skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing described in the article is what I would call "pull meritocracy". You have a pool of candidates and you pull well-educated, predictable, safe ones from there. Leaving behind both privileged but not able and able but not predictable people.

The ideal would be "push meritocracy", where able people push themself into the system and are able to reach their potential by exercising their ability. There are also multiple ways to do it (starting up, corporate/government ladder, non-commercial projects) so they don't get derailed over some personality quirk.
Hosting in mainland China?
Does anyone know of a good VPS host in mainland China? We'd need a small VPS only (for hosting static files), preferably Ubuntu.

Thus far we've been hosted in AWS in Japan, but apparently websites hosted outside of mainland China are really slow for Chinese visitors.

We'd prefer a host that has English support, but it's not an absolute requirement. We do have staff in China, but they're not tech guys, so it'd be hard for them to fix problems.

Also: Would we need an ICP license? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license)
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Not really. They still must rely on the Bitcoin peer to peer network, the code behind the Bitcoin clients, and the stability of the Internet. There is still a third party, it's just distributed more widely.
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Once upon a time in a place overrun with bitcoins (?)
4K camera + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wescam ? Very pretty, but I am not seeing innovation here.
One thing that is holding me back from porting my Matlab code to Julia is manual loop-unrolling. "It seems that, when using Julia, one needs to unlearn everything you’ve ever learned about vectorisation in MATLAB." [1]. Once the speed with Matlab-like syntax improves, I'll try again.

[1]: http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?cat=59
I read recently that the speed of the aliens, and I am guessing the sound, is based on how many are left to draw on the screen. The less aliens, the faster it is to draw, the faster they move.
"... unless you're the rare lucky chump like Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison" is a better example
If all you care about is price hook up your own antenna and don't purchase aereo's service.
The difference is we live in a culture and a world that has been built around the senses "normal" people do have, so you would be depriving them of a large part of that world.

Though if you are happy, then so be it.
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I'm imagining a future where stock wordpress blogs can survive more than a couple of concurrent users...
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Just to be on the same page. The child is not "created" and then "implanted" with the disability. The embryo with the disability is picked to be born. So it is not unethical to the child (the other option for him/her was to not be born).
Just a suggestion -perhaps feature other projects on your résumé besides hacking your school network. Many companies may not appreciate hacking their network, movie or music pirating. Even though it may have been a creative solution, it might not be best to present yourself with a potentially controversial project.

If you were looking for work in a security-related field it might be helpful, though.
Indeed, a company of talented people working on the wrong things is worthless. So too is a company of talented people working on the right things but in ways that undermine their chances of success. CEOs (sometimes) have the power to make decisions that determine whether the company they lead is able to be successful.
I don't know if I would actually call it complicated. They have a simple antenna/tuner/broadcast module and then they put a thousand of them in a room. Sure, ideally parts of that would be consolidated but the system isn't complicated because of builtin redundancy. In the same way that spinning up more AWS instances for your static html isn't more complicated than getting a bigger server.
Wow, their samples sure look like Batman.js.
Also, I'm a fan of them for going with CoffeeScript, they have taste.

But seriously, looks very much like Shopify's batman.js http://batmanjs.org
I am talking about M2 money supply shrinking when borrowers default and/or banks fail, as in the great depression -- right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#United_States

Also I am not sure what mechanism you are describing when you say that central banks pay dividends to their governments. On the contrary, governments like the US use their central banking system to do open market operations on bonds they issue to finance their operations, and usually have to pay interest on that debt. No?
Doublethink really is a great idea. It's a tool, and it can be used for good just as it can be used for evil.

Personally, I use it with many of my relatives.
Pity, Testacular was such a ballsy name.
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The interesting question is whether there is a correlation between _how_ rich you can get in a country, compared to it's GDP / PPP.

I don't think you'll find a simple correlation if you compare those. Excluding countries that are rich in natural resources, there are some countries with very high GDP/PPP that have a comparatively high income equality / low CEO pay (Sweden / Denmark).
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Where can I get it in 4k? I don't really care about the fact that it was taken with a 4k cam without being able to download it in said quality...
More likely it takes around 5min per host if everything goes right. If they have 100 hosts and get delayed on the 10th and 15th for some reason, all other scheduled times would get shifted... And the upside is that they spot failures as they appear, rather than "oops, the last 5 hosts we did at the same time do not start up, there's some big issue".

