skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a violation of evolutionary norms

What king of bullshit is this?
I like the idea, but I don't understand why I'd use referly for this. If I'm going to spend the time to implement their api on my site, I might as well just implement the whole thing. It isn't like this is that hard of a problem to solve.
No freebies. Apple will charge for 30-pin to 19-pin converter.
Not just the investment, but he also negotiated the partnership with Disney in such a way that Pixar was able to retain creative control of the movies and their identity as a studio. If not for him, they would have been subsumed into Disney and the movies would have been focus-grouped into bland drivel.
Bet on HTML5 being very pervasive
Or if the relative humidity is much over 80%, like it is almost daily in the summers in this region.
Thanks for writing this. It expresses how I see this. Steve Jobs went to the East looking for something, and it does not surprise me that he can go deep into these emotions and be OK with it.
The talent the Times has managed to build up on its dev team is pretty unbelievable.
Study: Twitter analysis can be used to detect psychopathy
Nope. In both cases the problem is, "this company can't attract the kind of talent it needs." The underlying issues might be different, and the solution might also be different, but the problem is the same.

The Yahoo case looks like a more difficult problem precisely because the APM was so successful. In hindsight it looks obvious. But it wasn't obvious in 2002.
You can also trawl through the warez sites to see how many downloads there are for your software, this would give you a comparison of your pirate popularity vs others.
He almost did nothing for Pixar, except pouring money into it quarter after quarter and using Toy Story's success to rise again. He was a very big visionary, a great manager and he deserves every bit of praise he gets for what he did at Apple in his second coming, but his role at Pixar was only to negotiate and give them money; not that it's an unimportant thing. Pixar would most certainly not exist today if it wasn't for Jobs, but the creative mind at Pixar was John Lasseter.

Source: I've read two books about Pixar, more than 10 about Jobs/Apple and watched well over 20 documentaries about these subjects.
Reference site: http://styleboost.com/links/1628/
Never heard of Drudge Report, and two people just talked about it.
I had an appointment scheduled with Time Warner in Austin, for Friday between the hours of 8AM and 9PM to fix my internet which has been randomly losing signal. I figured I could take a day off of work and try to get things done while the internet was up, which turned out to only be about 3 hours.

I got a call from the tech. at 7PM saying he was on his way. An hour later, after hearing nothing, I try to call him and get voice mail. I call Time Warner to see what happened and they said that I didn't answer the phone when he called... even though I spoke with him and told him I was home (and answered his questions about whether the internet was still out, three times.) I had to schedule for this Wednesday, where I'll have to take more time off of work to attempt to get this fixed.

I understand that the majority of the blame lies with Time Warner for allowing their field technicians to get overbooked and blamed for being late or missing jobs, but it's hard to not be upset at this particular field tech for saying he was on his way, and then not showing up and reporting it as a missed call.
Host it on phpfog.com for free. (I'm not sure if it's possible to host PHP on heroku yet.)
Heat map of Chicago murders, 2001 to present
I never went to slashdot, it is still relevant?
Converting Interns to Hires has Big Payoffs for Startups
> you should never to listen to anybody

Hey! Don't tell me what to do!

Oh wait...
I think you mean to say that your experience was more like this... http://mlkshk.com/p/54DT
Absolutely, using the API you can generate a link and give it to them however you wish

http://refer.ly/api/docs/links
Is there a way to send users rewards that are not straight cash? We would like to reward users with coupon codes, or links to pages where they can select a free t-shirt and such. Is this ability on the roadmap?
Cryptohaze 1.31a - Crack hashes with speed of 154 Billion/sec
Earth as art: the top five Landsat images
I think that making this public is not a very good example of responsible disclosure
and I hope there will be a lawsuit before the presentation to prevent the details from being exposed.

I am all about exposing vulnerabilities but I honestly think there needs to be a dialog with the vendor first. Specially for exploits like this where there is a lot at stake.

I find the excuse of 'there is nothing they can do anyway' very poor. I have no doubt that this technique is known to locksmiths and law enforcement and maybe a smaller group of criminals. But making this public and exposing it to the world will allow any criminal with a soldering iron and an Arduino to start exploiting this.

Daeken, you have done an awesome job making this known. Maybe that it enough to get the ball rolling. Or do you just want to do damage for fame and profit?
Downvoted and flagged not for your opinion, but for your apparent lack of common decency. Go back to lurking and keep your casual discrimination to yourself.
Instead of converting to polar and back again, could you do something similar by "raytracing" a 2d line from each tile to the players position backwards; starting in the middle and stepping out toward the target tile in a bresenheim-type stepping, marking as shadows after touching an obstacle? If you start by stepping around the outer edges, you'd fill most of the tiles in one pass, and then you could probably interpolate or re-trace for any missing pixels?

