skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every place is pretty much owned in America. Land is valuable. And there is admittedly little or no unspoiled land left.

But don't blame houses. People in America still live on a tiny fraction of the land. Its all about farming and grazing and mining.
News: http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/18/joyable-raises-2m-launches...
Having been on both sides of the interview desk and read pretty much every piece of resume/interview advice out there, basically don't take any resume or interview advice from anyone who hasn't done extensive hiring/interviewing/vetting of candidates.
As a non-graphics guy the complexity of 3D games rendering is just mind blowing.
> Though $20m seems like nothing notable today, in the post bubble fallout it was a significant achievement.

2005 is probably a bit beyond the "post bubble fallout" - nevertheless the previous year Yahoo spent $579M on Kelkoo and in 2003 (which is most definitely "post bubble fallout" era) they bought Overture Services for $1.6B[1].

Creating something that fetches $20M is certainly a success, but let's not pretend this is some amazing acquisition story on par with YouTube.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...!
LibreOffice: logical errors, copy-paste, misprints and so on
And you still don't have to do shit even if you are changing the source code, as long as you only deploy it internally, which doesn't count as redistribution.
33 Advanced Methods for Promoting Your New Piece of Content
Capitalism "eating itself" by getting too efficient to continue to provide work for everyone was Marx central thesis for why a socialist revolution would be inevitable, so nothing "neo" about it.
Choice itself is also a cost, beyond a certain point. The more alternatives, the harder it is to evaluate them all properly.
I would say he is just as unconvinced about the quality of his content like the guys he's talking about. And this is the forceful, desperate result.
Lockstep.IO – 'Lockstep' Networking Library for Unity
Why fish with human teeth keep showing up in American lakes
Are you planning to open source you android client as well?
Which implies an interesting statistic: the majority of people who ever lived, are still alive.
I don't understand why they have added a tiny speaker to this gadget. It wouldn't imagine it is very loud and in most cases would be stuck around the back of your TV. Could someone enlighten me to when a speaker would be useful?
Exactly. Everyone has different needs, it's not necessarily wrong.

For the record, I use a Linux laptop at work. When I get home, I enjoy sitting down with an iPad and an Xbox for entertainment. I have a 16 year old truck for the weekends and a brand new Fiat for my daily driver. I understand both sides of the argument, and they're both valid.
To add insult to injury, it is probable that her work killed her. She had ovarian cancer, and was known for walking in front of her x-rays (at waist level) quite a lot.
Sounds like an incentive for more people to commit less crime.
Something like Readability?
It'll only trigger the AGPL if you make it available to outside users. Internal use doesn't count as redistribution for any of the *GPL licenses.
Data Extraction to prevent road accidents
Paperspace seeking Frontend/UX Developer to help build the future of computing
Paperspace.io is a NYC-based startup looking for a fulltime front-end developer.

We are seeking a talented front-end web developer to build out our website and product interface. You’ll with members of the Paperspace design, engineering, and product team to create great user flows and experiences.

You are comfortable building UI elements, making prototypes, and meticulous about responsive design and code organization. An ideal candidate possesses a rock-solid foundation in web technologies and an interest in emergent frameworks, libraries, languages, etc.

Your portfolio has some best-in-class work demonstrating craftsmanship and elegant, compelling work. You care deeply about microinteractions in use (on mobile, web, desktop, etc), and have nuanced views on how to make them even better.

You’ve shipped product.
You’ve weathered release cycles and know what details matter at each stage. You can share several shining examples of real work, and what you learned along the way.

Responsibilities:
- Build pixel perfect front-end that meets the technical and design requirements in close collaboration with product design and engineers
- Integrate code with the back-end development team
- Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies
- Craft great experiences for users with macro and micro interactions
- Identify and communicate front-end best practices

Requirements:
- HTML5, CSS3 animations, and related web technologies
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript; experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling
- Exposure to modern stacks and libraries such as Node, React, Backbone etc.
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Sketch

Please send sample of work, resume and a description of why you want to join Paperspace to frontend@paperspace.io
Yes, we're in the middle of the Sixth Extinction
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You could take a look at Scaleway[0]. They provide ARM-based dedicated servers (with caveats).

[0] http://www.scaleway.com
Ask HN: What are your favourite tools to work with?
Out of interest, what are your favourite tools to work with (on your server/desktop/phone etc...)? What do you use daily and what other tools come in handy for you from time to time. What could you not imagine living without?

