skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was twitching on behalf of the 1AC in that dolly shot at the dinner table with an oblique angle. In fact, just looking at the credits[1], there was a dedicated focus puller on the film. The 1AC probably just watched the lens at all times to make sure it wasn't bumped or even thought of roughly.

Thinking that other nerds must be talking about it[2], I found a great thread discussing the ~20cm DOF @ 3m and the tradeoffs that would be involved in shooting a similar setup today. http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?65115-Barry-Lyndon-C...

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/fullcredits

[2] I've been fixated on the New Wave and crusty mise-en-scène and so discussion of Kubrick only comes up about once a year. It's always Barry Lyndon, this lens, and how much better the film would have been without Ryan O'Neal. :-)
>they perpetuate this myth that only some people are cut out to be developers

Yeah, that's not a myth.
Jenna Wortham: Silicon Valley coins new term 'glassed out'
Does Coinbase do the equivalent of chargebacks in cases of hacked accounts?
"Teachers knowing names and information of each of their students just by looking at them."

Maybe for substitutes.

"Guides on how to do just about anything—learn to play instruments, repair things, emergency first aid."

Here are some of my thoughts on instruments. For the piano, you're much better off creating a keyboard that lights up the right keys at the right time so you just place your hands on top of them, and build muscle memory faster that way. For string instruments (including the guitar), you're not really able to look at your own hands, and looking at someone else's hands in a reversed view is confusing - and can be done with a video overlay vs. any augmented reality. Could I be overlooking a teaching mechanism here you had in mind?

"Navigation overlays and guided tours with Wikipedia information popups."

Yeah I generally think overlays are better uses for computerized glasses. However my question was targeted specifically at augmented reality, which I consider different from straight-up overlays such as Google Glass showing you a map. Perhaps I should have clarified better.

"Virtual stores occupying empty physical space."

This I like. I was actually tinkering with software to make a marker-based AR haunted house. Basically there would be QR-code-like markers everywhere, and as you'd look at them through the Glasses, something scary would pop up =) Regardless, the haunted house idea seems like a novelty. And the virtual store thing seems to imply that lots of consumers would have computerized glasses - or the store could own them and lend them out, but then how many do you need to buy, and is it really worth it?
What I Hope Jeff Bezos does with The Washington Post
What exactly do you mean by worldwide electronic medical records?
What does it mean to "push-process" film to a higher ISO? Is that the film equivalent of shooting digital at ISO 500 and then increasing the exposure a stop in Lightroom?
Ask HN: Long-time Arch Linux user, just bought a MBA, what do I need to know?
The bitcoin protocol doesn't (on purpose) have a way to reverse transactions. Unless coinbase isn't actually moving money, it won't be able to reverse anything. Since they have their own database, though, they could provide chargebacks for any transactions they haven't committed to the blockchain, though I don't know if I'd want to use that as a merchant.
Jeff Bezos is an owner who knows how to deliver
If you and I do business 100 times a day, we could either send 100 transactions through the system and incur 100 transaction fees, or do a little bit of accounting and only incur one. Using an API / trusted party like coinbase to do the accounting doesn't undermine bitcoin in any way, as it would still be needed for the end of day reconciliation (moreover, the accounting wouldn't make any sense without it.)
As a glasses wearer, I feel like replacing my lenses with screens eventually is a forgone conclusion.

Imagine something with LIDAR, scans the engine block to know what model year you are working on and pulls up the Chilton Manual 3D app and suddenly you know exactly where that vacuum hose is that you want to replace.

The packing one is just because I'm moving right now, and again, what I want is, something to scan the boxes and the vehicle and let me know how to fit the most stuff in. It wouldn't have to be glasses, but it wouldn't bother me.

You bring up input devices and such, and I really just think of it as a display, plain and simple. I would much rather manipulate interfaces that I already know or are made for manipulation. But I don't need to carry around a screen all the time, either.

tl;dr I don't want to wave my hands around like an idiot OR hunch over staring at a screen.
How can you reliably turn out hits? If you could, the one-hit wonder wouldn't exist. We'd only have hit machines.
Cool blog post but I can't get excited about "micro-transactions" when we've heard this same story so many times since the 90s. Zzzzzz. Few weeks of hype (1 cent to read my blog = $120,000!?!) and it never materializes.
The H2G2-42 thing is pretty funny!

On a more serious note... Can anyone shed some light on the hackability of this piece of hardware?
Designing New Species w/ biologist EO Wilson & Craig Ventor
Or at least something. If I were a shareholder, I'd be irate. Maybe Zynga has some grand master plan for Draw Something and whatnot. But as of now, this looks like executives taking a massive, unnecessary loss in order to cover their own incompetence.
I'd love to understand this too.

Some services have prices over the courtesy limit (Translation) while others just have a max. What happens for like the Books API when you get above 10k/req/day?

