skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will second (or apparently 338th) this. I was in a similar position to you - and it took me 5-6 years to get back from being so broke I literally could not pay the admin fee for bankruptcy, to charging 1000 dollars a day.

It was not a smooth road, nor an easy one, but it is a road many of us have travelled and we can let you know about some of the worst potholes.

You are in the right profession, and you have the balls to take a leap like that while still in your teens. The history of entreprenuers say the odds are actually in your favour, even if it does not feel like it.

Just to let you know, at my lowest point, after months of failed "proper" job hunting, my wife told me to get out the house and get a job stacking shelves at the local supermarket. A week later I was in the freezer section, stacking sausages. It did not last long but it was the turn around I needed.
Don't worry about the "high status" jobs - take any job and work up.

And Remember the wise words of Kipling - to take both Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters both the same.

Good luck, keep posting
Wow, so in the 1400's we were already on the way to anthropogenic global warming, essentially!
Onion's supplement for HN? ^_^
We are nearly there.
Here I am a couple months ago in Vienna with my prototype 360º video camera
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianjameswood/6103733114/in/set-... If you want more info, contact me via 360cities.net please :)

The greatest limiting factor to this becoming mainstream is the availability of cameras. Also, bandwidth and video capability is an issue: I can't download OR view 4k video on my still very capable 3 year-old macbook for example.

Now, Johnyzee I think mistakenly called it "360-degree 3d" actually, 360-degree images are 2-d, they are simply projected onto a spherical surface. They dont' however have any 3d information. Stereoscopic (i.e. "anaglyph, what people call 3-d, like what Avatar was) 360 video is another matter, and i don't think anyone has ever built that.
The path goes through the earth, so they can't send things on the same path. The detector is far underground to protect it from interference.
I personally prefer the flight attendants to be cute, or pleasant to look at, mostly because I (as well as many others) sometimes get really scared at random times during a flight. Looking at these attendants for a moment gives me a more calming feeling than looking at someone who is not as attractive.
It seems to me that if I were doing something like this, I'd have some way of indoctrinating people without them knowing it. Some information or phrases that seem very commonplace and non-important, but will trigger certain responses when they're seen or heard again.

We've already got quite a few that are easily spotted by an enemy. When the national anthem plays, what do you do? It's pretty easy to spot people who don't know.

In fact, we already use this to spot enemy agents. They will react in odd ways to things that we think of as commonplace... Words and phrases that mean something in the culture, but on their own are meaningless... Or just have changed usage.

The only thing that makes me think the above is NOT what they used is that they said they would have to find a way to vary it. It takes time to make the above happen, but varying it isn't a problem other than that.
Is Google staking its future on a 'pathetic afterthought'?
Show HN: Salmiack, salty licorice mailed from Finland
Pic: Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner Wear Burqas in Dubai | NEWS 365
The size of California is 423970 square kilometres. At the higher end of the population estimate (80 million), and assuming complete annihilation of the population, that's 0.53 hectares (or 1.3 acres) of constant deforestation for every man, woman and child.
I try and take an information break a few times a week where I'll let a day or 2 go by in which I don't check any tech news. Information is dripped fed to people nowadays anyway. So its always great to see that every new post in my reader is something completely new.
Heavens, that is a frightening thought.
What are some simple ways I can protect my home and family from zombies?
The amount of jobs listed on HN that are geared toward Mac users is quite sad. Not that anyone is saying "Mac Only!" but, there have been quite a few posts that simply ignore that there are skilled developers using other platforms. When I've brought it up in the past it seemed that my opinion was quite unpopular though.

Ironically, I am the only developer at my job not on a Mac. Sure I get some jokes at times, but I am just as efficient as anyone else, and if I had made a switch to a Mac just to fit in, I wouldn't have been able to hit the ground running.
If you're using gcc, you can compile with "-Wshadow" to get a warning for this type of problem.

See:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html
Your "1" doesn't include the chance that not everything we care about is preserved with current techniques. Also people might make a mistake in the freezing process. It's very difficult to develop any process without the feedback of whether it is working.

Your "3" doesn't include the chance that restoration is impossible, overly expensive, or not done for some other reason (no one is interested in you).
Whats with the deal to name things *ify ? Spotify? Really? It means to take something that is free and sell it or add advertisement to it.
Maybe I used the wrong word. Affordances? The "affordance" of pinch-to-zoom is a flat surface.
They used to say only in USA.