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A CEO isn't a CEO if he doesn't have the decision making authority. CEOs get paid well because their decisions make or break the company.
With an inflationary currency, you can pay your workers nominally slightly more each year while paying them the same amount or even slightly less in real terms.

With a deflationary currency, you can pay your workers nominally slightly less each year while paying them the same or even slightly more in real terms.

How would the average person on the street react to being told "You've performed really well this year, so we're only going to decrease your salary by 1%. Congratulations on your raise!"?
I have also written a pacman
Do you feel 2D plotting is sufficiently developed to be useful at this point?
The tracking problem seems easy to solve; but admitedly I never went to college so this may be just dumb, but why don't just use a external reference device? A little device that saves your initial position and triangulates the diff between your initial position and your current position.
Is the image supposed to look like The Last Supper?
In response to the nice PAC-PAC pacman usig LöVE https://github.com/tylerneylon/pacpac

nice! :-)
I believe one of the guys behind this is Misko Hevery (of AngularJS). He's test-driven mad (which is a good thing IMO). I've been meaning to try Testacular / Karma out just because of the pedigree.
This is insanely cool ! Is it also possible to call Julia from Python ? This would allow me to switch to Julia instead of C for the heavy algorithms.
You may be referring to Scalala (now Breeze):

https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze
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Oh, well, if your problem is that people are on India's side without the due knowledge to make an informed opinion, how's this: I have a degree with honours in Biochemistry, and I worked for Novartis for eight years in clinical safety.Glivec was one of the drugs we handled all the reports for. I have no axe to grind with Novartis, it's a good place to work and it'll be a long time before I'm as well-off as a programmer as I was when I was working for them.

I'm of the opinion that India got it absolutely right.
I don't even think CEOs are paid for their contacts. If you look at the number of CEOs who jump to unrelated industries, it's doubtful many of their contacts carry along. Also if contacts were so paramount, sales people would have an almost insuperable advantage - it is their job to fatten their rolodex everyday; whereas people from other departments can and often do become CEO.

I've been reading a lot of Thorstein Veblen lately, who is very thought provoking; and I think what he would say (not that I completely agree, but it's an interesting viewpoint) is that CEOs are paid to be the right social class. The board of directors prefer to rub shoulders with someone they can easily relate to; a person who, say, plays a decent game of golf and can casually discuss the market for mansions as well as the features of the latest model Porsche. (Let's be serious, all else being equal we all prefer interacting with someone who shares our interests.) So they are willing to sacrifice 0.1% of the company's bottom line in return for smoother interaction with the person who will, in effect, be their main point of contact. People who already earn a lot of money (and would, of course, not switch for a decreased salary) thus have a big advantage when interviewing for the chief position. In fact, if nobody in the company is already living a sufficiently wealthy lifestyle, this model would suggest it's more likely for an outsider to be brought in (upon, say, acquisition).
Quit whining and get to work. You are grossly overpaid. I live in the Netherlands and that job and your skill set would get you around 45.000 USD a year. And we pay roughly 50% taxes over that, netting you at 22.500 USD a year. So, get to work.
I think it may have helped with the NSA scholarship, but I didn't apply to colleges for CS, so it wouldn't have helped there.
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>If I tried to find a gas station that would sell me a gallon of gas for $2USD today I'd be out of luck, but 2-3 years ago I'd be able to go anywhere in America and get that deal.

That illustrates that the price of oil fluctuates. The USD hasn't dropped in value by 50% in the last two years.

Most of currency is fluctuation is fluctuation relative to other currencies. If the price of the Icelandic krona plummets relative to USD and GBP, it doesn't mean that all the prices in Iceland immediately rise to compensate. People in Iceland are still paid in krona and buy things in krona for approximately the same number of krona.

But if the price of BTC rises suddenly, prices do suddenly decrease because at the moment it's just a proxy. There's no real internal market: there aren't people who are paid in BTC and have their savings account in BTC and make their mortgage payments in BTC and buy their food in BTC.

So BTC really isn't like other currencies. It's fluctuating massively even from an internal market perspective.
Well, no. The article does not mention the Internet. It talks about the web.

