skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't even a lack of talent that is already trained IMO - this is anecdotal, but I know of many unemployed coders who are capable and the education system is churning out thousands more every year. I find it hard to believe that corporations cannot hire them.

In actuality, there is a lack of folks who want to pay market price (which is going up) for programming talent even if their corporation is quite profitable. Requesting higher caps is a way to conveniently dodge the market forces at play.
Finally - list of all cloud/hosting costs in one place.
Judge: Hey Oracle and Google – Turn Over The Names Of Your Paid Bloggers
I'd argue that it doesn't have consistently insightful commentary with regards to these issues.

I love reading HN comments on tech news/debates/articles because I know there's going to be a huge depth and breadth of different commenters' experiences and anecdotes. This generally isn't true with regards to political/social stuff, where the vast majority of commenters have the same belief and experience.

That being said, I don't really mind the submissions -- because they're easily identifiable -- I just hope they aren't signals of a larger trend towards generalism. (Reddit, too, used to be predominantly tech/programming articles.)
Where is the Wikimedia theme/skin described in this showcase?
Google's algorithm (which Strum seems to be pollinating everywhere -- and good, because the old algorithms were failing DARPA tests) is to pre-map the road. The car knows exactly where it is and what is supposed to be there, which it also compared with what it sees now.

How will it react to a bicyclist running a red stoplight and into the car's path, when the car has a green light?

It will stop. In fact, the "failure mode" of self-driving cars will be how pedestrians can bully them by stepping in front of them so they stop.

When the car comes across kids playing football/street hockey/baseball in the street, will it stop for them?

There is already video of this. The radar/lidar isn't good enough to see a baseball, but it's definitely good enough to see a kid.

Will these cars have systems to react when they take damage?

It will probably pull over and stop if something is wrong.
Brave New World—medical devices use biometrics to prevent hack attacks
Everything you've just said would have come up in numerous meetings before they even started planning how the system would work.
Yeah, I would be in favor of keeping the existing font face and W.
Single-page, print-friendly version: http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240004971&...

Also noteworthy:

This article is adapted from the author's recent book, Programming in Go.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321774639/?tag=drdos-20 (keeping DrDobbs' affiliate link)
I work at Wikia, which means I work with MediaWiki every day. I was kind of offended by how naive New is New is being. I don't think they have any grasp on the sort of massive scope changes like this would require. Wikipedia is not MediaWiki's only consumer. A lot of communities that use MediaWiki are extremely conservative about the UI, so some of the conservatism is by design. The WikiMedia Foundation is working on a lot of the more feasible features already, such as the visual editor.

I think it's obnoxious that a design team would spend two months on something without taking any time to consider implementation detail. The MediaWiki project is very transparent, and if New is New cared to learn about what features were in the works, they could have easily found them on the right wiki -- design mockups and all. Whoever would hire these guys to do work for hire will be paying for an intractable mess of a design with a hearty helping of scope creep.

And don't get me started on the proposed Wikipedia logo. It looks like the Wikia fractal with way less nodes.
You could just crowd source it. When you quickly back out of a page from Google, it offers to "Block all Pages from somedomain.com". This could easily be repurposed to also garner additional details about the site.
I agree with you on the lack of technology focus, but I didn't vote it up out of anger. Instead, I was astonished to find that the photographer was able to offer an even-handed account of the difficulties of his job and the need for balance:

CJ: Do you feel your rights were violated?

RS: Of course, but you have to realize that each situation each different. Just because we have this constitutional right doesn’t give us a complete right to do whatever we feel like doing. This needs to be understood. You can’t just stand your ground, in the middle of a police scene, and say, “Its my right to shoot this.” You have to walk carefully every time you show up to a [police] scene. There’s a lot involved. These police officers are trying to do a job too. Everyone needs to understand that. I always try to respect that.

CJ: For the benefit of those photographers up in arms about your situation, can you explain what you mean by “respect”?

RS: You want to be respectful of the police officers space as well. We need to be conscious of our surroundings. Even as we’re protected by our constitutional rights – this is important [as photographers] to remember. However, in this case, there is no question that what I was doing was right. I’m never the one to say the picture is more important than everything else on the scene. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for “standing my ground”, and an officer is in the middle of doing his job and [because of interfering] and an officer gets injured as a result of what I chose to do. Just because I have the “right” do take photos. I would never do that. And that is kind of what the police are saying about me. That they have the “right” to charge me with obstruction of government administration. They are using that to say, ‘we can do whatever we want.’ It’s unfortunate because I’m the one who was totally abused.

I'm scared of slippery slopes of Mount Reddit as well, but this is an article worth reading.
I like the idea and the layout is nice.