Now they say, only on Quora.
Columbus set off on the wrong path. He destroyed tribal living, and now look at where we are: big, overpopulated cities with impersonal interaction.
F5 Friday: Killing Two Birds with One (Solid State) Stone
For most people that space is taken up by caching other peoples work, AKA movies, programs, music etc. After I could stream HD content over my internet connection I feel little need to keep a local copy of most of these so I have actually started to use less HDD over the two years.

It's still feels odd, I filled up a 750GB HDD then I got a 240 GB SSD and a 2TB HDD and yet I find I am useing less HDD now than before the upgrade.
How Siri Works
Hi, Author here. I think you make an excellent point. I think the revolution will start from small things where it is OK to make an error. Stuff like Siri does. Then it will move on to productivity tools or the like...where it is still OK to make a mistake. And A.I. will improve really fast, like the PC has improved. I think in 5-10 years we won't believe what we have accomplished. I think Siri crosses an important threshold.

Didn't know about Google. They might be working on something but I don't know of any production use of their A.I. software.
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak First in Line for the iPhone 4S
But keep in mind, the article is clearly outlining what was the mentality in the 70's - and mentions that one of the forces included outrage from feminist groups. The average business traveler in those days, and thus the most important clientele of an airline, were men - and catering to the "needs" of those men is what made them money.
What a blindingly ignorant rant. A couple breathless prognostications that really annoyed me:

"If A.I. knows about insurance, will you ever google for it?"
Uh, all the "A.I." is doing is googling it. So basically Siri will use speech-to-text (which I've had on my Android phone for years) and put it in the google search box for me. Then it will read the first result. Zippity-doo-da.

"We will teach it how to use Excel."
Can you possibly imagine trying to tell a speech recognition system to input into a spreadsheet? Quite a step backwards, if you ask me.

Look, the interpretation of language into meaning and then into commands has been around for a while, and it's been constantly improving. Siri is another product in that crowded market. It's really swell that they included it in iOS; like I said, I've had it on my Droid for two-plus years and it's pretty handy. This is the worst kind of blind Apple fanboy-ism. They are a good company that makes some great products. Stop it with the hyperbole simply because you want to justify your new phone purchase to your wife before you're off-contract.
I was really hoping for compelling reasons, because I do love ubuntu, but this list is /really/ subpar.
The number three reason to get ubuntu over windows or os x - "Unity is better than ever"...? Within that, its "on par" with os x's dock. "Free software" Again, eh. I can get a lot via brew or ports, and compile most other things on os x. I love ubuntu, but I can't imagine sending this list to anyone Im trying to convert.
Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public?

The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

As long as all the users are internal to your organization, you don't have to provide the source to anyone.
Can anyone point me to write ups of Siri's implementation and history? I know Siri was previously a product on the iPhone, so I'm wondering what company created the the technology, and if they perhaps had a more open attitude in discussing their technology than we might hear from Apple and whether they might have some blog posts to look through, etc.
Foton is spanish for Photon, I guess it's the same way in Dutch. (It is)
Thanks for your addition. At Peecho, we figured that if SimpleDB goes down, logging would be the least of our troubles. Read here how we tried to maintain our uptime:
http://www.peecho.com/blog/minimizing-downtime-on-amazon-aws...

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Heres a tip : "things don't actually move that fast"

It may seem like the industry is screaming along but its mainly media hype. The important things will take a few years to get where they need to be, I dare you to pick any ground breaking technology and I'd bet if you missed 6 months it wouldn't hurt you one bit. You'd see a few flash in the pan success stories, but mainly things just chug along.

And thats the key to information overload, understanding you can just stop for a few days, a week, what ever, it won't matter. Remove the addictive nature of it. Make sure its a pleasure and not a chore.

For myself I've moved from blogs to aggregators now to get the best articles. I don't need all the articles, just the best. I could go several places for that (reddit, digg, slashdot). But I come to hacker news most, primarily because the conversation threads are of a higher standard. I can learn x10 more from a thread than I can an article.

I've also found curated aggregators on my iPad extremely useful, I'm talking to Zite, Flip Board, Feedly etc... theres something casual and relaxing about them. I recommend getting a tablet, I've never used an android one but I assume its just as good as my iPad.
We've have some big pitfalls in the past when outsourcing relatively minor components of much larger projects to India and Eastern Europe. Even with the best technical documents, results have varied from ok to simply bad coding practices. With such a low hourly rate, the goal is to code and deliver as fast as possible. We've had good experiences and bad. You're mileage may vary.
The only way we're going to achieve AI in the short term is by loosening the definition of the phrase, for example to include a new generation of complex automatons. I look forward to AI meaning about as much as "cloud" does today.
Apple fails in new Samsung court bid
I don't understand how this article rose to the top page of HN... it's not telling us anything that's interesting, new, or news in any way. Artificial intelligence has been around since the dawn of computers (think Clippy), helping us do our shit. In fact, AutoCAD is a bunch of 'artificial intelligence' that's letting you draw vectors and write code in a more intuitive way (ok, not exactly and technically, but you know what I mean)

It seems like the author of this article has never in their life seen a computer do anything more than push numbers, but machine learning and AI have been around for at least a decade. This is just a very mainstream case of very well developed AI.

