skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure whether or not I'm allowed to plug stuff that I have no connection to, but you may be interested in this Kickstarter I stumbled across recently:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/546469190/the-urban-dea...
People who don't know you, do not care about what you do. Stop worrying about their opinion. Most people who know you, do care. Show you care for them.

The impostor syndrome is real and you may have it.

Do not take rejection personally.

Never stop cycling.

You always look stupid in hindsight and your current you seems to know everything. This never changes.
Digital cameras cannot produce a latent image on a piece of film coated with silver gelatin. That's good enough for me.
There is an actual form button, as opposed to a link image in the OP page, in the actual 1996 version (archive.org doesn't have the '95 version):

https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzah...

The currently served "old" version was probably disabled to redirects to the modern ordering website so the antique non/functionality from ever interfering with the modern website and not lose sales by attempting to convert customers into the new funnel.
The major reason for me to occasionally shoot film is that I find the haptic and usability of the cameras way better than current digital models. Depends on how much you're comfortable to spend though.
Overview of Semiconductor Switching Devices
Google Lifts the Veil on Borg, Revealing Apache Aurora’s Heritage
I wasn't criticising Google on this point;
it's an obvious part of capitalism.

Except it isn't really. Capitalism the theory may stipulate that an idealized company doesn't want competition but in the real world people run companies and everyone is a different.

Google as a company (speaking from insider experience as a former employee, But not in any official capacity) values competition. It provides a way to measure your success as a company. Google loves measuring things it's so deeply ingrained into their DNA they can't help it. Ranking themselves against other search engines is a vital part of how they work. They would quite possibly be lost without it and very definitely be a different company without it. Google loves competition.
On tour of UW station, Inslee backs $15B tax plan for more light rail
So, all crime stats are down since the 70's when I grew up, we have more children that are out of shape, and children are no longer allowed to play outside or go to the park unattended. Yeah, we are seriously stupid and screwed.

I guess the "hey, check out that hill, wonder how far it is to bike there?" mentality in children is long, long gone.
Looks really interesting on the surface, but there are few actual details. Guess I have to wait for the mailing list content.

A note: your email address signup form doesn't appear with AdBlock on. I had to open an incognito tab to sign up. (http://timeblock.com/sign-up/)

Finally, I'm digging the innovation coming out of the Nordic countries. Had the pleasure of studying abroad in Sweden last year and took quite a few trips to Copenhagen.
Downvotes? Folks I am a Python fanboy, I love it, am devoted to its success, and I'm delighted to use it every day in my work and personal life.

I meant the above comment in earnest, not sarcastically. Python 3.* lets the people who like that sort of thing have their cake and eat it too (and I am one of the people who drools at new shiny tech.) But the fact that Python 2.7 is stable for the foreseeable future is something to celebrate in my opinion, not condemn.
This is very Zero to One:

“A bridge, or a light-rail system, is a monument to optimism,” he said. “Traffic congestion is bad and can only get worse. I am confident we can solve the problem.”

I wonder if Inslee has read the book.
It's convenient to think our work is so sophisticated, and that lawmakers are simpletons. But that's a naive view.

They want the algorithm disclosed as a legal matter to determine whether competitors are disadvantaged. Which probably means they are more interested in email than source code. There exist hyperintelligent lawyers. Yes, smart enough to understand search. A law firm like Keker and Van Nest [1] could go in there and answer the question. France could be willing to spend a billion to find out, and that's more than they need.

Legislation of technology is frightening to any technologist. But it's much more dangerous if we dismiss the process as ridiculous and refuse to recognize any underlying concerns. Because then technologists won't have any say in the outcome.

[1] http://www.kvn.com/

EDIT: Paul you're such a prominent guy, I don't mean to speak too strongly, but people really listen to what you say. Entrepreneurs ought to know that legal matters are not so easily dismissed. I do hope, generously speaking, the startups are the ones that call KVN and not the legislators.
I'm a 15-year-old who wrote a fairly successful (800+ stars on GitHub!) wrapper for Git.
While not JRuby, the big advantage of a JVM-based language is access to the Java ecosystem.

