skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Were you webcasting in 1080p? This only supports 720p, which will be substantially less intensive. I think my phone can encode 720p in real-time. I'm pretty sure a mid-range laptop from the last couple years can do 720p at a reasonable bitrate.
42 floors is a great company, and I enjoy reading what they have to say. But with that said, I agree with you. And what's worse, the overuse "Cargo Cult" is turning it into a negative version of one of the meaningless buzzwords that he decries. If you don't like something, just call it a "Cargo Cult".
Textual Harrasment Cartoon
Here is the summary:
1. handle non-ascii characters
2. check if we can do something about hyphens
3. try and make tex script downloadable
4. make click of save after data entry evident the first time
5. personal should not be a mandatory section
6. make delete of objective intuitive
7. fix date format display on UI
8. add latex packages in credits page (sorry missed that :-/)
Please feel free to add if we missed something... Keep em comin! :)
Who protects reputation for the Bolibourgeoisie?
afaik you can turn off the 3DS 3D effect. Then you'll have the system with the proper clamshell hinge.
The NSA Eavesdropped on the Supreme Court
A 1914 D wheat penny was worth, you guessed it, US $0.01 in 1914, but that doesn't mean the current going price of around $3,500 is overpriced.
No. The 3DS has analog controls, a larger (pixel size) top screen, twin cameras, accelerometers/gyros, and a more powerful CPU and GPU -- all of which the DS lacks. The 2DS provides these features -- even the twin cameras.
what kind of bullshit company is that? I've never seen anything like this. This is awful.
No, you are correct, which makes it confusing that so many people in these comments are saying the 3D screen was the reason they didn't buy the 3DS...
Businesses need to use push notifications with caution and not with the same intensity they blast out email, though. It's far more disruptive. Thus, nothing annoys me off faster than a marketing-based push notification...my phone is my sacred time and lifelink.

App Uninstall.
Really love the spirit of this project. Does your Medium channel give you sufficient extra reach to make an impact for these builders?
You can't effectively compete against YouTube for this particular space (which is why even though there are alternatives it still feels like a monoculture): the reason that website exists is because Google has a sufficient monopoly in search advertising that they can afford to dominate any other market they want by operating well below cost. Supposedly they finally got YouTube profitable (at which point you can just view YouTube as a legitimate investment), but this was after years of running the website at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Making MOOCs Applicable
Remember this is proprietary software and technology from Google, the guys who receive tax payers money from the NSA.

I think I'll pass.
Is there are reason why this is a link to Google Plus which essentially links to GigaOM? The comments on Plus aren't what you would call top quality either.

Orignal link: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/28/hangouts-hd-vp8-webrtc/
a lot of people.

none the less, i consider myself a better typist than average. i don't touchtype, certainly. still, i find it really difficult to orient my hands with respect to the keys if i can't see them. the backlight is helpful for when i'm putting my hands back on the keys.
Why Facebook's Bull Run is a break for the mobile ad industry
Thinking of building a mobile app? Here are 7 of the best tools ...
>> ... now be making their way into the tech industry.

I remember to fail one such test somewhere around 2001, the reason being: "... lack of a status-driven momentum ..." and " ... lack of aggressivity in pursuing career goals ... " or something to that effect.

Not that I walked out smiling, but they explained me in two sentences why I would not have liked to work there. So, addressing your quote above, I'm astonished that these tests are still around. Basically this company (and others) are putting their culture into the hands of an external service (Mercury Urval if I remember correctly in this case) and they can lose big by handing off influence on the choice.
3DS homebrew is apparently not a thing, but if DS homebrew has become significantly less hellish in the last few years it could be worth the $130.
SBM is a collection of trained physicians writing about the problems with non-scientific based medicine. Calling it "personal" and "alternative" is just an ad hominem attack. You totally failed to address the content of the article.

On your link: It is a summary of chiropractics, along with a summary of studies discussing what treatments may or may not help. It is lacking substance and has no new information that was missing from the SBM links.

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." -Neil deGrasse Tyson
This model is explicitly being marketed to the age groups of 7 and under. As for "how many hinges have been broken", and "why don't they make a sturdier hinge":

1. I don't have any hard evidence, but if you do a search for "broken DS" or "broken 3DS" on eBay, an overwhelming majority of them are on there by reason of "broken hinge"

2. As to why not make a sturdier hinge, the other part of this particular console is to bring the 3DS down into a cheaper price range in time for Pokemon-- which is why they additionally stripped it of the 3D and replaced the stereo speaker with a mono one.

