skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today. One thing that struck me when I read it this morning is that the headline is practically unrelated to the article: the word "rich" appears only in the article's 7th paragraph, and the bulk of the piece is pretty straightforward reporting on Box's fundraising efforts.

Box's market cap is approximately $2B. If the founders ended up with, say, $150M combined (the article says over $100M), it may be a relatively small slice -- but of a pretty big pie. I suspect 99.9999% of HN readers would be happy with the results that those two folks managed, and the fact that the company, in this post-Sarbox era, conducted a successful IPO. To put it in perspective, I'm not aware of a single YC-backed company that has had an IPO, though Dropbox seems a likely near-term candidate.
Here's the source code:
https://github.com/dstein64/highlight

And a corresponding blog post:
http://www.dannyadam.com/blog/2015/04/article-highlighter/
A needed read. Thanks!
One other issue with voxel engines is isotropy, or rather, anisotropy.

(If you don't recognize what that is, it's the property of having identical properties in all directions, or rather the lack thereof.)

In a voxel engine, you generally can't rotate things by arbitrary amounts. Ditto, physics doesn't work the same way in all directions. Ditto, things are substantially more complex to render in certain directions (look at MC rendering a diagonal wall versus a straight one, for instance.)

Though there are ways around some of this, e.g. [1]

[1] http://www.mariomarkus.com/hp5.html
Scipy, Numpy, and NLTK. It also came out 4 years earlier and even then Ruby took a bit longer than 1995 to make it's way from Japan to the US.

[1] Relevant conversation on Quora.
I agree with the main points:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-preferred-to-Ruby-in-academia
Google around, it's something apparently Vivendi released, early during vanilla - it's for the first 4.5 years of development before release.

It seems pretty cheap - Blizzard spent less time and money for the initial development than any of its subsequent and unsuccessful major competitors.
Honestly don't all of the US banking and credit card companies do this sort of 'security theater'? While this seems pretty absurd, I'm not aware of any that don't have mediocore to poor password practices.
Too bad they are no more...
> "The biggest improvement to email since spell-check."

Spell checking is an indexing and comparison task. Crystal is saying that she's better than I am at social tasks.

Could that be true? Maybe the Turing test passes not by machines becoming more socially intelligent but by humans becoming less so.
Google Apologizes for Android Figure Urinating on Apple Logo in Google Maps
I think I covered that with the whole 'conservative canadian companies' aspect.
If they can't stand theory, they shouldn't be trying to learn theoretical database foundations.

I agree that, at introduction, material should be made as accessible to students as possible. At the same time, we shouldn't dumb down the field for more advanced students.
Not the same thing as compensating you properly for losing your data or making you suffer downtime for an unreasonable period though and HIPPA is not much good unless you work in the medical industry.
A bit of a niggle here, but I said your post drips with... Not 'dripping superiority complex'... But I actually really like that phrase.

Upon reread I see that I come of as a SJW Berk. I apologize; I just got reamed by my fellow gringos so much it is second nature.

You are correct; I don't know what the word should be, but I do feel we need one.
This is why being a super early employee is one of the worst deals in tech: marginally less risk than the founders, long hours, minimal equity, and likely below-market salary.

There are upsides, but outside of a few rare cases, I can't imagine joining a company at this stage.
Dont, please dont. Save people resource to focus on visual studio windows. Maybe the better solution is use different approach, send minor team to assist xamarin fixing xamarin studio fixbug
Just tried this out and it seems to be pretty accurate for both me and one friend of mine. Granted that's not a big sample size, but it also has confidence levels.

I wonder how it works
Two questions: Where were those servers located, and were they reverse engineered or using leaked server binaries?

Nostalrius being based in France, and running zero Blizzard code on their servers, may give them some protection (IANAL).
I find it crazy that they're still developing expansions for that game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest#Expansions
I don't get "linux-style." It's not linux-style, it's "built-on-free-software" style. The other style is "I paid someone to do it" style. That's not really a style, it's just polar opposites.
> Focus it on a dark spot, and the camera is inactive. It only knows how to calibrate itself against lightness to define the image.