I built a system where Python was a beautiful fit and ran it on Jython so that I could use JDBC drivers to access an Oracle database. From another comment, it sounds like ZenPayroll came to the same conclusion with Ruby/JRuby.
I will not comment on the debate that exasperates me . However, France is also very angry with the way Google optimizes (legally) its income to pay very little tax in France despite substantial profits. It's not fair for the politicians and also for the whole population that cannot make such optimization. I think France just wants to hit Google in a manner respecting its own laws.
I agree with your points, but it might be worth noting that the resolutions you're talking about are not so easy to achieve in practice. To get 100MP out of a medium format frame you need to scan it at around 4000dpi, which isn't really achievable unless you send it to a professional lab (which can be quite expensive). Of course, there are cheap flatbeds now which claim to have an optical resolution of 4000dpi or higher, but you never get that resolution out of them in practice.
Economic Week in Review: Slack, Slack, Everywhere There's Slack Edition
Private-bower 1.0 released with awesome new features for your company
C# Quirks, Gotchas and Pitfalls – Predict the Output Challlenge
It's not worth arguing about but I have three APS-C sensor cameras and I would love to have a stop or two of performance. Being able to shoot on the evening streets at 1/60th vs 1/15th of a second? Yes please! I would say for most people, yeah it doesn't matter. But for more than a few that performance increase is very, very noticeable.
Interesting, in 'Army of Altruists' David Graeber argues the same thing: many young man enter the army because they want to do good, or for other reasons that are not 'killing'. It's not the core of the article, but it's a very interesting article nonetheless:

http://blogs.uoregon.edu/philanthropy/files/2014/08/army-of-...
> No, they are chips, and making large defect free chips is hard. Chips are best small.

That's true. But you can sometimes assembly lots of small chips into one larger sensor and solve a lot of the issues doing that causes in software after the fact.

I suspect it doesn't exist because the market is tiny and the R&D too expensive, rather than it being an inherent problem with the tech' itself.

I just don't think enough people, even pros, would spend $20K+ on one of these to justify the engineering, software, and marketing that went into it (and the level or risk).

> You can get large format scanner backs, but they take time to scan.

So recreating the original experience of large format then? :)
The large volume of -O0 code is just a result of skipping register allocation to save compilation time. There's no problem here.
The bottom really fell out of the (colour) film market in the 90s when the newspapers switched over to digital cameras like the Nikon D1, 2.7MP was for all intents and purposes "good enough" to replace film in that industry and the speed advantages were overwhelming. Since then (B&W) film has been about artists and hobbyists, so the industry has been limping along longer than you think.
Apple Watch Availability Is Clarified
I like to use the 'dynamic random playlist' mode in Clementine. It maintains a playlist with the previous 5 or so songs and a queue of 20 or so songs which are coming up, which is added to randomly from another playlist (exluding songs which are already in the list). Also (and this is the thing which I rarely find in other players), I can re-arrange this working playlist if I want to follow a theme, add or remove songs coming up, and it will just transition back into a random mode when the added/rearranged songs have played.
Trying to read this gave me cancer
What do you mean by "cycling"?
It's not really talking down on something to say it shouldn't be placed on a pedestal.
KES and CNY have capital controls preventing some forms of contracts and offshore delivery.
Why exactly is "MariaDB 10 with its InnoDB engine" "suitable for web scale" while PostgreSQL is merely a good "alternative for GIS and enterprise needs"?

I think you may have some interesting information to add, but your comment currently reads like aped talking points, with a dash of accusing someone asking a reasonable question of trolling.
Ask HN: How do I find a mentor?
Hey,

I have read in various answers by highly influential programmers is to find a mentor. I wanna know how to find a mentor? I'm interested in mostly developing web applications (both front-end and back-end).

A little background, I will be finishing my Bachelors in Computer Science in a month and currently based in India. I have been programming in Python, Java and C# mostly.

