skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've looked into it and at the moment I'm still in doubt about localizing in cyrillic/arabic/chinese/japanese. If I do it, it will have to be a complete implementation, along with T9 filtering, wich frankly scares me because of the vast amount of information I'll have to digest to make it work properly.
no you shouldnt. look at any medical science, exercise physiology, psychology etc. papers. All you see is data gathering and basic statistic analysis (anova, t-test etc.). Basic stats is what they teach at the undergraduate level to scientists and engineers.
Probably not anytime soon. Right now a 4 year old kid can beat the best implemented Shor's algo (http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v6/n11/full/nphoton.20...).
(Everpix founder here) You'd be surprised - our subscription rates actually tend to prove people are more than willing to pay for what we want to be a high-quality and very innovative photo platform :)
I just see three flat blurry doodads. I assume the center one is supposed to look like it's sticking out of the screen?

The Nintendo 3DS didn't work for me, either, so maybe I'm just broken. Likewise for '80s stuff like Rad Racer (red/green glasses).
This --^ :)
I'll add on the following requirements.

Working QoS
IPSec (roadwarrior config w/ certs)
CoDel (big plus but optional)
VoIP (optional)
I completely agree with the gist of this article - taking a risk right now as an engineer is in no way dangerous. Not saying it won't be 12 months or even 6 months from now and taking a risky job can set you up for a bad time later.

That being said, for those of us who are hiring engineers, this should be a great opportunity to bring in some of the folks who are more risk adverse because it is safer.

Also, I'm not sure what the author is talking about with regards to murder rates. Unless I am missing something this map [1] seems to suggest there have been 7 homicides in SF total this year, which is a pittance for a major city.

[1] http://www.crimemapping.com/map.aspx?ll=-13628867.85079543,4...
I have to wonder what a good comment gives that a good set of tests wouldn't also provide, plus all of the extra benefits that come from having automated tests? It seems like they both exist to solve the same problem (to explain intent, show usage, etc.), with just one being more formal about it.
I think this has some interesting applications in spearphishing etc:

You know the Bob Boss uses IE so you send a link to a "specially crafted" web page that uses an image like this to show the boss a completely smart solution (place high value object in this location inside vault) and ask him if it is OK. Now just get Bob to forward the link to the web page to Alise who uses some other, known web browser and she sees a map with a location outside the vault.

Just a thought: for now if you own the server anyway you can just do browser sniffing and send two completely different images..
The following links are very old posts by pg, so we can't
assume the algorithms stated are still accurate. None the
less, they should give you a rough idea of what was tweaked
to put less weight on time.

2074 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704

908 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417

Also, it's kinda neat to see the progression by comparing
the two.
Thanks for the feedback. I see that this is an issue for some people (mixing contacts with groups in different accounts), I'll try to come up with a way of overcoming the limitation.
The problem is described in a support article: https://fliple.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/182665-i...
And what exactly happens to your pictures if the company is bought?

Looks like a good service, wish they had a clearer privacy policy and some guarantees.
That sucks. Where in Berkeley? (Since I was just about to move there.)
Do you have this backward (computing a derivative is algorithmic, computing an integral is analytic)?
I really don't think I'm the one who's failing here. If you'll excuse me, I have to get back to programming embedded systems in C++.
That's fine if you have a team disciplined enough to write useful comments and keep them up to date. Personally I haven't seen that very often.
If the person doesn't have a picture assigned, there will be no animation, just the name (see this screenshot http://flipleapp.com/img/screenshots/AltLayout.png)
I've also been thinking about this irony the past year or so. The startups that most evidently have their shit together in terms of product, design, branding, etc. are in a way the least "believable in", since they seem likely to quickly become catnip for acquirers. Sparrow, for one.
Wilson's point is not that math/stats aren't necessary for most research. They are. He admits it. Instead, he argues that there is an ample supply of math/stats researchers to collaborate with, so you can get by in science being mathematically illiterate. I disagree.

As a grad student, I did work in experimental quantum physics. Emphasis on experimental. There were only a handful of places on Earth where theorists could go to test the sort of stuff we could do in the lab. In a very specific corner of scientific knowledge, we were the choke point. We collaborated with theorists from all over the world. Many of them could do things on paper that I could barely understand. I had to understand them to test them though, and they helped me greatly. I'd be rather disappointed in Wilson if he was happy to test theories he couldn't understand!

I think the message shouldn't be that "there are people to do math/stats for you if you want to do science". Perhaps you could get by that way, and perhaps Wilson has been able to con people into thinking he's good when he's testing things he doesn't understand. That takes a completely different skillset than math/stats I suppose, but I don't find it admirable.

