skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep.

I would expect MIT's exams to be outright impossible for a mortal to pass.

University of Wisconsin's will be nearly impossible to pass even with concerted study.

Northern Illinois will be possible to pass with study.

and then there will be institutions whose certifications don't mean a whole lot. There's no question about that.

But MOST people will try to pass the impossible ones... because the payoff will be so much bigger. Only a few will pass though. I'm thinking the tests will be designed that way. I strongly suspect getting a degree from UMichigan, UWisconsin, UTexas, Berkeley, etc. will be MUCH easier if you just attend. But this is a good option for those who, for whatever reason, don't wish to do so.
My favorite : The one with the Michelin balloon which I think was taken at Le Palais de la Decouverte (not 100% sure)
One factor is Bayes' theorem and prior probabilities. The probability of being accused of sexual harassment changes when you're a wealthy executive working for a successful company like Square.
At CNET, ‘morale is plummeting and people are pissed off’
Technically it's illegal to participate in YC or any other accelerator on a tourist visa. You can do it, but you basically have to lie at the border. I know this is the case in the US and UK, possibly Canada as well. Unable to find the stories ATM, but I know I've seen a couple cases where YC founders were detained and then turned away for getting called out on falsified tourism claims at US border control. Seems like if they are going to start this kind of visa, they need a case that covers the earlier stage as well.

Don't even get me started on the double taxation you face if your business is successful as a foreign national.
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Actually, part of the idea behind Coursera, Udacity, EdX etc. is to sell better, more accurate credentials to potential employers. The logic being that the responses to hundreds of exercises are more valuable as data than a single final grade.

http://chronicle.com/article/Providers-of-Free-MOOCs-Now/136...
I think the judge is a little more informed on the matter than chatty HN readers who just want to stir the pot.
I don't think there is a stereotype of foreigners as being lower class. There is a sort of repressed persecution complex, but "dismissive stereotypes about foreigners as something like animals"? No (at least if you're white)

DaShan's popularity is enduring - you get over the novelty of his skin color pretty quickly. After that you find he is genuinely funny and skilled at his craft. "Dancing Monkey" suggests that the audience is laughing at him rather than with him, which I do not think is the case.
That is an inevitability.
I'm from the UK and that strikes me as bizarre although I understand there is greater concern about these areas in the US. Unless you have hiring responsibility or they are on your direct reporting line I would see no need to report anything (even an ongoing relationship). That may change in the future if things are reorganized and a more direct business relationship is established.

Even then with a single date I wouldn't feel any need to report a single date unless they were reporting to me fairly directly and I was covering my ass.

A CEO is on everyone's reporting line and is also potentially a target so there is more of a reason for them to be careful and to report things.

None of this matters to me know as I'm married and am currently a one man company with no plans for staff growth.
I'm almost sure it was taken at the Grand Palais.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais
H.265 sounds great...but the article doesn't mention the most important point: Is it patent-encumbered? Last time around patents proved a major barrier to adoption in free browsers, so why should this time be any different? A quick wiki check seems to indicate that MPEGLA has patents on H.265, so a GPL3-compliant decoder is probably a no-go, but we don't yet know whether they'll take a more enlightened approach to licensing this time around so that adoption will be cleaner than it was with H.264.
The problem is that "natural" has no precise meaning. You could just as easily argue that epidurals and surgery are both perfectly natural.
Beautiful, but it's too bad that the digital reproductions are so noisy.
It depends on how efficient/inefficient the OS's network stack and data transfer to user space is. For managed runtimes in a VM taking advantage of zero copy APIs is a challenge. I don't think 'order of magnitude' is possible but clearly there are a lot of cases where if implemented correctly this idea could dramatically improve performance.
A company would want to know of a relationship outside of work in case there are conflicts at work between the two employees in the future.

And because a reporting relationship between sexual partners is a bad idea.

"I think we need to let X go" could take on a whole new context if the speaker was just dumped by X.
One only hopes that this will lead to wholesale reform of the US attorney office in Boston in particular, and the plea bargaining process in general. It is unfortunate that it took Aaron's sacrifice to make this happen if it does, but it would at least be something positive coming out of his tragedy.
Previous coverage of DRACO on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771214 (March 2012)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847675 (August 2011)

I believe there were some earlier threads as well but I'm not finding them in a cursory search.
Feds after Anonymous’ Barrett Brown again, this time on evidence charge
Don't have kids. They will have far shittier lives, not to mention shorter, than yours, thanks to the end of cheap fossil fuels. They're also a hundred thousand dollar expense. Do not want!

