skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would it work? The 100 km space hops are puny compared to the 11,000 km distance between Beijing and New York.

ICBM:s do it by flying trajectories with multi thousand kilometer apogees, crossing radiation belts etc. It's cheaper that way than going into a shallow high speed trajectory which requires almost orbital speeds and higher energies. (Even this wasn't obvious before ICBM:s - they worked on atmospheric cruise missiles like Navajo in parallel.)

So, point to point does not look very synergistic with these suborbital technologies. New York to Europe is around 6000 km, still a factor of 60. Transatlantic point to point is far closer to orbital flights really than these space hops.
Does that mean from now on, rather than "Copyright © 2013 Kailuo Wang", I have to say Copyright © 2013 my Email address ? Does it mean that if someone steal my photo without permission and removed copyright information, other people can just use download it from there and legally use it however they want because they cannot contact me?
Doesn't seem to work. Try: meddbase.com
http://statsgram.com/www/meddbase.com

It says we don’t have google analytics – we do
It says we don’t have robots.txt – we do http://www.meddbase.com/robots.txt
It says we don’t have a site map – we do http://www.meddbase.com/sitemap.xml
It says we’re based in the USA??? That IP is registered to the UK – in fact it’s got the wrong IP. It says 216.239.120.187 – we’re: 217.194.211.66

Any reason for these catastrophic inaccuracies?
let's fight subjectivity with subjectivity
> running roughshod over the little guy

I assume that piracy of games behaves similarly to piracy of music and films, both of which have had research published suggesting that while piracy harms large, blockbuster style releases it actually helps sales of smaller, more obscure titles.
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> If you can have a 32 character password it is more likely to be forgotten.

I disagree. There are many long passwords that are easier to remember than a short password. Just to make up an example, I might use "WakeGrindTampInfusePourSip" as a password--it's the sequence of actions that lead to my morning caffeine fix. Compare that to a password that must be between 6 and 12 characters, with one lowercase letter, one capital letter, one numeral, and no special characters. Nothing in my life maps readily onto that schema except for my AOL password from 1996, so I'm going to make something up on the spot, forget it immediately, and rely on the password reset functionality every time I want to log in.
There are three possibilities:

1. Google wants to monetize the novel features of Glass
2. Google is bound by licenses for the technology, and is unable to open source certain bits
3. They will open source everything eventually, but decided to rush this bit for publicity reasons
I'm not impressed by this "life's best work" stuff because (to be blunt) most people never produce anything worth caring about in their careers. It's not that they're stupid or lazy or lack the talent. They just never get the opportunity. Most of the work people are paid to do mediocre garbage and not allowed to push further.

If Steve Jobs deserves credit, it's for giving people permission to excel (or, I should say, not getting in their way).

I am going to post a primary about why Steve Jobs succeeded.
Meh, i think it's more about having to many stupid laws. Lying to a federal agent is 5 years, even if you don't know they're a federal agent? that's madness.

I think your approach of making everything hard, really just makes government expensive. The flip side, looking for fewer and more specific crimes frees up a bunch of resources to do the job well.
Ask HN: fields that computerized glasses could disrupt?
What fields do you think technologies like Glass, combined with computer vision and machine learning, could disrupt?

Some random ones of mine include:
- Analysis of plants (for gardeners): tell which ones are healthy or not
- Mineral mining: see which rocks might contain precious minerals, rather than guess-and-check
- For sports players: project where players/balls are going to be in the near future, draw it (overlay) on your vision
- Learning of any visually-oriented task (like what though?)

What ideas do you see being useful?
Thanks for the insight. When you mean "grab my lovely grid", do you mean just view the grid in Fireworks to see how many pixels apart everything is and code to match it? If so, I'm pretty suprised the mockups are "pixel perfect". Seems like mockups are a lot of work. That's done twice.
No, I mean I want to develop it on my operating system.
I feel like the key difference between STEM and software jobs is that STEM jobs are typically niche jobs, but software applies to all fields. Every company can benefit from a good software engineer so there's huge demand for it and I don't see it ending any time soon.
...but then I'd have to send them my phone. ;-)
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I think you mean 8-bit, which allows for 256 colors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth
Knowing how to find the answers to such question is an element of being an expert - not knowing all the answers, but knowing how to find them.

Djanjo, Python, Rails, and PHP can run find in a Windows environment, but the community is rooted Linux (and OSX to some degree), thus the amount of quality resources available for your research is greater. Same goes for .NET - more Windows information is available compared to Mono.

