skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Section 8 of the Employment Equity Act:
“Psychological testing and other similar assessments of an employee are
prohibited unless the test or assessment being used—
a) has been scientifically shown to be valid and reliable;
b) can be applied fairly to all employees; and
c) is not biased against any employee or group."
I remember watching Pumping Iron, and he was massive alright. And he's 6'2". After he stopped competing, he slimmed down for the movies.

In general though, you're right. Nobody to this day has looked as good as he did.
Pretty short pixel perfect collision HTML5 platformer/puzzle, the theme "10 seconds" is pretty important when solving them.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

Made with http://jawsjs.com/

Source code? The JavaScript isn't minified.
well, first thing that comes to mind is, with that anyone that builds a device that focuses a large amount of solar energy into a tight beam aimed at the Earth, I'll have a hard time believing that's going to be used for some benevolent energy-harvesting purpose.

And even if it is intended to, what will be the accuracy of this beam? what's to say some orbital junk won't crash into it and "oops" scribble a nice kilometres-wide Lissajous figure of scorched Earth onto our planet, like a hit and run graffiti tag?

Even if, according to WP, NASA is "a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science", the US government has proven itself rather incapable of keeping itself in check, so the odds of it going to turn into "hey we could also turn it into a gigantic solar death ray space weapon", somewhere, at some point given its life cycle, seem pretty high to me?
Security researchers crack open Dropbox
> you are turned down immediately by a logic "If he couldn't get a job, something must be wrong with him"

It's even worse, even if you freelance most people will assume there is something very wrong with you to the point that they are not turned down, but not even considered for the job.
From the linked page comments:
"Marla Collins Jun 21 at 04:50 PM
I personally think this is an intentional glitch LI has implemented to try and assimilate a face book type of social interaction. I can tell you that the people who have allegedly endorsed me have done nothing of the kind any more than I have gone to thier profile and endorsed them after years of not really interacting with them on LI. This is a violation of our trust and is turning LI into just another annoying social networking site. "

Emphasis mine. If this is true, this is even worse than the spammy "would you like to endorse?" stuff.
I'm reminded of Henry Tam's book "Kuan's Wonderland,"[1] where [SPOILERS] the government blocks out the sun with a disk in space, and then sells you the energy via a subscription. If you don't have one, you freeze to death.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kuans-Wonderland-ebook/dp/B008144G9I...
Are you really doing BDD?
For those of you that are interested, you might want to look up "Convict Conditioning".

http://www.amazon.com/Convict-Conditioning-Weakness-Using-Su...
How to fix endorsements - rather than asking if someone has a skill, take two people in your circle claiming the same skill and ask who's more competent at that. Repeat this for all people in your circle with that skill and you can bubble sort people into who's best in your eyes. Next take those people's standing within their respective circles, perhaps weighted by some measure (e.g. people working in the same field's opinion counts more) and you start to get a good idea of how people compare to one another for the skills you're interested in. Even if those people don't have anyone in common you can use the 6 degrees of separation to use their connections' connections to approximate their standing compared to one another.
First 300 users
Man Crosses Twitter and Google Reader to Create Open Source Love Child
Cool, will check it out. Out of curiosity, how much did it cost to licence the tune? And what are you allowed to use it for?
(of course, this assumes that you wish endorsements to have meaning; if you're just using it to increase user engagement with your site the current method works fine - until people get fed up with putting in redundant effort).
Amazon Infiltrates the Android Game Market to Sell You Stuff While You Play
I wish they always included landing time. It's often missing, especially on a tear off boarding pass.

But again, this may be a place where the desires of the passenger and airline conflict.
I agree. Having been depressed, I can relate to both the typical symptoms of depression and the "new" ones, but as in your case I didn't let people know in general. There was a certain pride in emotional independence I felt that I think men have to a greater extent than women. Being more open about it is obviously healthier (it's like emotional load balancing), but society has made independence a virtue, especially for men.
Hey I remember that game.
I was able to get a dozen or so people to log in at the same time towards the end of the competition, but I don't expect more of that during voting. (Also I can't seem to keep the server up)
Using strong types to avoid common C++ programming errors
Python is too slow for FFT. There is no reason to understand how FFT could be implemented in python, if at the end of the day, C or Fortran will be used [1].

[1] http://www.freeware.vasp.de/FFT/fft-pentium.f
Startup to bridge the digital skills gap
We are backing the Syrian people. Ed Miliband is backing Ed Miliband.
Abaad News: "Endless Possibilities" on Khaleej Times
HTML5 vs Flash
"So for someone who is writing office document, Microsoft Word is the OS?"

If the computer is never used for any other application, then that's an arguable position.
Did Hangouts start enforcing the true names policy recently or was it ilke that from the start? It makes it pretty useless especially if you want a multi party hangout
and/or don't know all your contacts to be full-on G+ believers.
Placeholder - A game about defending a place.

