skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your company looks like it's doing something seriously cool. It sort of reminds me of how revolutionary Video Toaster was back when Amigas were a thing.

I wish I knew more about this space - Video is super interesting and a problem I would love to work on.
> it does not follow that the scientific method is the only way to knowledge

there's something to that. It seems to me its partially because we often make "doing science" a mental / virtual exercise. A process that is done with data and in the realm of one's head.

But doing science should includes all of our senses.

The idea of gemba comes to mind ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba ):
> The idea is that to be customer-driven, one must go to the customer's genba to understand his problems and opportunities, using all one's senses to gather and process data.
> The way I read it was if it was being used in a frivolous manner, e.g. "There was a murder in Times Square last night. We found a hair of yours in Times Square. Case closed."

There will always be more evidence than that. You can find circumstantial "evidence" of anything. If you were friends with the victim then "the defendant knew the victim." If you were enemies or competitors then you had motive. If you had never met the victim but the victim was robbed then you had motive again, and the same if you ever expressed opposition to any class of activity the victim had ever engaged in. If you were caught on surveillance near where the crime was committed then it will be used against you, but if you were at home sleeping then you have no alibi. And so it goes.

A prosecutor can whittle the world of facts about your life down to only the ones that imply you might have committed the crime. None of that stuff actually proves anything -- but it sure makes a good show for the jury.

Throw fraudulent DNA evidence on top of it and the outcome is predictable.
Specific performance on a challenge is certainly a piece of the puzzle. But cultural fit is also important. And someone who may be less than perfect in their "audition" could likely be mentored into a great employee, if their cultural fit is close to perfect.

One of my standard statements is that the ability to do a job is not a guarantee to get the job - it is just the base requirement to even be considered.
There is rail connection between Arkhangelsk and Sochi (that's around 2500 km), so why not with western europe shorter distances and faster trains.

I don't see why they have to leave trains at all for customs. This seems easily fixable.
I'd rather a false negative than a false positive. Too many people already feel they can't call the cops as it is when they truly need help.
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"This upset the old ARM compiler I was working on and it decided to skip some of the conditions."

Do what you need to work around a known compiler bug, of course, but that is definitively a compiler bug. The meaning is unambiguous and consistent in the C standard and every implementation I've encountered. I'm not comfortable with the assertion that changing your coding style here makes you less susceptible to compiler bugs in general.
I'm one of the authors of KeystoneML. Happy to answer any questions about it here.
Did anybody think of steganography, yet? Or will the compression brake it anyways?
With the right clothing, I could see it being easier in mid December. Low temps (but not bitter) which make it easy to regulate body temp, and likely no snow.

48 miles is a long way no matter how you dice it though. I couldn't do that.
"no-one wanted to be on a train for more than three hours"
Why is it so?

People easily tolerate 3h on a plane, and trains are much more comfortable than planes (more space, free to roam).

And you don't have to get to airport, get from airport, check in, wait for baggage.

I would say 5 hours should be non-issue.

"As a rail enthusiast I would love to see trains to Berlin or Milan or even Moscow. But realistically that is many years away."

Remember there's already a direct train connection between Moscow and Paris.

Most people choose to fly these days, of course.
The MTA Debuts an $80,000 Video Game About the Second Avenue Subway
Which device are you on?

I just tested on Android with the latest build and I get a trash icon in the expected places - in the bottom right corner in the single photo view and in the top right corner in the thumbnail view (once at least one photo is selected).

BTW, I work on the photos team.
You misunderstand the ad market.

Search ads are worth 25X as much as display ads.

Search ads do not get a significant boost from personal info. Display ads do get a significant boost.

Targeting companies would show up to try to buy info from Blekko all the time. We weren't interested on principle, and, they were only offering less than 1% of what we were making off of search ads.
It's really pretty easy to get enough protein.

The typical American consumes 50-100% more protein than the recommended intake, so most of us are working from an incorrect baseline when trying to come up with an intuitive idea of how much protein is needed. And the animal products that vegans don't eat aren't just a big gap in the grocery budget; they need to be replaced with other foodstuffs. Despite common stereotypes that's typically not going to mean mountains of rabbit food because that's a horrendously expensive way to get your calories and it's not very filling either. More likely you'll see staple products like legumes, and those also tend to be relatively high in protein.

edit: Curious why the downvote. If someone feels I'm giving really bad nutritional advice here, then it would be MUCH better to provide a response that explains where I'm wrong. A downvote and no reply is pretty useless in this situation; it lets me know someone disagrees but otherwise does everyone else a huge disservice by allowing the bad information to remain unchallenged.
This is the same in even many dynamic languages, though, isn't it?
What auto-repairing filesystem do you use?
That is very nice, and certainly has a good half of the things I need. It would be an excellent base, if only I can understand enough of it to enhance it the way I need.

