skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this and was really impressed. Removed the hassles of 1) finding a cleaner; 2) arranging a huge time window to be home (they text you when they are on their way); 3) guessing what cleaning products I need to provide; 4) guessing what language to speak.

I'm already familiar with what a cleaner is for so it was a small step for me to try this. Now that I'm in their system I'm much more likely to use Exec for things I've never considered hiring someone to do before.
Silicon Valley Investor Joins The Corporatism March
OPEC has been moving to a basket of currencies instead of the USD standard for a while now, so I'm unclear on your point.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-o...
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/leading-artic...

Not exactly new developments:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19801006&...

The Yuan isn't really a publicly traded currency which is why it's interesting, I guess.
Thanks! Good to know, and best of luck Jacob. I am not really a programmer, but I hope this leads to more accurate weather prediction.
Balanced Surface RT Review...
So are the lua VM's persistent at all or are you creating a new VM process for each script request ala PHP?

Also, are you using LuaJIT?
Seems like a hell of a lot of trouble just to write ios apps. I love Ruby as much as the next guy but sometimes you just have to invest some time into learning the native language rather than go through these elaborate and expensive workarounds
4.95 for "unlimited" traffic? So if my script is taking in 100,000 reqs/day I'm still paying 4.95 per month? What about cpu usage, memory consumption?
I've always found classical Newtonian physics, the Special Theory of Relativity, and (to a lesser extent) the General Theory of Relativity to be understandable at an intuitive level, but quantum phenomena just baffles me, even when I think I "understand" it.

PS. IvoDankolov: I find it difficult or impossible to think intuitively about quantum phenomena.
Will there be any collateral impacts for those of us who submitted before the deadline? In terms of time spent reviewing applications, etc.
I like bootstrap but my lessc parser under Ubuntu sucks. Bad error messages (errors dont understand importing), no autocompilation and hard to install (have to install the whole Node.js world).

Anyone found a solution that works well under Ubuntu? (I use it with WordPress and Drupal; Rails would be nice but there I run for Sass/SCSS).
Is it? Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the smartphone market. The objection to Microsoft was that it was using its complete and utter dominance of desktop computers in anti-competitive ways.

So far as I can tell anyone who doesn't like iOS' walled garden can pick up and leave - to the market leader, Google.

This doesn't at all seem like monopolistic behavior, just rather restrictive and perhaps unwise.
007: Licence To Print Money
It's always amusing to see the kind of excuses that pop up when you try to explain entanglement or interference in the mindset of wavefunction collapse.

I'm still not entirely sure why so many people consider collapse to be simpler. Is it too daunting to think of the world as an amplitude distribution that propagates in a way that we're not intuitively used to? Too hard to think of ourselves as part of quantum mechanics, because that thing I see there on the measuring device must be the reality, damn it, and what the hell do you mean I've just entangled myself and the device along with the system?

Or maybe just tradition and accepting the "scripture" coming from the established authority. How could we best test that?
65 an hour! Even with two people that seems a bit much. I have a woman I pay 30 dollars for an average of 3 hours of cleaning and she does such a good job I only have to have her over usually once every two weeks. She also does laundry, dishes, windows, sweeps and mops the floors, the whole shebang.

Still I like how Exec is looking at their customer base and adapting, that's how you stay relevant in an ever-evolving market!
I hope this question gets answered, but what is the best place to start if you're a *nix person and are considering developing for Windows (Phone) 8 but want a better understanding of the mechanics of application execution? This is for example if you wanted to develop your own language runtime, or compiler tools. For example on Linux, you'd discuss ELF objects, the _start symbol, dynamic linking, the XCB library, etc.

When I think of Windows I feel overwhelmed with all these terms that mean nothing to me, like WinRT, C++/CX, and seemingly infinite ways of accomplishing the same thing in different and incompatible ways.
A $4000 placebo effect is often worth it.
Exactly. Desoxyn is brand name for dextro-methamphetamine, the CNS-active stereo isomer. Levo-methamphetamine is found in those little Vicks nasal inhalers you stuff in each nostril to clear your sinuses.
Tasty-Pie is inefficient because if there are 20 resulting records to output from the API, if each record has 2 nested referenced records, TP will end up doing at least 60 queries, 1 query to hydrate each row + 1 query per nested record (but anecdotally for me it's been more like 100 queries to get 10 records due to redundant queries and other miscellaneous things happening). TP does no bulk query optimization and the result is /very/ high query volume.

I have cleaned up a lot of our Tasty-Pie backend and reduced query volume on endpoints which were 100+ queries down to be just 2 or 3 queries- but it was a tremendous amount of work with an ugly result from a complexity and architectural perspective.

I haven't found any Python-based API-in-a-box which I like.