See https://code.google.com/apis/console
Right; bitcoin does not, but Coinbase is just flipping bits in their database, since these transactions are off-chain. So, just a question of whether or not they support chargebacks, and to what extent. The issue will come up sooner or later, if Coinbase sees more mainstream usage.
Sources at Washington Post during Bezos announcement: ‘It was like a funeral’
I'd give you an upvote, but I've been so nice to you already. Do you really deserve it, they way you've treated me? I'm just a copper after all. I wouldn't know one end of an ID from the other. You'll have to take it up with our supervisor.
Hey, configuration management is something really interesting to me. I don't suppose you'd mind emailing me with a link to your startup (email in profile)?
Scala vs. Go TCP Benchmark
Hedging would be prudent, balancing risk and wagering on the other horses. If your horse loses, then you can limit your losses with your other winnings. If it wins then you can cover the money you put on the wagers. Over the long term that's smarter than putting everything on one pony.
In Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, they do this with another planet. It was destroyed, and they fly/transport/whatever a camera out so many lightyears from it, so they can see what happened.
I'm not sure why you think that. I had known of OMGPOP for a few years prior to Draw Something because some friends and I played their tetris game. To have one hit like Draw Something in those couple of years doesn't suggest to me they would've had much further success.
I purchased this about a year ago, so I will give any potential buyers a fair warning, if you don't know ruby, this book is very hard to follow. All of the examples are in ruby and no pseudo code is provided.
“The whole idea from the 80s — that you’d make some money and use that money to make more money — this current generation isn’t looking at money that way,” says Nash.

Yeah, I remember those crazy, reinvesting 80s. Interest, dividends, buy low sell high. WTF were we thinking??

This Nash guy has really convinced me that I should entrust my financial future under the auspices of his Wealthfront.
I really like Qt - what don't you like about the API?
Something similar to your idea is the basis for the Arthur C. Clark novel The Light of Other Days.
What is news? it's LINQ just for string
I'll agree with this as well. There's a massive amount of reference designs available, from ARM Cortex M embedded designs to, and in no particular order, ADC's, motor controllers, power supplies, touch sensors and so on from vendors like Freescale, NXP, Texas Instruments and so on and on. A15's plus hybrids like Exynos's and Omap5's are fairly closed, but for most of the real time functional apparatuses many want to play with, if excluding Ethernet and GPU's, these aren't the most suitable anyway.

For serious hobbyists there are some interesting off the shelf SoC's.

The main challenges are about production.
I know both Trip and Josh -- I don't think this article reads well on either one. My guess is Wealthfront needed some quotes from people and they are friensd with the WealthFront team.

This whole story reads like a PR job. All the stats were just too convenient (and useless).
This pops up from time to time on Hacker News. I got the book and went through it, but couldn't go beyond the basics and found myself in a state of limbo. I would love to hear from other people about their experience with the book and whether they continued beyond what this book has to offer.
Do you want to use Arch on your Mac?
Arch Wiki and the forums will help with that.
We pay $79 a month for swiftype. We use it for our site search, using the developer API.

The big thing for us is that we have member's only content and we want to ensure what exactly is indexed and what is not. This was an issue with using Google site search especially since the rankings would get skewed by Google including words in our site template.

We've also added in custom filters like searching by author, date, category, etc.

If I remember correctly, we paid about $1000 a year to Google for our site search before this, so the money is about even but the overall search quality, accuracy and options have gone up.
I've also been trying to connect a few times tonight. No luck over the last 3-4 hours.

I have a migration scheduled in a couple of days and this is getting scary. The 7th is the last day for migrations and these attacks are making it much harder for my to do any maintenance and last checks before that happens.
what if we could use the surface of other planets as mirrors to peer back at ours?
It's hard to find good, well thought articles that lack the sensationalism and ideological bias many of us (myself included) are more likely to click on/read. I can't speak to whether the news has always been like that (although I'm inclined to think that it hasn't), but it's troubling. There are just a lot of forces which are working against good journalism on the internet - most of which are just a consequence of how the internet is organized.

I really hope this is a good thing. I hope it is not just another data point adding evidence to a downward trend. Please don't mess this up, Bezos.
Unclear - unlike most phones, it has no removable storage, and my impression (having only heard descriptions of the UI) is that there's no way to run arbitrary code on the device. Unless it has accessible serial ports or some netboot mode hidden in it, or in the very scary case that the software update mechanism is insecure enough to MITM it yourself, it seems like it would be difficult to get a Chromecast to run anything other than Google's software.
The author is obviously some kind of crazy anarchist. Private law system? You mean that all of a sudden people would become customers of multiple legal firms instead of subjects of one big system and will be able to choose laws they like while at the same time not interfering directly with others who chose different laws? You mean that all of a sudden majority would lose its power to dictate minorities how to live their lives and gay people all over the world can start marrying each other simply because they are customers of a different firm by their voluntary choice? I say impossible! We need government. Anyone who says we don't is an anarchist and we all know anarchists are bad for ya.
It looks interesting, but there is something about the copy that puts me off. Maybe it's the way it focuses on what it's not, i don't know it feels kind of scamy, like one of those shopping channel ads.
It's worth mentioning that that's exactly why Patrick doesn't normally submit this stuff himself. Infact, I've seen him apologies/ask people not to just re-post stuff here and just subscribe to his newsletter/blog/etc.

