skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amused by 'entrepreneurs' whose focus is on getting funded rather than building a business.
This post is not about Google - it's about Microsoft.
Yeah, look at those last two shots. Lots of retouching, no human hands look like that.
When I try to think of scifi that really seems like "the future", I have a hard time thinking of any movies. But I can think of some novels that fill the role. The one that comes to mind most immediately is Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, which revolves quite a bit around super advanced nanotechnology and AI. I could see a film adaptation of that being fairly awesome.
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Well, I'm going one step further. I'm building something to replace them.
There are certainly interpretations of QM that are deterministic. See many worlds, for example.
I used that during my last semester and it was awesome. I set it so that my README.md would have my schedules, books to read, homework assignment, etc. I'd update it as the term would go on. I was able to keep track of all my projects at a single place even though they were unrelated, and I also took notes during the lectures. With how they display .md files, it's really easy and quick to take notes and still have something decent to read afterward.
Somehow I suspect subscribing to Bloomberg Businessweek will not, in fact, change what Millenials prioritize or help them get a highly paying job.

The idea that "everyone should buy their own house at 22 and sign on for a 30 year mortgage" is a horrific scheme concocted by federal and corporate bureaucrats hell bent on building a compliant worker class. And it has effectively fallen apart: if Bloomberg Businessweek readers (do they exist? I've never met someone who reads it) want millenials to start making substantial financial commitments, the best they could do would be to, yeah, create some actual jobs for people.

And, sure, there's the alternative of renting. Which is fine if someone wants to do it--in fact, I got out of my parents' house ASAP after spending a year of menial labor to save up enough to start on my own. But people living with their parents is hardly some absurdity or perversion. In fact, it's a pattern that's observed cross-culturally and has occurred throughout history. Probably most people throughout history have lived with parents, up to and including during marriage. Today people still do as well.

If anything, it's the idea that everybody needs to have their own house and their own car and their own backyard that's the perverse one.
http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum....
Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication Can't Stop Account Hijackings
FYI, where I am, people other than pensioners pay a small annual registration / insurance fee to the ambulance service to avoid large fees upon use of the service
I been using Go for few months now and love it.
> If I were to do it over again, I would rather be an Alaskan fishing boat operator than a software engineer doing 99% of the stuff that paid programmers have to do.

I usually find your comments thought provoking but as somebody who is familiar with this industry I assure you that this is not the case.

No need to even go into the conditions, which are probably more horrible than you imagine (in terms of the work itself, workers' physical safety, interpersonal interactions that usually range from unfriendly to physically abusive, and overbearing managers which we all know you despise). Those are obvious. But if you think that VC's exercise undue influence on the tech industry, and if you chafe against this kind of control (as it seems you do), you would not enjoy an industry where people doing the actual labor and putting their lives on the line (really) make very little compared to the extremely large companies that bankroll the operations and distribution.

A nitpick, I know, but... software development is still not a bad industry to be in compared to most.
You saw the same movie, but you missed his point: this is the same future that folks in the 70's were predicting, and not one as his own generation sees it.
Or even better, source maps support.
In some areas (those with municipal ambulance services), that's exactly what happens.

In my case, I volunteer with a combination career/volunteer fire/rescue/EMS agency. Our 'operating costs' are payed by taxes, but if you use the service, you get a bill ranging from ~$100 for a routine BLS transport to ~$500 for a 'significant' ALS call (lots of drugs and advanced interventions). We don't itemize, but we do adjust billing based on what was done.
"without the JVM" ... "Once the JVM compiler is up"

Does not compute! :P
Perhaps I'm missing your sarcasm, but 2500 years is a very, very, long time. Never mind the last 2500 years - just think how far technology has advanced in the last 250.
Perhaps instead of attacking the author, you could have requested their comments as to why they require an API key.
Gtalk's OTR is not real.

http://beforeitsnews.com/libertarian/2013/01/how-to-do-encry...
Unfortunately, I think we're basically at an impasse here.

I've described a scenario whereby a Go program that embedded untrusted safe code could fall to memory safety vulnerabilities. To be exact, it creates a slice of interfaces and accesses the slice in a racy way in such a way that it calls virtual functions at the same time it inserts, causing the slice to be reallocated. Then an attacker sprays the heap with addresses of shellcode. This results in arbitrary code execution when calling a virtual method.

You're saying that this is so unlikely as to be implausible, as it's never been observed in practice and might not even work. That's fine, I respect that position. We'll leave it there, and agree to disagree about whether this is a concern relative to languages like Erlang that are designed to be 100% free of memory safety problems. :)
It's possible (in fact almost certain) that we don't know anything, but it's unlikely that we're missing something that would make it easier to accept: any true theory of physics would have to explain nonintuitive experimental outcomes like the bell inequalities or the "free will theorem".