The article is very well-meant and sincere. It is also vapid, vague, and shows no actual direction for a possible future. And it blames "technology" for the current disparity of wealth. Welcome to HN. This kind of crap is posted too often imho.
Are there good low-end tools for C/C++? I've been doing iOS development and I recently decided to write some of my code in C++ so it would be portable to Android and Blackberry.
From memory the code moves one invader one pixel[1] each video frame.

[1] Might be wrong and it's multple pixels.
> and was amazed how most of them feel comfortable being completely ignorant of new technologies/libraries/frameworks/best practices/whatever.

They are probably equally amazed that you are not able to discriminate between fads and/or half-assed rehashes of decade-old technologies and actual new technologies.
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Didn't hunt for the source of this one but I did find some true 4K examples here:

http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/

CTRL-F 2160p
Yes, I think the best definition is there:

" It seemed the perfect bad idea: a site (1) for a niche market (2) with no money (3) to do something that didn't matter.

One could have described Microsoft and Apple in exactly the same terms"
Put 4000 in the bank and give 6000 to Greenpeace, Amnesty or Red Cross.
My personal experience was pretty drastic since I left my job to found my current company. Normally I'd hack away nights and weekends until I could get a few prototypes out.

Either way, once you quit your job the fuse is lit and your runway is only as long as your bank account can put food on your table.
LÖVE has a Web player (using WebGL and Lua.js) in the works, would be cool to see if Pac-Pac runs on it: https://github.com/ghoulsblade/love-webplayer
Might have been more interesting without the annoying Hollywood music. Or maybe it would still have been boring. I'm confused why this is top of HN right now.
>So someone comes along and can pay you 5% interest rate. Sounds better, right? However it's for a business. So you don't know if their business will survive, it might go backrupt. Let's pretend it's an early start up, so there's a 50/50 chance they go bust and your 100 units are a write off and gone.

I know it's just an example, but no-one should ever lend at 5% if there's a 50% chance of losing the total sum, regardless of the currency involved and whether it's deflationary or inflationary. The EV of such a loan is -$47.50 for a one-year term.

>So someone comes along and wants a loan, but they can't pay back 3% interest rate, only 2%. Why would you give that person your 100 units if you'll only get 102 units (in today's money) back in a year? Much better to hold on to it.

Because if you don't lend, you keep your $100. If you lend, you get back $103. $103 will always be worth more than $100, regardless of whether your currency is inflationary or deflationary.
It's a relatively well studied area of programming pedagogy, numerous studies have shown students struggle with those concepts:

https://student.brighton.ac.uk/mod_docs/cmis/past%20papers/c...
Yet some women feel demeaned by being referred to by a corruption of the word "girl", perhaps in the same way many men would take offence if you called them "boy". Not to worry, though; next time I encounter any such complaints, I'll tell them that you said it's not demeaning, so their feeling are an illusion.
Especially with in fact misleading title. Where's 4k here?
This is pretty cool !

I worked on a similar problem during my bachelor thesis[1] : I wrote an algorithm to remove clouds from NDVI images (used for deforestation detection[2]). We used fourrier, moving windows and some ugly hacks to detect and interpolate cloudy data. There are some details in my report.

[1] http://ape.iict.ch/teaching/DiplomaReports/2009_Rebetez.pdf

[2] http://terra-i.org/terra-i.html
Find happiness. It may or may not involve your job. If you're unhappy with your work because of your salary, you're going down a rabbit hole. Optimize for happiness.

Otherwise, the best advice I can give is forgo the equity and take the extra $15k in salary. It acts as a baseline for your next job and it's cash you can use today for savings or material goods.

Unless you're a founder or a VERY early employee in a quite successful startup the financial upside just isn't there. The upside has to be a good job that compliments whatever it is that makes you happy.
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It's context, isn't it? I wouldn't appreciate you calling me "dude" in a business setting, but I wouldn't mind in general. Likewise, I can imagine scenarios in which "gal" would be offensive, but this just isn't one.
+1 I want to know as well. Normally, we will get some trouble of setting up and capturing photos on flight :)
Yup, that looks like Paris alright, overcast and grey!

Except for today.
In the example of buying a laptop, the laptop is not the deflationary thing. The deflationary thing is the one that increases in value, not decreases. Dollars (or whatever) are the deflationary thing in that example. They increase in value compared to the laptop (you get more laptop for the same number of dollars).

