skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i know i know you should never open a "hate" group on facebook, i did so anyway a few years ago after one of his books took two hours of my life that i will never get back.

here is the fb url https://www.facebook.com/groups/40433509545/

i know that this is not very HN, but neither is a "xx books ever entrepreneur should read" linkbaitblogpost on the front page.

here my favorite quotes:

"porn movies has better plot than his books"

"He mixes a couple of diff books in one (but the other two arent his :-)"

"Reminds me something that could be called langue de bois, a suspicious rhetoric that is targeted towards desire of happiness. Too good to be true, to abstract to be examined, too vague to be accomplished. I guess the speeches of early USSR politics could be depicted as a same type langue de bois, that were talking about a perfect society in a loud tone of sentiments and deep emotionality, but created nothing more than utopian abortion."

"in my opinion people who actually like Paulo Coelho have never ever read a real book and are unable to enjoy literature. Paulo Coelho = scary new age pseudo babble for lost middle class brats. It is good news for Paulo Coelho's bank account the world is full of those."
The IncPy idea is very neat. A cursory look at the github repository indicates that it is released as a modified version of CPython 2.6.x. This is unfortunate, because it guarantees that it will soon be obsolete. Ideally it should become a PEP and be implemented by multiple Python implementations; how difficult would that be? From the repo I cannot see how much extra code is involved here.

Another thought I had is whether you could implement this in pure Python using the introspection features of the language. Finally I was reminded how with certain languages such as Lisp, there is this notion of an "image", which is a dump of the state of the interpreter. Does that achieve the same end as this? If so, wouldn't that be a much more general solution?
Moore's Law has been around for a while now, and we haven't run out of things to do with the power yet.

I'm reasonably sure that improvements in AI, rendering, image processing and similar things will continue to absorb processing power for some time to come. Hell, on the rendering front, I can probably spend a few hours researching and tell you precisely which techniques will become usable with 2, 3 and 5 years' improvement at current rates.

F'r example: true multi-bounce real-time ray-tracing through "Brave"-level hair and fur. Looks awesome. Is, erm, some way off being possible computationally speaking. Or, for that matter, the sort of hair physics simulation they used on the same movie - to the best of my knowledge, also Not Yet Doable In Realtime (and some way off).
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Hmm, I was looking at appcelerator last year, it's used by wunderlist for their desktop app: https://github.com/6wunderkinder/wunderlist
here is a question i started for sci-fi books which got some decent recommendations http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3781486
Companies routinely lay off staff and hire in cheaper countries (China, India..).

Companies routinely source materials to cheaper countries as to undercut everyone else.

Companies are also willing to move the business to locales that provide cheaper (or free) taxation. If you're really lucky, you get a rebate of tax from that government for 'stimulating jobs'.

Yet we people cannot 'legally' buy movies and music from other countries unless the copyright owner blesses us to do so ?!

We cannot legally bought, import goods from out of country areas because that same company sells them more expensively here?!

As to the comment from the guy who was importing and selling legally bought textbooks for a cheaper price.... Well, isn't that being a good business(wo)man? You find where something is being sold cheap and sell where it is high. Is that not providing a much needed service?

So, companies extract much gain by playing regions against regions. Why can't we?
The https://www.inkling.com/careers/openings/ page is broken.
You'll still get in trouble in the US if you're inciting specific crimes. But "all them ___ should be shot" is just a (bad) opinion. And you can impotently rant about those all you want.
Twitter: you make a better platform than products
"A lazy man, Dad believed, always makes the best use of his Therbligs because he is too indolent to waste motions."
Cheaper By The Dozen, 1948, Frank B Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

I believe that there is precedent for this connotation, which granted is different than the denotation. This is the best example I have on hand since I remember this book from grade school. I could imagine Larry Wall had a similar encounter with this usage of "lazy".
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We're also looking for front-end developers to work on our network management GUI written in backbone JS.

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From the article: i [sic] find C to be the language that every first time programmer must learn.

Well, yes and no. I say no because, on Windows, C is not one of the easier languages to set up. I wouldn't recommend Visual Studio (or any IDE), and getting GCC on Windows (MingW or Cygwin or ???) and updating your PATH isn't obvious. And C compiler errors might be cryptic to a new programmer. And C pointers are tricky. Heck, even printf has its gotchas.