Being able to make the best choices for a project is a valuable skill.
Sometimes you only need to have 2 - if they are like Nestle or Exxon ...
People who don't care about rankings don't usually go to the trouble of distinguishing Wharton from Penn (i.e. "Penn wasn't the highest ranked school I got into.")
/light hearted jab
Quartz: America’s tech talent shortage is a myth
Taxonomies make the Law. Will folksonomies change it?
...and then I'd have to have the person in India with my phone turn on mock locations, and then be constantly borrowing someone else's phone. I'd probably have to get another personal assistant here in the U.S. to follow me around so I can borrow their phone and task them with updating where I am to the resource I hire in India.
I think postmark and mandrill (and maybe others) do inbound email processing and then fire a webhook. Maybe hooking those together via zapier could provide a solution? I haven't actually used any inbound mail processing yet (or I'm ashamed to admit, zapier), but it sounds doable.

p.s. Hey Bryan!
If I understood you correctly, I abandoned any attempts to medically (or psychologically) cure yourself of this problem? Do you think it is not curable?

I am not sure how many people here have the same problem, anger appears to be less prevalent than depression, but in case there are more people suffering from the condition, or people who do not realize they have it, perhaps you could do a writeup of your experience with it? It could be helpful.
Snippet: "...There’s just one problem. That whole skills shortage? It’s a myth, as was amply illustrated (yet again) by a report this week from the Economic Policy Institute:

http://www.epi.org/files/2013/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-...
It caused a global outage for SSL access to their cloud storage. Two years in a row. Close enough.
They say that because it isn't their money they are spending.
The discrimination towards extreme youth is all about money, because they can pay them 1/4 what a senior developer would ask for. They also will probably do a bunch of free overtime and not complain, until they've been there a few years and realize the shaft they are getting.

I was surprised how little the young Sr Android developer at Google makes. They obviously hired him to pay him as little as possible as compared to an experienced lifelong developer. Google I guess doesn't care about bugs or experience seems like most tech companies they just want to keep pushing new releases to get you to buy and upgrade to them.

The Sr Android developer is constantly complaining about a lack of free time on his google+ page and has been taking a lot of leave. He's yet another young developer working obscene amounts of hours so Google doesn't have to pay for extra employees.
If Not for Android, Where Would the iPhone Be?
I am still studying (last year) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Human resource professionals say they've seen recent college grads text or take calls in interviews, dress inappropriately, use slang or overly casual language, and exhibit other oddball behavior.

If only we could convince the human resource professionals that earth is doomed and there was an effort underway to recolonize another planet.
It's not as if they were making us a gift... As soon as they sold their first device it was required by the Linux kernel GPL2 license to release the kernel source code.
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How much of this is influenced my vendor participation in schools?

I experienced a situation in a US university where a computational statistics program was more about SAS than the theory in general. The program was more about a brand certification, than an overview of tools and techniques.

IMO, the approach in a public university is poisonous.
TLDR answer: in about the same place, with Samsung still being their biggest competitor using something other than Android as their mobile OS.
Aw I really wanted to see how Craigslist would appear to see if there is any discernible difference, whatsoever.
The Microsoft v. Motorola Order on RAND
Paul Buchheit -- Gmail inventor -- tweets, "Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money"
I think Microsoft is sort of a special case. Fifteen years ago they could attract the best and the brightest with below-market salaries, both because they dominated the software and computer industries (so your stock options were worth a lot, and your work would be on a computer in every office and every home), and because it was a fantastic place to work.
Though I want to note that the US News and World Rankings have gotten a lot of flack for the issues with their methodology.
It looks like trolling, but I'm trying to extend the benefit of the doubt.

What a wonderful way of completely deriding any meaningful discussion possible.
It was just harder, because prior to CALEA the police had to ... install a machine to perform a wiretap

Good point. Let's say you're a company like Facebook and the feds come to you with a warrant; would you rather service that warrant yourself (CALEA style) or have them install a Carnivore inside your data center? Which one do you think is going to do more damage?
The Nikon D2X has a voice memo function, but often there is no time to do this either. I would rather see someone develop an external RFID reader (http://www.icarte.ca/) that can dump RFID data (name, title, company) read off of a name tag INTO an appropriate metadata field in the camera.
Well, it's not exactly what you want, but there's this site about how to do old school effects in software on a modern PC.

http://insolitdust.sourceforge.net/code.html
Python Module Hijacking
But the point is that a '90s copy of Excel running would not remotely be able to consume and display a modern .XLSX data file. Going back to the original point, this is why it's impressive that Wikipedia are able to display their site to such an old browser, and ironic that MS doesn't.
> non-asynchronous XHR is unusable, and unused.

I wouldn't say this at all. We could have gone in a completely different direction with Javascript, even back then: spawning numerous lightweight processes running userspace code which then sit in a blocking "receive" state whenever they want to wait for the result of an XHR. In other words, Javascript could have been Erlang for the browser, instead of the odd OS7-like cooperative-multitasking abomination we have now.

