skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar things have been done with large displays in the past, though not on consumer hardware.
I'm sorry, but no, this is bullshit.

SOME pilots on regional flights make a really low salary, but that's because they experience requirements for them are incredibly low.

Working those jobs is like a continuation of school, except you get paid just enough to buy food, instead of paying for the right to fly.
Mueller confirms that airlines see the TSA as a big part of the problem: “After the TSA took over back in 2001, my pilferage claims quadrupled,” he says. Before the TSA came into the game, passengers’ bags could be opened by another party only if a law-enforcement officer was present. His counterparts at other carriers have reported similar findings, he says, and in a 2002 meeting in Washington, D.C., they demanded that the TSA crack down on rogue employees. It is not clear what the agency has done since that time to solve the problem, but it has agreed to investigate and settle any claims that arise.
I'm looking forward to read the first edition!

I agree with the other posters though, it would be nice to have at least an RSS feed and a Twitter account to be notified about new issues.
I think the purpose was less a joke and more along the lines of an extended metaphor. I agree that it is very interesting. I was hoping for somebody to make just the comment you did. Thanks.

But the question was meant to really spawn a general discussion around software release in general in a deep space environment. So anybody know how the next upgrade would take place, assuming Curiosity needs one? Would it be staged on the Mars Orbiter first? Relayed a frame at a time? Do the concepts of CI apply in deep space deployments? Why or why not?
Seattle is very hilly and rainy so can make for harder biking.
Marissa Mayer has doubled Flickr's team size in the past week
You mean short attention span? The lifespan of things on the net can be quite long, thanks to various archives and caches.
Not being an asshole is acommandment we can all agree on.
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Wow- didn't think this was true, but googling found this:

"On the low end, first-year pilots at US Airways would, theoretically, earn a minimum $21,600 a year. For that, they would work 72 hours a month at the controls of a plane (lots more hours are involved in flight preparations, overnights and sitting around waiting)."
We got this in Boston / Cambridge / Somerville: http://www.thehubway.com/
Sorry for the fb post link. Robert Scoble just noted that "I've heard that Marissa Mayer has doubled Flickr's team size in the past week. I'm glad. Flickr is the best thing about Yahoo for me."
Absolutely! Dynamic pricing is something we're really excited about. It's still a young idea, but even large systems like Velib have implemented simple incentives for people who ride against traffic flow. Since our bikes always know where they are, we can be much more proactive about balancing each system.

Edit: a few of us did graduate transportation research as well, your work sounds cool. Is it published anywhere?
I'm not sold on doing this at the commit level, but we have been using Pull Requests on Github in this fashion for Wufoo and SurveyMonkey. We start with an initial commit to start the branch for a new feature and then immediately initiate a Pull Request. That pull request contains a list of items that need to be done for the feature and as it gets developed you can see how commits are working towards making that pull request ready. This also helps tremendously with code reviews because you can do them as the feature is being developed.

What's nice about this method for us is that you can just look at the list of active pull requests for a project and see what features are in active development and get an easy way to drill down into the progress of each.

I guess you could call it Pull Request Driven Development.
I was fooled by Blake Barker.

It would not happen if Minus had on its about page section about the Team and who is part of it beside Carl Hu & John Xie, i.e. the founders of Minus.
> Oh and nowhere in that mini-article is it mentioned that Bada will probably-maybe be replaced by another OS, Tizen.

Not much of a problem. Tizen will be able to run the Bada application layer.
Oh, I actually meant via cycle avoids the parking revenue loss. It's a good thing.

The pricing incentives idea is awesome. A win for commuters, free marketing for your service, and free labor.

Someone would need an account for that, with payment info. Any plans to increase account uptake to serve that purpose?
I don't think a lot of older people are afraid of new things. Instead they are more skeptical, because they've seen it before and it isn't as new as you'd like it to be.
Also have Bixi in Toronto. It is quite popular.
>pcc was removed from the source tree due to lack of progress.

That's a shame. PCC seemed an interesting alternative to gcc, though I do recall PCC's v1.0 "revival" coinciding with an April Fools day several years ago. Perhaps it always was to be taken as a joke.

OpenBSD's simplicity in implementation is laudable. The less moving parts there are the less parts there are to break. It's the same philosophy that keeps me driving my 25-year old pickup.
Also interesting to see how the style guide has changed: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CppConventions; http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html
Seattle is located in King County, which has a mandatory helmet law for all riders, regardless of age. Melbourne, Australia has a program with helmet laws and it has struggled to maintain ridership. This is definitely a concern. Vancouver, BC is also launching a program in a similar situation, so people are watching it closely.