I don't know much about photography, but AFAIK, modern cameras need contrast to calibrate themselves, not lightness (or darkness). Point the camera towards a dark corner, nothing. Point it towards the sun, nothing. Point it towards a sharp edge of a shadow, or any other high-contrast area, an voila, focus!
The Last Line Effect and Extralinguistic Mechanisms
In addition to what Nadya's comment points to (which is all accurate), the similarity of Python code to common pseudocode plays a role.
this, that page just causes FF to crash silently on Ubuntu FF
Well there's confusion over issue vs decode, dispatch, and retirement; its both accurate to say A72 is 8-wide issue and also that the relevant number is 3-wide or maybe 5-wide if you believe ARM's numbers with uop fusion.

After all, the Cortex-A15 and A57 are also 8-wide issue. Incidentally all 3 are also 3-wide decode and dispatch, but A72 apparently decodes instructions to fewer uops.
Measure Human Reaction Time
Ask HN: Why do you use your OS?
Remember to keep it civil!
I guess it's kinda like the tech industry, in that way, eh?

But, you're right. Hard core and punk were boys clubs, historically speaking. It took whole separate scenes (riot grrrl, among others) to push those boundaries out to include more diversity. There are now reasonably large feminist hard core and punk scenes, as well as lots of off-shoots. I just caught Sleater-Kinney live a few days ago; they're, I guess they might be called, second generation feminist punks, and they had a huge sold out crowd.

Punk and hard core were also occasionally ambiguous about LGBTQ folks, even though several quite important bands had gay members (Husker Du, The Dicks, Big Boys, etc.) or were vocally supportive of gay rights. Bad Brains, featured in this video, and among the best loved hard core bands in history, had a well-known falling out with MDC over some hateful comments H.R. (singer of Bad Brains) made about Randy "Biscuit" Turner from Big Boys. "Queercore" is now a thing that has a name, and being gay isn't a thing to keep secret in the modern punk and hard core world. I don't know if H.R. is still a homophobic asshole. Some people grow out of that stuff.

I think we can reasonably say that working and middle class white dudes aren't renowned for being inclusive, but some try harder than others. And, of course, one could also argue that part of the reason there are few women or people of color is because this particular art form was born of a very specific experience...and that experience is that of a bunch of young, angry, working and middle class white dudes. Early hip hop scene films feature predominantly young, angry, poor, black dudes, probably for similar reasons.

That said, there are racist/sexist/homophobic hard core bands. There are hard core bands that actively promote white supremacy, various bigoted "Christian" values, etc. The bands featured in this video aren't really among them, however. Even the "skinhead" bands in the film, like Agnostic Front and the Cro-Mags, are of the "non-racist" breed...maybe even anti-racist. I'm not deeply familiar with any of them, so I wouldn't want to make too many sweeping pronouncements about how they feel about racism/sexism/homophobia (except the Bad Brains thing, because that story includes one of my favorite bands/artists as the target of their homophobia, so I'm familiar with that story).
It's an interesting idea. It has many standard pitfalls, as a 1970s paper, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" points out: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Basically, informal systems are, by their nature, harder to regulate. And "unregulated" is not the same as "works well and fairly."
Please edit to add an asterisk in front of ptr in both cases.
>it's Crystal that's creepy. An unknown proprietary algorithm tells us what to write to our friends? Soon they'll just write for us. Does an advertiser want 1 million people to casually mention something to their friends today?

well, another, say Quartz, app would read the message and decide to write back through for example the same Crystal. Complete automating of social life of automatons. While they are at it, we can socialize on our own...
There is more to Fight Club than meets the eye
That doesn't support the narrative the author constructed before fact-finding, so it's left out.
Yup, agreed. The #haskell channel on FreeNode has been great about providing feedback on what libraries one should use for performance.
Which xcode? Objective-c or swift? Swift xcode is not really good. Sometime i have to clean cache folder when xcode intelisense is not working
Everything you say is correct. But on the other side of the ledger, the later Box employees presumably received market-rate salaries, and I suspect that many of the 1,200 employees are salespeople who may well bring in more in commission than the average software engineer makes in salary.

