skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's obviously a mock up but let's say there's actually a layer under the person as well. So let's say light activates the material on one side which is connected by a smartfiber to an opposite point on the bottom. The color of the surroundings on the bottom are then sent back to the first point via the smartfiber which then emits the color.

An incredibly miniaturized version of the famous Mercedes commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWtcz9PMFHo

It doesn't sound like anything that's remotely cost effective today so I'd guess it's all hyperbole at this point as other commenters have said.
What in that linked article is supposed to imply or prove that she's not popular internally?
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Is it any better for all affected users to have to 1) figure out what this fingerprint is and enter it and then 2) individually update the fingerprint every time the cert changes, after they figure out that's why they're not getting any email through this particular provider any more? Isn't it easier from Google's perspective to just say "you can't do this" than deal with those complications?
I would suggest an increase to the left padding on the text. Currently there is a thin colored bar that is between the content and the bio, and the content runs into it. Adding some space between them would make posts easier to read.
Ouch! Please feel free to elaborate because I'm not sure exactly what you are disagreeing with.

I mean, are you saying that you believe that the people given the authority to invade your privacy always have good intentions? Because I don't believe that.

In the real world, these authorities are often driven by pressure to "find something", or to "make a quota", or to "prove our worth". And the results often harm innocent people.
you missed one http://bzgeb.github.com/game-off-2012 from here https://github.com/bzgeb/game-off-2012
You forgot to add features like sync, history and other things to that price.

Dropbox is not just the quota.
Conversely, in Australia there is the Tax File Number... that's about as close to a SSN as you'll get. The TFN is definitely personal. Unless you're dealing with finances in some way, it's illegal (I believe) to even ask for your TFN. Banks, employers and so on can ask for it (it makes processing your taxes easier) but I don't believe it's a requirement to even give it to them.

As far as I know, the only organisation that you're required to give it to is the tax office itself. Interestingly, by virtue of this number being so 'secretive' it really is usable as an identifier only to the tax office... which, I daresay, helps to reduce 'identity theft' based around that number.
True...$29/month for 25,000 visits/month is pretty pricy. You could get the same performance from a $6/month shared hosting plan with a WordPress caching plugin and an Amazon CloudFront distribution.
Rugby in the UK has a rather odd relationship with elite education:

"Football is a gentleman's game played by ruffians, and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen."

NB I've seen a few rugby 7s games and they are awesome - even more athletic than normal rugby matches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_sevens
Absolutely, not all code can be understood by a 'single-pass' reader.
Being a not-for-profit company doesn't mean you can't generate revenue / profit and therefore be unable to pay for R&D; I suppose Google couldn't have IPO'd then to fundraise a large amount quickly, so there is that.. What Google had and was important though was a core technology and philosophy of the founders, who then with the additional money were able to take the time to develop and evolve a solid company direction and culture.
There's a world of difference between an activity that encourages self-discipline, confidence, teamwork and other positive traits, and the circus that is American sports. "Varsity Blues" was practically a documentary. Other points about American football in particular (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2778) are quite cogent.

Edit: a quick followup for clarification: the amount of money, attention and pure worship that sports get in America is appalling. Anytime you hear a story about some football player in high school beating someone up or raping someone and not being punished, you can probably take it as true, because that's just the status quo. As for the money, who knows how many promising students are never given the opportunity to excel because money that could have gone to better teachers was instead spent on sports. Don't even get me started on the culture of anti-intellectualism engendered by this society.
We play a lot of those on game-lunch Fridays... also popular at our lunches:

Core Worlds ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98351/ )

Quarriors ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91536/ )

Infinite City ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46807/ )

We occasionally have a Saturday game day among friends for longer games, but these three are great less-than-an-hour games. Core Worlds is about an hour, the other two will get you 2 to 3 games in in an hour.
OK, I see where you're coming from. I don't think he's saying 1). But then again, I've been reading him for a while, so I had a bit of context. If this had been a random one-time post on some guy's blog, then sure, I'd probably think 1).
I'll share a tip for Alfred that makes me faster on the computer:

Think of all those times you google something just to click the first link. "twitter gem github", "ebay tickle me elmo", whatever.

Reassign Alfred's I'm Feeling Lucky (Google) hotkey to "L".

Now you can Opn+Space (whatever brings Alfred up), "l twitter gem github" or "l ebay tickle me elmo" and it brings you directly to the webpage.

