skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those that are interested, the new 2013 release is now live[1]. Should be a fun game this year -- enough spec changes that even seasoned Battlecode veterans will have to sit down and think quite carefully about how to write a bot.

Shared sensor data now makes higher-level strategies a ton more viable, so it'll be fun to see what contestants come up with.

There's a quick start available if you want to just clone and hack some things together in git[2] and hg[3] flavors.

[1] https://www.battlecode.org/contestants/releases/

[2] https://github.com/Cixelyn/bcode2013-scaffold

[3] https://bitbucket.org/Cixelyn/bcode2013-scaffold
Here's some feedback from 5 mins of use. (My field is philosophy)

Searching for paper title 'Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives' doesn't return the paper or author.

Searching for keywords 'Democratic Authority' returns unrelated CS, engineering, and risk management results but no philosophy or political science results.

Searching for author wasn't effective - top hit for 'AJ Simmons' was 'Jennifer Pealer M. A'

Lots of gobbledigook in the results
> ⌊aj⌋xj + fj≤f0
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> n� j=1 ajxj + Substitute aj = ⌊aj ⌋ + fj, b = ⌊b ⌋ + f0. Then,

So all up, not very promising from my initial perspective and as a user, I see no clear advantage over GS.

The think that academic search seems to lack right now is the ability to follow citations easily. In early stage research, I would love to be able enter a keyword eg 'Philosophical anarchism' and follow the citation trail but limited to that keyword eg show citing papers based on their impact AND keyword match.
A document that bills itself as "The ultimate checklist for all serious web developers" should not hide most of its content (via CSS) and require trusting some unknown author's javascript to display it.
clickable http://researchbroker.tc.columbia.edu/
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Surely it doesn't matter though because no one will be able to access anything using those keys without the private keys anyway...
Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone and iPad developments.

This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.

You'll be leading iOS development for Karoo (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/karoo/id544368641?mt=8), and for our flagship app, Care.com that isn't in market yet because you'll be helping us build it).

You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.

Email or tweet me if interested: kfriedson@care.com / http://twitter.com/kfriedson

More about the role: http://www.care.com/careers-p1089.html#SeniororPrincipalSoft...
Kevin Kelly mentioned a counterexample recently: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2013/01/the_post-prod...
Nice idea. I've gone through their website and even watched the explanation video.

One thing they don't mention is how buyers come into possession of bitcoins. Buying bitcoins is currently a hassle for an average consumer and has transactional fees that are paid to bitcoin exchanges - enterprises of unknown origin and reputation that don't have household level brand name recognition (ask your aunt Sally or uncle Kamal about Mt. Gox).

I assume that chargebacks that are offloaded to bitcoin exchanges. These exchanges are the weakest point of the bitcoin ecosystem at the moment - this is where bitcoins touch the real world.

Contact with the real world makes them susceptible to the control of the authorities (regulators, law enforcement, criminals and etc), easy target for malicious parties meaning harm (yes, don't want to use the word hackers) as well as financial manipulators.

Success of BitPay and the like depends on the health and stability of the whole ecosystem, which is still quite immature, so if I were a merchant I'd approach this cautiously.
But I still don't get it. Why Tide in particular? Why not any other high-price bulk retail product? Why not gourmet coffee grounds, for instance?
College football is more profitable than Microsoft or Google
> My only worry is the current copyright regime is seeming to be ignoring the rather stark changes in overall cost of "copying" digital files. A lot of our current law rests upon copying itself being a prohibitive process and only possible by a limited few.

This is backwards. If copying were a prohibitive process, we wouldn't need laws to stop people from doing it.

Copyright rests on the opposite premise: That making copies of creative works is relatively easy and cheap. It was originally a response to the printing press making it really easy for anyone to publish bootleg books, which meant that actually paying an author for the rights to his or her work was a sucker's game. Copyright legislation was introduced to prevent people from taking advantage of how easy it was for anyone with a press to copy an author's work.
Groups like Toshiba at cambridge and EPN at Tyndall are doing a lot into quantum key distribution and generating suitable photons for quantum based logic (https://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/crl/qig/quantumkeyse..., http://www.tyndall.ie/content/research-4), but commercial quantum computing is still a way of, currently the most promising methods for doing quantum logic are still at the optical lab bench stage, that being said a lot is known about the problems ahead and how to solve them, I don't know much about non-photonic approaches like Isaac Chaungs group at MIT which seem to have a lot of merit (http://web.mit.edu/~cua/www/quanta/).
Change and innovation aren't the same thing. Some of my favorite changes since 2000 have been things like proliferation of online banking and billing, or the steady march of improved wireless integration and operating systems.

None of this is novel stuff, and anybody could have predicted them 10 years ago. Not innovation, IMO.

