skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Calibrated Brain wave readers and eye cameras in the corners of your room can see what elements on the screen you're looking at and can execute commands based on certain thoughts.

Brain waves (produced by changes in electrical current in your brain) are weak to begin with, and decrease in power in proportion to the square of the distance (1/r^2). That's why anything that reads your brain waves needs a helmet to work.
Diversity is good. A few children who are not vaccinated is probably in the best interest of humanity. Imagine at some point in the future a vaccine does cause genetic problems, what then? Do you want to risk 100% of the population on that?
Works for some people.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php
A good jumping point would be the "Matthew Effect" - the sociological theory of accumulated advantage. This is usually paraphrased as "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" in lay parlance but it is a legitimate academic theory in sociology. It illustrates a model of wealth distribution - particularly wealth disparity, and how it's somewhat inevitable despite repeated system "tweaks".
You are confused why we don't respond militarily to friendly countries? Ok.
I'm not sure I understand what is trying to be communicated here.

Edit: OK I guess you click on the drop icon in upper right hand corner (I'm on mobile), then you get some context.
Hmm, it's the first phrase of the first link.

About VRM

VRM stands for Vendor Relationship Management. (...)
Someday you may ditch your two-factor authenticator for an electronic tattoo
It makes sense as in it's expected. Economists come to expect this as a "rising tide" - it eventually happens. It waxes and wanes, but it does happen and it's not a grand conspiracy. It's the market fluctuating.
I'm in Chrome and had no problems.

Edit: Never mind, just saw a notification that my antivirus is blocking some malware trying to install something on my machine.
As someone who got their first big break out of college doing QA as an FTE at Microsoft, albeit not in game development, I take some offence with the second to last paragraph suggesting that QA is the lowest rung.
While it is true that much of the software industry treats QA as such, that perspective really needs to change. QA can make or break a company, and depending on your skill level, should be treated as peers with other disciplines.
I know that I came to the industry with more knowledge than many of my QA peers, but what was often overlooked was where I was sometimes more knowledgeable than most of the Devs and PMs I worked alongside.
I am a consultant today, and after 10 years of hard work, have demonstrated my capabilities in other roles, but it has been very difficult to find the right projects to bring these other skills to light. For the past 3 or 4 years, I've been working in Dev and PM capacities, but my inbox is still filled with recruiters that only see me as possessing QA abilities; this is because finding highly skilled and qualified SDETs, or even STEs, is hard.
As long as QA work is regarded as starting in the mail room, this won't change and the good QA employees, like moths to the flame, will leave those roles to less qualified workers. This practice perpetuates the idea that QA is only entry level work and drains the talent pool. As a result, software development suffers.
a worker is a process in this case?
I'll just leave this link here. http://johnkcurriculum.blogspot.com/2009/12/preston-blair-le...
Will State.com become the world's opinion forum?
Anyone else really want Octocat Gunplas to build and paint now?
I will give you my reply tomorrow :-)
LightUp Teaches Kids Electronics With Augmented Reality
Getting Things Done: Why GTD for Sales is the Answer
Yeah, I was a little confused by this at first because Heroku also has "workers" which are dynos provisioned to churn through queued background jobs, but unicorn "workers" are totally different: They're processes forked within the web dyno so a single server can process requests concurrently. Each forked process has the entire memory footprint of the Rails app (about 200-250 MB for us), so the more memory you have the more forked processes you can run on a single dyno.

This reduces H12 errors because the more concurrency you have in a single process the less likely it is that Heroku's random routing layer is going to send a request to a dyno that is unable to handle the request because it's busy handling another long running request. As long as long running requests are the exception and not the rule, this should solve the problem.
The iPad retina screen is 264 dpi. Your face will probably be a bit farther from the 22" screen, but still.
A whole 1.7MB of memory!
ok, since another attempt was sidelined for being anon, and it's the obvious question, i'll ask:

is this related to the rap genius mess?
I'm glad you liked it. Was my first blog post on the site and seemed like a good topic worth tackling to help clear up any confusion.
How much of the population do you want to risk on a comeback by whooping cough or polio or smallpox?
You can/have to put the kids that don't have vaccines under a special surveillance and work around the issue. Should society subsidize those costs? Perhaps.
And it's still horrendously expensive...
Never let that fire go out
Agreed with everything you said. Only thing that's missing from his lectures are the homework assignments, which are only available to those who signed up for the online course (signups are closed now), and I can't even make a post about it on the forums, because I don't have the book. :(
Heroku has always cost more than raw EC2 because it does more.
http://op12no2.me/toys/herd/index.php?scenario=intro
For those who don't know, in CA, you can do a lot of the DMV stuff that you can't do online at a AAA office. Cash/check and membership required are the only caveats.
Ask HN:  Where/how to get the 'typical startup website' theme?
Are all startup websites based on a certain theme? If so,is there a way to easily build sites like it or are they all just built custom on a framework like bootstrap?