And of course, always interesting to hear if there are any tools out there that you are looking for, but haven't found anything that fully fits your needs.
Ecclesiastes! A good book, and I think a lot of people in our field could relate to it a little:

"Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity."
Sounds like a great guy to have as a customer. Too many people put up with broken UI without saying anything and as a result many web apps have horrible usability (and looks like Hiveage is one of them).
The Odroid C1 would be a better match for this than a Raspberry Pi 2. They both cost $35, but the Odroid C1 has Gigabit Ethernet plus a faster CPU (based on these tests at least... http://www.androidauthority.com/raspberry-pi-2-vs-odroid-c1-... ).
Jibo looks very cool, like an animated version of Echo, but it's a bit pricey at $749. They have an developer+SDK version for the same price which is open to anyone with the money to buy it. There are some initial forums for Jibo over at Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/jibo) but since the robot hasn't been officially released yet, they're kinda sparse on details.
Unless they went to prison for something job related like fraud i don't see how this policy would help ex inmates.

You serve your time and you are released to find out that you will be punished the rest of your life by not having access to the profession you've been doing all your life.

And then everybody wonders why people like that fall back to a life of crime. The system is pushing them that way they actually have to fight it to get out.
As far as I can tell Gitter is owning the space for open source projects, so there are definitely niches here.
Massachusetts launches online voter registration
To go one level deeper: It's actually an old Pete Seeger folk song.

So the Byrds were covering a Pete Seeger song, who used lyrics by Ecclesiastes.
Isn't eye witness testimony even more dubious?

It's possible the jury wouldn't have convicted him on eye witness testimony alone, but the fact that the physical "scientific" evidence agreed made it seem more legitimate.
100% agree, I felt like the author was a bit misleading in point #1
The author is commenting on this thread here:
http://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/2e...

The issues raised in the thread are documented on his webpage here:
http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html
http://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html
Looking at the proof: has the proof been formally verified? There could be a bug in that...
It's available as a Docker container, so yes, it can run on Linux (with or without Docker).
MVC has become meaningless after being overloaded so many times. I looked at the Wikipedia definition and to my surprise I saw that it's significantly different to the one I read, with no mention of the word "input".

Seems that MVC nowadays means MVP (i.e. Model view presenter where the view, presenter and model are layered and comunicate strictly to the layer above and below).

In a way this is good, because MVP works and is used by most UI frameworks, even if they call the "P" "C" in the docs.
That's not what you said though. You said picking Haskell was "suicidal". Clearly it's not.
It must be such a weight around Adobe's neck, supporting Flash as it dies. I pity the guy who's job it is to maintain it indefinitely.
I'd say it likely is a culture problem, the first thing all our developers, project managers and engineers do when they get to work is login to the chat server. Everyone has their clients (mostly Adium with a few running Pidgin / Empathy) set to auto-join a couple of rooms, we have one called #devops that most people join and then one per major product that people may be working on.
And some obvious cultural differences between UK and US (ie: "budget 2 months to find another job". Which made me scratch my head... my experience lately has been 1-2 weeks, if that. And I'm not in a prime market either...)
1% chance a person is innocent is probably roughly around the reasonable doubt standard.

The problem is courts often misapply statistics. Prosecutors will often say in a case like this that there is a 100:1 chance that he did it because of the error rate.

But they aren't applying Bayes Theorem.
He's not in SF, but your comment is mostly spot on. I liked this part especially:

This first example is a docx file. It means you’re
likely using Windows, which is a negative in the Ruby world.

Sure, file format is absolutely a right metric to use when going through resumes.
I saw the IRC gateway feature a little bit after the launch. I don't remember seeing it in the initial launch feature list and that it was "coming up" more or less.
Eh? It's right there in the mission statement:

>intelligence information from foreign signals for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes

"Intelligence purposes" i.e. knowing as much as possible about ,say, trade negotiations.
Diagnosing faults
How we turned one customer review into a feature in our webapp
Well really it's not much different from saying you will move out of your representative's district, move out of your state, or move out of the country if a law you don't like gets passed. Is it blackmail for a person to leave Indiana because of their pro-discrimination bill that recently passed? Was it blackmail for Salesforce to say that they wouldn't be doing business in Indiana? It's the same thing here. They're voting with their wallet just like everyone does.

However, it says in the article: A Microsoft spokesperson said: “We have looked into the nearly decade-old matter and we don’t recognise these claims. Fundamentally, it is not how we operate as a business. We have an honest and open engagement with the government and this is how we will continue to work with it.”
I'm not 100% up to speed on my AI, but this sounds about like what you'd get with random variations on a signal, where the neural net is the "which sounds like X" filter, and picks one of the two to survive. But that would be using both some form of a genetic algorithm (details TBD?) and the neural net as the checker. But is it?

