skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$1,000 says this will be featured in a heist movie in the next year. This is exactly the kind of tech I used to scoff at when the uber-skilled hacker pulls up a 3D map of the target building.
500 Startups Raises New $50M Fund, Adds 4 New Partners. 250 investments to date
I can only speculate on the damage to your social life.
> Well, I'd say a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof (no attackers, ever) and cares only about speed is a checksum -- so maybe a terminology issue.

Imagine someone trying to attack a BitTorrent tracker by injecting false data packets with "true" hashes. This is a case where you do want the properties of a hash, not a checksum (changing a single bit greatly changes the output; it's hard to figure out an input that will create a matching output) but you don't want the properties of a cryptographically-secure hash (slow to calculate.)
I certainly do not mean to dispute your experience, but others' mileage may vary. When you are burning fat, you produce ketones and brain can actually burn ketones, so you are not "starving" your brain. However, the psychological effect of low blood sugar might of course be hindering your productivity and mental capability.
SOPA is simply the old-guard clutching at the side of the cliff for dear life as they, inevitably, plummet to their deaths.

Next subject.
I hear ya. We've only been live for about a month now and we've been focusing primarily on growing the user base and adding features for the users. We haven't yet put a lot of effort into getting employers to post job postings, because if they get no responses then it would hurt the likelihood that they'd return once the user base has grown. That said, the companies that we have gotten have been pretty high quality (mainly startups) and we've been surprised how high some of the salary ranges go.
Europe’s Tech Startups Spurn Home Turf for Facebook Fever
Seems to have a small set of startups. Google has an office there. CMU is world class in robotics and CS.

http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-Pittsburgh

http://startuppittsburgh.com/archives/

A startup incubator: http://www.alphalab.org/

There's even a Facebook page. :-)

http://www.facebook.com/StartupPGH
I'm sure they do. There are a few things to note here:

(1) In order for malloc to work, you need a header anyway (at least, unless your allocation fits in one of the fixed-size bins).

(2) You can get around the header to some extent by sorting the fields of your objects so that pointers come first, and then all you need to do is to store the number of pointers (or a sentinel value). This is what Haskell does. Of course, this prevents low-level control over data representation.

(3) You can tag (or NaN box) all your values. This is what most MLs do, as well as JS, many Lisps, etc.

(4) You can use a map on the side from pointer to type info to avoid a header. This is what Rust in its early days did. It's worse than a header for memory consumption though, so it doesn't really buy much.
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What if companies just open-sourced their code? Then a programmer could look at the very system they would be paid to work on and a company could look at examples of real work. No more puzzles and arbitrary tasks. And if the system is of any interest and a community develops, that's a source of new programmers. The company gets access to a talent pool and hackers get to know if it's work they want to do.

The obvious downside is that competitors get your code too. But is there any credible analysis or evidence of how bad a risk this is? Because the risk of not finding good programmers is pretty bad.

I suspect that people are still way overestimating the value of source code in and of itself, relative to the value of the team that produces it. If so, that's a market inefficiency and open-source might provide an edge. It would also be more rational and satisfying from the point of view of the actual work. Imagine where mathematics would be if mathematicians still kept their proofs secret.

Can anyone point to examples that shed light on the effect of open-source on hiring?
I wasn't familiar with Wayland; the Wikipedia article about it seems remarkably good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoco...
"90 days of polyphasic sleep:"

Thank you for the link.

Actually, Steve continued to maintain his polyphasic sleep schedule for a total of 5.5 months, not 90 days [1]. It appears that he simply did not update his sleep log entries very frequently after day 90.

His "One Year Later" post was interesting:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-on...

[1] "After doing polyphasic sleep for about 5-1/2 months, I finally decided to switch back to monophasic."

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/polyphasic-sleep-th...
I remember a Larry Niven fan in high school excitedly explaining the concept of armor that hardens on impact. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=927
Can HN have a moratorium on political submissions for just two months?
Can you recommend some of those services you are talking about?
Not to be a downer but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be [silly sounding domain]/blog. It doesn't lend to credibility and I'm sure I'm not the only one that given two similar titles but one has (hizook.com) next to it will click the one with the more serious sounding domain.
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I guess there's no accounting for a person's preferences: I recommended them elsewhere on this page because I love their feel so much :-)

Never liked the loud "clickety" sound nor the feel of the Type M keyboards.
I hate it (in Firefox 11). It takes time to learn how scrolling it works, and scrolling is slow (on my i5 system with fast internet connection).
No, because if we stop monitoring political events that relate to our interests then we end up with things like the DMCA.
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What's wrong with start-ups using GA? Aren't you a bit paranoid?
You dont see a connection between this link and the HN community interests?
I wouldn't normally comment on this, but since you're offering proofreading services... :-)

"Julian, there are quite a bit of typos on your site."