Some examples of what I mean:

https://www.quivee.com/

http://sendgrid.com/

http://www.mashery.com/

http://www.twilio.com/

https://trychec.com/

http://cropup.com/

And a ton more!

They're all different, but they seem to share the same underlying theme.
Fast food servers in Seattle are on strike for higher wags right now, so, your analogy is... interesting.
I'm struggling to feel enthusiastic about this one, it seems to be designed more to just do something with Bitcoin, rather than provide any actual innovation.
Could you elaborate? I used to think Heroku was a premium "managed" service with pricing to match, and I paid for it because I really didn't want to think about servers, routing, etc. etc. But I just recently provisioned a small "cloud server" (their name, not mine) from Rackspace and while I was in there I decided to price out a comparable setup to what we have with Heroku and I found that the pricing was pretty comparable, and I like Heroku's horizontal scalability (and how much of the stack they manage for us) much better.
There will always be a few unvaccinated children; some kids can't get vaccinated due to other issues. We don't need more people voluntarily exposing their own children to needless risk.
White Sands is pretty wild.

I went there once a few years ago during the summer. It was brutally hot out and dry as hell, but the sand was so cool you could have sworn there was an ice-rink under it or something. Even weirder though, it hurt to stare directly at the sand for too long since it reflected sunlight so well. I expect that you could probably get snow-blindness from staring at it for too long.

It felt like being in a field of gritty snow inside of an oven.
Well, there are a lot of quantum complications in this scale, the structure of the bounds is totally a quantum effect. And there are some problems with the Newton's Third Law when you consider the electromagnetic field. Anyway the general idea of force-reaction still holds, so it's a good approximation for this experiment. If the tip "see" the molecule, then the molecule "see" the tip.

The problem with your explanation is that the probe is much much bigger than 1 atom. It's a whole macroscopic tip, with a mass of a few grams. The tip of the tip use a single CO molecule, so the prove ends in a single atom, but the atom is attached to a big structure. If the tip were thicker, they would measure an average of the surface under the tip, with a very sharp tip they measure a small area.

The molecules are attached to a silver surface, so they are relatively fixed. The O atom in the CO molecule in the tip is approached to measure the force at each point of the surface. I couldn't find the exact distance but Wikipedia says that in similar experiments the distance is between 10A and 100A. For comparison, a bound between two Carbons in a molecule is approximately 1.5A. So the CO molecule is far away and the force is very small (in the absolute and the relative sense), and the system must use an incredible amount of amplification.

But the force in the sample molecule is also relatively small, so it isn't disturbed too much, and the data that you get are very similar to the data of the unperturbed molecule.

I suppose that it's possible to tweak the setting to decrease the distance so the interaction between the molecule in the tip and the sample molecule is smaller. I suppose that it's possible to use this to make some reactions happen, but I don't remember an experiment with this phenomenon. Anyway a usual problem is to crash the tip against the surface. It's bad for the tip, you need to pick another CO molecule and if it hit the sample molecule it could be interesting. With a similar microscope that use the tunnel effect it's possible to move atoms from one place to another, so it's possible to do things on the surface using the correct settings. You can even do a movie! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637150
Rest.li a framework from LinkedIn for building RESTful APIs
The crow-sourced color of music.
From the terms: "[You may use us if] You have access to a compatible smartphone, mobile device or other device that is supported by our platform." Isn't a web browser supposed to be all you need these days? This looks to be a greater downside than the fact it is US only.
For their entire lives, though?

The potential damage of a viral pandemic is well documented and well known while the damage from vaccination seems, to say the least, controversial. I'm aware of one study linking vaccinations to autism having been debunked as a hoax, for instance[1].

[1]http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/29/vaccine-autism-conn...
It feels like a reasonable idea. You're not going to get much money. Perhaps you should go after the people promoting the anti-vaccine stance instead?

Measles outbreaks are happening in a few places: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22221704) (http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/diseases/immmea.shtml)

Some nurseries in some countries prohibit children that don't have vaccination certificates. That seems reasonable - you can chose which nursery to send your child to.

Andrew Wakefield is a crook. In my opinion he should have paid a huge fine.
(http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html)
hi jesse,
Functional programming provides another way. This is rough POC code thrown together and can be made a bit more intuitive.

https://github.com/dustingetz/monadic-logging-play
> Judges don't wake up in the morning and say, "Well, I would like to do the right thing and declare this surveillance unconstitutional, but there was that Brown v. Board of Education sixty years ago, and so I'm going to punt!"