My fear is that it is already sufficiently comprehensive that I won't be able to make the changes I need, but it's an excellent example to show people part of what I'm aiming at.

Many thanks - very useful. I've noted it, and will look to evaluate it soon.

Cheers.
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Re Finnish: fair enough. It's spoken in Scandinavia, hence my use of the word. I know it's a bit weird, language-wise.

Regarding translation, I keep meaning to pick up Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot, which is all about this sort of thing.
Setup your email server to "swallow all". I did this and after a few years I got around one million spam mails per day.

I guess that if the emails never bounce they will keep sending new stuff to you. It's like saying "yes, yes, yes" to a sales person, they will just keep adding more stuff :P
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I didn't get what the 'astu' command he used several times was for.

Also as was pointed out to me by another viewer - not sure how the main character expected to hide that .dat file by chmodding it to his user id. The file was held in root's HOME folder, so anything in there should be accessible only to root anyway, and root is going to be able to see any file from any user.

But I'm being a pedant and I thought it was an excellent pilot that I hope they continue. It should be compulsory viewing for the screenwriters of CSI: Cyber.
Is this happening with the new app that launched this week?

If you have concrete examples I could investigate.
I feel you. It's not quite the same thing of course, but I'm supposed to be starting to write my thesis manuscript now. The good news is I'll be able to do something new and exciting afterwards, but for the 6 months or so it's going to take, it's really an exercise in despondency. I feel as if the interesting, innovative bit has already been done, and now I have to type up the literature review, the proofs, etc. etc. I can hardly get up in the mornings, but anyway, it's for the Greater Good...? Probably mild burn-out.

Anyway, this isn't very motivating, but if you're not tied down to your job and you have a small amount of cash lying around, I would say: go and travel! You should be able to get by, and at your (our!) age this should be easily justifiable afterwards (i.e. "the hole in my CV was time off to travel and figure out my priorities" -- older users who are in a position to hire people, is this realistic?).
Should be tagged as (2014).
Glue a chat function to it, and you can talk to the person without knowing their sex or accent.
I find it fascinating that much of the hold up is having multiple signalling systems for each country in their train. Is there a web site that talks about the different systems in some more detail? I've been following Caltrain's installation of new signalling (in theory to support more frequent trains and the high speed rail service) and was surprised to find them as complicated as they are.
I agree, but I don't see that undermined here.
Puritanism in system libraries helps nobody. What you consider "bloated" others consider essential. If you're responsible for the lowest-level userspace library on a system, one that every component uses to talk to every other component, you have no business foisting your opinion on the world.

glibc, buggy and hacky as it is, doesn't try to impose its opinions on you.
Yes, and for linux you can do somethign similar with startup-scripts.

I'd then use something like devilspie, kpie, or similar, to move the windows to known-good positions/virtual-screens/etc.
I think it all depends on the granularity of dependencies and how you cope with multiple versions. If every app have their own version of a lib, you get problems with security updates and bloat. If you force a single version of each lib, you get a really slow testing and itegration cycle. If you choose something in between those extremes I think dynamic linking does have merit.
This is certainly very true, and the pessimistic tone of the cat-v article is, to some degree, unwarranted, but it's also worth pointing out the unanticipated problems real life brought.

In practice, this is something that happens less often than we'd want:

> It's the last that is still crucial and which causes so many problems. When, say, there's a security problem in Webkit, an updated version of the webkit code can be installed, immediately (well, upon restart) providing that fix to all programs that used Webkit. Otherwise the end user / in house deployer would need to recompile every program that used Webkit (even if they could figure out what those were) and redeploy them all.

In fact, many applications either rely on bugs and quirks in the libraries they use, end up forking and packaging them separately for entirely unrelated reasons and so on. OpenOffice, for instance, used to pack its own libc for a long time, and -- more recently -- Google's own policy for Chrome is to fork things madly. And sometimes there's just no choice (e.g. when relying on a bug/quirk in a closed-source library).

In all these cases, which are remarkably common, being shared doesn't help. This tends to be especially true for big-ass vendor packages, which pack every single library they can. You're still dependent on their goodwill for updates, just as you'd be if they had statically linked their stuff. Your package manager will gladly update libfoo from 1.9 to 1.9.1, which solves a million security bugs and one, and that will help exactly not at all, because there are probably two or three programs on your computer that pack libfoo 0.9 on their own.

