skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just goes to show how over-inflated salaries for programmers are. it is not rocket science anymore.

actual rocket science though? good luck without an actual education.

and i sure hope as hell that this mindset doesn't reach the medical field. studying to be a surgeon? i taught myself...yeah, sure...
Ignoring norms is "dumb" in a poor choices / stubborn mule sort of way but not in an actual intellect way. Don't confuse the meanings of the word.
Can someone explain what represents the marking on Curiosity next to NASA logo (middle part, white circle). It is present all over the robot.
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You should put those 3 steps on to your website. It shows how easy to setup your service is.
And yet, what are ants to us? Limits of an AI may be incomprehensible to us, and the point of singularity is not that intelligence might increase without bound, but that it will reach our level and appear be increasing at an exponentially beyond us. (Any increase in intelligence beyond our level may be obvious but unquantifiable, so the question of exponential vs simply "beyond us" may be unanswerable.)

Logistics curves are a favorite concept on HN relating to resource usage, so imagine that intelligence follows a logistic curve, and humanity is way above ants, but still very close to the bottom. Once an AI gains the ability to iteratively improve its own mind, first software, and then hardware, it could accelerate up the curve and the separation between our intelligence and AI, if measured, would be approximately exponential until it's so far ahead of us it doesn't matter whether there's a hard limit (logistic curve) or not (true exponential curve).
because I dropped out after two years. if i finished all four, it'd be way more.
If we'd treat alcohol medically equivalently with other similar substances, a suitable recommended dose would be about a teaspoon of wine per day (digging up reference). So no need to keep the workplace boozeless.
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The criteria there is "better mate". Wilfra could have said "better candidate" and been correct in that way, but they didn't. They said "less intelligent" which seems like a complete non-sequitur to me.
Too me, the Evernote comparison didn't make a lot of sense. But the FB timeline explanation did.

So it's basically: a private fb-timeline like journal filled with things from social networks and real life

?
Sonora is my current favourite. http://getsonora.com/
I am in fact refusing to argue in the realm of opinion, and that is why I am proposing a valid mathematical model to support my hypothesis.

But I suppose you did not read past the title? Sorry for hurting your faith in the Singularity...
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Vox, "the lightweight music app" from http://voxapp.didgeroo.com/
I get both of those impressions (your's and one up). Just because someone is an egocentric narcissist doesn't mean that they aren't on to something. In fact, as they say, it takes one to know one.
For a job applicant to think about what a hiring manager would think is normal enough. Is it so unusual for a hiring manager to see if the applicant does that?

For a hiring manager to think about whether a job applicant is thinking about what a hiring manager is thinking sounds confusing - but we're thinking about that right now.
I'll take the other side here:

There's two axis - engagement and authority. Baskerville is not engaging, but it looks authoritative. So you tend to agree, even if you don't know what it says (like a boring professor or politician). Comic Sans is like a boring person in a clown suit - you can't follow what it's saying, and you tend to disagree just because it looks a little stupid.

The more respectabel Sans are engaging, but not authoritative; Times is both engaging and authoritative.

If you read something in Baskerville, you agree because it looks so boring that you can't be bothered reading it. Georgia, on the other hand, encourages both strong agreement and strong disagreement - people take it seriously, but actually pay attention. No-one takes Comic Sans seriously, because it's hard to read and looks stupid.
Could also be a solution to a problem you don't have.

I like the idea of a detailed Facebook timeline that goes back many years. But I don't want to share, or give FB, enough information for it to be worthwhile. Also, I'm not I'll be on FB in 10 or 20 years.

This might be their biggest challenge: Convincing me that they'll be around in 20 years
Yet more and more start-ups (and not so start-ups) have kegerators in their office. We have one at Lot18 (we're hiring!) and some other companies that I am aware of include Yelp, Google, Name.com, BirchBox, MapQuest, Yammer - and I am sure there are plenty more out there.

Alcohol is often seen as a social thing to do - and with companies trying to get a more solid culture going, alcohol seems to tie in well to aide in creating the social ambiance. Obviously there should still be limits on when you should be drinking, and how you conduct your self - but that should be considered in any social setting.

Here is a related article regarding drinking on the job and tech companies: http://www.brewcitybeerbuffs.com/2012/05/20/drinking-on-the-...
Thank you for the clarification. I think it's still a great cautionary tale.
Email me at techynirvana[at]gmail[dot]com. I can share some more inputs for the betterment of the app.
Great site, I agree with the name change, I too was confused by it.

My app generated an error. I presume its because its not available in America (only UK):

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cycle-paths-for-british-isles...
Great site, I agree with the name change, I too was confused by it.

My app generated an error. I presume its because its not available in America (only UK):

App link:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cycle-paths-for-british-isles...

