skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point, and don't personally accept the given definition of a "clean image", which is why I quoted it. I am just addressing the fact that decisions can easily ride on the appearance of an individual. To extend the lawyer analogy, imagine you are in court defending yourself from some criminal accusation. If you had to pick your lawyer between two identically skilled individuals, and one had dreads to his waste and the other was a "clean cut" individual, which would you choose?

I have no desire for a corporation able to define anything about my style or individuality, however, it happens regularly. It's one of the many reasons I work for myself.
Sparrow - The New Mail for Mac
You have to discern between Hulu and Hulu Plus. Hulu plus is coming to Roku. Boxee scrapes Hulu's main site and passes on all of Hulu's content to its users.

Hulu+ okay on big screen, Hulu (regular) not so much.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Hulu plus on the Boxee box.
why not negotiate better terms with one of the offers for 51%? Surely, if an entity was interested enough to want 51% there might be terms where something more favorable to the founders could exist, no?

We attempted to negotiate with all three, but all three were completely unwilling to budge on the need to control. The weather corporation was likely not thinking as an investor, but more as a talent acquisition/bolt-on to their operation. The other two were veteran CEO's who both said (as if they were reading out of the same playbook) "I don't do anything I can't control."
Does it go any faster than that?
The copy on the Pricing[0] page is Not Good. For example, under the heading "Can I leave PicsEngine?" is the answer that "You can leave PicsEngine at any time. If you stop paying, your account will be disabled and removed."

Great, but can I take my data with me? Including albums and other metadata? And is it easy to do?

[0]: http://www.picsengine.com/pricing
Python has it's share of warts. Its automatic memory management is not a modern GC, it involves reference counters that are slow, take up memory and don't play well with copy-on-write semantics of modern virtual memory managers. Its functional programming support is half-hearthed, its implementation is slow, there is no optional static typing, the GIL sucks. And yet it's the best programming language for me - the others are worse.
yeah it went so well the last time it happened; keep ridiculing. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1641042
I didn't realize that... good to know actually:)
The demo site is back online. Sorry.
I co-run fancyhands.com - we can help you. Feel free to contact us if you have questions about our service.
Did you check the screenshot? The grey circle is the cursor, and the blue-highlighted link is what it thinks is closest. All three of those underlined phrases are links, but it gets it massively wrong when it's near the mid-left of the three.
“You have a lot of nerve trying to earn $15,000 on one deal..."
The point being made here is that we are still unable to build programs which interpret language nearly as effectively as the human brain. Our programs still have little skill in determining context in language - which will be an important step in reaching Kurzweillian levels of computing competence.

However, it should be noted that Natural Language Processing and studies in word sense disambiguation have brought us closer, people still cherish the "Dude, where's my flying car" impatience of technology.
Frankly, "contents" substituting Java for JVM are pretty worthless. Notwithstanding, the article seems to be either confused about what it wants to fork, or it does indeed want to fork Java in addition to the JVM.

Either way, not a stellar effort.
The article says it's for reasons of hygiene, coming into close contact with people.
He says it like it's a bad thing.

It certainly can be.

Militancy: the view that it's OK to tell people that they are wrong.

This would be OK if the people to whom they were saying this to were actually wrong. The truth is quite often they don't have any evidence for this. For example, if a mystic were to go to the average physicist and tell them that they were God and they had created the Universe, they would laugh in the mystic's face, yet that doesn't mean the mystic is incorrect, it just means the physicist did not understand the mystic, nor were they inclined to attempt to do so. This sort of militarism is a block to knowledge and understanding.

Reductionism: the expectation that what things do is explained by what the things they're made of are doing (what else would you expect - some sort of soul that imparts unexpected properties?)

Reductionism assumes that fundamentally everything is made up of individual parts, a "lego-theory of the world" if you will, yet this is not what the known physics itself says is happening. Take the case of quantum entanglement, you have two "things" that yet act as one. Physicists are still baffled by this. Legos do not behave this way.

Further, it must be acknowledged that even if everything is made up of "individual parts", these parts interact with one another, and hence they are not truly individual and separate, their behavior and any meaning that can be attributed to them requires the simultaneous acceptance of all other parts of the system, the understanding of mutual-interdependence (a mystical concept). Without the rest of the parts, the individual components are without meaning themselves. Meaning only arises out of the relationship between the various components, and that does not fit with the reductionist viewpoint.

Atheism: the view that gods need explaining as much as anything else.

No, atheism is the outright rejection of the idea of God. It is a religious belief in itself that requires a faith in the non-existence of any sort of God. It does not ask for an explanation of God, for if it did it would have to accept the possibility of a God.
One possible problem with the technology is that even if it gives the wearer perfect eyesight, it seems to me that the lenses would appear frosted to others. So while you might be able to see through them just fine, they would look scratched to other people, and they wouldn't be able to see your eyes.

