skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of this tweet I saw. I was surprised to recognise 11 of 12 (I think. Not positive on the lower left; don't know the one in the wig).

Evidently commissioned by a lover of Clojure: http://twitter.com/#!/ghoseb/status/167501457896120321/photo...
I feel embarrassed to type this, but could someone explain what's wrong with that?

They are offering to give women a beer? Why is that bad? Is it because they are assuming only women drink beer? That seems the reverse of the stereotype if anything.

Edit: I think I got it - they are assuming the women will drink beer and not participate intellectually? Is that it?

Personally I would assume you would drink and participate at the same time, so maybe that's not it.
Something could be put in the right orbit for it?
Interesting that you'd narrow it down to 'murdering', because violence is much broader than murder. We're quite sheltered from the effects of warfare, for instance, especially when the casualties are not our own. The major media does not like to show bombed-out villages, and burned corpses. Granted, people may not want to see them...but perhaps they should see them?
Does anyone know if this would affect latency from Australia to the UK?
Frontrunning is definitely shady, but (from what I've read) only a small subset of HFT firms actually have the setup to do it. Those firms have custom FPGAs implementing the minimum amount of the Infiniband spec because anything else is too slow. They also pay a boatload to colocate their servers physically right next to the exchange backbones.

Most HFT is not frontrunning.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they did, but I think Linus has carefully avoided working for anyone who might be seen to have a less than neutral stake in Linux. He used to work at Transmeta, a CPU maker, and his first and only Linux-specific employment is at the non-profit Linux Foundation.

That said, I also wouldn't be surprised if Google understands this well and hasn't tried to hire him because it makes sense for Linus to be employed by a neutral party.
I agree. The problem of latency definitely exists on more than the software level. From my anecdotal experience however, the majority of current latency in augmented reality does seem to lie in the vision processing.

Interestingly, previous research[1] indicates the maximal latency for a mobile augmented reality device to be fully immersive is 5-10 ms. While I don't think this target is reachable with modern technology, as you've obviously made clear, I feel we'll eventually get to a point where it's Good Enough for practical use.

I can't help but feel excited about what kinds of applications such technology will yield in the future.

[1]Pasman, W., Schaaf, A. van der, Lagendijk, R. L., & Jansen, F. W. (1999). Low latency rendering for mobile augmented reality. Proceedings of the ASCI'99 (Heijen, the Netherlands, June 15-17), 372-376.
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The Apple bit isn't _particularly_ true, anyway; look at Carbon. Ten years and counting of supporting ancient apps.
He moved to America in 2004, and became a US citizen in 2010. Two of his kids are US citizens as well (by virtue of having been born there).
I don't think you've used svg before. It definitely does not suck.
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Note that the article doesn't say that Hamm recognized him by his face. They were probably introduced to each other by someone, I'd imagine.
Look for similar names on AfterNic, GreatDomains, Pool, or other domain reseller sites. But you will not really know until you try to sell it - just set a high reserve to make sure it does not go for a song.
Note: This assumes a legitimate domain - if you have a trademark - you will lose it and it will cost you a LOT more in legal fees.
incredible. i never really thought how jarring and jerky flapping wings would be...
tens of thousands of dollars a second

That seems a little on the high side.

A cable break is expensive, but not 1 billion dollar/day expensive.
On issue 28, it says that when you do

JSON.stringify(Object('hi'))

The issue reporter says it should return '"hi"' but returns '{"0":"h","1":"i"}'

In my JS console, if I do

Object('hi')

It returns { '0': 'h', '1': 'i' }

So to me, it looks like JSON2 correctly serializes the result of Object('hi'). Am I missing something?

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/issues/28
"typically have a talent that others are jealous of":
This is truly a problem not just for the gifted but often for anyone who actually gives a shit.

Another consideration is that often when you are helping someone get what they want, they can feel inferior and/or powerless (i.e they are not programmers, tech is a black hole to them etc). On top of that often internally they feel unworthy and so strike out at the very person helping their success. Weird but it's happened to me.
I, for one, would welcome such a tragedy.
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I would pay so much for one of these
Proves that if you do what you love, you're bound to be successful.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
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I am surely dreaming, but I would love to see a soup to nuts blog post series (not necessarily from Stripe) that would take me through every step, the reasoning involved, how to protect against the exploit, creating the C programs on linux, etc. Something along the lines of the multi-part pokerbot series I remember from a long while ago.

Thank-you to Stripe for putting CTF together!
just googled/bookmarked:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/papers/TCS04.pdf

http://www.metaocaml.org/concoqtion/techreport.pdf

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/plmw12/Slides/plmw12-Pier...

slide 8:

summary = impossible
Wow.

