skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think we're pretty much already there? Isn't the first tactic of liberals to call "racist" and "intolerant" everyone who dares disagree with them? Isn't Hillary's main argument that she's a woman, therefore you should vote for her otherwise you hate women?

I came late to America and have no interest in politics (I can't even vote) so I want to believe that I'm able to observe and make a fairly impartial judgement. To me there is no difference between conservatives and liberals, the only details is you either hate America or minorities as you pointed out. Politics in America is sports for the educated.
What data are you referring to? Why would you need to take any recourse?
Care to elaborate? Family-based immigration (the overwhelming majority of cases) only requires 3 to 5 forms and a lawyer can't help much as you have to provide all the infos and documents yourself. And for employment-based immigration, most of the burden is on the employer.
This is awesome. But I think if there was more historical records (as in it showed more than the last 50 or 60), it'd have more punch for the layman. I suspect a lot of my FB friends, on seeing 30 connections to fqtag.com and some links to an IBM console would think 'so what'? But seeing a link to nastyporn.com (or whatever) that would be viewable without a warrant would be quite the eye opener.
>little to no actual benefit (like idk, mass shootings or terrorist attacks prevented).

How can you possibly judge that? For all you know, having 300 million guns in America is keeping the earth's magnetosphere intact through some weird quantum effect. It's highly unlikely, but you have no idea what the actual benefit of the 2nd amendment is because there is no possible way to empirically determine what the past would have been like without it.
That's not really proof that "there has been a degradation of information quality". In a way, rather to the contrary - US ranking in this particular ranking fell because new information emerged; the administration then reacted against information leakers.

But if we look at that ranking, USA is still clearly in the top third of countries of world.

Russia is clearly in the bottom third of countries of world.

It is sort of funny that when we speak about the problems of the bottom third, and Russia in particular, it is somehow compulsory to see the comments "Look at USA, it also has problems!"
"Private companies only change when they have to."

I think this is true for all institutions. Change need to be first enabled and then forced. This is because institution is not a solid thing, it's a while loop. A process that needs to feed itself to exist. So it has natural inertia to stay the same.

I think democracy is enabled by efficient taxation of businessmen. So you no longer need aristocracy as middlemen to collect taxes.

It's enforced by necessity of defense. You can motivate peasants to defend "their country". But you have to let the vote for it to feel theirs. This worked at an age when you needed lot's of fingers to pull lots of triggers. There was proof of concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition

Looks like weapons technology and general resentment against conscription is enabling whatever comes after democracy.
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The use case of the promo1 video doesn't look very promising. If some thugs kidnap you, and you break their computers, then they will get angry and explain that to you thoughtfully.
What's the response been so far?
Impressive - getting Siri to learn Portuguese, coding gaming servers, creating a PayPal like payment system ... All as teenagers.

Nothing to do with "lucky and gamers" but interesting nonetheless.

Kudos to them.
https://youtu.be/6QRvTv_tpw0?t=28

;)
Well, if we could break Disney while letting lawmakers know it's not because we want Porno Mickey, but because that little freak of nature is anal raping our constitution, maybe that would do it.
If you want to experiment with binaural recording and don't want to spend lots of money on the Neumann, there are microphones that will fit in-ear like earbuds.

One of the less expensive examples: http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/item/SP-TFB-2

Of course, the sky's the limit when it comes to microphone pricing, and as with anything in audio, it's that last 10% that costs a fortune.

Edit: Neumann also has an Android app that will allow you to quickly calculate stereo recording angles when using conventional mics. Unfortunately, it requires Adobe AIR to be installed as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.neuman...
Given the fact that the FAA seems overstretched and underfunded as it is, there are perfectly legitimate issues to be raised about the prospect of an additional geographic, cultural, and (quite significant) cost barriers being placed in the way of the work they have to do -- and on top of this, about the issue of permanently exporting a considerable number of high-paying middle class jobs. You can't just paint these concerns xenophobic scaremongering.

It's not like they are making hard drives. Oh wait. Developing countries already do that.

Making airplanes is a bit more sensitive a matter than making hard drives. Do I need to explain why?
Would have liked to read it, but the website is loaded with pop-up ads and it won't render on my iPad.
Clojure and the technology adoption curve
It definitely sounds like something most developers need :) , not sure about the price though (but I'm not your target audience I guess).

Minor typo in your profile: "Recently, I've been the host two podcasts: "
Maybe even a container image / VM to ensure there's no subtle enviroment differences that alter the results. Even better with reproducible builds specifically so you can confirm it was created from the published source.
^^ Is why all of this has to be as much or more about the story as the tech. Story development needs to grow to do things like giving NPCs in the games personalities to deepen your immersion in the story and to help it grow toward it's confluences of "predetermined destiny" or whatever.