Maybe you meant:

"Julian, there are quite a few typos on your site."

The phrase "quite a bit of" refers to something you measure, not something you count. And it would never be worded "there are quite a bit of..."

So you might say:

"There are quite a few eggs in that basket."

"There is quite a bit of snow on that mountain."

(edit with one more thought...)

One good way to help keep this straight is to remove the word "quite":

"There are a few eggs in that basket."

"There is a bit of snow on that mountain."
There is no way those body fat percentages are correct.
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> Weigh yourself when you start, then come back after three months.

Dissenting voice here:

As somewhat of a numbers junkie, weighing myself every day is absolutely crucial. I know the numbers fluctuate (if you weigh yourself every day, you can't help but learn that), but they can give you a much-needed reality check. More importantly, I got myself addicted to taking data, and the most precise scale I had available was at the gym ... so I went to the gym.

You'll definitely be able to see yourself trending downwards.
Mobile operating systems you might never use
I really don't think this is a good idea. If they don't respond to the cease and desist, get the court and law enforcement to enforce the C&D. Don't pretend that due process of law doesn't exist.
so I am totally in support of blocking SOPA/ACTA and as a developer it is really important to me but the call to action at the bottom is a little misguided.

It actually makes me proud of humanity that more people want to petition for "stop expanding trade with vietnam at the expense of human rights" than stopping ACTA. the latter being somewhat of a #firstwordproblem and the former dealing with human slavery, death, etc.

so when you go sign the petition, sign the "stop ACTA" one AND something else that is, in the grand scheme of things, more inportant to human life.
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This is very cool. I like the idea of compiling to scheme.

Although: 1.1 seconds for clojure repl, 0.8 seconds for gsc-compiled version. That's actually less of a difference in speed than I'd expected. Not being very familiar with ClojureScript, is this clojure repl running in the JVM or in V8?

Edit: on that note, it'd be interesting to compare timing after compiling with Stalin.
What percentage do you estimate of HN users would never hear about this if it never was submitted here?

What probability do you estimate that anything (clarification: anything significantly benefiting "our interests") is going to happen conditional on every HN user having heard about this?

On a scale of 1 to 10, "hardly" to "very", how surprised were you to hear about this?

Edit: And one more, since the downvote police haven't gotten this one yet, what probability do you estimate that by HN ignoring the political world for two months any of your nightmares will come true?
This post had nothing to with the title. It was an anecdote of work-life-balance...
Maybe, but they seem to be going for helping people find things in places like malls and such. So instead of using a directory (which can sometimes be few and far between), you find it on your phone. Also, you can probably sync with your location so you have a real-time "You are here!" icon.
I just don't buy the conclusion here. There are a lot of things where "the universe" of people who are in some way associated with X is much larger than "the X community," but that doesn't mean that the community doesn't exist.

There are lots of people who have used a radial saw, downloaded a torrent, seen a ballet, or given someone else flowers. That doesn't preclude people who enjoy hanging out with other carpenters, filesharers, dancers, or florists from believing in and participating in a community around their individual passions, even if that doesn't attract anyone who's ever put up a piece of sheetrock or put together a bouquet.

I don't dispute for a minute the notion that those communities in turn will have elements of tribalism, in-groups, customs and common beliefs that perhaps, in turn, affect who ends up participating in it.

However, the logic at the end of David's post seems to me to dismiss the notion that people who are passionate about anything should want associate with each other and deepen their connection to extend beyond it, so long as there exist people who don't want to.
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I agree in a sense of actually changing something. It is somewhat useful in letting people not involved know what's going on by spreading the information around.
I agree.

Although all of us on HN like to think we can look past the grammar and poor sentence structure and judge someone by their github account or code quality - In reality humans are not built to evaluate others that way during first encounter, and most people you interact with in a startup (like customers) do not care about the code.

Thread OP sounded like a 20 year old.
It still all looks like web-dev.
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Ask HN: Who are the most influential VCs?
I just would like to get a simple list of most influential VCs in Silicon Vally or outside SV. Example, Ron Conway is an influential VC
So it's only available in Google maps on Android, not on the iphone or on the web?

If it's just for Android I'm not submitting my building.
I think you got off topic just to make your point. I grew up in the bay area and have known people from every color of the rainbow, but the only group large enough to use their own language outside of familial situations are latin-americans.