I'm not personally a fan of the design, but in the short amount of time since it's been announced, I've seen a pretty impressive number of "I'd buy that"s from people on various forums, so I don't think this is as much of an "epic fail" as you think it is. Don't confuse "bad design" with "not marketed towards me".
That game was the main reason I got a DS.
same here! (and I really want to play shin megami tense I 4!)
>dropping H.264 for the open sourced VP8

You are aware that there are open source H.264 encoders and decoders?
An interesting exposé of reputation management techniques used by individuals and organizations linked to the Venezuelan government.

What do you think of this investigation? Which other forensic techniques would you recommend?

(I do not know the author, but the subject matter is important to me).
So in 1995 I was the Director of Technology for a startup called "GolfWeb." Today that would be something like Ars Technica for golf, but at the time it was this new thing a "web magazine." That really nobody had any clue about.

To serve it up we had a Sun machine that had a list price of $110,000 (we got it for $35,000 and some advertising deal with Sun), our T-1 line (1.544 Mbps bi-directional bandwidth) cost us $3,500 a month. The Cisco router we used on it was another $20,000. Our machine had a whopping 1.2 Gbytes of disk space available for editorial. The coverage of the Masters Tournament in 1996 did over a million page views per day (and nearly smoked our T-1 line). The next bump up was a T-3 line (45 Mbps) and it was $45,000 a month so we needed to get a lot better advertising if we were going to be able to support that cost.

Today you could set up what we had for probably less than $100 a month.

Think about that, in 1995 anywhere from $150,000 - $250,000 a month of "sales money" in terms of infrastructure value in supporting a web site, today about $1,200. Is it at all surprising that Sun is dead and the phone companies are the poorest source of IP transit access?
Oh, if we are talking about the specifics of IQ testing here, I can link to one of the rare Wikipedia articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification

that has actually recently been updated with reliable sources. Some of the comments below this comment of yours make guesses about IQ tests that can be checked against the sources by referring to that article.
For example, Butterfly Labs built their first big batch of miners using money from pre-orders. By the time the devices existed, they already owed them to customers.
What happened to the claims of open source? Their github page ( https://github.com/flutterwireless ) is empty!
Are you saying there was no other way to pass on the exact same message with the exact same effect without being a total cunt about it?
I would just like to note that not all WWOOFing spots are organic farms. Where I'm currently living, we have a sawmill, some fields that get cut and bailed by someone else, and some sheep that are starting to find their way back from the mountains for the winter.
> So, while the company in this story did something most of us agree is bad, they at least had good intentions.

Road, hell, paved... you know the rest. If I were ever subject to such a test I'd walk out of that interview pronto. If I were ever in the hiring manager's role I'd raise this to the CEO and fight like hell to get the situation changed or the HRbot repaired.

I've worked for a lot of software corporations (either as an employee or contractor/consultant) and I've never heard of anything like a psychometric evaluation.

Please tell me this isn't becoming popular.
As the saying goes, when you build something foolproof, Nature builds a bigger fool. They are good quality hinges, it's just that you basically can't build a hinge that will stand up to a careless child without itself being a danger.

Remember how a kid works; they start by treating it gingerly, then getting progressively more careless as long as it doesn't seem to hurt anything. A stronger hinge just means that they get to be slightly more careless before it breaks.

"I can't think of a worse handheld design in the history of gaming."

Not... really, no. The N-Gage required you to remove the battery compartment to change games. The Virtual Boy... well, pretty much everything about the Virtual Boy. The Sega Nomad, as neat an idea as it was, chewed through batteries in two hours, making it a handheld system in name only. You can get some other entertaining examples out of the big names, too.
Theseus JavaScript Debugger for Brackets [video]
True, that was my first try, and it failed miserably.
Your phone has a dedicated h264 hardware encoder. Most new computers do as well these days, but not the older ones that actually need it.
I think this story is a great example of sometimes being rejected on an interview can be a fantastic outcome. With the impressive score of 1% this guy was clearly either going to be miserable in the kind of company that thinks this sort of test is of paramount importance to the hiring process, or deliberately chose answers that made sure he wouldn't end up in such a company. Bravo.
> The other possibility being a conveyor of unregistered securities.

ding ding ding

BTCTC also announced they were considering blocking all U.S. users to avoid confronting the SEC, even though I believe they run in another country.
You can, there's a slider that controls the degree of 3D effect, which can go to zero.
Really? Like Donald Trump on the cover of GQ? How much criticism did he get for that?
The Elevator Pitch and 8 Second Attention Span
I read "Big Corp" as "non-technical Big Corp" in this sense. I think it's pretty well known that the major tech players have difficult technical interviews, but that the people ultimately making the decision are engineers.
3DS is intended for ages 7+ only. Any younger and the "3D" is illegal to market towards. This product is meant to target 5 & 6 year olds legally so that they can market games towards them.

As a device it's also cheaper. But you're right I too thought it was a joke. The thing does not look ergonomic and is hideous. I feel like 0 time was spent in the design.
Pity the story doesn't end with a double resignation.
Ironically, if you did that then the score would probably be accurate.
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant.

