skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just attended a talk but Sumit Gulwani where he demo'd FlashFill, FlashExtract and walked through their underlying architecture. His talk had much cooler demos than any I could find online but from what I can tell it seems like they provide a superset of transformy's functionality (not to detract from it, this is very cool, and I'd be curious to see how related the underlying theories are). Apparently current work by that team at Microsoft is focused on abstracting out functionality into a system called FlashMeta so that it can be applied to a bunch of domain specific problems. Overall very exciting work, from both parties.
Everyone needs someone saying something like the N word in an official document before they can buy that racism exists. It's not possible that capital follows racial lines (spoiler: it does) and that therefore incentivized products to develop in a particular direction, to appeal to the folks with money? You don't need "overt racism." You don't need a guy twirling his mustache, spouting white supremacist rants.

You just need wild, race-based income inequality.

Guess what?

That happened.
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, I'm sure they'll be crying themselves to sleep on top of their mattresses stuffed with hundred-dollar bills.
That's unfortunate. I hope the option is added for the sake of the students' health.
Anyone have side-by-side versions of the same image with one version being "less racist"? I'm having trouble seeing it.

Although what the author says conceptually makes sense, the photo of the schoolchildren looks fine to me. And I believe many scenes of 12 Years a Slave were intentionally dark - I'm sure the outdoor scenes or the indoor scene at the end when Solomon Northup comes home had much more contrast on purpose.
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That last link...very very cool. Much more interesting than the Java vs go link I posted. You should submit it and spark a discussion :)
We intend to support this in future versions but haven't gotten to it yet. It makes things a little more complicated.
first 5-10% of google and paypal employees MADE BANK
As long as they're not making money they'll fly under the radar just fine. Every private server that got shut down were taking "donations" in return for in-game items.
Personally, I feel like there is a stage in life where things should be free or cheaper. I would not be the person I am today if it weren't for torrents and Usenet. Seriously. Today, I am happy to compensate all writers, artists, programmers, and others for their intangible work. But quite simply, I was a very thirsty teenager and if I had waited for a job in order to drink, I would be stunted.
I have to disagree.

If you consume something you are making it impossible for someone else to consume that same thing. You can consume a beverage (no one can drink it after you did) but you can't consume digital content. Here[1] it is explained by someone more knowledgable than me. (incidentally, the FSF also suggests to avoid the word 'piracy' to describe illegal file sharing)

Also, when saying pirating is a net loss to the system, maybe you can say it about piracy as a whole, but for the individual I would not be so sure. Suppose I wouldn't have bought the content anyway (that is, my alternatives would have been pirating it or not seeing it). How am I causing a loss in this conditions?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume
Some improvement to the garbage collector was done in the last release, and involved moving much of the runtime to Go. Making the compiler into Go, however, is actually only completed in the 1.5 (development) branch, to be released in... August, I think. That'll open up the work on the optimizer (and everything else in the compiler) to be done in Go.
It's very easy to justify turning down early-stage jobs with that mentality -- and I've turned down a number that would have made me retirement wealthy based on precisely that logic.

But now that I'm a founder I'd take issue with the "marginally less risk" comment. Quitting a six-figure job, forgoing income for a year-plus, taking the risks of never getting liftoff or financing, taking another year or more at way-below-market angel-funded salary... this is not "marginally more risk" than someone who comes in with a salary from day one at a company that is in motion. The early employee has much less opportunity cost (and -- worth noting -- can also pull out much more easily if things seem to be moving sideways).

Furthermore the theory of "implied pot odds" applies. You're not just getting the returns on the deal, you're getting all of the career and relationship equity of having been a key player on a huge success.

I would argue that early-stage roles, if you can tolerate the opportunity cost over the near term, are one of the better deals going, and likely (though only arguably) better than being an under-ready founder with a high likelihood of failure.
brilliant wordplay! nostalgia for a worst, nastier time: nastolgia, i love it.
While that's true, the chips aren't themselves cheap; together they cost £6.90 (if I read the pages right) if you're buying from digikey by the 500.

The bigger concern is what you're actually doing with the crypto. Almost every use for crypto is intrinsically linked to transmitting the encrypted data; the amount of work to do something nontrivial would be pretty mental.