Perhaps a better message is that you don't have to be a hardcore theorist to contribute to scientific research. You need to be able to understand what you're doing, but you don't need to be a genius who covers every surface around him in incomprehensible symbols while gibbering to himself gleefully. (Yes, these people do exist, and they are sometimes awesome to have around.) Theorists are just one kind of scientist. Experimentalists are every bit as important, but their skill set is different. Theorists can wave their hands and make assumptions when solving problems. Experimentalists have to think things through very pedantically because assumptions usually bite them in the ass. Theorists can tackle a different problem every day and move between wildly disparate fields on a whim. Experimenalists have to stick with one problem for months or years at a time. Experimental work involves a lot of craft and patience.

So no, you don't need to be a mathematical genius to be a scientist, but I wouldn't want to be an experimentalist who can't understand what he's doing!
Yall should stay in SF. You won't like it here.

1. No beach
2. Snakes
3. Scorpions
4. Coyotes
5. Steel guitars and country music
6. Guns
7. Heat kills everything, you better love the color brown
8. Few sidewalks and biking is a misdemeanor downtown
9. Everyone is obsessed with football and
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan
What about other classmates who didn't tell what they saw? I think they're not quite guilt-free as well, in case they really saw of course.

I didn't quite get for what her mom was arrested ("warrant out for her arrest").

Btw, was your wife able to receive the stolen amount? (And maybe something on top of it, for compensation....)
Django and mongodb - Daniel Greenfeld and Audrey Roy
Didn't work too well for me on iPad. If I clicked an arrow, it would slide across but hide the left 100 pixels of content until I manually moved it in to view.
http://lifehacker.com/5976082/browser-speed-tests-chrome-24-...

http://www.zdnet.com/time-to-take-another-look-at-firefox-70...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-17-firefox-10-ubu...

googling is not rocket science.

and these three links are only the newest ones, there are more from 2011.
It's disgusting how people will blatantly steal "every day" items and think nothing of it. I've played soccer for a decade, and I've lost countless soccer balls because people will literally pick up a stray ball and walk away with it. I always make sure to put my contact information on all of my balls with permanent sharpie, but it doesn't matter. I've only had one person call me with my lost ball over the years.

I've never had my bike stolen, but people have "borrowed" my bike before. This has happened a couple of times in various places, but sometimes I'll be in a hurry or on an errand and don't have time to lock (or a place to lock) my bike. I remember a few years back I ran into the library to return a book and just kept my bike parked right outside of the door. I wasn't gone for more then a minute, but when I came back out some guy was riding my bike around like it was nothing. Yelled at him to get off my bike and he ran away.

Bikes aren't the only thing people "borrow" though. Shovels, tools, toys... People have taken them right of my patio and just left with them. I usually find them in the next neighborhood or somewhere in the woods after a few weeks.
Ah, I thought you had something against coax itself :-). I agree, but pragmatically there just isn't a real alternative to the local cable monopoly. Maybe U-Verse, though AT&T isn't my favorite company either.
It would be interesting to try the same attack via email attachments, i.e. get Bob to check an image with a contract, then forward it to Alice saying 'this is approved' but the wording of her contract is different to the one he read.
I think the GP is saying that a tenured professor typically has the option of a wide range of job freedom. You work on pretty much what you want and when you want. The GP is contrasting this with being the head of advertising at Google, which one might guess is fairly demanding.
This was extremely painful for me to read at the default font size. This is the first time ever that I found the text so ridiculously small that I actually went to the css to look at the formatting.

#entries p {font-size: 13px; ...

:(
I don't really agree. Which is to say, good comments are helpful, but they are a flashlight in a dark room. If there's lots of furniture and clutter in the room, you still might trip over something.

How many times in your codebase have you seen a comment like:

// This exists because that dumb thing happened,
// and during the migration from Y to Z we had to
// support these two systems simultaneously. This
// component mediates between the two . . .

And someone had added some common logic into the mediator, then someone else had hooked into that, and now there's a snarl.

The most important thing is that the system be as simple as it can while still performing its intended functions. We have all made a first cut at something that ended up being three times as verbose or complicated as our second. You want a system made out of pieces of the second kind. That's even more important than comments.

I can definitely understand the desire to reduce lines of code, because it's often a good proxy for understanding how complicated a system is. Not always, but most of the time, something a quarter as long that does the same job is doing it a simpler way.
This makes sense for most of us.

But if you want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Elon Musk, do you work smart but not that hard or do you work smart and work hard like they did?
TSA agent spills the cremated remains of a passenger's grandfather and laughs
Also the movie Sunshine.
Since you have been voted to the top of the thread for this comment, can you be more concrete on your complaint?
I would not use "Metro UI" Microsoft stopped using the term due to trademark dispute with a Metro AG. I recall seeing a notice to msdn developers requesting them to stop using the name some time ago.

I have no idea if it was a valid claim, but easier to just avoid the hassle.
I try to avoid having to write implementation comments. If I find I need comments, then it's a warning that I may be too clever by half. I prefer a description of what the function is supposed to do rather than how it accomplishes it's goal.