It's also nice because it lets you type where you want to go instead of wasting brain cpu cycles remembering the URL. "l hacker news". "l rails guides". Or even "l ebay". "l github".

And you don't even need to have your browser open. Just do it from any other app. It's huge.
It's worth noting most services have a limit on custom events Google is 500 per user session, while SiteCatalyst just charges you extra. Not really a big deal for most sites, but if you're looking for granular information the cutoff can seriously skew your results.
Shouldn't one rather frame this debate not as "proponents vs opponents" but as "scientists trying to figure out what is actually the case and hopefully inventing better nuclear power in the process"?
I think it's not about working alone. He obviously likes working alone, what he doesn't like is that lack of team work. As in his previous jobs, he had team interactions. His current job doesn't offer that same peer-level of interactions and that's what sucks. You may be working from home and loving because you may have interactions with peers at your same level but he doesn't have that. And the board, which should be close to that, doesn't offer the interaction and challenges he desires.
I'm not a big sports fan. Neither is my Dad and I'm sure that's part of the reason why I never 'got' sports. For the longest time I wondered why so many apparently sane people were addicted to a specific sports team or would spend tons of money to own a jersey with their favorite player's number.

Then I learned about mirror neurons. The human brain has been shown through functional MRI studies to 'mirror' emotions that are watched. Speculation suggests this evolved as a way for one person to empathize with another's situation. How does this relate to sports? It turns out that if you're watching someone hit a home run at the crucial moment in the game your brain gives you a little 'hit' of the same emotion that actual player is feeling. In other words, people who love watching sports have a physical reaction that makes them feel the highs and lows of the players.

I no longer assume that people addicted to sports are just in it for the beer.
This is a great idea. Adults tend to become socially retarded once Work gets in and asserts total dominance over peoples' lives, and board games are a great way to build a context that's independent of (a) people trying to hit on each other, which becomes pointless once you're married, and (b) people trying to assess each others' professional status and "network".

One of the things that I see in board games is their subversive potential of breaking down barriers. Adult life is so shit-broken in so many ways, and one of those is socioeconomic stratification. A healthy game culture could kill that by creating cross-class connections.
I agree with others. This is useless without context - I have never seen this actually happen.

"stupid pull request of the day site:twitter.com" returns one result, and it isn't negative in any fashion.
I've never seen an opensource leader make fun of an honest attempt at contribution. What I have seen is a lot of ignoring and rejecting attempts.

Miguel de Icaza had a blog post on this I think. The problem with large opensource projects is that they have a lot to do, and simply don't have time to thoroughly follow up on all the small contributions that are ridden with naieve errors and plain formatting issues. Not to mention the big ones that come with architectural changes without explanations.

I think it's unfair to call these charity workers jerks, just because they are trying to make light of a dire situation.

Yes it can hurt if your contribution is coldly cast aside, and yes it would be much better if they warmly took you in and taught you in their ways, but if the OSS project leaders don't keep up the constant stream of contributions, improving the project all the time the project will die and all work will have been in vain.

On a side note: which project will you be contributing to this christmas? It is charity time after all and a bunch of hem could use a commit or two from your hands :) just be sure to read their code-style documents ;)
there was an article on HyperStealth in Wired earlier this year, that at least pointed out that the presented image is a mockup

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/06/how-hyperstealths-algori...
FOSS isn't exclusively "hacker culture", and that behavior isn't correlated with high quality.

If that is the accepted behavior of the maintainers/contributors, then be 'open' about that too.

"If you have questions, RTF(src|wiki|docs|issues|blog|groups) then come join us in #herpderp on freenode where our chamber of @ cloaked elders will determine your fate; aid you, ignore you, berate you, or remove you."
Another vote for moneyball. Very good movie on the subject
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When in society did "Look at what this jerk is doing." become something unwarranted?

If people are acting like assholes, they deserved to be called out.
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Isn't the point of this post to tell you that you don't need lessons and that you should just do it?
How I wish, how I wish you were here...

I mean, You, you, the clever, normal people. But for now I'm sharing my cubicle with two really clever (they can get the job done quickly, elegantly, etc) guys, who are both loud racists, one of them scientologist (although the later that did not caused any problem yet). And there's no chance the change offices.

So. I would give both of their arms if only I could work alone a day a week.
"Hangouts have been tweaked to operate smoothly on very low bandwidth connections"

I wish they would make them easier for average people to join and participate. Hangout Apps are a whole other story (most aren't even aware of, which is sad when you consider their potential).
He's not talking about lowering the bar to entry, he's just saying you don't need to humiliate others when they are just trying to help you.

