skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really like this idea of Skype coffee :D. Would like a remote starbucks :D
a BBC.com article posted earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695375
Tim Cook's comments about people using iPad Pros where they might have used notebooks before have precisely zero to do with either UI convergence or the long-term prospects for OS X.

> Just an aside: what a load of absolute horseshit. Just another example of how relentlessly people fall in line with the Apple party line on experience even as experts in UX and UI say, "They are doing nearly everything wrong."

So are you saying that they're lying about having done ergonomic research? Also, just like your "indications" comment, this is utterly unsubstantiated. Which experts? What research have they done?

> I reach up from a keyboard to a touch surface every day, and it was a revelation when I finally could.

How could that possibly be comfortable, if your display is at the recommended 25ish inch distance from your eyes and at eye level? Did you notice we're talking about "on a desktop scenario" and not a notebook?

> It's not like I've been in charge of shipping successful, highly featured and widely acclaimed iOS apps... What do I know?

Certainly not Apple's long-term plans for OS X.
My money would be on somebody commiting something to an externally facing and not security certified system. You see it quite a lot things that should be in gitignore for example.
Nothing super specific, I know people are doing raves with that closure music suite where they modify rhythm and music as the night progresses. I am not sure how much this can be considered as ES, kind of is...

Quick google found this, looks like what I was referring...

http://algorave.com/

This is what I was referring to

http://overtone.github.io/
Ex-Chicagoan here. This is absolutely, positively not a joke. I can probably come up with a half dozen schemes that would use the fiber build-out as a thinly-veiled excuse to bleed both Google and city residents.

Let's try.

1. All network providers would be allowed to charge a new "infrastructure maintenance fee" to their customers. A fixed $2, plus 40% of the amount of the fee, would go to the city per customer-month. Most of the amount collected would go to a maintenance contractor chosen through a "competitive" bidding process.

2. Public schools, municipal offices, police stations, fire stations, and public libraries would be required to buy network access through a single company, who would also manage their public wi-fi access points. That company could strongarm the providers into selling at a discount, due to its size, yet would charge the municipal customers a grossly inflated price. The wi-fi service sucks for everyone.

3. All fiber work done on city or RTA property must be done by union members, CWA or IBEW, according to their local worksite rules.

4. An alderman stalls the fiber authorization measure in committee until receiving sufficient "lobbying" to move it along.

5. Google required to lay far more dark fibers than strictly necessary. Unknown parties light some up for their own uses, without paying.

6. Google required to give CPD special access to network, supposedly in order to combat CP and terr'ism. Special access instead used to run untraceable server to sell items out of the evidence lockups.
Agreed. Facebook's great sin isn't that they have an algorithm to serve the content they believe is the best, it's that they don't respect my decision to turn that off.
So I like to look at it a different way, not to say $200 doesn't hurt either way.

But my thought is what would a DUI have cost me, or worse, what damage could I have done to someone else or their family. $200 feels wrong until I say damn, I am home safe, no one got hurt and yea it might suck a little but way cheaper then a lawyer or living with hurting someone else. Just a thought.
In some cases, movement of the eyelids when blinking is tracked and reflected in the model, but the texture is not changed to a closed eye quickly enough.
I don't live in SF proper but why can't Google Fiber come to the surrounding areas? There are plenty of communities that could use this outside of SF.
Choose design over architecture
For desktop: Search engine affiliation deals became increasingly lucrative (partly dependent on the market), especially for the defaults (in both the search engine bar and the search box on the new tab page, which were sold separately). The other major source of income for desktop was the default Speed Dial settings.

There's a fair overview available in the quarterly reports.
The fact that we're talking about it shows that it's interesting on some level.

As it happens I was talking with my family last night about making money from photography and different business models, and then I stumbled on this article. So that's part of why I found it interesting.

I also think it's generally interesting the effects that happen when you put a different frame around something and show it in a different context. An art gallery room full of huge Instagram pictures is weirdly appealing to me. Warhol's soup cans, too.