FWIW, if one bites the bullet and assumes the equations mean what they appear to mean then it's a lot simpler than you might think. My first thought on looking at the diagram in the article was "well duh".
Oh I see. I'm a beginner programmer and I just started learning PHP with Apache yesterday. I was up until 3AM installing and configuring it all along with MySQL and MyPHPAdmin last night. I thought by your post that I should be learning something else instead ;-).
"The fact that one must watch out for integer overflow on a buffer size calculation for malloc, realloc, etc."

This should be considered evidence that C is not a good language to use in code that needs to be secure or reliable.
The standard answer is the Bell inequalities, but if you only care about deterministic vs. nondeterministic then Conway's "free will theorem" is a bit simpler.

(The result is that either which quantities we choose to measure must be deterministic, or physics must be nonlocal (i.e. what we do in one place can change what we measure in another place even if the two experiments happen simultaneously), or the results of our measurements must be nondeterministic)
Sounds very useful, mind if I take a look?
They just changed the images - now there are only numbers.
We went from big CRTs to flat touch screens. What more do you want? A flat touch screen is a pretty practical form, unlike a CRT, so it is kind of the reached target of an evolution imho.

Surely gimmics like screens in tshirts, glasses, and what not may appear as well, but a flat hard device simply is a good useful form.

I also never saw them charge their devices by plugging them in the wall. There's something that's pure sci-fi for us: actually long lasting batteries.
I found Oblivion to be an homage to some of the best sci-fi over the past few decades (Moon, The Matrix, Independence Day), an effect that was ruined by the feeling that it took itself too seriously to realize it was an homage.

In terms of derivative sci-fi, I think Oblivion really reinforces the author's point.
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Excel's CSV export has a lot to be desired. From what I've tried, it doesn't export data in Unicode and exports non-standard CSV that many parsers choke on.
1.) Twitter is also asymmetric

2.) I'm pretty sure that what seemed like a good third of the sixties Batman TV show episodes involved Batman showing up to the Bat Signal only to have it have been a trap. (and yes, I consider the TV show to be the canonical Batman).
I think the point was that we've already seen all of those things. These ideas are the future of a writer making TV in the late 60s. Where are the new ideas of our future?

I'd agree the space race inspired amazing science fiction that mostly dried up by the end of the 80s in popular culture. Since then it's been super heroes, robots, and reboots.
I've worked remotely for over a year on multiple occasions. The article sounds right to me. You absolutely need your own desk and office, with a door that closes. There is no substitute.
If you're start using a private repo for education now but go to grad school do those repos remain free?
Sorry but I am highly skeptical. I have been watching developments in this area for forty years. There's an announcement made with amazing claims. You follow up in a year and find the numbers always never worked out. I'd love to see an audited statement of their first year results with one of these units.

It is easy to believe they've achieved some sort of breakthrough. But having spent twenty plus years as an agronomist in a previous career I can tell you there's only so much that you can do without bending the laws of physics.
"Excel can easily export CSV files, which are easy to parse"

'CSV' and 'easy to parse' do not go together that well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Toward_s... also is instructive:

Nevertheless, RFC 4180 is an effort to formalize CSV. It defines the MIME type "text/csv", and CSV files that follow its rules should be very widely portable.

[...]

Each record "should" contain the same number of comma-separated fields.

[...]

Fields containing a line-break, double-quote, and/or commas should be quoted.

[...]

The format is simple and can be processed by most programs that claim to read CSV files.
Github as private wiki, interesting.
This. The main problem at Indian undergrad institutions is lack of good teachers. And that is because of poor pay. I went to a top colleges at one of the decent universities (a step below IIT / REC). I had exactly one great teacher who was passionate about his subjects. 10-15% were decent. But most of them were a joke. And my friends at other colleges under this university, too, had similar experiences.

Apart from good pay, another reason for having poor teachers is reservation / quota for teaching positions. So even if someone doesn't deserve to be teaching, one would be doing so just because of his/her caste.
> ... necessitated by new technical demands

As a bystander, this comes across as "we aren't smart enough to figure it out", or "we are smart enough, but this is a business decision with ulterior ("evil") motives". Neither of those look positive for Google.

I don't expect multi-person video conferences to work, but plain old textual messages, as already work today, shouldn't be a problem.
I see an awful lot of C and C++ projects that generate large numbers of warnings during a build. It would be pretty easy to miss one like that.
Used Computer. Asking $400,000. (It’s an Apple-1)
Dystopias have always existed; a few decades ago it was nuclear holocaust, now it's ecological destruction, but visions of a destroyed Earth are nothing new.
I think one of the more interesting parts of this interview is how 'Adam' talks about the relationship between Blackhats and Whitehats. As someone who's always been interested in the computer security world (but never been part of it) I assumed it would be much more adversarial, but it seems more symbiotic than anything.

