skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly I like the focus on coding instead of algorithms and trick questions.

But I don't like the notion of going to work on a Sunday, that's something I would never do unless the company is going to go under (or if it was my company).

I'm also curious on how the whole team can be involved in a hiring decision. That's seriously a lot of time spent - on each candidate!
It seems to me like high end gaming consoles are unsustainable anyway. Sony could barely keep Playstation alive if it wasn't sinking money into the product that it had gained from other sales. Microsoft is in the same boat.

Apple and Google's "gaming" division is just co-opted from their existing hardware and don't take significant resources to run. Nintendo is the only company able to keep itself afloat just from console hardware and software, and we see the market it competes in. It seems no one is willing to go toe-to-toe with Nintendo on their home turf.
TrewGrip: A new kind of keyboard
State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth
Google Cripples Chromecast Third Party Replay
This fails to account for the possibility of direct brain interfaces within our lifetimes. It also fails to account for the possibility that I'll be revived after the singularity. The chances of that are low, but the number of keystrokes I'll be able to type if it happens is extremely high.
"OK" in what sense? It makes it "OK" in not feeling bad for the developer or that they have "lost" anywhere close to 50,000 x $5.
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Hint: you're constantly bombarded by mild radiation which bounces off you and gives operators a view of your body and what you have on your person.

And the current scanners don't give an image, just a "OK" or an outline with a location to check.
Firefox Marketplace app review manager here...

At the bottom of every review email, it says you can just reply to the email if you have any questions. And as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, reviewers also hang out in #app-reviewers on irc.mozilla.org. We're really trying to make it as easy as possible to reach a real person!
Man, this really brings back bad memories of wrestling with health insurance, dental insurance, and the like in my previous USA startup. Now I'm in the UK and we don't have to worry about it!
I disagree. Your teammates do care about what your code looks like.
> There are a lot of libertarians who disagree with other libertarians.

Lots of scientists disagree with other scientists. I find science to still be valid.

> If this were actually true, then libertarians couldn't say anything useful about groups of people.

Obviously I'm here to argue the opposite :) Libertarian insight is more relevant because it's deduced using principled and empirically evident reasoning. This is like saying a microeconomics has nothing to contribute to macroeconomics, wherein reality macroeconomics is simply the resultant of microeconomic activity. Trying to understand economics from a strictly macro perspective leaves you with.. modern numerology.

> So what's the incorrect statement here?

False dichotomy ;)

> I get that you're proud of your philosophy, but why is it that every time someone represents it to me, they open gaping wide holes large enough to fly a planet through?

Many self-proclaimed libertarians don't understand the logical conclusion of the philosophy and do a poor job of representing it. With people like Glenn Beck claiming to be libertarian, I can see where you're coming from.

If I could try to convey the essence of what I, and many other self-proclaimed libertarians view the philosophy as -- it's a framework for analyzing human action. Much like game theory, it doesn't tell you what the game is or how to play. It's simply saying, here's a framework for analyzing human action, and here's what the outcomes will be.
Originally it was actually written in LISP. =)

http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
This works both ways, opt out as much as you can, hold up the process and force the TSA to come up with something better.
It can allow for security exploits, if the different layers of your stack handle invalid code units differently.

There's a related issue with "non-shortest forms:" it's possible to encode the NUL character '\0' without actually using a null byte. This means that (for example) "round tripping" UTF-8 data can introduce a null byte, allowing for security exploits when mixed with C-style string processing.
I'm not sure that's even the case. The richest/most powerful will travel by private jet anyway, and many of the next tier of politicians/businessmen regularly travel by train (in first class of course) in the UK.
While technically true that typing what I think is quickest, I very rarely find myself with more than a few words to write without needing to think about what I'm writing, which slows me down. This may be in the form of an actual break to decide what to write next, or may just be pausing to decide on best wording, etc.

Is this different for you? When was the last time you managed to write more than a sentence or too without your brain slowing your hands down?

(Speed tests on the other hand - I can read them as fast as my fingers can move, so as long as I understand what I'm reading I can do that pretty much as quick as my typing ability lets me.)
Are you seriously confused as to whether verbing is a thing? It's been a thing for a long time now. ;)
The ear plugs get around the need for high volume.
Not sure if this is a bit late, but I'd like to see ZFS support ;-)
If this is as straightforward as reported, its a real issue. I was actually considering getting ChromeCast for a couple of the TVs in the house but killing off third party streaming? Really? Would love to here that these app writers just missed a developer's note that they needed to change to a different API.
OK .... looks like someone's in a bad mood
I find it really annoying as a non-EU citizen using a site in a non-EU country but still having to dismiss these warnings even on mobile devices (where it can be much harder to hit the link/button).

