skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're there so that you can look them up, but they're expected to justify your claim. It's not a scavenger hunt either.
The web app was made by my wife while attending Hackbright Academy in SF. I'm really proud of how much she's progressed in such little time, so wanted to share what she made with everyone.

http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/
Is Mathematics one big tautology?
The Typography of Code (Adobe Max 2010)
Google Animation for Saul Bass's Birthday
I wonder if it would be possible to make it so the player could win...

<!-- Player 1 score (tip: um... it never changes) -->

Changing the speed to 0.2 and watching the CPU player keep up was fun, though.
Awesome. Just arrived from Melbourne and brought my bike with me - my poor legs will be very thankful.
Interesting post. I decided to use Django for our startup because Python was a requirement, we're planning to have a lot of customers, and Django seems like the most appropriate choice for large scale apps. While I've mostly used non-rel databases, I'll be using postgresql as a database, because it seems to be highly compatible with Django, because Heroku makes scaling it easy, and because it's a good occasion to learn some RDBMS.
Just tell him you're really a chat bot that has become Sentient. Still wouldn't be the weirdest person on OK Cupid.
Very interesting article, it makes me hopeful.

This might be slightly off-topic, but I'll try it here anyway: can anyone recommend any books/other learning resources for someone who wants to grasp neural networks?

I'm a CS student who finds the idea behind them really exciting, but I'm not sure where to get started.
Yes, I know Stephen Larson and some of the other OpenWorm guys. In fact, I'm even a member of their organization on GitHub <https://github.com/openworm?tab=members>. Once both projects are a bit more developed, I expect ample opportunities for substantive cooperation; but for now, I'm focusing on data collection challenges, while they're focusing on simulations, visualizations, and data management.
Any offline transaction which is spec'ed with JSON-RPC doesn't pass my apocalypse test.

I'm sorry dude, but if the bombs are flying and buildings burning, just admit it: Bitcoin is not a suitable currency.
Well the downside to iMessage is all of your messages are stored on Apples servers, waiting to be given to authorities at the drop of a warrant. When I said end-to-end encryption, I was thinking more along the lines of the middle man (Apple) not having the ability to decrypt your messages.
SapphireOS: open source mesh network OS for Internet of Things
Ask HN: Does anybody know a service which combines Spotify and mp3s?
Is there any service where I can add other mp3s that I own to an online streaming service?
Rubbers - Australia & New Zealand's no. 1 condom subscription service
Maybe server's down due to HN effect :) Why do you think it's hacked?

Edit: It's working fine now.
0.1, and he turned into Flash.
I am currently reading through the phd thesis of the project: https://casanova.codeplex.com/ A domain specific language for games based on f#. Looks interesting and they have many examples a fully fledged rts included. The thesis is buried in the sourcecode https://casanova.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/2...
Rentacoder had open bidding, which led to bidding wars, which led to failed projects. So they moved to sealed bidding (by the workers) to prevent price wars.

Open pricing may drive out all but the most aggressive talent.
This is a longer more complete recording but is taken with a camcorder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2JePjrDggE
That's per batch. 5 days x 3 interview tracks x 17 slots per day. Which is why we're usually a bit tired by the end of interviews.
I've only tried the website.
Unsolicited Random Advice on Having a Successful Career
Footer toolbar completely missing, state dropdown box missing, country dropdown box doesn't work, tabs at top don't work. Server crash or hack?
Meanwhile, it's likely that the US government records every domestic phone call:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephon...
"they are otherwise useless"
That's simply not the case for the most common mechanical components or engineering constructions. Bridges are fully functional without software. The same goes for buildings (and the majority of components that make up a building including stairs, doors, windows, walls, floors, thermostats, lighting, etc.). Even cars, which have software integrated to regulate many functions are still driven primarily by basic mechanical functions (ignition, combustion, power transmission, suspension, power generation via alternator, etc.).

At a more fundamental level, all components related to mechanical advantage that are so prevalent in our lives, yet mostly forgotten (gears, screws, levers, pulleys, wedges, etc.) are not being replaced by microcontrollers or actuators. You'd be hard pressed to find a better software+electronic component solution to solve the problem that the screw solves.

I assure you, I love software far more than I've ever loved mechanical engineering, but it's naive to think that it will overtake (or even come close to being more critical than) fundamental mechanics. Aside from information and communication, software only serves as a proxy for control over our physical world. I guarantee you that if you were to take a look around, the amount of pure "stuff" derived from basic engineering greatly dwarfs that derived from software.

