skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got some very interesting results from feeding fractal images into a program like this a few years back - unfortunately, I don't have the resulting sounds, but you pick less busy images with filaments, and adjust the contrast - the result is very organic. Must have a go with this ...
No. HTTP requests to snapchat still return with "Server: Google Frontend" header.
Yup. Although, they solved this in more interesting way in Pingus. You can tell blocker to do something else (dig, build, etc.) to unblock it.
> the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters

I think that's just a coincidence and not really the cause. You can find luddites nowadays on hn who understand technology.

> if you’re a concert pianist, it doesn’t mean that you have any special knowledge about how to cause social change.

Haha such as Victor Borge, Tom Lehrer, and more.

What about actors like Schwarzenegger and Regan?

Recovering Alcoholics try to change the people around them too. Sometimes even if the people around them don't have the same problems.

The humans are the problem and not the subset of human techies.

I admire the Toyama for blowing the whistle, but I think he's nearly as blind as he was before realizing all this.
nice design, but i wonder if their design team has any non-retina machines? the anti-aliasing in the tilted phone UI is pretty bad in Chrome on a non-retina display.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote (London)

We're looking for a contract developer to join us to work on an exciting new fitness start up. We're developing an online booking platform and companion apps.

You'll be working with two other part-time developers, we're looking for someone who's willing to learn, brings ideas and cares about quality.

Our technology stack currently includes:

* HTML/javascript/CSS (HAML/CoffeeScript/less)

* AngularJS

* Ruby on Rails

* AWS S3

Email: Richard@actfit.com
That's absurd. If you can't do it right (meaning responsibly, ethically, legally, not in a better-is-better sense), I would suggest not doing it. Maybe some things are beyond a 2 person startup, without cheating. That's an ok outcome, if you haven't drunk the "all existing entities must be overcome by hook or by crook, and lo, the ends shall justify the means" SV koolaid.
Hi there, I have a few questions:

* Why are you providing this service?
* Is there a fee associated with your solution?
* Do you have any particular skills or background that, say, my existing analysts may not have?
Will Qt become over-complex as C++11 itself if add more c++11 element?
Ask HN: Good resources to learn AI using python?
I did some search but was not able to find out any new updated good resource to learn AI, mostly was referring to Peter Norvig book on AI. Is there any other resource you guys came across which are good, please share.
I don't want there to be an edit/build/test cycle - I want my tests to be validated continuously. I want my IDE to point out instantly that I have made a change that breaks 3 of my 10 unit tests, and I want a panel that shows exactly what the output used to be for each test, and what it is now.
Smart oven takes the guesswork out of cooking
Announcing a New Tech Conference – SameOne – Same Speakers, Same Talks, Same *
Sorry to hear that. If you have any time-stamped material in a repository or on ITunes Connect, put up a blog post with what happened. Launch your app as soon as possible. I don't think there is anything tangible you can do unless you think there was some foul legal play.
This article's beginning is eyeroll inducing, but when it gets to covering the actual critiques of how technology has shaped and influenced the world good points are made.

I've noticed similar things. I'm not sure how we really get to the point where technology is a force used for leveling the playing field and not a force used for exacerbating it.

But I do know that it's important for the people who care about these things to engage with it. I know we'll be even worse off if the tech people that care about how tech impacts the world and care about leveling the playing field drop out of the field.

Tech has become increasingly soulless. None of us can afford to let that trend win.
A native GUI? Believe or not people will still pay a premium for that, myself included. There's a lot of money that web app makers are leaving on the table by not making "non cross platform pieces of software".
I don't think any computer out there can properly identify the food that I attempt to cook...
Any chance of a widget? Currently using "Day Counter" to track days since last X, but it doesn't have any concept of streaks or goals.
Design is definitely not my strong point either :) Google's design pages[1] have been a big help to me, they call out specific things to do and not to do with Material design. I think they put it together in a way that can help engineers out.

[1] https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/typography.html#typ...
I asked it to finish all my client work this week so I could spend more time with my family and also work on my neglected side projects. Looking in git, there are zero new commits, so I'm assuming this didn't work (or the fairies it invokes don't believe in version control, which is equally worrying). 1 star, would not click again.
This fake button digital nonsense does nothing for me; I need that fake knob analog placebo effect!

It sounds crazy but most sound engineers have accidentally done this to themselves. You tweak a knob, hear the difference, and then noticing the whole channel was muted and wonder what it was that you just heard change.
Looks great! It was only a matter of time.