By adding value I just mean that his work sells for millions while the stuff he "cites" doesn't. That's the free market... I don't make any ethical claims about that—I just think it's interesting (and kind of funny).
Was ​Apple the first major open-source company? Not even close
I recently moved to San Francisco from Chicago. I was paying $45/month for 25 mbps in Chicago, and I now pay $50/month for 150 mbps in SF. It feels like Chicago needs Fiber more than we do.
Running ES7 with Babel 6
Has Google Fiber ever gone head to head with Fios areas? I'd imagine Fios can provide 1Gbps with minor upgrades.

I get 75/75 from Fios for 60 bucks in Crystal City.

Cox is rolling out gigabit for 100 dollars in Fairfax county.
The indirection is a problem with existing browser implementations (and some spec issues, such as lack of Typed CSSOM, which is the current subject of work in the WGs). There is no fundamental reason that I can see as to why there needs to be a gap between the hardware and the graphics and layout of Web apps.
Hm, I feel like this is way less sinister than it sounds. From what I know of his prior reputation, Will Happer has long made his position on climate change clear, so it's not like he changed his mind when people offered him a big pile of money.

If you already believe something and someone is going to give you money to promote your views, why on earth would you say no?
I should move to Ukraine. Need a roommate?!
Not to worry! We're all figuring this out together.
That's probably changing. The falling price of TVs means any bar that wants can have them wall-to-wall. It's getting hard to escape them.
Agreed.

It's absolutely true that in an object instantiation, declaring the type twice (in the variable declaration and again in the construction) is repetitive. And it's a flaw in all object-based algol-style programming languages, which is why the var keyword was introduced to C#, and the diamond operator (while a half-assed solution for only part of the problem) was added to Java.

But that's just one narrow use case where I see this feature being worthwhile.
http://www.stackoverflowcareers.com/blog/2014/05/20/getting-...

Try segmenting potential hires into different categories and using different strategies for each group. You should also clearly communicate the process, so they don't get the wrong idea.

>Additionally, the people who tend to drop off because of this extra effort tend to be senior applicants

Is this before or after the phone screen? If they think the work-hire test is going to be in addition to a phone screen and an on-site whiteboard session, they'll drop. If they're senior devs, you should be able to tell from their resumes. Do a phone screen, and if they pass, explain that they can either do a work-hire test or a whiteboarding session. Explain that the work-hire test should be doable in 4 hours, so they don't envision a week long project. Also explain that it's a substitute for the whiteboard portion of the on-site. People who tend to hate whiteboard coding will choose the work-hire test and vice versa.

If you're trying to find diamonds in the rough among junior talent, sending out a first-pass work-hire test might work. You'd still get better results if you explained that it was short and a substitute for the onsite whiteboard session.
I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of cash. Anyone want to let me know who will buy off a math professor?
Information Visualization Research as Pseudo-Science [pdf]
As you turn the dial of driver response time, you're basically changing the congestion function of the road.

Tim Roughgarden has a fantastic book that's very satisfyingly deep, but succinct.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/selfish-routing-and-price-ana...
Gwern, if you show up do you have any more color on your newsletter comment:

> Nothing completed (due to work on a secret project)
Yahoo Is Said to Abandon Plan to Spin Off Alibaba Stake
Usually I start with Google Analytics but continue to add to our own in-house analytics solution targeting the specific metrics we're interested in tracking. GA often doesn't provide us with the real insights we're looking for, but it's good for the vanity stats.
One of them, Frank Clemente, is emeritus. He retired in 2010, and gets whatever pension or such PSU offers. I wonder what their disciplinary options are. This is clearly a case of an end-of-career cash-out of social/political capital.
Perhaps you've changed your policy? I'm pretty sure that's how my first interview started off. When I asked how that fit in with the advertising of "get a job based on something other than your resume", the response was "well, companies do care about which other companies you've worked at".

