skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
his Math skills didn't improve tho, 98% is hardly 4 times more than 38%
I'm actually working on a startup that solves this exact problem but with a twist: we outsource the slapping to India and use a shock-inducing necklace that can be remotely activated through Wifi. This will enable us to bring down costs and bring this service to the masses. So far, our virtual slappers have done an amazing job and the self reported productivity of our beta customers has gone through the roof.
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The no control for medication is primarily based on the conclusions of Boutros 2008, a summary of spectral abnormality studies of schizophrenia. I reproduced a table from the paper in the appendix. What type of psych drugs were you working with?

As an aside drugs used to treat schizophrenia have especially nasty side-effects, such as weight-gain, reduction of white blood cells, and--ironically--some of the "negative" symptoms of schizophrenia when given to healthy people. In fact the Soviets used to use antipsychotics to torture political prisoners.

I concur that active EEG could lead to a much more accurate diagnosis, however we had access to quite a bit more resting data, and it does make the math easier (stationarity for one). Standardization of other factors would also probably increase accuracy, but once again, I was limited by my data. Since I'm no longer in academia, I won't be continuing the research, but hopefully further studies address these questions in more detail.
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Open Notebook Principle
Yes, it's still there, in the same way that MS-DOS was still there in your shiny new copy of Windows 95. And as with DOS in Win95, the primacy of the new environment lays down a clear marker that Microsoft is going in a different direction from now on, so if the "legacy" environment is the one you prefer you should start planning to either live without it or move to a different OS.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, etc.
>It's made some strange choices (IMHO) like optional typing.

Yes, this may look a bit weird, but it actually makes perfect sense. Those types are annotations. If you use them at the "API boundaries" (parameters and return values), you already get most of the benefits you may know from Java or C#.

Compare the doc comments you usually have to write with those baked-in type annotations:

/**
* Foos the bar.
* @param {int} x
* @param {int} y
* @returns {String}
*/
function foo (x, y) {
...
}

vs

/// Foos the bar.
String foo (int x, int y) {
...
}

Much better, isn't it?

Additionally, adding those type annotations is useful right off the bat. The IDE will make use of them right away.

>Go on the other hand [...]

Well, Go is very different. It has a completely different focus. It's more like Rust, for example.
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Brotastic halloween costumes are brotastic
For anyone in the market like me, here is a good comparison vs. Sony's offering : http://afr.com/f/free/technology/digitallife/sony_shows_gopr...
It's worth noting that while YouTube could always run ads in your video, it is very rare to see ads in these types of videos. Ads are usually shown by high-trafficked videos, entertainment content, etc.

It depends on the product category you're in, and as always YMMV.
Does the data transfer go through your website's servers, or is it direct from uploader to downloader? Is the transfer encrypted?

Thanks!
Agreed. Raymond Chen refers to these types of problems as involving "being on the other side of this airtight hatchway":
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/05/11/10009...
The article doesn't actually say which of the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system this planet is orbiting, though it implies that it's orbiting Alpha Centauri B.
So, assuming we could get the funding then if we wanted it, which approach would you guys say would give the venture itself the highest chance of success? In other words, just because we get funding doesn't mean the site will actually succeed. Would we be more likely to succeed using the lean-startup methodology or just raising as much money as we can?
Specifically in the Gates building, I believe... but what about the tribe across the road in Sequoia Hall?
I was at this. I was really looking forward since listening to the Javascript Jabber podcast (http://javascriptjabber.com/008-1-v8-and-v8-and-dart-with-la...) about it.

Less than 1/3 through I decided to started to zone out. I don't understand why you need a VM to compile something into Javascript. Also the optional typed language feature is just odd (okay I can see working in groups and wanting to empirically let other developers what type a variable is), but it's just not something I see myself wanting to learn to do what I already know.

I was also interested in the Angular talk, which was good, but it left me thinking Angular is to CakePHP in the MV* javascript world with all the built-in automagic.