This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

-- Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
As someone interested in someday building a development firm on a partner/associates model, I really appreciated reading the different perspective in this article. "Up or out" is controversial but in certain kinds of companies it can make a lot of sense. It can be a way to adapt your company's organization and culture to the reality that most programmers only stay in a job for a few years anyway.

I think the author is right about people complaining in part because Microsoft is not growing. A corporation is compelled to expand in order to provide promotion opportunities to newer members.[1] If there were places for good-but-cursed-with-better-team-mates team members to go, stack ranking wouldn't seem such a problem.

[1] See David Maiser, Managing the Professional Service Firm, for this principle applied to partner/associate service firms.
It's just a way to visualize information. I find this interesting to look at and also well organized (personally love the color coding and the asymmetry).

In either case, no reason to be negative. If you don't like it, don't use it. If you are commenting to critique, no reason to be a jerk.
If it means that I stop getting those pseudo-casual emails that are apparently the preferred way to promote continued engagement or to pull me back in when I've been away for 'too long', I'm all for it.
It's kinda awesome, that the literal title of the manual is "Exploitation manual" :)
I think the intersection between such hardware companies and companies with enough domain knowledge of Bitcoin to make a bitcoin ASIC, is zero.

The most plausible explanation I've heard is that these hardware companies need deposits to pay the development costs, then plan to run the chips themselves. Anyone who doesn't use such a strategy, is not expecting their customers to break even on their investment.
What would you do with a community meshnet?
With all the discussion recently on community meshnets as an alternative to the Internet. Assume a meshnet local to you was up and operating. What would day-to-day use of a network like this look like? If I had a low bandwidth connection to all my neighbors, I can't imagine a scenario where it would be useful.

There was already an established example of community run private networks with BBSs and they were absolutely destroyed by consumer adoption of internet services. What could be done differently with meshnets to make them more appealing?
Not neccessarily: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
I like this. I was going to buy the 3DS for just two or three specific games and this is a much cheaper investment. I don't care about stupid 3D gimmicks either.
Ugh, I absolutely detest the attitude on display here.. After a user signs up, they get an email? Okay, that's great. Most people expect/want a confirmation. But a few days later? A month later? If they haven't signed in? No, fuck you. Stop spamming me with your stupid Sales Funnel bullshit marketing emails. If your startup requires spamming your users in order to keep them coming back, then guess what? Your product/service isn't good enough.

This article is nothing more than a diatribe by a spammer who's upset that Gmail's new feature makes it harder to get his spam into my inbox.

And let me preempt the CEO of a startup who's sure to reply, telling me that THEIR product is good, and that THEIR users actually want to read the spam. Everyone thinks their special-snowflake emails are the exception, but that's almost universally delusional.

If you're sending more than a single confirmation email that the user has not EXPLICITLY requested then you are part of the problem.
"Fights between founders are surprisingly common. About 20% of the startups we've funded have had a founder leave."
-Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

Given that the YC pool should be higher quality than average, I'd assume the number to be significantly higher for the overall pool of startups.
This is entirely to lower the cost. There's one PCB. The two screens are actually one display with the bezel providing the separation. It's quite possible this model is more profitable at a lower price point than the standard clamshell DS.
Thank you so much. Just checked out your profile, congrats on being supported by your own project :)

Not yet, but I believe concentrating them into one post on HN might make it easier for them to be noticed (in many ways pooling the resources of the posts/creators).
A bit pedantic, but I think you mean "pneumatic lifts". Unless you have something very exotic, there's no fluid in your chair!
The headline used by CNN is grossly misleading. They are deriving the $4 additional cost by comparing the Moto X to an iPhone, and subtracting their estimated cost from each other.
Introducing the Nintendo 2DS
The inability to enforce rights in nature is independent of the existence of those rights. You might need a shotgun to defend your life in a "libertarian utopia", but that doesn't mean you don't have a right to it.

In fact, your hypothetical correctly assumes that people need to protect their stuff. This need is evidence of self interest. The fact that there are universal norms that allow the use of force to protect things is evidence of a right to property.

In other words, a victim of theft is rightfully angry. This lets us conclude that he has a right to be free of theft. This indicates a right to property.
I was horrified by the Milgram experiment (psychological test to test obedience to authority) that the author cites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

And (but not related to the article) I was amazed to find out that Milgram is the same researcher who created the first "six degrees of separation" experiments, that lead to the creation of the first global-scale social networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment
I can vouch for Starting Strength. If your body sucks, read this book. A lot of it will go over your head, and you don't need to read every single page, but once you start, really focus on nailing the three lifts.