Fret not! Of your two NC4000 possible futures there, we're already getting some fantastic examples of the first case.

I'll be contentious though in that you've stood up two straw men there. A "here's different world simulator, go explore" game will take you only so far without story and motivation toward some end. And the second option would get the same reviews a game like that would today -- formulaic, boring, pedantic.

One aspect at the expense of the other gives you a not motivating game, it's as direct as that. You need an interface that becomes transparent over time, and you need compelling storytelling to engage you in the lives of the characters and their plight.
Great Design: What Is Design? (2006)
JetPack flies in New York (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCYSWyHDpfU)
15 Israeli Startups to Follow Closely in 2016
Keeping Up with the Joneses in Software Engineering
I've seen your book mentioned a lot of places (Product Hunt, I think Hiten Shah mentioned it on Twitter, Facebook ads in the sidebar). How much of that did you plan/execute and how much "just happened"? Maybe the broader question I'm asking is how did you plan and coordinate your launch? (Asking for a friend who is a author and is also myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
The reference to Google Maps was a surprise to me... Does't FB typically relies on Bing maps?
Congrats to the team. Go has never let me down in my work and my personal projects, it's just awesome.
Ask HN: My project idea is built by someone else – what should I do now?
Hi
I was near to burn out and trying to find some good idea to implement. After so much research I got one Idea and I know it will be great open source project.

I was so much exited about that. Now someone else open sourced my Idea and It is one of trending repositories on github.Though I learned from that project but I loose interest in my project as it is already implemented. I am feeling so much depressed from two days.

Please give some advice.
Maybe I wasn't clear: it does matter, because your reader could be non-native with English, and he/she may need to allocate non-zero amount of attention to fix your spelling.
Kind of amazing you can build this and not get a visit by any government entity.

Of course right now it is far less powerful that any shotgun/rifle you can buy without any background check at a gun show.

We are more than a bit insane about weapons in this country.
The name-calling referenced in this article also influenced a talk by Theo de Raadt on a new security feature for OpenBSD:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00003.h...
The Microsoft Surface Book Review
MTN telecom chief executive quits after Nigeria fine
Show HN: Juntoo – A tool for front-end devs and PMs to annotate web projects
> Also, consider that this "less developed country" builds nuclear reactors, has a space program, and runs better metro lines than most of Europe. They somehow manage not to screw all of this up more than anyone else.

Not that I'm saying this is not true but you have to consider the sheer control of the media in China, would we hear about the screw-ups, you can cover just about anything up with that level of control.
Somebody buy that guy a high speed camera.
own capacitor bank with big glass cider bottles

What was the construction of these - plate inside/outside made of foil?
I have to point out the Motorola Exorciser M6800 development system used by this camera:

http://blog.iso50.com/tag/kodak/

This was the first system I used professionally and I wrote an emulator for it: http://exorsim.sourceforge.net/
"During the second test, the projectile snagged before fully entering the rails and was partially reduced to a molten spray of vaporized aluminum. This issue was resolved for future launches with looser fit tolerance."

For me a machine that can create a molten spray of vapourised aluminium (fixed spelling) is actually almost as interesting as a rail gun. :-)

Dear FBI, purely for artistic purposes.
> IIRC the right to bear arms was intended so that the people can overthrow the government if need be; small chance of that now, with the military and police forces as advanced and militarised as they are now.

However it seems that most low tech insurgencies fighting against the advanced conventional militaries of the West always seem to win, from Vietnam right up to Afghanistan / Iraq.
I could have sworn I saw a Kodak digital camera in the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford in about 1990. I think the signage said it was the first one on sale and was made in the early 80s.
Unless the results are in favour of Cassandra, I don't trust your methodology
choice, as you're a tested party in this benchmark.
I've seen it from Alan Kay's talk 'Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?' [0]

Though GH repo is not updated for more than 3 years and maybe it's just my inexperience or I am spoiled, but from lack of proper documentation I have no idea how to setup and use this language? On what platforms does it work?

Also looking in the examples, it looks somewhat APL'ish due to use of special characters. How do I type them (and do it quick) on regular laptop?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
Suggests an interesting optimization for immersive head-tracking VR systems might be to dynamically model pinna-reflection to correctly relocalize sounds vertically, as well as in the horizontal plane. How good is 3D sound modeling in game engines today?
Bandwidth Distributed Denial of Service: Attacks and Defenses (2013) [pdf]
er, you can just rent?
I've bought a house last year and I am in another country at the moment, all I had to do was rent the place... the mortgage is paid by the rent.
We built Juntoo for front-end devs & projects managers as a tool to use together and with other team members to manage visual feedback together in web projects in a different way than through screenshots.