(What we did get are Web Workers, which are full OS threads you can't even message if they're doing something synchronous. What's even the point of these?)
20 or so years ago, I've got a Hercules card for my dear old 386 machine - Good resolution at the time, but just two colors. There are couple of good games - Star Control II, Trolls, etc. that I've liked and what I did was first to disable the VGA detection, second was to find where the back buffer was in the game, and if there was none (Star Control II), point to my allocated.

Then on the fly convert 320x200x256 colors to monochrome - I mean it was very silly - just pick one of the bits - and with some experiments it worked (no, it's not the way to go in general - but I was able to play).

That was dog slow, but it felt like smoking something, getting high - it didn't matter that the game was unplayable (10fps or less) - it was the fact that it worked!!!
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I didn't know that US News were considered a reliable source of ranking schools (if schools can be ranked at all). Isn't US News a for-profit magazine that has figured out SEO really well?
A case management system and a wiki has typically been how I have done this. It can be a little tough though because these tools aren't necessarily built for this type of workflow. Perhaps RT does a better job than some of the other options which really want to be a support ticketing system or a bug tracking system rather than a change management system.
Disrupt what industry? Google is the only player right now.
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It's only interesting until the need arises to go elsewhere. Then it becomes really bad, since MS doesn't make it easy after you are too used to not paying attention to the pitfalls of lock-in.
Did you check youtube? A lot of old demos are recorded there.

I should put my 4k's up myself, except that the best one (featuring a real-time software synth in ~1100 bytes of the 4096), I've only recently been able to get it to run on someone's ancient win98 laptop :) No luck with the DOS-box emulator, so far...
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You missed a massive category: the schools ranks 20-100. I would describe a school ranked #40 or #60 in a major as really good. Not top 20 good, but really good. There is a bigger difference between the #50 school and the #200 school than there is between the #1 school and the #50.
It's dishonest in that the paid-for version has a different model of piracy. Is that one accurate, or is the model in the for-free version correct?

The reality is that piracy does have some effect on game sales, but for the non-game designer it's not clear how much this effect is. Having a realistic unbiased simulation of the effects of piracy would likely do the most to convince those who can afford games to reconsider their choices.
They have 300 million users. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/13/opera-300-million-u...

Not exactly SCO.
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If suborbital tourist and scientific flights to 100 km happen every day, they could conceivably use some technologies and operations approaches that are also relevant to orbital launch.

Think of how you attack a complex problem - you can't solve everything at once, but you try to break it into smaller ones. If you build a complex piece of software, you try various concepts on a proof level, then rewrite them until you have something workable, then integrate that to your big software. If you are smart, you also use libraries that were first started for projects that did something totally different but had to create libraries on the side.

Same here too. In my opinion, hybrid rockets will not be relevant for cheap space launch in the long term, but commercial construction and operations of carrier airdrop, the shuttle cock re-entry and gliding return are something that probably will be fine tuned a lot by Virgin Galactic (operator) and The Spaceship Company (builder).

They have picked a path with a high dry mass penalty (glider wings) and quite a lot of complication (a whole extra aircraft) but they certainly are in a very exclusive club, having flown safely to 100 km, twice, with a human pilot. Their approach makes sense for an airplane company. A rocket company would build a normal liquid rocket engine that could do it from the ground and come back and land vertically again.
Aren't Azure's prices exactly the same as Amazon's?
None of the rankings are "reliable" at all, but since they're all flawed, might as well go with the one that is the de facto "standard" within the US.
Most of the stuff that I learned for my job happened either during internships, self study outside of classroom education or on the job. College Education for CS Majors is years behind the industry requirements.
We've been living in that 'sad world' to a while.
The problem with recruiting and the interview process is that very little hard data on anything. People just guesstimate everything. If we assume that young people are about as good as old people (when they were as young and experienced), then the most plausible expalantion is that there has simply been a change on social convention.

Some young people apparently have learned the social etiquette that it can be okay to text during discourse without it being rude. Social etiquette evolves and there's a clash of values. If the interviewer was as young as the interviewee, maybe there wouldn't be any problems with the texting.
Their ranking has been around (and well-known) since at least the 80s.
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Tiny technical school in Hoboken, NJ. Just outside of NYC. I've ran into a few alumni on here (small world).

I like it here, I'll admit - I was bummed that I was waitlisted for CMU, and it's still something I think about to this day. But I really, really like it here, and it's led to some interesting professional opportunities.

Rankings are bogus, this place felt right.
If we are currently undergraduates, should we answer "attended" or "do not hold a degree." It is important to be consistent.
Native JSON support was only added in IE8.
> I'm pretty sure the most recent version of Excel will open a document I created in the '90s.