Saying that 'this is the start of a revolution' is not only ill-advised, but totally baseless. What's the innovation? What has changed in what was previously possible? For a revolution to occur, there needs to be an innovation that causes expansion of technological capabilities. Although Siri is (supposedly) great, it does not represent an expansion of technological capability. Just because the team behind Siri spent years building out a great voice activated AI system does not mean that we all can now do it. Computers have not become smarter... they are the same as they ever were. People have not realized a more efficient way to create AI... it's the same as before.

I'm truly surprised that such a shallow and misguided article made it to the popular page in a community like this.
Granted that's what games are about. But gamification is about using game mechanics (mechanics being things like -scores- which let you understand your position against that position of other people, and rules, which keep you from doing whatever you like, as something completely aside from the point of the 'fun' of the game) to do something much more functional than make things fun: to make things addictive or otherwise drive the user to pursue things outside of their standard pattern.

Stack overflow's design isn't about making it fun, its about making the users collaborate into something that is easy and valuable to the population. The rules of a game in general aren't about making the games fun, they're about providing a framework for competition.
Ooh! downvotes without explanation, herd mentality or hurd mentality?
This is slick. Thanks for sharing.
While most of the Dutch people I've heard speak did so with perfectly fluent English (and American accents -- thank you, Hollywood), you're unwittingly assuming he's relatively young -- my understanding is that, not surprisingly, levels of English fluency drop off somewhat rapidly with age in the current Dutch population.
No matter how innovative company Apple is, I wouldn't give them credit just because they bought Siri and integrated it into iOS. I somehow find it odd that no one was talking about Siri before Apple's blessing, although it has existed for many years. It has been constantly evolving, and would have without Apple. There's lots of information about Siri available and the vision and goal of the project has been clear all along.
Articles Magazine
http://anarticles.com/soccer/watch-live-online-chelsea-vs-everton-soccer-15-october-2011-england-premier-league.html
Probably because, like most developers, he has separate development devices that he only uses for development. So he probably never ran into storage constraint limits while just testing Instapaper.

As an example, I have a 32GB iPod Touch that I've been using for all of the iOS5 testing for my applications and I'm only using around 600MB total. I'd never run into this issue either unless I loaded this up with tons of other apps and movies and music.
Why don't they have synchronized atomic clocks on the ground?
Google to launch online music store in “several weeks”
I think it is. I view Siri as Apple II of personal computers. Siri crosses the threshold and I believe the race is on.
Spot on. There is a huge vacuum in the market where a product should be. A dozen employees spread out should be able to take calls on a central number, have an automated attendant, and hand off calls to each other. PhoneBooth.com could have been it, but they're too focused on selling gear. Someone is going to own this.
Here's 360 video:
http://www.immersivemedia.com/content/entertainment.php?clip...

I think it ran for about a hundred thousand dollars a couple of years ago.

This is what motivated me to start working on a 360 StreetView video recording of Buenos Aires. I'm hoping to start it soon. My homemade rig is far more primitive, though you can get good quality levels if you Do It Yourself ™.

You could also check the Sony Bloggie with the 360 attachment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmPO_teTK6s

You get a doughnut that you can later unwrap, but the vertical resolution, 512px, is very limited for my personal taste/need.

Edit: FOV is crucial for the immersion. Its funny how the coral reef link I provided reminds me of Quake 3 with "cg_fov" > 110
The iPhone has had voice commands such as "Call x" since 2009. This is something different.
Logging seems like the perfect candidate for a relational database. It's a write-heavy system with need for powerful ad-hoc query capabilities. Am I missing something? Why put this in a key-value store?
AisleFinder Launches Supermarket API, An Open Source API For Groceries
In 1999, NASA lost a $300MM Mars probe due to a metric/imperial conversion oversight. Shocking, yes; unheard of, no.
Does Google deserve no credit for Android since they bought that? I presume Apple has done some work on Siri since they bought it over a year ago...
Metroid Source Code Expanded
No, no and god no. Siri is not voice recognition. It is not even in the same universe as the voice control in Android.

And yes of course A.I. will use one or more search engines to look information up. But Google might not necessarily be one of them and consumers will not care two cents as long A.I. gets the job done. My point it that A.I. will fly over Google's moat unless it is Google's A.I.
That's an argument for free as in beer, not free as in speech.

