in my opinion.
I can't tell if this is great news, due to having a powerhouse with a massive cash war chest lumbering toward this goal, or terrible news, because it will Google-ize the hiring verticals surrounding this industry.
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A compromise already exists. It's really very simple - you and friends agree on a pace to watch a show at.

This is flexible, and can fit any schedule! You and friends can watch in whatever pattern you want, and it requires exactly nothing of Netflix! You can deploy this method today!

This would unquestionably satisfy your needs. Why would you need anything other than a dump from Netflix?
How does it differ from REST over HTTP/2?
This is a dear friend and previous startup partner of mine's new site. Looks great and the gaming community is a very passionate, interesting group to target. I, myself, am no longer a gamer...my life and job couldn't sustain the mild addiction I had to EVE, WOW, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, etc.

I'm wondering how they deal with game discovery, especially with indy games, this tends to be an issue for the most passionate / hardcore gamers.
They reverse-proxy reddit (and hacker news) - but they don't actually host the website (i.e. the application, databases, etc).
Thanks! That was a new one. But now I am perplexed is Dunning-Kruger effect the result of 4OI or "just" 3OI :)
If DropBox is now letting you search and index your files, then they've been doing it for months.
Actually, Amazon plays that same game, to the hilt.

They're very profitable, but reinvest almost all of their money.

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
I wonder if this is one of those strategic deals that would lead to an acquisition. With the push surrounding cloud and Google actively competing hard in this space, it would make a lot of sense.
The only story I see here is that Google is leaking some of their strategy.

I doubt Apple, Tesla or other heavily battery-tech-dependent companies would allow their staff to even hint about this kind of research.
Hmm, granted I'm very new to boost and to C++ in general because I'm relearning it but a couple of nights ago I grabbed boost, compiled from source and tried out an asio example and it all seemed to work pretty easily. Maybe I need to get into more complex projects to see how bad it gets (which is worry-some since I'm essentially a newbie and don't want to waste my time learning something that won't be useful later (or just painful)).

> And just pray that you don't need to recompile boost because you're in for a fun few hours of wasted compilation because it fails at 80% because of <cryptic boost message>

It took my lowest spec MacBook Air about 15-20 minutes to compile from source. Does it normally take hours for you?
I would assume they made the video internally, but I have no idea. If a firm did it then they'll probably be locked up with a lot of Hillary work this cycle so they don't need to promote themselves.

Those types of videos aren't cheap by any means. That being said I think it was done really well -- especially in comparison to announcement videos like Rubio's[0], which is a mess of random clips pasted together.

[0] https://marcorubio.com/landing/stream/
In the US you'd have to make a profit to have the tax liability, and if that's the case, the company is unlikely to be going through a fire sale. There's a host of payroll taxes associated with employees, but those get paid as employees get their paychecks, so qualifies under "debt".
I agree -- I think lines of code is the wrong measure. A better measure would be how large is the set of problems that occur in practice that normally would take thousands of lines which can now solve be solved with 50 lines of code using a probabilistic programming language.
And Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series.
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This is trivial to do yourself. JSON.stringify(), JSON.parse(), switch() {}. It's not really some massive benefit of using the library. And this way there's no magic.

Also, magically trying to decode strings if they look like JSON sounds rather scary.
Wow, a pay-to-win version of Reddit. I guess there are probably people already guiding their own comments for visibility.
Found a maintained fork of NumeralJS, library for formatting numbers
Instead of wasting efforts on DRM and watermarking, they can avoid handing out copies until release time. But in practice they probably benefit from leaks, it keeps the buzz.

About the futility of so called "social DRM", see also http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blog...
> But I believe that many people resort to using hash tables at the end of the day just because they are the easiest to use.

For me, it's a matter of avoiding premature optimization. When I end up dealing with needing to optimize my code, very rarely is the data structure the primary pain point. Just because something is "easy to use" doesn't necessarily mean that the faster alternative is worth the opportunity costs.

I prefer the Donald Knuth quote:

"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
Child protection filters would work much better as browser extensions.
> as if that lends authority to whatever they're about to write

I think it does. Apple has a lot of True Believers and there are also a lot of people who have never used Apple products but take every opportunity to bash them. When I see a critical post written by someone who uses and likes Apple products, I consider the points made more carefully than a positive post by a brainwashee or a negative post by someone with an axe to grind.
Hahaha, so interesting!
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The website says his method of randomly changing the length of the credits is a step in the right direction. I think that's completely wrong.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130808/02084524106/time-...
"Our experience is that it leads to more paying subs. I think you're right that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world," he said. "That's better than an Emmy." - Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes

THAT is a step in the right direction.
Those are my observations, maybe I run in different circles than you do.