Smore link:
http://www.smore.com/app/gateway/appstore?source=http%3A%2F%...

Also it might be worth linking in the iTunes link generator:
http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker/
Reminds me of the Ballmer Peak: http://xkcd.com/323/
Repost from another thread:

These are still from the navigation cameras. The main camera, not yet deployed, can take 1600x1200 full-color pictures and HD video at 10fps. There's actually two of it, so it can also make 3D images/video. Other features are wide/telephoto lens, panorama stitching and 8GB flash storage.
Before complaining about resolution, this is like having a GoPro 3D on Mars, it has plenty of detail.

One of the articles mentions that the cameras are provided by the same manufacturer as the Viking missions, so they must certainly have improved. Expect some awesome images in the coming months!

More info: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/instruments/cameras/mas..., http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/Mastcam/, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20110531.html
Stop reading between the lines, I didn't say PHP was better as a language. What I was saying was that trying to convert PHP developers into Go programmers with those kind of arguments shows a basic lack of understanding of how web applications work, or what is the real strength of PHP.
I think that is a point missed by this article and many others. People are going after what they think they can get funded in large part. In the comments on the post there is a nice Peter Thiel quote about innovation in the physical world basically getting outlawed (his libertarian bent shows strongly here) driving innovation to software. And while I don't really agree with all of it, I really think that to a certain extent, be it through patents, super dominant companies, government prohibition, or even just cultural forces, it is really hard to go big.
Most of the benefits he explained in the post also apply to Java (e.g. easy to use, GC, type system & concurrency).

IMHO, if a programmer only know PHP and want to explore, I would suggest Java/Scala/Python/Ruby as the next language instead of Go.
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Git from the Bottom up [pdf]
The product I'm working on most of the time started 2004 as a CVS repository, then was converted to svn where it spent a lot of time in and hen in 2009 it was converted to git where it lives ever since.

I've had no issues during either conversion (aside of mistyping an author name, but filter-branch helped). All branches were successfully transferred.

Now I wonder what kind of issues you were having.
The crash on an experimental platform from a hardware failure might cause them to reevaluate their claims of this fuel being better? I am honestly disgusted at the article ending in something so ridiculous for the sake of precious fake controversy.
Neither, I've built a Django-based website that helps mobile developers pick better keywords for the iTunes store.
Perestroika in North Korea?
Could this feature of technology companies be related to younger median age -> less commute radius or commute by bicycle/public transport?

Bankers and corporate types seem to be concentrated in compounds miles from anywhere, so drink/drive limits (preferably zero) come into play.
Vim had abbreviations way before TextMate has been created. Think about that.
At a previous company there was an office-romance happening between a manager and one of their employees. While everything seemed fine, once they broke up, all hell broke loose. The employee threatened to sue the company claiming that the manager had forced him in to a relationship to keep his job. It's ridiculous, but a sad fact of life that you have people who will react that way - so this is why a lot of companies will have policies where dating is prohibited or you must divulge your relationship to HR. This isn't enforceable but is more to prevent legal liability if something like the story above were to happen.
Good point :) To be honest, people search for all sorts of things on the iTunes store but very few people search for tools to help them market on the iTunes store. Also, Apple have got a lot of good keywords trademarked and it's hard to use them via Adwords.
Your numbers show that SRP-SHA1 is about 50000 times better than salted SHA1. Not great, better than nothing (at least for those of us without dictionary-targetable passwords).
Seems like a poor fork of http://tantaman.github.com/Strut/web/index.html
Is SPAM a public policy problem?
Most web developers who read Hacker News don't host their stuff with a hosting provider that doesn't even provide shell. With Go you just need to be able to execute a binary.

You sounded a lot like Go hasn't proved it's viable for "web scale." It has. Is it as widely deployed? Of course not, it's new.

I'm not sure what strength of PHP you're referring to--I'm assuming the ubiquity with shared hosting providers--but it's not even that great of a language to interface with databases, which was your example before.

Not arguing for Go particularly, just arguing against PHP. Its ubiquity is basically all it has going for it, but yes, that's a big deal.
The main reason I choice it was because I only have to hold an integer id of your account id on twitter or facebook. If my database was ever compromised, there is only that piece of info about you that would disappear. It's basically leaving all the security problems (not to mention lost passwords, etc...) as a problem for Twitter and Facebook to deal with.
The US has a very sue-happy culture though, things might not escalate that quickly in other parts of the world, thus not requiring so much control of the social side of a workplace.
This seems like arguing with a door. The whole concept of the singularity is absurd. Taking your time to construct arguments of why such absurdity would happen slow instead of fast, if it happened. Is just like trying to come up with scientific explanations why unicorn poop couldn't be technically as magical as rainbows. Reminds me of those nerdy arguments we all had, debating whether superman's clothes would burn upon re-entry on the atmosphere. Fun times, but useless.