There is undoubtedly a solution out there, but it may take some time to see how users adopt helmet requirements. We're definitely excited about the Puget Sound planning that is going on. I would love to see bikeshare in my hometown!
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Not if you have hardware support, ie the GPU does the decoding.
Wow, this markup language that provides shapes, positions, colors, gradients, and transparency can be used to create images!
Same here.

What I find most surprising is the widespread belief that one "cannot delete one's Facebook account." (( http://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account, http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac... ))

This is surprising for the fact that no API of this sort sanely exists that does [EDIT: not*] allow for such a feature. I mean, to hazard a bit of hand waving and choir-preaching (perhaps): but it's shocking the rift between those who know what "CRUD" means and those who don't.

Why would anyone believe that one cannot "D" (delete) in the Facebook, given the historical trend of Web app dev practices, the organic SEO that has emerged around those practices, and the wealth of tags on the Web which contain terms like "CRUD."

It's almost unsettling...
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There is a very big difference between the homeless in San Francisco and a starving kid in India.
What do we do that makes having multiple accounts difficult? Genuinely interested in your feedback.
We have workers in about 40 countries including the US. Most of them join us organically after hearing about us in press etc.
There's a company doing this peer-to-peer (like Getaround, but for bikes) called Spinlister. https://www.spinlister.com/
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If it worked about the same but the results were public domain, I'd call that a pretty big win.
How is this different to the many other services that tell you how much house you can get for your money? A pretty UI and being YC-backed does not a "disruptor" make.
> the fact that the iPhone was so successful while it was AT&T exclusive

It also had software that was much more sophisticated and usable than any of its competitors of the time. WP7 doesn't enjoy this advantage.
Really interesting article. I spent 6 months living in Kathmandu a few years ago, it's an amazing place but has a lot of serious economic problems(among other things).

It's great to see people helping to develop skills and income within Nepal.
I love the idea, but it's doomed to failure.

I live in a city with a bike-sharing system. It's deeply unprofitable and exists only at the sufferance of the city government. There are a number of flaws. Number 1 is that people who ride bikes don't rent them, they own them. For $100 anyone can purchase a bicycle that will last indefinitely and be available 24/7/365. Number 2 is that people vandalize the shit out of bicycles. Seats will be stolen, tires slashed, bicycles thrown in the river, cables cut. You're free to go after this sort of bicycle since it has no owner - no one is going to come storming out of a nearby store and kick your ass. Crackheads will steal a bicycle seat and try to sell it for $5 to get a hit of crack - I have watched them do it. We live in a world where people are routinely electrocuted trying to steal copper from live power wires and blown up stealing gasoline from pipelines. Those bikes might as well have a sign on them saying "steal me". If even ONE of the components can be removed and sold for a few dollars...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/pariss-pedal-power...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2009/06/26/mont...

Combining high cost of bicycles, ongoing cost to repair/replace/corral wayward bicycles, and low cost of the alternative (owning a bicycle), there is just no chance that this can be a successful business. You will recall people talking about the future of electricity, as being "too cheap to meter". Well, electricity never made it that far, but time on a bicycle did. Bicycle-time is too cheap to meter.

(There may be some future for the company selling to cities or other large entities which intend to subsidize all the costs associated, but it can never be successful as a stand-alone business.)
Thanks for the feedback. It can seem complicated because we provide the billing platform but allow our customers to set pricing. Cities typically charge a monthly or annual membership, while companies usually provide bikes to their employees for free. Depending on who's operating your local program, you usually only have to choose between a few options.
Here's the rationale from that document:

* C++ is a standardized, well known, popular language.

* C++ is nearly a superset of C90 used in GCC.

* The C subset of C++ is just as efficient as C.

* C++ supports cleaner code in several significant cases.

* C++ makes it easier to write and enforce cleaner interfaces.

* C++ never requires uglier code.

* C++ is not a panacea but it is an improvement.

It's interesting to me how defensive many of those justifications are. "It's just as efficient!" or "It's just a superset anyway!" Not until halfway through the list do we get any real description of expected benefits: C++ makes it easier to write and enforce interfaces, and C++ supports cleaner code in several significant cases. The last item is the most telling though: it's clear that these developers feel they've hit a point of crisis, and they are willing to take risks like this in order to lift themselves out of the problem.
That is definitely something we have discussed, once we get the unit cost down and some further miniaturization in hardware.

