skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so, snappy core didn't see the day?
@Mtinie: sorry about that. You have encountered a rare bug in Image Vectorizer 1.4; this happens very infrequently and usually only after Image Vectorizer has been open for a long time. But sometimes it can also happen sooner. It seems to be caused by an underlying Cocoa bug, and I am working on fixing this.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution: just close and re-open the application. If this doesn't work for you, please let me know.

Here is the output from your image:

http://image-vectorizer.com/downloads/hero-logo.pdf

Thanks, -- Peter (Image Vectorizer)
In my experience, if you are looking for a remote jobs you only need a good Internet connection and good English skills, unless if the employer is in the US.

US companies prioritize US candidates (even in remote jobs), to an extend that it's almost pointless to apply for US remote jobs if you no live there.
We[1] used to think that you do not need to worry about lazyness, too - but ran into massive issues with large memory usage and massive GC pauses. We introduced a policy that all fields of a data type must be strict (no Lists, no Maybe, no Either, ..., all custom strict types). That solved the issue for us.

[1]: http://cpmed.de/
German here. I got addicted to it when, as a teenager, I saw them in our local library. The 3D covers of the "silver books" really got my attention! Inside they had, in addition to the story, extremely detailed cross sections of the space ships that occurred in the series. The dimensions and ideas the authors are really (in a positive way) crazy/gigantic. I also liked that the series was more or less one connected story. The authors regularly keep unsolved puzzles, just to explain them years later!

One day I found out that the newsstand on our train station sold current copies of the series and I was amazed by the fact that they already sold more than 2000 issues (Current edition is at ~ 2800)! The silver books I read before were actually just a streamlined version of ten or so issues. So I starting reading the "first edition", and also bought reprints ... in the end I think I read maybe half the the whole series, but two or so years ago I finally hadn't the time keep up.
Can we fix the 'fear of failure' in Europe to stimulate entrepreneurship?
Where will the key ideas shaping the future of scientific publishing come from?
Oh don't forget the good old

// +build !linux

build constraints feature. It's been there since go 1.0 afaik.
Quit Law and Code
Snowden warns Australia: 'You are being watched'
NIH is part lack of communication and understanding. Sometimes it's really hard to get the scope, qualities and failures of an external project.
Sputnik news uses a KSP picture to talk about Anti-Satellite Weapons
UI design – 10 steps for great user interfaces Pt3
You don't need a course. All you need is to watch the presentation "Git For Ages 4 And Up" https://youtu.be/1ffBJ4sVUb4?t=10m32s
Most important thing missing: test site with javascript switched off.
Eight year olds is a bit of an overstretch, after reading the notation and descriptions...
You folks are correct. Potrace, Image Vectorizer, and Inkscape all use the same underlying vector engine. They have different user interfaces and appeal to different audiences. -- Peter (Image Vectorizer)
> Another far more common antipattern that isn't mentioned here is premature abstraction

He does address this one in point 9:

Useless (Poltergeist) Classes
Useless classes with no real responsibility of their own, often used to just invoke methods in another class or add an unneeded layer of abstraction.

Over-abstraction is extremely common in 'Enterprise' Java codebases too.
This Week in Disruptive Technology – May 4 to 8
The dangers of SSH tunnel nesting: Generating 200MB of traffic from 1 byte
Museums Can Change – Will They?
Entrepreneurship is Not Business
I stopped reading at '"real" Emacs is typically installed via Homebrew at /usr/local/bin/emacs'.
This was an absolutely wonderful, and really accurate insight into not only Marc, but the business of VC. Getting to go behind the doors, and sit in on the conversations the GPs were having regarding the valuation of instacart alone made the article worth reading.

It clocked in at 13,500 words, and I couldn't tear myself away from it. I don't think I was tempted, for even a second to divert my attention.

