skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm already 3d-printing most parts of the RC foamies that I need (except .. the foam materials itself), so .. props, control-surface elements (horns), motor-mounts, etc. So, its at least happening ("sudo 3dprint airplane") on the micro- level.

It will scale, eventually. I guess as soon as someone gets serious about the reproducible nano-compositor/decompositor style of printnozzle..
The wait spinner rotates anti clockwise once every 8 turns, not randomly. The "Zoom into game" part is very much a replicate of the photo app behavior. Also it's very hard to tell Loren implemented his own scroll view in OpenGL, apparently he did a really good job: https://twitter.com/lorenb/status/261336421888036865
Not meaning to insinuate anything... just raising the possibility that a bar manager might have additional sources of discretionary income more easily deterred, detected, and controlled today?

Perhaps we can agree that "bar manager" is subject to temptations, and rewards, that most jobs aren't?
I think it cuts both ways - sometimes pop science writers cherrypick data that reaffirms existing biases. In other cases, they'll cherrypick tenuous data to contradict these biases. Both are effective headline strategies.
The ReCode Project is a community-driven effort to preserve computer art by translating it into a modern programming language (http://processing.org).

Every translated work will be available to the public and contemporary artists to learn from, share, and build on.
To be fair, if we get a good handle on available resources once we're there, the likelihood that we can send a 3d-printer to Mars that will build a living base is quite high. The assemble-in-place science can be made to work, and I believe we will be sending fleets of 3d printers to Mars, in the first wave of colonization, anyway ..
What chance do people have for accurate reporting?

With Fukushima, the Japanese government kept raising the 'safe' or "'allowable' limit of radiation, every time the detected levels breached limits, thus making a mockery of their own guidelines.

Meanwhile, discussion about safety limits were framed around 'natural' and 'background' radiation, without informing people that caesium-137 and strontium-90 are man-made by-products of nuclear fission (which some would argue the acceptable limit is zero).

By all means, let's do the science, but in the absence of rigorous experiments, I don't think it's scaremongering to err on the side of caution when anecdotal evidence points to serious health issues.
Excellent audio+video mashup.

EDIT: They even managed to find some footage (sort of) replicating the lift scene from the video! :-D
I believe spindritf is indicating that google doesn't use the "open internet" for gmail <-> gapps, it's all routed internally. If they find your domain registered within their system they skip the lookup.
It looks great Dave. Congratulations.
"Our parents could finance a home and family with one earner"

Homes were much smaller and had many fewer amenities. In the U.S. home sizes have doubled since the 1950s, at the same time the family sizes have declined. My house as originally built in 1949 was about 800 square feet and had one bathroom (of a size that would qualify as a "3/4 bath" now). That was for a husband, wife, and three kids. It's had some additions over the years that bring it up to 1100 square feet, but no one would consider it a "large" house. It's okay for just me, though.

Families had one car at most. Kids in previous generations didn't need thousands of dollars in electronics and sports gear to keep themselves entertained, nor did they have (e.g.) orthodontics or other expensive (but elective) medical procedures. Vacations didn't involve trips to Hawaii.

I'm not saying that these are bad things (in fact they're largely good), but neither are they cheap.
Every time I have used Acrobat to convert PDF to Word, the only usable parts have been the tables. The rest is generally garbage.

Fortunately, the tables were the only parts I wanted! I needed to get them from the PDF into text (csv) form. So, from Word, I copied the tables, pasted them into Excel, and saved that as csv. Easy as 1-2-3-4-5!
I was hoping for a bit more from this article... didn't seem to be any big insights or interesting case studies, just a common sense explanation that didn't seem necessary.
SockJS has ambitious goals:

1. Simple browser-side and server-side APIs, as close to WebSocket API as possible.
2. Well documented scaling and load balancing techniques.
3. Transports must fully support cross-domain communication.
4. Transports must fall back gracefully in case of restrictive proxies.
5. Connection establishment should be fast.
6. No Flash on the client side, Javascript only.
7. Client-side Javascript must be reasonably well tested.
8. Additionally the server side code should be simple, in order to lower the cost of writing servers for different languages.
You are correct that in many places, it is illegal to purchase less than a certain amount of stuff (e.g., cheap cars, small houses, cheap insurance).

This certainly does make living cheaply more difficulty. However, this doesn't change the fact that we are getting a lot more stuff for marginally more work (comparing trough to peak).
Any idea why such a video would not be available on mobile?

I wonder whether this usually is an oversight. The distinction of "mobile" seems rather vague at best.
Psy only made $32,000 USD from domestic online sales of “Gangnam Style”?