This makes me wonder what Leonardo da Vinci could've accomplished given some base robotics technology to work off of.
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I think we have to be careful about defining "in tech." If it means founding employees of technology startups, that's very different from working in technical fields. The latter is approaching gender parity albeit slowly.
I wouldn't change my career path because there are idiots around, but there _are_ quite a few women who don't even want to embark on that path because it feels like you're entering frathouse central some days.

Especially since there are a few other (related) fields that seem to have a slightly lower jerk quotient.
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One of my favorites:

"I found this collection of files posted on a cybercrime website. Check and see if any of them are yours..."

Then there was a link that went to file://c:\ so the user would be browsing their own hard drive...
Hah I thought that was Paul McCartney. The one in the middle with the wig is Bach. I can only get half or so. Where is that?
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That makes the assumption that pretty much every straight male loves looking at women all the time, even when coding.

I'm so glad my co-workers occasionally manage to focus on the work at hand instead ;)
It was about context: The item in question appeared under the heading "Great Perks" – as if to say that women were one of the 'perks' in question.

Out of context, it appears as though they're addressing women directly. In context, they're offering women as a 'perk' to a male dominated event crowd.
I (specifically myself) am interested in why things are the way they are, so I can understand what needs to be done to improve it. I am not a part of the establishment enforcing this.

The statement that I responded to was directly contradicted by a published author (cstross). That's what I was pointing out, that if we want to get further towards understanding the situation, perhaps we should listen to a person with experience in it.
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a lot of people in the wired comments are posting about how it's fake... huh?
I'm skeptical. Am I the only one that noticed what appeared to be the plethora of CGI in the video?
As you rightly said - the key limit if you get to such high I/O levels is first with OS processing - the implementation of the network stack on the iron - with performance above 50k the limit comes from the "pipes" moving the data up from the network card to the OS layer where the web server sits (and providing the layer 4 / TCP services).

Hence in telcom environments where you get such requirements the TCP/IP stack is processed closer to the card - but no out-of-the-box web servers could handle such streams - most of that is handled with e.g. C-libs closely bound to the networking HW.

With such specialized NW cards (16 core card) plus libs you get to > 1'500'000 teardowns p.s. / connections established and roughly 15Gbps - there are now 100Gbps solutions on the market on the top-end - your actual throughput depends mostly what kind of processing you're doing. That kind of equipment is of course not normally used for web serving - more for (transparent) proxying and inspection / traffic shaping, etc as more-and-more telcom cores are completely TCP/IP based.
Sorry, carriers, 9 out of 10 tablets sold are Wi-Fi
You won't get to that discussion without calling out the problems at hand. I believe we are much closer to being able to taking that step than we were even a few years ago - I recall quite a few conferences were open misogyny was 'cool' - but we need to keep calling out this nonsense.

There are strangely still quite a few people who believe that sexism is not an issue.
Where was the camera operator at 0:35?
> My original post said nothing at all about cocaine being good for you.

Who said anything about it being good for you? Neither you nor I, as far as I know.

In your original post, you said, "They say drinking enough to feel drunk is much worse for your long-term health than a moderate dose of recreational powder cocaine."

You then followed it up with "The they was the World Health Organization."

So I don't think it's unfair to read that as you saying: "The World Health Organization say drinking enough to feel drunk is much worse for your long-term health than a moderate dose of recreational powder cocaine."

I then reviewed your source and concluded, "I don't think that what you've posted really supports your claim that the WHO finds recreational cocaine usage to be less hazardous than drinking enough to get drunk."
The internet has ruined us. :-) I also immediately though "fake" or some kind of viral video, but my desire to try those out makes me hopeful..
The GP is referring to doing client side Luhn validation on the credit card number, giving the user feedback if they mistype a number.

It's a technique I use, along with only allowing digits and doing some format masking (i.e. spaces or dashes to split the number into 4 digit blocks) to make the number more readible
had to check my calender to see if it was April fool's day.
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I just can't figure out why they had the guy in the middle run straight toward the camera as he begins his "taxi".
I'll also go on record here calling shenanigans. There are a lot of things that look mighty fishy about that video. I hate to rain on the parade, but I'll be surprised if it turns out to be legit.
I wonder if "Good Enough" really is. One big problem with latency is that it may well lead to motion sickness, since your perception of motion from the visual system and your inner ear is out of sync.

Disclaimer: It's been a _long_ time since I worked with heads-up/AR displays. Let's make it 15 years. (I feel ancient now ;)
Believe it or not.
OTOH, if it's the same humor and sarcasm towards the same "target" groups, it gets old fast...and can be seen as systemic.
A tablet with carrier-capable hardware would be a lot more appealing if it were not restricted to one carrier. I want to have the option to easily switch carriers any time after buying the tablet (or any other expensive device).