After the second interview, I was given to Harj and he asked me about work history again...

(Also, since I applied through the project track, I don't think there was much in the way of "tell us about a project you've done in the past".)
It's quite difficult to come up with really good, unique interview questions. It's quite a bit easier to walk into the room, say "write a function that returns all the permutations of a string" and watch the candidate squirm. That's why most companies do that, it has nothing to do with trying to find candidates who can do the work at hand.
I may just be being very slow today, but the methodology is rather unclear to me. eg "imprinted the signal onto a water membrane and then computer enhanced the resulting image"

I'll admit, I'm.. not entirely persuaded by CymaScope's "biology" page:

https://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/biology.html

"Cymatics--the trigger for life?

Spiritual traditions from many cultures speak of sound as having been responsible for the creation of life. The words of St John's gospel are a good example:

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
['Word' meaning 'sound']

The science of cymatics, the study of visible sound, is beginning to yield clues to one of the most challenging questions in science: what triggered the creation of life on earth?

The hypothetical model we have developed was inspired by ancient traditions and demonstrates that sound and cymatic forces could have worked together to become the dynamic force that created the first stirrings of life."
The "Most Recent" sort is not at all obvious, at least on my Facebook, and it also quietly turns itself off. It's quite user-hostile.
No FiOS in Alexandria. Edit: or Cox.
What ISP are you getting 150 mbps at $50/mo from?
This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
I am firmly in the terrified camp. "Genetic engineering is not new." Oh yes it is, and it's scary.
I had forgotten that we have a laser cutter at the hackerspace! The minimum kerf on it is pretty bad though, so I bet it wouldn't work.

After reading the pattern, it seems to be more than just holes, though, so it's probably a bit harder to fabricate.
There's nothing concrete decided yet for this, only a preliminary study has been started [0]. According to this press release, the next steps in the plan are

1. The preliminary study was launched at the end of October 2015.

2. A review of existing information and experiences [...] will be presented [...] in spring 2016.

3. Following on from this, an analysis [...] will be produced in the second half of 2016.

4. The universal basic income experiment is planned to be launched in 2017.

[0] http://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN0...
Wow, you think it would take more than a few developer-years?
Kuala Lumpur airport seeks owner of 'abandoned' jets
An interesting site: http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html
Upvote for rising to my absurd challenge and making a decent argument too.
They're going to San Jose, that's a start. It's likely they'll spread around a bit from there with time.

At a minimum, having Google Fiber that close should spur San Francisco locals to get louder about the problem.
1) Intentionally hiding the source of funding; aka taking a bribe.

2) Intentionally publishing in a sham journal to avoid peer review.

These are both tolerable behavior in the free market, but ought to be firable offenses for university professors.
DDoS is becoming an increasing pain lately.

If you only care about HTTP/HTTPS traffic, you can get very solid DDoS protection at cheap prices. We use and love the Sucuri ( https://sucuri.net ) which starts at $9.99 per month.

Some friends have good success with Incapsula and CloudFlare, but they get a bit more expensive to get full protection ($60 per month on http://Incapsula.com ).

All 3 can cover 99.9% of the people that doesn't expose SMTP/POP/FTP/DNS and other services.