Overall some pretty good talks at this.
" it’s not just a menu, it’s a whole computing environment "
I've been through 2 H1-B transfers, and my experience is similar to neilk's. Last time it took a record time of 2 weeks between offer acceptance and starting work for new employer.

I must be doing something wrong, do you have a quick help-to guide to make this significantly challenging, the way you're describing?

You're right though on the small employers, but that's why labor immigration lawyers exist, any type of legal activity (divorces, class actions) also involves complicated paperwork, and people who will happily take care of it for a fee.
Saw one of your developers give a talk today about responsiveness. Nothing I didn't already know, but I will be using your product now (Foundation) for my personal uses. Especially with the Sass integration.
If anyone is interested in spot instance pricing there was an interesting work on the subject: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/spotprice-ieee.pdf

In short, it's not a perfect supply-and-demand market, but it's interesting to see the details they found.
Ethics != Morals [1][2], by the way. Some things that are clearly immoral in one value system or another are clearly NOT unethical in any system of ethics. Something that is ethical/unethical pretty much always refers to a relationship, for instance. Consider any "thought" crime ("coveting" comes to mind); if you're a native English speaker, describing "coveting" to be immoral makes sense (speaking semantically), where calling it "unethical" doesn't click.

In particular, since ethics are about relationships, they are defined by the (sometimes unspoken) rules of that relationship. The ethical framework of a lawyer/client relationship is different than the ethical framework of two guys chatting at a bar, for example. If the lawyer hears a confession to a serious crime, it would be unethical to report it, while a bar buddy would be ethically clear to report the same crime. I would even argue that a lawyer reporting a confession to the authorities could be considered to be a moral (if unethical) decision, at least in some belief systems, though probably not in all.

And in this case...I'm not a marketer, but the fact that the other company was "furious" strongly indicates to me that it probably was an ethical lapse. When you're playing chess and someone makes a really key move, you may be disappointed, but you don't get mad. If they take your queen from the board when you weren't looking, you do get mad. The latter is certainly "outside of the box", but it's against the rules. And yes, there DO exist "sore losers" who will complain even when they have no right to, but I do think it was at least a minor ethical violation here, at least between him and the conference organizers who typically charge to distribute fliers like that.

[1] http://www.argee.net/Thrawn%20Rickle/Thrawn%20Rickle%2046.ht...

[2] http://everyday-ethics.org/2008/11/ethics-vs-morals-not-as-e...
I just added a list of websites to the hosts file, but the thing is - I know how to unlock that stuff in a few seconds (and LeechBlock can be turned off even faster).

I wish I could lock websites between certain hours at the ISP level, and unlocking shouldn't be easy, and should take a few hours.
Wouldn't this affect everybody across the board?
I think the senior salary flat-lining and junior salary growing is pretty much the law of nature in any occupation - there's a salary band for a given skill, and those who start at the bottom and are any good progress fast, those who start at the bottom and are no good drop out of the race and go do something else, and senior people pretty much know they're at the top of salary range and need to move into management or open up their own consulting firm.
Founder of http://commando.io here - Really cool interface. We are doing some of the same sort of things to help with orchestration of servers. Currently we are using `libssh2` via a PHP module, but switching to a sparkling new node.js interface for the SSH and SCP connections and executions shortly.
This is a great concept. I imagined doing something just like this as an exercise to practice a new language, but I'm glad to see it's already been done.
I tried out Windows 8 on a laptop a few weeks ago. I used to use Windows extensively (3.1, 95, 98, XP) before eventually switching to OSX.

Some things I like:

- Transitions between windows are super fast and smooth.

- Style is clean and lightweight. A distinctive approach.

Things that made me uncomfortable:

- No Start button (although you can download 3rd party programs to bring it back)

- Trying to have two windows next to one another felt much harder to accomplish. Using Snap! just felt way more complicated than what'd you normally do in Windows/OSX.

- Start-up screen is kind of overwhelming and inefficient. It's a cool concept but the variety of boxes just makes it hard to interpret information quickly. It reminds me of iGoogle. I just don't need all that information at once.