Ironically enough, this seems to be the direction in which (some of) the Linux desktop is moving, with containerized applications and so on.
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IMO, "contexts where performance isn't as important" aren't very relevant to Rust (hence why I'm strongly against, for example, hardcoding a global GC into the language, or splitting the language into a GC'd and non-GC'd half). But I do understand why some people would like to use the same language for all these use cases, I suppose.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626985
Poe's Law - I couldn't tell you were being sarcastic.
Wordzen – An executive assistant for your Gmail account
Wow. That's a polished interface. Glad it exists
Your flight arrives at Marignane though, taxi to Marseille is around 40€ and half an hour. I don't know how long and expensive is the journey to London's airports.
>Whereas in English, the first thing we do is to try and disambiguate by sex, simply because it makes the grammar easier. So people who think in English are going to reason about pairs of people (of any sex) differently than they will in Finnish. //

I don't think your conclusion follows. We elicit a sentence that externally shortcuts the designation of who does what by using pronouns where it seems still clear. But that doesn't mean we reason any differently internally about the subjects and objects. With a sentence like:

"The mother gave the sommelier a wave."

Being spoken as:

"She gave him a wave."

It seems quite reasonable to imagine that we perceive in our mind's eye the subject and object in the same way but extract the pertinent information as appropriate. A simpler sentence could be the result of a more complex process.

But then we come across this sort of issue within English too because we come across ambiguous situations "they gave me the other's key". Or perhaps ...

A: "She gave me her key"

B: "Who?"

A: "The girl gave me her key."

B: "Why did the girl have a key?"

A: "No I mean the girl gave me the mother's key."

The reasoning about the people was clearly about a girl and a mother in the first sentence but the expression of that reason wasn't elicited until the final one - I don't think the mental model has changed anywhere is such an exchange. Thus I don't see why there needs be a different internal model being used in your [david-given's] example.

In your red example if someone tells me "he has red hair" red refers to a different thing to "his door is red" - red _hair_ is what we call ginger hair usually. It's not that Gael's think of red differently IMO it's just a limitation of English expression. The expression doesn't reflect the internal model well.
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I'm a Python/Flask dev who has knowledge of the basics of Scala. Which web framework and ORM would you recommend to develop a (potentially) non-trivial web app?
The systems vary wildly, from inductive loops at the side of the track placed near each signal (PZB), electrical contacts between the rails (Crocodile), to signals transmitted through the rails (ATB) or through leaky cables along the whole track (LZB). The installed base is obviously huge. There are often several not-entirely-compatible variants within each country, mostly for cost reasons.

Oh yes, also patents.

Currently railways are installing the European ERTMS system on many tracks, usually as a second system so both trains using the local traditional system and the new ERTMS can ride there. However, it is quite complicated and it turns out not all trainside implementations talk correctly with all railside ones.
Fight Club is spot on. If the Mr Robot doesn't turn out to be a facet of the protagonists mind, I'll be very surprised.
The problem with inventing languages is that we don't fully understand natural languages. For example, there is no satisfactory formal semantics for natural languages. Categorical grammar and Montague grammar are some inroads into formal semantics, but they don't get very far. The work of Roger Schank got further in terms of expressiveness, but then fizzled out, probably because it was ad hoc and lacked an underlying mathematical structure. So inventing a language is working in the dark.

There are some natural languages which were in part designed in a top down manner, like Mandarin and Indonesian. But still, on the scale of natural to artificial, these are much closer to natural languages. They were both based on some other natural language(s), borrowing words and grammar from them.
What is nonsensical is a definition of consent that denies that animals are able to give it. You know how when you try to do stuff to them, and they run away or attack you or whatever? It's not a subtle message they're sending. At least in most cases.

Of course, it's probably important to admit that 95% of Western civilization (and maybe all civilization; and maybe all of humanity) agrees with your perspective on this topic, to my dismay.

Edit: although when you consider all relevant issues about the morality of how humans use animals, the ethics of forcefully inseminating them come pretty low on the list, imo.
I'd look at suggestions made by mamaar about projects with a lot of non-technical users.

I'd also look at projects where it is growing/big but the dev team is small enough that great documentation can sometimes be difficult for them to churn out.

> and would be happy to work with a reasonably non-technical person?

As long as you know how the system works and can explain things to users, that would already be a value-add to any project. If an OSS project can't appreciate your documentation, you simply walk away and contribute elsewhere.

Even on the internet, assholes and their projects eventually whither away if they can't appreciate any great contribution (granted, you must respect their processes and not become the asshole to their project).
Don't try. There is no way to protect yourself from our absurd German privacy laws. (Except if you are the government, then nothing matters.)
Even the local residents' registration offices simply sell your private data for next to nothing to cheap ad companies.