Any commercial project would probably approach the problem at a higher level; i.e. you'd buy an ARM microcontroller and a TLS stack.
Oh God, right. The changes over the years have left me bamboozled. Is (.) fmap yet?
Oh this seems like it lines up with some people's politics quite nicely. I expect this to show up on NPR any day now.
This article is about a thousand assumption and biases, each of them small, that together accumulate to create a disadvantage for a group. This is what racism is. It doesn't mean someone wearing a pointy hood decided the film formula.
I don't know that the peak subscriber comparison is fair, UO was released in 1997 when a far smaller portion of the population had the computer hardware / internet to even consider it compared to WoW in ~2005.
Exciting progress, and I'd love to use it, but the thing holding me back is lack of support for ES6 syntax.
https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/77
Interview mistakes that cost you good candidates and what to do about it
I disagree with this nonsense. I was a photojournalist for Reuters during the tail end of the film era; 1996-2002 and the issue with black subjects had nothing to do with color balance but of the latitude of the film; we used Fuji almost exclusively and since I did tons of sports and low light spot news, It was mostly 800 speed occasionally pushed hard.

Shooting NBA meant I had mostly black subjects. The film didn't discriminate: in most arenas if the time, we shot at 500/2.8; for a darker arena, we'd increase the processing time (or if we had an especially important shot, increase the chemical temperature, effectively overclocking the processing.) my point is that dark skin or light, the color balance made no difference; it was about exposure. Since we held shutter speed and aperture constant (2.8 was the fastest aperture for 400mm lenses and anything below 1/500th would get motion blur,) our exposures were relatively constant regardless of the subject's skin color. The problem is if you have a bunch of white guys and one black guy, auto-metering would expose in such a way as to render the scene equal to an 18% grey card. So the black guy would be under exposed. However, if you took a photo with 20 black guys and 1 white guy, the white guy would look like he was made out of white light: he'd be dramatically overexposed because autometering it exposed for 18% grey. If you had used an incident light meter, generally the scenes would be fine because the meter wouldn't be trying to 'grey card' the scene.

As far as Jean Luc and his 'racist' Kodachrome, I suspect that's apocryphal. Kodachrome is notoriously difficult to expose correctly; meaning you typically want to expose for highlights because it has a very narrow latitude and blasting out highlights is a real concern. There's nothing racist about it, it is just a very difficult film to light correctly, especially if he were shooting on location in Africa.

But what do I know, I am a white guy so I obviously don't quite understand the struggle to make everything into some kind of racist conspiracy.

The fact is that if film were racist, Spike Lee and others would have been screaming about it. This is the first I've ever heard of this theory and I was a film junkie for a long time as well as a fan of Ernest Dickerson and Bob Richardson; never once have those guys mentioned racist color balance. The argument is just absurd.

If we want to talk about racism in Hollywood, we have about a million potential topics, but film stock isn't one of them. What next, lenses are racist?
Show HN: Sit back and watch stories as they come in
Yeah, but this doesn't teach you about cryptography except for using it (which you could do on the Pi) because it's a black box, so doesn't teach you any more about embedded systems than a normal Arduino and a few cheap extensions. I'm not knocking the Arduino - it's a fantastic bit of kit and I've had great fun with mine, but this is a very expensive learning experience for the amount that you can learn.

For rapid prototyping - the rapid prototyper shouldn't be dealing with cryptographic primitives full stop.
A detailed criticsm/explanation of this is here:

"Not OP's fault, but the headline and the story itself are extremely inaccurate. This post should be labelled "misleading."

The story's deck says: "Scientists at Cardiff University and Kings College London have found out what causes asthma and how to switch it off "

This is not true. The researchers found a pathway that can trigger some parts of asthma, but the researchers do not claim that this is the cause of asthma. Most asthma researchers now believe that the disease has probably many different causes, all leading to a similar set of symptoms.

In the story itself, the reporter writes "...researchers at Cardiff University and Kings College London identified which cells cause the airways to narrow when triggered by irritants like pollution."

This as well is not true. The researchers looked at airway smooth muscle cells, but it was already known that these cells are responsible for the constriction seen in asthma. What this team did discover is a type of receptor in these cells that can trigger this constriction.

"Crucially, drugs already exist which can deactivate the cells. They are known as calcilytics and are used to treat people with osteoporosis. "

These aren't drugs, because none of them have been approved by any government agency. And they definitely haven't been prescribed by any doctor to treat osteoporosis. In fact, many have been abandoned as possible treatments for osteoporosis. Also they don't deactivate the smooth muscle cells. They deactivate the receptors in those cells.

Finally, the claim that asthma could be cured in five years is extremely problematic. First, even if these molecules get approved as asthma drugs, they would not cure the disease. People would still have asthma. They'd just have a new medication they'd take to prevent symptoms such as wheezing and breathing problems. And, going back to what I wrote above, this is probably not going to treat all asthmatics because there isn't a singular root cause of the disease.