Proponents of singularity have a broken understanding of "intelligence". We already have computers that perform plenty of intellectual tasks better than humans. Even learning itself, or coding and reprogramming itself. But this is not "intelligent" yet according to them. They'll only be satisfied when "intelligent" means mimicking a human being for no other reason other than mimicking a human being's sake. They don't want an intelligent computer, nor actual practical solutions to real problems. What they really want is a really complex fart app.
Mine have been a mixed bag. At my current ROI I'm paying something like $7 for each person who creates an account. I've done marketing for big companies in the past and they paid like $2 per new customer via various means of online advertising.
I am new to MAC. Is it anyway equivalent to notepad++??
I think it may be time to put a dedicated communications satellite around Mars. These rovers do seem to last a long time so it probably would be worth it.
I asked the same question. My guess is these are movement markings as seen on crash dummies.
That's a fair question, and while tech companies are surely employing younger people in general, I don't think that is purely the motivating factor. I think people are trying to get away from the previously stuffy office environments - trying to make everyone genuinely enjoy their work and co-workers even during off hours.

As far as commute goes - this could certainly be true for NYC which is where I am as I don't think a single person drives in to the office unless it is a special occasion - though I am not sure how much of a factor it might be for other localities.
Fixed the blog to give more credence to the ME op. Thanks for the great discussion mindslight & tedunangst.

I'm not trying to be sensationalist, but I think it's bullshit that Blizzard is saying SRP makes it "computationally very difficult and expensive" to extract the passwords from the stolen verified database.

Blizzard should come out and say, "the majority of our users' passwords have been stolen. If you have an extremely random password, you may be one of the few that were not cracked, but don't bet on it."

Just to keep the friendly banter going though, even Anandtech was getting better performance back in 2006 with his exponentiation: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2022/5

On EC2 c1.xlarge running AMI ami-ef5ff086 ($0.66 / hour):

./openssl speed rsa -multi 8

rsa 512 bits 54663.2 sign/s

rsa 1024 bits 10709.9 sign/s

./openssl speed dsa -multi 8

dsa 512 bits 56011.1 sign/s

dsa 1024 bits 20449.8 sign/s

So $100 would buy you... about 100 billion guesses?
Java and Go's type systems are very different, Go's is much more lightweight, had implicit interfaces (aka "static duck typing") and has an improved form of composition instead of inheritance.

And concurrency in Go compared to Java is like day and night.

Then there is the simplicity and clarity of the standard libraries, and so on.
You can run Go applications on App engine[1] and Heroku[2]

[1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview

[2] https://gist.github.com/299535bbf56bf3016cba
I'll do it for $0.50 a minute ;)
nice one. So this thing seems to be written in obj-c? Still, someone's gonna port this thing to windows by about next week, right? Right, someone????
This might sound uncouth but that's the dad I wish I'd had.
Cmus, http://cmus.sourceforge.net/
It's a commandline app with last.fm support
My understanding is that being successful means reaching our life goal. If your goal is to make career in the academic or research domain, than a college degree is indeed a must have and a step closer to your success. Otherwise, it's not and a waste of time and money.

Especially, if you think that a college degree provides you a guarantee to get and keep an employee job, or being successful in it, you are plain wrong.

The opinion of Paul Graham or Peter Thiel about college make sense when considering the goal they are talking about for which a college degree is indeed a waste of time and money.

A college degree is good to become educated in some field, but you are spoon fed and you get all the constrains that come with it.
>I'm really sick of people treating me like shit for actually getting a worthwhile degree that'll lead to a career that can pay the bills.

you've gotta choose your friends and your peers. I'm not saying you should always insist on friends that accept you for who you are, it can be good to have peers that challenge you, but you need friends that would admire you if you became the person you want to be.

A whole lot of the misery of my younger life can be traced back to that. It's not fun to be in a situation where you have to lower yourself in your own eyes to raise yourself in the eyes of your peers.

>People spending money they don't have on useless status signifiers just pisses me off. So irresponsible.

but... that's a lesson that needs to be learned through experience. Really, that's a big part of why I think the fact you can't get out of student loans the usual way is such a big problem; I mean, when I was that age, making my own stupid decisions, no bank would be idiotic to loan me hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if they were, I'd have ended up bankrupt and the bank would have had to take the hit, as they should, for making such a boneheaded loan.
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Lua-quick-try-out : A simple, low-barrier Lua IDE
If you're in this kind of thing you might have a look at Vitunes http://vitunes.org/. Basically it's vi for music.