I feel bad for all those third-party apps on the AppStore that probably do the same thing. They filled a niche before Stripe could build their own solution but now, will they just fade away to obscurity?
It seems to me this will replace Storm for many uses, and it seems they knew this and they've been putting effort into taking on exactly that sort of use case:

"Based on user feedback, Kafka seems to be the the primary means that developers are interested in ingesting data from. We rewrote the onyx-kafka plugin from scratch to essentially mirror what Storm's Kafka Spout provides. That is, the Onyx Kafka plugin will dynamically discover brokers from ZooKeeper and automatically reconnect to an In Sync Replica (ISR) if any brokers go down. We also took a little detour to create onyx-s3. onyx-s3 is an S3 reader that handles faults by check-pointing to ZooKeeper."
Still seems like overkill, though. Just like the "beverage identification" in Vessyl, it presumably adds a reasonable amount to the cost of the thing (as well as another breakable component) when selecting "A chicken leg" in an app or something would be sufficient.
While that page in particular may look like a Thomas Ptacek fanpage :) that doesn't invalidate its content. So thanks for sharing.

Anyway what I really wanted to say was that, for those who missed the link, this page has has a link to a meta-"awesome" list:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
"I like to play video games. I also have a significant other, and she often walks into the room to talk to me while I'm playing a video game."

Looks like the real solution would be to pause your SO ;)
AFTERSCHOOL ADVENTURES timisoara
The app looks really useful and props on getting it out there. Another design related suggestion (especially for an app that features color so prominently) is to find a good color palette at a site like http://www.colourlovers.com/ and stick with that. No one should be picking their own colors in 2015 :)
I wouldn't hope too much. Firefox the browser crashes when I browse imgur on my Galaxy Nexus, so god knows what Firefox the OS will do.
That is an interesting article but I don't think they do it any better in India. In India there is even more emphasis on memorizing things. In India academics are probably over emphasized.
DragonBox Pyra Development: One Less Thing to Worry About
But how would you bring it back?
Media Keys does that for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/media-keys-by-sway...
Only, what the article describes is exactly -- down to a T -- what mocks are (in their more narrow definition, i.e. as opposed to fakes/stubs). They capture your calls to actual real-world interaction and turn them into a list of operations that can later be queried and verified, and they do all that without requiring you to create a new DSL for capturing and describing effects.

The article starts with discounting mocks, and later describes how you should hand-code them each time.
Where is your source code hosted? It may be worth asking a security person to take a look at your laptop or development environment, for signs of persistent malware. As bad as this is, you will want to make sure it does not happen again.
I bet the NSA is asking for it!
The notifications are all optional: you can opt into daily summary, new payments, and new customer notifications in the app settings.
I made it ad-free until after 3 goals. Then it'll show ads (just trying something different).
> If I were to infer what they are doing internally now, it would be replacing "legacy AppEngine" with "container AppEngine".

The fact that in addition to support for custom runtimes, App Engine Managed VMs has Google-provided VMs corresponding to all of the existing supported sandboxed runtimes except PHP is, I think, a pretty good indication that Google's plan for official runtimes going forward is to move them to official Managed VMs rather than what you seem to be calling (accurately, I think) "legacy App Engine" -- the sandboxed platforms.

But all the signs are, IMO, there that this, while it may take a while, the same kind of transition that the move off the old legacy datastore was, something that's optional while it the new platform matures, but eventually will be the only way.
Or their imperative counterpart in this case -- mock objects (in their more narrow definition, i.e. as opposed to fakes/stubs). Although mocks also often provide a good querying mechanism over the operations they capture.
What about this is made better by memristor processors?
You don't. Pick an employer on the same wavelength as you.
> I've never met the team from Zenefits, so I can't say for certain, but if they're not idiots...

The founder of Zenefits posted here on HN that "APIs == zero errors"[1]. Anybody who has worked with APIs knows this is not the case so you may be overestimating Zenefits' competence.

> Unauthorized methods of accessing your systems shouldn't exist...

Yes, scrapers should not exist.
Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?
> For the excessive load, they should just implement rate limiting across their system & return a 429 when someone goes over.

Practically, I'm not sure that would be much better for Zenefits.
http://thesop.org/story/politics/2009/11/25/outrage-google-c...

Google censored Michelle Obama monkey pictures. While this is in poor taste, all of the Bush monkey pics were never censored. Even worse were the results for Santorum, which I'm sure the employees of Google thought was hilarious.

More recently:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/20408-goog...

"The truth algorithm that Google researchers are developing will compare websites to a vast store of information the corporation has been compiling over the years"

Almost nothing in this world is black and white. When one organization decides that they have the the best version of the "truth", it's pretty scary.

Facebook also censors with political motivation:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/20/facebook-marks-yahoo-story...

The Obama campaign even used spam techniques during the campaign:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/10/03/obama-to-...

Facebook allowed it during his campaign, but have since changed the rules. If anyone else did this, the campaign would have been shut down immediately.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since Zuckerberg even tried to get his employees to read the propaganda filled book by the Chinese president:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08...