Thanks!
Once in a while you stumble on an artist who leads you down a different road from your usual tastes. Harry Chapin did that for me, with his rendition of the UTA shooting. Quite powerful stuff (as was Chapin's own death, actually).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKpblxejWE
Common Misconceptions About Inheritance in JavaScript
You can get HTTPS for free (and hassle-free) if you use Cloudflare as your DNS server. Disclaimer: I am doing this publicity as a happy customer, without earning anything in return.
Romantically, this: http://jakeseliger.com/2014/11/11/getting-good-with-women-an... .

Otherwise, I'd say that you have one life, and that everything important thing anyone has ever done has been accomplished one deliberate decision, and one day, at a time. Today you have a day. What will you do to further your long term goals? What will you do to eliminate or remove distractions? Those are the most important questions you can ask, every day.
losing life. losing life is when someone is being blown up or kidnepped or shot down. so if you are still alive, keep the pressure. live.
For someone who shoots on B&W film, the lack of color can be a feature.

Yes, you will definitely notice this if you shoot alot - composition in B&W images is more about geometry and symmetry and texture, and you look at colours differently two, you are always thinking, that's a vivid contrast in colour but they will be the same tone of grey. Shooting colour with the intent to convert later, is as you say a different mindset.
That's fine, nobody is saying there isn't a one or two stop difference.

I just said people spend an insane amount of time arguing who is a "real" photographer because of that difference. Like "you cannot possibly shoot wedding on APS-C!!!" until it became the most popular format for weddings, and now it is "you cannot possibly shoot wedding with m43!!!"

If you look at digital sensors in a historical perspective, an APS-C camera sold today is better than a full frame camera sold in 2009. Let that sink in. A m43 sensor sold today is better than APS-C sensors sold even in 2011 (by Canon).

So if people aren't "real" photographers today because they have a smaller sensor, then by logical extension everyone who shot digital in 2004-2010 isn't a real photographer either.
There is equivalent to 'atools.join' in asyncio. And I suspect that we'll see libraries like 'atools' in the wild if the PEP is accepted. If those libraries will end up being popular, we'll add one of the to the standard library!

I like the idea of 'a, b = await foo(), bar()' syntax. I'll think of how we can implement it and integrate to the PEP.

Thanks!
Luxury SF Tech Bus Line Accused of Neglecting Disabled in Favor of Coffee Bars
A simple, and great idea. The post-social media world can be a lonely place and it's nice to see this effort to connect divergent people in a genuine way AFK, and outside of a capitalist or mystical/religious/occult context.
I saw Tom be the awards emcee at Yale's hackathon and I don't really get why he acts the way he does. It's some persona that makes people hate startup founders even more than they already do. Add the Yale tag to that and boom you've got your classic Ivy privilege douchebag. I know people from Ivies (including my own) and it's really rare for people to act like this. Is he giving these groups a bad name? I don't know him personally, and he's probably a fine guy, but it seemed like by the end of the event people were sort of sick of his antics.
Moleskine Notebooks Adapt to the Digital World
Is Meritocracy a Joke for Women in Tech?
I tried Atom for a month or so, but I ended up switching back to Sublime Text. Atom is slow to the point that it crashes hard on difficult files (minified JS files are the big pain point for me). It also never seemed to respect my preferences for using spaces instead of tabs and two spaces instead of 4 for indentation. Changing configuration was also excrutiatingly slow.

While not perfect, Sublime Text has none of these huge warts.
Why has digital life removed substance? Today I can talk with my friends, who are scattered all around the globe, all day, every day, in real time. I get lessons from experts on things that interest me, for free, whenever I want them, without having to lift a finger. I can call my friends at a moment's notice and we get together and do a whole host of things that would be pretty much impossible twenty years ago.