And the biggest issue here, and what the story leaves out, is that study, in part, involved studies of a mouse model of allergic asthma--one type of the disease. Mouse models are great for pointing in a direction, but they are not people. And for asthma, mouse models don't have the greatest success rate in finding drug leads. So until there are clinical data on these compounds, it is way too early to call these treatments for asthma. And definitely not cures.

Again, this isn't OP's fault, but this story is extremely misleading.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/33kucg/asthma_drug_...
Dyanmic range of film is limited not because of cost but because of chemistry. We'd all love a film with a 24 stop range but it just doesn't exist.
Babel (previously 6to5) calls for contributors
If you can get into YC, or have a sellable product, or an idea you are obsessed with, or can get seed funding, then by all means, found a company.

But, from my observation of friends who have gone full-time on a startup project, and who tried to bootstrap it into a company, probably less than 1 out of 10 endeavors even makes it to a stage where it could pay anyone a partial market salary. So by joining a seed funded company that can pay you a bit of a money is already decreasing a lot of risk, the company has already made it through the first great filter.

The best positions in startup world are:

1) start a company if you have a good idea that you have a unique ability to execute on
2) join a company at seed stage, if you can get at least half market salary and 2-5% stock, and the founders seem top notch
3) join a company after its B round, when product market fit has been proved, and the company his hitting the mega growth part of its hockey stick
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Do you know anything about film? If you do, then please contribute; if you don't then I would encourage you to actually get educated about the topic involved rather than just knee-jerking your way to validating your own bias.
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Does Atomontage have support for real time shadows? All of that information seems to be pre-baked into the voxel models. This would severely limits its "everything is destructible" potential.
It should be able to support some screen spaced based effects such as deferred shading and SSAO at least.
It's really hard to add features to someone else's app in such a disconnected way, for everyone in their community. Most people haven't heard of your site, and it's also hard to form habits of checking Github, as well as your page. Usability improvements ... should makes things easier!

Repo owners have control over what gets displayed on their project page (to an extent), and can drive their subset of users to your app.

If owners are having trouble seeing how many people up voted a feature, then make a bot that counts the number of thumbs up in an issue tagged "feature", then update the issue title. This would be really helpful to those people.

Also, if owners want to see the top feature requests, make an embeddable image for the README that clicks to the full list. People love embeddable widgets. :D

Those two things is all I observe your app does, plus you had to reinvent commenting, which is a huge turn off.

There are loads of popular tools out there that integrate into Github, it's worth checking them out to see how they weasel their features into Github.com!
I do my hobby programming daily on a ~10 year old T42 that I got for free. It's blazing fast for my purposes, and with a 4:3 screen, a real keyboard and a nipple mouse it's a pleasure to use.
Twenty years of Photoshop and actual, honest-to-God darkroom experience enough for you?

This community is so intellectually bankrupt.
Which really isn't too different from not having good enough gear in WoW and so on, the only difference is that in EVE you level up even when you're offline. And you don't have to fly anything, you do whatever you want to. Brave Newbies is probably the most famous for flying what ever the hell they could.
You're happy to more companies set up shop in this space? Telo was around long before FullContact was founded, albeit under a different name.
Ask HN: What are people doing with microcontrollers?
I recently started playing around with an Arduino and wanted to see what other people were building.

I've done a few basic tutorials but haven't taken the technology much further. Is anyone building a new hardware product? Starting a startup around the technology?
How've you liked actually using yi? My only experience with it was rather frustrating.
No question that ADHD is overdiagnosed. It's probably also underdiagnosed. Some people who aren't are called ADHD; some people who are never get help. It also most certainly exists--I wasn't diagnosed until middle adulthood, but the pattern of chaos back to childhood was pretty obvious, especially in hindsight. My life would be far different, and probably better in many ways, had I gotten the help I needed then. Problem was, this same sort of pop psychology diagnosis denial existed in the 70s and 80s, and my parents wrote the teacher referral off. Wish they hadn't.

This whole article talks about the concept of ADHD stigmatizing normal behavior, but the diagnostic guidelines include A) that the subject isn't behaving in an age-appropriate way and B) that the issues are causing significant real-life problems in at least two settings. There are multiple checkpoints that the behavior isn't normal, not transitory, not limited to problems with one place or person, and not easily addressed or tolerated by the individual showing it.

I'm absolutely certain that some parents, teachers, GPs, even psychiatrists err on these, that the kid is just showing a minor developmental lag or a contextual issue. But at the same time, the people it helps, it helps a lot, and at a really crucial time. School is a terrible, terrible place to not be able to get shit done and to establish bad life habits, which is ultimately what ADHD will do. Doesn't take much at that stage to ruin high school, college, chances at a career.

