skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To emphasize the positive here, and to link to some other information about research on this topic, I invite readers to look at the freely downloadable peer-reviewed research articles from the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, which researches the issue of which early indicators of ability may be predictive of different kinds of adult achievement. The study has been looking at spatial ability tests as one of several kinds of ability tests for more than a decade.

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/publications/david-lubinski/

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/publications/camilla-benbow/

I know some of the study participants.
This blog post shows the advantages of the WebP format over JPG and PNG and describes how you can automatically convert all your images to WebP of any quality. A dynamic-loading technique with on-the-fly image generation using jQuery is also explained. Code samples for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node, Django and jQuery are included.
That's none of your business.
Part of me was hoping this was about how people like Nikola Tesla are born.

Edit: Like everyone else I suppose.
> Startup investing is inherently about finding outliers: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html . Its alright if the median investment returns nothing as long as an outlier can return the entire fund. You might disagree with an entrepreneur aligning herself with investors that have this sort of thesis, but it's not accurate to say that the top funds perform poorly as a result.

Putting aside whether you believe that, after digging into the details, the performance of some subset of the top funds is impressive or not, you make my point: if the name of the game is trying to find those companies that will be outliers, we should be able to admit that venture firm pedigree and value-adds are unlikely to provide enough value to entrepreneurs to justify raising capital on less favorable terms than might be available elsewhere. After all, if many funds are made by one or a few investments, which is the case, it's clear that pedigree and value-adds aren't game changers.

So in the final analysis, you should agree that if you need venture capital, it's best to focus on the capital and pay as little for it as you can.
As Intel's revenue slump continues, its CEO points to convertible tablets
This made my day however:

has passed an independent audit from European Space
Agency experts, and Mr Osborne himself has inspected the
test rig on the Culham science park in Oxfordshire.

The ESA has verified the engine, but thank goodness, George Osbourne double checked it all, just in case those rocket scientists missed micro-fluctuations in heat transfer gradients. I mean they were probably all French anyway.

George Osbourne (UK CFO/Treasury Secretary) is getting a lot of political flack, and having his name associated with
UK home grown and based innovative technology is clearly something his press office wanted the BBC to know. Who were too lazy to cut the sentence.
I've used the iPhone 3G+, HTC One, and Samsung Galaxy S4 and they all have tab-based browsing. The Chrome browser even prompts you to "Open in new tab?" if you long-click a link.
The Russia Today was created with the goal of breaking the American media omerta.
Part of the related legal battle happens tomorrow:

"Oral argument on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss will be heard by Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on July 19, 2013, at 10:00 am. "

Source: http://www.ccrjustice.org/targetedkillings
Same in Android.
Shifting the Burden of Responsibility
Well, where's the fun in that?
Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Software Development
Profilr.me | Pull everything together.
No, lack of options is the consequence of "just works in 95% of the cases, the others you are royally screwed"

See rob pike's "thank you Apple" for source on my opinion about the 5% since i never bought from Apple. (i don't give money to companies that profit from format lockin etc)
I'm also a college student, but not sure how much authority I have on this matter.

Grades (I think) are only an approximation of your knowledge. Take them with a grain of salt, unless things like financial aid or enrollment hang in the balance. I've gotten F's on a few exams before, but I've also gotten two fantastic internships. Grades won't reflect that.

What kind of things did your professor dock points for? Simple mistakes? Or are they conceptual mistakes? Do you feel that the exam material is relatively important? And did you learn?

I (personally) wouldn't worry about what to feel, but instead took towards a goal (like working at Google!).
Animal consumption has scaled considerably faster than population, so I don't think it's solely that. The traditional Mediterranean diet, for example, uses much less meat than is now commonly consumed in the Mediterranean countries.

My guess is some mixture of affluence (can afford to import meat from faraway factory farms), the factory-ization itself (meat is a cheap-ish commodity), and decline in cooking skills and time available to use them (most good vegetable-heavy dishes take more time and skill to cook than a hamburger does).
Of course, I understand that. But it lasted so long, through tenured generation after generation. Even though I'm aware it wasn't anyone's master work, it had to be quite frustrating to miss it decade after decade.
IMAP clients can backup your email locally as well...
He never said it wouldn't, either, and our experience with creative people who work in the public eye suggests that this is anomalous. I get that he's not, like, accountable to us, but our expectations were not unreasonable and neither is our disappointment. Of course if you have a gift, you can decide to selfishly guard it instead of sharing it, even after sharing it for so long. Doing so kind of makes you an asshole. Well within your rights, of course.
OVH CEO forbids publishing patches to keep his developers
DIY: A full-featured logging system with Fluentd ElasticSearch Kibana
You might find it worthwhile to look into OfflineIMAP[1] --- it offers a POP-ish experience whilst still retaining the advantages of IMAP.