If they aren't doing it that way, I'd be interested in hearing how it's evolving the signal in that given direction - and also how that filter works (what libraries does it use?).

Sounds like it hit some sort of local maxima, so this system won't ever produce the original song, but something a percentage of the way toward it.

I'm a bit more interested in algorithmic composition, but this could be interesting if trying to blend genres. For a long time I've wanted to build a program that could produce essentially an infinite song morphing between genres with lots of tunable parameters.
this really misses the point/problem entirely, the problem with parsing a turing complete format is that verifying data encoded with it in the general case (as valid/non malicious/useful) is equivilent to the halting problem.

They are dangerous to parse not because they can potentially run forever, but because due to their expressiveness, it is very easy to arbitraily trigger bugs, aided by the massive nessisary complexity of most parsers.

Those two things together make avoiding logic errors invoked by malicious data, leading to exploitability essentially impossible to prevent.

Another factor is it is impossible to formally verify something that executes turing complete code.
I'm getting really tired of zeitgeist shifts away from "the way it's always been" being sensationalized as "The WAR on [ENTRENCHED WAY OF DOING THINGS]!!1!!!!!!!111!!!"

Especially with goods that are sold, especially in America. Aren't we supposed to all be completely and totally enamored with capitalism and are't we all spoon fed the line that "The market will sort things out"? Because I see this as capitalism and the free market doing what conservatives always bark about it doing- the market following along with consumer demand. And yeah we can sit here and argue till we're blue in the face about whether or not the marketing behind that consumer spending shift is sound or not or "fair" or not, but at the end of the day, people are voting with their wallets and they're voting against the old guard, and the old guard is panicking and flailing about because they see that change is coming and they don't want to have to change.
I would phrase it as mechanization becomes a better investment than human capital.

It's the tipping point where humans, more often than not, no longer provide value. I can't help but feel we are VERY close.
Sierra Wireless acquire Mobiquithings to scale up their IoT Network
I doubt that this particular Lenovo mini PC is targetting that niche. You wouldn't need 32GB of storage for something as basic as digital signage, and there are Android-based alternatives for 3x cheaper... http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/mini-pcs/mk808-android-mini...
I once worked for a guy once who claimed he could sole-source a peanut if he had to. Many of them boiled down to colluding with the supplier to find a set of properties that were unique to their particular peanuts; things like soil pH, average temperature of the area they were grown in, not too much rainfall, not too little rainfall. Most purchasers were neither educated sufficiently to question these kinds of specifications, nor were they particularly interested; they also wanted to find the path of least resistance through the process. We probably could have bought most anything we wanted. Later we had a DOE grant get audited and there was some nervousness on our parts about some of these shenanigans that might be found. The guy just chuckled and said nearly everyone has to play this game to some extent. His major complaint about our books was that our overhead costs were above average, and he helped us make a case to the Uni for lowering it. Didn't see that one coming.

For an item like chalk though, my employer now has an arrangement with one of the big office-supply companies who specialize in tolerating (and charging extra for) gov't nonsense. Lately it's been CDW-G, I think. They provide a walled garden of approved products (which don't include the kind of good quality chalk in question) and a semi-streamlined purchasing process. It works great for the purchasing dep't, I'm sure, but it sucks for end-users because it introduces the same kind of uncertainty that a purchasing organization is supposed to fix. For example, the prices quoted on the website are not the actual prices of the products, and the products have variable discounts; this and the latency inherent in dealing with the purchasing process makes budgeting and price-shopping difficult to impossible. In my very small dep't we usually have budget projections rounded to the nearest hundred even for small items like chalk/dry erase markers because doing otherwise is a waste of time. We spent a lot of time a few years ago, working around the purchasing system just trying to get decent chalk before fatigue eventually set in and we just gave up and installed whiteboards.
Where did he predict that?
except for the fact that the tax dodging services Barclays helped enact for Rennaissance were illegal.
Chromium will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared Module
How AppShortcuts makes $410 per month
Wouldn't 50% retention of the top 50 apps imply most people use well over 25 apps? That is a figure that shocks me. Maybe there's a raw data problem?

The methodology claims to exclude popular preinstalled apps so my gmail, my wifes facebook, and my son's youtube use wouldn't be counted, so its 25 apps other than the popular ones.

I don't personally know anyone who uses more than about 10 apps on a daily basis...

Some other conclusions can be determined financially, like 20% of top 100 retained implies installing and ignoring 80 apps per month? I think I installed one or two?
I don't know any such simulation.

One problem is that there are several layers of abstraction between the electrons and the working of a computer, and the activity of the electrons is rather irrelevant to the activity of the computer, both in actual terms, and for understanding.