The Internet doesn't care what country I'm from, so why are we designing it that way? The same goes for non-US content restrictions as well.
> You know nothing about the current state of psychological research and should stop posting.

A productive argument. You may be surprised to learn that the current director of the NIMH shares my views and is acting on them:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...

Quote: "When Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, came out swinging with his critiques of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a couple of weeks ago, longtime critics of psychiatry were shocked and gratified. Insel announced that that the D.S.M.’s diagnostic categories lacked validity, that they were not “based on any objective measures,” and that, “unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma or AIDS,” which are grounded in biology, they were nothing more than constructs put together by committees of experts. America’s psychiatrist-in-chief seemed to be reiterating what many had been saying all along: that psychiatry was a pseudoscience, unworthy of inclusion in the medical kingdom."

Maybe Insel should take your sage advice and "stop posting" as well. Or maybe you could learn a bit more about this topic.
My question, as a start-up founder, is how important is an animated vs live action vs screen capture style video? We are in the middle of a time where we should probably think about doing one of these for our site, but I just am not sure the benefit of each different type of video?
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It
> Corporations are there to make money.

See, I find this claim suspect. Yes, the reality is that corporations exist to make money. But I'd argue that it's bad corporations that exist to make money; corporations ought to exist in order to provide value.

But then again, that's what marketing is, no? It's about the corporations claiming to provide value without actually doing so. Isn't that as bad a deceit as that you claim for the state? No business fails to lie, even if their lies are no larger than those of their competitors and they have to do it to stay in business.

We all know it and accept it, but we also all know that public roads aren't free and are paid for by taxes. I don't think I've ever heard someone "pretend to give it for free".

> no libertarians don't necessarily assume there's just a state and everyone else. However they emphasize state so much because of its violent and deceiving nature.

Can you point me to a libertarian who doesn't focus on the state?

Take, for instance, feminism. Feminism is ridiculously multifarious, with hugely different groups going after hugely different instances of patriarchy. That's hard to deny, regardless of whether or not you agree with feminists. Libertarianism has existed longer than feminism has (depending on how you count), but I've never heard a libertarian discuss the implications of their philosophy on the conduct of something other than the state.

It's not as if there aren't a wealth of opportunities. Groupthink is a major problem, but libertarians don't concern themselves with that. They don't call it a moral failure. You don't see libertarians talk about bullies except as analogies. Is there any kind of libertarian movement trying to address schoolyard bullying? I haven't seen it.

Your words say that the state is just one problematic actor out of many. Your actions say that the state is the only actor that matters to you.
Here is the video for radiation source localization problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKofA3ygvPA

And here are two other use cases:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49rxqItJFeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrq6nq3FLmo

This was all done in Matlab as that was the preferred platform for my lab.
Can Chill Successfully Turn Video Distribution on its Head?
The point isn't about functionality changing as much as how "open" the functionality is going to be.

The author posted code that suggests that the ability to stream arbitrary content has been intentionally disabled.

https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/HbrpBbVG...
Kevin Spacey on TV, Technology and Netflix-model
There's an English version of the article now, co-authored by Greenwald/Snowden-related journalist Laura Poitras. Looks like the Snowden connection is solid!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documen...
What Happened When I Had Sex Every Day For a Year
I'll resist speaking ad hominem and try to generalize here.

I've found that founders that are married/have kids are much more concerned about HR policies that protect an employee's family, while startups with younger/single founders usually don't put as much thought into it.

I know from my own experience as a founder in my 20s and now in my 30s that this shift occurs.

The issue with long term disability is that the startup can make a statement to its employees that it will provide for that individual as well as that individual's family--through maternity/paternity policies, vacation time, health and life insurance, and long term disability.

Employees with dependents need this type of security and actively search out the companies that provide it. It's one of the reasons the startup community loses so many great engineers to larger companies, even though those engineers would prefer a startup. Not enough thought put into family security.
Also, sometimes ACH debits will cause unpreventable overdrafts for you.

What I do now (I realize this isn't really an option for a lot of people) is basically mentally subtract $500 off of my checking account balance, and would never spend any money if there's less than that in there.
Thanks for posting that. I had got about 80% of the way towards a similar model myself, but to see one laid out and formalized like that was very helpful.
Another reason not to make games. For the first time we have the ability to quantify the sales generated by the "free advertising" of piracy, and it doesn't amount to any real sales.
"Instead of paying taxes in money, every Incan was required to provide labor to the state. In exchange for this labor, they were given the necessities of life. Of course, not everybody had to pay labor tax. Nobles and their courts were exempt, as were other prominent members of Incan society."