(Edit: I guess you'll lose the nice shades-of-grey effect that the article's bitmap processing technique yields)
> Instead of writing a giant set of XML files to create a giant set of POJOs and wire them together, you write a similar set of Java classes

This is how you would do it without spring. I suppose there must be an advantage of using @Configuration and @Bean instead of plain java, but what is it?
What's the difference between news and information? Is it just freshness? Is the story format really the best way to convey the state of the world to the individual person on the other end of the wire, or is it just the best format for broadcast?

My main frustration with The News is the story format. Not only do I have to spend the mental energy of reading the story, but I have to spend _more_ mental energy unraveling the narrative into its primary sources. Often that's actually impossible to do and I end up giving up and not reading the rest of the story.
By the way, in present days Russian blogosphere/tech circles we tend to value freedom of thinking. Meaning that if somebody (Kaspersky) wants to think that the only way for Internet to work is control and user real IDs, we kind of let him to.

This leads to the fact that the range of opinions expressed on my livejournal friends feed will probably make your head explode.

But it does not mean that any of the radical views is the mainstream thinking.
I used it infrequently as a consultant; my company actually introduced me to the service -- but we used it to supplement traditional rentals, not replace them. Got to run out to play pet engineer for a scoping meeting? Grab a zipcar. Stuck in the ass end of the midwest for a two week engagement? Traditional rental.

I don't think they are leaving it on the table, I think their schedule of fees means they are carving out a spot that the rental companies totally ignored.
I think i've missed the point. How is this any different from sitting RAD (as in "rapid application development") guys in your business teams?

Lots of companies do this already across many sectors.

EDIT: It's still cool though.
so reverse engineering seems cool. What skills do you find most useful/versatile/neat/groovy or otherwise necessary for your reverse engineering projects?
Google has said they leave the Lucky button on because people like it being there, not because people use it. Actually, only 1% of all searches use the Lucky button. It's left there to make Google seem more human and easier to relate to, as told by the woman-of-the-moment Marissa Mayer.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/are-you-feeling-luck...
The real name policy would tie in fabulously with google's now well established image search, who British Airways intend to use to spot celebrities boarding their flights. I'm sure over time that would progress to normal people.

Not many people appreciate the permanent nature of internet publication, I wouldn't agree that it's ephemeral and disposable, as it's out of the user's hands.
Gonna have to bite; why?
90%?

Anecdotally, I was asked for ID each time my wife or I lost hotel room cards on 4 occasions (3 for me, once for my wife).

I believe they were 2 Courtyard Marriotts, 1 Residence Inn (Marriott), and a Sheraton (don't remember the hotel class).

EDIT: Grammar
That's a fair point. I left it out of the blog post b/c it's a more complex issue that probably merits its own post.

It seems there's only 2 ways to go when hosting an event -- open the floodgates or actively manage the attendee list. Because of space constraints, we had to go with the latter.

Managing attendees isn't just about restricting male signups, as you say -- it's also about making sure there are enough designers to developers, beginners to experienced coders, and yes, men to women.
It is common here in Northern EU to see Americans as almost 'crazily optimistic'. Like you say (and this goes especially for the very 'sober' people like the Dutch and scandinavians); the first time you run into Americans in real life it's really jikes. You look SOO good, that's SOOO GREAT what you do etc. I (from Netherlands) got more compliments in one week in the US than I ever did in the Netherlands my whole life (that's probably not true, but I felt like that). So as we are very sober, those compliments are rapidly filtered and then they are not compliments anymore. But on the other hand, I do admire it more than the other side of not getting compliments mostly and I like the optimism much more. I do like well founded criticism but I believe that's different than what my BD colleagues want.

It's interesting to see the differences anyway.
Usually I am always arguing against people who claim some other site ripped them off when, in fact, they were simply inspired but this is a pretty bad one.
APMs are definitely a clique while they work for Google, but after they leave they are just a network of friends and contacts. I think this article is overplaying their loyalty to Marissa. Nobody I've ever met thought Yahoo would be a good place to work and I doubt that will change much in the near future.
Upvoted. The best advice I received was: "Go where the boss is good and where you can go well with the boss."
Do you use Backtrack at all, or do you simply craft/download/build-from-source your own tools as you need them?

Also, did you switch from Windows to Linux because of the available tools and development environment, or because the Linux desktop had matured enough you could get sh*t done without worrying about driver compatibility issues or other common complaints about Linux [lap|desk]tops?
Funnily enough if you buy Tesco's electrical goods online and pick up at store you don't get a paper receipt. The security guard (through lack of training) wasn't keen on letting me out without one.
You kill the project (or at least put it in maintenance mode) even if it gets traction.
Check out http://batchbook.com. It's a nice application with a focus on integrating email and social networks rather than replacing them. Fairly priced too.
> Or is it only domestic terrorism when the perpetrators are white one wonders!

Of course the race (and religion) plays a huge role in the emotional reaction to violence. Uncomparatively more so than the technical "domestic/external" categorization based on residence, citizenship and whatnot. Race and religion are the top factors in eliciting the "us vs them" reaction.
It's a commentary on how providing isolated islands (app stores) damages the distributed nature of the world wide web. Effectively every app technology is a landgrab by some entity who wants some exclusive chunk of the web with their own rules, usually for commercial gain.

Basically the principle turns the world wide web into another WalMart or McDonald's rather than a vast library.
Meeting your co-founder 
Hiya .. i'm interested to know the stories of where or how you met your co-founders - especially if you're in London.

Any thoughts you'd care to share?

From my previous start-up experience (non tech) working with the right person is the single most important aspect of the venture - you can't pivot your cofounder and you'll never do much working with someone who's not having fun!

I come from a design background so maybe I'm just not going to the right parties ... but it seems there aren't so many awesome tech guys with the right mix of ambition and fun in London. Or more likely I just don't know them.

How about you: where did you meet your co-founder? Any advice - general would be appreciated but London-specific doubly so.
Well, it depends on what you're doing. The problem with 3d printed stuff is that it isn't very strong - you can make crazy curved gears and stuff with it, but it's not going to hold load.

Honestly, for prototyping for small amounts of money, your best bet is probably a bridgeport-type vertical mill. You can do turning/lathe operations on one of those too with the right accessories. Not automated, and not fast, but if you need to make one off parts it's about your only option for hobbyist-type money. You'd be buying used, obviously, and you'd need a garage/workroom (This isn't something you set up in your house)...

There are some fairly economical small CNC machines now (We're talking $2k or so, price-wise), but they are intended primarily for model makers - any part over about 2"-3" and they literally can't cut it, where-as with a good manual milling machine and some time/sweat, you will typically have 24" x 24" x 10" travel available.
This is an awesome idea.

I might be wrong but I thought Amazon SES was meant for transactional emails only. I browsed their FAQ and they never talk about email marketing. I don't think they will let you send multiple campaigns with an audience of more than 100.000 contacts.
I can't really narrow it down to a single specific skill. When I'm reversing, my steps are generally: figure out how I would design the system, come up with a set of assumptions based on that, check the assumptions as quickly as possible, then refactor your model of the system based on what you find. It's really all about making educated guesses and then checking those; as you gain experience, you start making better guesses.
Setting Up Code Completion on Komodo Edit for Google App Engine
http://aws.amazon.com/ses/

> Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers.
Judge hands Web patent troll Eolas a shovel, orders it to dig own grave
WRONG! "you rent a car" is not a unit of time!
Yahoo should simply have an incubator. Pay 100 engineers full salaries for a 50% stack.
How Technology is Being Used to Improve Mental Health
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Wow that is a great implementation! Fantastic work guys.

edit: bug report: "View this sample page's source" link at http://gojs.net/latest/samples/entityRelationship.html calls JS that goes to URL of "view-source:http://gojs.net/latest/samples/entityRelationship.html, the "view-source:" at the beginning prevents it from connecting.
i just came to say I am really looking forward to reading this.... when i get home. why did you post porn in this?
I assume you mean for generating the shadow map before it is scaled and pixelized? I'm not familiar with techniques for doing such a thing. You could probably step through each object and draw lines from the corners based on the angle between the player tile and the object. The approach I listed would actually save you from testing every single object—as soon as a black pixel is detected in an algorthm, it moves to the next line, meaning that the number of objects that may exist in that direction at a greater distance is completely irrelevant.
Check different news websites is time consuming. I'm wandering is there any way to quickly browse the news?
I don't use Backtrack or similar tools; the only tools I use that I didn't write myself are IDA Pro and Burp Proxy (if I'm doing websec work).

As for switching OSes, the primary reason I did so is that my work for my day job all requires Linux. In terms of reversing, Windows is really the only way to fly; the tools just aren't there otherwise.
What tools do you use for reversing hardware? Did you have to open up the lock and tap into it with something like a logic analyzer? Or was it as simple as creating a DC port adapter so you could read the data from the portable programmer?
> hacked into the ... computer system and altered the grades of her two children

Cool!