On the other hand, I would say that every programmer would benefit from learning C. If you learn C first then you'll have learned all of the above, and that's great. You'll have some understanding of how arrays are stored in memory, what a compiler does, how references work, etc, which are aspects that other languages hide from you.

For the record, I'd probably recommend Python. Python has a binary installer for Windows, it's lighter on syntax, and it has exceptional documentation. You can play around interactively in the interpreter, and it's a language that has a little bit of everything to try: scripting, objects/inheritance, (some) functional features, etc.
When I want a record of a whiteboard, I simply take a picture of it. Guards against accidental smear/erasure, too.

Not that taking them back and perhaps continuing to mark them up doesn't make sense, too.
Which ‘Pulp Fiction’ character almost became Marty McFly?
I read publications by Stratfor and similar organizations on a semi-frequent basis (although I have not read the book in question), and "with a grain of salt" is an assumed prerequisite.

The authors do not intend to deceive or have lazy fact checkers. Instead the writings are intentionally speculative and many of the sources are often speaking off the record or sometimes trying to promote a specific political agenda (i.e. a Chinese official could have been the source for your stated fact).
There isn't an app for that
That's a really interesting point - what's acceptable at one's desk is very different than what's acceptable at a party. That could potentially be a breakthrough place of acceptance for Glass if useful applications can be found.
I thought Reverse Osmosis was already close to its thermodynamic limit (in terms of efficiency)?
Making a legal decision based on your own personal gains and not the data?
> Given the prominence of electromagnetic radiation and the often fear that it has spread around the globe in respect of brain activity, heat and so on.

Mostly thoroughly debunked: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4072

There is still some valid scientific uncertainty about more powerful microwaves which can penetrate into your brain, but at this point it's only uncertainty.
I used to think the solution to the web’s gotchas was a framework to conform the web to a native app mentality. I built and deployed web apps with these stacks. I would never do it again. These frameworks build abstractions on top of abstractions. In every non-trivial app I worked on, the top abstractions leak, and you still have to hack HTML and CSS.

Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app experience is not one of them.

http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html
how about bitcoin based vps services ?
What if playtime is essential to creativity and developing models? Aren't children encouraged to play in different ways for this very reason?

Honestly, I've been Charles before, and no one cared because the work was done well and on time. I was still responsive to my coworkers, but there were definitely periods where people understood I was recharging my "psychic energy" or whatever they thought made the magic happen.
I want to add some tips:

Exif is the one everyone knows, but don't discount #3 and #4 (i.e., identifiers added by image editing tools).

To keep a photo untraceable:

Delete the Exif data using a tool like IrfanView.

To edit the photo, download a fresh copy of an open source editing program or a commercial editing tool that does not need registration or activation. After you're done working on the photo, delete the editing program.

For a higher level of security (to guard against the possibility of a GUID or hostname from the OS being embedded in the image), do all of the above on a computer that is not traceable to you, or on a fresh install of the OS, which you wipe after you are finished.
Swapping the order and removing the woff format in my example to match your scheme didn't result in sharp icons for me. Which OS and browser did you use?
> Our culture has to change a lot before a product like this can be mainstream.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4168501

"They could change form factors for wider acceptance. A form factor that looks like hipster glasses with lenses that dynamically darken would do very well."
I should point out Hurricane (http://gethurricane.org)

PHP: https://github.com/hurricane/driver-php

Python: https://github.com/hurricane/driver-python

Ruby: https://github.com/hurricane/driver-ruby

Java: https://github.com/hurricane/driver-java

All of the drivers fully re-implement the Erlang format, even the arcane parts (you can send Erlang closures around, for example).
Ah, it seems you're right. My mistake.
What happend to Freenet and I2P?
They aren't dead, are they?
I'm sure this headline invokes "Minority Report" in more brains than just mine, but this isn't pinpointing individuals. It's just Really Good statistical modeling. Sounds impressive and a great way to put tax dollars to work.
Not really. You only need to space out the levels by a few ohms.