Additionally, it may not work with just anyone's eyes. For example, I remember a study in which scientists fitted a test subject with lenses that flipped the image upside down, and their brain started adjusting the image within a few weeks. Also I know a person who wears two different contacts, one in their left eye for far sight, and another in their right eye for near sight, and she says that this allows her to see both near and far just fine.

But not everyone can do this without getting a headache, eye strain, etc, and from the article it appears that part of the operation is that one's brain has to adjust to process the image. It may be that this scratched groove system isn't quite compatible with everyone. And even if one does manage to retrain their brain to the new system, what happens when you take the glasses off? In the study I mentioned earlier, after the test subject retrained their brain to see correctly while wearing lenses that turned things upside down, when they took the glasses off everything appeared upside down to them.

So the glasses might have a similar effect if they rely as heavily on brain adaptation as I suspect they do.
It's not really well understood.

Decoherence is an approximation it speaks of the appearance.

The problem with QM isn't mathematic or experimental. It's philosophical.

In other words it just doesn't make sense even though it's as proven as classical physics.

You got non-locality up against locality (or discreet)

Both are true. This is the paradox and no interpretation fully explains QM.
It seems the Lava name has already been taken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_%28programming_language%29
This information is invaluable. This is a great way to attract some traffic / get valuable feedback.

I once posted an early version of one of my sites on the craigslist forum for feedback. The responses were not helpful.
Right. You're right. For now, there is nothing implemented in the case someone leave. Hey, PicsEngine just launched right :)
But you're right and that's something I need to plan.
Isn't Huddle on .NET? It's a pretty successful project management company.
Am I the only one who thinks this situation is a good example where discrimination laws are not serving their intended purpose?

A company should be able to set a policy regarding grooming and/or dress.

The part that I find shittiest about this situation is that the company would have been better just rejecting him outright. Instead they said they would hire him if he agreed to cut his hair to their wishes. Now there's a lawsuit.

How is that beneficial for anyone? Why can't two individuals have an honest negotiation about what it is they want from each other?

> Sorry, you don't get to not hire someone because they wear dreads.

Why not? Why is that something you shouldn't be able to do with your own business.
Finally an open source camera (Hardware and Software)
in this case the guy was clearly discriminated over his long hairs, not over his religion. The employer would presumably do the same to any long haired guy.
It's much easier to debug and get it to work using a software serial library like newsoftserial, as (in the article) you cannot use the serial port at the same time as the usb serial (it is handy to have a serial session to the device for debug printouts and the like).

http://arduiniana.org/libraries/newsoftserial/
Ubuntu One Blog: Mobile music streaming public beta now available
There is a growing population of urban farmer's moving to Detroit, precisely because of the abundance of abandoned cheap land. Perhaps most significant is Hantz Farm:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit...
Although Hantz Farm isn't' without some criticism:
http://markmaynard.com/?p=7243
Ten caching mistakes that break your app
Buy a fairly serious recreation of the Spetznas spade here: http://www.coldsteel.com/spshovel.html Be sure to bring it to your local startup party to impress your investors and mutilate your opponents.
Look, I’m not the first person who thought companies talk too much about themselves, and I won’t be the last. I’m just a PR guy who’s trying to educate his clients and prospects about how to communicate on a more personal and effective level. And to set the record straight, I never read Seth Godin’s take on this, and I’ve never heard his 2003 TEDtalk -- though perhaps I should.
What an epic merger, This will surely bring huge changes to the online marketing industry.
I like the idea of hosted apps that are very polished and constantly improving at their own game, like eg. Github.
The problem is that only a few decades ago, computer science was a fairly pure branch of mathematics - now you can argue whether mathematics is a science or not in general, but applied mathematics is nearly indistinguishable from physics in many areas, and computer science certainly flirted with applied mathematics.

What gets taught as computer science has evolved rapidly in the last couple of decades and it is my impression that quite a bit of it comes under software engineering now.

This is why I get annoyed when you see jobs in the software sector or software management that require a Comp Sci degree. It's actually a subtly ageist requirement - twenty years ago, computer science was not what you did if you were interested in computers - you did physics so they would let you play with their VAX cluster.
If you agree that the title is link-baity and it's your title why don't you change it? (Or for that matter why would you submit it with a link-bait title to begin with?)

A better title would be something along the lines of Google CS Curriculum Search.
Out of curiosity, where did you get the tablature data from? Scraping existing sites?
Digg has 70+ employees? Interesting. Doesn't Reddit have less than 10? Someone please fact check that for me.
Huh, Chrome works for me too, and that's a fairly new development, like the last month or two. Officially, Netflix streaming in a browser still only supports Firefox, Safari, and IE.
Don't ask these questions. Okay, ask the first one. Throw away the other three.