How did digital life cheapen substance? Because I can no longer get on stage and touch the actors in movies? When it comes to photographs, specifically, the difference between the phone screen and a piece of paper is a hell of a lot less than the actual thing in the photograph and the photograph itself. If anything, your argument is against photography as a whole.
'uniform distribution' is a specific term in statistics which means something separate to what uniform colloquially means, and in discussions like this it's important to distinguish carefully between the terms. (i.e. A uniform distribution is unlikely to be perceived as 'uniform', as you say)
I don't think anyone who has not read Thiel's book will understand what you mean. Can you clarify?
nice. the companies don't have to fix a obvious security issue, but we can't take a bottle of water or shampoo on board?

despite this being a publicity stunt by the firm trying to get paid, hired, it's a much needed one!
People often talk down on sex, I've noticed. Why is that so?

I think it varies by age and by forum. Old people are probably less excited about sex than younger ones. In addition, HN and similar forums have a selection bias thing going on; people who really really like sex and have it as a focal point of their lives probably don't spend a lot of time here.

If you spend time here (I think the link is SFW, but if you have a very paranoid work wait): http://www.goodlookingloser.com you'll probably get a different impression.

I've also heard sex compared to water: If you're getting all you want, it's not very important-seeming or noticeable, but if you aren't, it rapidly becomes very important.

(There are of course ways sex isn't like water; you don't need to point them out in the responses.)
I mean, here in this age, nobody's going to know who you are as an artist before you make something important. But in the 1400s, just being an artist is a huge enough accomplishment that people are going to know who you are. Also too, what's important to us now is not the same thing as what would have been important to 1400s upper crust society.

The main point I'm trying to make is that 1400s Europe was a really small world. So different than the one we find ourselves in that, if you want to take anything at all from Leonardo's cover letter, adopting his language will probably get you much farther than adopting his actual technique, which was devised to fit the needs of the 1400s.
Stop being tyrannized by the fear of being wrong. Read Plato and Plotinus earlier. Try to see the essence of what others are saying, the essence of what you're learning, the essence what you're doing, etc.
Here's another niche of photographer: those of use who capture on the digital medium and process on a computer, but refuse to display our photographs online to be seen on a screen.

My display medium is print even though my capture is digital. I print almost exclusively on large format paper. The output medium is what I want to control in my photographic process.
Show HN: SeriesF – The Onion for Startup News
Don't join a frat or sorority in college. I don't care if it's a 'nerdy' or 'good guys' frat at an elite university (my experience), it will be a very dumb time sink, and the networking from it is not worth it when you can get involved in other groups which offer useful connections as well.

And really, really try to become as fiercely independent as possible. Otherwise you almost certainly will start measuring yourself by others' standards, it becomes increasing worse the older you get. (You'd be surprised how common fresh out of college people think "Oh I must get into x,y,z incubator or nail down funding so I don't look like a failure and can still command lots of respect in my social circles and stand out as a 'successful young person' at parties"). It's disgusting at its worst, and it's a sufficient condition for sliding into mediocrity.
Riding a bicycle. I find cycling very satisfying for all sorts of reasons, and although it can seem easy to compromise on cycling (infrastructure isn't there, car is easier, whatever) it's a joy when it's happening.
Much obliged, that ticks one item off.
Do not read, much less sign up for, Hacker News or Reddit.
So, when you say Google loves competition, what you mean is that Google would be happy to gain market share and be unhappy to lose market share? OK...

Edited to add: the cost of expressing a dissenting opinion on this site seems to be waves of downvotes followed by a trickle of protective upvotes. Do the downvotes all come from the same place, in this case, I wonder?
-Work to live, not live to work.

-Time is your most valuable and most finite resource. Don't waste it on working 24x7 for companies who will take advantage of your desire to do so.

-Ask yourself if what you're doing will matter to anyone in 10 years, 5 years, tomorrow. Especially in a corporate environment.

-Never sacrifice friends or family for work. There will always be work; you will lose (in some way, drifting or death) persons, and regret the couldas.

-There's always a shiny new gadget, and they repeat every decade or so.

-Set aside the computer/smartphone and do something without it a couple of hours a day. Woodworking. Cooking. Trainsets or scale models.