Sure, but there is definitely a "mood" in the judiciary. If you read opinions from today versus those in say the 1970's, you can definitely see a self-concious deference to the political branches that didn't exist back then. E.g. compare the D.C. Circuit of the 1960's to the current one.
Interesting concept, but I question how defensible this service would be. It seems both Amazon and Ebay could simply offer this as an add-on service, and really...who is going to be better positioned to develop recommendation algorithms for marketing products?
I think there has to be a level of tolerance which is justifiable by science and working around the issue by other means -- for instance only so many kids without a certain vaccine can be in the same peer group. Else you are a totalitarian and we've seen that this type of thinking produces problems.
I viewed the site on in Chrome on a rMBP and it looked and loaded just as poorly. There's no excuse for having basic fallbacks or a preloading mechanism.
You can, however, compare to other anglo-centric melting-pot countries, and the US experience is still vastly worse. And no matter which way you carve it, with the rest of the western world having an incarceration rate between 70 and 150/100k, the US is clearly out of order with a rate of 750.

In any case, your handwaving away of "we have bad social problems" is missing the point. Norway tries to fix them, using rehabilitation in its prisons as one example. The US tries to ignore them, and uses prisons as punishment. It's a point of philosophy. No-one expects that the US recidivism rate would drop to Norway's levels should the focus shift to a Norway-style penal system, but they do expect it would still drop markedly.
Makes me want to build one as a divergence meter:

http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Divergence_Meter
This is exactly when strikes are called for:

"Every job in video gaming has a line of people waiting to take it, and you will be abused at the lower end of the spectrum. Hell, you'll be abused at the higher end of the spectrum. Make peace with that idea"

That is the philosophy of a predator, and anyone that expresses that sentiment to you is dangerous and not to be trusted.

This Ben Kuchera is now a pariah in my eyes.

Read down in the comments and you will see the abuse continue:

"Ben, we've been tearing this jerk a new one for over an hour over at Kotaku even before your excellent article came out. He refuses to answer any criticism at all, it's really pathetic. Come over and join the fun!"

How fun! The original article was authored by a 32 year old man that was working as a contractor for $11 an hour and made to work unpaid weekends and treated in such a way that Ben calls it abuse, and Ben is defending the employers.

For $11 an hour the man has no protections, no safety net and no health care.

And if you read the article you will see that he really tried to put in his best effort, to go above and beyond, and this is what he is met with.

Then Ben Kuchera has the nerve to say "If you don't like it try to do something about it" after he is eviscerating this man for trying to do something about it.

The machines/networks/technology are coming for all of our jobs. In 100 years (assuming strong AI) there will probably be no job a human can do better than a machine.

Are we going to mock, belittle and make homeless other humans the entire ride down?

Ben Kuchera should be ashamed of himself.

Just because there are plenty of kids willing to be abused for a job in the video game industry doesn't make it right, because your still abusing kids.
Can we have a price drop of the "Small" dyno then? I can pay for both a Cloud66 account and a Digital Ocean 1GB box for less than a single Heroku dyno. Im on the edge of switching, but I do really like Heroku and would prefer not to.
I think this is a very libertarian notion that misses out on the social aspects of reputation. What you claim about yourself is often less valuable to a third party than what someone else claims about you. Perhaps you could store signed endorsements made by other people. But then you need support for revocation, and what about negative claims? Free speech includes the ability to say negative things about others.

Social software is very complicated because of issues like this. Something like a personal dropbox is straightforward - single customer, no community. You only have to worry about people hacking you, not what they do to each other. Anyone who gets into social software inevitably sets themselves up for making rules and judging disputes, and that often requires hard decisions.

Or compare email with social messaging; the rights and responsibilities are different and it's due to the software. Personal servers only support setting ground rules in a certain way (for example, the inability to revoke or prevent copies). Centralized services can support communities with different rules, for better or worse.
> Does anyone here think that actual, real terrorists are going to be discussing their plans using anything other than highly encrypted protocols, along with code words?

We keep seeing that a lot of terrorists are quite amateurish.
>>I know that Ben has made his living being an enraged mouth-breather on the 'net for many years now (before Penny Arcade, he was a resident ragemonger at Ars Technica), but really the sad thing here is that he'd still write this.

His ragemongering is what made him successful. He's an immature douchebag and he writes for an immature, douchebaggy audience. It makes complete sense that he would write a piece like this.

I was very disappointed when he was hired by Penny-Arcade. Character-wise, he really, really does not fit in with Mike and Jerry.
It's on the page this post was linked to:

https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit

and on the project page:

http://octokit.github.io/

"Is Cocoa your sword? Let this kit be your shield."

Look, I don't mean to read too much into any of this. I just found it a bit unpleasant, that was all. If that observation is useful for anyone, great, if not, my apology for the distraction.
I would say that the majority don't care, and depending on how you phrase the question, you could get them to swing either way. The problem is that in public discourse, prison rape is seen as a punchline, not a blight.
There's a lot of demand right now for expert-level 1-on-1 code mentoring. Traditional education doesn't come close to providing the skills needed for modern development, and while the resources are available to learn on your own, beginners naturally don't have the intuition for what resources are high quality/best practice. In fact, the lack of intuition I think is a ceiling for the usefulness of online tutorials such as http://codecademy.com. No matter how advanced they get, eventually you need someone to step in with expert guidance to make sure you're on the right track.