That being said, use the same categories for each company, don't re-write the description based on how good/bad it is. It would be far more useful for creating a table (which would also be a great way to organize this information, businesses looking to improve the transparency of their ToS would need only look at top scored candidates to find inspiration).
The OP's author actually just tweeted that he might be on the list because he was an intern at Google during the period in question...however, you're being too cynical yet not cynical enough...it's possible that journalists cover a hot company to draw traffic AND it's possible that said company can exert influence in a way that such coverage is more slanted than it might be otherwise.
Wikipedia doesn't need a redesign. It just needs to have an easy preferences setting for "I am a deletionist" vs "I am an inclusionist" or whatever the current preferred designations are.

The deletionists get pared-down, guaranteed notable content, and the inclusionists get the mess.
Exactly what I thought; Wordpress' serif W dominates the web and this one is far too similar to it for people to know the difference. People know Wikipedia as Wikipedia and as an international website, we shouldn't use a generic 'W' as the logo across the board.
I'm not arguing that it is perfect.

I'm saying that people should turn it on, and try it. Most of the questions are the kind of things that would be solved by just trying it!
Driving at night and the rain will probably be where autonomous cars really outshine humans. Lidar systems don't care if you are wearing all black during a night at new moon.

Snow is much harder for the time being. A snow drift falling off a car can make a google car think a cooler has appeared in the road.
J don't understand why you have such a problem with it. Jt seems fine to me.
If it is gcar on gcar, it is googles fault, because they programmed it wrong / poorly.

If it is gcar on car, with the normal car responsible, it is the traditional fault model.

If it is car on gcar and it is gcars fault, Google really fudged it up.

If it is no ones fault (ie, falling rocks on top of the thing) then that falls into the same catagory as natural disaster damage.

I would hope, at least.
Looking into the world of Carmack's Doom through the Oculus Rift
The existing front-page looks like it should work in browsers with JS disabled (though I have not personally tested this).

We should think carefully about the possible consequences of Wikipedia dropping support for no-JS browsers.
Ah, so you only get those blurred answers if you come from a search engine. That's the first time I see it in action. I have javascript disabled so I get an opaque block over the answer.
I'm imagining this would mean an auction (something like the current opening/closing auctions) every 100ms ... I like it. It seems more scalable than the current system.
CS stundent's love life in college
Let’s admit it. Programmers are geeks, or at least considered to have no social life during college (NO- Hackathons are not considered parties). When we imagine a freshman CS student we probably would picture a skinny “ninja” coding all night with a Star Trek poster on the wall, surrounded by a bunch of empty energy drink cans on top of numerous empty pizza boxes.

Curious to defeat the myth of a lonely CS student’ and their love life paired with the fact that the choice of a sophomore’s major rises in those days, the Weesh team decided to launch the “Love survey”. After over 250 BCS students’ participated in the survey, we can confirm that CS students may be geeks but they are without a doubt IN THE GAME of Love!
In this case it's not as much about keeping it secret (since anyone who sees/handles it might have the number memorized or recorded) as it is reducing the attack surface. If the full number is on a discarded receipt (or on any combination of two receipts) along with my signature, anyone with access to my trash now has a big chunk of the info they need for identity theft.

I'm not saying that obfuscating the first 12 digits on a receipt solves the problem; just that it's a very minor adjustment that makes things more difficult for the attacker. But some organizations are still failing at even these most rudimentary steps.
I disagree that Amazon's processes were 'appropriate'. Being able to gain access to someone's Amazon account with such basic information can be a big problem.

I know a guy that's a huge amazon seller and he says there are Amazon sellers often with upwards of $100,000 in their accounts on Amazon before pulling the cash out. If someone were able to gain access to a seller account (I'm not sure if this 'exploit' would have worked for a seller account or not), that could have been quite financially painful for some people.
For what it's worth, PJ directly says[0] Groklaw has "no financial ties to anybody".

[0] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120807180515808
Is a very slight reduction to the attack surface really the best we can do?

At the moment, yes, I think it is.

At some point in the future perhaps this may improve (although I wouldn't count on it).
I have one question as I'm not aware of any - has anybody had there blackberry hacked and remotely wiped.

What proportion of share price is effected by security, as that is all a company realy care about.

Now maybe the whole credit card system that we have is at fault - one number to rule them all to pay for things. Maybe is we had a system were we could give each transaction a unique number you could was unique to each vendor you used. Then if that number is leaked it woud be clear were it leaked from and only effect the people who leaked it. Until then there are disposable credit cards.

If Apple only accepted Apple credit cards and if Amazon only accepted Amazon credit cards, then this would not of happened. Can see what the outcome of this will be and people will still complain.
The Ouya, it turns out, is really small
For those not aware whenever a journalist uses the term "quietly" it equates to "didn't issue a press release" or post publicly in an announcement.
If you don't have your card with you, however, you can provide photo ID and they'll look up your account number. I suppose it would be possible to provide a forged photo ID to gain access to someone's account.
> if you completely ignore HFT, you'd think there would be way more programmers and mathematicians available for hire.