Backwards compatibility is not the same as forwards compatibility, you seem to be confusing them.

You expect an application like Excel to open something made before by an earlier version. MS knows how to handle that format. However, you do not expect Excel 95 to open a xlsx file, it was a format that did not exist when Excel 95 was created.
If you can't boot into Safe mode (I couldn't on a rMBP with 10.8.3), you can perform the following sequence to make it boot to Safe mode (source https://discussions.apple.com/message/21366643#21366643):

cd /sbin
sudo mv fsck_hfs fsck_hfs_orig
sudo cp -p /usr/bin/true fsck_hfs
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reboot, log in

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reboot

cd /sbin
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Nobody should pay any attention to these rankings.
You should be prouder, UPenn is one of the best state schools in the country!
If the program is broken, bicycle repair might be a closer analogy than painting. Bug-hunting certainly works in pairs.
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To your point about demand: there already exists (in some fields at least) certs you need to legally do certain types of work. To the best of my knowledge, only a certified PE can sign off on a bridge design, structural analysis, etc.

To your point about unemployment and the glut of STEM grads:

There's two things going on here: whether or not we want STEM grads, and whether or not we want to employ them.

I posit that yes, we want STEM grads. Unless you want to go into academia and focus on the humanities (and in turn deal with the circlejerking that goes on there, or at least appears to go on there; there is a credible case to be made that this is true) STEM is a baseline training you must have to not end up in the service industry. You learn to create things--real, tangible things that progress the race--or you're ultimately fucked.

We can't with a straight face recommend that our kids become English majors or medieval studies majors in this economy--I'd encourage my kid to take those courses on the side (you always need breadth!) but not to forsake an employable skill set. There will always be time for reading, for books, for learning and arguing and doing all those things that make the humanities wonderful and rewarding; picking up an education in hard sciences or engineering is hard, and should be attempted because it doesn't lend itself to being a hobby.

So, no, I think the push for "we need a larger pool of nominally-capable STEM grads" is totally reasonable.

The other question, though, is do we employ them?

The difference between a competent engineer and an awesome one (substitute coder, developer, or whatever) is huge. It makes sense that an innovating company is going to want the best of the best, and that thus we expect the employment percentages to reflect that. As for the blub programmers, there are many companies that are past innovation and thus can use ass-in-chair devs to maintain their COBOLS and SQL queries. The existence of the large STEM pool helps the long-tail of companies that need those okay devs.

I think it's a really complicated subject, and there is a lot to explore.

I'm more concerned, honestly, with the seeming derpiness of our brethren in regards to politicizing their self-interest: shit like the DMCA, state taxes on net commerce, etc. all seem to fly because the tech industry (rivaling if not exceeding energy, healthcare, and finance in importance to the US economy) doesn't protect its interests. For fuck's sake, it's like we're still the stereotypical 20th century nerd picked on in school and letting ourselves get bullied by the status quo. I'm more worried about us growing a collective spine than getting screwed by a .biz/.gov/.edu conspiracy.
The most important differentiator between Google Now and Siri is that one is visual and text based whereas the other is only voice activated.

I do not speak English in an American, British or an Australian accent and I disabled Siri on my iPhone in less than a week after I bought it.

This alone expands Google Now's market by a significant number.
Not quite. The following shows what doesn't work:

(def $ js/jQuery)
(.each ($ "body") (fn [idx, val]
(.write js/document "In a lambda")))

The Google Closure Compiler munges names of functions so that any function declared in ClojureScript cannot be called from jQuery which means that no jQuery function that takes a callback can be used. And you really want to use GCC because without its dead code removal a simple helloworld.js file takes more than 700kb.
I totally confused myself with the "iio Linux Kernel subsystem" https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/693/127_iio-a...
What is the difference between kernel source code and the source code for google glass framework? I'm having a hard time understanding this concept. If they released their kernel code doesn't it mean they released their glass source code?
The exact quote is hacking the system so that more people program, not "everyone can learn." The article suggests that there are barriers in place that prevent some people from learning and prevent some people from programming.

The contention is that hacking a way around, under, or through those barriers is a good thing for everyone, but it makes no suggestion that every woman, or every poor person, or everyone who doesn't grok pointers should somehow be a programmer.

Maybe they actually would prefer to paint.
From a practical point of view, at 500 karma you get the ability to downvote comments. They may have changed this number by now though.

Otherwise, it's a marker signifying what people like that you wrote, and (for downvotes) what people consider unacceptable on HN. That's the main signal I get/give from downvotes: "I wish you hadn't posted that".
I want topics on social networks
I wish they would do something like this with Wiktionary. A dictionary doesn't need all the flexibility of wiki-syntax, and having the data in a stricter structure makes it much more useable.