"There really isn’t a hatred of whitehats from the blackhats. In fact, quite the opposite. If we stayed with viruses from 2000 because we were never challenged we’d be so out-dated and not capable of making a tenth of the amount of money we make currently. Most blackhats love whitehats for that reason."
I've been doing startups since the mid 1990s†. There is no reasonable argument that says that it is harder for tech people to get funding now than it was in the 1990s. It is much, much easier to get funding in 2013 than it was in 1999 (which was the last time I got funding):

* There are more investors doing deals now than there were then

* The deal size needed to start any given company is lower and investors are playing along with that instead of holding out for deals they can shove 8MM into

* More technical people with no previous operational experience are getting funded than got funded in 1999 --- you can just look around to see this; bubble companies still needed grey hair and/or Ivy MBAs to get off the ground

* Companies have better pre-A-round options (particularly, syndicated convertible note funding) than they did in the 1999s, when "angel investor" meant "best friend's rich uncle gives you $200,000"

* There are more people with operational experience in software companies staffing VC firms

In 1999, if you were a software developer with a good idea, a working prototype, and just a little bit of traction, but no experienced operators and no inside track, you had no realistic chance of getting off the ground with external funding of any sort.

Your whole argument stems from a flawed observation and so, I think, falls apart when the observation is shown to be incorrect.

I do not like venture fund financing either, but the hyperbole you bring to these arguments does my own dissatisfaction with the model a disservice by presenting an easily dismissible caricature instead of an argument.

† From 1995: 1. Bootstrapped ISP with mid-double digits FTEs, 2. Angel-funded product company that exited successfully, 3. Venture funded product company that failed, 4. Venture funded product company that eventually exited successfully, 5. Matasano; I had key/sr/mteam roles at all of them and founded 2.
Google flies a kite
Caramel-colored rubbing alcohol sold as scotch
Of the recent Sci-Fi movies I've seen, I find that Ghost in the Shell feels the most like what I think the medium term future will be - Highly uneven distribution of ever more sophisticated tech and a much more gritty day-to-day existence.
At a guess, when all screens had similar aspect ratio, a length measurement was more convenient: you can measure it without a calculator, and people can hold their fingers apart and think 'about this big'. We don't seem to have the same kind of intuition with area measurements.

I suspect widescreens have a bit of both. For watching videos or having two documents on screen, a widescreen does make more sense.
Would you knowingly trust an irrevocable SSL certificate
25 decades is 250 years, not 2500.
I'm pretty sure you're being downvoted because your comment didn't add any value to the conversation.

Beyond that, we see a "don't be evil" comment every time a Google-related post comes along.
I removed them from Github to leave place for the next semester, since we are limited in private repos and I didn't made them public since they also have answers to some homework.
Yes. But it's handy for sharing links and, once reader is gone, be central location for similar items.
They don't say that it is 36 % larger - they used images that are 36 % larger. But as someone else pointed out they are reusing the image for all models, for example also for the 11.6" one. Admittedly even the biggest display is less than 36 % larger than the iPad.
One of the biggest disadvantages plaguing Indian education system is quota / reservations - 50% of the seats are reserved. So which means half of your peers are there just because of their caste / gender.

Even worse, quota exists for teaching positions too. So half of your teachers are in that position only because of their caste / gender and not because of mastery over the stuff they are teaching.
>motorcycles that won't fall over

Which company is this?
What about the "select" statement for it's remedy?
The site has gone down, so thanks for the pastebins.

Idea for a site: A pastebin that uses nice typography, instead of monospace... Perfect for this sort of thing.

Is there a good one already os shall I make one?
I suggest you alter your assumptions of how many hours you can get in a day. If your monthly budget depends on you billing 8 hours a day, 20 days a month you are setting yourself up to be disappointed.

I know that, by in large, I can bill a 30 hour week, assuming I have a full time project. Between not billing for restroom or mental health breaks, random trips to Fry's for a new hard drive, etc... those tasks can eat up your calendar.

When I have little client work on the radar I assume I'll be able to get 20 billable hours a week in- the rest of the week is eaten up with Buisness development, meeting with new clients, estimating projects etc.
If it wasn't the same future as predicted in the 70's, it wouldn't have been Star Trek: they may have thrown away all of the later canon, but they couldn't just start over... it wouldn't be the same universe.
Think of the various ebay scams that exist right now around these issues. For example, I have friends who purchased a zpad (kid Ipad) and had a "no questions asked return policy" for 90 days. They sent it back week two and the Chinese company claims to not receive it until day 92. At least my friend could file a complaint so that others would not fall into the same trap. What kind of recourse would you have with bitcoin?
I forgot that C# added more asynchronous stuff since I last coded in it. I used to love C# but it's more verbose than Go and I'm weary of the obfuscated MS documentation that pushes me straight to blogs. Also I gave up on using Windows for web development.