With this tool, PM can stick comments with change requests to different DOM elements (so it also works on responsive designs) making it easier for the front-end dev to understand where and what needs to be changed.
Really good: I've sold 433 copies so far (in all 3 tiers).

Getting responses like this from readers has been my favorite part:

https://twitter.com/hrishio/status/664054767581294592

It definitely struck a chord.
I've watched all the video, still can't understand why I would want this.

Why would I want a device that breaks my computer?
Simlar – open-source, easy, encrypted, free phone calls
A good and valuable occupation, though I'd classify it as fitness actvity principally.

I'm referring more to engagement which occupies your mind. My experience, with employment in tech, is that exploring other technically complex issues is difficult -- there's only so much intellectual capacity a person's got. My own interests are the complex set of topics associated with sustainability: ennergy, climate change, human institutions from economics to politics to psychology to education and more.

As simply alternative mode operations, I've long found that some level of wrking with my hand -- physical manipulation though not necessarily hard physical work -- is quite rewarding. Woodwork, refinishing, building or repairing items, etc. Even cookking and household chores can fill this role.

It's a different headspace.
TTAG Heuer Connected Proves Luxury Smartwatches Are DOA
Jason Scott says it destroys books:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4695
Well, you can; Franklin's quote is not an iron law of politics. Every little bit of product, agricultural or environmental safety is an infringement of "liberty" that improves safety. "Freedom" is not an infinitely fungible gas, but must be considered in terms of specific freedoms to do specific things.

I'm quite happy to give up the freedom to run, say, a toxic waste dump in my garden to prevent my neighbour from having the same freedom.

In what year would you consider the US to first be a free country?
Hey, that's good. I mean, if those countries are "developing countries", not just "underdeveloped countries". So we avoid the usual tone where "developing" actually means "not developed and never going to develop".

70 years ago hardly anyone was thinking that they'd drive a car made by a Japanese company. 30 years ago hardly anyone was thinking they'd do their daily correspondence through a smartphone that was manufactured in China. 20 years from now hardly anyone will think twice about flying in a plane whose regular maintenance is done in Mexico, China, Romania, Estonia or whatever -- and possibly even designed and made in China. (After all, 25 years ago not that many were thinking that the British Airways plane they flew was actually maintained by cheaper labour from Finland, and today we fly in planes made in Brazil, which many also call a "developing country".).

But this article... cheap xenophobic fearmongering.
Their server are based in Germany and license of their code is GPL licensed. Has anyone tried this app and/or were there any security expert auditing of the code?
Isn't that what the article describes?

The core of the article is first recommendations on writing scripts to disambiguate cleanup tasks in data and organization/records management of files. It's then recommendations to use open source languages for scripting / analysis and for using git to maintain it all.

The trouble you run into is in the phrase "Provide clear ways to reproduce all the results."

There is "clear ways to," then there is "an exact method to." Academic life is cutthroat and research tenure and continued employment rely on showing that other peers are using their research. It's common practice to write an article in such a way that it looks "clear" but requires consultation with the researcher to understand precisely.

Ambiguity is part and parcel. The tough need here is core journals in each field being more rigorous on the sussing out of not-quite-good-enough methods statements to force researchers to be more open.
Currently, most users of computers running Linux own those computers, but do not have root access to those computers, because they are cellphones running Android. Instead, Samsung, Google, HTC, and random human rights abusers like Hacking Team have root access to them. Those users can currently obtain root access to their own computers only because of vulnerabilities in the kernels, hardware, and occasionally applications being used.

Given this very bad situation, I would argue that improving kernel security is at best ambiguously beneficial and possibly actively harmful to users. Maybe we should wait to improve kernel security — probably by switching to a different kernel — until we have somehow managed to escape this very dangerous situation in which people do not have root on their own computers.
I suppose the interesting point is more that it's being marketed as not really operated by humans as a positive when in many instance in our modern world the reverse is true. And also it's an interesting application of the Turing Test too. :)
I'm wondering why this was implemented as a language, rather than as a library in, say, Python or Haskell.

Is "streaming" something that is overlooked in conventional programming languages?
In my experience, scientists are like extremely junior developers with PhDs.

They name functions "wstok" instead of "whitespace_tokenizer" because it uses fewer keystrokes.

They can't be bothered to commit code. And when you do manage to get them to commit code, it is isn't the same code. It is close to the same code, but different. They think "close enough" is close enough, even though they recognize that without the exact code, it isn't the same thing. "Just a few tweaks will get you from that code to my code!"

This is a very difficult problem for a startup to solve.

EDIT 1 I read about other commenters writing about containers or just provide a github repository. The problem isn't the availability of the tools, the problem is convincing them to use the tools.