Highly recommended.
There is a classic experiment on pigeons on how to create superstitions behaviour, i.e. behaviour that the pigeons think produces the desired outcome but actually does nothing.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/
What does the word directive mean? Doing stuff by parsing comments is called a macro processor (or preprocessor, but it doesn't have to be done before the actual processing) or not? I think there are many instances where macro processors are a good thing. Some languages have them in the core. So what's the difference between macros and directives?
You've gained the useful parts of REST - lower transport overhead than SOAP, and being able to call it from a browser.
Some things really stick in your mind. The pointer acceleration, icons, sandclock.

It's funny that Paintbrush lost the constrained line drawing (no more guides), what a regression.

Also, I laughed at the TODO list. todomvc.com has nothing on it.
I use an Emotiva UMC-200 (HC preprocessor, fine for stereo too),a Crown XLS 1500 amplifier (intended for professional use) and Quad 22L loudspeakers..

The most noticeable upgrade was the automated room correction included in the preprocessor. It more or less removes the room acoustics from the equation, as well as the speakers coloration.

IMHO correct speakers, powerful amplifiers (professional audio power amplifier may be considered) and good room correction makes a great combination.
Docker gets serious about security
There's a dark, painful side to selling your startup, according to this founder
I've never finished an article in the New Yorker, not because of their length, but because of their lack on content relative to said length. It's all decorum and posturing.
And we have a reason...
I think the "confusion" stems from the fact that this article is basically at the same level of quality as any other by Business Insider, i.e. void of content and filled with the traditional hype/BS on "how to be a phenomenal founder", "what entrepreneurs do during their 60hr work day", "how to learn to code", "how to build a startup without learning to code", etc...
The person who live-tweeted the raid has confirmed the power was out at the time:

https://twitter.com/ReallyVirtual/status/597644559443697664
IMO Lambda is too risky an option because it's compete vendor lockin. But I love the concept so much.
You can learn to not touch a hotplate by watching someone burn their hand on it.
Re:publica 15: Google Promotes Privacy, But Not Too Much
Noul samsung galaxy a3
I played 6 months just after launch, and got to level 40.
I was playing 8h per day.

this is one of my first characters in WoW

First Seen	Dec 01, 05 (from Warcraft Realms info)

https://i.imgur.com/rNbHQmW.jpg

So, yes, it can take a while to level
So this means enterprise IT will actually have to hire knowledgeable people, and not buy "enterprise solutions" that only bring new computers to a halt, cost an arm and a leg and bring negligible benefit.

Move the workflow into the web, ditch "office suits", don't touch ANY sw crap by IBM.

About 90% of your workforce can do with an Ubuntu workstation.
Sure the concept is definitely useful. But overloading comments seems monumentally dumb.

They should have copied Java's annotation model which makes a lot more sense.
Lisp has used directives in comments in the past. Only on the first line of a file but they were parsed.
>Nowadays WoW feels more like a virtual lobby system for the dungeon finder/PvP queue rather than an actual MMORPG. No one really bothers to play the game as you would expect a traditional RPG to be played.

Thanks, I will use this description in the future. It definitely describes how I feel about most of MMORPGs I checked out lately.
I absolutely agree with you, but it's worth mentioning that communism brought some temporal and local improvements to the lives of some people that is used for arguing for communism. E.g. an individual from a poor family who could study engineering was probably satisfied with the changes. But the big picture is pretty bad anyway.
I wish Lambda could listen to arbitrary TCP ports and respond e.g. to HTTP requests or MQTT messages. In the current form it seems pretty limited for any scenarios where generic clients initiate the requests, such as collecting device data and metrics. As I understand, currently the clients have to speak AWS-specific protocols to submit events / data.
Such assholes are trying to diminish acts of bravery of USSR soldiers just because they hate Putin and it's in fashion to hate USSR.
I hate Putin too, I think USSR government was gang of terrorists, but soldiers of USSR won that war, and price can't be diminished.
History will forget name of this asshole but will never forget who won the war.
Are Tech Hubs in Africa Effective? Net Neutrality and Week's Big Stories
The primer[1] has some more arguments.