Also on the other side of the ledger, I could rewrite your comment to:

A founder at a tier 1 company might have millions of dollars in shares, but it'll go down quickly from there for everyone below the first tier. What about the founders at other companies who chose that route over safe, comfortable market-rate salaries and failed, or who received nothing after a down round with a high liquidation preference? Where's the WSJ article on them, and the thousands of others who are never written about when a handful of Silicon Valley companies a year go public? The ones who started a company, with their personal finances in the red, or under pressure from all sides, and helped it grow and succeed... and they walk away still not being able to afford a house in Mountain View, while early employees at Box or Facebook or Twitter pick out colors for their Ferraris?
Forgetting and Learning to Ride a Bicycle Again
Right, but a shadow on dark skin is much lower contrast than a shadow on light skin. The most contrast you are going to find on a dark skinned face is on the eyes. But even then, you can run into problems if, for example, they are wearing sunglasses or you're not close enough to get the focus to lock on the distinction between their eyes.

This might not be a problem in a brightly lit scene, as long as you are using manual white balance (or, well, shooting RAW so you can adjust all that shit after the fact), but as you go to darker locations, you can definitely have an issue.

A possible solution to this would be using infrared depth sensing rather than contrast or phase detection or a laser rangefinding system for autofocusing.
Ouch! Sorry for that blunder, of course I misread the datasheet...

Yeah it's totally unrealistic!
Because manually triggering interrupts to change state in RAM and kick off DMA to drives and bus devices (like network cards) is tedious and slow.

What are you trying to get at?
Unless the entire program is based on manipulating and parsing large strings....
The Wandering Developers
I wonder how much of this is solvable through re-engineering applications to assume high latency - preferably also adding in a fairly heavy dash of decentralization at the same time.
> That of course is the dream implicit in all this: A button that sends the perfect email every time. Indeed, a number of artists have explored the contours of this queasy future in recent months. A browser extension by Joanne McNeil fills emails with exclamation points and smileys, automating the “emotional labor” required in today’s cheerful correspondence. Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald took these ideas a step further with Pplkpr, an app that uses biometric signals sort the real life acquaintances that invigorate you from those that aren’t worth your time.

These are great. Anyone know of any other similar parody apps?
Sorry buddy, you've gone off the deep end here. Microsoft was found in a court of law to have a monopoly in the OS market, and used their market power illegally. Full stop. This is not a controversial fact. You are at best mincing words, and at worst misrepresenting history, to suggest something different.

> That still leaves us with Google, which (as far as I know) is not considered a "monopoly" by any measure of the term.

I don't know how you've come to this conclusion. It is very reasonable to argue that Google has a monopoly on internet search. Whether they are engaging in antitrust is more unclear, but they wield an amount of power in the search market that no other company even gets close to.
Useful if Emacs is unavailable.
And I am so happy about that it was a cyanide injected apple that was trying to get droid to take a nibble. Lol
If the only reason you're starting a company is to be considered a success, it's probably easier to just convince your parents love you in the first place.
Are you producing content by watching a television show? No, that's absurd, you're consuming the content that others have produced. It's really not that far from consuming a beverage. People would say drink, or in this case, watch, but the truth is that those are just two verbs that describe the type of consumption you're doing.

Why would you say it's counter productive to label it consumption? The truth is, if you're sucking up entertainment without providing anything or incentivizing production, you're a net loss in the system.