..but if you are an US company, we hate you for the votes.
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I would say this is a good one. You can 'seed' it by signing up a bunch of different email addresses for various free offers or other stuff. Fill out web surveys and always put in an email for a chance to win the imaginary amazon gift card, also sign up to a few sites and leave the "let 3rd party offers be sent" or what ever it is. Once you've established 3 - 10 addresses on a few mailing lists the folks will start selling lists amongst each other and in no time flat you'll have millions of emails a day.
Yes, I'd love a major mapping service to consider something like http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/demos/AdaptiveCompositeMa...

We now have maps that resemble nothing like any paper map before. There's no reason at all they have to be like zooming closer to the biggest paper map ever made.

(Web) Mercator is almost certainly the right choice for the things most people use maps for: local directions, routing etc. Minimal distortion on that scale. If you look at the "Projection Diagram" on that page, Mercator is only used for the highest zoom levels, however. Above that it's adaptive based on both zoom and latitude.
> But cultural fit is also important.

Is it? I fail to see how preferring Dr Who over BSG is relevant to becoming a great employee, or more seriously, how hiring managers selecting for "cultural fit" doesn't end up as 'I prefer to work with people who put work ahead of family, health, and sanity.' With maybe a tinge of discrimination bias.

IMO, the right place for cultural fit isn't in the hiring step, it's in the recruiting and application steps, when you broadcast what your workplace environment is, what the priorities are, and then applicants choose to work within that culture or not.
Well, while going Canada->LHR->Schengen airport, I definitely had to go through UK security again, as well as passport control to connect to an "international" flight to France. I didn't even leave the terminal.

"Everyone who boards an aircraft at Heathrow has to be security screened to UK government standards. Even if you've already been through security checks at another airport, we're obliged to screen you again before you fly from Heathrow."

http://www.heathrowairport.com/heathrow-airport-guide/flight...

I guess when faced with the choice of taking a risk-based approach toward security, and applying an equal amount of security to all, they chose the latter.

At least the UK lets you check through your bags, unlike the US.
A $500 Dell T20 Xeon has ECC memory for FreeBSD and ZFS, with room for four drives.
Hey, guess what! There are single-syllable cmavo for doing exactly this! fa, fe, fi, fo and fu, respectively. Although the docs warn against using them too much because they might be hard to parse.
yeah, they had me until he clicked on the search button with his mouse.....yeah, his mouse. who the hell does that? It's just not rhetorical, is there any one out here that clicks the search button on google instead of hitting enter right after they typed?

Also is it realistic to require programmers to wear business casual at a top notch cybersecurity firm? Is this an actual thing?

edit: typo
I have also taken a night train from Vienna to Paris (and then a regular TGV to La Rochelle).

Night trains are wonderful, they save you a night at the hotel, and they basically make the journey take no effective time from your holidays... but SNCF wants to get rid of them entirely, or so I heard.
The Internet of (Marketing) Things: Marketers will try to impress your fridge
unfortunately, this type of behaviour is not limited to 1% gatherings
Actually I'd put LinkedIn at the top of the list.
I'd like to see a modified internet permission that permitted access to only a specific domain. Maybe along with a policy prohibiting or discouraging using the all-internet permission for anything that didn't clearly need it, like say a web browser. Say the Twitter app only has permission to access URLs under twitter.com, and accessing any other URL domain is a separate permission.

I'm not sure if Google would go for it, but I suppose it would encourage devs to use Play services for ads and analytics, since it wouldn't need any extra internet permissions, while using an external service for either would.
At least you generally get a warning for a cloud service going down. Then it's around as much hassle as a single component of the NAS failing.

I'm not sure what's more likely, a trustworthy-looking service disappearing out of the blue, or a RAIDed NAS being damaged in a way that data is lost.
Yeah, I had to Google how to find out how to do this, it doesn't seem to be written anywhere.
Since I've never heard of "Webshots" that seems like a bit of cherry picking. Flickr and Smugmug have both been hosting photos continuously for over a decade.
That is the first over-two-thirds of the article, which is an argument for Mercator. Web Mercator is not conformal, which is admitted in the last part of the document. I personally find the final argument for Web Mercator to be a bunch of hand waving that seems to use "complexity" in inconsistent ways, ignoring that having data that is actually accurate and based on a consistent formula is "less complex" even if it requires a small amount of extra trigonometry (and I'm not even certain that that is really true, though I have not had a chance to finish all of the reading I have on my todo list for map projections, Web Mercator in particular; see URL).

http://cegis.usgs.gov/projection/pdf/Battersby_Implications%...