It's just more examples of political leaders being in bed with our media companies. Everybody talks about corruption and the 1%, but nobody seems to care about this.
> As far as unauthorized methods go - you'd patch the hole in your security to prevent them from getting through.

"They gained access to our systems by convincing clients to give them administrative access to our platform."

When ADP's clients giving out administration access[1] is the security hole, that is a reasonable way to patch it. The alternative is for ADP to fire their clients.

[1] I have not seen ADP's TOS, but I would expect giving out the administration login to third party outfits is a violation of it.
Even if you're self-employed, it doesn't take into account National Insurance quite correctly.
You can buy devices with memristors today:

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/MN101LR05DXW/?...

They've been delivered as promised. I read this as HP not getting the performance they need to surpass SRAM at its own game and also be nonvolatile. Which, to me, is kind of duh. You have to bring new tech in from the edges - niche, but important, products that are very ill-served by existing tech. Once you've got your production ramped up and the kinks worked out, then you take on at the really central stuff like CPUs.

Of course, it's very easy to say all this from my armchair :)
If it's just through a cheap speaker and mic, you'll probably lose a lot of the image.

This uses a linear frequency scale (which is just the nature of Fourier transforms), whereas our ears are sensitive on a log frequency scale. In other words, the information that's most important to our hearing, which is what a mic & speaker will preserve the best, is in the bottom 10% of the image.

A cheap speaker & mic will probably lose a lot of content above about 10 kHz - which is the entire top half of the image. Even though this wouldn't be that huge a difference to our ears, it would sure look bad in the image.

As for background noise, the difference would probably look like the difference here: http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/media/2010/09/RXAdv-e-xlarg... (that's a screenshot of audio restoration software that removes noise, so it's technically doing the opposite process as best it can, but the difference would be similar).
Hiring UX designers: 11 qualities to look for
I know this won't help in the short term but I would highly encourage you to participate in hackathons or work on side projects and list those on your resume along with what you learned. It gives you character and makes yourself memorable to the reader.
Moscow then and now
Awesome book, deals with all aspects of robotics, mechanical, electrical and software
Man, Bruce is consistently dwelling on the fundamentals, pushing on the boundaries, and questioning how we do things. Well worth a read!
LLVM is a great tool, but I've had trouble in the past with version compatibility. I wrote a compiler that used LLVM as a backend (I used LLVM versions 3.4-3.6). The problem was that each minor version of LLVM slightly changed the API. It was things like removing parameters from methods, renaming methods, removing the need for some methods completely, or adding/removing some static-link libraries. If you only wish your tool to be compatible with a single version of LLVM, its not a problem, but attempting to support a selection of minor versions ended up being a pain. These minor versions would come out 3-4 times a year and I would need to find what broke each time, and if there was even an equivalent solution in the new version.

I didn't work on the level of IR, so I didn't come across any problems there, but I wouldn't be surprised if the IR syntax changed slightly across minor versions.
I/O is someone else's code, not yours. So it's someone else's responsibility to test it. You should just test the arguments that you pass (in case they are generated) and trust that the I/O is properly tested by its author.

In OOP everything happens somewhere else because anything can hold a reference to the variable and change its value right under your nose.

To me at least these are two different concepts.
"And the choice of that word reveals obvious racism."

Nice armchair psychology--maybe it's chosen because it's considered taboo, instead of because of some deep-seated dislike of blacks?
R in a 64 bit world (indexing large structures)
I am not objecting to algebraic effects; I am objecting to your calling the different orderings "irrelevant and distracting." It is a vitally important detail that can easily make the difference between correct and broken code. When a code snippet can be written making no assumptions about ordering, exposing it as polymorphic with respect to ordering is great. When it must rely on a particular ordering, pretending it doesn't will bite you.
For UK - I used the link via the site and it opened up in the App Store.
shrug

I really have no idea. Was just responding to the parent comment which said: "In my teammate's experience, parents in India tend to be more hands off and let their kids develop independence earlier."
If you search for "Stripe" in the iphone app store it is nowhere to be found. Among the results that do appear are "LoL Camera", "Fruit Shake", "Color Lines Free". Apple really needs to improve their app store search.
Damn, someone beat to this joke!
"other great tools"

I probably have $1500 in cookware and my knife collection and large stand mixer and just cooking stuff in general, but if you buy quality it lasts decades (or at least it used to), which might be a slightly longer time horizon than the typical gadget, or in this case, toaster oven.
You don't need to mock it. In your tests just manually call the code that is going to be executed if the I/O call returns an error. This goes for both OOP and FP.
I was aiming for colors to be a way to organize yours goals into categories and hopefully it isn't too invasive
As always, product page announcements are gorgeous. But does anyone feel the web dashboard is severely limiting? For example, getting simple graphs like YTD, Last Month, This Quarter... etc currently it's all manual http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D