This is why a lot of native-english-speaking Californians speak at least a cursory amount of spanish, but nothing else. (unless they specifically took courses in high school or college, but thats a small amount of people)

Interestingly enough, you will sometimes see latin-american movie titles in spanish (eg El Norte, Y tu madre tambien). I'm sure it doesn't happen as often as in Europe, but it still relates to the original point.
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perhaps, but running is better heart health. I don't know anyone who died of punny biceps, but 50% of Americans still die of heart attacks.
Awesome! Now add video, hover-over info with links, and the rest of the universe! Am curious why this was done, though. Class project? There are already a few major implementations of this out there. But, it is cool to focus on the Milky Way. I was able to zoom in and see the center! How cool is that?
Why would you add it as "a ninth reason" when this is already in TFA as #5 and #6?
Hi Noja,

What make you say that? We were extremely careful when measuring body fat. We used the 4 point test, using body fat calipers. It is seen as a reliable test.

Regards,

Julian.
Online PAC launches first Ad against Lamar Smith/SOPA
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Toray's touchscreen film self-repairs a scratch in 10 seconds
Thinking out loud and putting all realistic implications aside, for farm and grind games like World of Warcraft, it would be very interesting to see an anti-bot policy turned into an actual game mechanic; one that pits the noble, rule-abiding players against the evil bot cartel by offering achievements, bounties, or rewards for successfully reporting or disrupting bots.
Obama Admin needs to straight up create a position that is the OPPOSITE of the Copyright Czar...someone who can internally bat against much of what the Copyright Czar comes up with.
I strongly recommend The Hacker's Diet (by the founder of Autodesk, John Walker).

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html

I found that when I got up to 208 lbs six or seven years ago, I now weigh 159. (I'm 6'3".)
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I read this some years ago.. I've since then become very skeptical about his story.
The guy makes money off of his blog, he's basically the internet version of a life coach. Writing "inspirational" articles on how to improve your life, with almost nothing to back them up.
There's plenty incentive for him to have fabricated this. And back when I was interested in the uberman sleep schedule, he was the only person on the internet I could find who claimed he had done it for more than a couple of weeks
The number of comments mentioning similar events are frightening. I always thought these were isolated incidents, flukes if you like. Apparently not.
Come on, you don't think you can shock people with Karl Marx, do you?

The point isn't to shock. The actual point was that you're not supposed to talk politics in the workplace. I wasn't preaching Marx to coworkers, so why were they railing on about Hayek?

Yeah, that's what I mean. Dedicate yourself completely and unreservedly to the foul, foul art of money-grubbing, and/or money-saving. Or possibly money-stealing. Anything is better than either conning investors, or conning the government. Have you considered growing pot?

You've got to be kidding. You would rob people before "conning investors" (ie: making an actual go at a business) or "conning the government" (ie: making an actual go at research)?

Just link me to your "pure functional operating system" already, or I'm calling troll-post.
Keeping Messages Private with the iPhone Black SMS App.
Quick rewrite of a rather dull marketing newsletter email
What would be truly awesome would be a built-in API for Webkit so that you could post to an arbitrary URL and parse the response.
Where is excellent Python code?
I'm a self taught programmer looking to see what others consider very good looking code. I want good style, so I'm looking for others to emulate. Are there any packages out there that come to mind? Why?
Spiffing CSS: the preprocessor made for Brits
Developer Stagflation
How often to change a job?
If you exercise regularly and you're still gaining weight, your diet is likely the culprit. Most people have no idea just how horrid their diets are.
I've read the Wikipedia pages on Quantum Computing and qubits a few times and all I can say is, "Yes, mmhmm, yes. I know some of these words."

I wonder if computing, and other sciences, will become so advanced that fewer and fewer people will be able to comprehend the fundamentals or will there be a time when things like quantum mechanics are a high school subject?
A nearby star may have more planets than we do
Isn't the circumference of the waistline a better measure?
That was (and may still be) the next step. Why isn't this a good idea also?
AdSense is completely broken
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
--Thomas Paine
I guess built-in libraries may be a good start.
GSA Employee Raps Massive Spending, Brags He'll Never Be Under OIG Investigation
Who is Anonymous? STATS
Pinterest is Now the No. 3 Social Network in the U.S. [STUDY]
Signing a petition is a symbolic act that causes you to commit to yourself the idea "I am the sort of person who cares about this issue". Petitions are, at best, only secondarily for influencing the powers that be. They are primarily for influencing the people who sign them.
I can't tell if you're being intentionally dense or just naive.

