skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I should clarify, I like some challenge, I just sorta wish either mineral veins were bigger, or they were more common. I'm happy to go digging for diamond, I just wish it didn't take me an hour of random cave-wandering and digging only to find 2 lousy diamond blocks.
This is awesome.
Stop whiteboard coding to practice for interviews.
Start drawing owls.
Or draw owls on a whiteboard.
AOPA is purely general (non-commercial) aviation, so the first point is correct, although iirc the data was from actual incidents.

I don't know if anything like that has ever happened in a heavy aircraft. However, commercial pilots have pretty big health requirements to make situations like that less likely.
How is that a problem? The parochial schools are academically superior, at least compared to the inner-city schools run by public unions. And America is very religious for a western nation so it is not a political handicap.
Absolutey. Here is a far better version of how to land a plane if you are not a pilot:

STEP 0: Don't touch anything.

STEP 1: Find the transponder. It looks like one of these:
http://www.free-online-private-pilot-ground-school.com/image... or http://www.funkwerk-usa.com/funkwerk/trt800h/trt800h-lg.jpg

STEP 2: Set it to 7700 (emergency) or 7500 (hijacking)

STEP 3: Put on the pilots headset and wait, someone will start talking to you and explain how to respond.

STEP 4: If you don't hear anything for an extended period of time try to figure out why the radio doesn't work. Then start to panic and put into practice crazy things you read on the internet.
My social group hates the guy. I can't bring up Mojang without them ranting about how he has an undeserved ego and takes all the credit for Minecraft when really Jeb did all the work.

I will say that I think it's incredibly self-absorbed that he hosts livestreams of him coding, but a lot of people seem to enjoy watching them, so it's not too bad.

Is there anything specific that rubs you the wrong way about him?
SEEKING WORK - Greenville, SC or remote.

I am a UX and UI consultant that loves solving challenging problems. I have experience in web applications and mobile apps. I can work on retainer or an hourly rate ($150). I can also take on MVP projects with my developing partner. We specialize in Rails and efficiency. We move fast and deliver quality products.

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Thanks for the feedback! Totally agree. I thought about using History API also.
Npmjs.org down?
The really criminal thing is that not that we haven't found someone to prosecute but that we haven't found anyone with the cojones to break up the banks into small enough entities that can fail on an individual basis without taking out the financial system.
Why Steven Chu Was One Of Obama's Most Intriguing Choices
Unless you have an aircraft designed to be jumped out of, you wouldn't be able to open the door at speed.
I have no idea where or how I made it sound like someone hijacked these women. That's obviously not the case. They were paid models who likely have no qualms with this work, and again, that's perfectly fine.

My issue with the display is it that HyperMac only hired female models when males would have sufficed just as well. That's the only real basis for claiming objectification of women in my eyes. Because the CEO gave absolutely no answers -- refusing to acknowledge that could even be a concern -- Occam's razor suggests going with the simplest explanation of why only nude female models were chosen to represent HyperMac, and the simplest explanation (at least in my eyes) is their sex appeal.

Models are chosen primarily for their looks, so why was the look of the nude female body the only one HyperMac had representing them at the show?
That's the story at every level of government - entitlements crowding out public goods. California has a similar problem with public pensions.
Not really, because by looking outside you would also control the angle and atitude instinctively, you could do it using the compass too, but if you are flying visual you better be looking outside.
Mining started out with CPU's, then with GPU's, then with FPGA's, and now ASIC's. What's the next technology to make mining an order of magnitude or two more efficient? D-wave computers perhaps? Those cost quite a bit, though.
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I'm actually writing a short e-book on the subject that I will host on github for all to enjoy. I will announce it here once its out.
We've been tracking Minecraft's public sales over time: http://minecraft-sales.herokuapp.com. That's only for the PC version. We estimate that sales of Minecraft across other platforms at least double that revenue.
Not too sure this will be all that convenient, but the commercial was amazingly well done!
Skunk Works, Apple and Steve Wozniak
From the article:

At last year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis, Wi-Fi from 604 access points supported 8,260 simultaneous connections at its peak, while 12,946 attendees were on the Wi-Fi at some point during the game.