[1] http://narrowstreetssf.com/primer/
Survey of Users with Low Vision Results (2013, but haven’t found better)
To this day, I still couldn't figure out why Go stays at the edge of being a great language, but lacks few very essential features for -to me- inexplicable reasons.

Look at all the work done on JavaScript to generate code from macros and how incompatible the libraries became (JSX, sweet.js, TypeScript and so on). If there's no standardization, I'm afraid, go may have the same destiny.

If anyone on the Go core team is reading this, I'd like you to consider adding proper macros to the language.
Crucial air travel data centre evacuated for bomb threat
Ok, the speed up is basically much quicker shuffling, but how do they test the results?)
The big windows deployments admins will be thrilled, thrilled I tell you. I can't get the "piss off your real powerbase to get traction in device market" strategy ... oh well.
Thanks!

While analogies can't map across everything, thinking about circuits as water was one of the things that really got me interested in them early on; it seemed like a natural starting place after building Sketchwrite :)
Steam Machines won't be launched until at least November[0]. Anything launched before then, whether it has SteamOS or Windows configured to boot to Steam is just a PC.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines
Copy the text into a text reader (such as Voice Dream), and listen to it
Now I just need to wait for someone knowledgable to tell me more information about this project, after which I will probably sign up and send off my poo.
It depends on what you do, and what you want from the game.

For me, I like levelling, so, once I have levelled, and got geared up (which is incredibly fast these days), it is onto the next alt.
By 'selling your data', I mean using your data to target ads. Not actually selling it, but profiting from having it.

So I could probably have phrased that better.
ByWater Solutions empowers use of open source in libraries
Money market is the finance market place for short term debt finances
> So what's stopped these from getting to Emacs' level of popularity?

Emacs is not an editor. Emacs is a family of editors. You are probably talking about GNU Emacs.

They never tried and it would not make sense. GNU Emacs exists already and supports Lisp development very well. The other tools have concentrated on other things: GUI-based IDEs for Lisp.
Money market instruments comprises of the call and notice money market, short term investment market and the market for debt instruments such as treasury bills, government securities that have an original maturity of less than one year.
Glass delusion
Wayland on Gnome 3.16: New generation of desktop
or to do the PvP etc.
The ranks back then had decay on honor, so it was crazy to try keep on top of it.

Not to mention the dungeons took 3-4h to do at 60, and then the once a week raids which took 4h+ each to do.
WINE and Reactos are a bit more complicated than an alternative.

ReactOS is nothing more than (arguably pre-)alpha software. It's not possible, at this stage, to predict when and if it will ever reach sufficient stability and security. If you follow the project closely, you will realize how complex an O/S is, and how fundamentally it needs big backing (which it doesn't have) to reach maturity.

WINE is not an alternative to an O/S. Specifically, it's a layer which needs to be evaluated on a per-case (application) basis; it's not (and it's not meant to be) a universal solution (which an O/S needs to be).
Of course, ideas about tweaking WINE instead of fully porting software (see Carmack) are interesting, but again, that wouldn't make it a generic replacement.
do make sure you secure internal inter-vm traffic with tls/ssl on digital ocean. there is no private networking, DO only offers shared 'private' networking that's common to all tenants. google compute engine is worth a look as well in terms of a 'real' cloud provider, cheaper prices & sustained usage billing discounts, instant scaling on load balancers, s3 api compatible file storage, etc.
>Stuff like declaring a folder named "internal" special where it wasn't before.

Where can I read more about this?
Yeah to clarify, I mean that after a year of work I'm now on the same level as a grad?
And a link to the live demo:

https://sketchwrite.com/n/wCGHSHrMmp5
Vegan Beauty Products? [re]fresh Eye Recovery Serum
Show HN: Transactions – Bitcoin for Humans
How to implement a constant-expression counter in C++
I really think vim and emacs need this kind of package deal to reach new users.