We'd love to hear if more people think a consumer device like that would be useful.
This reminds me some of WeBike: http://webikedoyou.com/

Regardless, glad to see some fellow Yellow Jackets doing well! Good luck guys!
Benefits of losing baggage: http://unclaimedbaggage.com/p/store/about_store

I live just close enough to make infrequent trips. I'm sure if I had to fly more I'd feel differently about the matter.
Dozens, possibly hundreds. There are at least 6 of them in Santa Monica , 3 more in West LA, about a dozen in Hollywood. And those are just the ones I know about because they work with area startups.

LA isn't even a major player in the advertising industry (either on the advertiser or ad serving sides)--SF/SV and NY/NJ are the major hubs.
Did anyone notice this little gem in the URL?
/p/anic
Firefox Beta + Flash 11 is working very well on my Nexus 7. Streaming video is excellent and the user interfaces are quite responsive.

It's not as stable as the desktop version, but I don't see any problems with the quality of video.
Depends on the website/publishing platform. Disqus's Wordpress plugin actually syncs all of the comments back to the site's WP database. So if they disable Disqus at a later date, all the comments are still there.
Just so we can keep watching "Baggage Battles"?
Window functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function

MDCT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_discrete_cosine_transf...
This locking system would sell some units just so you can have a key fob for your bicycle as you do for a car. Bonus points if it makes the same unlocking sound.
Sort of, but you vary the weighting to fade the blocks into each other.

Or technically speaking, what you do is you multiply the blocks by a window function before you do the Fourier related transform. If you choose the windowing function carefully, you can even set it up so that all you have to do is add the overlapping areas together.

This is especially easy to understand in one dimension, which is more or less how MP3, Vorbis and AAC do it. Block boundary effects are so noticeable with audio that unless they are corrected very robustly, the quality is unacceptably choppy.

The technique generalizes basically without alteration to two dimensional data, but I've never seen an image or video algorithm that used it. JPEG just ignores the blocking issue entirely, and video algorithms seem to rely exclusively on deblocking filters. As I said, I think this has to do with the fact that TDAC doesn't trivially generalize to motion compensation.
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Thanks for sharing that we would fix it
"In addition, there is also an upfront cost of about $1,000 to $1,500 for every bike."

A recent article from the Economist says London's bikes cost
average price is £14,460/bike each, subsidised by government and advertising. Companies like ViaCycle will hopefully drop the price of these schemes.
http://www.economist.com/node/21557527
The french one is extremely convenient and I recommend it to any traveller passing through france. You need a smart card in order to use the system though.
I had to deal with US Airways for the first time last week (not from the US). It was at Laguardia, all the other airplane companies had flatscreens and whatnot, US Airways seemed to have been stuck in the 80's with letter boards. They were very courteous though. But damn they looked cheap.
I'm not sure how each service deals with indemnification against such claims, but the legal requirement, if it exists, to wear helmets, certainly makes a difference to uptake.

For health reasons, helmets are not considered as hireable with bikes in the Australian schemes. This makes it extremely difficult for either tourists or casual interests to just get up and go.
As Anand said we have a separate workforce. We have a bunch of algorithmic and social elements that we have developed for improving quality. In fact,we have written an IEEE paper on how to improve quality in crowdsourcing.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bjoern/papers/kulkarni-mobilewor...
A rare glimpse into what successful design means at a company where designers don't have decision making power: guerrilla warfare. The incredible thing is that the team behind "M" or "Metro"(or whatever Microsoft plans on calling it tomorrow) was able to perfect this recipe of 2 parts politics, 1 part propaganda, and just a tiny dash of fundamental design principles that have been recognized for centuries, in order to win support for their project.
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I'd be very curious to look at Garry's work.

I know two other devs who developed seriously impressive design skills over the years and they both have an inclination toward specific design style - clean and simple, but nuanced. They design as they code, basically, so it'd be nice to have another sample point to validate the conjecture.
I filled out the mortgage estimation tool and in three separate cases it suggested trying to find a house with a negative value.
But what's the high end? What's it like with a few years' experience? What's the distribution?
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True Seattlites are water proof.
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pilots (in the U.S. anyway) make only slightly more money than a McDonalds employee.

Really?

Pilots
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Airline_Pilot%2c_Cop...