It's also worth noting that you don't HAVE to click through to something that's on the kalzumeus domain, if you subscribe to the newsletter or don't want to.

Personally, I think anything that generates a reasonable number of good comments is great (not necessarily this.) That's why HN is great.
In which case people who has compromised accounts wouldn't send it within coinbase's system, they'd sent it on the real network where it can't be reversed.
My first thought was that "Verbal Expressions" are simply parser combinators, which of course can do things that individual regular expressions can't do. From the examples though it looks like this is just translating to regular expressions under the hood, which would make it considerably less powerful than Parsec and other parser combinator libs.
It's amazing how much stuff they can fit in a tiny dongle now. 512MB of ram - tower computers barely had that 10 years ago.
I've seen the attitude that drives executives to insert themselves into these sorts of processes and it basically boils down to pretty much every human being thinking they have a great sense of aesthetics when most of us really don't.

In addition to (presumably) being successful business people, they want to be also thought of as tasteful interior designers, they have some sort of pet theories on "enhancing creativity" they want to pursue, the list goes on ad nauseum...

Really, they should just hire somebody who is an acknowledged expert in the field and give them their high level requests which can then be filtered professionally into something that makes sense. Involved but not attempting to drive the process.
Sure. I have something like:

Host <bastion>
Hostname <bastion>
User gateway
ForwardAgent yes

Host 10.0.*
User <username>
ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p <bastion>

Where bastion is the NAT/Bastion SSH host for my infrastructure. 10.0.* are internal IP addresses, which don't work on my network, but get passed through to the bastion (where they do work). Pretty handy as I can just "ssh <internal address>"
No, but they've been expected to be on the market any day now for the past year or two. HP's been doing tons of research and prep work in commercializing them:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/hp-labs-teams-up-with-hyn...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/
The only catch here is that such messages would be prohibitively costly (power wise) to transmit uniformly in all directions. They would be point to point to reduce the power, required to transmit, and increase privacy.

It's difficult to intercept line of sight communications and it's unlikely we'd fall on the line of sight of two hot spots of intelligent communication in all the vastness of space.

Even if they broadcast, I doubt it would be so completely uniform in all directions through long periods of time so as to appear as background.
i did take the cs-229A when it was first offered on coursera, and your comment is exactly right. most of the mathematics was glossed over, and the focus was on not "worrying" about it, but on implementation (of various algorithms) using octave, and observe the results. which for neural-nets mostly boiled down to some slightly complicated matrix-multiplication.

having said that, it was an excellent overview of a broad spectrum of ml techniques, and i for one, would heartily recommend it to anyone with high-school background in maths, and a deep interest in the field. supplementing the material with simon-haykin's text or christopher-bishop's (most excellent) book, would make it slightly tougher.

unfortunately, due to some time constraints i could not partake on geoff-hinton's wisdom on deep-learning. would you happen to have material for that stashed somewhere ?
Pumped-hydro suffers from a serious capacity lack.

Flywheel storage is OK for spinning reserve (responding to fluctuations on the order of an hour or two) but is too expensive otherwise.

My money is on thermal storage, and cheap-substrate batteries (molten salt, liquid metal) for longer-scale storage. For national scale grid storage there are many alternatives for which there's simply not sufficient material to create a feasible alternative.
For every idea that ends up taking off, there is a skeptic like you swearing it won't... cuz it didn't in the 90s.
An officer can force you out of the car, legally, and, if you have your cell phone in your hand, he could mistake it for a gun and kill you. It's enough to make me never want to leave my house.
The bloat argument I was given - and I may be rephrasing it incorrectly - is that for Bootstrap, you include the base CSS and then override a bunch of stuff, so you often end up with elements that get defined in multiple places multiple times. Especially so if you use a "Bootstrap style" on top of the default.
#2, about health insurance, overlooks a big part of the RAND HIE's findings: people who were sick and poor in the study did have worse health outcomes.
It was rooted couple days ago but Google patched it right up

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/google-chromecast-hacked-by-gtv...
this look like a trivial step.. but the vision explained in the article are right, and this is quite revolutionary considering we could get into this reality (with widespread adoption of bitcoin)

think about the fluidity of value.. if people could use little cents, imagine what this can cause to donations.. for instance.. open source world..

things will get much more fluid, easy and fast.. money will flow not just for the big guy, that can pay for the big schemes.. but to everybody, anywhere..

this is indeed, a trivial step, with unprecedent consequences.. revolutionary "triviality" :)
And according to this article, the companies that name their memristor variant as something else do so because of the patents:

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1262578
You don't seem to get what the speed of light is. The speed of light isn't the problem.