I don't understands advocates obsession with making things hard for newbies. I gave up on emacs before I started just looking at plugins to see what I needed to install get the stuff I miss in sublime.
This is often a slippery slope. Assumptions tend to erode over time, eg. I've seen code assuming ASCII-only input fall over due to people copy/pasting from Word (which automagically turns hyphens, quotes, etc. into non-ASCII).

Also, whenever there's a lot of data being looped over, it can be very tempting to add new features to the existing loop, rather than adding a new pass (inefficient) or trying to collate the results after they've been spread out (complicated & error-prone). This can turn a simple parser into a core piece of business logic, and of course it's then only a matter of time before custom, XML/JSON-incompatible 'directives' start creeping in to control that business logic.
And pay £75 to pay for their research without, as far as I can find, much information on their methodologies, details on what will happen to your data and how it will be looked after.
It's always been nice'd to the lowest possible priority. It's on my to-do list to figure out how to make it not spin your fans up. Sorry about it.
PHP never execute comments, be sure. Some frameworks and tools like Doctrine use comments and reflections to prepend comments are annotations, and it's one of the reasons why these frameworks are slow as hell.
Don't know enough about what you're describing. If you can mount Hubic as a drive, then maybe mount it to your Mac, and then tell Arq to SFTP to localhost. (Backing up to a local folder is on the to-do list but the SFTP approach is a workaround.)
...doesn't help if I want to actually see what code is getting run
A memory leak detection library for Android and Java
the combination of Blair being good and Clinton being lucky

Did you read the Wiki? Someone did some calculations of the "luck" involved:

Using a model that was stated to give the
hypothetical investor the benefit of the doubt,
they concluded that the odds of such a return
happening were at best 1 in 31 trillion

For comparison, current Powerball odds are a mere 1 in 175 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball#Payout_and_odds
I just watched it. I'm pretty ignorant in terms of biology and never really gave it much thought. The video you posted presents a good case that all living beings are related in some way and only hints at evolution by briefly talking about different fossils at different times suggesting some transitions over time.

So as a person that has no opinion I'd rather have the actual transitions explained and proved in depth.
Whats the list about?
Making the world better with social media
> for the supported lifetime of the device

Not to be confused with actual lifetime of the device.
In C:\ProgramData\Arq\keychain.
I used to have an alarm clock, purchased in Germany, that would reset itself to German time every day. This was undesirable, since I lived in England (1 hour behind).

The diagram from Wikipedia suggests a very long range, Denmark should be no problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77#Reception_area
What these sort of tests always ignore is that placebo effect really works. I refer to a recent study by the University of Manchester in which people who believed that they had better hearing aids objectively scored better on hearing tests. If you spend time and money on a nice high-end system, the love that you put into your setup will be returned to you as better hearing experience.
Jack Barsky worked at top US firms and lived normally–while spying for the USSR
You need to read parts I and II, and in my personal experience, 7 and 8 year olds are capable of far more than people expect, provided it's presented in a way that allows them to explore. They come up with some amazingly sophisticated ideas, and the notation is easily within their grasp.
Great sounding python text-to-speech with Pyvona
Err, to be fair the context was that OS X usually has a very outdated version of Emacs. (Don't have a Mac so dunno for sure if that's still the case or if the article is out of date.)
This is a nice model, generally, for the currently drearily car-centric US - however I would have reservations about it specifically in SF, as wide streets are desirable there as fire-breaks and places for buildings to fall into, rather than each other, in the case of quake.

You'd also need public transit, which is something cities built prior to the car have generally invested in, but is virtually absent in the US, as part of the equation is getting people out of their cars. You could always have the new buildings over the street comprise a mix of commercial and residential, so that people don't have to drive to the nearest WalMart to buy everything, instead they can nip across the street to the butcher, the baker, and even the chandler.