But I'd say that's a pretty niche scenario. In over 20 years of PC use I can't say that I've ever come across it, either personally or seeing a friend or colleague go through it.
RIP Dennis.

I was an uninterested Computer science student bored with writing stupid BASIC programs. Then I got introduced to C which made me realize what studying computers is all about. Then I got to know Unix and Linux. I still remember the day I got my Unix login. I was the first student to get one! My college projects (Linux clusters, routers), my geek friends, my first job and my professional life - all got started by learning C & Unix in a remote university lab thousands of miles away. I'm sure this is a story shared by millions. Thanks dmr! You are a legend!
‘Addiction’ drove hacker to Steal celebrities nude photos
It was originally not a product for iPhone. That was the spin-off. It was originally CALO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO
Foursquare Radar
Use in conjunction with my currency guesser for maximum win: https://github.com/jasondavies/lang-currency.js

It guesses the most likely currency given the user's IETF language tag and a list of supported currency codes.
They do, and they used a mobile atomic clock to compare the times. The problem is that both locations are in different, accelerated frames of reference, so reasoning about time in those frames of reference can become non-trivial.
I think the photograph idea gives a hint (though is unlikely to be unique), say there was a picture of the Queen/President in some recognisable location in their office. They could be asked, "where is the xxx standing in the portrait in your office". This may be what the linked article says, don't know, haven't read that (yet).

EDIT on thinking about it, a password is an answer to a question (what is the shared secret?), it's not the password they don't know, it's the question.
Google Translate uses AI.
It uses currently translated text to predict translation of strings that you provide.
It is. What's impressive about Siri is not the speech recognition (although it's pretty good) but rather two new elements that I haven't seen done as well on another consumer device:
1. Interpreting the meaning of your request
2. Remembering and using context

Siri has been a standout in those areas since before the Apple acquisition. Most people are surprised at just how naturally you can talk to your phone. It's doing more complex work than just passing the request on to Wolfram Alpha.

However, Google has a lot of impressive work in this space, too. I don't think it's long before android phones are this good--they are practically there already.

It's classic Apple: they didn't invent it, but they look like they'll get credit for being the first to popularize it and bring it to the mass market.
...and then what? She ends the idea of installing the OS? No, she probably tells you (for whatever reason) she doesn't understand what she's looking at. And your response is what; to just quit? Tell her to use her current OS?

My point? The online demo isn't the end-all of the Ubuntu preview. Stop treating it like it is.

Finally, ask yourself, am I making good points or trying desperately to win an internet argument.
While I agree with you in principle, I feel like the conceptual use cases you're imagining implement current practices with basically a speech to text. What the author is suggesting is that it would be beyond this, skipping out the step where you determine how you do something, but instead telling Siri what you want to do. For example, with excel I'm not sure he envisaged something like "A5 is 20, A6 is 30" and so on, but more like, "Take my taxes from this pdf and put them into a spreadsheet".

That said, irrespective of any kind of AI revolution Siri may (or as I suspect) may not induce, I feel like predicting it's impact before we've even had the chance to test it out in any kind of capacity (OK the 4S has been on sale for two hours, but you know what I mean) is somewhat short sighted.
C is full of surprises, and generally my favourite trick is trick du jour. While it's not strictly for C, Hacker's Delight[1] is my favourite collection of bit twiddling tricks. A highly recommended read if only for the intellectual value.

[1] http://www.hackersdelight.org/
Thus proving toaster ovens are the future of video media... or something like that.
Definitely. Know your warning options! Also, try using multiple compilers. tcc compiles very quickly, clang often has better error messages, etc.

Speaking of variable shadowing: It's usually worth wrapping any preprocessor macros in a "do { ... } while (0)" block unless you deliberately want variable definitions to escape (in which case, token pasting a suffix is usually a good idea).
my nephew, before he could speak full sentences would point to things and say "click." "Click" was his all-encompassing verb. When he wanted cereal, he stood next to the fridge, pointed up to the cereal box and screamed "cliiiiiiiik."
Will Siri and her offspring bring the semantic web to life?
Easy examination of the PDF through Google Docs Viewer:

http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.me.com%2Fs...
Human behaviour
Why these terrorists are killing innocent people?What is their explanation? Is there any logic behind that?
Hi Author here. Thank your for the harsh words. I guess I gotto take it to the chin.

Please allow me explain my point in another way. I think Siri is to A.I. what Apple II is to computers. Does this analogy explain what I am trying to tell better?
Anyone else not assured by the fact they are "secured by comodo"?
Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone