skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds more like what I'm used to seeing. I guess the parent was being a little hyperbolic, or simply hastily generalizing what may be true for professional photographers (i.e. conspicuously pointing large gear in the face of people without asking for their permission). Even so, you'll find millions of your typical subway candid shots taken in Paris on the internet. I don't suppose all of these shots resulted in the photographer being assaulted in front of a consenting crowd.
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Just another data-point here, I read it as well (instead of watching the video) because I find it faster to process information that way.

Also, the transcript uses "multitask" in a place where I'm quite sure "multicast" should be used - you might want to look into that.
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Certainly culture plays a role, but it's hard to argue that the reason a non-representative proportion of olympic runners are black is due to culture. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2008/... really demonstrates this fact.

What that picture doesn't show, though, is that there are a lot of almost-world-class sprinters who are european, asian or of other ethnicities. The edge that being of a certain ethnic background gives you in sprinting is only really important at the very top of the competition. I'd imagine that for the majority of people, training and dedication make up a far larger component of their success or failure at sprinting.

Interestingly, in the article it indicated that genetics appeared to play a bigger role in the intelligence of wealthy people. I'd imagine this is a similar situation. Genetics may give you a slight edge at the very top of academia, but otherwise education is the key.

Education is the low hanging fruit in increasing overall intelligence.
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Antarctica and More: How Google Grabs Panoramic Street View Imagery
I'm confused. Isn't the B model equipped with onboard WiFi?
Yes, in this case I really did feel it necessary to call you out for being an exclusionary apologetic.

Being considerate to others includes not punching ugly people. Being considerate to others includes accepting other people in "your" public space. Being considerate to others even includes not affixing assumed motives and behaviors to them.

I certainly hope you taught your oldest son these things. I would not wish to live in a society where everyone is required to wear labels, and I hope you would not, either.
It's certainly good manners not to offend others, but to demand not to be offended is just silly.

No amount of ugliness justifies violence. Can we at least agree on this much?
Tibet's Golden "Worm"
It's fairly unusual these days. Only thing you'll find with an engine that big is either a full-size SUV, a large truck, or a Corvette.

Plus, if you weren't here, you might not appreciate just how horrible the "EPA era" engines were. Much stricter emission controls + not having the technology to really meet it led to some really de-tuned engines. Wouldn't be unusual for a 5-6L engine in those days to only make 140-160HP stock.
Stop it, stop it, stop it, just stop. Once an article reaches the front page, it's title is no longer editable. It causes confusion and frustration, and is obviously an issue that a lot of people dislike. I don't care about prime numbers, this article was all about the visualization to me. Every time a title gets changed like this, you are telling your user base that you don't care about what they think. I feel like I'm back in Digg, waiting for something like Reddit to pop up so I don't have to deal with the 'power' users.

/rant
Chrome 20.0.1132.47 here, working fine.
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We'll be charging for the pro version, but if you (or any other HN users) grab the pro version now and e-mail me [charlie@monotask.com], I'll comp your account through August.
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StayFocusd is currently my favorite plugin for this purpose
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/laankejkbhbdhmipfm...

However, adding a rewards/gamification system is not a bad idea at all. I like StayFocusd but I end up filling my time otherwise if I don't have a hard deadline. Having goals to reach is a great incentive, enough to keep me focused without a plugin. But the plugin provides a basic physical deterrent effect which sometimes alone can be enough
I honestly don't understand how the giant garbled mess of code that is wordpress could be considered a Framework.
The strongest man in the world
yeah, like there shouldn't be any release logs in shorter development cycles...
Concentrate (OS X): Pricy, but absolutely invaluable for me http://getconcentrating.com/
Yes of course working in every browser should be the priority, but it is only obvious that this particular optimization would cause a problem in hindsight.

As for "they aren't going to notice that 1% file size", you could keep saying that about small optimization after small optimization until your compiler's output is 10% bigger than the competition's, at which point you will start losing significant user base.
But they did make the hard decision-- they decided two combine two experiences on the bet that these two experiences and contexts will merge moving forward. Your device should change in context with you, and you should control it. Why would I have two machines when one will suffice? I will have a surface pro, using both metro apps as well as desktop applications. I will flip the cover over when I want to really engage with my device and hold it intimately, at an angle, etc. When I get to a desk, I can plug in my peripherals and I have a fully functioning machine that can use all of the thousands of peripherals that the ecosystem has developed.

As a side note, have you used metro apps on a desktop? They work well, and generally the simplicity and hard decisions made make the experience more visually engaging.
I do understand that it's an opinion piece, but it sounds to me like his claim is that minimalism is all the same, and by being minimal they've decided not to come up with a unique design.

But I can't pick out a piece of software or a website that looks the same as Metro except for the ones that are doing it deliberately. If Metro were "undesigned," you would think other people would have made the same "non-choices" before.
I replied to another comment here before reading yours. Hope it clarifies "the point" a bit more: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4256853

I'm not rooting my point in a specific argument: it's my opinion based on experience and an understanding of the corporate "identity crisis" the Metro UI is being dropped into… :)
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That may be the goal they sold to Washington, D.C., but the real goal was to develop high power laser technology. "Nuclear stockpile stewardship" was just a way to keep the tokamak politicians from killing the project out of spite.
Because opinions are likely to be disregarded without something showing you're basing your opinion on something real. Too many wild opinion pieces and your reputation disintegrates.
Yes, you have to love the myopia and revisionist definition of the statement "Run and scale any type of app. Run any web or background process with any web framework or worker type. "

Really Heroku? Any web framework? I guess PHP and ASP.NET aren't web frameworks any longer.
This is what I normally use. It's not as good as a language that has truly decent support for callbacks, but it's a darn sight better than vanilla C++.
I think this author has some fair criticisms of the Metro desktop experience, but is sadly ill informed about the decisions that drive Metro's design. It is very far from "undesigned."

For one, remember that Metro is deeply driven by touch devices. As a general approach, Microsoft's designers made the decision to avoid skeumorphism by making _almost everything touchable_. It's a great philosophy for touch interfaces, and it works quite well on today's windows phones.

Another piece of the puzzle driving metro is Kinect. Since Microsoft uses the same design language on all its platforms, the XBox shapes the desktop. Since the Kinect has trouble reading vertical hand gestures, the designers push for most desktop screens to lay out horizontally like the XBox.

With just those two small examples, you can see why the Metro desktop experience is both flat and horizontal (in many places, not all), which this author interpreted as thoughtless.

To reiterate my point, I think the Metro language is very well considered for devices that ask users to complete one task at a time (mobile, tablet, television). It's not so great in a multitasking environment, perhaps because Microsoft is trying to make their cross-platform experience too consistent.
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We used a service called Casting Words to get the transcript made. I did a lot of hand-cleanup after they sent a first cut, but a few errors must've slipped through -- sorry.
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I wouldn't have a problem with it. Then again, I am a techie. I'd probably strike-up a conversation and try to learn as much as I could. But I am not the general public and my guess is that most HN readers would have the same reaction.

The general public might react differently. There are people who are actively fearful of being on Facebook. I know people who have taken down their entire Facebook photo set because of the potential to be connected through the friend-of-friends mechanism. There are also people who view and value their privacy at different levels.

I believe that in France there are laws about publishing someone's images without their permission. This means that, if you presume that someone might take a picture with you in it and then post it to Facebook they could be doing something that you don't want to have happen and that happens to be illegal in France. Splitting hairs to some and a very serious matter to others.

Private establishments might have a responsibility to their customers to provide a certain type of an environment. I don't know French law, maybe there's something there. Whatever the case may be, they have the right to create whatever standard they deem necessary within their property (so long as it is legal). For example, you can't walk into a theater and video record the screen.

For the numskulls who always choose to read their own fantasy into posts: None of the above means that violence is justified without provocation. It takes two to tango and it should also take two for an encounter to turn into a physical altercation.
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My point exactly. The Metro design is attempting to solve a problem but without making the choice: is it a desktop or a touch interface? While it may work well in a task-centered, touch-driven interface, it feels "soulless" in a multi-tasking, desktop-purposed one. That is the hard choice Microsoft need to make in order to allow for "true design" to happen in the platform.
Good foresight. Here's one way things would pan out if you were running around with someone else's extended mind:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... — from Accelerando, by Charles Stross
I think they need to work on their numbers a little, I would consider the last option "Percentage of housing units without a vehicle with low access" the most important metric.

For example, two counties next to each other one has a 13.9 for no vehicle/low access and the other has a 0.9. Both are pink.

Not having a car severely impacts your ability to buy good produce in a food desert. Imagine taking the bus to get tomatoes, onions, potatoes etc... just not happening.

tl;dr - I think these pink blocks should be shaded from dark red/light pink based on vehicle access.
Steve Jobs was a CEO with terminal cancer. This hardly rates notice in comparison.
"save" translates into multiple languages and is recognizable by people who have never seen a 3.5" floppy disk or who are coming to computers for the first time.

Even further than that, the "Document" icon that looks like a page is becoming more and more foreign, as programs shift toward single purpose apps that handle all of their own data. It makes sense to people who are used to the paradigm of "paper" documents living in "folders" in their computer, but if you've never seen a directory or your app doesn't expose individual data files, a whole lot of other traditional icons start to turn meaningless.
Why we f*ck?
You can always add a small amount to the cost and get hdmi-vga cables.
Ethernet, not WiFi. None of the models have wireless. A wireless module costs nearly as much as the entire board in parts.
That's exactly what he just did call it.
I wrote a few papers about this and have covered it a few times. The main thing holding back this type of vision substitution is the reliability and size of microelectrode arrays. You can get a 1080p camera inside the eyeball, but you have to put that information through the normal process if you're going to take advantage of the brain's vision systems. The earlier you put it in the stream the better, and retinal cells are handily arrayed in a predictable spatial pattern and the mechanisms of the cascades are fairly well understood compared with later downstream stuff that occurs in the V areas of the brain.

Stimulating the optic nerve directly is not really an option (too small, too fine, too unpredictable) and much further in the process and you start skipping critical parts of vision processing. That's why work on cortical blindness will continue for many years after retinal blindness and the like have been addressed.

That said, this stuff was far more experimental 10 years ago and now there are probably a dozen serious research labs doing real life trials of these things, but with different takes on power, input, encapsulation, and so on. It really is exciting but these nonreactive, long-term microelectrode arrays need to be improved if we're to get better resolution and finer control over things like color and shading.
Playing Pong just using your eyes
OP (well, discoverer of the algorithm) here:

Thing is there is no per-step randomness. The small integer (pickOffset) only adds some variation to the algorithm, and is initialized only when you hit Space. I'm pretty sure that if pickOffset was changed on each step(), the magic would be lost.

What I'm wondering is why this simple change of the picking algorithm (open.pop(nStep % open.length) instead of open.pop(0) (simple radial outward fill)) causes this beautiful, organic sort of pattern to emerge.
Someone can probably explain this, but it seems odd that they took 192 beams to produce "about 100 times what any other laser regularly produces today." The semantic error aside, excluding the other most powerful lasers, how do you put together 192 beams and only get 100 times the power of an individual beam? Discuss...
The problem is there are millions of PHP sites out there.
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I've actually never read either of those, which makes it hard for me to decide if they count as the same kind. If you think they do, that's enough for me. I amend my statement to merely indicate that it's really old.
Yep, one does. That's what happened. :)

But this struck me as particularly weird for being so intricate being based on such a simple variation of the basic pixel-by-pixel floodfill formula.
The payment not being clearly over HTTPS sets off alarm bells. We've trained people for years to not type CC details unless you see the padlock. Whenever I wanted a fancy in-page checkout form, I made the decision to serve the whole site over HTTPS, just for clarity.

The bundle itself looks very appealing.

Also, someone needs to practice spelling "recipes". There are two instances of the same typo on the page. Combined with the HTTPS issue mentioned earlier, this looks scarily like a scammers page.

"Tasty bonus recipies"
"recipies with backbone"
Please pull Flickr out from the sphincter of irrelevance.
The Intro to Logic course is pretty good IMO. The lectures are pretty dry (not much that you can do about that really), but the content is solid.
Jobs was already CEO again long before he had terminal cancer. Yahoo (presumably) knew Mayer was pregnant when they hired her, and made the decision anyway. Big difference.
Nope, Model B has an Ethernet jack but no wifi.
Nope, I didn't. I just accidentally stumbled upon this algorithm some years ago and ported it recently to HTML5.
I agree completely. By "undesigned" I'm not trying to say "no thought into it"… I'm merely commenting on the failure to make the most important decision of all: is it a UI for mono-task, touch-driven devices or multitask, mouse-driven devices? That failure creates this seemingly lack of design: the feeling that each interface belongs with that feature/application. If you use Windows 8 on a desktop, you start using the built-in apps less and less and will be drawn to install third-party, standalone apps. That is almost the exact opposite of Apple, where you're driven to use Apple's built-in apps because they're "they fit"…

Again, Microsoft has great designers and Metro has some awesome design ideas but it's, in my opinion :), fundamentally undesigned because it fails to make the hard choice of defining what is its purpose and use. :)
PHP programmers are the hunter-gatherers of the technical world.
Strict mode should save you from a lot of those.

(function () {
'use strict';
var a = 1; b = 2;
}());
// ReferenceError: b is not defined
I'm glad at least we've progressed far enough that we aren't surprised that a tech CEO can be female ...
It's a ridiculous statement. Microsoft has chosen not to make their UI look like 70's tape machines. That's a choice as much as Apple deciding that that's a good idea. There are a huge number of details and decisions in even a design that seems much simpler than others.
While it's fun to be vindictive, google surely made money by listing ads for those sites, and was probably happy to put them back and get the ad revenue again.
> Yahoo (presumably) knew Mayer was pregnant when they hired her

That's a pretty big assumption.

Would she have been legally required to inform them before being hired?
Can you elaborate more on the expiration? The only NDAs I've seen don't apply after the data/process/methodology/trade secret is made public. They don't have something like 1 year after termination. For many companies, this information will never be made public, and this would of course be an non-expiring NDA.

So what expiration should an NDA have?
* "My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it,"*

I made some remarks here a few weeks ago (on another article about Mayer) regarding her views on working long hours that were not well received. I'd like for this remark to service as a prime exhibit of why I have such a distaste for people who worship their work.

My wife and I were blessed with our first child last October. My employer was kind enough to supplement my paid vacation with a few extra days so I could enjoy those first few weeks just that much more. Turn that around and insist on cutting that time short AND pledging to work through it anyway? You're kidding, right? Her child isn't yet born and she's already two steps out of his or her life.

I sincerely hope the remainder of her pregnancy and delivery does much to change her mind about the significance of this person who is about to enter her life.
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I'm going to try and counter this:

>2. because applications which used to have a working fullscreen mode — such as firefox — and get converted to the Lion API result in no gain and lots of pain

As a Macbook Pro user, I've been looking forward to Firefox's implementation for a while. Applications that take advantage of Lion's fullscreen API allow me to easily swipe between multiple apps with the trackpad, which make using a laptop significantly nicer without needing to use an external mouse.

It is essentially broken for people who have multiple displays and Apple sucks because of it. But it's not broken for everyone and provides significant functionality for a lot of people.
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Nice to see some fanboyism surfacing on hn again. haven't seen any for about 20 minutes now....
How about the other side of the coin: the successful people who insist that they absolutely did it by themselves, with no government-funded infrastructure, no societal acceptance, and no community support of any kind?
Can someone explain why the myth that women make 65 cents on the dollar is still being perpetrated? It seems very deliberate.
@grecy, no. Pregnancy is explicitly a protected class.
Autodesk has apps[1] which work pretty well. I think they're trying to expand into the photo-measurement space, competing with companies like E-Template[2], measuring walls, rooms, and objects by analyzing a photo.

If they could morph SocialCam into an app to take photo/video, upload to their servers to do the math, then output to their app (or another part of their ecosystem), they would provide an incredible mobile utility that would both heavily impact the photo-measurement industry, and provide a massive gain to the 3d-printing early adopters. This is the kind of disruption that photo-measurement and 3d printing need.

[1] http://www.autocadws.com/mobile
[2] http://www.etemplatesystem.com/
Thanks for the links. Math is awesome, and this kinda stuff really gets one going. No wonder some people (mathematicians) get hooked on prime numbers for the rest of their lives. It's beautiful.
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I'm not going to waste time bashing PHP, that's a dead horse.

I'm just going to say that's it's a bit amusing that of the things he lists as "revelations" python has had since:

1. when dinosaurs roamed the earth (lambda)

2. 2003 (wsgi)

3. years ago (pip/easy_install)

4. ages (db-api)
The title of this post was changed from "Lack of semicolons causes Twitter to crash in Opera" to "Twitter crashes itself with commas", long after it hit the front page (and in fact got all the way to #2); this sadly drops the (as far as I'm concerned) critical note that this bug only affects Opera, and makes it sound like this is Twitter's fault, when this is really Opera's fault.

On the other side, this is why many of the comments, including the top comment, seem overly invested in the notion of semicolon insertion, as opposed to looking at the specific usage of replacing sequences of ExpressionStatements (even if separated by semicolons) with a single ExpressionStatement holding a very long compound Expression (separated by commas).
Jobs left the position and returned, the board could have decided to replace him with Cook at that point based on his health. I think you are right there is a big difference. Marissa will likely recover in a few weeks.
Malnutrition can be one such limit of opportunity, if it harms development in childhood. It's also one of the easiest things to fix; giving children nutritional supplements and subsidized school lunches is pretty cheap and straightforward, compared to just about any other method of ameliorating poverty.
There are none. You need a $40 (checked at monoprice) converter that's almost as big as the Pi.
No, nor could they have altered their decision based upon the information that she was pregnant, as this is one of the protected characteristics for labor purposes.

Unfortunately, the end result is that someone gets screwed either way: either the child misses out on his mother's attention during the most crucial moments of his growth, or Yahoo gets a CEO who isn't focused on restoring Yahoo.