Can you clarify this? My interpretation is that if you discount mathematicians / programmers working in HFT, you would expect more of them to be in the market for jobs?
the same tools that would trivialize creating such a virus would also trivialize a cure.
I think trains/metro rails are just outright much more cost effective, given it's not personal transport.
Hi, this is Omri, the founder of Genome Compiler (http://genomecompiler.com) mentioned in the article. It's great to see many of my fellow entrepreneurs in this field shamelessly plugging away their companies :-)

Anyhow, this is indeed a great field to be in and I'm happy HN is taking notice.

I recommend this interview we gave for Leo Laporte (TwiT.tv) about this field: http://www.genomecompiler.com/news/2012/6/4/democratizing-cr...

Feel free to contact us for more information: info@genomecompiler.com
On the other hand, web development is solving many many more problems for many many more people.

HFT firms are solving the single problem of making their owners rich with the authoritatively, hand-wringingly repeated justification about how critically important that liquidity is to everyone and their grandmother.
Please Explain Your Rationale For The Rainbow
I'd contest that argument. I'd agree perhaps with IE 8 being a PITA, but you can't reaaaaaaaally blame Microsoft for IE 6. It's not like google existed in its magnitude back then or even mozilla. Back then there wasn't much stability either i.t.o market leaders (if I remember correctly netscape escaped roundabout that time and opera didn't have much market stake).

If you check IE 9 developer tools, you can't even 'switch back' to IE 6 anymore (well, atleast not in x64 mode).

There's a reason why you should opt to use 'cross-browser' libraries such as jQuery. Google chrome has a couple of bugs and even firefox. Not all problems have solutions - take for example styling of 'web' controls. IE renders native controls, browsers render their specific controls - some allow text-indent while others don't.

In terms of application development - as far as I know all non .NET tools have pretty much be phased out (ie. VB6 etc.).

You essentially face the same problem to some degree (ex. users that still run with IE 6 are probably like to be running .NET 2.0 or none at all).

I think at the moment Microsoft is opting for cross-platform apps via web and wcf/web api services. You can also use Mono, but it's generally at least one major version behind (couple of years) and doesn't fully support everything the .NET framework does.

When talking about 'cross-platform' apps, people are rather quick to forget that applications are written during certain time periods. It's easy to support users who are using 10 year old software/hardware (ex. windows xp 32) with 10 year old software (.NET 1.0).

I reckon it's about the same effort to force a user to install 'open source' libraries such as open-gtk as it is to force the user to use a different browser or install the .NET framework if they're on windows.

I'm actually hoping that all the legacy windows operating systems get upgraded to Windows 8 when it gets released. Microsoft is running a campaign where you pay 30$ or something to upgrade a Windows XP+ OS to Windows 8. Windows 8 also boasts quite a bit of improved performance and less resource usage - which makes it perfect for all that legacy hardware (I reckon most PCs built the last 12 years should be able to run it). This would also pave the path to better HTML standards support with IE 10 and better .NET framework support (4.5).

In regards to the tools - I reckon if you're going a C#.NET route with professional+ visual studio with other addons, then I'd say the dev environment greatly surpasses that from what I've seen on linux (visual studio pro ~ $400 USD, addons are free and priced - I use resharper, mindscape web workbench and tangible t4 daily).

You could always go Java route if you don't like the .NET framework.
I hear doing things faster relative to how it was done in prior times is sometimes called progress.
Though this presents a problem in that we're burning through a car 20 time faster, (100% vs 5%). Most cars people own don't last 20 years, so they won't even last a year in the future? There better be some distributed economic system for providing those cars, because that's a large expense.

A car right now needs regular maintenance as it is every few months, even if it's just changing the oil. That will go from months to days if they're being used 24/7.
I like the proposed design from the point of view that I'd be casually browsing it trying to find interesting information and learning things for no reason.

But for finding out information I need to find out for whatever reason, it's just going to slow that process down.
Why is “5 things you hate about C#” difficult to answer during an interview?
OK, then I understand your position better. This is hacker news after all.

BTW, I think that there's misunderstanding between software developers and business people because software development is not as much about technology and hard facts as non-developers tend to think. It is very much about organization, people and processes. So in that way, software development is more similar to business than business people expect.
I think you are arguing something different than I. I am open to being wrong, but I think I am making a different point.

You are saying that by having a zero latency trading capability, financial markets are the sign of progress and it is an inevitability that, not only is desirable, but preferred.

That's fine, but not what I am am taking issue with is fully automated system of extremely high volume, low margin, trades that are conducted by bots and have no human interaction other than those that are profiting from them.