Therefore when you compare Bitcoins to the laptop, you're comparing the wrong things. The argument is:

"People will not spend deflationary currency [Bitcoin] on stuff [anything] because it's better to simply keep the deflationary currency [Bitcoin]"

the reply is:

"People do spend deflationary currency [Dollars] on stuff [laptops] even though it would be better to simply keep the deflationary currency [Dollars]"

Dollars are deflationary relative to laptops.
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adplz, I can do wifi ssid sniffing using 0 lines of code and only using my mouse. Oh yeah, and Wireshark. But that is irrelevant according to lloeki.
I was pretty excited about Google Drive when it first came out due to its pricing and integration with my current Google account.

The syncing just isn't where Dropbox is right now and not where I need it to be. I would oftentimes get errors for small files that Google Drive couldn't sync but Drive would provide few cryptic descriptions as to why. I've switched back to Dropbox because I'm running multiple OSes and environments and I take their pricing as the cost of being able to use something that just works.

I'd be interested in a backup service directly from Amazon though...
Thanks for the insight :)

It's a project I am really proud of. I will try to repharse it.
Squeeze1 has launched Startup separates the good ideas from the bad. 
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This might sound unscientific but let me say it anyway. It also helps if you have "green thumbs"! I have tried every trick in the book till I've gone blue in the face, but couldn't bring up even a fritillary (pun intended!) in my garden! When my friend William joined me in planting, as some kind of a "boys' day out" (we had seriously good fun mucking about and talking all nonsense, thanks for asking ;-] ), those plants decided to grow and flower and fruit with a vengeance! I feel good for the OP (@hp50g) who get it going at virtually no effort!
Don't forget that your cost of living (rent, food, ...) is probably lower in the Netherlands than in SF. And you get all the social benefit from a European country (cheaper healthcare, cheaper education, ...).

It's hard to compare US and European salaries.
I'm sick of the tasteless supermarket tomatoes and want to grow my own. How far north are you?
I'm sorry, but a 30% chance over 4 cases doesn't equate to "must have happened". There's a 24% chance it didn't happen with rather simple statistics.
True, but the result is the same whether the child was "picked" from an embryo with a disability or if he was born fine and then the parents injured him in a way that gave him the disability, which would be considered totally despicable and illegal.
I used to love Google - I used pretty much every service they had to offer. But in the last few years I've found myself distancing from them - I've replaced all but a small few (Reader, Email and Docs) of their services and I intend to get the last few over with.

Why? I'm not sure. I guess Google, to me, used to be about pushing what's possible. With each service, Google created something that surprised and impressed me.

Lately, everything they do seems to be rooted in aggressive data mining and advertising. Google is almost psychotic in controlling users for data. They feel threatened by Facebook, enough to force and wedge everything into Google+. What does Google even know about social? Why would they feel the need to move into that area?

Google can't seem to make up their mind on what services they feel like running. It's not just Reader, although that was the final straw for many. Over 40 services[1] have been axed by Google so far. How many more? Can anyone rely on Google for anything, and when they neglect services millions rely on AND host them for free, how can one realistically compete?

Is Google+ just yet another 'this is how to do something' - like Wave was? Just a demo. Just a way to 'kickstart' innovation in something? Now look Google Glass - is it really an innovation to help us or is it just yet another front for data mining? Makes you wonder doesn't it, if Google cares so much about data why they cancel so many services.

Google have an overall terrible attitude which I only feel is getting worse. I no longer trust them with my privacy, which is why I'm migrating almost all my online services to ones hosted on my own server - At-least then I can stay away from the ever prying eyes of Google.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...
Squeeze1 has launched. would you eat 10 cockroaches?
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Hehe... Good luck in your new career, I hope it's a good fit. The last lawyer-turned-software-guy I met decided to go back after a couple of years!
Err, I did. Look at the picture provided it's the authenticate step that's the problem. Alice wants to send Bob a message. Alice contacts public key authority and says give me bob@bob.com's public key, encrypts the message and sends it. So far so good.
My brother released a very similar project about 8 months ago.[1] He never did properly announce or document it so it's no surprise that nobody else is using it.

Of course, it's not like rendr has any real documentation, either.

However it has been working very well for us, so it is validation of the rendr approach.

A quick glance at their documentation indicates a very similar design, comparing the two projects should be instructive.

1: https://github.com/wvl/highbrow
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8 spaces?

Probably because this is similar to the Linux kernel programming style. Many of us learnt C from the kernel or projects that follow it's coding style.