You seem to be saying there's only one way for technology to be - the way it already is - and that everyone had better get on board with it, or else.

I'm saying there's also another way for computers to be that lets everyone receive more value with less effort and, if they choose to take it that far, ease into the way technology is now. But they may not ever need to. This would accomplish the same goal you are espousing, but in a practical way rather than by decree.

I'm taking the beginning and moving it way back, to the point where an Uzbek villager seeing such a computer for the first time can use it as well as an expert within a day or two, because it operates on principles he's already familiar with and doesn't require classroom instruction.

As a SysAdmin, you have the keys to the kingdom, the world of technology is at your fingertips. You're in a position of power in a technological world. As a long-time software guy, the same is true for me. Yet our expertise only puts us on thick side of a power-law distribution; a fine place to be, but the vast majority of people have nowhere near our expertise and simply do not possess the comfort-level and skills to extract the value we do. Whether it is to pull down a nice salary or to change the world with software, at this point in time we are a minority.
I think that this is a general problem with WFH. You'll get 3-5 times more done, because most office environments are horrible and anti-productive, but you're basically stepping out of the political fight. There's so much nonverbal subcommunication that you'll miss about who's viewed as a top performer, who's not, who's ascending and who's not.

The social environment of most workplaces is Meritocracy By Assertion. It has to conceive of itself as a meritocracy but the politically successful people are always most able to make themselves seem to have the most merit. No one ever said, "I'm promoting this guy because of his political success". And yet... over time, what we see is that non-WFHers rise up the ranks, because it's just such a political environment to be in the office during normal working hours, and, in general, when they get to the top, they're hostile to the whole concept. So then you have places like Yahoo where, even if you don't care about climbing the executive ladder, you have to adopt behaviors of those who do (namely, avoiding WFH).

The really depressing thing to learn about organizational politics is that, while they're a grind for hard-working, decent people, they're actually fun for psychopaths. About 95 percent of people will be utterly miserable if they have to spend 90 hours per week in a packed, open-plan environment. The other 5%, mostly psychopaths, thrive on that shit, like the creatures that live in deep-sea thermal vents (extremophiles). It energizes them.

You see this in The Wire. Stringer Bell doesn't love "The Game" (meaning criminal enterprise). He plays it because he's good at it and is trying to work his way out of it, but Marlo (and, to a lesser degree, Avon) is a natural gangster just as much as McNulty and Kima are natural cops. Natural office politicians are the 5% who don't start to fade and fail when subjected to 90-hour weeks in open-plan bullpens, for the same reason that polar bears don't mind ice. Eventually, though, an organization ends up full of natural politicians and has lost the whole "vision thing".

Most organizations think that it's valuable to "be tough" and schedule meetings during weird hours and cram developers together and set unrealistic deadlines. But the people who thrive in such environments aren't "the best" in terms of the ability to get work done. They're the natural politicians who thrive in that sort of environment.
What does this add? Before the partnership, could gce users not use cloudflare? Does the peering agreement result in lower transit costs on my gce bill?
Couldn't agree more about the breaks. I think I've come to the conclusion (as I've started to mature a bit more as an engineer/developer) that I'm almost never going to solve coding problems by writing code.

Breaking up my day whether it's with a walk to the park, a nap, a shower, or folding my laundry is usually when the real moments of inspiration come. These are the moments that I've solved some of the more challenging problems I've been faced with recently.
You don't get plausible deniability in any way.

Turns out that the least significant bits of a pixel are not uniformly distributed. The obvious example of failure is that you expect more pixels with value 255 than 254, since any overexposure will be stuck at 255. The rest is obvious when you look at a histogram of pixel values; as the number of LSBs used increases you see the curve become stepped.

LSB replacement steganography is easily detectable at about a ratio of about 0.01 bits per pixel. The smarter plan is to add or subtract 1 randomly (or do nothing) in order to match the LSB to what you want; this symmetry is harder to detect (but still very possible, the methods are just more complicated).

The reason you encrypt the data is not just for data security, it is so that the embedder does not have to worry about the data that they are embedding screwing everything up.

tl;dr LSB steganography does not give you any plausible deniability because it's really easy to detect in any type of image at very low embedding levels due to inherent limitations of the process. If you want to use it, you'd be safe with a single message at perhaps a level of 0.005 bits per pixel, but then in a ten megapixel image you'd get 150kB of data which hardly seems worth it when you have to transmit losslessly. Even then, you'd still be screwed at a theoretical level with Ker's square root law.
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Sounds like a major lack of leadership - the kind of thing that happens in a college project.