You could at least dismiss them in a friendly/neutral way. "Sorry, can't accept this: check out procedure X in the docs."
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It's not dictated by Google management, but it's definitely directed by Pike et al to address the concerns of companies developing software at Google's massive scale.

As an example, C++ and Java programs at Google were taking more than half an hour to compile. This is why Go's semantics were chosen with speed-of-compilation in mind:

* Strictly acyclic module hierarchies (greatly simplifies compile-time name resolution)

* No generics (specialization has a compile-time cost)

* Unused imports are a fatal compilation error (to avoid having to parse unnecessary files)

All three of these decisions are somewhat contentious; Pike admits as much in many of his talks. But they were chosen because of the challenges of writing software at Google's scale. It is in this roundabout way that Go "belongs" to Google, in the sense that it addresses problems that Google has and prioritizes the best solutions to those problems, whether or not those solutions are at odds with the needs of non-Google users.
Also: use a REPL. I typed all the examples from the Well-Grounded Rubyist into irb, played with the examples to test edge cases, and ended up learning Ruby faster than I thought possible.
I've tried to get into watching sports for years, because it's something extra to have in common with people, and I really wish I could share it.

But now, at 32, having tried probably about 10 times, I realize I just can't. I just don't care. I care about politics, about music, about urban design, about architecture, about so many things that clearly have meaning and affect people's lives in real ways.

But when I watch two teams of people I don't personally know kick a ball around... I simply couldn't care less. Absolutely nothing whatsoever hinges on it. There's no meaning in it. And to this day, asking all my sports-obsessed friends why they like it so much, I've never gotten an answer I can actually understand or identify with. (The Onion T-shirt "the sports team from my area is superior to the sports team from your area" pretty much sums up the extent to which I understand it.)

And BTW, my code acts unpredictably often enough already, without my trying to make it so ;)
Just to defend formal art courses: the way they seem to operate (judging from my partner's experience doing a Fine Art Painting degree) is that at the starter levels they get you to do a bunch of things you wouldn't want to given 'artistic judgement'/preference, to widen your skills and perspective.

For example, the painting students were made to do sculpture, animation, and a whole bunch of things in BTEC (the year before they start the actual BA).

While criticism, history and taste all came into the later courses (the fine art painters would have a weekly 'crit,' or "artists' stand-up" where they would discuss each others paintings from that week - classic existentialism terratory) that was mostly after you'd learned the basic skills and could actually draw/paint/sculpt reasonably well (which they had tested at interview.)

one anecdote from the 'crit' - my partner once submitted three paintings to a crit; one blank, one by her, and one by me. She only revealed this after hearing people talk utter nonsense about my painting for five minutes. This is a classic post-modern taking-the-piss idea that has become part of art (where artists make things purely to mock the stupid ideas people have about 'what constitutes art'.) My painting was, as the article suggests, pretty rubbish.
It's not a mystery, it's supply & demand. The stock stays high in part due to who the shareholders are. Bezos and his family control 1/4 of the company directly, and a handful of institutions control another 1/2 of the company. Lack of oversupply of freely available shares at a high valuation, is one reason the stock defies gravity.

The other part of it is the narrative that Amazon sells.

But let's not pretend it has always defied gravity. Besides the obvious dotcom crash, their stock produced essentially a flat return from June 2000 until April 2007, with various ups and downs.
There is a great business opportunity in sports. I started a digital sports marketing company 6 years ago and we've had great success with this niche. The marketing side of teams can be real progressive, we've built 4 SAAS apps that and have worked with over 150 teams around the country.

I'd say the best part is although they compete on the field, they don't consider each other competitors, so they exchange best practices constantly. Meaning if you do something good for one team it will get out quickly. We have hundreds of brand advocates in the space. Now when we launch a new product we can go from 0 to 40 sales and 1/2 mil rev in 6 months.

And as it pertains to the story. Only 30% of our staff is into sports and has a daily knowledge of players and league issues. In fact I don't follow any sport or watch ESPN, I just enjoy going to games in person. I think our companies objectiveness has helped is greatly.

Http://row27.com if you are curious. Our "apps" are http://fanmaker.com and our news network is http://sportsbusinessnow.com
+1 Yes, this is exactly it. You've articulated this point better than I have. Thanks.
When learning code out of a book for a new language, one trick I found that worked really well was to read the code, then close the book and try to type as much of it from memory as I could. I would futz with it for several minutes exploring various ways of making it break, seeing if I could 1) predict how I was breaking it, and 2) use the error messages to fix my mistakes.