This is the first I've heard of Nimrod.
Tesla pays back loan, scores one for electric cars
Also, one do it the other way around: use SQL queries to read (and update!) Excel files. For examples, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306397 and http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Access_Excel_Sheets_as_a_Tabl...
Can I terminated the contract and remain a customer?
2013 Logo Design Trends
A tethered, flying wing that generates power as it loops through the sky
Not only wiki since I also had a lot of source code throughout this. Also, since they added the feature to create files from Github, I used that a lot when I had downtime at my job so that I could work on school from Github. It could also be used in group projects I believe (unless we can't share those but I didn't notice if it's the case).
Well some persons are ready to trust Go even for this
http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.de/2013/05/the-reliability-of-g...
So long as you're a student, you qualify. After you graduate you get to keep them until the two years expires.
Apropos of nothing, Google Glass is remarkably similar -- right down to the design details -- to the navigation glasses used by the bad guys in in Star Trek: DS9. The resemblance is uncanny enough that I have to believe somebody at Google was inspired by the show.

More apropos of the topic at hand: sure, the current version of Trek could be said to be lazy in its futurism. And futurism was certainly a big part of the original Star Trek. This is, after all, the series that gave us such geek staples as the replicator, the transporter, phasers, warp nacelles, and so forth. Even the "cell phones" used in the show were, back in the '60s, freaking crazy by the standards of their day. In a very real sense, yes, it's a crying shame that the new interpretation of Star Trek is not making the bold leaps forward that its predecessor did.

On the other hand, this new interpretation of Star Trek is an attempt at returning an increasingly greying, idiosyncratic, and narrowing universe to a broad audience. It's about mass appeal. It's about emotional storytelling. In some respects, I don't fault Abrams's Trek for not reveling in futurism the way the original Trek did. Abrams has very different strategic goals in mind.
We're very far from the target of the evolution. The screen is still physical, it's not even an in-air projection yet.

And having a screen is itself redundant when you have glasses with true 3D overlaying, where you can just make a screen appear wherever you want with the size you want.
1/4 of all americans struggle to afford food
FWIW, if you'd really prefer to be an Alaskan fishing boat operator than a software engineer, that option is open to you. I have a friend that spent 6 months on an Alaskan salmon-fishing boat before taking a job at an economics consultancy. He said the work is back-breaking, the job conditions are dangerous, the hours are insanely long...but it was overall a pretty good experience, because he learned that maybe office work wasn't so horrible. (He forgot it a couple years later when he quit and decided to party it up in Thailand off savings later, but that's another story...)

Also FWIW, I used to think my mind was Olympic-class material as well, and certainly had the test scores and comments from accomplished adults to back it up. Maybe it still is, but I care a whole lot less now, because I've learned that beyond 120 or so IQ, EQ matters a lot more. And if my mind is actually that awesome, I could use it to increase my EQ rather than complain about how nobody recognizes how brilliant my IQ is.
Not a big response. Bump, cough..
I don't necessarily disagree with the article so much as view it as tangential to the movie's real problems. What I missed most was that grandly optimistic vision of humanity; the idea that we could transcend its baser, violent instincts and rise to become something nobler. Into Darkness seems somehow... smaller than that -- cops & robbers writ large. Of course, I guess that's true about a lot of the Star Trek movies, so perhaps this is just my nostalgia for the most philosophically engaging of the ST:TOS episodes showing.
Or some Autohotkey script to simulate something similar on a full keyboard. Either investing time into a script or money into a physical keyboard are probably your best bets if you're looking at 4 weeks of something that is going to impact your daily work.
From one top comment:

Buildings with rods didn't get struck; buildings without, did. And the conflict was finally settled, once and for all, when a church somewhere in Spain was struck by lightning, setting off explosives that were stored underneath, leveling the town and killing most of the people in it.

I couldn't find references to this. Does anyone know any?
This has been replicated in traditional private equity as well, especially when the IPO market softened significantly during the financial crisis.
Field portable x-ray (DR, even) and US is pretty widely available. Probably not something you'd put on even a normal ALS truck, but on expedition medicine or if you had to set up a facility in advance, were far from a permanent facility, etc. I've seen DR used for tb screening quite frequently (it avoids exposing the expensive radiologists to the field...); US for midwives for ob/gyn also makes a lot of sense, and I've seen those used with GSM or 3G backhaul of images to a radiologist.

Probably the best use would be to have x-ray capability in the truck to verify placement of endotracheal tubes. Shooting an adequate chest film is something you can learn in 5-10 minutes (although, licensure requirements...).

(I've seen fairly portable CT, but in the sense of "shipping container with 1-2 day setup"; there are of course the CT and MR imaging trucks too.)