This kind of behavior, to me, speaks to me of dysfunctional management and I think it's probably good in the long term to get out of that kind of situation.

Lesson to be learned: You can't ignore others on the team. You can't have clear separation of duties without strong management or a good working trust relationship. Both of these are weakened if you're remote most or all of the time and the culture doesn't reward/support remote workers.
All I ask is please don't block non-HTTPS sites from browsers. I don't want to have to set up a valid SSL cert for every development environment I work with.
The digital crown looks about as pixelated and processed as the actual display pixels. I'd like to see a much better picture before I trusted anything in this image at all.
If you want to know about the history of similar language paradigms, look at logic programming. Similar to probabilistic programming, it is declarative, utilises an engine at run time, the user builds a model of the word then queries it, and it uses fewer lines of code to express for problems within a limited domain.

Hardly "distruptive". You should really think of them as DSLs that people actually use.

If you're intrested in such things, perhaps you should take a look at PRISM, which embeds a probabilistic framework within B-Prolog. http://rjida.meijo-u.ac.jp/prism/
Thank you for the response, very informative.
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> I don't know what to do, i still have to feed my family, I can't imagine that i am the only one feeling this way.

Feeding your family is something that's more important than most of the work you'll ever do in your life. Never forget that.
Do you know if anyone who submitted a late app has heard back yet?
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How to make interactive Video?
Hey guys, I'm looking to start an online interactive video website just for some friends and family and local bloggers, what software would you recommend to create these interactive videos (not youtube lol).
Can we fix the technical interview with peer assessment?
Good call, we definitely need to document things a little better. Thanks!
> If you send json over the wire, socket.io automatically converts it to a javascript object or array for you, ready to be used.

That's literally 4 lines

// sender
ws.send({event: JSON.stringify(someObject));

// receiver
ws.on('message', function(str) {
obj = JSON.parse(str);
});

> socket.emit("hello"); and the server can listen on this event with socket.on("hello").

This is hardly any more lines of code

// sender
function sendEvent(eventName, data) {
ws.send(JSON.stringify({event: eventName, data: data}));
}

// receiver
ws.on('message', function(str) {
var eventInfo = JSON.parse(str);
eventEmittier.emit(eventInfo.event, eventInfo.data);
});

Sure I'm glossing over a few things but EventEmitter is 10-20 lines depending on how crazy you want to get and wrapping both in a objects is probably another 10-20 lines

socket.io on the other hand is a C node.js plugin and 61000 lines of JS code :(
There's a terminal emulator for kindle: http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-terminal/
I was about to post a similar sentiment. I allowed it since the thought experiment expressed that there is no current knowledge, and you don't get to fission without going through the industrial revolution (extreme temperatures, quality of metals, support services required by a stable/advanced society).

However, the author goes into quite a bit of detail about the validity of photo-voltaic panels, having obviously done some research into how solar panels work, life-expectancy, manufacturing. It's for this reason why I'm wondering why fission wasn't researched.

Nuclear is carbon-neutral, it's about 1000x the energy density of combustion, have lifetimes of several generations, and (at least in the States) have security measures that would make it resilient to "post-apocalyptic" scenarios. It seems ripe for this kind of thought-experiment.
I had a similar setup at one point, and solved the social problem by taking a language class (I was living in a foreign country at the time). The point is I was in a group, and conversation was a built-in part of the interaction. Including the walking commute it was only about 1.5 hrs 3x per week and that made a huge difference.
Trying it out on my Windows machine, it gives me the PowerShell command to create a certificate. Is there some way to specify that I want an OpenSSL command?
That's not a valid example. The laws didn't stop any protest, instead they caused a hologram protest — that protest wouldn't have happened at all, were it not for the laws.
And probably sued into oblivion.
When I was growing up, I was always taught to do my chores, then I could play. But rather than simply enforcing the rule, I remember my dad actually explaining the logic to me while I was young -- basically, if you start to play first, the whole time you're having fun, you've got your responsibilities in the back of your mind (unless you're just a total slacker).

By getting the work done first, you actually enjoy playing more.

(Plus, if you play first then try to force yourself to work, it gets harder to switch context into a "work mode" and you end up not getting around to it a lot of the time)

I definitely notice that in my life now.
It's so "Apple" to that obsessed with pixel densitites ...
As I said before, we already have plans that give access to basic websites for $0.5 a month. Facebook-only access is like $0.1 a month. But with these plans, I can still access the rest of the web if I choose to, I just have to pay. $0.5 is what a poor person pays for lunch on job site, just to put the price in perspective.