While we could live in a shittier version of our world without software, we couldn't live in a world without traditional engineering.
Back. Server is back!
Intuitiveness aside, the other major issue with enterprise software is the efficiency of use, and how out of touch it is with the task at hand. They slow you down considerably IMO.

e.g. having to tell the app things it could just figure out, sloppy focus that requires you to fuss with the UI, having to input a lot of text in small text box that won't resize or spell check it, having to manually click a button to auto-complete, modal dialog boxes that block you from reading important info in another pane, uselessly vague or incorrect error messages for easily correctable problems cause you to waste hours guessing what the real problem is, returns no error message at all, oh you're using the wrong browser, oh to attach a file in your enterprise webmail you need to install Sliverlight, oh the web based wiki plugin for your enterprise document system only works on Windows with IE, oh mobile browsers are not supported, let me slowly redraw the screen a few more times due to some .Net + Areo legacy issue and hang your window manager, supports Kerberos SSO but requires to you enter a password, doesn't let you enter a username or password since it uses Kerberos SSO... etc.
The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
To take that a step further, Continuum Analytics has a product called Wakari[1] that is pretty much a web-based, sandboxed, nicely glued together version of everything mentioned in this thread: python environment, IDE, IPython notebook, interactive plotting, collaborative sharing, SSH console, file manager, dataset manager. It hooks into various APIs, S3, etc., and based on my usage so far it is very good UI/UX decisions... almost as if actual scientists designed it.

Of course, it is not free! Right now it's in beta and (I think) anyone can try it though. I'm not sure what their plan is for pricing, although I do believe they mentioned a local install option for clients who don't want their data walking out of the building.

(I am in no way affiliated)

[1] http://www.wakari.io
You were shooting down the article by disparaging web and app developers, claiming that entreprise apps were ooh so haaaaard, implying that they required lots of expertise to build. Bullshit. In actual fact, entreprise software can be little more than a trivial skin over a database, with a sprinkle of domain logic.

The games example was just to show something that is really hard. I don't need the UI to be game quality; I'll settle for just the same quality as Excel.

And by the way, there is some unusable entreprise software out there. You seem unconcerned with the unhappiness its piss-poor UI causes for users so long as it's "efficient".

Take a look at Lotus Notes and tell me just how "efficient" it is.
I think clean energy enthusiasm is rational. The scientific consensus is that emissions are warming the planet, which will have large, undesirable effects. A rational response to that is to limit emissions. We haven't done so, which seems like the irrational link in the causality chain here.
This isn't directly related, but he enrolled in an MIT graduate program at the age of 14? That's incredible.

I would love to see how this project progresses. It has fascinating implications for artificial intelligence and singularity.
Thanks, I will look into this
Rewriting the code base in another language would be considered a 'rewrite'. Usually, ports are in the same language but targeted at a different platform whether that be an OS or architecture, or even something like a different graphics library (OpenGL game ported to DirectX).
Yeah, I haven't updated the site in a while. (This really wasn't the best time for a Hacker News blitz. I was just telling my friend that Nemaload hadn't been on HN yet, as far as I knew, and he simply decided to fix that pronto.) But there have been plenty of developments since November (when I think I last updated the site). I have access to a few candidate strains for pan-neuronal calcium imaging (though the genetic engineering is still an ongoing optimization process) and have collected a couple of large datasets, one on a light-sheet microscope and one on a light-field microscope. Much of the data is useless, and we're still working on the algorithms to extract signals from it, as well as the infrastructure for opening it up for distribution. But there will certainly be more publicly visible activity soon (June at the latest).
come on it was funny
Xkcd: Encoding
So pleased I saw this. I overslept this morning and felt shit about it. Luckily the startup I work for doesn't care when I come in, but I know it will just mean it will be even later before I feel tired tonight.

I've had identical problems for as long as I can remember. It's been so hard to track down the cause. I think it's partly stress/anxiety, but it also definitely correlates with being alone, on my computer, late at night.

I installed f.lux but I haven't noticed any difference. I'll try some of these other suggestions and see if the combination makes any difference.
Haha, we could really use this sort of custom routing in NJ for finding the route using the fewest roads. If I use Google Maps to go to the local mall, Costco, etc. it ends up using about 16 small side roads, alternating left and right turns every block. Takes forever. Meanwhile, if you know what you are doing you can make it there in 3 roads, one a major highway, which is much faster than any of the side roads Google Maps loves so much. Just getting rid of all the turns helps immensely.
That's about right. My end product is also a computer simulation, as far as that goes, but I'm taking an obsessively data-driven approach, motivated by the advent of new technologies for single-neuron measurement and perturbation in living, behaving animals. Meanwhile, OpenWorm is taking a bottom-up approach, driven by physics and other first principles. We'll meet in the middle eventually.
Hispanics, the New Italians
Yeah because the people outsourced from IBM Consulting or Tata to roll out your entreprise software deployments are so much better than terrible games programmers like Tim Sweeney or David Braben </sarcasm>
Tapestry secure $400,000 capital from Commercialisation Australia
Thanks. I just browsed through few tests. Good work :)
I assume the number of interviews is a big bottleneck for you guys. Is the number of applicants continuing to increase?
It may be a rational policy response, but not a rational market response. Tragedy of the commons, negative externalities, etc.
Ask HN: Why Do Bitcoin Startups Need Funds In "Real Money"?
If Bitcoin is the "future of money", then, I owuld expect them to start, operate and being a profitable corporate based upon Bitcoins only.