I've not owned a car in over a decade (with the exception of the odd banger I buy to drive take on a rally), as I simply don't need one here. Every service I need, including my place of work, is in walking distance.

Oh, one last benefit of this that the OP missed - Urban Heat Island removal. City temperatures are usually higher than the surrounding countryside as black asphalt absorbs and radiates heat like nobody's business, and narrower streets tend to be better shaded, and even on a hot summer's day, hold nothing fiercer than a cool breeze. The upshot here being both a nicer environment in which to live and work, and lower energy requirements, as without a noisy street outside, and with cool air outside... shock, horror, one could open a window rather than running the AC!
Rethinking cyber security in the age of the hacker
> Also cards are mostly used for gambling games and it's a huge security hole to use a third party api

Depends. If you're writing a game you wanted the player to trust you might want to use an external shuffling service so you can easily show proof-of-deck after the game is over.

Of course, you could do this simply by giving the player a cryptographic hash of the shuffled deck beforehand, e.g. SHA-256(5H,4D,AS...)
Go is typical "hurr durr, Java an C# are obsolete" write-only code by people who only ever work on ephemeral greenfield projects with a lifetime of 3 months and therefore can tell exactly what software development is all about.
You could shuffle in a deterministic way, using a smallish seed, and store a list of those seeds which would cut down on storage. I realise that you probably wouldn't want to do this if you're trying to recreate Vegas, but it's an interesting challenge to mull over nonetheless :)
> I once reviewed code that defined: static final int ONE_HUNDRED = 100;

I saw:

static final int ONE_HUNERD = 100;

a while back, which really made me laugh.
Do as they do in Japan. Dig deep, and have an entrance that looks like a single car garage, with an underground robotic silo that'll hold as many cars as you've allowed it to. They're pretty ubiquitous in Tokyo and dense areas of other cities.

A better solution is not to have cars in the first place.
Agreed, they're probably too old for this. Maybe six year olds would still have the fluid intelligence for this sort of abstract mathematics.
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The font on the website hurts my eyes, making me squint.
I guess many of you already know but it's worth mentioning that the 2nd season of Startup Podcast is following datingring and their (quite amazing) journey:
http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
neither is electronic surveillance
Rtop is an interactive, remote system monitoring tool based on SSH
You can also send a "white, attractive male" to the VC interview, and be a ghostwriter of the startup.
How dependency lines work in object-oriented design
... a multi-billion dollar per annum industry and beloved recreational past time?

I do agree that prognostication is very rarely correct but the uses for the technologies in question go far beyond the political pipedreams of the seasteading society. If you could produce something equivalent to an RV for the sea you would absolutely have a market but with the major difference that the upper size limit on floating vessels is several orders of magnitude larger than that on land based vehicles.

There is already incentive to use structures like this in cities limited by waterfront. Their uses recreationally as a summer home are extremely evident if you've ever seen a lake filled with houseboats [1], floating data centres [2] also come to mind as well as those barges that Google built.

The biggest issue would be transportation to and from the mainland or between these structures but if they can be joined together at sea this problem quickly disappears as the number of connected structures increases.

Beyond that, there is still the very real possibility that this could open up the last and widest frontier on Earth and we'll have gone from prairie schooners to seasteads.

Also, with the increasing mobility afforded by a cell connection for phone and internet, there is a growing movement in the same vein as the original dreams for the future of the motorhome [3] I'd expect a seastead to more closely resemble a tiny house than an RV i.e. more house than vehicle, since people want to live in a house not a boat.

[1] https://youtu.be/HZJL5kry4UY?t=2m56s
[2] https://www.google.com/patents/US7525207
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_house_movement
This sucks. I wanted to buy one because it seemed to do what I want, but I guess they have decided that its better to go under than sell me one.

All I was waiting for was better support for existing services and devices.

Anyone behind YC want to go buy them to keep them alive? Its a massive waste to let the company go under when they have customers wanting to buy their product.