OTOH, I've had much success with Scala + Play-framework + Squeryl - this combination gives fine grained explicit control over what is happening. This approach is generally very easy to scale. However this setup has it's own shortcomings- its always a tradeoff, right?

With Scala + Play, you don't get an API-in-a-box, so you must build it out yourself. It isn't particularly hard, but it definitely doesn't come "for free".

"for free", like TP- but it's only free at first because you will have to do complex and ugly hacks to make it scale.
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Make a rock-paper-scissors game for each, and have them play each other.
You'll either pick best out of 3, or the one you preferred making the game for.

Other than that, figure out which one suits the type of programming you intend to do.
Hacker Builds Horrifying Robot for Holloween
It's not. It's just a novel, somewhat funny use of github.
Depends on how the video's audio was compressed and what you were playing it on.
I hear you. Perhaps not an overview then, but an example of a solved or unsolved problem?
It's pretty simple really. The search analytics show us queries that had no results, which lets us know what we aren't covering in our documentation.
I think that's something that's misunderstood by a lot of people. When actively listening to music without other distractions, the distortion in low-end systems becomes very apparent and detracts from the experience.

When listening to music in the background and while doing other things (cleaning the house, cooking, driving, socializing with others, working out at the gym, etc), distortion is easily lost in other background noises (and you're not paying as much attention to it anyway). For a lot of people, I think this is the only way they ever listen to music, and so it's understandable why they wouldn't see the value in higher quality components.

For someone like yourself, who will actively listen to music without other distractions, it makes sense to spend a few thousand dollars for a better experience. With more expensive systems, I think you start to see diminishing returns. (But I'm not as dismissive as other commenters in saying that there's no difference.)
Here's the paper in question:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.3795.pdf

(Man, I love arxiv.org. It's so nice.)
Taking the sting out of medical tape
> Mutt was terminal based

And it still is, as many satisfied users will tell you.
This is what I want to ask. A fiver per month for all that unlimited seems too good to be true.
Kaminsky on DNSSEC amplification: http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/05/djb-ccc/#dnsamp

He doesn't think it's a very strong argument against DNSSEC.
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm still going to keep going, but I wanted to submit it close to Bob Ross's anniversary. I was planning to do mountains next.
> doesn't that imply that the beam has compressed and is not rigid?

Yes it does. And in fact that is the case: The beam has compressed. A fully rigid beam is impossible.
MDMA is Schedule I and amphetamines are Schedule II in the US. There's a pretty big difference (legally) between those two classifications.
It's already back up. So I think that made it only two or three hours.
Three alternative browsers for Safari on iOS
Square's really nice Careers page
I don't use email clients, so pardon me if this is elementary, but is there a good way to compress and archive downloaded emails with their attachments?

Also, is the formatting (rtf) preserved?
Alex hijacking Gmail’s obfuscated Javascript logic is impressive.
Definitely, go for it. That's what GitHub forks are for right? :)
> If you can construct a "rigid beam" five feet long

Except you can't. A existence of sound traveling through the beam proves without a doubt that the beam is not rigid.
Ask it "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck ... " and prepare to laugh.
This seems like a positive move considering people in parts of the East Coast don't have an internet connection right now.

Will the reviews process will be pushed back too? Good luck to everyone applying.
> short story about someone doing this and discovering that it was the galactic equivalent of 'shortwave' radio and have the alien equivalent of the FCC come out to the planet to arrest the scientists for transmitting without a license

"Fine Structure" -- bits of a soft-SF story you can read online http://qntm.org/structure http://everything2.com/?node=fine+structure

It's of varying quality, I think people usually link to "Oul's Egg" first because it's one of the best sections.
You don't need to clone a whole human being to do serious damage. You could synthesize the necessary chunks of someone's genome and use it to fake a bioassay. Imagine a disgruntled former lover using your genome to fake a paternity test—this kind of thing isn't very far away, and there are already services which let you upload a sequence and have DNA mailed to you.
Exactly :) It's just a hack, some fun.
This Heisenberg quote puts the general "feeling" of quantum physics into an understandable form: “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
Yeah from a monopolistic point of view, it's not really the same. But there is an argument to be made that Apple has a monopoly on the tablet market right now.

My point was less about the monopolistic nature and more that this is very similar from a product perspective to IE vs Netscape. Microsoft used its internal platform APIs as a massive amount of leverage to force IE down peoples' throats, even though Netscape was technically superior on the core ability of rendering web pages. The seamless integration caused IE to win out and eventually catch up. The stark disadvantage of Google's app is nearly identical in nature to 3rd party browsers in the mid 1990s.
This might not answer your specific question about creating your own compiler tools or language runtime, but Microsoft's msdn.com is a great resource for Windows programmers. The documentation under the Learn tab gives some in-depth information, and there are code samples available to read through in each of the languages (and showing you how to do the same thing in multiple languages). When in doubt, the community forums are generally helpful.