Another thing I would miss is the ubiquity of Craigslist. However, it was created in the 90's. The biggest improvement in Craigslist in the last 10 years is simply that more people use it (not that I feel it needs other enhancements)
I once wrote about 4K of PhP in a day, a feat I still regret. It signaled nothing but my inefficiency in creating code.
Google CEO: U.S. Should Invest in Education
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That's the whole reason it's a treadmill: The new words will rapidly take on the new, undesired but real, meaning.
Of course it would come to this. People need to pay more attention.
I think it really depends on how engaged your users are with your product and who you're targeting.

If you have a customer base that is really into your product and the page is question is aimed at current users, then offering information about an upcoming feature will be something that's engaging to them.

Conversely you expect the page to help you acquire new customers then it will just serve as a type of "excess" information.
Ask HN: For those of you self-employed, what is your health insurance?
If they are having trouble finding work, perhaps they should learn Ruby.
What a strange article. Almost feels like an April Fools Day joke.
A single number for income is always difficult. For me annual salary is base pay. Bonuses, stock options/awards, benefits are in addition to this. If that is the case then the ranges look reasonable (also I like the coarse granularity); if this is the sum of base-pay, bonus, stock-options, benefits, then this range is low by at least 50K
Wouldn't be RESTful.
What's disappointing is that my quality of life would decrease much less from 2010->1970 than 1970->1930. In that sense, innovation is decelerating.
That's the point...
There aren't any new must have gadgets anymore, because they're now apps.
Sorry, but what part of 'Stay anonymous ... 100% Private & confidential - Learn your market value without your current employer ever knowing' involves me giving you my name, current employer, current title, and email address in step 2? That's just down-right cognitive dissonance. The landing page doesn't give me enough assurance, but to get any more details, I have to click through. Or do you expect a curious candidate to read the two pages of legalese (Terms of Service, Privacy Policy)? Not saying we wouldn't, but that's sort of a slow, boring sell.
Good to know. Got schooled on angular resolution today :)
Atlantic publishes an article on online dating, but only interviews men.
It's not quite that simple: http://www.tofugu.com/2012/05/15/japanese-web-design-why-you...
quiet, post rock, or noise (think 65 days of static) when it's really time to get something done. pop trash when it's just time to do whatever else:

http://www.codercowboy.com/2012/12/19/music-to-code-by-2012/
This Is What A BMW Sounds Like When Engine Sounds Aren’t Piped In By A Computer
thanks for sharing those links, awesome stuff.
It took me a moment to figure out what was going on there (with the whole clippy thing). The bulk of this list is the top commands from commandlinefu which has been on HN before [0], [1].

You can even go meta and install a command to let you search commandlinefu [2].

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527486

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3843373

[2] http://samirahmed.github.com/fu/
You're both right. Zero does mean nothing. Also, zero is not a special value for integers like it is for pointers. Enough of this self-righteous debate.
Your concrete suggestion then is what, exactly?
If you think a bit, you really can't come up with anything better. Gourmet coffee is a bad currency because it's very local and few people actually need it.

EDIT: And if it's already ground when you buy it, it's no good, by the way. ;)
Hey @DavidAdams, Our intentions are not to bait and switch and so far responses have been very positive. I believe most developers share your surprise when they hear about the overhead to hiring, I did. I appreciate that using outside help to build a team is not right for every stage company.

After looking at the dismal state of recruiting and the enormous typical placement fees that well exceed $25K on avg across the US for developer positions, we feel our pricing is comparatively low and the experience and results, superior.

We found that matchmaking developers and companies may seem like simple quick transactions, and many recruiters treat it that way, but the reality is it is a time intensive process to do it right.

(EDIT: typo)
Adobe says it is not providing free copies of Creative Studio 2
Perhaps you are pushing referly a bit too hard on HN?

Personally, I feel like I'm being trained to not click on referly links (in the same way I never opened Evites or clicked amazon links from blogs)

Not sure if there's a solution to this. It'd be interesting to hear how / if your HN content push is working for you.
I would assume driver-less cars are primarily a software achievement. Same with robotic surgery, but I'm not sure.

Also, you can't compare two things by comparing the failures of one to the successes of the other.
I thought that ninjas were a myth?
Sure! I moved from my family from the States to an expat beach community last year. Being jetset with a family of 4 is expensive and not how I wanted to raise my kids, so we just settled down here. Maybe we'll move again next year, maybe not. The experience has been incredible and I'd do it again in a heart beat. Get in touch, I'd be happy to provide more advice/encouragement.
Those guys aren’t ninjas and they aren’t dying out. Blackwater has hired lots of ninjas.

A ninja is just some dude who gets paid money to get dirty using the best tech and skills available at the time. If they had Glocks in the 15th century ninjas would have been popping caps in Samurai ass. They threw metal stars and swung swords because that’s all they had.