Even so, there are some times when I need to write some mentally dense code to accomplish several competing goals. It is then where I explain what's going on and why the code was built that way.
Christ, how happy I am living in Europe. Such horror stories make me ashamed of our Western world. Sometimes, we're no fuckin' bit better than the countries we accuse of behaving badly.

State-sponsored hacking, DPI wiretapping, censorship by private companies on "copyright" grounds, ignorance of human rights...
But you'll find most Texans have never left the state of Texas. Texas is just that big. By and large the people here are very isolated.
I think this would make a lot of sense for Lisp or Clojure, at least when starting out.
ARM says its chips and Linux will sweep the industry, from embedded to servers
I also paid recently, because this is the only service that I know of that lets me share e.g. baby pics with my family only, and creates attractive web albums automatically, but still let them download everything as a zip file.

I too was stumped by the seeming lack of organization, but if you use a tool like iPhoto or aperture, you can organize things by events as opposed albums. I hadn't really used events previously, so that took some figuring out.

Look for me it works pretty well once I did. I can generally let it just sync all my pictures from all my PCs and phones and so forth, but when I need to I can make an event in something like iPhoto, and then share that as a photo page with the zip file download option for my sharees.

Well worth the money so far, although we'll see what happens to their 'unlimited' storage when I really try to upload my 500 GB Aperture collection (which is only that big because I'm too lazy to ever delete photos)...
Good stuff. I sold a bike on gumtree in the UK. Inevitably the guy turned up and wanted to take it for a ride around thr car park to get a feel for it. I asked to keep some of his ID just I case he just rode off and he handed over his wallet (which later was found to contain some a4 paper wedged in it). He just rode off and gave me the finger.

Fortunately I was fairly fit and healthy then and I sprinted after the bugger. He tried to change gear and paniced and messed it up and I pushed him off the bike. Scuffle ensued but he managed to get away.

A call to the police resulted in an officer turning up the next day. Description given and the instant result was "oh I know who that was", he wad arrested about an hour later, I was asked to attend the police station to identify a photo of him and that was that - 6 month suspended sentence and community service.
D-Wave's advancements are very interesting to me for a few reasons. The first is that initially many people suspected D-Wave was a scam, because the most successful research efforts in quantum computing used just a few qubits, and D-Wave claimed a massive improvement (something like 128 or 256). Scott Aaronson (http://www.scottaaronson.com) was perhaps the most vocal critic. Over the years, the criticism has softened, and D-Wave has managed to get a paper or two into Nature. I think the truth of what they've achieved is somewhat less than what their marketing machine would like to suggest, but it's nevertheless very impressive (and D-Wave is certainly a place I'd like to work at if I could).

To clarify, D-Wave has not developed a general-purpose quantum computer, and in fact the term "general purpose" is kind of ill-defined for quantum computing anyway. Right now, there are a lot of different quantum effects that are used in different ways to accomplish specific tasks. I believe D-Wave's device uses quantum annealing to solve certain optimization problems, but someone check me if I'm wrong.

The little I do know about quantum computing relates to my area of study: simulation. The computation required to exactly solve the Schrodinger equation scales with 2^N for the number of particles (or whatever basis the equation is set in). Even the largest supercomputers are incapable of doing more than a few atoms [which, incidentally, is actually what I'm attempting to accomplish right now for a project that I should be working on instead of posting on here...] Anyway, with quantum computers, the scale would be O(N) instead of O(2^N), so you could perform incredibly accurate simulations that reach chemical accuracy. Chemical accuracy is kind of the holy grail of simulation, because what it means is that you can predict actual, macroscopic chemical properties of a variety of substances without doing any real-world experiments whatsoever. I believe it has been accomplished for things like pure hydrogen and quite a few bosonic systems (bosons are easier to simulate since they don't suffer from the fermion sign problem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_sign_problem).

Anyway, I probably sound like I know more than I really do, but hopefully this gives you an idea of what kind of applications a real, working quantum computer could be used to achieve.
A frog design inspired post: step outside the box (of Internet)
Litecoin is the result of some of us who joined
(Everpix founder here) BTW if you love what you see, come join the team:

Our goal is to build the photo platform of the next 10 years, designed from the ground up for people's larger and larger photo collections, and today's photo taking patterns.

We have infrastructure scale (millions of full-res photos synced per day), cutting-edge photo science like nowhere else (3 level deep convolutional network type of semantic image analysis), and pixel-perfect design. We also have revenue and above average subscription rates.

We're looking for backend devs (Python + MySQL + Linux), sys ops (AWS) and Android devs. Sorry position descriptions are not posted yet, but if you're interested, ping us at info_at_everpix.com!
Heh, I see... Well, if you decide to add some support for that, I would love to help (you can find my email in my profile).