I'm not arguing the free part, I'm arguing the fact that as soon as you opt-in for the new Zero plan, the regular web just cannot be had, even for price. The only web that will work on the phone is apps by Zero Rent providers. No websites, even if you wish to pay for them.

And this is bad for poor people to boot. What if they want e-governance features, no sir, wait in line and be treated poorly. What if they want to access healthcare information, no sir, wait in private hospitals and be treated poorly. But wait, get this, you can shop on Flipkart for no cost. Yay!
Quoting myself the last time this question was asked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917505):

On top of its transport layer abstraction, socket.io adds various useful features including events, rooms, namespacing, efficient/convenient (de)serialization of both JSON and binary data, and over-the-network callbacks. I've been using it in websockets-only mode for various projects (you can limit the transports used), because I don't care for slower / less reliable transports but still want the extra features.

EDIT: If you'll allow the plug, an MMO trivia game show I made using socket.io (and three.js): http://masterofthegrid.net/
You don't even need an event emitter. In many cases you might just use switch(){}.
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This was my first thought too, however when I think about it more. Oculus/hololens are really the same applications with a different perspective. It's a damn cool demo to be sure, but not life changing in the same perspective.

The great demo showed a future with a brand new category with brand new applications. AI seems more likely to me AI is the only tech I know about that could produce a demo on the same level.
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If you maintain the climate in your house with geothermal energy or using different building techniques such as earth berm which maintain the internal climate of your property naturally, you just need to supplement via some other means rather than drive all the heating and cooling via high energy devices. The earth maintains a fairly constant temperature below approx. 4-6 feet and so as long as your home is insulated well, you would not find it fluctuating so wildly as you suggest.

Cooking by fire takes a bit of practice, but even that is easy with some practice. Admittedly, this in many cases isn't considered renewable, but you can remove a cord of wood (approx. 85 cu. ft.) per acre per year without ever depleting your supply. People in Northern climes claim they require 5-6 cords to get through their winters, but with a well insulated and geothermally "heated" house, you could reduce this fairly effectively. A wood gasifier can be used to drive gas burning engines - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for cooking due to potential CO output - you certainly wouldn't want to use it for cooking inside the house.

We have an abundance of energy all around us and while the technologies that harness this energy aren't perhaps as efficient as we'd like yet, they're efficient enough that harnessing a bunch and wiring them together with a battery bank, charge controller and power inverter is enough that you can power your home sustainably with a much reduced need for fossil fuels. There's certainly enough for lights (especially if you're running all LED lights) and T.V.

For the moment, portability of tools and machinery (think chain saws, sawmills etc.), the need for gasoline still isn't removed completely - you could go back to a felling axe and use your own energy, but trust me, as time gets on, you'll realize you spend an awful lot of time rushing to beat winter and wasting time doing things that are done far quicker with power tools. We're now at a point where you can comfortably live off-grid and (mostly) power your home with sustainable energy without giving up too many off the creature comforts you've come to take for granted. With some efforts to reduce your reliance on modern appliances - such as dishwashers, dryers, hairdryers, electric stoves etc. a modest battery bank would be enough to have enough electricity on demand to keep you running relatively normally.

I think there's a difference in living sustainably and using fossil fuels. It's possible to live much more sustainably and still utilize fossil fuels at a consciously reduced rate.
Yes, the questions are logically leading. That is pointed out as what the method is about. That particular question was just to get the discussion started so we could get into "aliens with two fingers" to make it fun for the students to discuss two-digit math (no pun intended, of course). It was not really part of the logic of teaching. It could have been done without reference to fingers at all; e.g., "Could we have a math system if we only used two numerals, 0, and 1?" but that would not likely have piqued the interest of third graders very much. And actually some students might have taken issue with the ten fingers/ten numerals idea, since "zero" as a numeral screws that up. E.g., our number groupings in written, columnar form really go from zero to 9, and then 10 to 19, 20 to 29, etc. You don't count zero things on your fingers....
Check out the FAQ
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It makes sense to add the watermark as a low-hanging-fruit tracking system so the leaker simply stops at blurring it and doesn't look further.
One of the reasons why mining the remains of ancient cities could prove to be impossible, is that a lot of the metal would get oxidized (aka rust)
I'm genuinely curious; did you intend this post to have any real effect? That nathan_f77 will read it and suddenly realize the errors in his/her ways?
Lots of good pictures here:

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/hodinkee-apple-watch-review