To me this is a bit like those "SaaS" products out there which require desktop installation...
I didn't say we don't need sleep. I meant more that putting in some sort of effort that then requires sleep to compensate it is a decision our brain makes (or an adaptation it executes), more like putting debt on a credit card than putting fuel in a gas tank. Build up enough debt and you can go bankrupt (i.e. die), but never build up any debt at all and you'll be fine; you just won't have any of the things you could have that required that extra temporary liquidity/leverage to accomplish.

We could probably figure out a drug that would put us into a state where we don't need to sleep, ever--the resulting state just might not be something very much resembling "sentient human consciousness." It might not allow for memory-formation or System 2 analysis, for example, thus making you go through life only relying on the sort of "thinking" you do while dreaming. Animals that don't sleep, or that sleep very little (e.g. horses, at two hours per day) are also likely "stuck" in this state by design.

The real question is whether we could get anything productive done in this state, and that might be possible--it seems somewhat to resemble "flow."
I got this error instead of question #3 for the Hawaii Motorcycle test:

Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/state.php on line 479
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data Scientists
Very nifty. Why does the ball pass through the paddle though?
The query plan for that is simple, but the number of bytes transmitted per query is O(size of table) (as is the disk IO on the DB), which should clearly set off a red flag if you know that size of table can get large. You don't need a large exponent; You need to understand the rough cardinality of values, then you need to look at asymptotic complexity.
In the short term, no- however, it does keep them relevant as time goes on. most of the reason they said they did it, was because they just couldn't be that interested in the game if not playing at that level.
Sounds really interesting. You could try to secure additional funding for this project via Microryza (http://www.microryza.com/), which is a kickstarter for scientific research.
Thanks for this! Cycling is my preferred way to commute, so I expect this to come in handy. I just confirmed that my usual work->home route is in fact the flattest.
Mathematics' tomatodoxy puzzle:

If the name of pi is pi itself,

and the rate of the exponential is itself,

what color is a chameleon on a mirror?
Poe's law strikes again.

I can only interpret it as sincere, or very deadpan.
> I love the idea of a paid working trial of some length

How long of a trial are you thinking of? If it's a significant amount of time, I think this could be hard to do from the perspective of the candidate.

If I'm currently employed, there's probably no way I'm going to quit my job for a month-long paid trial period somewhere else. If it didn't work out, I'd find myself without a job and would be forced to take a hopefully short sabbatical for more interviews (and this wouldn't be possible at all for people who haven't saved up enough money to do so). It just seems too risky.

If it were longer, say six months, I might consider it, but I'd expect a decision to be made well before the end of the sixth month--that way if you didn't want to hire me full-time I'd have time to talk to other companies before losing my income. Even with this concession, I'd have to want to work for your company an abnormal amount to do this, though.

Perhaps a happy medium is a take-home project taking one or two weeks of part-time work, paid for at market wage.
I didn't write "in Turkey", I wrote "in the border".
Well, that's part of the risk-reward calculation, right?

In Founders at Work Max Levchin talks at length about how Paypal essentially had to become a fraud detection company disguised as a payment processing company.

Best of luck to Brian & Coinbase in cracking a very tough nut. Would love to see them succeed.

Edit: This also fits Anderson's quasi-thesis around investing in laughable ideas.
One of the better things I could do for my reputation is avoid associating it with something called "Scoutzie".
Nokia investors tell CEO their patience running thin
The broader point is that material which is lawfully distributable in some jurisdictions is not legal in others.
Looks great! They should really make the fact that there's a $12,000 tuition a bit more prominent though.
Porting is to make something that runs in a platform/environment run in another one.

Not necessarily having to do with coding in another language. Sometimes it's just a recompilation, or providing a new hardware abstraction layer (HAL). But sometimes it can lead to major re-development of the whole thing, be it using the same language, or a different one.
I've thought about doing this too. I'd be curious to know you're thoughts or any resources you've found.
A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night
How to Make Dreams Real - The Startup Guide
The dots used for showing the difficulty can be dragged when altering the route. Other than minor finicky things like that, it seems to be a neat idea. Cool work!
Isn't that what Dribbble and Zerply do?
Isn't that like asking why Visa would use checks in the early days of its existence?
$ !! > http://nemaload.davidad.org/news
Plus, even though credit card companies compete individually, as an industry they all have a strong incentive to work together to prevent fraud. Loss of trust in Visa/Mastercard as a brand would be catastrophic to all issuing banks.
Thanks. Server went down, but is now back-up. Received a significant amount of traffic in last hour!
Great work! UI is amazing and very impressive, except that "zoom" context menu.
The irony of this is that it will most certainly have opposite affect as the FBI wants. Means to secure communications end-to-end will just be built into browsers and other clients that much faster.