Make sure you read that article, those are Domestic (Korean) sales where prices are a lot lower. This is partly because songs in Korea are so much cheaper than other songs to download. At the cheapest, American songs are 791 KRW (approximately $0.71 USD), Canadian songs are 804 KRW (approximately $0.72 USD), and British songs are 1064 KRW (approximately $0.96 USD), but Korean songs on average are at 63 KRW (approximately $0.06 USD).

and

his other sales outside of domestic online sales combined are estimated to have reached 100 billion KRW (approximately $90 million USD).
Thye should just use the official way to integrate with iTunes.

Both my Sony android device and my lumia 800 syncs perfectly with my iTunes (non drm) media. Even my old Symbian phone did it before palm.
These systems don't use Caller ID, I believe they use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification which is more difficult (but not impossible) to spoof.

I had pretty good luck with http://www.trapcall.com/ when I had a phone stolen and the thief called me back. Didn't get the phone back, but the system worked as promised.
My favorite: 6. Foundation (1942) - Isaac Asimov invents psychohistory and cements science fiction as the genre of the technocrat. Image by Michael Whelan

The worst: Tron - The hockey helmets always ruin it for me.
This is the advantage of owning your own domain.
No, spindritf has a point. If a MTA is configured to consider a domain as "local" it will route emails internally instead of doing MX lookups. It's likely more complex in this case, but essentially it can mean that any emails routed through Google's systems (Gmail and Google Apps for Domains) will keep bouncing as long as the domain is configured, even if you've changed MX records to a different MTA.
Print me some food.
The same issue also applies to command line applications, specially because not all UNIX systems implement the same POSIX version, with the same behaviours.

Like any other standard, each vendor likes to implement certain parts its own way.
I've never tried to replicate it.

What I consider the important negative effects of overly keyboard-centric editing (and overly keyboard-centric window management) take years to show up, are hard to measure or quantify and have nothing directly to do with typing speed.

Typing speed is important only in that when I realized that people could be so mistaken about typing speed, I wondered what else they could be mistaken about.
You have to watch out for association bias. If you haven't seen the video very many times it is likely that your associates don't watch the video much either. But among other circles it has quite a bit more exposure than would seem reasonable.
I'm not an expert on this, but I think this article overstates the relationship between "deep learning methods" and "neural networks". Neural nets have been around forever and, in the feed-forward case, are actually fairly basic statistical classifiers.

Deep learning, on the other hand, is about using layers of classifiers to progressively recognize higher-order concepts. In computer vision, for example, the first layer of classifiers may be recognizing things like edges, blocks of color, and other simple concepts, while progressive things may be recognizing things like "arm", "desk", or "cat" from the lower-order concepts.

There's a book I read a while ago that was super-interesting and digs in to how one researcher leveraged knowledge about how the human brain works to develop one of these deep learning methods: "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins (http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/B000GQ...)
Similar thing happened to me; it turns out someone else had somehow setup an account a couple years ago with my domain (I've owned it since 2000 or so). I was able to get control of the google apps settings for it (they give a couple options, such as adding a DNS entry). However, it was useless because the previous person had set it up in Russian and I couldn't find a way to change it.
Yes, housing construction did go up, but it was very uneven. Due to the craziness with the subprime lending there was a lot of housing built in the desserts of the southwest or the outer exurbs of Jacksonsville. If you want to move there you can find homes for really cheap, but good luck finding a job.

Also note that even as more homes were being built, the resources to build these homes were getting more expensive due to the price of lumber and copper getting bid up. So even if you can change the zoning laws to allow more building, the price still gets bid up to some extent from the price of the natural resources.

I agree of course that these laws enforcing minimum house sizes and minimum lot sizes should be repealed. I think there are all sorts of policy policies that should be enacted to lower the minimum cost of living while preserving quality of life for the things that really matter.
Very sorry to hear this. Wikipedia informs me Crispin was born in 1956, which would put him at 55 or 56 years old. Far too young.
What browsers really need is most likely not what you think it is
The interesting part comes in when people are looking outside their core competencies. So BigCorp's M&A department is trying to evaluate the purchase price of target A based on a complete lack of understanding on what sort of effort is involved in building Target A's product. When that happens two additional 'bad' outcomes are added to the mix, first is that the company passes on the acquisition for their internal project which they spend more money and more importantly more time on, or two they over pay for something that is easier to do than they estimate. This is where people like Mark Lynch can really sell the 'value' of something like Autonomy to a company like HP which has no clue how to build something like that on its own.

Few companies internalize the opportunity cost of doing it on their own. If you take your best performers and squirrel them away on this secret project to build Capability X, those same performers won't be out in your main engineering group catching small problems that will become big problems. So engineering gets a bit more chaotic.

All in all, it is a complex calculus that I have yet to see work out the way anyone thought it would.
Upvoted.....

I appreciate your perspective on things - it's refreshing.

However, it's important to note that an either/or "our way or their way" mentality limits one's options.

And there seems to be two worldviews (your terminology by the way ;)) - two cultural camps and people in various communities are basically being asked to choose.