- Some of the features are hidden and require a lot of exploring to get it right, like remembering which corner does what when your mouse moves there. I've never found those type of mouse gestures intuitive.

But I should note that I've spent decades learning one paradigm so this could very well work with a younger generation that isn't as married to a UI concept.
As a 2nd year undergrad, I wish he taught my first year linear algebra course. I remember just scrambling to keep up with the prof writing the notes on the board. For my final I just crammed the steps (without knowing why they work or why we do it) for matrix multiplication, diagonalization, orthogonal diagonalization, etc.

I'm going to regret this in my 3rd year...
>but to make life simple for programmer's

Programmer's what?
Check out this: http://simurai.com/post/20251013889/svg-stacks
What makes you think Microsoft doesn't foresee it?

This isn't an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard with no mouse pointer support.

The Surface keyboards even have a trackpad and they've released keyboards and mice that take gestures.

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive...
Thanks OP, there are definitely some good tips in this article. They require hard work and tears but they seem to work.
HTC shows off stunning 5-inch 1080p J Butterfly phone in Japan
Same security researcher I believe.
> The engine can arrange and combine
> its numerical quantities exactly as if
> they were letters or any other general symbols

print "".join(chr(c) for c in (83, 111, 117, 110, 100, 115, 32, 116, 111, 32, 109, 101, 32, 116, 104, 97, 116, 32, 115, 104, 101, 32, 100, 101, 115, 99, 114, 105, 98, 101, 115, 32, 97, 32, 115, 116, 114, 105, 110, 103, 32, 101, 110, 99, 111, 100, 105, 110, 103, 32, 104, 101, 114, 101, 46, 32, 73, 32, 116, 104, 105, 110, 107, 32, 116, 104, 101, 32, 65, 110, 97, 108, 121, 116, 105, 99, 97, 108, 32, 69, 110, 103, 105, 110, 101, 32, 109, 105, 103, 104, 116, 32, 104, 97, 118, 101, 32, 97, 108, 108, 117, 100, 101, 100, 32, 116, 111, 32, 97, 32, 98, 105, 103, 103, 101, 114, 32, 112, 117, 98, 108, 105, 99, 32, 105, 102, 32, 105, 116, 32, 104, 97, 100, 32, 98, 101, 101, 110, 32, 97, 98, 108, 101, 32, 116, 111, 32, 112, 114, 111, 99, 101, 115, 115, 32, 115, 116, 114, 105, 110, 103, 115, 32, 97, 115, 32, 119, 101, 108, 108, 32, 97, 115, 32, 110, 117, 109, 101, 114, 105, 99, 97, 108, 32, 100, 97, 116, 97, 46))
In fact, I have been practicing it since a long time. The Open notebook serves multiple purposes of brain storming your ideas, doing minor calculations, to do list.Sometimes I have loose sheets accompanying my Open Notebook to write down those things that need to be referred time and again and I don't have to turn back the pages of my notebook to look at them.
And on one fine day, if you turn back the pages of the notebook, you'll notice the chronological evolution of your idea from what it was at the very first thought to what it is now.
>I have between 20-30 windows open at any given time with anything from ArcSight to multiple putty sessions running. How will that possibly translate to this blocky touch screen interface?

You have even more space on your taskbar to put your 20 to 30 windows now that the start button is gone and you can have a separate task bar per monitor. I seriously don't understand how the so called blocky touch interface changes anything about managing 20 to 30 windows.
A quick share of our experience in Rails Rumble 2012
I have written a post with a quick look back in to the weekend, which was fun to do. Thought some of you might be interested.
In the car dealership world , as with many business's, poaching in your competitions territory can get your legs broken, what is the digital equivalent?
The comment you are replying to stated they find this unethical. That is unrelated to whether or not its a viable or successful technique.
"You could get pedantic..."

But the author doesn't like the competition.