I find it fascinating that this article compares the labor system more to socialism than to slavery.
Why Aspen? (the alternative Python web framework)
If I didn't know better, that could totally be a farmhouse in rural Saskatchewan.
That sounds like technically the consent has to come after being informed, not the storage.
Ask HN: I want to take a no-tech retreat for 6 months straight. Where?
I'm working on a sweet contract job that pays decently. After it's done in 8 months, I want to drop off the face of the earth completely. No contact with friends/family/anybody. Just my mind and I. I don't even want an emergency phone or anything, I just want to be completely cut off.

Cancel my phone. Sell my computers. Sell it all. Take half a year or a few months somewhere totally remote to clear my head. Bring a ton of books/kindle and go at it. Maybe do some writing myself.

I recall seeing a video on Reddit of a woman going on a large ship, I think an ice breaker it was. It looked fantastic and inspired me so much.

Has anyone on HN done this? Where would I begin researching ideas? If it helps, I'm in Canada. I'd love to go up North in the wilderness for awhile.

I need to get the fuck out of this concrete jungle.

----

edit: cold climate only. I hate the sun, I hate the tropics. I love the cold.
Actually, Pizarro took advantage that at the time of his arrival at Peru, the Inca's were in a somewhat state of civil war due to the two heirs (Huascar and Atahualpa) of the recently deceased Inca (Huayna Capac) fighting each other.
> This is probably why the grand-old parent recommends earplugs in addition.

Ya. Exactly. The noise cancellation works great to remove the engine noise. But as soon as you turn them on, high-pitch sounds become a lot more apparent. Earplugs help alleviate that.
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Someone made a game expecting it to be monetizable on the basis of selling and retaining a monopoly on "copies"?

lol. Except for the outrage that they expect to control what I can or cannot do with my computer and its data. Seems they made a poor choice for them.
Since 'direct' means 'without Google interaction'. It's a different scenario if the government just goes into your email and pulls your info, vs. if they request the info and Google has the ability to deny/verify validity of the request.
lending laws != insurance laws.
Any way to get this all on one page or a download perhaps?
HA ha ha ha. No way. Don't discount M$. They have a very solid track record of coming late to the game, failing, flailing over and over... and once a market matures they move in hard and take it over.
Oh, no argument against that really. It still falls under the compelled by another man side of the spectrum, but I've long held the belief that collectivist forms of society were necessary in more primitive times.

Only with technological progress are we capable of stronger individualism.

I only mean to answer the question, "Could you say labor is forced if you have a choice between starvation and labor?"
Success would've been an uptick in PC sales, but this is not happening. Instead Microsoft is king of a shrinking market.

A failure would've been a steep decline in Windows license sales. That they managed to not screw this up is not something they should be bragging about. With Windows 8 being very poorly received, this might happen yet. When people go out of their way to get an older version of your software, you know you've done something wrong.

Look at the sales curve (http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/05/07/six-months-in-win...) and you'll see that Microsoft has a near literal cash cow. That curve tracks very closely with PC sales in general, following the usual upgrade cycles.

The iPhone, and the software behind it, have been improving significantly with each annual iteration. In 2007 the iPhone did not exist. Now it's iOS7, Apple's "Windows 8" moment, which so far looks to be a hit.

Microsoft should make a version of Windows specifically for enterprise on a slow release, long support cycle, and branch off a consumer one that's on a much more aggressive schedule.
I used this site to gauge my future cost of living before moving to another country. Once I moved I noticed it was off a bit, but didn't think much of it.

Then one day, while bragging about how cool this site was, I noticed that it does other things (crime index, health care index, etc), and when I looked I was shocked to see that it listed some very wonky crime stats. So I looked over everything and realized that a) it's all based on voluntarily submitted data, with no checks on anything; and b) the sample size was very very small. No wonder people thought my Western Canadian town had more crime than the Tenderloin, SF. The sample sizes (at the time) were 8 vs 6

Super awesome site but it needs 300x as much data before it'll be particularly accurate
> The Internet doesn't care what country I'm from, so why are we designing it that way? The same goes for non-US content restrictions as well.

