skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You will pretty much have to have molecular resolution!

There are thousands of (and maybe many orders of magnitude more) different types of ion-channels - the basic unit of electric transmission in neurons. Unless you can identify what types of ion-channels are located throughout the neuron, you will have no hope of reproducing its function.
GitHub Is The Next Big Social Network, Powered By What You Do, Not Who You Know
Thanks. There seems to be plenty of overlap between that site's purpose and SO's purpose as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/faq
If only there were an API for mouse capturing.

Is there any reason why it couldn't work if it were implemented like full screen mode (displaying a message telling the user to press escape to reclaim the mouse)?

Edit: Actually it looks like this is being worked on after all – http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/pointerlock/raw-file/default/index.htm...
Sublime is wicked fast. IntelliJ, Eclipse and NetBeans are all incredibly slow and bloated.

Also, it has a modern architecture with useful, up-to-date plugins, not plugins written in 2004.
I used FURL, which stored copies of pages. Then FURL was bought by Diigo and deleted those saved pages (not the URLs). You really think I'll trust something like that again?

Anyway, I like things stored locally on my machine. With paranoia driving the gov't, I don't want to make it easy for them to root around in my life. Let them serve me with a search warrant, not a Cloud firm behind my back and without my knowledge.
Just got hired to make software that ranks candidates based on more dynamic qualities, like the ability to answer basic logic problems or complete a task that the job may require. Could be cool.
> like the American workers who Romney's tactics cost their jobs and pensions

Wait, what??
From the US by any chance?

Of the few hundred people I've met past casual acquaintance here in the UK, only a couple have ever talked about going to church as if it were normal. Even as a fairly passive atheist these days, I wouldn't be able to go, it'd just be very disingenuous play acting.

In the spirit of the comment I agree that something needs to replace church in secular societies. In fact, I think this is the root of the problem, there's not something to force you to see neighbours regularly any more.
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It's on page 17, or if you hit the "noticed" tab, it's there on the very first page.
Seriously, what the hell is the point of even creating something like webgl if a key feature for immersion is kept out?

It's like building a car starting with the frame.

God speed to whoever is fighting the good fight on those frigging w3c boards.
Keep in mind it's not the shortest distance, but rather the shortest electrical potential.

A second thing is that it's the shortest potential at that moment. But the lightning changes things, so the new shortest potential can move. (The immense electrical field of the lightning moves things.) But once the channel is ionized it stays that way - this is why you see forked behavior instead of a straight line.
Riding my motor bike is the only way I was truly being able to 'switch off'. It requires all you attention, there's no way you can pick up your cell, send a message or 'check-in'. It's just the road, your bike and you. Absolute blast for me!!
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I'm right there with ya. Finally committed and am spending a couple hours every night hacking towards a MVP. Because why? Because coding is fun, so why not.
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You mean physical therapist, right? I don't know much about that. I do know people in healthcare generally get paid less in Canada, when compared to the States.

As for living there, it depends what part of the city you'd like to live in and what vibe you like. Generally, housing in Vancouver is expensive, but the rule of thumb is the more east you go (Lougheed area, Burnaby, New West, Surrey, etc.), the cheaper it gets to buy. My wife and I live a 5-minute (Sky)train ride from downtown. Buying in and close to downtown can be cheaper than or the same as renting. We've not bought a condo because we didn't know where we'd settle.

I moved to LA because of work - that's it! The job market for my specialization in Vancouver is really bad (I have an Arts degree and do copywriting/content writing). The LA weather is a nice bonus for me, but I really couldn't care less about it. My worldview and priorities are just vastly different from the Southern Californians I've met thus far, minus the obvious (desire for safety, a family, a good group of friends, etc.).

It's funny you should ask, actually, because I will know by the end of this week if I am moving back to Vancouver. If I do move back, it will be by the end of the year.

My wife studied Computer Science and we have a lot of CS friends. All of them are doing well, for the most part. But I think that sector has its own set of problems, which were recently talked about in an HN post titled "Canada's vanishing tech sector". Most of our friends are doing well, though.

But yes, I miss my Vancouver life dearly; my wife, my friends, our hangouts, taking the ferry to the Island, wild salmon/fresh fish, hiking through forests, the fresh BC air - too many things to mention.

Mind you, if I go back I'd still take my car up there, but we plan on only using it to get away during the weekends or holidays, but we would still bus and/or take the train to work.
I would assume most church-goers know this already. Doubt the rest of us secular folk would ever go to church to make friends..
Yeah, it does exist and is usable in current versions of Chrome if you change the flag for it. I'm not sure if the Chrome version of the API is what the final one will be though, since it seems to differ somewhat from the version documented on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/API/Pointer_Lock_API

Still it would probably be fairly easy to add support for it to this and replace the annoying click-drag camera movement when possible.
(warning: anecdote ahead)

I once had a job at a large institution created, for me, with requirements based solely on my resume.