The focus was largely on gameplay and balance, and the result is a decently balanced tower-defense like game. We tried some very new ideas in this genre, and it turns out they create a completely different style of play. Overall very happy with the end result.

Web: http://placeholder.tinco.nl
LD entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
>> Thankfully for them Apple showed/shows them much of the UI direction.

Huh!? If anything, I think Apple's the one taking a few pages out of the Holo playbook with their new found love for flat UI design in iOS 7.
I'm quite confused with the new Planner - when I searched for a specific keyword in the old Keywords Tool it gave me around 40k global searches, but when I searched for the same keyword in the new Planner, it shows 10 (ten) global searches. I don't get it, there is some new algorithm or maybe the new Planner just doesn't have all the data yet?
be happy you live in a time where the gatekeepers are crumbling all over, so you can just focus on your craft, whoever and wherever you are, without having to suck up to others
The issue there is that the value of those tags decreases if the majority just accept those tags suggested (which from what I've seen, most users do). There's no penalty to giving a tag, so if someone says "What to help one of your mates get a job by spending <1 second hitting a button" there's no reason not to (beyond your personal principles at least).
To fix the system you either need to limit the number of endorsements you can give (e.g. you're allowed to give 3 endorsements (to anyone) for each contact you have), or have some way to force a comparison (e.g. is A or B a more competent Java developer in the context of Gaming?).
Google - Keyword Planner has replaced Keyword Tool
Saves me the trouble ^^

I actually think i got the inspiration for mine from that post.
True. It is very confusing. Especially when they say that this value should be higher, because not only the standard devices are counted.
This is really cool. As a new father I have just learned that loud ambient noises help put newborns to sleep... perhaps that's another user type for you to consider! :)
Why are we even mentioning a "NSA review panel"?

Stating the obvious: This panel is not about solving the issue at hand.

Another example: Was anyone really satisfied with the "9/11 commission"?
LICENSE TYPE: Business / Corporate // Streaming Use Only // Single Use | Perpetual // 0-10 Employees => 199.00
Thanks!

I created it mainly to scratch an itch, as an excuse to learn a little about web programming and HTML5, and because I'm currently working on a very long project and felt the urge to finish something.

I don't really have a plan to generate revenue at the moment. If it ever became popular, I might look into creating an offline desktop version and selling that for a few bucks.

Probably the most obvious way to monetize would be building a mobile version and selling that, but unfortunately that's totally beyond my abilities.
That's another goatse as far as I'm concerned! Time to scrub my eyeballs...
Your PHP Framework choice does not matter
Drones used for archeological mapping in Peru
Fuck the VCs [2008]
Thanks!

I agree, the current defaults are poor and need to be changed.

As for the stuttering, I'm not sure - does it sound like a buffering issue or a decoding issue? It's on a low priority shared hosting package and I had to turn off cloudflare because it wasn't working properly, so it's possible the server isn't keeping up.
There is a service that comes close to this for elections in Switzerland [0]: you take a survey on how you stand on many issues (and not just the most polarizing ones) and it shows you how the candidates compare, who is closest to your views, etc., using some good visualizations [1]. One thing that explains their success is that, at least in major elections, they manage to get almost all the candidates to use their platform and build their profile.

[0] smartvote.ch. There is no major election coming up so the site may not be the most interesting at the moment.

[1] http://www.mullzk.ch/blog/uploads/smartspider_juso.png
Ummm, I wouldn't install it on a computer that you want to use for general computer usage. As a general rule, I advise people to wait until at least the .1 release, if not the .2 release for each new version. So using the beta is definitely a no-no, unless you actually need the beta, for testing your application against.

Otherwise you can find pretty big things not working - printing, might not work on one release, or bluetooth preferences might not open on another, or Airplay video streaming might not work. You may have graphics glitches, or a run away process that kills battery life. It's simply not worth the pain if you don\t really need it, but if you do really need it, the pain is bareable if you grit your teeth.
Mexican ... ? I don't even ... only idea I have is that it's related to food.
The title of the post if just "Understanding the FFT Algorithm", and his goal is to explain the algorithm. He just uses Python instead of pseudocode, to explain things.

The HN title has misled you, in this respect.
Arbitrary code? Don't be dumb, they're just games made by people like you.
Is This 19-Year-Old the Leader of the Syrian Electronic Army?
Would love to see a citation to such letter. Does anyone knows where to find a scan of the original?

I have seen that letter many times around the Net, but never a link to anything that could prove the veracity of it.
PHP Weekly – August 29, 2013
TL;DR Because capitalism, mostly.

This isn't really unique to capitalism - it's just politics and interpersonal competition.