I suppose most of you are so prone to optimist thinking and nurturing your biological urges you won't heed my call. Ah well.

Oh, and by the way, the current worldwide depression will never end.

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
Depends. Some builds of Tomato (Toastman's for sure) put a firewall up on IPv6 by default. Asus's firmware does NOT firewall IPv6 at all. If you have shell access to your router, I suggest putting up a firewall on IPv6. The following should work (change br0 to the bridged LAN interface and eth0 to the WAN interface, sometimes it's a vlan):

ip6tables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o br0 -p all -j DROP
ip6tables -A FORWARD -i br0 -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -o br0 -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -j DROP

Of course insert whatever open ports you want after the first line.
Pretty standard, if effective, propaganda tactic. All "they" have to do is stick the words "Based on a True Story" somewhere in there, and they can diverge however far they want from the facts, yet people will still gobble it up.
But that can still be part of the credentialing process. Consider the medical field. A medical degree is only small part of the credentialing process. In addition, you'll usually need an internship, a residency, then board certification (optional).

Even at the low end of the medical field, here in Illinois, EMT-I and EMT-P (paramedic) require both clinic time and a practical (live simulation) exam.

You simply implement something similar for engineering.
And how, pray tell, are you quantifying this prior possibility?
I agree, without this css I almost feel insulted by the header. With the css it's fine.

What's sad is that ALA now feels... ordinary. It used to be very aesthetically pleasing, now it's just boring (my opinion).
Cool photos. Thanks for the comments pointing to the set of photos of Russia in the Library of Congress collection posted a while ago here on Hacker News.

For this set of photos of Paris, especially cool is to post a link to

http://www.paris1914.com/

(a multilingual website) on the basis of the Hacker News guideline

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
right, same building.
No different than h264 in that regard. I'd rather we discuss the technical merits of this technology than have another patent debate. Not that I wouldn't agree, just that if you want to talk patent reform, it might be better suited to do so in a dedicated HN posting.

As far as encoding technology goes, this is pretty exciting. Looking forward to the first wave of 4K TVs & cell phone cameras hitting the market.

(Disclaimer: I'm the cofounder of a startup specializing in high quality cellphone videos)
Owned by the standards participants will have to be licensed on an FRAND basis.

So while it won't do Free software any good the situation won't be much worse than for AVC unless Google/Motorola or Samsung win in their current cases with Microsoft and Apple about the meaning of FRAND commitments. If FRAND commitments are weak or loose many companies may fight to get the biggest slice of the benefit which could effectively kill the standard.
There's many examples of hardware currently in use that can be programmed using software rather than a soldering iron (or more modern equivalents), but they tend to be within the realm of electronic rather than software engineering.

At a previous job I wrote software for a manufacturing company, and it was a real eye-opener to see one of the head engineers there - who had never in his life wrote a program, as we would understand it - modifying the complex ladder logic of a PLC[1] that operated parts of the factory, while I made changes to the software on the controlling PC. I realised that we were doing essentially the same thing, just in completely different spheres of operation.

Another example would be FPGAs, for relatively cheaply one can get a board with such a chip on it, and prototype all sorts of hardware designs essentially by writing software (in VHDL or Verilog). Again I've not done it personally but a friend of mine in smartcard research does this all the time, and doesn't call himself a software developer either even though it's really the same thing, just a different application to the usual general purpose machine.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller
The accused has outed himself.
> The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other connected devices.

No. H.264 was already used by HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, DVB (since 2004) and AVCHD.

> It seems crazy now, but once upon a time, Apple’s adoption of H.264 and insistence on HTML5-based video players was controversial — especially since most video before the iPad was encoded in VP6 to play through Adobe’s proprietary Flash player.

No. Most professional videos were using MPEG-2 and pirated movies were using Mpeg-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid).

Seriously, Apple can do great things, but this TC sensationalism is boring and inaccurate.

Besides that, it is great to finally have H.265 ready. We'll see the fight with VP9 and Daala very soon.
Precisely and your children will also likely turn out to be the types that make predictions and fail like generations of the past
Yes, it is. And very heavily.
I've had this issue affect me once or twice in the past (fortunately only with debugging settings, not secret keys). The solution for me was to create a pre-commit script for git that looks through the diff of my commit for a special token, and aborts the commit if the token was found. Now when I make a change to a bit of code that shouldn't be committed, I'll throw in the token as an additional sanity check.