Seems like support for 30,000 simultaneous connections should be ample.
Life Expectancy, poverty rates, murder rates, education, etc. etc.

All of those measures are not even close to homogeneous across the US, so any talk of the the "average person on the street" is meaningless, statistically.

You really have to segment the US in order to get an accurate picture for what it's like for a particular person (or kind of person, such as a typical HNer) to live here.
Pie charts are controversial, as the human eye is easily misled by them. A discussion on Edward Tufte's site:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I've been following (and using) the betas for all this stuff for well over a year now, and while it was already pretty awesome back then, watching the evolution and continual imrpovement of it all has been amazing.

In one sense, I think the Couchbase syncing tech is the way mobile development should have always been. It just makes sense. The fact that there hasn't been a reasonable way to do any of this till now is pretty crazy: iCloud is a ridiculously unreliable black box where you have no real control of your data, Dropbox "syncing" is even more limited and is basically just crappy hack, and other "sync solutions" I've seen have been even more unusable still.

Props to the Couchbase team for continuously pushing the limits of this tech without compromise, and being open source all along the way.
With all due respect, America doesn't seem any better in regards to technology than Europe. For example the European commission are rewriting the Data Protection Act which seems like a great sign.
I can't help but find Netflix's choice of original series puzzling. They look so bland†. I would expect a service like Netflix that wanted to make a name for itself as a content producer to go for something higher-concept. Over the past couple of decades, the shows that have established networks as contenders in original programming have been things The X-Files (for Fox), Buffy (for The WB), Dexter (for Showtime), The Sopranos and True Blood (for HBO). These are all splashy, quirky shows. So why would Netflix go for something as seemingly subdued and "safe" as House of Cards?

† A lot of people seem to misunderstand my point, so just to clarify: I haven't watched House of Cards and can't say whether the show itself is bland, but it lacks a strong hook to grab people. That's what I mean by "bland".
I'm not sure what the purpose of this post is?

Is it to show how expensive the iPad is, or to show how little Chinese workers earn on average?

When I was younger and less experienced as a developer, I worked as the groundskeeper for some posh apartments that I would never be able to afford. Is this the same thing?

Workers working at an assembly line factory don't make much money. I don't think that's news to anyone.
Voxer has multiple job opportunities for Engineers who are looking for an exciting new career. If you have skills in iOS app development, Hadoop, HBase, Node.js, Web Design or QA Automation, we'd love to talk to you. We're also looking for a Visual Designer, if that's your passion.

http://voxer.theresumator.com/

Some information about Voxer, and what we're up to!

Voxer is more than just a walkie-talkie app, it is one of the most used Push-to-Talk and messaging applications in the world. Voxer iOS and Android apps allow tens of millions of users across the world to communicate instantly. We're making voice and multimedia communication faster, more efficient, and more social. Our goal is ambitious - we're building the next generation communication voice service at the intersection between PTT, phone calls, SMS, conference calls, and multimedia messaging.

It's no small feat to achieve, to keep one of the world's fastest growing voice applications humming along and growing at a phenomenal pace. But we are 50 dedicated individuals who are putting some of the most exciting technology in the world to work right now - we are the world's largest Node.js site, and we also run one of the largest Riak clusters in the world.

We are dedicated and solely focused on building the next generation of communication. The problems we're facing are at a scale only seen at companies like Twitter and Facebook and we're looking for exceptional people who can help us tackle them.

We closed our first outside round of funding last spring, and our brand new offices are right off Market Street in San Francisco. There's tons of restaurants and shopping nearby at Westfield and Union Square to spend your hard earned cash on, and if you're a musician there's a few outside on the street that we wouldn't mind you teaching a few new songs to. There are plenty of MUNI lines right outside, BART is a block away, plus the Ferry to Oakland and Marin is a pleasant fifteen minute stroll or five minute bus ride away.