The BBC must have been really desperate to report on some anachronistic pajama wearing idiots.
Doesn't exist (yet). The intended replacement is multi-gpu support in xRandR but that feature has been pushed back release after release of xRandR for literally years now.
This is something I've noticed about Amazon. The first version of things they come out with generally suck (See: Kindle, Kindle Fire, a lot of AWS services), but they iterate like hell. Everything is rapidly improved every iteration.

This is opposed to Google, which tends to throw something out there that's pretty good to begin with, but once it's released it doesn't get much support and dies. Also, Google's (hosting) services tend to get more expensive, AWS always gets cheaper. I think it says a lot about how each company works.
An Entirely Avoidable Talent Vacuum
Totally agree, and I've seen completely unqualified people that I thought knew better do this and wished there was an (anonymous) opposite-of-endorsement.
I thought they were peasants who armed themselves instead of some well trained assassins...
Bitcoin "mining" is a misnomer
Github is exposing public SSH keys
Higher ed: an obituary
what ltcoleman said. also, Erica Sudan's IOS Cookbook is pretty amazing if you're already a coder who's profficient in some other language. it's about 3 chapters .. 100 pageish of the basics to get you going and understanding about all you need to work in the language, and then several hundred pages of 20 page chapters on this topic of that - tables, playing audio, whatever.
Why shouldn't companies (their developers) put in the extra effort needed to keep both versions up to date? They can come up with a framework for it. It may not necessarily mean two totally separate code base. You could design your framework so that both versions feed off the same backend. And don't they have to put in that extra effort to make sure their mobile versions are up to date?

Startups have a good chance to start their framework with accessibility in mind.

An MVP could ignore this aspect, because it is not the final product yet.
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Because Tide is universally popular in the US, amazingly so. You could go into a CVS or Walgreens in the US and 70%+ of the detergent on sale will be Tide branded.

Since people are always going to wash clothes, retailers can guarantee they'll shift, and it's virtually un-perishable - and because the margins on tide are rather low, shops will happily buy suspect goods: they're practically untraceable and will shift fast.

Practically everyone does laundry, but not everyone drinks coffee. And those who do drink coffee will have differing tastes and far more varying brand loyalty than the detergent market.
It is anonymous to the point that others don't know you are on Pitchbox. Your name isn't shared with anyone until you are matched with a company and you like the pitch and agree to sharing it.

It would be just to hard to send you personally relevant pitches without a little background information to incorporate in our matchmaking.
The host family gets to help someone to have a better life, and has the opportunity to get to know a creative and optimistic young man from a foreign country.
I prefer Adams' guide.
Selfspy? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4590987)
There's nothing particularly central about it. It's a payment intermediary for merchants (I would say it's more like Stripe than Paypal). Nobody has to use it.
> It's not like Bingo Card Creator let him quit his job overnight.

That's true, but it was consistently making about enough to pay my rent one year later. I would consider that to be an astonishingly good return on just a few hours of work per week.

> 1. Find a niche where you can make some amount of money.

I suppose that "some" there is the important part. I don't think finding a niche where you can make $500 a month profit right out the gate is that easy. It's not a ton of money, but I'd consider that very encouraging.
I was thinking the standard military's special forces - although certainly some Blackwater people are former special forces. That's essentially what the ninjas were: soldiers for hire that specialized in infiltration with small teams.

I think the "specialized in infiltration with small teams" is the more important part than "for hire", which is why I thought of the standard military's special forces, and not modern-day mercenaries. Feudal Japan's customs made the "for hire" part necessary, but modern day customs do not.
Duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023665

Also, it doesn't make a difference, since they are public keys, like public GPG keys. They also aren't the only ones that do this - LaunchPad.net (where Ubuntu development takes place) also does it.

https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesgifford/+sshkeys
>the overheard to hiring

Did you mean overhead?

Moreover, it seems like you don't validate your form input at all. (Sorry about the entry. My email address is not really aa.)
Dude, that is exactly what I was saying...
Just an update - should be fixed now! Thanks again.
I want to add further to my comment that I do not oppose the idea of making the web accessible by nature, but reading so far in this post and comments, it seems hugely difficult esp considering how much of the content/elements are manipulated by javascript. How are the screen readers going to cope with that?
I guess this is why safeway locks up the most ridiculous things. Like toothbrushes!
cool app. I would suggest you creating Chrome plugin which detects the video being played in youtube and overlays the annotations.
The apps have to run on something. Apple is one of the largest companies in the world by making some of that hardware. Yet, Apple's hardware is assembled by another company and is made up on components from hundreds of other companies, most you have never heard of. Those companies are all at CES and are all fighting unseen battles for the next generation of electronics. There's no need to have a flashy keynote or booth babes, but the back conference rooms are where the real CES is.
Runtime performance is exactly what I'm referring to by economic incentives. Any adequate desktop (or even mobile) GPU made in the last few years has the bandwidth to spare to do bilinear filtering (if not bicubic or better) when upscaling a framebuffer to fit a display; you won't see modern video games ship with filtering turned off because literally every decent piece of hardware has the bandwidth and cycles to spare to filter.