:-)
I don't think that's necessarily true, though I disagree with the GP. He mentioned in the video, and they're already demoing this at places like best buy, ultrabooks will be coming out with touch screens en masse once windowes 8 is released. A lot of them pivot, but after using one briefly in a normal mode, I found that I was clicking smaller things with the trackpad, but that for big things (like the start screen), it was much more convenient to quickly flick the screen than to go and use my dexterity on the trackpad. you wouldn't use touch in office, for example, but you might use it for navigating around the operating system quickly and easily.
If you could print a car with your 3d printer, why would you print an copy of one that already exists?
This one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849813
- yet their new GUI is clearly not mouse optimized and I'd argue it's not trackpad gestures optimized either. The mouse movement to do anything is just too long.
That's not entirely true - non-privileged local users are not supposed to be able to bluescreen the system. Note that, e.g. Terminal Server exists.
.. which are supported by all the environments in question
Slashdot actually got the deep filtering right. Mainly because that was the only way a sane person could consume it.
The output is more optimized now. However, there is a one-time cost for some of the language features. So, it grows kinda quickly initially. There is some sort of bump, basically.

Thanks to "tree shaking" (=dead code removal), you'll reach the break-even point fairly quickly though. You can use massive libraries, buy only those pieces you actually use get included in the final output.

For example, the last JS app I wrote is about 80kB (minified and compressed). jQuery alone took about 33kB of that. How much of jQuery do I actually use? I'd guess it's less than 20%.

So, even with that initial overhead, a Dart version would be probably a bit smaller.
The headphone that appealed to average users and audiophiles for 8 years
If you're still giving some priority to HN users… /raises hand
This isn't anything revolutionary, much less interesting.

A marketing guy dumped a bunch of money at a conference, gave out a bunch of conference garbage, and paid some online businesses for rush delivery.

Oops I didn't credit the 15 emails and all the potential clients...try writing this post after you get some new work, not right after pulling some joker PR stunt.

>Our competitor was furious, but our potential clients loved the hustle. We got a bunch of agencies interested and I received around 15 e-mails following that panel requesting a meeting.
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This is currently #1 on the frontpage. I have to assume it got there by skeezy methods like those described in the article.
I didn't get along with Windows Vista but I quite like Windows 7, I hated OS X 10.7 but I like 10.8.2 again. There must be many examples like this - it's hard to predict what kind of beast Windows 9 will be.
I have been running Windows 8 (RTM version) on my laptop for two weeks (as I am a MSDN subscriber, thanks to BizSpark). The Metro interface is cute but after a while, I am completely back to the Desktop environment. To my surprise, it is exactly like Windows 7, minus the start menu. I even wonder whether this is because I upgraded from Windows 7?

So I would say, if you are worried that it'll destroy your Windows experience as you know it, don't. It's still there. Really still there, with some minor improvements (e.g. task menu). If I didn't get this for free, I would have felt cheated (as in, this is just an UI skin over my existing Windows 7). What I miss the most is the start menu, and I guess I'll download some start-menu app to replace that.

I don't use my laptop as a tablet so I can't comment on the Metro interface, other than that it's fluid (like the Windows Phone). I don't see there is any chance I'd buy the Surface RT though... The App Store is very limiting at this point. But then, I am not their RT audience.
Looks like Sony's offering is competing with the GoPro2, rather than the GoPro3. Still, given the inevitable upcoming price drop in the 2 after the 3 comes out, that's a handy comparison to have.
The connect 4 ai was not perfect at all. I beat it 3/3 times.
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"it does colour my opinion of them somewhat"
- because you find it unethical?
This is of course completely illegal under H1B law, but hard to police.
Right, but it is also about Windows 8 -- and Windows is still the most widely used desktop OS.
This looks really good, definitely going to pick it up when 8 comes out.

Playing with the 8 previews, I've had problems with the density of not-called-metro-anymore interfaces and a mouse. 90% of this looks workable, and hopefully the rest will follow.
CSS is the best way to CSS...
honestly, please stop with these posts. If you are having a hard time with HTML + JavaScript + CSS you're just doing something wrong.
IANAL, but: Distributing a photoshop plugin containing GPL code is a violation of the GPL as it is worded. If that part of the GPL is enforcable (no precedent that I am aware of) then you would essentially be pirating the GPL code, and can be sued for monetary damages by the owner of the copyright for that code.
I work in industry and teach SE part-time at one of the world's top universities.