> [She] had worked at the district as an administrative office secretary

Oh come on!
Thanks for pointing this out, because between the multitude of posts in this forum and the posts which I responded to on the blog, I feel like I am taking crazy pills. What is the big deal here? Seems like so many of my peers have deep seated psychological problems (not like I don't, but damn).
I'm curious, how do you believe that is sexist?
I think you're confusing the Gaussian "process" used in Bayesian optimization with a standard Gaussian distribution. They are very different things - as are Gaussian copulas and what is referred to as the 'Gaussian kernel' (which is not actually a distribution at all) in the SVM. The Gaussian process is a distribution over functions, the properties of which are governed by the covariance function - so the prior over the function, or the assumption about its complexity and form, is determined by the choice of covariance function. Of course it is very important to choose a prior that corresponds to the functional form you are interested in, which is actually discussed and empirically validated in the literature referred to in that post. It's a bit ironic that you are claiming to point out the dangers of making lazy assumptions by doing exactly that.
This kind of Field of View algorithm is integral to any roguelike and there's a variety of methods for achieving the results [0]. I'd be interested in how this algorithm holds up against the usual raycasting or shadow casting. My intuition is that it'd be slower (especially with a 1024px shadow map resolution) due to it being based on pixels rather than grid values.

[0] http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php/Field_o...
I take photos (where allowed) of artworks simply as a reminder that I liked the piece, not to preserve a realistic reproduction of it. In that sense it's like any other photograph - I'm capturing a facsimile of my experience.

Regarding the article, I think flash photography should still be banned, simply because it makes for a better museum experience. Can you imagine the crowd in front of the Mona Lisa? It would be like red carpet for the Oscars.
Ok I gave it 10 years as a minimum, is that soon? That number came from the transition in DIY computers to computers for business which I put between 1978 (all hobby) to 1988 where we've got the Mac, the PC, and some lesser known brands (Amiga and Atari) replacing the 'big iron' in companies for some tasks.

As with computers, if a 3D printer is cheap enough you can run 200 in parallel to get production rates into the 'few thousand widgets per day' Today the surface finish and the materials are not up there (but a 2K byte Altair 8800 wasn't really a contender to do desktop publishing either :-)

The thing you have to be careful of is this: "That's also ignoring that the plastics you can injection mold have better mechanical properties and surface finishes, too." because that thinking will bite you back. It just has to be 'good enough' and cheaper and it puts those characteristics into the 'nice to have' category. I agree that there will probably always be a market for some injection molding but I can see that it will be the 'specialized' stuff and not the 'general' stuff. Just a matter of time.
There are so many people leaving comments that entirely miss the point here.

We will have to wait at least 6 months to really start seeing if Mayer is able to grapple with the listless behemoth that is Yahoo. Most of that time will be her getting up to speed and laying her own foundation on where the company should go. So don't expect to see much in the surface for at least that long.

Digging further into the content of the story, in many ways this can be considered a valuable resource she has been building for many years.

People will follow a good mentor if there are special opportunities on offer. There are many people at Google and other places that are not satisfied with their options. To these people, money is not as satisfying as control and advancement. If Mayer is able to offer key people better options, many will be inclined to at least explore the idea.

Don't hang on to this idea that Yahoo is the place to suicide your career and/or company via acquisition. That's the old and current Yahoo. If Mayer is able to overcome that old inertia, then Yahoo could easily become a very hot place to be again. A good analogy is to think of an old, massive forest. It's all old trees that are half dead and centuries of undergrowth. A fire finally comes along and sweeps through. All of the undergrowth and dead trees are burned away. Now many young and vibrant plants can grow again, animals come back in abundance, and the whole forest ecosystem is better than ever. And please, hold off on the fucking criticisms of my version of forest ecology. It's an analogy.

So the point here is that if Mayer can start changing things finally, then there will be all kinds of interesting new things that people close to her could benefit from over the next few years.
So about one shooting a year, this year's had 12 fatalities.

Remember that heat wave/power outage combination we had on the east cost (USA); at least 46 fatalities [1]

[1]http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/06/12597271-dozens...
"but to this day it remains to be seen if they can actually deliver the 50k Model S to a customer"

I was under the impression that customers have been receiving the Model S for the last month. Not all reservations have been filled, but they have started filling them.
Marissa Mayer's "APM" fast track program for Google product managers [2007]
The Reason for the iPad Mini
How do you know that it doesn't validate the discounted price against its database? Encrypting the barccode doesn't make it any more secure as you could simply swap with a completely different barcode. Encoding the price just makes it easier to develop handheld label printers.
Ah yes, the ol' gender swap trick. Because our culture exists in a vacuum, right?
Trivial way to defeat the timing attack: Don't do anything but enqueue the request before returning to the user. Process the request and send the email asynchronously. Which you should be doing anyhow; you're not going to wait for the email to send successfully before displaying the message, are you?
It depends where you live. My local Tesco is like fort Knox as it is right next to a council estate.
Radi HTML5 visual animation & dev tool 0.9 update
117 years, but only as long as we completely ignore that all the batteries have to be replaced every 5 years, the solar cells every 20 years, and the diesel generators have to be continually maintained and swapped out with new fuel - if you just store diesel passively long term, even with fuel stabilizers, it goes bad, so use it or lose it with that.