Then I would open up the book again and compare it to what I had typed, examine the differences between them, and see if/how they explained the errors I was getting.
I am currently taking a pastel class at 92nd Street Y [1]. It is a very friendly environment and open to beginners. The only downside is that a lot of the classes are only available during the work day.

You may also consider art classes at NYU's School of Continuing Education [2], though I haven't tried them myself yet.

[1] www.92y.org
[2] http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/noncredit-offerings.html
"The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When these images clash -- as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot -- it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking." --Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
When I read the headline I thought this will be about why geeks should do sports. And I'd fully agree with that.

However, it appears that this article is just about watching sports. What a disappointment.
That was how the SSAN was supposed to be used here -- only for tax-related things, such as banks and employers.

Unfortunately it didn't stay that way.
Looking at the source code of Yahoo to see how they structured their site with tables?
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It's also dead because spam killed it. It wasn't designed to deal with it (see the famous Canter-Siegel incident)
The amount of money being spent in the professional arena of a sport nor the attitude of an over-zealous parent who you've never met should not hold people back from enjoying sports.

Those who dismiss sports as being "for jocks" are not better than those who consider computers "for nerds".
> If it keeps safe, what do I care!

Ah! This is the crux. What if these efforts make you LESS safe?

The more people knowing where you are, how much money you have, etc, the easier it is to commit crime against you. You do have private information that keeps you safe.

This is why kids aren's supposed to tell strangers on the phone that they are home alone.

Which is more likely? You are injured in a terrorist attack or your information is leaked?
I have no idea if HyperStealth actually has some kind of prototype product, but the photos being circulated by ExtremeTech, and in the embedded CNN video, are dubious at best.

What we "see" is just visible light reflected off of objects. If the blanket were "bending light" around a subject, the blanket would have to create some sort of light envelope, around which light would be passed to background objects, then reflected back to the viewer. Some of the scenarios presented in the photos would violate this principle.

Take the first photo for example:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hypers...

Circling back to this concept of a "light envelope". The concealed person would have to ramain within this envelope in order to be concealed, otherwise, their light would be reflected back to the viewer, just like the background. In this photo, two things are a problem:

1) The edges of the blanket taper inward toward the concealed person so that there is no "extra" material beyond the concealed person. That would have to place the person outside any possible "envelope" behind the material.

2) The material casts a dark shadow. If the material were really bending light around the concealed person, the area behind the blanket (with the exception of the envelope area) would be well lit by the light that was bent around the concealed area.

To understand what I mean by an "envelope", have a look at the last photo:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/HBC-Qu...

If you were looking from the top down, the envelope would (probably) be a (roughly) triangular prism shaped area in the middle of the blanket where the person is standing. I would consider this photo plausible, but remain highly skeptical. However, the presence of the obvious fakes really discredits the claimant in this case.
Even with a computer science degree I still do this. If I read a tutorial or a book about a new library or language, I type all the examples. By the time I'm done, I know what I'm doing.
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I've been wanting to try Core Worlds, and I haven't heard of the other two - I'll have to check them out!
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Hence the "sympathize" part, but then again, I also sympathize with people who are human and eventually want to start inflicting bodily harm on people who can't be arsed to read the FAQ before A'ing the same Q again.

Part of the "bar to entry" is that mindset. You don't get a pat on the back and warm encouragement for submitting crap code. You get told your code is crap with the expectation you'll improve before wasting the reviewer's time again.

Call me crazy, but I happen to love this environment.
People use literally to emphasize things all the time. I was surprised to find this definition in a dictionary though. I just find it hilarious that literally can literally mean not literally.
To be fair, part of Amazon's stock price is the incredible durability it has shown as an internet company. It's one of the few companies that survived the .com bubble. Also, it's growing and innovating in about every direction. Five or ten years ago they were an online bookstore or an online store. Now they're an online marketplace more akin to eBay. And they almost singlehandedly made digital books relevant. And they are powering the infrastructure of huge companies like Netflix, Zynga, etc. And they have the most popular Android tablets. And... And... And...

Amazon's customers love them.
it's odd but in my experience I have found it to be the opposite. Perhaps because I've grown up with keyboards I find typing something out to be quite stimulating. When writing things down I find there is a huge disconnect between the funny scribbilous motions of my wrist and the meaning of the words they produce. Although perhaps that's a left-handed thing.