Disclaimer: I teach programming 1-on-1 at http://collegecoding.com.

Since moving all my teaching to Skype, I've increased my rates from $35 to $45 to $55 to $65/hr since October. It's just that high quality 1-on-1 instructors are hard to find, and opening up to teaching online gives you access to a large market. I know that learning coding with me is saving my clients a ton of time if they were to try on their own. Perhaps my rates are still too low.

Personally I'm thrilled that services like on-demand mentoring are starting to be offered right now. It's a great time to experiment with new ways of teaching technologies. I've been thinking myself about the best way to scale this.
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Seems a little premature right now. I don't think we're quite at the "explosion" level yet for this type of device, like when the iPod blew up in, what, 2001?

I think we're more at the Zen/CD-MP3 player level... feeling out what's possible with convenient technology before someone hits on something and adds a twist or a feature that makes it click not with tens of thousands of people but with hundreds of millions.
There are others. Boring old Kwikset is partners in one of them:

http://www.kwikset.com/Kevo/default.aspx

Apparently featured on Shark Tank. I would think having a well established retail sales channel is a nice advantage.
Your belief that Perl6 won't go mainstream doesn't lessen their achievements.

Beyond that, your attitude is easy to compare to a 2000s "SSJS will never succeed".
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not certain I'm comfortable with the idea of forcing parents to vaccinate their children either. There are serious issues with personal autonomy there. But please, please let's not fool ourselves with lies about how it might be for the best. That direction lies nothing but FUD and pseudoscience. The question is whether or not parents should be have the right to put their children at risk because they disagree with reality.
Maybe throw the code up on github?
I expect people would be reluctant to use a client not sanctioned by bitcoin.org officially, although I'm not sure how difficult that is. It may be as simple as sending an email to get them to add it to the list.

I would think that any new bitcoin wallet could be introducing a substantial security risk before it has been extensively field tested. If someone where to sneak some code in, or even just screw up a security protocol, all the stored bitcoins would be at risk.

1) http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

2) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet
Oh, I didn't mean it as criticism. I admire that you went ahead and just created a v0 - that's further than I've gotten on my project, that's for sure :)
They are not all using the same "theme," but a few of them are certainly using Twitter Bootstrap as the initial basis of their styling.
Neither. http://www.kwikset.com/Kevo/ is the most likely winner, seeing as its backed by kwikset.

Also, it has a way more appealing (to me) look- No bulky device hanging on my door.
Show HN: Logos in Pure CSS
If this were a real client, it would be an interface to bitcoind rather than a replacement.
Errata:

Change

Since in the i.i.d. case the variance of a sum is the sum of the variances,

to

Since in the independent case, and, hence, also the
i.i.d., case,
the variance of a sum is the sum of the variances,
Government-enforced mandatory vaccination is what really made inroads into smallpox, a disease which is now eradicated.

Respecting the "diversity" of opinions on the issue would have achieved the opposite.
Upvote for the bonus prediction.
On youtube there's a tv show "Australia's Hardest Prison", a max-security prison in WA. In it the warden is seen saying (paraphrased) "we try to do rehabilitation here, and the people you read in the newspapers calling for longer sentence simply don't understand prisons". There is also a grey-haired American prisoner who has been in several prisons in several countries. He has the opportunity to return to the US for imprisonment there, and he refuses, wanting to finish his life sentence in Aus because "it's... humane". Then you can click on any of the "America's hardest prisons" videos and they're all about using fear to keep you in line, overcrowding, so on and so forth. There's no overriding philosophy of embetterment, or if there is, it's merely lip-service.
Mallory is going to college! :)
http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/post/51203084581/holy-fuck...
I prefer the term "semi-functional" for imperative languages that provide some support for functional programming.

It's a loose category, but I don't think it's completely meaningless. At a minimum it requires anonymous function expressions and garbage collection. That rules out C++ and (until recently) Java.

Some semi-functional languages have better support for functional programming than others, of course. JavaScript qualifies as semi-functional, but I agree that its syntax is not particularly conducive to the functional style. ML is a good example of a semi-functional language with very good support for the functional style.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)#Concern_trol...
Sounds like a beefed up Glyde. List your games/movies/books and when it sells they send you a SASE and they handle all the money etc. All you have to do is list condition, item, and price (it will suggest based on market value) then just put the item in an envelope when it sells.

Was the only way I was buying/selling PS3 games for quite some time.
Idoru was pretty much about garbage.
cool it's using django! wait a sec... rake django-admin[syncdb] ???