Because the two other options are either to have no laws around the internet, or to designate one organisation (or one country) to define and enforce laws.
This is true. And if the FCC were to give up spectrum for use in mesh networks, they could always require that no encryption be used. They mandate this with amateur radio. A HAM's license could be revoked if he was caught sending encrypted transmissions.
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Long-term disability benefit is still important even if you have free healthcare. It's fantastic that state healthcare will keep you alive should something terrible happen to you. But that's not going to fully help any of your dependents.
Why does everyone act like $35 is some super subsidized price? It's NOT.
While a break-up into separate companies may not make sense, giving each product group more independence to act like a separate group may allow products to be more flexible and reactive to user demands.
I don't think the money is the issue though, if they already had enough of it to buy a tablet in the first place.
Could you improve the loading performance by precomputing the wave files? I'm thinking you could slam the data URIs together in a compressed blob.
Online random forest in C++, uses the GPU with OpenCL.
My little machine learning project..
Serializable, online random forest algorithm implemented in C++, uses the GPU over OpenCL.
Don't be silly. We're having a world war in the IT scene at this moment among a number of monstrous companies: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and their allies. This proposal is like suggesting of partitioning the Soviet Union in 1942.
Ask PG: what happened with SkySheet?
They were part of the Winter 2009 group and were working on a web-based spreadsheet service. The website (http://www.skysheet.com/) suggests they haven't launched yet, and there's very little information available regarding current progress.
I say this with humor, but this weekend, I took part in an indie 48-hour game-jam contest. I created the game, Fire Starter http://dummysoftware.com/games/firestarter

Created it with HTML5, targeting the desktop, rather than mobile. Didn't win, but had a lot of fun. That's kinda like the op's story compressed into a time-span of a few hours, sort of.

Btw, I recommend game-jams to anyone interested in indie game development. It forces you to create something quick, take decisive actions, and finish the game.
Hey Peacemaker, right now this is the only format, maybe in near future. Thanks for the interest
I don't think the Sunday test means they're trying to fill the office with people with no lives, if anything, I think to be a likeable person you need to have some social life.

>* Yes, I really do want to fill my company with people who want to be there 24x7, for many reasons, least of which are the fact that such people exist in large quantities, and while it's not a guarantee they'll put in more work-per-dollar, it's a safe bet that they will.

You obviously have never witnessed or have burnout yourself. That "want to be in the office 24x7" will easily become an implicit rule and eventually everyone involved will burnout. I've seen that myself. It takes maturity to come to terms with the fact that you can't work all the time.
great post and conrats guys/gals
There is most likely an informal 'friends of friends' effect for the wealthy and priviledged in any event. Take a look at, for example, the VC market and its extensive reliance on private, pre-existing relationships. While equity is not credit, the techniques of investment selecetion (both deal generation and screening) are at a macro level shared elements. Now, the more concerning issue is when poor people are flagged as at risk because they are poor. Sort of the reverse of the well connected wealthy people getting a helping hand.
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Isnt this what social security disability is supposed to cover? Obviously it won't give you as much money as a private plan, but it wouldnt be a total disaster.
| "A government that engages in mass surveillance cannot claim to value innovation, critical thinking, or originality."

Isn't that the point of surveillance?
Joining a moment in history through the modern web
NSA row: Merkel rival threatens to suspend EU-US trade talks
Haha, not at all. I was just looking for an excuse to post 'Open Sourcerers'. Regardless, to quote Calvin (of '& Hobbes' fame), "Verbing weirds language".
... This isn't some "punishment" this is how the internet works. If you opt out of being tracked and cookies... how would that be remembered? That is really a sign it's working. This is part of why this is such an amazingly defective law
I use SoundCloud & Spotify to listen to music, and usually discover through last.fm, hypem (searching for stuff I like), or subreddits (most music subreddits have relevant subreddits in the sidebar, e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/crustpunk).

Depending on the grene, finding blogs through hypem is probably the best way I've found for discovering new stuff.
This is sweet! very well put together.
Software defect analysis and traceability
How do I use the GNU pieces on my Motorola Photon?
Leapcast(https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast), nodecast are both on the way becoming the replacement for CC. All we need is someone to port video acceleration to chromium browser. :)
> And one of the things my dad brought up with me is just how important it is to have a good long term disability insurance plan in place. I had never actually heard about it. Long term disability is a policy that can pay out 60% of your salary for the rest of your life if you have an occupation-ending injury.

This is surprising to me. I'm Canadian and I've worked my whole life here so maybe this is one of those Canadian vs US things, but I've never had a job that didn't have long term disability as part of its offering.

Most pay the standard 60% of your pay for the rest of your life if you are unable to work at that job any more.

As someone with a family, I'd say its probably the most important form of insurance to have, if you have someone else to take care of your kids in the event of both parents dieing.
Somewhat off-topic in this thread, but I'd like to ask: were you happy when you traveled? How did you deal with social alienation? And where were the best places you went? Are you still doing this?