Acceleration, time dilation and deceleration are.

But barring the g-forces and enough of an engine we could travel to Alpha Centauri in less than 4 years, which may surprise you. Although that would be less than 4 spaceship years, not less than 4 Earth years.
Old Professors Never Die
Just pull the ABS fuse if you're worried about someone hijacking your brakes.
In the same sense as you might refer to a "normal" quantum computer or "normal" cancer cure, I guess.

The phrasing in the article is a little wishy washy, but it sounds like this company is going to production with a TB-per-IC-density non volatile storage product. If true, that's huge news.
Physics - Turning the Wheels of a Quantum Motor
Yes, wild ideas except for the "2100" part. The scientific and engineering breakthroughs have been slowing down dramatically in past 50 years or so. Science fiction from 60s and 70s is embarrassingly filled with predictions such as we would have colonies in space, computers indistinguishable from humans, flying cars on street, humankind without poverty and end of cancer by 2020. How close are we? If we go back in time to meet all these writers from 60s & 70s, the major breakthroughs we would have to show for are likes of Instagram and Angry Birds. Yes, I'm downplaying all these increase in computing power and better algorithms in search etc but guess what? Moors law is dead as we know it and search is still keywords in a textbox. To me it looks like we probably had 10 fold increase in human productivity during past 50 years but major portion of it goes towards "enhancing shareholder value" or wars rather than advancing science and technology. So unless this changes somehow, all the magic that can happen is still pretty far in distant, probably much beyond 2100.
Congratulations to Vlad and the team. They are very friendly and dedicated, and I look forward to their success
They're probably referring to latency, which is very low (30ns). It still is disingenuous, but that's marketing.
This "amazon can't turn a profit" meme needs to die. They take in a ton of money. Just because they immediately turn around and spend it on the next cool project they've got happening doesnt mean they are a failing business. If their goal was to make the balance sheet look pretty, they could stop funding the production of original content for a couple of quarters, or stop investing in robotic fulfillment centres, or whatever else they are spending millions on. It would look like a profit then, but where's the fun in that?
Math says YES, assuming out-migration at some fraction of the speed of light (c).

This NASA page estimates a star density of 0.120 stars per cubic parsec (CP), where a parsec is 3.26 light years.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980123d....

Thus that page's estimate of the number of stars within a 100 light year radius of Earth is:

= 0.120 stars/CP * 4/3 * π * ((100 LY)/(3.26 parsecs/LY))^3
= around 14,600 stars

Recalculating for 1,000 light year diameter:

= 0.120 stars/CP * 4/3 * π * ((1000 LY)/(3.26 parsecs/LY))^3
= around 14.5 million stars

So given 10,000 years, and out-migration by Hansonian 'ems' (mental-simulations) at just 0.2c, and even starting more than a thousand years from now, many tens of millions of stars would be reachable.

Of course, there are many other challenges with that prediction, but the speed of light is not an absolute barrier, as you suggest.
i just got tired of these trollish arguments like number of terrorist deaths vs. car deaths or nuclear deaths vs. coal - it is such a narrow and artificial dimension of comparing apples and oranges, and with that heavily depending on how numbers are calculated (for example, whether Iraq war deaths are added to the number of 9/11 victims or not we'll have either 3K or 103K victims)
I was really stoked to buy this since I've always toyed with the idea of creating my own language but this is disheartening to hear.

Do you have any recommendations for books in a similar vein?
What?

To run this you need Go, on any system (and you can cross compile it).

To run an interpreted script, you need the interpreter on the destination system.
From your example, it makes no sense how an interp'd language is any better.
Soul Extraction - Assuming that there is a technological singularity at some point in the future, and assuming that time travel is possible[1], but that we've seen no evidence of it because it must be mostly observational in nature in order to prevent disruptions that would create time paradoxes, humanity adopts the practice of extracting the brain/nervous systems (and then replacing w/ equivalent matter) of every human in history at the moment of their death, to live in a post-singularity utopia.

[1]: Einstein, Hawking, and many others have speculated that time travel should be possible, but were ultimately skeptical of it because of the "Where are all of the time travelers?" argument. Fear of the creation of time paradoxes could be the reason why there's no evidence of time travel.
This is a scam. The best way to create a new programming language is using Forth.
Be interesting, don't be uninteresting.
Whose 10,000 years are we talking about? From an earth perspective we can't get there in 10,000 years. From a colony ship's perspective it could be within a human lifetime.