I have also interviewed (and hired/not hired) dozens of people at several companies, some small start ups and others massive Fortune 500 companies. I've also judged collegiate and high school interview competitions and been through several corporate hiring and interview training programs.

This is not meant to say anything about me, personally, it's that I have learned that almost no one in start ups or even large companies have any education about hiring. Almost everything that we see routinely practiced is done by folk-wisdom, 'feel' and common group think.

There's only a handful of questions that any interview is intended to determine:

1. Is this person QUALIFIED to do the work (easy to figure out)

2. Will this person DO the work (not as easy to figure out)

3. Will this person actually fit in here (very hard to figure out)

Go back and re-read the interview question above. #1 is a pretty basic programming question. But what are you expecting from #2, #3, and #4? What are 'right' answers? What are 'wrong' answers? Are you trying to get a sense of who the person is?

Why wouldn't a smart person just lie to you? These questions are easy to BS. What am I working on in my spare time? I'm building a neurolinguistic interpreter to decipher real time requirements gathering. Or, whatever else I can conceive of in the two seconds between the time you asked me and the time I spit it out.

Recent college grads are adept at these BS answers by the way. People who have a lot of experience are likely to wonder why you're asking such off topic questions.
“Cool” but the fact there are no dead zones, and lots of spots where a pixel or two nudge (easy to do by accident) means you’re clicking a different link than the one you were about to a pixel ago, give me great pause. (And of course this would be more “useful” as an extension or userscript than bookmarklet; clicking a bookmarklet to lazy-click links is a weak value proposition, naturally.)
Why Real Programmers Don't Do Conferences
Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get your startup added to CrunchBase? My submission for Stormpulse has been in pending status since 9/23.
It's well understood in that we have a model which explains what happens to a high degree of accuracy.

Unfortunately while people understand how to use the model it does not seem intuitive. IMO, that just means that while humanity understands it people don't.

PS: I would argue that the same split occurs in several areas. I don't think any one person really understands a modern CPU, but get a large enough group of people together and we can still build them.
Yeah, my point was it's OK to make variadic functions have a little extra logic and in some cases potentially be slower than the ix86 equivalent, because regular functions are definitely sped-up and those are much more common.

On the subject of passing structs by value: it really comes down to whether you plan on copying the struct anyway or not, doesn't it?
We could have a balanced budget pretty easily, without raising taxes.
Mixpanel just improved already-impressive analytics product. Email tracking is a lot like realtime web tracking, and to the best of my knowledge, realtime web tracking is something mixpanel has done very well so far.

From a business perspective, mixpanel is now also competing in the email analytics space. That's perfect for at least two types of customers. It's good for the customer who uses mixpanel for website tracking and wants to expand into email analytics. It's also great for the customer who is looking for an analytics service that does email tracking as a part of its service offering.

It's always nice to get more value from fewer products. It's like making a few tweaks to functions to make them do more. Less work, less code, more value. It's better than getting a new service each time a new use-case (like email tracking) arises. I think mixpanel understands this. Mixpanel is evolving into an end-to-end analytics service -- that's the extra value I see here.
Though we've got nigh-universal bidirectional communication: JSON. That makes JS templating systems server-agnostic, where server-side templates need the server to run more software to render your templates.
Facebook Pages are a powerful word of mouth marketing tool, and also a great place to listen to your user's thoughts.

I think it's only really useful when you have a decent number of fans, like in the several hundreds, because only a small portion of fans will actively participate.

I see it being used more like a modern email newsletter. I use it to see how users like my service, and get in touch with individuals. I also have weekly contests and promotions, which increases community participation. If you have a good service/product with a wide target niche, Facebook pages can help you get a bunch of free users. Everything that you post on your wall gets posted to the newsfeed of your fans, which can be seen by your fans' friends.

If you have over 25 fans, you can get a vanity URL for your facebook apge, so instead of http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hackety-Hack/155257947836619?r... you could have something much cleaner, like: http://www.facebook.com/Hackety-Hack
I'm aware of that; however that won't result in the kind of population growth that parts of the suburbs are experiencing and those same areas haven't had mass exodus' either.

As Detroit transforms into something other than 'the largest city in Michigan' (which I guess it probably already has), I'm just wondering which if the little toes so to speak is in the strongest position to challenge for the new #1 spot.
Interesting technique... I wonder how long until someone sets up a Haml clone in a similar vein, however. Less[1] is already moving in that direction, the next step is to do HTML in a similarly-friendly way. I'd use that; this is a pretty hideous, clearly-MS-influenced Enterprisey implementation.