I went from 45lb on the bar for all lifts to:

350 squat

475 deadlift

260 bench

290 powerclean

180 snatch

225 c&j

315 front squat

(the last 4 lifts are because I starting getting seriously into pure olympic lifting).

In under a year. I didn't use any drugs, but what I did do was post a massive wall-wide calendar on my wall, and in each day were checkboxes for: daily 5g creatine, daily sleep , daily macros (protein/fat/carb), daily fish oil.

I used a calorie counting application to make sure that without fail, every single day I got 300g protein, 400g carbs, around 150g fat (300x4 + 400x4 + 150x9 = 4100~ calories). I gained about 90lb, gained a ton of strength, then did a 2000 calorie cut still while powerlifting and then sprinting twice a day every day to cut weight fast.

Absolutely changed my life. I unlocked the greatest super power of all: controlling how I feel day in and day out. No more irritation, no more snappy emotions, no more all nighters and wasting 2 days recouping. I am able to put on weight whenever I want, and cut it whenever I want.

It's really incredible the shift you notice when you nail your diet and exercise down to a solid routine. You are much more stable throughout your daily tasks.

In the end, paying extreme attention to the trifecta and literally never once straying from it for a year (sleep/nutrition/exercise), it locked me into a proper mindset that I am able to sustain and not wane off of. Meaning I wouldn't have a new goal every single day, I wouldn't waste one day feeling extremely down in the dumps like I used to (used to be suicidal/suffer from extreme depression). No episodes, just focus.

Start getting strong, it will absolutely change your life and empower you.
>>The problem isn't that she's made enemies in the business sense. The problem is that lots of writers and columnists seem to focus more on her gender, and apply criticisms simply because she's female.

When I said "enemies" I was focusing on people within Yahoo!. Who cares about what writers and columnists say? They will write anything to get readers.
Hangouts works with all of the major browsers, including IE. What exactly is your complaint?
thanks for Adobe, OSX is still my de facto dev machine. If you can gimp, linux all the way.
Connect Unity gamers across platforms with Facebook’s new SDK
RoboCoin, The First $20,000 Bitcoin ATM, Now Available For Pre-Order
Back when i used to read a lot of papers, i found that i enjoyed the ones from the 90s more. I think the further you go back in time, the more honest and open scientists were in their writing; as time has gone on and academia has become more crowded and competitive, the more papers read like marketing. Authors writing in the 80s would happily admit that there were things they didn't know or hadn't proven; to do that now would be a sign of weakness.

I remember a paper from the 80s, the first one reporting the localisation of some cytoskeletal protein, vinculin or talin or something, where the authors present a set of microscope images showing that the protein is found exclusively at the ends of stress fibres (the main structural members of many kinds of cell). Great finding! And then they show a picture of a cell where it isn't, and is instead assembled into lots of little rings. The caption says that they have no idea what kind of cell it is, or why it's doing that. I just can't imagine that happening today.

In this case, this is a review paper, so that doesn't directly apply. But i think the ethos still pervades the writing; the authors are writing to explain what's known, not to advance some hypothesis or demonstrate how much they know.
It looks awful, badly designed, and not practical to carry around. Seriously, Nintendo did this? Even the name makes it sound backward. I already thought the wiiU was awkward but this beats everything. Kids buying this are going to get stoned in school.

So, when are Iwata and Reggie going to be fired?
Someone care to explain the flagging? A dog is a perfectly good addition to home security and personal security. They will serve you much better during an actual situation than gadgets you have lying around...

Or did I offend the owner of a handbag dog?
It's easy to criticize the cargo cult. It's hard to not get caught. :)

The problem is that except where you are familiar with all the relevant technical details (and I mean technical broadly here), you end up having to fall back on other methods of evaluation. In the best case, you'll have the advice of an expert who is truly familiar with the relevant details, or enough of them to form good approximate insights.

Probably at least some of the time, though, you don't have access to that expert (or, worse, you're not equipped to distinguish an expert from a bozo). So, you back on heuristics... like social proof and examples of success...
does copying/moving a file over another not trigger copy-on-write in btrfs? If not, it seems a much simpler (but much less cool and useful for all) solution would be to patch rsync with an option to allow writing the temp file over the original when done. While still non-atomic, you'll get the copy-on-write semantics you need. Unfortunately it will use much more IO. There are ways to mitigate the extra IO, such as creating a special diff formatted temp file, but that getting out of the territory of "simple".

Also, in case the FS is saving copies of the temp file and you don't like that, the --temp-dir option might help with that.

Then again, depending on how btrfs treats overwriting a file with a move, if the temp file had a timestamp in the name (patch probably needed) in some form before replacing the original, that might be good enough.
>>All she has to do is bring a little of Google...

No thanks. The last thing we need is more tech giants selling their souls to the NSA.
They have five feet? Sounds like someone ran the batch too many times.
Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?