Microphone impedances start around 500 ohms, so if you go higher than that, you can't distinguish between a button and a working mic.
I have satellite internet. Not only do I have to worry about the weather, but also 900 ms ping times, mediocre speeds, and a daily bandwidth cap.

It's painful for me, as I came from having 35 down and 1 up not long ago. However, it has opened my eyes to the fact that many people in the US (especially in rural areas) do not have access to decent internet.
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I was in LaunchBox DC (which has since moved to NC Raleigh/Durham area) it was a very positive experience. The advisors brought in great connections: Steve Case, Tim O'Reilly, various startup CEO's, etc for weekly round table discussions and advice.

The overall outcome was a third of the class ended up either getting acqui-hired or taking additional investment, a third is still bootstrapping, and everyone else scaled things down to a side business or just faded away.
Unfortunately these guys are just hacking together a supplychain. So this will be very different from something like PSLV :(. They are not really doing any "innovation". If they can at least keep corruption at bay, these tablets will just increase the total number of tablets in use in India, especially among a set of people who may not choose to buy the tablets for themselves. That is good thing n the long run.
Great review. The same 'pleasure to use' feeling for me too.
How about allowing the user to build 'domain specific'(e.g.,Retail Claims Processing) and 'domain generic'(e.g.,Travel Claims) workflow templates! It will open a world of opportunities for the businesses :-)
Courts don't create laws, they interpret and apply them. Laws are created by the legislative power (i.e. congress). Courts is the judicial power. I.e. to fix this mess, legislative power needs to reform the patent law.

Here is a proposal: https://defendinnovation.org
> One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API. ... The other camp looked at Google’s advertising model for inspiration, and decided that building their own version of AdWords would be the right way to go.

There was a 3rd camp, those who wanted Twitter to become a protocol instead of a silo. From the sounds of it this camp must have been especially small. It's a shame, it was the only way to make it viable long-term.
endorsement: ryan is finishing up a full redesign of Rocket Lease's dashboard pages UI.

He is absolutely phenomenal, a pleasure to work with, a great communicator, has really helped clarify the UI, and helped bring focus to each of the internal pages.

Ryan writes fantastic javascript and awesome, clean, HTML markup, and convinced me to take the plunge and start using Compass.

He's a cofounder level UI/UX developer, and if you're looking you should be looking here.

Ryan, feel free to post before/afters of the Rocket Lease work you've done if you want to highlight some of the work you created for me.

A+++ would buy again.
How old is this article? Seems that most JS MVC frameworks appeared after it was written.
Yes, but there is such a thing has ennui. It is better to dispel ennui by taking up projects voluntarily than doing only minimum work and then becoming listless and depressed.

I understand that the article is trying to get us to think about busyness for busyness' sake, but in a way, when water,food and shelter are taken care of, you don't REALLY need to do anything else. But then what do you do for the rest of your life?

I would say keep busy, take a little stress, but when it becomes bad for you health and the people around you, back off. You'll be dead soon, don't waste it.
They don't say what methods they are employing to do this. I think I have a good idea.

A two layer neural network with input (features) as the profile of a crime in a certain city and all of the related circumstances reduced to numeric columns. That should be able to produce reliable predictions on where/when crimes happen.

Andrew Ng talks about how to build this two layer neural network here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/

Glue it together, feed it the data, refine the inputs, test the outputs and revise the inputs/features, and there you go.

And yes for the liberals, this is going to profile people on all of the politically incorrect data points, race, color, sex, orientation, drug use, etc.
San Francisco, H1B, INTERN are welcome

Scribd (social publishing, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired TWO people from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript

* iOS

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* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, analytics

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you.

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Curious why this was downvoted? Is it because it's not paid?
Firefox on Linux? It's very bad on the Mac, less bad on Windows, and looks like it's perfectly OK on Linux.
Absolutely. If I deploy something like this, it'll only do the canvas rendering on non-WebKit browser.
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That's good for sending. But you cannot host a server like that.
hey I'm recently back in my hometown of cincinnati for a while from SF, how does the market look around here? Any useful meetups or anything?
The semantics of rules is the only important thing about rules. Sorry to bore you, and wondering why you bothered?
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A great idea. And the shape of things to come.