If you run these yourself, BlackLotus.com and Arbor Cloud are a great help, but their prices start at 5 digits per month.
Apologies, I didn't mean to ask for anything proprietary; I should have made that clearer. Just what someone familiar with the product would know.
That's not how meaningful use works. You can use paper for all you care, you're just going to take a hit financially from the government (and many do). You can use whatever electronic system you want as long as it all adds up to meaningful use. The insurance companies have nothing to do with this.
Average salary in Kiev is also, what, 400 Euros per month? With LA's (generously median) 3000 Euros per month that turns out to be the same (if 15$ is taken into account). Vast difference is in speed. So, what's up LA?
Open Peer over WebRTC
The cigarrette companies hire statisticians to publish bogus research about the health effects of smoking.
Yeah, so perhaps overcoming the PR challenge is an area that needs more research. Personally, I would welcome a modern nuclear reactor in my backyard.
This also makes working with Python, even in an IDE, much trickier than Java in an IDE.
Can you use statistics to make the Koch's latest tax plan work?
MongoDB: the snapchat of databases.
Have you seen any of Prince's work in person?
Seems there would be a massive market for a Classic PBS Kids channel.
Trump claims Islam ‘fucked up his hair’
Hiring a math professor to claim that squaring a circle is possible. 10M OBO.
Negative interest rates an option in Canada
So far, informally, every person I've seen write something like this works in marketing, works for a company that makes revenue from advertising, or is somehow monetarily incentivized to have a web where "users" widely agree to view ads. Obviously, there's no causation (perhaps those people naturally gravitate towards fruitful work that doesn't bother them), but it seems to be a pretty reliable (read: so far 100%) correlation.

Are you the combo breaker?
Paging would make that impossible even on the client side, unless their API continues to return tweets in chronological order.
Awesome.. Looking forward to it.
If applied universally there would be significantly fewer professors. But I don't really think that would be a bad thing.
Not to mention, people come to work sick all the time, so they don't use up their precious PTO days.
It would be cool if a tech company sprouted up that was live games 24/7. When not showing nfl or mlb or college football, they were showing Italian soccer or Indian cricket, or other more obscure sports
Webpass[1] has been pretty "disruptive." It's only available in larger buildings, but the service and price point are fantastic.

[1] https://webpass.net/
Ukraine is insanely cheap for digital nomads. $2000/month will get you a very high quality of life, including a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment in a city center, great food from restaurants, adequate access to modern healthcare and diverse nightlife/culture venues.
Compared to London, NYC, LA, SF, Austin, Berlin to start.

Secondly, I have issues with the whole "per capita" comparison. It is an important and often over-looked detail when looking at these ecosystems.
After you have been a target of ~50 Gbps NTP reflection attacks that nearly destroyed our company, it's hard to be impartial in these discussions.
How come "Xbox" is not in the list of affected devices?
Bingo! Coming from C# and C++, I had exactly the same realization using Python (before I switched back). I always ask Python programmers "but are you just keeping track of the types in your head?" because it's impossible to keep myself from doing that. If Python (and dynamic languages in general) are just pushing the type checking into the programmer's lap, I'm not sure what the advantage is other than less verbose (looking) code.
I think a very small amount of stylometric analysis would cast a lot of doubt on this theory.

Satoshi's grammar is always perfect. His sentences are tight. He's clear and to the point. Wright rambles; his grammar is terrible; he seems to have no idea what a comma is for. Scanning his blog for a minute, he comes across as the kind of slightly dotty kook who would try to convince people he's Satoshi with this kind of "leak."

I'll stick with the current mainstream theory, thanks...
Really any drug company (or an anti-drug organization like the DEA) would be looking for someone who can do dark magic with statistics.
You stay with in 3 seconds so like 25 feet in most traffic NOT 1000 feet!!!

It is all about how many cars flow through a certain spot a minute. If you have space you have more time therefore creating MORE traffic behind you!

If I had a billion dollars this would be a Super Bowl Commercial and I would blast YouTube and FaceBook with ads.
Very amazing results and fantastic work! I noticed that all the examples are all front faces with at most 20 to 30 degree angel, but no profiles. I haven't read the paper, but does this mean it only reconstructs a 2D texture but not the 3D structure?
The defense industry is strange. I've had three jobs in it. In every single interview, the most technical question that anyone ever asked me was, "What do you like to do on the weekends?"