The automated HR system decided I wasn't a match for the job. It took a month or two for them to be able to hire me after that fiasco.
LW discussion: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/dm3/pz_meyers_on_the_in...
sturdy or not, paper cups sound precarious. at my office, we use stacked reams of paper.
This is cool to hear from investors. Attacking a niche is one of the easiest ways to get early traction. And the best time to go big is once you have a couple wins in the bag.
Really nice looking impl in JS, though I'd add that doing perlin noise over a limited grid is a pretty limited subset of what Minecraft does.

Minecraft's terrain generator does a couple of passes (last I read about this, things may have changed) that generates cave systems, the surface level topography, forests, etc. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/3746989361/terrain-generation-p...

Still, definitely a cool project.
I don't want to be mean or anything ( and probably it will go against the HN crowd) but you're part of the problem. Basically it's the reliance on computerized system to assess somebody's skills that is at the root of the problem.

I know it seems horrendous to a lot of people that thinks that computers are the solution to every problem but as of the current state of technology, it just does not work. I have been in the position of an applicant recently and the tests are just plain ridiculous. From the "IQ-Test" at Bloomberg for engineers to the automated "solve our problem and get hired" websites the system is just bloated with these cheap ( and shi* ) solutions.

It's time for companies to put some money on the table to hire real people doing real interviews to candidates. Any company that don't involve somebody at step 1 of the recruitment process to assist you and that claims that "Employees are first!", I say: bullshit!
It's Cmd + T in Mac OSX, hence the confusion.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok

Do things that challenge you with other people, and you'll have no trouble making friends. Play it safe, and friends will be hard to come by.
Following that logic, you would conclude that if Apple disappeared in 1997, we would be exactly at same place of progress?
Thanks. SO should change their FAQ if they want questions like the one in the OP to go to this other site instead. Looking at http://stackoverflow.com/faq, the question is (to me) on-topic for SO. It's not good enough to just have a "competitor" that's a better fit for the question.
but but but.... everyone would sue the company because they didn't get the job!

At least, that's the argument I've heard from HR people as to why applicants aren't contacted back. However... whether you contact me or not, I still don't have the job, and if I'm inclined to sue, I'll do it regardless of whether you show me basic courtesy or not.
Some critical info this page is missing is if the products are available for shipping to the US and how fast you can actually get them. I'd order a Raspberry Pi right now if I knew I'd have it in a week or so, but last I heard a lot of these units aren't easily available to those living in North America.
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Beyond gardening, a larger landscaping project in the backyard. The sort of thing that lasts a few weekends and leaves you dirty enough that you don't want to traipse mud through the house to get a laptop or even touch your phone.

I've been doing this for a few weekends - going out there in the morning and (besides lunch) not coming back in until it's too dark to continue. Feels so much more rewarding than anything I do in my regular work.
He does have an HN account: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davemc500hats ...
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There is a moderately interesting point to be made here that automated candidate screening software is not a panacea, and while it can do a good job of filtering through the hundreds or thousands of applicants that might materialize for a single post, it might cause you to miss out on a good fit.

On the other hand, this article is laden with so much hyperbolic moralizing that it makes me take almost none of it seriously.

One of SeatGeek's founders (where I work) has written repeatedly about the insane problem of managing job applications [http://jackg.org/screening-with-an-arbitrary-test]. This is not a self-inflicted wound. We're talking dozens to hundreds of actually unqualified applicants for individual jobs, and the idea that a 15 person company is going to carry someone around for 6 months while they're "trained" is ludicrous.

It is absolutely true that there is a skills-gap in some industries. [Software is one of them]

It is absolutely true that a bad hire is more expensive than a non-hire.

It is absolutely true that some HR departments are breath-takingly incompetent, although most have a pretty good handle on their needs and cost structures, to be perfectly honest.

All that said, trying to spin this into a "the corporations are destroying the country!" story is beyond idiocy.
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Thanks. Looking at both their FAQs, I see clear overlap in what's on-topic. The question in the OP seems on-topic for either site, but better for programmers.stackexchange.com.
Actually, exactly like those two activities. I think you're taking needless risks if you do either and use your cell phone at the same time. As do many state legislatures, with regards to the driving and phones.
Without even mentioning Fox News or any Murdoch/Newscorp-owned properties, one could still make a strong case for a sorry state of journalism in the United States.
For web apps, the eCPM can be pretty horrible if you're not in a decent niche. Mobile eCPM is sliding downwards as well. If the ad supported business model is derided, it's because a lot of them treat monetization as an after-thought, rather than something that should be baked in the product. There's also a wishy-washy quality that a lot of people have, about thinking you can get ramen profitable just by slapping on an Adsense banner.
This exists in Firefox as of 14, currently in Aurora, so this will be in a stable release in a few weeks.