-Exercise a couple of hours a day.

And finally:

-Never, ever move to Des Moines. Unless you're an actuary.
An interesting idea, but why limiting it to select cities, rather than allowing whomever wants to host a tea session in their city?
... and they both borrow from Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces"
Exercise:
Don't do things other people tell you to do. Do things you think might be fun. Don't run, don't go to the gym. Sign up for Taekwondo, Pilates, dancing or swimming lessons.

If something is worth doing it's worth doing right:
If you really want to learn something spend at least 15 minutes every day studying it. If you can't commit to that, stop wasting your time.

Some university classes are boring but that's not a reason to dismiss them. You never know what knowledge might become useful to you a few years down the road.
CAP and the Illusion of Choice
>Romantically, this

Thanks for an inspring and helpful read! This actually helps me (a 17 year old) out a lot.
"- Most people are emotional. If you use logic and reason, you will fail miserably."

Can you explain this one further please?
Is someone else seeing that over-engineering pattern with Atom? What people want is an open source Sublime (because now we have all learned that power to the user means open source), what Github really wants is a development environment with good GUI based git integration (because that's what's limiting their business opportunities), but Atom wants to be a cool piece of engineering art, and nobody beside its developers really need that. It's really a pity.
Ask HN: What are the best resources to fill in my CS knowledge gaps?
I am a junior finishing the CS portion of my BA in Computer Science with an emphasis in Economics. I've taken the CS lower divs, Data Structures and Algorithms I and II, Networking, Computational Science, Computer Organization and Logic Design, Machine Learning, Databases, and all of the same Math and Stats as those getting a BS.

Here are classes required for the BS that I won't be able to take:

- Automata and Formal Languages

- Computer Architecture

- Translation of Programming Languages (Compilers)

- Programming Languages

- Operating Systems

- Distributed Systems

I would like to be able to do everything that my peers can (and more). I'm going to start my fourth software internship, and I'm always fearful of the moment that my lack of knowledge comes back to bite me. My biggest problem is that that I don't know what I don't know. I have two questions.

1.) What's the best ways to figure out what knowledge gaps I have, and fill them in?

2.) Specific to my case, what are the best resources to do so? What should I prioritize?
I saw the title, and said to myself "i bet this is The Shockwave Rider". So close! Brunner published that in 1975, six years after Stand On Zanzibar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider
Try playing columns 4,2,3,4,6,2,3 - seems to play always the same up to here but then sometimes plays different, but it's trivial to win after this state - the AI seems to "give up"
The simpler possibility is that Bitcoin will get suffocated due to market disappointment. Digital currencies that don't have the memory of November 2013 carved into the psyche would be able to succeed purely on technical and market merits.
"No, you are really not bad at programming. Give it another go, you can do it."
The Coca-Cola Wars: Can anybody really tell the difference?
Here's another way to relate to the hell that is PTSD, and a possible cure for some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nzeykzpy8
3 Books Every Real Estate Agent Should Read
Their are linters available for scala (e.g. wartremover). Also, the Scala compiler supports a number of flags to warn you if your code is using some of Scala's 'more questionable' features. You can even tell the compiler to fail if any of these warnings occur. A list of useful flags can be found at https://tpolecat.github.io/2014/04/11/scalac-flags.html.

You might also want to look at this excellent talk titled 'Toward a Safer Scala' at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tCmphnyP3F5WUtd1iNLu... that recommends a number of best practices that can be followed using Scala.

If you're using sbt, I put together a giter8 template for scala/sbt projects that follows these best practice recommendations at https://github.com/hohonuuli/basicscala.g8
Yes, I would, though we both know that's a spurious comparison. For one thing, since you don't control the block list, and you don't know the people who control the list personally, you have no idea who they're blocking. Could be people who have nothing to do with the KKK.

For another... if people you don't know are being malicious to you maybe you should step back and think about your public face. People who draw a lot of trolls do so for a reason.