I say this as someone who has pirated things -- pretending you're not a burden on the production system if you're just pirating things is delusional. The argument that people make towards pirating and paying for content which they liked is much more consistent. Rather than pay people off for marketing/hype and support bad content in the future, you can fund solely content that you think is worthwhile. But again, this is just changing the way in which you're consuming material.
I have, except that it's not really my solution. I was just cleaning up the example to make it more readable, as that seemed to be one of the complaints of the OP.
There's still no proper less to sass converter - regex hacks abound, but nothing structural. There might be some pain in inverting older less projects.
The concentration of middlebrow dismissal in this thread is appalling, and not at all in the spirit of intellectual curiosity.

Fortunately there are at least a few comments that didn't act like know-it-alls, and they did get upvoted.
You can swim around very outside edge of the continents, even where all the mountains were. Somewhere miles away on the backside of nowhere there was a little dilapidated house.

Ah, here it is. The internet documents everything. http://wow.gamepedia.com/Newman's_Landing?cookieSetup=true
Folks mentioned the time lost. Honestly, if you keep journals of your time in Azeroth, you'll see that they rival any life story. I think the memories gained far outweigh anything "real." I think there are a few fiction writers that owe a few plot twists to what's happened in their game play.
There are a lot of typos! Run through with a spell check.
I've still got my x61s. I don't use it a whole lot, but I'm continually impressed how well it still works (running ubuntu 14.04 now). It's nice to keep around when traveling on vacation when I don't want to lug around my macbook pro, and, should it break or be stolen, I wouldn't worry about it so much.
You're talking about auto focus and it's true that focus detectors in modern cameras need some contrast to work.

Cameras use lightness/color for auto exposure (and auto white-balance). If you shoot a picture of a white sheet of paper with auto exposure on, cameras will typically try to adjust exposure so that it comes out looking gray-ish.
He says in the post that he's flying to/from SF, St Louis, Kansas City, Nashville, Charleston, Phoenix, etc. These flights are anywhere from about an hour to 4/5 hours on the top end. STL to SFO, for example, is about 4 hours or so.
And also useful for people never used Emacs :)
You're not just going for focus, though. You're going for a finished product with dynamic range -- it's easy to perfectly focus onto a dark black blob, but that doesn't make it recognizable as a human being.

You might need to overexpose the rest of the frame, so that the skintone darks are bright enough to be interesting. That's doable, but it takes either a human touch or a digital camera with facial-recognition technology to figure out that's what's happening instead of just going for the bright zones. (And then you get a bright white blob if there's a white guy in the frame.)
Open-Source IoT Kit Runs OpenWRT, Mimics Arduino Yun
> we’ve been vocal about the need for people to use privacy add-ons with their web browsers

This contradicts what I have read on the Tor Project site:

"Site-specific or filter-based addons such as AdBlock Plus, Request Policy, Ghostery, Priv3, and Sharemenot are to be avoided."[1]

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#philo...
I remember hearing somewhere that servo is focusing first on things that are nicer to do in Rust than in C++. Do you know if there is something that makes Rust more suitable for URL parsing than C++?
> Worst part is there's no way to speed it up.

There was a big pay2win market in the form of buying characters, which was easily possible as you could buy them with in-game money and have them transferred. And you could buy in-game money by buying subscriptions and selling them for in-game money.

So there was a huge dollar to isk stream possible, which funded any gear or indeed any character (and thereby levels) you wanted.

The other way around of course existed (isk to dollar) but it was harder and not within the TOS.