It also exists in recent Chrome versions, however it seems to be disabled by default for some reason, but you can enable it in the flags menu.

No reason why this cool site can't use it on those browsers, there are lots of demos on the web that do. Mouse lock is very important.
Take art classes. Your brain switches sides and lets the analytical part rest.
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As mentioned above, this feature does in fact exist.
Their product is sandwiched between instapaper, readability, and evernote. Evernote premium is only $45/year which is a tough price ceiling for a service which seemed to do much less.
It's a cynical, 'sharp', critique of 'modern' social struggles; written for people who wish to think of themselves as cynical, sharp and modern. A cookie cutter article describing a very common social ailment (loneliness) in a way that panders to people's sense of self importance and social status.

In reality, to make a friend - you simply need to reflect what you feel honestly in the company of someone else who's doing the same. Do that enough, and soon enough you'll find someone who thinks in a way that meshes well with your own mode of being .. and at the risk of making a NYT journalist's 1000 words redundant, that's actually as difficult as it gets.
Okay, I see it. Maybe the extent of this issue is my imagination then.
But they're not talking about startups. They're talking about large corporations that could sustain training of new employees.
Definitely Leap Motion.
Try it without the capitalization. By using just small caps I get totally different results.
I'm sure you're right, and that Washington reporters live in a constant state of fear that if they delve too deeply into Obama or Romney's affairs, someone will shoot them to death on a train platform.
One (optimistic) takeaway from this article for folks here is that this should show exactly how much of an advantage they can have in recruiting people (although obviously this isn't great news for people looking for a job).

Not to say that every big company has this sort of hiring inefficiency, but it seems like it's definitely a predisposition as you increase in size.

Most people seem to say that hiring is arguably the most important thing you do as a company. This shitty system can absolutely work to your advantage in trying to recruit talent.
Of course, he got the capital that allowed him to go into these capital-intensive businesses doing internet startup (though at the time he did it, the internet was a lot less mature and he helped move that forward to, mostly with Paypal).

But I still wish more smart and driven people did more important things than photo-sharing apps. It might be impossible to jump directly into capital-intensive industries unless you can join an existing startup (go work for someone like Musk?), but there are also lots of non-capital intensive ways to do very important things that would move our civilization forward more rapidly than one more Web 2.0 company. Same for all the brainiacs who go into investment banking rather than in engineering or biology or whatever. Totally up to them, but it doesn't change the end result.
Ah, wrote before the edit.
For me, the best way to switch off, and the most rewarding, is to go cycling. Not only is it great for my health, but it is impossible to stay connected.
LA is a big and highly diverse place. Maybe move to another neighborhood?
You can buy MK802 around $30

AllWinner A10 CPU/1G RAM/Android 4.0/1080p decode

MicroUSB power, HDMI output, size of an USB stick.

Allwinner A10 is one of the only EOMA-68 cips.
Looks like a cool service. Would be worth a sign up to try it.
When you say "the world," do you mean the "laws of physics," or "the way things happen to be right now"?
I just went parasailing the other day, but I kept thinking "If I had brought my laptop and tethered my phone I could push code from up here..."

I find the most relaxation comes from doing something that ties all my senses up in a way I'm not used to. Like swimming, a really hot sauna/steam room/cold pool, hitting the weights, going to a museum, taking a girl on a date, cooking (I don't do it often so it's fairly immersive).

I tend to obsess about work so I find I need to take an active role in giving myself these types of "breaks", otherwise I become unhappy.
I'm not sure you can interpolate between the two situations.

One of the potential reasons behind both of these is that being sedentary in any position is essentially bad (in one way or another - a PhD out of Australia whose name escapes me has done the research here).

The body was built to move, giving extra options seems like a win and puts less stress on any one system (esp. musculo-skeletal).
In my experience there's rarely a single verifiable correct answer for a programming question that one can't easily find the answer to without asking (outside of SO).

Also, whereas you're like the fourth person here to say the questions must have a single answer, that requirement is not called out in the SO guidelines at http://stackoverflow.com/faq. The closest I see there is "You should only ask practical, answerable questions". A question asking for pros/cons of storing images in a database (vs. links to files) meets that criterion in my book.
Are you doing the thing that's in the back of your mind, the thing that you're always thinking about, or are you doing something else?