We look forward to hearing from you!
The Next Web: WunWun is like having a personal assistant.
Face detection with OpenCL
Ask HN: Is hardware more risky than software?
Although I'm generally decent at both, I prefer hardware. I think the potential of hardware is unreached. I'm looking for opportunities in the hardware world and I'm coming up short compared to the software world. Where's the Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinter, Instagram of the hardware world?

Once I leave Apple, everyone else looks like copycats or slaves to other people's whims. Few seem to be pushing the boundaries of what's possible. The equivalent in the software world would be the highly innovative world of Enterprise Software.

Is there no money flowing into the hardware world? Why does today's hardware seem so stale (except for war stuff)?
Yes, let's shut down the factory. Then it would take infinitely long.
See my response here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5153615

You are more than welcome to use Metasploit - a lot of our customers didn't want to go through the trouble of setting up their own Metasploit config, etc., so we built this to give them a simple quick check.
> In reality, in the last fifty years, anyone rising to power in the Labour party has had to be pre-approved by the CIA (well documented in e.g. self biographies of the people involved

Do you have any URL to document this?
Another important question to remember: How long would it take him to buy an iPad if he wasn't a Foxxcon worker?
San Francisco, CA

Voxer has multiple job opportunities for Engineers who are looking for an exciting new career. If you have skills in iOS app development, Hadoop, HBase, Node.js, Web Design or QA Automation, we'd love to talk to you. We're also looking for a Visual Designer, if that's your passion.

http://voxer.theresumator.com/

Some information about Voxer, and what we're up to!

Voxer is more than just a walkie-talkie app, it is one of the most used Push-to-Talk and messaging applications in the world. Voxer iOS and Android apps allow tens of millions of users across the world to communicate instantly. We're making voice and multimedia communication faster, more efficient, and more social. Our goal is ambitious - we're building the next generation communication voice service at the intersection between PTT, phone calls, SMS, conference calls, and multimedia messaging.

It's no small feat to achieve, to keep one of the world's fastest growing voice applications humming along and growing at a phenomenal pace. But we are 50 dedicated individuals who are putting some of the most exciting technology in the world to work right now - we are the world's largest Node.js site, and we also run one of the largest Riak clusters in the world.

We are dedicated and solely focused on building the next generation of communication. The problems we're facing are at a scale only seen at companies like Twitter and Facebook and we're looking for exceptional people who can help us tackle them.

We closed our first outside round of funding last spring, and our brand new offices are right off Market Street in San Francisco. There's tons of restaurants and shopping nearby at Westfield and Union Square to spend your hard earned cash on, and if you're a musician there's a few outside on the street that we wouldn't mind you teaching a few new songs to. There are plenty of MUNI lines right outside, BART is a block away, plus the Ferry to Oakland and Marin is a pleasant fifteen minute stroll or five minute bus ride away.

We look forward to hearing from you!
I don't really know, I've never flown one for real. Judging by flying remote-controlled models and the idea that a tail is basically a direct controller of pitch and yaw regardless of form I would say it's not a big difference when turning.

Wikipedia says: "Ruddervators provide the same control effect as conventional control surfaces, but through a more complex control system that actuates the control surfaces in unison."
British Computing Pioneer Alan Turing to be Played by Benedict Cumberbatch
I'm not sure of the point.

How long would a Ferrari worker take to buy a Ferrari?

How long would it take a construction worker to buy the house they're building (in cash)?

And the list goes on...
Thanks. Yeah, we have some friends who have some working sploits for it now too. We'll work that in.
What made your friend think that air traffic controllers would be able to give instructions on how to land an aircraft?

(As a rule of thumb, they don't. And even most pilots couldn't help, only pilots who know the aircraft in question and if auto land is an option at all.)
Ha, fair point. :)

Glad you got it fixed!
It's great how he walks through the mental process of iterating his code, with examples at each step, and how it demonstrates the power of the language.
You need to see their track record. Have they published anything? Do they talk about their failures? How much actual business experience do they have?