Personally most of the times I just dump a file in terminal using afplay. It only uses a ridiculously small amount of ressources and that's what I'm after.
The description:

A Lua IDE to quickly try out algorithms

Many years ago when i wrote my first programs on a Atari 800XL you only had to turn on your computer wait some seconds and after that you could start to draw lines our print some strings on the screen. Today computers are much faster und programming is much more complex. Before you can draw lines, diagrams or tables you have to build a GUI and you have to do a lot of other things that have nothing to do with your problem that you want to be solved.

Sometimes I only want to check if an algorithm works as expected or I would like to see the result of the computation of an intersection of lines or circles by drawing a vector grafic. I would like to start to program my algorithms without wasting time to build a GUI. Thats the reason why I started to develop this tiny Lua IDE.
> I find the quality of my work stay's the same as I never drink enough to truly impair judgement.

I think you mean you never drink enough to offset the impairment you get from being enormously bored :)
> You sounded a lot like Go hasn't proved it's viable for "web scale." It has. Is it as widely deployed? Of course not, it's new.

This depends on what is your definition of "widely deployed":

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go
That's not parametric polymorphism, that's function overloading. The former makes it possible to use the same function implementation on different types, whereas the latter is about using the same name for different functions.
I love my dad, but, agreed.
I agree with this. Although, personally I'd make the analogy closer to religion than politics.
There's a law (SEC rule 144) which says that if shares were not bought in an open market, they are locked up for 6 months after the event that makes them liquid (more or less). It's complicated, but generally you're rarely in a position to NOT need to adhere to it, regardless of what your contract says.
Also I think choice of the low-res camera is related to it being better shielded against the space radiation
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448710...

Its still somehow unbelievable that I'm actually seeing photos from another planet almost realtime.
underscore-cli is utterly brilliant for this, even better — dare I say it? — than traditional log files with cut/grep/awk. Being able to treat logs as a dataset that can be mapped/reduced/flattened/grouped/otherwise analysed is life-changingly good.

About the strongest endorsement I can give is that it makes me wish more of my logs were in JSON format, rather than wishing that less were as I always had before.
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If we could only choose this :)... Anyway, sounds like a matter of family culture. Her dad was already running the family business, maybe motivated by his dad before him. This is some of the best advice a parent can give, IMHO.

[edit: 'His' changed to 'her'. Sorry for that]
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I think it's far less sue-happy than people think it is - but when you do hear of a ridiculous lawsuit, it will certainly be off-the-wall and for an exorbitant amount of money. Sadly we have a flawed legal system (in oh so many ways) and you will find abusers of the system - and that holds true for any kind of system that can be abused - when they can make a personal gain without much risk.

For example, the reason we have a stupid warning on coffee cups about the contents being hot, is because someone decided to sue for getting burned by coffee. This may not have escalated as quickly elsewhere in the world - not because someone wouldn't try it, but perhaps the legal system would have laughed at them instead of allowed for a case to happen. It's not the US culture at blame, and the lack of such people elsewhere in the world who would attempt to make such a lawsuit happen - it's the system that people can easily abuse - and miraculously are able to get away with it.

edit: I stand corrected by rfurmani and v0cab below - I actually did read up more about the hot coffee case in the past - and the details completely slipped my mind while posting this. It is not a good example and doesn't really fit the point I was trying to make.
How do you combine that with the driving all the time culture of the US?
In France it's totally prohibited on the workplace (hahaha), partly because of the driving back home.
>Set up an internal company security word of the day and don’t give any information to anyone who doesn’t know it.

I don't think it's a good idea. Imagine a social engineering attack from inside the company, or if somehow the hacker has access to the word of the day. When he'll say the word, the guy on the other end of the phone will be way more relaxed and ready to give much more information...
Yep this is standard for big UK companies 4X death in service benefit is common
Also, hosting. Reason I like PHP for personal projects is the hosting is so much more ubiquitous.
At a previous programming job I had, we used to regularly have a beer at lunch (in the UK) and it didn't feel like it affected my productivity at the time. This was in my early 20's. I'm now in my early 30's and I find that a beer at lunch just makes me feel tired in the afternoon, so I avoid it.

The point is, it probably affects people in completely different ways depending on physiology, age and health.
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I'm not sure what you hoped to show with that link. It gives me 11 results for “mdn”, one of which concerns “mDNS”, and at least one of the others is from the Mac Developer Network.

At most 9 links from HN to the Mozilla Developer Network, over the course of over a year.
once you can import llvm code at runtime, you are pretty close to injecting llvm code at runtime: you write some LLVM IR in a string, and "llvm_eval" it.
I hate to be that guy bitching without offering any constructive criticism, but this was painful to read. At least I had the courtesy to stick it through to the end to be sure before I posted this. We deserve better than this drivel at the top of HN.