Are you seriously advocating that Apple use a desktop GPU in their laptops?

Unfortunately, Apple puts tremendously underpowered Intel GPUs into their Retina macbooks - GPUs that struggle to drive even low-DPI displays or run games at native resolution - and then expects them to drive displays containing 4x the pixels. It's no wonder that scrolling performance is choppy.

None of this is true. First, the 15" retina mbp has a nvidia GT650M along with an intel gpu. And it's still not enough. Remember that a game running at 2880x1800 using filtering can use memory-bandwidth saving tricks like quincunx which can't be used in a desktop environment. Moreover, in the 'scaled-up' 1920x1200 mode the rMBP supports, the rMBP is essentially super-sampling a much larger pre-display buffer than 2880x1800

Have a read:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

At the default setting, either Intel’s HD 4000 or NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 650M already have to render and display far more pixels than either GPU was ever intended to. At the 1680 and 1920 settings however the GPUs are doing more work than even their high-end desktop counterparts are used to. In writing this article it finally dawned on me exactly what has been happening at Intel over the past few years.

...

To be quite honest, the hardware in the rMBP isn’t enough to deliver a consistently smooth experience across all applications. At 2880 x 1800 most interactions are smooth but things like zooming windows or scrolling on certain web pages is clearly sub-30fps. At the higher scaled resolutions, since the GPU has to render as much as 9.2MP, even UI performance can be sluggish. There’s simply nothing that can be done at this point - Apple is pushing the limits of the hardware we have available today, far beyond what any other OEM has done. Future iterations of the Retina Display MacBook Pro will have faster hardware with embedded DRAM that will help mitigate this problem. But there are other limitations: many elements of screen drawing are still done on the CPU, and as largely serial architectures their ability to scale performance with dramatically higher resolutions is limited.

One could argue that the choice of terrible Intel GPUs is actually to improve battery life, not to save money; that might be true. But in that case, why not include their (rather well implemented) GPU-switching technology in all Retina macbooks? Why only the 15"?

It has a bigger battery.
I've seen a lot of people argue Derby is better than Meteor. I have so far used neither. I've briefly used Backbone before switching over to Ember after getting stuck reading Ember docs for a few hours. Considering looking at Derby instead of Ember for a simple single page internal queue-system thing for work. (People who want helpdesk support).

It looks a bit 'more magical', if that could count as positive (?). It looks like I would write less code to do the same thing, have you used Ember or Backbone before?

Either would probably be good for my needs, I'm just looking to make a good choice and learn something new in the process.
It wasn't grey when I commented. I wouldn't take the time to get on a soapbox if the community had already buried it.
If you want to go long Bitcoin, just buying them would probably be easier. And there is some evidence that BitPay sells off their Bitcoins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89757.0
Good idea. Does that Cinema Display on their homepage also look odd to anyone else? https://d2221r371oqwhn.cloudfront.net/assets/feature-image-b...
Ad. 1 - fixing bugs and debugging is not boring. Aside from being bread and butter for every programmer (everyone makes mistakes) it's challenging[1] and fun, even without time constraints. It's close to base jumping when you deal with important production systems and serious bugs that affect people.

Ad. 2 - well, in some environments programmers need to be "idea guys", in others they do not. The level of influence a programmer has on the product varies wildly from domain to domain and from job to job. I tend to believe that developers naturally gifted with "idea factory" brains end up in positions where their ideas are being implemented and the others just do what they are told to do - both ways can be equally satisfying.

Ad. 3 - CS background is not needed. Discipline, passion and energy... are not needed either, however they all do help :) I won't talk about which of those things is the most important, because it isn't that important at all - I just want to note that CS background does not (usually) hurt (a lot).

Ad. 4 - no idea about this one, sorry.

Anyway - I had no idea that misconceptions like that even exist, but it's good that the author spent some time on fighting them when he noticed them. The post is maybe a bit too optimistic, but it tries to fix the spotted problem (with people's thinking) which is what every true Scotsman does as his first instinct :)

[1] "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
If there are 17 billion Earth sized planets out there and we're "one in a billion" that would mean there are 17 planets as perfect as ours that there is life. 17 - 1 = 16. The billion figure was just pulled out of thin air, "one in a X" is a common expression and for this purpose billion seemed appropriate. If we're actually only one in a million, we'll be busy meeting our new friends.