Yes, we teach UML because it is the most widely used modeling language. It features many profiles for specific domains and there is a range of tools to choose from.

Embedded systems, avionics, motor vehicle, telecommunications systems are heavily modeled using UML and related techniques. Industrial control systems less so, but there are areas where they are being used more and more. In the commercial applications space, there is much advances to be made.

The use of modeling is a core feature of most engineering disciplines but only recently becoming a part of software engineering methodologies. A crashed program is easier to recover from than a bridge that crashes into the water or a microwave tower that comes crashing down in the first big winds. So the demand for modeling is going to take a while to become a "must have" in SE.

So if you want to work at the next Facebook then UML is probably not going to be important. But if you want to work at Boeing then you'll be needing it.
> When I said "at present", I was operating in the context of your previous post, i.e. assuming a universe with static space-time geometry.

Yes, but for a static universe, we wouldn't have anything remotely like present temperatures, which is why Olbers' Paradox ultimately leads to universal expansion apart from any other issues.

> it was meant to be assumed that any use of the term "light", as opposed to, say, "electromagnetic radiation"

But they can't be opposed -- all light is electromagnetic radiation, and vice versa for a sufficiently large time frame. What was gamma rays at the time of the big Bang is now visible light. What was visible light at the time of the Big Bang is now microwaves. There's no reasonable way to talk about these issues without describing the electromagnetic field.

> seeing as how satisfactory resolution of Olbers' paradox is readily available within our current best understanding of physical law.

Yes, but not for a static universe, which was my point -- for a static universe, the assumption until 1929, Olbers' Paradox remained unresolved -- and without cosmological expansion, the issues are not "available within our current best understanding of physical law". Not remotely.
gr8. what about new users??
What’s wrong with wanting to make money?
...and so people born on other pieces of dirt can have higher standard of living...
I'm a unversity student in Europe, and most things we learn make exactly zero sense. I stopped assuming rationality when it comes to CS education a long time ago. Yesterday we had to implement adding two numbers over SOAP.

With that said, UML is not really used in small companies much, but when you feel a diagram would make it easier to understand a concept, chances are you're going to either draw UML or reinvent it poorly.
Cosmological redshift isn't Doppler -- the mechanism is different. For cosmological redshift, light's wavelength changes because the space through which the light is moving is expanding, which stretches the waves. Doppler is often brought up in this context, but it has no role to play.
i wouldn't claim that it's not crossing a line of some sort (professional vs non-professional).

i tend to like aggressive moves by startups. i also thought wepay freezing cash i huge ice blocks and dumping it at a paypal meet was pretty clever.

sometimes startups do unprofessional things. they're certainly not always justifiable, and things would become a shitshow really fast if everyone did them all the time, but i can't help but smile when i see occasional transgressions when the person who is hurt is Goliath.
Even the testimonials look fake:

>We were WOW’ed with the results we received with Virool! Our video jumped from 0 to over 500,000 YouTube views in one weekend
Mary Smith, Advertising Agency

>Virool is like a PR company on STEROIDS. Our video ended up on hundreds of blogs and accumulated millions of youtube views. In short, "Virool is AWESOME!"
Jay Singh, Artist Management

>I love the real time analytics and transparency of Virool campaigns. Our clients are always happy with knowing exactly who is watching their videos and seeing the views stack up

Jordan James, Advertising Agency

This isn't definitive proof by any means, but in light of the other things they're doing, it is suspicious. The names and the content seem rather fake.
I'm just an engineer, but if I spent a ton of money on a marketing campaign and got a little shady with my tactics, I wouldn't write an article to pat myself on the back about getting 15 emails.
Does it resolve the rolling shutter issues?

I'm disappointed an action oriented camera displays so much distortion in rapid movement.