An even better proposition: let me have accounts with all the major carriers, and pay for only what I use. The device should continually switch between carriers based on some combination of price and signal quality.
You're not the only one. If this is real, they seem to have gone out of their way with editing to make it look like a fakery. I would have been far, far more convinced by simple, unedited HD footage. For what it's worth, a friend of mine who is a Boeing engineer saw it and cried "fake." I think I need more information.
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i suspect this poll is exclusive to developers. in response to jacquesm's post [0] i am curious; what does the curve look like?

[0] http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Starter+the+Architect+the+Debugger+and+the+Finisher
At about 0:24, I can convince myself that I see someone in a black and white shirt on the very right hand side of the frame.
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Funny thing, I saw this ad just yesterday. The eventbrite page has been pulled I think now. But I remember seeing the no women point and then also saw other points like 'No Ideas People' or something to that effect. The flyer struck me as somewhat offensive, not that I'm usually that sensitive. But it came across as disparaging quite a few groups of people, don't know what they were trying to do. But it seems like it would end up alienating people. Not being a full time dev, I've been mustering the energy and guts to go to a hackathon with the aim of meeting folks I could possibly learn from. My first impression was, I'd be made fun of if I turned up with nothing to offer...
my bets...

1. GoPro-camera viral ad... 20%
2. funny joke... 10%
3. this is real ... 70%

damn... the track record of incredible, but fake videos in the recent past makes me feel skeptical, but I wish it was real

btw 0:57 the tracks on the grass.. look suspicious ;)
Good thought, but there is actually someone standing in that vantage point. You can see him off to the right in the footage leading up to that.

I'd be amazed if this is real, because it would be far easier to fake than to really pull off.
Well, I'm optimistic and having just a second of feeling like a kid again seeing magic is a nice change of pace. I hope it's not fake.
I believe OP was meaning that the storage requirements for compressed video are already increasing at a huge rate, and it's exacerbated if you are working with uncompressed video
I think the key point you're missing is that ebooks still need much of the same work done that physical books do.
Ask HN: Is there a word for this phenomena?
A recent dealing on another board got me thinking about a concept which I will now try to detail.

Imagine something that society in general finds (and actually is) distasteful. Racism. Sexism. Pedophilia. Things of that nature.

Then, you find an example where this label is being incorrectly applied, or where there are mitigating circumstances that people are perhaps not considering. People getting the wrong idea about something being racism, for instance.

You then make a comment stating your concerns. In the replies to this comment, your concerns are dismissed (and depending on the site, whatever form of karma is used is being subtracted from you en masse, thanks to hivemind effect), and it's put out that implicitly or explicitly, you are a member of the distasteful class for speaking up, which also carries the connotation that your thoughts on the matter can be ignored.

1)You point out that the black person who got a huge prison sentence for a crime probably deserved the sentence given the circumstances. You are implied to be an ignorant racist.

2)You point out that the female CEO of a large company has done a horrible job, back it up with facts and figures. You are implied to be a sexist pig.

3)You point out that the USA has somewhat puritanical views on sex and the age of consent, given the laws in other countries. You are implied to be a sick pedophile.

Etc.

Now compound that with the fact you're tarred with this "ism" brush, anything you say in defense of your position afterwards is either minimized or ignored.

1)You tell the detractors that this black person murdered 5 people in cold blood and deserves the death penalty by any measure of law. Why should we listen to you? You're a racist. Your opinion is invalid.

2)You tell the detractors that this female CEO was greatly inferior to not only her forerunner, but other female CEO's of comparable companies. You're just being sexist. Why should we listen to you?

3)You look up the age of consent laws for other countries, and note that adults sexually taking advantage of the younger kids hasn't become a problem. You're probably a pedophile who has a horse in this race. Why should we listen to you?

You can see what I mean. My question is, does this phenomenon have a term that can be applied to it (so that I can refer to it in the future without writing long-winded descriptions like this), and is there a way to remove the stink from yourself, once you've been smacked with the dead, smelly fish of "You're probably a member of that which you defend".
Incredibly skeptical. Red flags:

1. He's received criticism about his videos before, but still insists on filming in random parks, only releasing to press after the event, and using blurry/shaky footage.

2. When he takes off, the camera shakes heavily. When he lands, someone steps in front to block the view.

3. At 0:35, his legs lift up so that his body is parallel to the ground (necessary for flight.) If he had been placing his legs on some sort of device for flight, why would the liftup be that smooth?