I admit I am not savvy enough in this area to argue about whether or not HFT provides more equilibrium to the price of a stock, but I don't see that as a wholly convincing argument as to why HFT is important and adds value.

I am skeptical of that claim, mostly due to my ignorance, so please educate me on the following: The claim that HFT rarely goes wrong such that "ordinary investors" are harmed; who then is the non-ordinary investor who is benefiting from the HFT, and what value are they providing in the markets, other than profiting from HFT.

It appears to be making the claim that HFT is a meta market that the ordinary investor shouldn't even be concerned with except in cases of extreme rarity where a flaw causes them some financial harm/risk.

Again, if this is true - what true concrete value to the world does this meta system provide? I simply cannot see it, and again, I claim awareness of my ignorance, so please explain like I am five.

Thanks!
I've written before that I believe academics should share their code (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3845070).

This greatly improves repeatability of results, and saves other researchers a huge amount of time.

My idea---which unfortunately I came up with towards the end of my academic career---was to create a public github from day 1. Because it made me more conscious that other people would be able to see my code, this is a vast improvement in usability over deciding only halfway through that the code would be public.

Unfortunately, many academics are scared of this approach. Sharing their earliest thoughts and meanderings makes them feel exposed, and strips away the veneer of unassailability that only showing finished work gives. And I will admit that I deleted repos that of work that was failure to find.

One potential solution is conferences that give priority to researchers who share their code. (I've seen this occasionally, but can't remember where right now.)
I guess another good question is: "how well do humans handle these things?"

I think the answer is: "not very well."
Could you contextualize what population you're drawing your sample from, please?
Where, Exactly, Is the Curiosity Rover on Mars?
Nope - all the data stays there, and can be shown on dashboards. We just don't show the hosts that don't submit data in the host lists, and don't count them towards the total number of hosts charged for. Does that answer your question?
From what I know it's always known-course. If you were to get a google car today for your commute (you can't), you would first drive to and from work yourself, probably more than once, so it can map everything.

Knowing where there should be a stop sign and traffic lights significantly reduces risks. The computer still needs to be able to learn when new ones appear, of course.
This distinction is only relevant to maybe 1% of wikipedia users...the heavy users who get involved in internal politics and editing decisions (and maybe the spammers who try to wield wikipedia's massive visibility for their own purposes). The average wikipedia user has no idea there are deletion wars.
Interesting. Hugely useful to enable Flexibility and customization of business logic for Backend as a Service platforms. But how do I get my own business logic on the service?
VMWare Buys Log Insight From Pattern Insight
A lot of these services bring back some horrible memories from Geocities days.
My comment is a bad one in its merit.

But I wish I had more than one upvote to give.
What does a Google SRE do?
Great job, guys! I've been waiting for the flickr integration!
I'd like to see a graph of average spreads between 2007 and now.
Isn't RNASeq more like looking at really verbose log messages? Where you only sample 1% of the log messages and may be looking for an event that happens 0.01% of the time?
As someone who has designed, built and ran systems that operated at a scale that made the software that HFT firms look like toys and built several web companies, I can honestly say that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Web development and low-level systems engineering are entirely different and neither one is particularly harder than the other. If anything, both are simply tedious.

And pubsub was old by the time wall street got a hold of it.
These ideas would probably be better achieved using a browser add-on of some kind.
Why Google+ Isn’t Really a Graveyard
err, no it's not. It pulls up just fine for me.
> And don't get me started on the proposed Wikipedia logo. It looks like the Wikia fractal with way less nodes.

I found it offensive that they felt the English 'W' was the only one worth featuring in the logo.
CSS3 and HTML5 brings back bad memories. It's easy to abuse, I've done it myself intentionally here: http://cats4gold.net/ostar/ - CSS 2D transforms, CSS background-size, CSS3 selectors, HTML5 audio and JavaScript.
There is always discussion. Go to MediaWiki.org and poke around.
The original DARPA Grand Challenge was set in the desert on dirt roads. It's not that difficult to identify the road given some assumptions about how roads work (e.g., it's likely to be a slightly different color or texture)
Apple and Samsung Continues Legal Battle
Video game inventor demonstrates multimedia box…in 1973
While they have closed the loophole for adding credit cards, you can apparently still change your email or password via phone: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/08/07/amazon-tigh...
Remember that the "5%" of the time you use your car is probably the same "5%" of the time every one else wants to use their car, i.e. rush hours.
Thats fantastic - finaly abstract art I can understand and apprecieate.
Would these be vastly less fun if they were bigger, and thus a lot less likely to be swallowed? 1" diameter rare earth magnets would be pretty fun I think, although maybe more dangerous (due to being stronger)?
Haha well I just wrote this one today, but touche. I'll get to work.