Visual Studio Express is free and has all the MSDN knowledge baked in, as well. There's a start in getting to know the features and specifics of each language as well as the Runtime as a whole.
In what terms do you think you "understand" it?

What do you make of this problem with distant entangled particles?
The double slit experiment and interference in general?
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle? (Or as I'd like to call it, Heisenberg's horribly mislabeled-in-order-to-confuse-students principle)

A shot in the dark - many of the problems with coming to terms with quantum mechanics arise from trying to impose on it that it should somehow behave like classical mechanics, or that somehow we humans stand above it and look down upon it, and heaven forbid that we're part of a qunatum system).
I was referring to The Verge and Polygon, also Marco, df, etc. but they tend to be opinion rather than news.

I'm not sure why you have an aversion to those aesthetic decisions they've made, as most of them are technically correct and quite pleasing to my eye. They all contribute to conveying the game's innate experience and delivering an honest review without you having to actually play the game, and they do this well.
I don't think it was anticompetitive reasons although the end result was that I believe it was farmers created a market for butter that margarine would benefit from.

As for PB I'm not a dairy farmer.
Greg Egan - I can't say more because spoilers.
Seriously, $65/hr is nuts. If that's the going rate for cleaning service in SF, I clearly picked the wrong profession. Even for two workers that's high. What are they doing, cleaning up hazmat? How can it be that their regular service functions at $25/person-hr, but cleaning is $32.50/person-hr?

I wonder if they have trouble finding trustworthy workers, or if they are intentionally targeting the the upper segment of the market. (Perhaps to drive sales for other Exec services?)

Is it possible they are providing benefits to their workers, and that explains the cost? It probably makes sense for someone who is around harsh chemicals all day to have decent healthcare.
It seems like many people don't like this, but I had this exact issue last night. And opening another tab takes a while to load simply because the gmail app is so big. So while I'm not sure about this exact implementation yet, it could be a nice feature.
I found this end note interesting:

"Kan faces competition from the YC family itself. Another Y Combinator-backed startup Pathjoy is doing maid services for as little as $20 an hour."

Besides the fact that Pathjoy has terrible design (sorry, it's true) and is much cheaper, is there a big difference between the two?
Our Terms (https://www.webscript.io/terms) do spend a little time defining "unlimited." We didn't want people to worry about it, so we went with unlimited, but as you point out "unlimited" is always a lie when finite resources are involved.

Our goal is to never have to cut someone off for what seems like legitimate use.
It's under the Bob Ross license. Go for it. These are CPU suckers, so I'd probably turn down the frame rate.
W3C File API Working Draft
You know, blind testing is a really nice mind hack. For instance, I've discovered that I can't tell the difference between two brands of tea I liked, one of which is cheaper and easier to find.

This is a huge win! I haven't lost Refinement Points because I don't need to buy fancy tea. But I have gained money and convenience.

If you're an audiophile, wine lover, or anyone else who spends a lot for quality that "others can't appreciate", I humbly suggest that you put yourself to a test. If you pass, your sophisticated taste is validated. If you fail, you can spend a lot less money and be content knowing you're getting just as good an experience.
Maybe it's just me, but looking at molecular accumulation in this way doesn't seem that promising. However, there are other problems here...

In order to get this kind of research funded in a traditional way, the author would need a much more detailed explanation of the work: specifically, a compelling and well-referenced account of why drug accumulation in mouse brain sections will be helpful in understanding the mechanism of stimulant function. I would also like to see more detailed methodology and an account of how the researcher will responsibly conduct the research (in terms of accounting for hazardous materials and maintaining researcher safety). These are essential components that any PI would need to provide in order to get research funded, because they are necessary to ensure that the researcher can actually conduct the research (has the knowledge and resources), and get it published (missing some of these features would prevent publication in an academic journal).

It seems to me that other kinds of analysis, such as molecular state-space based approaches (transcriptomics, metabolomics, etc.) would be much more useful than cellular and sub-cellular accumulation, especially since we have very little knowledge of how spatial tissue, cellular, and sub-cellular neurobiology relate to brain function.

Please let me know if I just missed these essential details...
You could, say, post a digitally-signed repudiation of the ToS. Or, interesting concept, of all ToS terms to which you explicitly do not agree.

Put that somewhere that, say, Internet Archive would get ahold of it. Among the Archive's revenue-generating services is providing notarized copies of data that it's archived, essentially substantiating someone's claims that material was available online at a given point in time.
Midwest silicon prairie represent!
The Bohm interpretation has a universal wavefunction and non-locality, though.
I second "Getting to Yes" - love that one.
Hope everyone in NY / east coast is safe.
About the application, submitted it in first week itself. Could not afford to keep it up for the last day.
Try this track out. http://turnchannel.com/tracks/sugar-by-spektrem
Hm I don't think the issue with Phlogiston was that we didn't know what it was, but that rather than try to use the scientific method to make predictions about it, they just wrote down "when a, do b, Phlogiston does x".