Eventually more and more companies will be severely limited in what information they can even with respect to information between any two end users. Most information will end up being limited to information the user chooses to share with the company hosting the service, such as preferences, publicly published information and queries to the service.

Right now encryption typically requires a user to seek out special software with encryption features, but my bet is that encryption will move down the stack to the operating system and browser in a way that not only encrypts private information on the device, but that guarantees encryption end-to-end between users over any service. Full disk encryption is already becoming more common. HTTPS and SSL are becoming the norm.

I'm looking forward to what fruit future research in homomorphic encryption bears.
Works for Seattle, as well. Thanks!
I have experienced, and heard of others experiencing, something even more drastic: when achieving a goal after a long and exhilarating journey, not only was I less happy than during the journey, I was actually depressed, thought the thing just achieved was worthless, and didn't want it anymore. It's like a generalized postnatal depression.
It isnt about party a or b. I supported Obama when the message was hope and change. The actual delivery is realpolitik.

I've worked in government, although not at the Federal level. Commissioners/directors/administrators don't control the message, the elected official does. The fact that the FBI Director isn't spending more time with his family is tacit administration approval of the "posturing".

Read Profiles in Courage. Great leaders stand for their principles, even at personal cost. Yet here we are in 2013 and Guantanamo is still open.
BTW, what you're attempting blew my mind away. That's a nice hack involving many different disciplines, it will be amazing if you can pull this off.
yes, that would be sharing my stuff with colleagues. I only wanted to quickly tweet about you guys w/o searching for your handle on twitter.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/34d62a8efe4c51b2dd73...
meh, it's pretty standard, in this area, to have flexible schedules. Almost as standard as letting us ignore the dress code. As a young PFY, I had a supervisor (who never wore shoes.) tell me "I know we said we have a flexible schedule, but I'm going to have to put my foot down and ask you to be here by noon." And I think even that was 'cause I was the pfy; if I was good enough to not need guidance, they probably wouldn't even have gone that far.

And, as far as I can tell, that's how most valley jobs work. heck, I know guys who work for lockheed martin who keep odd schedules. (The guy I know complains that he gets dinged on performance reviews for showing up late, but meh, apparently he's otherwise good enough that they deal with it. We all have priorities.)
That's awesome. In theory it should work anywhere where Google has elevation data available. She just made it to scratch her own itch, getting around SF.
cool app. The elevation data over the gg bridge seems to be a bit off. Out of curiosity what data set is it from?
> It's not that difficult, as long as the vast majority of users agree to upgrade by a certain date.

In other words, a hard fork. These things should not be done done casually.
Actually, the correct expression is "cohort of pedants."
My point wasn't to moot the question.

My point was to put the question in its appropriate context: it really depends on your threat model. And if that model includes those whom you'd prefer not acquire information having ready access to your house, then no, it's not safe.

Similarly: if that's not a problem for you, it's a perfectly reasonable practice.

That said: I'd probably try to find a slightly more obscure and/or secure location than in plain sight.

Your threat model matters. It includes possible attackers, their modes of access, likeliness of access, the assets you're trying to protect, and how they might be used in ways damaging to you. Any significant discussion or assessment of security should be framed in this context, and it's very much generalizable beyond online, electronic, or data systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model
In the case of Coinbase, they moved $15 million in Bitcoin with a fee of 1%, that's only $150k. They need more than that to pay salaries and operating expenses. You can grow much quicker with an investment instead of being held down by how much profit you have.
You might want to remove your Google API key from the Github Repo.
What did you mean? Didn't work for me. I need this to avoid hills when running in Barcelona :)
What is the fee? I couldn't find any reference on the site, easily.
Actually, I expressly did mention that they offer a sample chapter. I was suggesting that in addition to the sample chapter they might consider (if they want to keep the overall price where it is) selling the book in segments which cost less allowing those who are especially price-sensitive to test drive the content. E.g. Part 1 costs $10 and then the rest costs $29. Silly idea, but I just like to think about this kind of thing.
It's worth noting that the book itself is in fact a Meteor app.
yo david, long time no talk.. did you ever get a chance to make use of this data set?

ftp://anonymous@ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/tjucikas/wormdatabase/results-12-06-08/Laura%20Grundy

It's a few thousand hours of videos of the worms under different stimulation conditions for observing/identifying common behaviors.

We miss you in IRC.
I've been using Marble ( http://marble.kde.org/ ) to show me elevation profiles of routes I bicycle. This site is pretty cool too! (This site works everywhere there's map data, not just SF.)