Linus copied the kernel tree to GitHub when the kernel git repo was compromised. It is not the main repo. Of the others, only Rails and JQuery could even be reasonably be called "top" projects (Bootstrap? Seriously, you list a 7 month old project with 2000 commits?) and even those are a stretch. Major projects are well into the hundreds of thousands of commits. It's ludicrous to even muse of Bootstrap being in the same league as e.g. Mozilla, WebKit, et al.
how do we know he did it just by following the program...and not by hiring a personal trainer and a personal chef...or by simply doing 4 hours of exercise every day?

since the other co-founder is a personal trainer...I'd imagine it was a bit more hands on, than just using a website.

there is a lot of financial incentive here to improve the shown results
Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
IIRC it's running JVM/Rhino with the repl you start using scripts/repl.
The upload form clearly states Make sure you have permission to use the floor plan you are uploading.
Most large retail outlets will probably opt out of this initiative. A big part of their revenue model hinges on the "impulse buying" which occurs as you wander throughout the store looking for your items. There is a reason why no major department or grocery chain (that I am aware of) has a store directory at the front like most malls do.

However, if crowdsourcing is allowed this could become major. I and 20 other people could all map out the Walmart (for example), upload the data, and then whatever matches in 80% of the submissions would become part of the "map".

If enough people did that it would almost force the major chains to participate, if for no other reason than to maintain control of their maps.
LibriVox hits 100 Million downloads, looking for a PHP Dev
Interest vs. Required work vs. Accomplishment
Also, why is this to be considered so desirable?

To avoid namespace pollution.
I think it will be great to be able to navigate complex public locations such as shopping malls, casinos, college campuses, hospitals, etc..
I think it's also worth looking at the protocol used to perform the authentication. This is closely tied to what kind of verifier you can/can't store.

If you store a salted hashed password, the authenticating party needs to send you the actual password.

Sure, they could send you the password over an encrypted connection. But that implies that a security context (and shared secret) has already been established. There's a chicken/egg problem here. The most desirable approach is to use a protocol which performs mutual authentication as part of the initial setup of the security context.

There are protocols which can perform password-based authentication without actually sending the plaintext password. It's called a zero-knowledge password proof. In addition, some of these allow a "verifier" to be stored rather than the password itself.

In this scenario, not only do you not store a secret which would allow impersonation of a user, but that secret is also never even sent to you.

We need support for this in browsers :)
"For petitions, open letters, or similar public communications that you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information."

Nice. So if I sign the petition they are allowed to sell my data?
Although I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment about 1st world problems, can you expand on why as a developer you are in favor of more piracy? I feel the big guys will always be able to protect themselves and it is the little guys who really suffer.
The screenshots in this post are fantastic.

To me, the real LOL part of this was the image sprite...Sutton didn't even bother to change the name of the file! Just shows that they were totally thumbing their nose at Estately and the law.

Here's the screenshot of that: http://blog.estately.com/assets/Estately-images-on-Sutton_s-....
There was a while in college I was like that. It's like you confuse your circadian rhythm enough that it stops bothering you. It was super convenient, but once you sleep the several days in the row it starts breaking down. You just need to constantly be changing it up a bit.
Philip Kaplan's Social Network Fandalism Has Quietly Grown To 350K Musicians
ClojureScript also ships with a browser REPL which uses a browser's JS engine as the evaluation environment. It's simple to swap in new evaluation environments - I got a basic Node.js ClojureScript REPL working without much effort.
What about BeautifulSoup? It stands out to me as extremely usable and friendly. Any comments on how it looks under the hood?
I think this comment is unnecessary in its current form - do you have anything to add regarding typos on the website?
I'm 26 but couldn't agree more with a lot of what's said. I'm married younger than most in my industry and feel an intense pressure to work all hours of the week, essentially be on call 24/7. And most kids entering my field do, they make their job their whole life. I'm just not willing to do that and think it's very important to draw those work/life boundaries. It doesn't make you less of an asset at your job because most of the work I see is work for work's sake, to seem like they are putting in the effort. Working smarter, not harder is absolutely right. And there are also other tactics that are important. Working from home if need be, adjusting your hours so you can make time for your family/kids and still get things done, etc. Burn out is a big risk and my guess is that even though most kids in startups are young, there are many who are unsuccessful because they think they need to work 100+ hour weeks and just can't maintain the pace. They get burnt out, fail at what they're doing, and end up squandering a lot of talent. If they'd just rationed their energy, who knows what could have happened.
I agree. Instead of a petition, we should contact them directly as we did with our senators. So, use this instead:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comme...
Ask HN: Do employers care whether my Computer Science degree is a B.A. or B.S?
Yes, it's a serious question. I'm a community college student who is applying this fall to transfer into a University of California. Although most universities offer CS as a B.S. degree, some offer it in BOTH B.S. and B.A. The B.S. degree would require me to stay an extra year to finish a math class and the physics series, however I've been in CC for too long and would like to transfer as soon as possible.

I was thinking of going for the B.A. degree, but I would like to know if that would put me at a disadvantage later on when I'm applying for jobs. Thanks.