I had the same problem until I decided to act on the idea and thereby created an outlet for it. Then I could sleep/relax without obsessing on it.
I don't disagree, but in this case the sex toy joke was obviously not relevant to the product and could be easily removed.
Microsoft patents scalable console?
Well we'll see, but we're designing this specifically to eliminate people who DEFINITELY can't do the job specified and then let the rest of the process be done by actual humans. If you don't let people who can't do the job BS you into an interview, you can afford to do more interviews with a higher confidence of actually finding a suitable candidate.

If I desired not to be civil I'd say "you're part of the problem assuming a tough problem can't be solved for some abstract reason" but since I want to be civil I won't say that.
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you people and your small desks. Mine is 6x2 feet.
Mainly because of Google's forced integration approach. Google is forcing me to use the same identity on different sites/functions (e.g. Gmail, Seach, YouTube) and I don't like to have my Google Search habits connected to my email profile and so on. If I am offered an easy way to jump out of this loop and get an least somewhat adequate service I am happy to pack my bags.
I'm sure YMMV, but I'll relay one of the best bits of advice that I ever got. My employer had a "health day" where they brought in some health professionals and let all of us go and talk to them throughout the day (trainer, chiropractor, psychiatrist, acupuncturist, etc).

The psychiatrist asked some basic questions about my family, my daily routine, and I mentioned a very similar comment as the one that you've posed. He suggested getting a small notebook that can fit in my pocket and a pen. When I get on the train after work (live in NJ, work in NY), just take out the pad of paper, and start writing, stream-of-conciousness, every single thing that's in my head. From things that worry me, to things I want to do, problems I've had at work, everything. And then once I'm done, tear out the piece of paper and throw it away.

I was somewhat skeptical, but I gave it a shot ... and you know what? I do find that when I do that I am very much more relaxed later on in the evening when I get home. According to him, just the act of writing down your thoughts helps your brain process them much better. Once you've gone through the act of putting them on paper (I assume it'd probably work the same if you talked to someone similarly) your brain doesn't have to sit there and churn on it. And because you've thrown the piece of paper away you don't have to worry about holding back in case someone else finds it and reads it at some point.

This gives me the headspace to do what I want when I get home, or on the weekend ... whether that's to be with my family, or even work on side projects. One minor note, I don't actually use a pen and paper. I simply open a new word doc on my phone, type away, and then close the doc without saving.

Give it a shot :)
My father once said "The difference between American and Russian propaganda is that Russians know that Pravda is propaganda."

The problem with American media is certainly not limited to Fox.
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Nice, but it seems to busy wait: my CPU is pegged at 50% even when I am not doing anything.
I have not logged in since they banned me. I am not going to provide free user generated content to a website that bans active and real users for spamming.
It's funny that you felt you had to couch the church thing this way. There are more "religious" people on HN than you'd think, but they're mostly closeted. Unlike the real world, where concerns about "a war on Christianity" are entirely hysterical, there is a real intolerance towards it here.

Despite incredible advances in connectivity over the last 20 years, I think you'd have a hard time finding thinkers who believe we're less isolated now than we were in, say, 1980. Part of that is economic, but I'm sure a good chunk of it has to do with the role churches used to play in our social lives and don't so much anymore. Fear of isolation and alienation and loss of fellowship might go some way towards explaining why religious people are so jealously defensive of their churches: no matter how deeply they believe, the church probably plays a huge role in their day-to-day life.

That's not a religious sentiment, just a statement of (maybe) fact. People used to build barns together too.

I am, by the way, a sucker for stuff like this:

http://www.questioningchristian.com/2004/11/redacting_the_n....

More theology from startup people, please!

(I'm the worst Catholic on HN; Christmas & Easter, CCD the year of First Communion and, I suppose, Confirmation. Church is not a major part of my social life, at all.)
If you try to do your entire program as pure FP then I guess that is true, but it's often possible and beneficial to do a lot of the work in a functional style.

Honestly though, this misses the point. If your language forces you to use an unsuitable paradigm, it's time to use another language if you can.
Light trick to see round corners
This ugly quagmire makes me wary of compatibility fixes where mimicking another browser is somehow involved. When i heard about non-WebKit browsers adopting -webkit CSS vendor prefixes, the user agent string mess was the first thing that came to mind.
You are comparing things of very very different scales.

Furthermore, beyond any philosophical questions of 'should man make mountains', the actual proposal here should be attacked on practical and economic grounds. We do not have infinite energy, time, nor finances. Is building a mountain range in Texas so Texans can enjoy mountains really a good idea from that stand point? (not to mention just building mountains of garbage and then covering with soil and rock does not seem like a very good way to build a mountain).