McDonalds
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Fast_Food_Resta...
Or for that matter Windows Phone 7 and 8.
I wonder if they considered calling themselves iCycle.
How does it handle developer certs from Apple? I'd rather not share mine with a 3rd party or my code. One could easily just run jenkins/hudson/travis (with plugins) locally and do it, which would probably be faster too since it would have less contention.
Looks good. For those of us shopping around, what advantages does Jsmn have over yajl?
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Here's what Ubuntu on Android looks like. Could you use it?
You obviously haven't seen the latest YIFY rips.
Well you have to be a registered user to begin using the bikes so I'm sure there are precautionary clauses in their TOS which prevent people from suing for things like that.
I remember those days; vivo was state of the art, then either realplayer g2 or MS-MPEG4 .asf files. Eventually someone hacked the MS-MPEG4 codec to allow using in .avi files (it was artificially restricted to be only in .asf files). Then someone (vulture IIRC) rewrote the color conversion scheme to use MMX while increasing its accuracy at the same time; remember, this is with a binary, not source.

And of course you had to get the encoding settings right before encoding the whole thing, since the moment a VCD was public there were several groups all working to get the first decent quality small video file out there.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Airline_Pilot%2c_Cop...
It seems to me that distributed systems are defined by moving bits over a network.

Sorta. People say "distributed system" to mean a single, logical system - typically an application, or maybe some middleware that executes applications - that runs on many machines. So, yes, a distributed system will have bits moving over the network. But the point that jandrewrogers is making is that in a distributed system, the network connections are often dependent on each other. That is, sending data on one connection will impact the sending of data on another connection.

When someone says "distributed systems," you're probably thinking of a client application talking to a server, and maybe that server talking to some backend. That's not what people mean when they use the term. They mean, in the large case, thousands of processes running across hundreds of hosts, and all of those processes may communicate with each other.

In the client-server-backend case, it's okay to assume that each of those connections are independent, and to reason about them as such. In the thousand-to-thousand case in a distributed system, it's often not okay to assume that each of those connections is independent.
I love SVG.
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For small teams, taskshot works well for us http://www.taskshot.com
It could be possible to add language features that explicitly leverage the parallelism you usually find in GPUs (and CPU vector units).

if I do a callableThing.map(iterableThing), I may not always care whether the callable does its magic sequentially on the elements of iterable. And, unless I explicitly use the resulting iterable, I don't care about the order the results are returned.
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Well... I don't find it any more amazing than the fact that they can keep most of their planes in the air. Why? Because that is the job they have agreed to do for the money I have agreed to pay. Sadly, they fail at their job... apparently 26 million times a year.

Sometimes I wonder if my luggage is even on the same flight as me. We have to check in so early these days, it would not surprise me if they chucked my bag onto any next flight that will get it to my final destination before I do. Probably not... but maybe.
TL;DR - Google would teach them the meaning of pain.
I don't know if he has a public portfolio, but he designed the Palantir logo[1]. The design functions as both a Palantir, the seeing eye from Lord of the Rings, and as a head looking at a book. All with a circle and a wave.

[1]http://i.imgur.com/puTPC.jpg
Also, with good in-loop deblocking filters it's not as big a problem (out-of-loop deblocking filters are not nearly as effective)
He is right most of the time though.
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They rarely sell multiple versions of them simultaneously, though. They just get an upgrade bump every year.
90% of the redactions are of the word 'Metro' (i think it's sort of a joke given that Microsoft decided to axe the term and has informed all related parties to do the same without providing a clear alternative). other than that, the remainder appears to be names of colleagues and specific individuals at the company (usually followed by their titles, so it’s kind of obvious)..

here’s one part I can help with; beginning of the last paragraph:

In spring of 2012 [STEVE] [BALLMER] shouted out "[METRO], [METRO], [METRO]!" at a conference, and that is the moment that Microsoft's "new look" have been said to have gone mainstream.
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I didn't know that - I haven't been keeping up with Tizen. But I did read that tizen would also run android applications.
That institution probably does not exist. The Federal and State governments are still trying to figure out what an Internet is. This isn't even on their radar.

For codecs, the government would not even need to regulate. As long as the offerings are good, the industry would be compelled to adopt them because of the lack of licensing costs and for the long term stability. Continuous R&D would still be necessary.
on the back-end we are:
> ensuring our users qualify for mortgages based on the zipcode and financial profile
> further seeing if they qualify for any government programs
> running their taxes on a federal, state and local level to understand if there are any tax benefits to home ownership (almost always overestimated for lower incomes and underestimated for higher incomes)
> drawing on local real estate tax data
> drawing on local transactional expenses (including any transactional taxes you need to pay, like mortgage recording tax in nyc)
> the above, including your financial inputs are then 'modeled'. We actually build several different models for you, and through the comparison of those models we can give advice on a level of accuracy that could not previously be approached.

The result is utility, accuracy and ease of use that we believe is dramatic on improvement on financial calculators. And we are really just scratching the surface on what the modeling engine can do for many different decisions.