"Either you're with us or them!"

Lifestyle business owners have a mental equation where:
Wealth = Net (passive) Income

others view it :

Wealth = Net Income + Asset Value.

The greatest asset an entrepreneur will create isn't its income producing products - it's the sum of the whole - the BUSINESS itself (where there's a multiplier affect involved).

By business I mean the system of 7-8 interconnected parts (hat tip to E-Myth) that combined, create the profitable products and services of the company.

Just like learning how to create a software product or a training product is a learned skill - so too is creating a sellable company (a mentor, John Warrillow of Built to Sell speaks quite well on this....only approx. 1 in 100 businesses are sellable http://www.builttosell.com/blog/)

The either/or mentality can be dangerous. Either you're with us (VC funded startups) or you are with "them" (the lifestylers).

There's a happy medium - Jason Cohen is a voice in the wilderness when it comes to this perspective - http://blog.asmartbear.com/rich-vs-king-sold-company.html.

How about more of a push from influencers in the lifestyle tech business community to help entrepreneurs understand the wisdom of building a business they can sell one day?

What about influencers in the VC-funded startup community standing up and saying "wow, making a profit is actually...a good thing!"

Learning to create a company that is profitable makes sense. Learning to create a company that is customer-funded, just makes sense.

Learning how to create a company that attracts investors-as-trusted advisors and that is sellable also makes sense.

Creating a business that sells profitable products is a different skill set from creating a business that one can sell at a profit.

That said, Dixon gets my respect when he said,
"the best source of capital is customers. The next best is the founders (cash or forgone salaries), or investors who are less aggressive about returns than VCs. Every startup has its natural source of financing. Venture capital is the natural source of financing for only a small fraction of startups, despite what the press might lead you to believe."
http://cdixon.org/2012/07/19/shoehorning-startups-into-the-v...

I suspect there are more people here than you realize who appreciate the value of what a Dale Carnegie, Gary Halbert, Eugene Schwartz or Kennedy (or you!) have to say about "shutting up and letting people pay you" as much as they do about what a Ben Horowitz, Graham or Suster has to say about the funding game.

Reminds me of what one of the most creative business minds of the past 100 years once said (Olgivy)
David Ogilvy: We Sell or Else:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2KSsaTzUc
What resource do you believe is more scarce than before?

Please be specific - name a resource that you believe average Americans consume less of now than in the 70s or 80s. Or, similarly, please name a resource that you believe middle class Americans need to "work longer to afford".

Also, shipping work to China is very good for the American consumer, who benefits from lower prices.
You forgot my requirement, in addition to the list:

> Don't forget that your list should provide libraries that work across multiple OS (UNIX and Windows are not enough) and multiple compilers (besides gcc, clang, msvc).

EDIT: typo
So a bit like web development then?

sigh
Listening to this, and I'm rather disappointed I'm missing out on the accompanying video.

I wonder if Youtube will reverse course on this, given that Psy has made it clear he has no interest in enforcing that copyright (a decision which is clearly in his best interest, too).
Except PSY himself rejects that explanation: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/120oqd/i_am_south_kore...
Google has similar attitude on providing customer support for all its services. A quick example, I have integrated my Sprint number to Google Voice, all my messages and phone calls go through Google Voice, for past few months I have stopped receiving text messages on my phone. I only get them through Google Voice. There is no support, Sprint has no idea, and Google is not reachable.
No.

All currently used deep learning algorithms are special cases of neural networks. The reason why this is called "deep" learning is that before 2006, no one knew how to efficiently train neural nets with more than 1 or 2 hidden layers. (Or could, because of computing power.) Thanks to a breakthrough by Dr Hinton, this is now the case.

But all models used are neural nets. It's just that a vast amount new algorithms for training them have been developed in the last years and people came up with new ideas on how to use them.

But it is all neural nets. And that's the whole beauty of it.
My opinion is that the killer project would be to combine them, which is to say put together interactive text/exercises around each concept so that you could read all the theory then see it in action.
What has changed? The situation today is much worse than it was in the 60's. We're still relatively antagonistic to several nuclear countries. Severely unstable countries (including former Soviet States) have nuclear stockpiles. Pakistan is nuclear with tremendous political corruption.

The chances of a conflict resulting in billions of deaths seems much higher today than it ever did.
From the comments on the Music application page on the wiki

"One of the problems we have in Banshee when using our gridview which is fairly similar is style to elements of the design is that albums for which we cannot acquire artwork (which tends to be a lot) make the Ui look and feel very inefficient and unfinished. It would be nice if the design had a definite fallback for generating album art in those cases."