[1]: http://offlineimap.org/
A well insulated low solar gain building does not need to spend all that much energy on AC. Especially if people are willing to keep the temperature at 80f in the summer. The real issue is energy is cheap so people are more than happy to use it to keep cool. Also nothing prevents you from using geothermal energy to lower energy costs even further.
The 3 “Revenue Killer” Navigation Mistakes YOU’RE Making
Judge in Manning Case Allows Charge of Aiding the Enemy
SO is a community, Discourse is a platform.
The Washingtonian article is very sad, but I'm not sure I buy Tabarrok's take on it. He once again harps on GMP regulations, but doesn't Europe have similar regulations? And the very first page of the Washingtonian article mentions a case where 9 patients died because a substitute PN was contaminated - to what extent would reducing oversight lead to even more such incidents? I'm open to the idea that FDA regulations are an issue but it hardly seems like that's the most pressing problem, given all of the other issues with our healthcare system.
wouldn't it be awfully loud? traffic noise is bad enough in California as it is. Would it be loud inside?
http://imapsync.lamiral.info/

the Similar softwares section is useful...
84% of Americans think occasionally renting out your home should be legal
I'm with you on the upwards trend. I would just toss in some non-linear jumps up as the family grows, and some setbacks as older family members become ill.
I'd prefer they just closed them. There's a difference. Also if I disagree with community moderation I can say so or vote for the reverse action. Not so with diamond mods.

It's also a community site, not my job. Even if I care a lot, dealing with meta is not worth it in most cases. I look through the close votes whenever I have spare time, and would appreciate if other decisions were also taken in the open rather than by one person who may be especially grumpy that day.

I'm not arguing about contents of the questions - some are stupid and deserve closing/deletion. Just want to make sure those decisions are always reasonable, accepted and possible to revert.
Translation:

Last time we shared a patch, someone poached our developer, since then I've forbidden to publish patches.

To someone asking if it wasn't more of an internal issue:

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/357588819287093248
I'm not interested in talking about that.

Then later he rant about "the true motivation of GitHub".
Having spent time in South Africa and Botswana, in the summer, I can attest that it is hotter here in the summer after taking humidity into consideration.

Believe me, it's still hot and arid and the sun is relentless during the day (very long days, but beautiful nights -- the stars are incredible). There is very little shade and most of that part of the continent is flat and in near-desert like conditions.

I lived directly off the okavango delta which certainly cooled things a bit and added a touch more humidity to the air, but this summer on the eastern seaboard of NA is one of the worst I've experienced.
> Jesus H Fucking Christ on a Stick! We are blowing up American Citizens sitting in cafes and legally it's "untouchable".
And I find appalling and outraging that in one sentence you managed to blaspheme against my God, imply that the lives of 6.8 billion of non-American human beings are worthless, and then add insult to injury by whining about the fact that sometimes you end up on the receiving end of own lack of collective moral compass.

There are no words that can express how I feel about this, and at the same time are suitable for this fine audience.
A Liberal's Defense of GMOs
That's a fair point - I think most of us are just currently hoping that it won't.

I'd like to think that if Elon were running it (doesn't look like he wants to though), it wouldn't be a problem. He's a brilliant engineer who designs systems to overcome difficult problems. The 'security theatre' is just a consequence of an extremely poorly-designed system. I'm pretty sure someone like Elon could exploit modern sensing equipment and AI/ML techniques to build a system that is demonstrably better than, say, the TSA, and doesn't require anyone's personal space to be invaded. Who knows - maybe we'll get lucky and 'secure, 90 second check-in' be an integral feature of his design?!
Elysium’s Director Thinks His Hellish Paradise Is Our Future
An Introduction to Digital Generation
And the more that is in the cloud, the happier the NSA are too. It's win-win!
I am becoming impressed with the documentaries coming from KickStarter campaigns.

Indie Game: The Movie

Story of Mojang (Minecraft)

Now this......
Thank you very much for that shakes. Grateful we have you in our community.

We fell short of your expectations today. More later today on how we'll get this right.
In the long wavelength regime, frequency is proportional to 1/wavelength. In fact, frequency=speed/wavelength.
Same class, different instances. ;)
He must be a great boss to work for. Next step: forbid developers to tweet and to write blogs…
Thank you for the update to my knowledge. I'm not a C programmer, and have been relying on older explanations of why C does what it does.
The same thing can be done with IMAP
Is the bottleneck the drug companies, or the distributors?
One man's "anti-corruption blogger" is another man's the "US-funded shit-stirring puppet". It's not all exactly black and white, but it is 100% political.
Still using an office phone? How quaint, and primitive
CSS3 ♥ animation with data-uri
>By small, I meant that you can hold every little part of the syntax and normal behavior in your head pretty easily

Well I think that is where we disagree. I don't find it easy to hold all the rules of C in my head. It's plenty large enough that there are things I hardly ever use. Even the common parts of the language like arithmetic on integer types can get complicated very quickly if you want to be sure your code contains no undefined behaviour or works correctly for INT_MAX etc. Often you have to understand not just what the standard says but also what your compiler/target architecture does for the many implementation defined things.