So yeah, skepticism, sure. ADHD needs even more tried and tested diagnostic criteria. And ADHD is largely an umbrella diagnosis with treatments mitigating secondary symptoms of unknown primaries, so we should keep looking for primary causes and address those.

But to write off the whole thing...I don't know. I think that kind of overreaction is irresponsible. Marilyn Wedge has more or less built her current career on this position, but my own experience, however anecdotal, and any number of peer-reviewed studies don't really back her story very well. And really, those of us who suffer from ADHD already face enough stigma and baggage without having pop psych articles in Time Magazine trying to invalidate the one pathway that actually has led to some degree of relief and success.
Anyone interested in both NYHC and HN would be into this if they haven't seen it (I'm sure it's been posted here before): the history of the old Kickstarter office, which is across the street from ABC No Rio, and is also the location of the Rancid "Time Bomb" video.

http://fredbenenson.com/2014/01/19/digital-forensics-rancid-...
That only works if you actually have the ability to fill the aircraft, smaller WB/UWB aircraft are cheaper to maintain, require less crew (even per passenger), consume less fuel and are much less restrictive in terms of airports in which they can land and be serviced.

People don't count the fact that one of the reasons why smaller jets are more successful these days is that airports became much better at air traffic control, planes land and take off much faster on average than even few decades ago, combine it with more airports being built or expanded into multi-runway airports and you got much more landing/takeoff slots than before.

Big planes take quite a bit of space in the airport, they need special taxi considerations, and special terminals (especially the A380 with it's full double deck design), all of which comes with a premium in airport taxes when operating such aircraft. It would not surprise me if landing a single A380 costs more than double what landing a A330/787/777 costs these days.

And since It's not only cheaper to fly more smaller planes to the same destination, but also more commercially appealing to customers I highly doubt that companies will continue to run big ass planes for much longer, yes the A380 won't go away, neither will the 747-800 but i really doubt they'll get much more beyond the original orders, and even most of those I'll suspect will be converted into cargo within the next 10-15 years.

I flew on the A380 and the 787-800 to HK (Lufthansa and BA), and on a 777/787 on the same route, and I have to say the smaller aircraft are much nicer to fly on, fewer people, quieter, you get more personal service from the staff, bathrooms don't look (nor smell) like a porta potti at a Kiss reunion concert after the first 3-4 hours of the flight.
Eucalyptus got sold to HP: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=17905...
Ok, url changed from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-32418080.
I fly a lot -- as in, I've got around 20,000 miles worth of flying between now and the end of June, and typically hit the 100,000-mile frequent-flier status tier each year -- and I'm based in Kansas City.

And... yes, if you're mostly flying domestically within the contiguous 48 US states, you're going to be almost exclusively on planes seating up to 180 passengers, and often smaller. There are some larger planes on major hub-to-hub routes, and sometimes larger planes on major vacation routes at the right time of year, but for the most part you just don't see them unless you're flying long-haul international.

Really it just comes down to economics. Those 737-sized planes hit a good balancing point in terms of passenger capacity, fuel efficiency, cost to acquire, etc. This makes more sense when you remember that even the non-"jumbo" widebody jets are still freakin' huge; for perspective, here's a photo of an Airbus A320 (one of those 737-sized planes) parked next to a 777:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Virgin-America/Airbus-A320-21...

767s, 787s and A330s are all a bit smaller than the 777, but still not exactly small craft. Flying those big monsters around domestically just isn't viable outside of a few select routes, and even then it doesn't always happen. Domestic widebody flying tends to be to/from Hawaii, and otherwise you need to go to another continent to be on a bigger plane (as will be the case with my upcoming travel -- the only two segments on widebodies are to/from London).

On the plus side, the terrible economics of tiny regional jets are finally catching up to the airlines, and they're being used less or in some cases even retired in favor of the larger/more comfortable Embraer E-Jet series and the smaller end of the A320 family.
FYI - this seems to be the original article on which this is based (granted this is more neutral): http://www.buzzfeed.com/syreetamcfadden/teaching-the-camera-...

That said - I think her chief complaint is misplaced. Ie - it is mostly a technological issue - shooting black subjects well (whether people or objects) is hard. Cameras have only so much "dynamic range" - meaning ability to capture light and dark matter. So if you expose for black skin, it will render rest of the image blown out (meaning you can't see anything else).

I found the paragraph describing how the Whoopi Goldberg show is shot illuminating - two separate cameras have to shoot Whoopi and her guests.
So you worked with film at the apex of its technological development and that makes you an expert on the beginning of the color era, when that technology was exceptionally expensive?

Cool story, bro.
It sounds like they want to give everyone that thinks they could get asthma this drug on a regular basis, and then claim the non-asthmatics as successes.