In this case they are doing experiments where they expect the hidden variables to do a very specific job (transmit information) and are trying to test whether they do what they expect them to do or not.

That is science.
What does it matter how big the deal is, if you don't get paid?
Incredibly generous of you. My friends on the east coast who have intermittent power will be stoked to hear of this news.
How to create a synchronized Online/Offline data app with JavaScript and JayData
One good thing about 64-bit ARM is that there are no optional extensions (yet...) Floating-point and SIMD support are both required.

As for your library, ignore CPU models to start with. Instead, look at the ARM architecture reference manual for a given revision; it will say which instructions are supported and which extensions are optional. Also the quick reference [1] which has a good summary of when various core instructions were added. Then test for the instructions you actually care about.

You can safely ignore Thumb; it's an alternate encoding with tradeoffs that made sense nearly two decades ago but not anymore. You can also mostly ignore Thumb-2; there are processors that only support Thumb-2 but they also lack MMUs. Thumb-2 added some additional ARM instructions that can be useful, however.

So essentially, (with each revision including the prior)

ARMv4 : baseline
ARMv5E : Load/store double, more multiply instructions, prefetch, bx <reg>
ARMv6 : DSP extensions, rev, load/store exclusive
ARMv6T2 : Thumb-2, movw/movt, bitfield manipulation, rbit, orn
ARMv7-A : Memory barriers

Thumb was optional in v4 and v5, and mandatory in v6. VFP was optional as of ARMv6, NEON optional as of ARMv7. NEON mandates VFP. Revisions of VFP and NEON aren't terribly important, except that VFPv3 (but not VFPv3-d16) gets 32 registers.

As for chip to care about, ARMv6 + VFP (ARM1176jzf-s), ARMv7-A + VFPv3-d16 (Tegra 2), and ARMv7-A + NEON are by far the most common for general purpose stuff. If you want to get old-school, test a SheevaPlug for ARMv5E and an old PDA for ARMv4, though I'd not worry too much about ARMv4 (llvm for instance requires a baseline of ARMv5E last I checked.)

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.qrc0001l/QR...
A few different web services are trying more and more to be "Online Operating Systems". I think GMail and Facebook have gotten to that point.
That sounds like a very cool science fiction idea :-)
If working in the audio industry and studying the topic at university has taught me anything about audiophilia, then that would be the fact that audiophiles tend to fail to take room acoustics seriously.

Realistically, any half decent source and amplifier will introduce practically no distortion compared to what the combination of the speaker (and placement) and the listening room introduce. The only thing that makes loudspeakers viable really is our uncanny ability to make sense of room acoustical distortions. Thus, we can sense the true sound even though it has been mangled by echos, reverberations and room modes.

However, we can still hear the distortion--and much more so than the comparatively small distortions introduced by sources, amplifiers or cables.

The thing is, if you really want some stellar sound from your home stereo, it does not make much sense to spend more than a couple thousand bucks on audio equipment without significantly improving your room acoustics. A $1000 sound system in a good room will always outperform any system in a bad room. So if you really want to improve your sound, you should probably look into room acoustical measures.

I have heard some > $40k sound systems in purpose-built rooms. The result is really amazing. If you close your eyes, even a trained ear will have difficulties discerning the recording from the original. In one recording studio, they had a $100k sound system. However, they also had a room to match it: The room was physically decoupled from the outside world (the whole room was standing on rubber feet, so to speak), it had special double windows, a purpose-built air conditioning and above all, loads of sound absorbing material and architecture.

And frankly, if you really are serious about sound quality, this is the kind of effort you have to make in order to get there. Spending the same money on more expensive speakers won't help.
Don't hit yourself too hard, even Feynman said once: "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
Who are these zapier guys? Sounds like they got some great advice...
> For some extremely elegant code go look around at basho[1] and 99s[2] code. In particular, riak_core and cowboy. These are works of art!

We're hiring [1]!

[1]: http://bashojobs.theresumator.com/
You've described a contract of adhesion [1]. They aren't illegal, but are subject to additional judicial scrutiny.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_contract_of...
I usually start with an idea of what I am looking for. When I find something interesting, I look what other users that installed this app also installed. That way I sometimes find something.
New VM per script request.

No, we're not using LuaJIT for now.
Learning about the Portable Executable Format is a good place to start:

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301805.aspx

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable
"Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded."

False.

"At an event in San Francisco today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that 90% of the over 700k apps in the App Store are downloaded every month."

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/12/apples-cook-90-700k-a...
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