EDIT 2 Scientists don't give a damn about reading code, or what happens to the code the moment it leaves their hands. To quote one, "Why would I use a coding style? Why did you read the code? Code is not meant to be read!" This was a serious conversation.

EDIT 3 The most difficult thing is remembering they're not developers who care about developer tools. They're scientists who want to get results to their very exciting experiments.

EDIT 4 (as commented in reply to woah: we ("a startup") want to solve this problem because we employ scientists. See : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539433

EDIT 5 We've made great progress on working with scientists, and we're hoping to open source some of our tooling and write about what we've learned.
Or because you've added randomness?

Store the 24-bit signal, and you could do a dithered downsample to 16-bit on playback if you think that's a good idea. Wouldn't that be better all round?
NGINX Log Analysis with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
So how well does this scale, if all of Facebook's users are using "M" like this?
Reproducible Software Deployment with GNU Guix [video]
On Being Smart [pdf]
Reimagining the WordPress Dashboard
Hi guys, I know that most of the people here work with WordPress on a daily basis. It's easy to get bored with the old WordPress Admin Interface. It surely got a revamp with version 3.8, but the basic concept stayed the same.

We tried to reimagine the experience of using WordPress, and we used Google's Material Design as a base.

You can check the project here http://weare732.com/getmaterialwp/
A link to a live demo is also available in that page.

What do you guys think?
Feedbacks would be much appreciated.
It should be obvious that, since English clearly IS capable of being reliably serialized to and from text, that any proof that it can't be is obviously based on a flawed assumption, and so functions as a proof by contradiction of its assumption's falsity. In this case, it would be the semigroup model for orthography/phonology which is the flawed assuption.
Why Are Canadian Companies Afraid of Startups?
I wrote out a 3 month promotion plan. It included items like:

1. Do a paid beta. Many of those early readers helped create that early buzz.

2. Writing individual emails to people I know (like Hiten). I gave them a copy to review and asked do their help during the launch.

3. An email sequence for my mailing list.

However, there's always stuff that's going to "just happen" in real-time as opportunities arise.
... and still no generics.
Fantasy Noob here. How does it work? Also how are you able to give prizes when registration is free?
I finished the EB-1 process this year. As thankful as I may be for how it worked out eventually (and knowing that most employment based petitions do not fall in this category), I still regularly show people the picture I snapped of the 6 pounds of documentation I had to prepare and send to support my case. Maybe they just did a good job convincing me of their worth, but I can't imagine doing this without lawyers.
Codeship, Docker, and Deployment to AWS EC2 Container Service
Haha touché
Hey, I am working with Tobii and I saw this thread so let me try to give some background info about the Tobii EyeX to answer some of the questions in this thread.

We really value the community and comments at Hacker News and we know there are equal amounts of excitement and doubts about eye tracking and I am gonna have a quick giveaway of 10 EyeX sets here in the next 48 hours as well so that some of you can experience it first hand! More on that below but here is some information:

First off, we are not in a position to comment on products from other eye tracking companies globally, nor would we want to speak for them. So I am picking a few key issues here to discuss.

1)"Battery Drain issue" – The battery drain issue is probably more skewed towards mobile gaming and not for desktop/laptops and we are seeing little to no difference in battery drain when playing games with/without our eye tracker.

2)"Supplanting the hand controlled devices for aiming or changing POV” - We don’t intend to replace mice, keyboards or even to compete with them, but enhance the gaming experience with as natural interactions as possible. We already play games looking at the screen, and we can make your eyes a useful component of gameplay.

3)“Cannot do a high-res head pose estimation at high frame rate” - We are focused on eye tracking and have elements of head tracking but it is mainly on the point of gaze instead.

4)“Is the precision in the current tech good enough to replace the mouse for non-gaming activities?, web browsing or using a classical GUI with buttons and text fields and stuff” - Technically it is possible for similar levels of accuracy, but our intention was always to use it in combination with other modalities. We have plenty of people in the office who have become much less reliant on a mouse with the eye tracker but natural, learned interaction is not at a hands-free stage at the moment.
Frontiers of App Development: A Story of Containers and Kubernetes
See if you can bring a new approach to the problem. You could solve it in a completely different way by focusing on some other part of the process.
IMO that's an overkill. It's sufficient that the result is reproduced once. If slightly different environment would produce enormously different results, that's interesting by itself.

The goal is that you can continue research based on previous results, not that you can reproduce exact results in an obtuse VM.
Printing null in Java
Which points, exactly? I realize I casted a wide net, not really sure where this is going.

I checked out your comment history, and you don't seem to have have posted anything I would disagree with outright
I was looking into similar products when I found http://booksorber.com/

I already have the DSLR, tripod and floodlight so it was the natural choice for me. I guess this one is good if you have none of that.
Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program