This would be awesome if it were real, but... just seems fishy.
Just to be clear, the power is coming from electric motors, and he is flapping his arms just because that is how the control system was designed, right?
Because you really don't care about getting fixes for security vulnerabilities? Or you have your own infosec team that tracks every single fix in Rails3 and backports it?
This actually a design consideration in HVAC engineering, from what I know. There's usually a compromise between flatter ducts, which consume more energy, produce more noise but take up less vertical space, and squarer ducts, which are quieter, more efficient but take up more space. However going too far towards large, square ducts can reduce the background noise produced below the level that many office workers are used to.
I don't usually think runtime hacks are the way to go (who am I kidding? I love runtime hacks), but this is damn clever on Apple's part.
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"Ever" is a very long time. I'm sure you're also familiar with the Bill Gates quote
I'd hesitate to call myself "ruined" simply because I question everything presented as fact.
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I believe this could be real, but the wings are powered by 4 electric motors. He uses an HTC Android phone and a WiiMote to read the movements of his arms, and that readings are used to control the wings.

There are many more details on his blog http://www.humanbirdwings.net/project-timeline/

Edit: JoeCortopassi raised some good points in his comment. I'm not so sure this is plausible, even with the 4 motors.
No, you're misreading it.

What it actually says, under the benefits for attending is "Massages, Live DJ, Gym Access, Food Trucks, Top Shelf Booze, Women, 5 Hour Energy, Perfect Fuel."

Hence the colon after "Women:" isn't addressed too women, it's clarifying how the women will be delivered to you as a perk, just like chocolate, massages, and gym access.

It's incredibly objectifying.
Which parts seemed to be cgi? There was edited footage, but it doesn't seem wrong. I don't know why someone would go through all that trouble with the other 14 videos to create 1 fake one.
If it's written on a blog, it's certainly true, then?
What is that trace we see on the grass?(1:00)
Looks like they us some type of vehicle to pull the helmet-camera up
It reeks of "Liquid Mountaineering." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3St1GgoHQ Especially the cheesy editing.

If this is an attempt at viral marketing, it's worth remembering how many people got pissed at the shoe company that commissioned the Liquid Mountaineering ad - Hi-Tec I think it was.

Edit: If you watch his previous video, at 1:53 here you can clearly see the leaves changing as it blurs and cuts to another shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tKFOcHyrI&t=1m50s Debating this is a waste of time, it's another hoax.
Surely, of all places, HN is a great place to discuss broken existing business models?

Nobody is going to know how to "disrupt" a problem they don't understand.

If you had to choose an audience in front of which to explain the problem of the existing publishing industry and their outdated approach to selling digital versions of their product to people begging to be able to pay for them, can you think of anywhere else that's more likely to have enough people capable of going "I cold fix that!"?
why are you posting so many skeptical comments?
I didn't suspect it at first, but the headcam had the helmet in the frame in one shot, but not so in the second shot. Suspicious
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Neither does recording music.
I'm completely OK with a predominately female group being told men would be there serving drinks? African americans serving racists? That's a totally different ballgame.
Maybe the Internet has ruined me too, but this reminds me of that other viral ad campaign of guys running on water.

http://gawker.com/5539222/how-not-to-fall-for-a-viral-market... (Yes it's Gawker but they did have one of the better write-ups :/ ).

A few minutes browsing the project homepage (http://www.humanbirdwings.net) and WHOIS (http://whois.net/whois/humanbirdwings.net) makes it look more legit though...
The brief version is: luck.

The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time.

The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood.

So: luck.

Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
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i can't wait for the fine-tuning and improvements to the wing design and mechanical assistance system to reach flying finesse.
with all respect though, he really looks like a giant bird taking off and then gliding.
on another note, it'd be so cool to watch human flying sports to spawn from this à la track or polo.
it's definitely fake - check the previous video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tKFOcHyrI&t=1m30s
This project allows you to run bash scripts on Windows using the tiny busybox.exe (636K) instead. BusyBox is "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux".

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+1 for Christopher Alexander!
Things that make this video implausible:

1) You have the engineering fortitude to come up with something that has never been done before, and you choose to attach it to your body with a consumer grade backback? And not even a full hiking one with multiple points of attachment? No rock-climbing harness?

2) Fabric is waaay too loose on the wings to be effective in any kind of aerodynamic sense. At best this is a kite

3) He would "only be able to come up with 5% of the power needed", so he used a bunch of Turnigy motors and some magical super-compact power supply to provide the necessary lift? Not to mention, motors aren't exactly built for rapid oscillation back and forth, and I see no complex mechanisms to turn rotations into a very strong/rapid oscillating force

4) There are ZERO control surfaces on those wings to be able to pull up for a landing like he does. No, that pillow case between his legs doesn't count.

5) An Android operated system, that dynamically reads two separate wii remotes, and converts that accelerometer input into wing movements would not be that responsive.

6) No continuous shot from take-off to landing

7) No shot of the gear used to accomplish this, whether it be the motors/batteries/wiring/pulleys
Because I am skeptical that the video is real.
Which of your 98 days here qualifies you to assess the peak of someone's contribution over a span of two years?