I never did see lots of abuse of rich players and it never felt like a pay to win type of game to me or most people, but that factor definitely existed.
and toggling in programs from the front panel is tedious :-) (had to do that on a PDP once)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

That wikipedia page desperately needs a more readable introduction. Thanks for the info.
You didn't notice Bad Brains? I can't speak for everyone, but the hardcore scene (at large) never seemed to be particularly racist.
It should also be mentioned that ETOPS covers not only the plane, but also the airline. For example if replacing the engines, then the work will be done by two different teams as it less likely they will make the same mistake. Consequently we now have aviation headlines like the 747-8i (with 4 engines) getting ETOPS (t stands for twin) http://atwonline.com/manufacturers/boeing-747-8i-gains-330-m...
Comparison of MitM and MotS

Observe Inject Delete Modify
Man-in-the-middle X X X X
Man-on-the-side X X
Packet Sniffing X

I wonder if the other combinations have names too.
I hear you. I played a lot of Star Sonata and Phantasy Star Online. I can still relive my PSO (BB) days, SS, not so much. (it's still around but it's gotten a huge overhaul, it's a different game to me). A tale in the desert was amazing, too, although a big part of that was community-driven gameplay, something as impossible to recreate as your particular childhood community even if you provide the same gameplay mechanics.

I'm not much of an emotional guy, but looking at those screenshots from way back when I was 15, about 9 years ago now, hits me 10x harder than your typical tear-jerker movie/book. It's definitely a shame that never comes back beyond the few screenshots.
How to live large in a tiny house
https://juji.io
10 golden rules for weight loss
If they're talking about a generator that's expected to run at its peak power all the time, then I'd expect it to be heavier than an automotive engine that only hits peak power intermittently.

and 40 hp is 29.8kW. they're both measures of power. you don't need to know the torque to make the conversion.
> In May 2011, Citrix Systems Inc. offered to acquire Box for about $600 million, nearly triple the online storage company’s value in February.

> Draper Fisher Jurvetson, of Menlo Park, Calif., pressured Messrs. Levie and Smith to think long and hard about selling. The venture-capital firm stood to get $9 for every Box share it bought for 29 cents.

One reason one should hesitate about taking big-name VC funding is that you can get stuck in the "home run" mentality.
You're right that our instructions make it seem like the examples are editable. We'll work on that. Thanks for your feedback!
We replaced the title with the subtitle, which is hopefully more accurate.
Used ThinkPads were more compelling when they were the only laptops with IPS displays.
Is there actually a primary source from someone at Kodak saying "Yeah, we intentionally limited the dynamic range because we didn't care about photographing people with dark skin"?

It would be very easy to believe that the limited dynamic range was for financial reasons (lower cost of manufacture) and not overt racism.
So to your mind it's more likely that the author is telling fish stories than it is the dominant financial caste ended up optimizing a given piece of tech to their best interest?

Bokay.
Reminds me of a GW2 player who is playing as a pacifist cat - http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2u6g1w/this_happ...
I think it's trying to be too magical. At this point it either seems to work, or something triggers it's pattern matching wrong and it's really hard to figure out what or why. I think giving back a little of the simpleness in favor of more control is worthwhile. For example, if the example portions that were formatting were differentiated from the data matching, it's not too complicated but intent is much clearer.

For example, if the rules were: example content must be contained within braces, and any braces within the example content need to be escaped, it's clear. At that point, your example becomes:

{example1.org}, {path/index.html}

It would still probably just return "wwwexample.4, g/hijklmnop" for the last example though, because it's ambiguous as to whether you want just the end of the url, or the whole thing. Allowing regex markup for more explicit matching would make it clearer still, but your example still causes problems until you go all the way to positive lookbehind assertions. At that point I need to learn all that, I might as well just use perl:

# perl -pe 's{.*https?://([^/]+)(/\S*).*}{$1, $2}' /tmp/foo
example1.org, /path/index.html
www.example2.org, /path/index.html
www.example3.org, /
www.example4.org, /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/hijklmnop
I don't follow basketball and really thought LeBron was his family name. Thanks!
> Is asking why anything was downvoted also to be downvoted?

Yes, because it breaks the HN guidelines:

Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Everyone commenting here needs to absorb this rule and develop the small amount of discipline it takes to just not do it. Optimize for signal/noise ratio, because that's what serves intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Instagram Cuts Off Hot GIF App Phhhoto from Its Social Graph