The mock ups show a fascinating model of the Gnome project's 'imagined user'. Most real users will not I think reflect the choices shown. I'll be trying to 'live' in these applications when they become available.
Youtube's user base or the general internet's user base? It might also have to do with an increase in the general internet population of third world countries where this song got its initial traction.
Exactly. This was discussed on many talk shows as well and that was the consensus arrived at regarding the message of the video.

I was really trying to find the links to this, but couldn't.
Or how about Flex itself as an independent open source Apache project?

http://incubator.apache.org/flex/
In regards to parts such as turbine blades(parts subjected to extreme heats and pressures), which are usually made of single crystal nickel-based superalloys, this would also NOT be applicable. That is until 3D printers have the resolution to print atom by atom....
Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age
At first I thought this was describing Bitwise Cyclic Tag (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitwise_Cyclic_Tag), but it's subtly different. And even simpler, as it turns out. I'm impressed.
Humility makes you better at your job, but in many places it will prevent you from developing that job into a career.

Humility is what makes us recognize the weaknesses in our skill and knowledge, and what makes us seek feedback from others to hone that skill. I'm convinced that not being self-satisfied is key to becoming a master craftsmen. But, if you don't advertise your own skill, people will think less of you than you really are, and you won't get the jobs that you really want.
Of course, every single attempt to build a society on Marxist principles has resulted in slavery, starvation, and mass murder, but I'm sure it'll work if we give it just one more chance, right?
In retrospective I can say that some of them are much harder than originally anticipated :)
Ah, the old "viewable everywhere in the world except Germany" YouTube music video problem.
I haven't had any experience with Google customer support, but here's an experiment. Go on Yelp, look up some highly-rated restaurants and shops in your area. You'll still find that many of them have one or two reviews about how terrible the service was, and how the product was awful, and the owner was a dick about providing a refund. Sometimes things go really wrong, and even the best will in the world can't fix it quickly. Only those stories make it to HN, because we all love a dogpile, and because people seem to have realized that bitching publicly is one of the best ways to get their problem solved quickest... although sometimes it's like faking a heart attack so you can see a doctor immediately, then asking him to take a look at a rash.
Why Cinnamon Good For Health - and how to use it
Exo IDE: Top 5 New Features of the Month
Does anyone have a current best-of-breed list of web enabled applications (preferably open source) that you could run on your own server? Ideally, I'd like to put together a kit that is easy to install, either on your own server or on any hosted provider. Bonus points if the kit includes replication tools built in so that you can use multiple web hosts, and have your own redundant cloud.
Sounds like a great job. Good for you.

FB is attracting more and more people I know who are top notch technically - Alex Feinberg, Simon Marlow, to name a couple. With Google the impression is that the really cutting edge people are the 'old guard'- Ghemawat,Dean, Norvig, Horzle (spelling?), even Guido Van Rossum.

And just from the relative sizes of Google and Facebook and comparing the respective 'move between teams' policies, it is undeniable that Google has more of a 'large slow corporate' vibe about it these days (the cutting edge Google X type projects aside), and FB might actually be the better bet for a smart and ambitious but 'uncredentialed' (as in, don't have superstar level achievements to his name, so can easily slide into one of Google's cutting edge futuristic projects vs fixing javascript bugs or whatever) engineer.

Here is one more FB edge: From a purely local (Indian) viewpoint, FaceBook hires ultra sharp people for its US offices, vs Google mainly hiring into the local (Bangalore) office, which is a horror politically (i.e manager competence and behavior) and technically, and then (by HR policy) making you wait 2 or 3 years before you can transfer. I really wish someone at Google HQ would do some Augean stable cleaning here.

As of today, for a sharp Indian dev, it probably makes more sense to apply to Facebook than Google.

But then OTOH Larry and Sergei are more inspiring leaders than Zuckerberg. So ...

(due disclosure: spoken as someone who has no intention of working for either company, and has no axe to grind for either company. just stream of consciousness, and it is the middle of the night here, so apologies for any incoherence)
On the other hand, there is nothing a neural net can do that a Turing machine can't do (perhaps even better?).
I didn't forget it, I ignored it b/c it seemed unrelated to your original complaint about a lack of quality libraries. Linux/Windows/Mac support is plenty for many people.

Out of curiosity, what platforms do you need to use which are unsupported by Qt but work well with other languages...?
"The bottom line: Under Medicare’s bizarre rules, hospital doctors are paid as much as three times more for patient care than those in private practice."

And absolutely nowhere in the article does it talk about how the cost of preventing fraud by single practitioners is the similar to the cost of investigating a single hospital. [1]

Trying to administer a national system to individual providers leaves gaping holes which crooks drive dump trucks through to load up on 'free' taxpayer dollars. So fix that problem and payments can get normalized.

The actual bottom line is that Medicare doesn't make "bizarre" rules, they make rules to try to minimize fraud and maximize patient benefit, if a rule seems "bizarre" you need to then go back and figure out what the motivations for that rule are.

[1] http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-104