I have no idea about arabic and of course chinese/japanese is somewhat strange, but for cyrillic it's the same as for latin, just different symbols and a bit more of them (so like АБВГ on 2, ДЕЖЗ on 3, and so on). I can provide layout and info about additional letters which we don't usually show, but use (like Ë and Ъ from Russian and Ї from Ukrainian).

Anyway, thanks for good work! :)
It's a magnetron. It what makes our microwave ovens work.
Affordability will come, the really difficult problem with the techology from a portable perspective is you need an exceptionally low temperature and very low vibration environment otherwise you'll never anneal.

Yer qubits get too warm and shakey in your pocket...
I highly doubt he's bringing in $100M for Google. I think he knows $100M worth of Google's secrets.
"Mandyam used Chinese consumer and enterprise IT vendor Huawei as an example of how ARM chips are deployed from its smartphones through to its network infrastructure equipment."

LOL, and especially Huawei with their track record of vulnerabilities is quoted here. I'd guess if someone ever finds a low-level vuln in Huawei-specific hardware, he'll be able to fuck up stuff everywhere.

Diversity is not always bad.
$200,000 a year . . . buy Model S in cash . . . are people really comfortable spending more than half of their annual take-home on a car? I feel like I would not be.
pfisch's comment refers to "most" sciences. Here you have listed "medical science, exercise physiology, psychology" as examples of fields for which knowledge of basic statistics is sufficient for publishing work. Of course, you have excluded physics where undergraduates should (at the very least) understand geometry and calculus, topics in modern algebra and probability theory. If we consider electrical and mechanical engineers we have to add linear algebra to the mix, as well as somewhat non-elementary material in odes and pdes. In computer science and (modern) biology there will be an expectation that one can solve linear recurrence relations. This list could be expanded in various directions.
I was writing about grad school. Talking about my hobby projects that have been "in production for a while" would have been out of context. We can talk about those elsewhere if you want. Also note that this was about Mechanical Engineering. We Mechanical Engineers are indeed not very strong at writing "large scale" enterprise level software, even after years of industry experience. The only CS PhD graduate so far from our lab wrote [1] and this seems to have been not too bad in terms of quality because it had thousands of happy users and is now a successful commercial product.

The point of my comment was that you, and many others here and elsewhere, seem to assume that completing a PhD requires very specialized work only, which is wrong in my experience. I did not make any comment about whether PhD graduates have the skills that match the requirements of the positions that you are trying to fill.

Your focus is exclusively on coding habits and you do not seem to assign any value on other skills. It appears to me that you are seeking highly specialized people whose only expertise is the production of high quality code. In that context it seems rather amusing that you are suggesting that others are too specialized to be useful. Maybe PhD graduates are in fact too generalist to be a good match for your positions?

[1] http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa
This all happened around her lunch break - so it is very possible that no one was in the room to see it, or the few people remaining didn't notice it. This girl who stole the card was the one sitting right next to her - so it was pretty easy to lean down unnoticed.

Honestly - I don't know what her moms charges were - all I know is that the detective on the case mentioned that when he followed up with us post the girls arrest.

Luckily there were no successful charges made - the first three attempts were all for PS3s at GameStop, Target and BestBuy - then it seems she went to the grocery store and attempted to buy a small purchase of gum and soda (according to the police, this is to test if the card is working). We did get a payment of the stolen cash which we valued at $10 (it probably was closer to $8, but we weren't certain and we were told to round it to $10 then). No additional compensation though on top of that.
That's just not true. Perhaps you're in a specific field where your statements are accurate, but the level of statistical analysis exhibited in a large segment -- dare I say the majority -- of current biological literature is still at a very basic level. You wouldn't believe how many biologists and chemists have only a working knowledge of the basic math they need for everyday work. Wilson is entirely correct.
I've used the term just to describe the UI in one word to the HN community. I haven't use the term in the app itself or any official description (landing page, App Store, etc.).
Whoever sold/delivered the car/warranty/service plan/loan to you sells your information to these sketchy companies. So they know where you live and when you bought the car and which car you have. From that they deduce when your original warranty is likely to expire and send you the scam letter.

In this case, since the author didn't actually buy the car, maybe he took it in to get it serviced and THEY sold his name, address, car make to the scamsters (or something like that).
Couple of things:

- REALLY needs an Android uploader

- I'm using Picasa on the desktop. The sync tool works if I direct it to my Picasa folder, but things like photo rotations aren't applied. My lens doesn't record orientation so I have to manually rotate some photos in Picasa - this info is lost in the uploader so some of my pictures in Everpix are sideways - this is a showstopper for me.

Solve those two things, and take my money!
I found this to be interesting. Good to see Hollywood using real code. You can use this on resume :)
See neural network deep learning :-)