>Yeah, there are edge cases (important ones even) and you can build god-awful complicated expressions if you want.

You don't have to write long or complicated expressions for things to get tricky. That was the point of this example: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/482 It's a simple function yet mainstream compilers got it wrong for years.

I don't consider these things as edge cases because they come up all the time and have caused countless serious bugs in real world C code.

>By not-doing-stuff-behind-your-back, I mean that you can map the code you write into machine instructions in many cases.

That is becoming less and less true with modern compilers. Vectorizers will kick in at different optimisation levels and depending on various heuristics that I'm not sure even the compiler authors would be confident in predicting for more complex code. They can perform a lot of complicated transforms. Undefined behaviour means lots of code can be modified in fairly unintuitive ways.

>An optimizer will move stuff around on you but it is typically local(-ish) manipulations

clang includes a link time optimizer: http://www.llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html#example-o...
"...the scientific value was questionable..."
It's not his home anymore...
How Cincinnati Became an Unexpected Hub for Tech Startups
> "The parking area in front of an airport is no more or less vulnerable than any other parking lot in front of any other building."

Careful, you might give them ideas. The way things are going I wouldn't be surprised if some variant of this argument was used to expand powers/reach further. Maybe starting with schools ("think of the children!").

What should worry us more is the number of people who seem to be okay with things like this. That's terrifying.
Bow ties are generally considered formal evening wear, not business attire, much like tuxedos.

I'd also actually put the 2 piece suit with tie over a 3 piece suit (with or without tie) in terms of formality/business-attire-ness: 3 piece suits are also not traditional business wear, while 2 piece suit+tie is the IBM/'50s iconic business look, and what you'd see most CEOs/etc. wearing.
Why I'm Returning Google Glass
IMAP of course, but not with the default mail app of BlackBerry 10:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060630 SCNR
Chargify: Recurring Billing, Subscription Billing, Web 2.0 and SaaS Billing
I call shenanigans. In the time-lapse, the funnel "jumps" upward right when the drop falls (0:56). Unless the funnel's mounted on a spring (?), this is a clear indication that somebody interfered with the drip. I declare this video null and void!

...or maybe the video camera just got jostled when all scientists started dancing around in their glee =)
The first thought that popped into my punny little brain was: Why didn't they use a centrifuge to accelerate results?

The one variable that could be controlled is the gravitational force on the substance. If we were on the moon the experiment, as designed, would take far longer to produce a drop. By using a centrifuge they could have easily simulated significantly greater gravitational forces and arrived at a result much sooner.

EDIT:

The Queensland experiment data says that it takes about 13 years for a drop to form and fall [1]. You'd need less than 5,000 g's to make it happen within a day or about 160 g's to get results in 30 days.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caugh...
Show HN: keys - a password manager for hackers
Please help provide feedback on my SaaS experiment?
Hello,

A friend and I are experimenting with a conference room booking app SaaS solution: http://getaroomapp.com/

We built the smallest version of this possible to appeal to non-Enterprise people like co-working spaces and small to medium offices that have shared conference rooms.

I've copied some feature information and links to screenshots below (if you'd like a demo please email us: hi@getaroomapp.com).

We're not sure yet if there is a market for this product, we're still trying to validate that. Right now the app does not tie into other, personal calendar apps like Google Calendar or Outlook, which we understand may be problematic.

On the upside we have ONE paying customer, which we got about two weeks out of the gate. We've had a handful of inquiries (less than 100) but much lower conversion rates (to be expected) unless low conversation rates are due to us not addressing a bigger pain point.

Would love some honest feedback on this SaaS idea and any thoughts on possible markets to target.

Current Get a Room Features
• Shared, Group Calendar
• Support for rooms in different spaces and or buildings
• User Management (add, edit, delete)
• Admin permissions/roles
• All Day Events
• Locked Events

Get a Room Screenshots
• Main Calendar Page: http://cl.ly/image/2T0A3V2B2D08
• Manage Users Page: http://cl.ly/image/3v0t0B1S3y1h
• Create Room Reservation: http://cl.ly/image/1O260r3V2R3a
This article is way inaccurate. It recommends approaches that were maybe important in 1997. It also breaks the "profile before optimising" rule.