For someone who had never done any git scripting before, I was surprised at how easy it was to put together - just 9 lines of bash for the simplest thing that could possibly work: https://gist.github.com/4513374
The main difference is that electrons are readily available while muons have to be created. I think there are some experiments with high energy muons, but for the proton radius, you want low energy. PSI creates them accelerating protons and smashing them into nuclei. This produces pions, which then decay into muons. These beams are then rather wider and harder to handle, as muons decay quite quickly. With higher energies, it is possible to store them long enough in rings, relativistic time dilation helps then.
Undergrad

1st year summer - 12$/hour (Toronto)

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Asyncoro:Python Framework for Asynchronous,Concurrent,Distributed Programming
Nothing like this is even vaguely possible in the US for a Chinese person

That is not a fair comparison. You're talking about the US after more than a century of significant Chinese immigration and many generations of Chinese Americans. Needless to say, there was significantly more xenophobia earlier on.
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URLs don't go through google when you type them in Chrome's URL box, they go directly to the address. Chrome only sends things to Google that it can't interpret as a URL.
I doubt that MPEG-LA has any patents on H.265 (they don't have any on H.264). They offer a bulk licensing deal for many different patent owners which is much better than licensing from each individually.

You are right that it is highly doubtful that it would be GPLv3 compatible until the patents have expired. In practice I expect it will be included in FFMPEG and available to open source users even if impure and unavailable to strict Free software purists.

I'm not sure what isn't clean about the H.264 license except for Motorola/Google's legal action that attempts to make the FRAND commitment nearly meaningless. It would be much better for everyone else if they were part of the MPEG-LA offer.
High quality cellphone videos? Tell us more.
I had the exact same reaction. It is unfortunate Chris didn't take time to respond to your comment...

It is always interesting to see different object systems being used. I just hope we will get a honest review of it in a few months after it has been used to develop a large application like Light Table.
I think when TechCruch says publisher they mean Web site. If you really think about it, the Web is the entire universe.
hypem's already been great to revisit my own listening and favoriting history from the last few years -- http://hypem.com/smcnally/history -- it'll be interesting dialing up points in time to see what was blowing up when
>>Animals can't talk like people! Amazing!

Whoa that's quite a ridiculous accusation of Chinese being racists, a gross generalization too

I only remember Dashan's performance quite vaguely because I was really young when he was still enjoying a lot of media exposure in China (naturally not anymore nowadays), but my family were and perhaps still are quite fond of him and I never feel there's negative side to it

I think his popularity in China could very well be attributed to the fact that him being from the (then) economically much superior western countries and so invested in the traditional Chinese culture at the same time. It brought a sense of identification and pride to a lot of Chinese people. Remind you he became famous in 1988, one of the most turbulent years in China's history, and there was a huge debate on whether China should be westernized going on at the same time

But "negative, dismissive stereotypes about foreigners as something like animals"? That's so 1800s to Chinese
Reminds me of:

Homeless Are Fighting Back Against Panhandling Bans

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/us/homeless-are-fighting-b...
h.265 is exciting. It takes into account the vastly improved processing power of today's devices to create smaller files - I'm looking forward to integrating it with our service, which in turn will put h.265 in easy reach of broadcasters. Really great step forward for the industry, although, of course, I wish it was an open standard.
Bravo! And the domain is available.
I think the Sony TV's offer an onscreen pop-up before accepting commands from unregistered DLNA controllers although maybe that can be faked (and maybe there is a flaw, I've never explored it deeply).
VP9 is also under development. VP9 decoding support was recently added to Chromium. http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9
As far as design is concerned, maybe rethink your use of the script font: http://www.mishes.com/articles/lobster-font-abuse
One interesting detail is that each colour exposure was temporally separated by a small amount, which caused vibrantly colourful artefacts on the images where the subjects moved - as can be seen on picture 27 in your first link, and more subtly in picture 15.

Some of the ones at the LOC, even more so. Moving water has a particularly curious, shimmering quality.
Contrary to what you may think, overhead in a non-profit is intrinsically bad. It's a sign of a functional, well-run organization.

Why? Fundraising to cover your overhead costs when you're small is relatively easy but comes increasing harder year after year as you grow.

The reason most non-profits take a portion of donations for overhead costs is so that they can keep the lights on and (hopefully) become better at providing their services more efficiently. Moderate overhead percentages are not a bad thing for non-profits. As a donor you should want the organization that you're supporting to have a way to pay their bills, investing in productivity improvements, and build scale.

I applaud Watsi's commitment to passing 100% of donations onto patients and I'm cheering them on to find a sustainable funding model over the long run.
Nothing is truly new under the sun. Perhaps I should have used the word novel and interesting rather than unique. You've also reminded me of Gabriel's most recent Onward essay:

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Incommensurability.pdf

I think Gabriel misidentifies this as a delta between science and engineering, but I think its more about the diff between communities. That we use different terminology, different sources, we have completely different underlying cultures. And you have to admit, the CLOS community is pretty unique, anyone looking from the outside is bound to have a very different frame of reference.