As someone who does both sides (software and business) I've come to realize that the best way to approach is as you would approach hiring a developer. You want someone who has shipped code and can ship code. Sometimes people exaggerate things, that's normal due to the competition. It is a red flag, but not a complete deal buster. Keep an eye for it. If it sounds fishy and does not have real data to back up then just send them out politely.

By the way, I get way more red flags from hiring developers than from hiring business people. Dunno why.
Congrats Jeremy and team!
Over/under on how long Netflix's DRM [0] will keep it from showing up on usenet or torrents?

I'm watching the British version, it's a pretty entertaining political drama. Something like Dallas set in the British government. Sadly, it's not widescreen.

[0] http://www.defectivebydesign.org/topic/netflix
I'm all for higher wages for Chinese workers, but what does the final price of a manufactured good have to do with the manufacturing wage? If they happened to be applying their skills to something with a lower final price, like remote controls, wouldn't it be fallacious to assume that to be more just?
He forgot to deploy landing gear.
ATC staff is not trained for that. If an ATC can help you with that, it's pure coincidence due to piloting training outside her or his ATC job.
3.2.1 is not safe (you probably meant 3.2.11)
3.0.19 is not safe (3.0.20 was released to fix CVE-2013-0333)
2.3.15 is not safe (2.3.16 was released to fix CVE-2013-0333)
What exactly is the point ?

How long it would take for the guy who washes the dishes in my favourite restaurant to buy the shoes I'm wearing? How long would it take a techie in a hedge fund to buy a yacht? How long would it take the sales guy a Cartier store to buy that 75kUSD watch?

More importantly, what would knowing this tell us about anything?
It's probably both. It probably actually works and there is a delivery service to coordinate Dubai deliveries of this, but the city choice, the video and the PR outreach around it definitely feel like a guerrilla marketing effort to me. I'd be interested to see how long the app actually works for. My bet is it's quietly shuttered in Dubai after 3 to 6 months.

It's pretty easy to see a strategy that says after the initial worldwide buzz of a Dubai launch dies down that the app quietly shuts down after 3 to 6 months and then launches in Vegas, Bangkok, UK, etc. to drive local buzz there.
A little off-topic, but I'd love to hear the experiences of someone who has actually done algorithmic trading using their personal finances. I assume that there are enough hurdles in comparison to the major market participants that you'd have lots of trouble making money on average.
Most of the recent events have been mixer events sponsored body shops (recruiters) hoping to get some business. Put "HL7" and "ICD-10" in your resume and I'm sure you'll get called.

The last "meaty" one I attended was a local MIT Enterprise Forum featuring local healthcare IT professionals. The panel had a device startup, a personal healthcare portal, some consulting goons, and the CIO for a local HMO (she was the only one who made any sense).

I just attended a legislative action committee meeting for my state. Our elected reps touched on what was happening at the state level to implement ACA (aka Obamacare, mostly "meaningful use" stuff and patient eligibility, really basic stuff).

Every state now has a board of some sort for implementing their state and regional healthcare information exchanges per ACA. The meetings are public. That's probably a good way to find your local players.

It's been a few years since I lurked healthcare IT blogs. There might be some good ones to follow.
I've done only a couple of hours past first solo a long time ago (money ran out...), but as a neophyte pilot reading this article, the two things that stood out in my experience in inexperience were the PANPAN/MAYDAY thing already mentioned (besides, what layperson will remember PANPAN?), and that landing a plane is hard. Taking off is trivial, flying straight and level is easy, almost easier than finding the radio comms to the tower, but landing is really difficult for an untrained or inexperienced person - there's a lot of things that need to be done at the right time in the right order.

I did find the comment about stalling somewhat amusing. Non-pilots really have no idea what pilots mean when they say 'stall'. When I intentionally stalled in training, I thought the plane would roller-coaster like a paper aeroplane does. Some people think it means the engine loses power. An actual stall is much more subtle and you have to know what you're looking for to notice it.