Currently the Java GC works splendidly with lots of short-lived, small immutable classes. Using this approach can be far better for performance than worrying about telling the ArrayList constructor how many elements the list will probably have.
keys (https://github.com/wg/keys) is the password manager I've always wanted. It's a client/server application with a command line UI, and the server can run on a mobile device so your credentials are available wherever needed.

keys is open source (GPLv3) and includes a basic Android app that runs the server. The code should run on iOS as well, but the lack of background networking is an issue.

keys provides strong protection for credentials. For details please read SECURITY, but to summarize everything is encrypted with AES in GCM mode using a randomly generated key, which in turn is encrypted with with a key derived from a password via the scrypt KDF. Network communication occurs over mutually authenticated TLS 1.2 connections.

If you'd like to try the Android app without the hassle of building it yourself, please join https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/keys-app and I'll send you a Play store beta test link.

Enjoy!
That's not planned at the moment but if we wouldn't find a way to monetize it, we would do it for sure.
Hit -- but we only see an overcharge (3x). Service seems to be back up. Do you have a support number our ops team can contact (they're paranoid).
I happen across them multiple times a week via Google. When I was actually active on SO, I encountered them daily. This and the more general malevolent attitude of Stack Exchange toward the "community" they hypocritically champion is why I pretty much gave up on SO.
Latitude is only one small part of the equation that makes up the climate of a region.
"The experiment was begun by a colleague of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton in the physics department of Trinity in 1944."

Am I the only one who finds this insulting? They could at least name the guy!!!
Indeed, not exactly "open source" but "Github".
cf : https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/301964179890401283
"Congress' approval ratings are so low it really wouldn't take much for a powerful populist movement to challenge the constitutional makeup"

You might want to check folks approval ratings of their own congressperson. The overall rating is horrid, but the "mine" is generally quite good.
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/Pics/philtiebig.jpg
Wikileaks accused Bradley Manning loses challenge to most serious charge
This is only constitutional because our government has said "it's legal".

Your right to free speech as an American citizen is only a right so far as the US government continues to respect that right. The Executive branch could come out tomorrow and start detaining anyone they cared to while stating that any criticism of the US Government is now a detainable offense, and it would be legal if the Judicial branch waved it's hands and said "We'll allow it."

Our rights may be "god given", but god cannot protect us from the tyranny of men.
I disliked S.O. for a long time, but the more I use it the better I like it. "The prisoner falls in love with his chains" as Dijkstra said. I only recently ran into the rogue moderator problem, in the Prolog section. If you don't know Prolog you really won't be able to tell whether there's enough information there or not. It's a real issue, and the appeal process is long and unpleasant.
> Primarily opinion-based questions are not welcome on Stack Exchange sites.

Yes, we know. Even the SE site created with such questions in mind was screwed over by Atwood's unilateral meddling.

You've mistaken disagreement for ignorance.
down-to-earth experiments

Bwahahahah!
Pretend for a moment that you have isolated hardware with no trusted random sources. And this hardware already depends on large secret binary blobs to run at all. At this point trust is already hard, and random.org is a hell of a lot better than nothing. If you mix network jitter with external randomness sources that's just about the best possible job you can do. Neither half is perfect but they help.
The first para here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-ki...)

The most extremist power any political leader can assert
is the power to target his own citizens for execution
without any charges or due process, far from any
battlefield. The Obama administration has not only
asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised
it in practice.

Even as a UK citizen I shall recite the following:

Dear Mr Franklin, Sorry its taken me a while to catch
up. I promise to stay on the ball from now on.
Forget Stock Options, Bitcoin Becomes a Must-Have Startup Perk
Startup Culture's Lack of Diversity Stifles Innovation
Put together one of these for the jQuery Flot Chart lib:

https://github.com/ErikAugust/flang

Also shouted you out in the example for the inspiration to get off my butt and share it on GitHub.
Other people are giving good comprehensive advice, so I'll just drop in 2 small points.

1. On any interview question, and especially on coding questions, don't be afraid to take some time to gather your thoughts. You will feel like you're under the microscope and you're obligated to say something. This is normal. Tamp down that feeling. A composed reply is better than a reply that came two seconds earlier. If necessary, practicing using canned phrases as a stalling technique--just saying "Excellent question! So, you see..." buys you like two not-awkward seconds.

2. In any coding exercise, spend more time talking than coding. You will have a large instinct school that your imperative is to find the correct answer. You must fight this. Your goal is to demonstrate that you can reason clearly, even if you arrive at a different answer than your interviewer. Before starting, explain your high-level approach. Be explicit about any assumptions you're making. Any time you make a decision, no matter how trivial, state that it is a decision and preferably why you did not choose alternatives.

3. There will always be a part of the interview where the interviewer asks if you have questions. Ask a question. It doesn't need to be anything special, just have a few on-hand. My favorite is to ask what the company culture is like, since that's something the interviewer usually doesn't cover.
Well considering he already practically works on only tips, I do think its messed up that he has to do the NSA's bidding for free
What does the TSA do that _isn't_ bizzare? (ok, I'm exaggerating here, but still...)
It might be prudent to take some cash out of the bank before the weekend.