[1]: http://lesscss.org/
and there is an open cinema project as well http://cinema.elphel.com/
Reddit has 6. Digg has 60+.
What annoys me about Zuckerberg is his own obvious connection to Facebook's in-practice attitudes toward user privacy.

Perhaps "asshole" is the wrong term for him, really. It's possible he even means well. Meaning well is no excuse for taking advantage of people, pulling regular bait-and-switch maneuvers, and generally doing things on a regular basis that show obvious and nigh-malicious disregard for the privacy concerns of millions of credulous users.

I have no problem with people being billionaires. I hope to be one myself some day (hope springs eternal), and I'd have nothing but respect for how Zuckerberg got there if he had not used such sketchy tactics as part of his path to riches.
Because having long hair in no way affects a candidate's ability to do this (or virtually any) job, and just the notion that dreadlocks project an unprofessional image is itself a form of discrimination: it's companies using job openings to subtly but overtly make it that much harder to practice a particular religion. Unlike you, I see this as a great example of Civil Rights law having its intended effect.

If you believe that businesses should simply be allowed to set their own standards, then maybe they should be allowed to require men to be clean-shaven; maybe they should be allowed to require women to wear skirts; maybe they should be allowed to prefer men for certain positions (security guards? shift supervisors?).

You can construct a business justification for nearly any form of discrimination, and, of course, you can construct a personal freedom justification for all discrimination.

Fortunately or not, this has been a settled issue in the US since 1964. If you have a policy that would prevent a Sikh from working for you (which this policy would), you're going to lose in court.
You may be right about that particular safety procedure. I work behind a desk so I won't comment on how to stay safe around machinery.

But I stand by my statement that safety does overrule religion - I thought of that particular example because it is analogous to a case I read about a while back where a Muslim woman was not permitted to work in a machine shop due to her loose clothing. I'll see if I can dig it up. Similarly, I don't think a Sikh MRI operator could carry a Kirpan.

[edit: My bad, it was a print shop, not a machine shop. http://www.judicialview.com/Court-Cases/Employment/Judgment-... ]
One word... JavaScript
I think there are many things that you need to consider when deciding on a technology. One is preexisting skill, if you are already a .Net C# person then go with what you know. That being said rails is free and can be deployed on *nix which is also free.

Dont get caught up too much in worrying what other people are using. You initial technology stack will not make or break your company as you can always iterate to another technology stack at a later date if you wish.
Let's hope it won't be a re-run (pun intended) of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtv

I get pretty scared when I see references to 'how to optimize your website for TV'.
In other words, "people who practice Rastafarianism are usually not hygienic; just look at their hair". You can see how this isn't going to play well for them in court.
The author forgot that java is already forked and supported by many JCP members..

The project is called Harmony an dis under the Apache banner supported by such JCP members as IBM and many OHA members as well.

Given Oracle's planned moves they will end up killing java on Mobile except for Android and Java on enterprise except for the open source stacks that support Harmony's use..

Also note that the harmony project does use off-shoots of the JVM research IBM invested in as well..
Good point. Is there no way around it? Because given that the #1 reason startups fail (according to pg) is founder fights, and that in organizations, it's usually people to people problems, those might be lessons well learnt.

However, given the old adage of "praise others in public, and only criticize them in private" (it assumes you're talking to the person you're criticizing in private), I've often avoided saying anything, not to mention it'd sound like I was bashing the other person, when in fact, not all puzzle pieces fit each other, with no completely fault to each piece.

The only ways I've seen is to talk about it after some time, and to not name names. But with time, accuracy comes into question, and if it's too recent, it's too easy to infer and deduce the names.
Ask HN: what are some good blogs about online advertising?
I'm thinking more big-picture stuff about trends and its future, rather than how-to guides for Adwords users or those who want to make money from their Tumblr.

Is there anything readable, entertaining and forward thinking, perhaps along the lines of Seth Godin or Daring Fireball?
Under "alternative ways to read", you're missing some punctuation. Currently, it seems to imply that hckrnews.com is an Android app...
>Basically, society has judged that deeply held religious beliefs are more worthy of protection than mere personal preferences.

Sounds like a deep religious belief which have no written support in the current laws or the Constitution of USA.

Of course there are successful cases of lobbying for a privilege like the one you mentioned - an especially funny one considering that the churches were the main driving force behind the Prohibition, yet carved out an exception for themselves.
What developers think when you say "Rock Star"
I highly doubt that a TV with an embedded ARM processor running Android is any serious competitor to a state of the art game console with the ability to run 1080p 3D graphics, use seven controllers, and store massive amounts of game assets on Bluray disks. They don't even compare IMO. And yes, I have a PS3 and a Roku box and a TiVo HD...