And ditto on simple KPIs/analytics e.g. % increase of new users this week vs last, ARPU, Q/Q... I know there are 3rd party services that focus solely on this but it just seems like such an easy add; am I missing it somewhere in dashboard or is this really not a priority?
That's interesting. However, I wonder ... don't you think it can be abused in some games that try to compensate lag? For example, what if they use a code similar to:

delay = currentFrameTime - lastFrameTime
playerPosition += direction * delay

I know that some games (such as Diablo III) may automaticallt ban you if you happen to run a program that may be used to cheat (they detect that via a background process check).
Predicting HN upvotes from headlines with python
I think Android had a vertical app drawer back in the pre-Gingerbread era, too (though I can't find any screenshots to prove it, atm).
I tried "make the work day go by faster" (I'm currently stuck at the sales desk -- again -- instead of getting real work done, because the lead rep is on vacation -- again). I've been browsing HN for the past 10 minutes of my afternoon break, and it's like the break was over way too soon. So...working, maybe?
At WWDC, they announced that the new Safari version would be able to do something like that.
On Madeon's latest album, he hid his logo in the transition between two tracks:
http://i.imgur.com/yPJTTs0.jpg

It sounds pretty cool too - you can hear the tones going up & down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz10F2Rtqv8&t=3m40s
Watch this space!

Or, really, watch the dashboard.stripe.com space. Though we'll post it here too.
You never have the right to withhold knowledge. Thats what your company is paying you for. If in fact you are doing all the learning that will make you a valuable employee and whether or not your boss copies your work, he should realize how valuable you are and pay you accordingly. If you think you are being underpaid for your expanding skills feel free to take them elsewhere, but you are a professional. Your company is paying for your skills. You agreed to take the job for the stated money so give it your all.
> Just like the "beverage identification" in Vessyl, it presumably adds a reasonable amount to the cost of the thing (as well as another breakable component) when selecting "A chicken leg" in an app or something would be sufficient.

Selecting common recipes from the console is a fairly common feature even in inexpensive microwaves and toaster ovens. Moving that to a phone app isn't really much of a comparative selling point, and its cheap and easy for existing incumbents in the market to replicate.

Onboard identification is much more of a unique feature. Sure, it adds quite a bit to the cost, but -- as long as it remains relatively unique -- it probably adds more to the appeal and potential selling price than to the cost.
This isn't exactly related (as it doesn't produce a spectrogram), but the software pixivisor plays around with this idea: http://warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/

The software can act as a transmitter or receiver. In trasmitter mode, you can provide it a static image or animated gif, which it will convert into audio which plays continuously. In receiver mode, pixivisor listens via the mic or line-in (depending on hardware platform and whats attached) and reconstructs the image from the audio. You can then manipulate the audio however you want.

This demo uses a korg monotron's low pass filter and LFOs to mangle an animated gif of a cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=g2W1W4fwEkg

Its really interesting to me to see how the audio modulation is represented in the receiver's output.
I wasn't planning on it for the 1.0 push, but maybe I'll stick it in as a paid feature.
>How do I convince potential employers to judge me based on my actual experience and code, rather than contrived coding exercises over Skype?

Consider the person who has the final say in the process. Be it the CTO, CEO, founder, et al. Committing to hiring someone is a big deal. They are taking a risk. Ultimately, it's near impossible to be 100% certain of a persons suitability until they are actually performing in the role itself.

When they are coming to a decision as to whether or not they should hire Candidate X, one of the questions they need answered is "Is this person technically capable". They need something to eliminate that question and all too often they rely on their team asking you to reverse a string or something to that effect.

To answer your actual question, it's important to avoid sounding arrogant but I sincerely suggest you pose your argument as succinctly as you have in your post above and run a mile if you get any objections.
Afaik if you don't need WebKit then you can disable icu when building Qt - use "--no-icu" when running configure. Not sure exactly how much it will disable, but it will free you from depending on icu libraries for core libraries
install fdroid, and then install ver1 of adw. launcher

you can also install v2 from the app store but one looks better.

you can have vertical scroll with or without snapping
I can't believe this made it to the top of HN. Shouldn't it be Show HN?
BTW, did not work for me for that stats.
Apple music (streaming service) to allow offline use
This app changed my life. I have found a new sense of focus, and it has even improved my marriage!
The important relationship as in any other business situation is with an individual rather than a company. In this case with a banker rather than a bank. Barring the fortunate situation in which a person has so much money that bankers are calling up them, creating that relationship is going to boil down to sitting down with individual bankers. It probably won't result in anything better than a standard retail deal in the short run, but it may result in someone who can provide advice as the business grows.
forgot to add: ironically, my fireOS phone scrolls sideways just like android... sigh