An interactive simulation could show what happens at the various layers, and perhaps what you'd want is to see all the layers in parallel, but here we have a difficulty for this representation, because those layers actually work at very different time scales, which cannot be visualized (with an interactive simulation) easily, unless you have a million years in front of you.

http://paste.lisp.org/display/139933

About binary numbers, what we can say is that in certain circumstances, it is more efficient and safer from a physical engineering point of view, to use only two different states to represent information elements. Which leads naturally to mapping the abstract, mathematical notion of binary digits, {0, 1} to those pairs of physical states. Notice that I don't say tensions, because sometimes it's current, and sometimes it's charge (eg. in condonser-based memories, like DRAMs).

But notice that when transmitting data eg. with modems, or even with more modern options such as ASDL or optic fibers, engineers actually use more states, more than two different symbols, to attain higher bit transmission rates. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud

Therefore you should realize that at the electronic level, engineers do not always use two states, so the notion of bit is not too relevant to computing: it's only something that matters at some low-level layers. Computers usually work at layers where it's irrelevant.

Edit: Actually, there's this http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html which may be interesting to you. It is an emulator of the 6502 processor that shows the activation of the electrical circuits on the chip, in parallel to an abstract representation of the processor. But actually, there is at least one intermediate layer that is not represented, and that makes it hard to understand the relation ship between the two layers represented: we're lacking a logic diagram. If you are an experimented CMOS chip designer, you might be able to read the masks directly, but since the layout is optimized for the silicium it's still hard to understand.
Just the other day I was thinking it would be nice if a cell phone can fire up multiple normal OSs (i.e., desktop Linux/Windows/OSX), so at hotel/library/friend's home/etc., one can pull it out of pocket, connect to a display and hack away.

I wonder when we can have that level of power and convenience in our regular phones.
Nice to see OS 7.5.5 on a Retina display.
Ask HN: Do you work with dogmatic, stubborn developers/sysadmins? Are YOU one?
For some reason there seems to be a very large number of highly dogmatic, stubborn and difficult-to-get-along-with people who work in development or as sysadmins.

People like this get grumpy and sulky when the technical decisions aren't what they agree with. They might even shout or yell at other people to get their own way. They'll deride the technical opinions of their teammates so they that can be "right", and "the winner" of the technical point in question.

Such people find it hard to empathise with others and think they they are the smartest and that their opinion is more valuable than everyone else's.

They value "the right technical decision" over human relationships and it doesn't seem to occur to them that the right outcome might be the one that makes someone else happy, or is the most diplomatic, even if it isn't "technically right".

Have you encountered many people like this in your IT career? Do you work with people like that now? Are YOU a dogmatic, stubborn and difficult person?

How do these people impact your technical team's work environment?
Don't be hasty! Lenovo probably "upgraded" it with performance improvements like failing to validate SSL certificates.
Either it was significant because it was an act of intimidation against the freedom of expression or it was because it happened in Europe and targeted Europeans.

If you intimidate someones freedom of expression in parts of the Middle East or Africa, nobody is impressed in the slightest.
Icebraining is not replying to you, but to a comment that has been flagged.
I think the idea is that there is a theoretical graph where the X axis is "effort to act safely" and the Y axis is "chance of an accident" and it's shaped like a crooked L and although it plateaus, it starts out at a steep angle. So there is some point in there where a certain amount of observational safety is optimal.
Given the shenanigans that the French have caused within NATO over the years I'd suggest that it would be useful from a strategic perspective to know the views of the French President. Not saying right or wrong, just able to fit broadly into the mission statement.
At some point the focus shifts and diverts away from the story to the presentation.

While impressive, I'm a little uneasy.
That's not really a problem, you just a number of them you can evaluate (say, 10), either from some recommendation list or randomly, and ignore the others. The end result will be the same as if those others hadn't existed at all.
I think something like mooc's(or maybe something like platzi - with it's high[~70%] completion rates) would fit well for prisons ,especially that some states have started to let their prisoners use tablets[1].

[1]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/17/tablets...
Nice article from Aviad Ezra, IMO much much better than what Fowler wrote.
Especially the "Still confused" which clarifies the confusion between MVC and MVP and "To MVP or not to MVP", where he mentions that the view and presenter can in fact be merged.
Why $99/month? If Joyable works then it's something that could deliver some real benefits to society as a whole - but only if the people who need it can afford it.
I guess it's because it looks like a pretty easy application to build.

'Looks like' being key there.
New Pentagon manual declares journalists can be enemy combatants
How organisations are addressing the fundamental security flaw in email