I did like the comment about the subtle touch needed for the controls though - in my limited time, I never really mastered this.
SFBA

Pivotal Labs is dying for a decent junior support engineer / helpdesk person here in San Francisco. Someone to keep things running smoothly, from troubleshooting OS X to just keeping the cables in the conference rooms connected up right. If you have to stop yourself from fixing computers when you're wandering around in public you're our kind of person. If you enjoy people too and love making tech work for humans, I want to talk to you.

This was originally my job. I hired someone to take over for me and got promoted. That guy just got promoted. Now we need someone new. This is the kind of place where you pick a thing and become the dude for that. We're growing about 40% per year, lotsa room to move around.

Just out of college? Dropped out of college? That's cool. If you can make computers work for people, that's what counts.

Contact me if you wanna know more: reedhn@pivotallabs.com

Full (kinda dull) job listing here:
http://pivotallabs.com/pl_job/it-support-engineer/

And of course, we're always hiring ruby and moblie devs:
http://pivotallabs.com/pl_job/software-engineer/
Going the extra mile
OK, actually to me the nude models did not seem to me to be for sex appeal, but the 8 women with "HyperMac" on their breasts convinced me. Given that women were hired for their sex appeal: why is that a problem?

Edited to add: at least the CEO claims they were knowledgeable, which takes care of the main problem with booth babes. Both men and women had been trained to ignore women at the conferences, as a kind of mental spam filter just because many of the booth babes were clueless about the products.

About the depth thing: click the "link" button if you want to reply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5154055
I agree: In my own flying experience, landings have remained the most challenging part of each flight – turns are easy in compassion.
Open access repository of web crawl data
Sorry, the libraries were put in a wrong order. Just put these two libraries: libreadline6-dev and libreadline6 after libreadline-gplv2-dev, or in another apt-get install command run after the original one (without libreadline6). I have updated the blog post not to cause any confusion. Thanks for spotting that!
Battle cry: HTC's CEO leads the 'M7' chant
Didn’t Get Crunched? Too Bad, Create Your Own Buzz
My Bill to Open PACER in memory of Aaronsw
You could have scrubbed the location data from your photo before you shared it with path, but you chose not to either through neglect or malice.
Same here, I posted this when I first had found his videos on simulating natural phenomenon in Processing on Vimeo.

This book was created by NYU computer science professor Daniel Shiffman and is open source and free online (HTML with live code examples). The PDF or ebook version are available as well and are a good value.

[edit] links:

github repo https://github.com/shiffman/The-Nature-of-Code

ebook and online: http://natureofcode.com/

videos https://vimeo.com/shiffman
Yes, but in my rudimentary understanding of weather the importance is the pressure differential rather than the absolute pressure.

I believe the data in aggregate will provide a pretty good map of the pressure gradient which could then be fixed to the more accurate dedicated weather stations. Think of it like the 10,000 year clock which uses a clock known to drift in conjunction with a solar time fix to calibrate.
How long would it take a Boeing worker to buy a Boeing 777 Freighter?
"I disagree. I possess a 10K-B.A., which I got way back in 1994. And it was the most important intellectual and career move I ever made."

And this is why your major accomplishments are being a professor at a third-tier school like Syracuse, and being a commissar and hack for a think tank funded by the Olins, ExxonMobil etc. What a surprise such a shlocky job is done by someone who could barely make it through college and got a crap degree.
I've got all that working on Arduino as part of my coffee grinder data logger. Two temp sensors (ambient and burr temos), humidity, barometer, and a digital compass to log grind adjustemnts. It logs all that and motor on/off times to an SD card and squirts it out over USB. Let me know if you'd like to see my design/code. (email in profile)
This can be changed from country to country due to PANs amendments, but at least in the countries I flew mayday is used in immediate emergency that requires immediate landing (immediate means right now, wherever you are)
That probably depends upon how good the series is.