And all three jobs have been engineering positions.
A Safety Net for On-Demand Workers?
You mean using a taxicab metric to construct a circle? Been done.
Reminds me of the arguments against the CA ecosystem in favor of browser cert pinning. It's much easier to trust Mozilla (or Google, or whomever else) than to trust the fifty-odd root CAs installed on my computer, and all their granted intermediates.
Indeed. But the ruling also claims transformation isn't necessary for fair use and mentions other aspects. I also found it interesting to read the cited judge who talked about the purpose of copyright and how it is not a God-given right but a kludge to encourage creativity, like patents.
I'm on Sonic 1 gigabit fiber in Sebastopol 50 miles north of San Francisco, one of the reasons we moved north from the city. Sonic are excellent and are building out in San Francisco in small areas.
Comcast/Xfinity
Bitcoin has gone through lots of changes. For example, the blocksize limit was added in July 2010, a year and a half after launch.
I have some questions about this "sting" that were unanswered in the article. It would be one thing if the academic were paid to have a certain opinion, its is another thing entirely to pay an academic to falsify research supporting a viewpoint they already hold. It reads as if the academics were paid to support a thesis with evidence. Once you are at a high enough academic level you should be able to write a paper arguing for and supporting a thesis whether or not you believe in that thesis on a personal level. It's important to sustain debate on all sides of an issue regardless of whether or not all of those sides are politically popular.

The great thing about publishing is that it gives other educated people a chance to rebut and question the argument.

I also believe funding sources should be kept secret in some cases so that the paper or research can be judged on its own merit rather than judged based on the motivations of the entity funded it.
Hiding the source of funding doesn't seem like the worst of issues, although it certainly makes some research look suspect for its partiality. The worst part is avoiding a good journal. For some professions, just publishing in a sham journal can be pretty harmful for one's reputation...hence the reluctance many have for publishing in open access journals.
My thoughts exactly. If someone were to phonily offer Hawking a cartoonish sack of money to write a report about black holes, should we be shocked when he shows interest in the offer?
I wish people would respect satoshi's wish of anonymity.

Having probably the only concentration of wealth over $100M not guarded by a full security detail, it could very well lead to not only his own harm, but perhaps his family members being kidnapped, etc.

That is not even to mention the bilderberg/rothschild/etc. type of people that probably aren't big fans.
Privacy is a poor angle to pursue. It's old, and so we know, as you said, that people don't care.

They have a real chance if they ride the social justice and progressivism train, though. It's hot and unlike privacy, people care about it a lot. They've already set the precedent with the Eich controversy. They just need to double down and start promoting it better. Take initiative instead of being reactive. Not too hard when the organizations you're up against are gigantic multi-billion-dollar companies who can't afford to fire every conservative employee, not comply with government regulations their audience views negatively, or kowtow too hard to diversity for fear of angering the technolibertarians.
That's the sort of stuff I mean when I say "horrible". :)

It'll just run the script every time, rather than doing anything smart with dependencies. Output from the script might or might not be picked up and tracked properly by the IDE. If you accidentally mess something up nothing will detect or prevent that.

(Edit: should add that I haven't given it a proper try in recent Xcode versions. I probably should.)
You mean

for (typename std::my_vector<some_long_type>::const_iterator i = blah.begin();
What happened to Apple design?
"Hacker, disrupt thyself."
I can't comment on the other parts of it really (and I don't know the whole story so I reserve judgement), I'm just skeptical of the claim that he was "bought off" - which would imply that he changed his views because of the money. If the headline were, "Professors agree to hide source of funding and run a climate change journal with lax peer review standards", then I might hold off, but then again, that probably wouldn't look as sexy in a headline.
Just saw this which might be useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/2fl8ud/how_hard...

Lots of relevant discussion and links in that thread too. Good luck!
I think that's what you need to keep in mind. The "some" that are unhappy are such a small fraction of the Facebook/Twitter userbase that it's a clear net win to make these changes. I can guarantee the changes were A/B tested, the metrics gathered, and a decision made. Of course there will be a slice of the userbase who doesn't like the change, but that's obviously already accounted for in their planning and forecasting.