I've gone through as much CLOS work as I could, mixins inspired by an ice cream shop, active values (which are really just properties with custom get/set methods today) can serve as a nucleus for reactive programming but are not very sophisticated in managing change propagation (I think FRP signals are better, but you can clearly see the relationships). There is a lot there, but its not the end all of everything, their is some honest innovation going on here.
I would say notahacker gave you some good advice. My other comments are based on knowing nothing of what you are trying to put together, just some personal experience and some knowledge.

Having spent 7 years doing development and consulting in healthcare, you can't underestimate the cost to building and deploying products in that space. Unless it is consumer oriented, the adoption rates are slow in the enterprise space but pricing is better. It is better now than it has ever been from my knowledge, but 6 months to a year is still not out of the question on an enterprise product sales cycle. Individual physicians are also feeling squeezed so they are anxious to get new tools, but at the same time many of them are very price focused from what I have seen. I know a couple of people doing startups in healthcare and it took the better part of 6-8 months for them to get a few paying clients, so having funds saved was critical for them (as was consulting).

Also, don't underestimate how much HIPAA and FDA rules play into what you do in the health care software space. Nothing is insurmountable and honestly good common sense gets you past 80% of the rules/laws. Unless you are doing something with medical device + software, in which case the FDA clearance gets to be a pain if you have never done it. This is probably stuff you know about. Just mentioning it, as I have been through it.

My email is in my profile if you want to chat. I love the healthcare space, it is just a tough place to be without the proper team and reasonable funding or smart bootstrapping (my personal choice).

Either way, I say notahacker gave you the best advice so far, keep your day job while you get that MVP built.
I agree with kchoze's comment there.
As much as I tend to dislike social, this is a case where a distributed barometer app would be useful. Read indicators, make recommendation, track time-to-work, evaluate results.

This also calls for some value-assignment to transport methods. E.g.: cycling is preferable to tube, but more than light rain benefits tube, but more than an X minute / X% delay swings benefit to cycling. The real variable here is how long a commute takes -- so, is/was there a tangle in the tube when that was the recommendation.

Closing the loop on predictions/recommendations is a common problem in any monitoring/alerting application. For all the ballyhoo on the online dating problem, I'd warrant that getting closure on the dating experience is where most sites fall flat.
Does anyone else collect early European postcards? I have a good few hundred of them and am interested in collaborating to start an online museum.
No.

People who misrepresented themselves engaged in fraud. There is no requirement for the bank to assume bad faith on the part of the lender.

If a bank made a loan to someone who could not repay it, they are likely to take a loss. The fraud, where it happened, was when the bank sold this loan. At that point, the idea of 'willful blindness' and 'prudent man' came into play, when banks materially misrepresented the loans they were selling as having been prudently underwritten. But the victim was the buyer of the loan, not the borrower.
So when can we expect this to be supported in VLC?
I use imdb's android app for this. It has a "coming soon" page where you can see upcoming releases, and if you tap the release date, it's added to your calendar.
Of course. It is not necessary unless you want it for the pain. A doctor might suggest it but it is ultimately a decision made by the couple.
>What about the good viruses?

I think the idea is that you only take this when you have a serious "bad" virus, in which case you don't care. If you have a sufficiently bad viral infection, "but it kills the good viruses" is kind of irrelevant when the alternative is being dead.

People always like to talk about the cure for the common cold, and maybe this is it if the consequences of killing good viruses are sufficiently minor, but what this really seems to be is a cure for the likes of HIV.
> Oh, and by the way, the current worldwide depression will never end.

I think this is probably true. A related book is The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin, which I highly recommend.
I wonder how an actual barometer does in comparison.
That guy is huge in China. He is on CCTV stations almost nightly. Has multiple shows. Lectures extensively. He even speaks at very swanky government events, and the big pep-rallies they had before the Olympics.
Wow. Paris hasn't changed that much other than the cars.
As soon as there is a GPLv2 compatible decoder available?

See https://github.com/smarter/libav/commits/hevc
More seriously: I have decided that the next time I am working in a large open floor plan (which I am generally OK with) I am going to construct a full-size Tardis replica (plans for these are plentiful, and carpentry isn't as hard as I feared) and label it "POLITE private call BOX) and use it for the rare personal phone call that I don't want to share with the whole damn company.
Wow. Paris doesn't look like its changed much.