Imagine people people being able to report, not actual crime, but what could be suspicious behavior, to the police. Such "information" could be used to move resources to an area. You certainly can't harass someone based on such suspicions, but certainly can be more ready to respond if a crime does occur.

And property owners might like to know this sort of information. If someone is hanging around your parked car for example. Imagine being able to reply with "Oh, that's my teenager waiting for me to come back." or "That's my psycho-ex stalker girlfriend! And she has a crowbar!"
Are you sure it's kept up to date?

The initial github commit has comment "Initial import of the code I developed back in 2006. Nothing has been changed since then.", and nothing has been changed since that commit (with exception of docs, Gow.nsi and gow.vbs files).
Also, seed the network card with a fresh random MAC on eevery reboot, or more often.
ahem. There is already a large international currency that is way bigger than bitcoin (and maybe bigger than USD). Euro. (Though then we get into semantic arguments about "international")
I actually settled on Lua for teaching my son.

Very simple minimalistic syntax, few concepts, few primitives, few keywords, dynamically-typed / garbage collected, variable arity, no real gotchas, good tool support, great speed, the ability to access a key in a hash either using bracket or dotted notation, and one of the best programming books for any language (PiL).

But it also scales well; closures, first-class / true anonymous functions, metatables / metamethods, nice simple API for talking between script and C, tail-call optimization, coroutines, short circuiting operators.

And, the path from Lua to JavaScript is very straightforward. In fact I'd say that mastery of Lua would make you a mid-level JS programmer right out of the box...
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this is cute and makes sense! this reminds me of the iPad apps that ask for a 5 star review after they give some stats. For example: "i've noticed that you've been playing this game for X hours. why not give us a high rating so we can continue to push content?"
The only way to make what viable long term?
orientation is a data point for criminal profiling? that's a new one.

How's that going to be detected?
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Quick and dirty:

cat imagefile | strings | less

To obfuscate meta-data in media files, use two different editors to covert file formats three times. eg Use Picasa to convert original to high quality jpeg, then use Gimp to convert jpeg to png
It's not "society" that's failed. It's basic natural instinct kicking in. Many men prefer wider hips, large breasts, and youthful appearance. We can say all day that this comes down to taste but your inner caveman knows that she will be a healthy and providing mother.
Of course not, but you could use it for signing up etc.
How is it irrelevant? Consumers should not support companies which engage in crooked anticompetitive behavior. Our choices should be based on something more than how they treat consumers.

It's like "blood diamonds". They might be all nice and sparkling, but really stained in blood. Do you think it's enough to look just at the external value? It's not enough. It's good to vote with your wallet, boycotting companies which engage in unethical business practices.
Let me add a slightly more negative take. If you follow police technology, no matter what's implemented, crime magically goes down! Although I can see a system like this being a high-level tool for allocating resources, the notion that it can "predict" crime is likely overblown. Where's the deep analysis to show causation, not just correlation?
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>where things like engagement and usage data

that's a story the link-counting-tool providers (i.e. seomoz) and linknetworks / linkbuilidng companies have been telling for years. and it is bullshit to keep the (crapy) status quo in SEO (because their business is deeply rooted into the status quo).

ux metrics (serp clickthrough, long clicks) are an a factor for ages, see i.e. the discussion about "long-clicks" in the exgoogler book "i'm feeling lucky".

plus: on big sites it is very easy (and i and other have done it multiple time) to test this UX factor. just make the UX of google referred visits significant poorer (i.e. via cloaking or performance delays) and see what happens to your overall SERP impressions and click throughs.

the same goes for reviews, there is even an publicly available googler paper about it.
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It seems to me that the potential success of the realtime API approach would be reliant on impressive, profitable applications. Although I can think of a few, I can't think of enough of them to argue against the AdWords approach, which apparently drives revenue for now. If Twitter had chosen the API direction initially it would have been partially on them to cultivate the developer community required to make their strategy works — which could be seen as orthogonal to developing a great product and solving infrastructure problems.

In the long run these two approaches may not actually be at odds with one another. AdWords-ish works for now, and as new apps are developed there may be an opportunity to move back in that direction.
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I need to be in Cincinnati for a while due to family stuff then I'll be moving back to SF where I lived since 2006.