This kind of thing happened in the Soviet Union, it happened in monarchist France (court of Louis XIV), it happened throughout all of human history.
I prefer OS X. Guess you wouldn't hire me.
When my mother was doing sociology at Uni I read one of her texts (as you do) and it had an example of an IQ test been flawed, they gave the same test to two different groups of children and found that the poorer (working class as they where grouped in the study) children performed less well consistently.

One of the people looking at the results then looked at the breakdown of questions by group and noticed immediately that questions like "The cup goes on the a) saucer b) floor c) table d) shelf" where consistently "wrong" (correct answer was a) for the poorer group at which point he realised that working class children drink tea from mugs and saucers where a middle class thing.

The story might be apocryphal but its stuck with me since I was 12-13 whenever I run into any kind of standardised testing/results.
People endorse me for stuff they don't really know that I'm good at... I find that oddly uncomfortable.
Read the article. Quote for you:

> "Though the pure-Python functions are probably not useful in practice, I hope they've provided a bit of an intuition into what's going on in the background of FFT-based data analysis."

There's very little to be gained by reading pure Fortran code, especially if you don't know the mathematical tricks/optimisations used beforehand. The Python code, on the other hand, stays (relatively) readable.

It's not extremely fast (though it stays decent, thanks to Numpy), but it's not the point.
Using Unicode crashes my router, I learnt that previously.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this. Is it really more energy intensive to slow down in mercury's orbit, than escaping the sun's gravity well? If that's true, can I inflect that the delta between mercury and earth is larger than the delta between earth and infinity, i.e. we are 'more than halfway out' of sun's gravity well in terms of gravitational energy levels?
- People who spell 'capitalize' as 'capitalise'

pps. lolol
A tidy repository of JQuery
Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel?

Because the last thing the NSA wants on a panel reviewing them is someone technically competent.
I built http://www.aquarium-manager.com to: a) teach myself to code and b) give a little back to society.

I don't have plans to commercialise it, and keeping in mind the costs to run it are low (less than $30 per month) I'm happily resisting the temptation to place advertisements all over it.

It's been live for about a year and a half, in the tens of unique visitors per day (hundreds of page views, 5+ minute avg session times) and certainly keen to get it more publicised.

I thoroughly enjoyed making the application (and enjoy supporting it still), and learning about all the cool tools/tech most people on HN get to use in their jobs full time!

Feedback welcome - and if you have an aquarium be sure to keep doing you water changes, your fish will thank you for the effort ;)

EDIT: fixed url
You don't understand at all. I've never invested more than $50USD in any bitcoin schemes, and I've cashed out of them all without loss. That 22BTC was what I generated and earned myself mining. At the time it was worth no more than $12/BTC. I spent it on more mining equipment.

It's really true what they say, sell shovels.
I agree. I am working with people have these 3 types of characteristics. This 3-type categorization is way too simplistic to describe an individual. I find no problem working with them. People are interesting. They all have some kind of quirks and behavior patterns. It's important to be tolerant and adaptive. But people with strong technical depth is really hard to come by.
Jump Drive - http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

I've used threejs for the graphics and cannonjs for the physics.
That isn't actually what psychopathy means.
Despicable Me - What Is It That Makes It Special?
Damn you, Excel spreadsheets, JP Morgan Chase edition
Black and a spot colour if you redesign the redesign. As it stands, there is text in three colours - black, an off-grey, the spot colour and white.
Finish "Lunatics" Pilot Episode by Terry Hancock — Kickstarter
Sergey Brin love quadrangle blamed for Hugo Barra's sudden departure
He didn't actually complete very much while he was there, though (this was a recurring problem for him which only got worse in later life) -- his contribution over sixteen years was a couple of paintings [including, it must be said, the famous Last Supper, which would rapidly deteriorate after completion] and assistance with various pageants.

His one attempt at something lasting and challenging, a giant bronze statue of his employer's father on a horse, was delayed many times, lying unfinished for years, and finally put to rest by the French invasion. The seventy tons of bronze set aside for it were appropriated for cannons, and the clay model was used as target practice by the victorious French.
A scan of what is claimed to be the original letter is here: http://gizmodo.com/5460442/leonardo-da-vincis-resume-explain...
The US has indeed fought many wars, few of them declared. I'm not sure, however, that India is the country to be lecturing it/us.

For what it's worth he Department of Defense took over the Department of War and the Department of the Navy.
wow awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant. Notice that he doesn't dwell on his "qualifications" or his accolades, the letter is basically:

1. I know as you do that there are many who claim to be able to bring you new stuff, but as we both know, they are almost all just rebranding the same old stuff we already have

2. I can do the following important things for you:

a.

b.

c.

...

3. If you are skeptical of my seemingly optimistic claims, I'd be happy to come and show you test versions which I'm sure will convince you of their worth.

I wonder what a modern tech version of this letter would look like?
An Aldi opened nearby about two years ago. Every package of fish was imported from China. Every package of frozen meat was imported from China. I love low prices but I'm not going to eat suspect product to get them.
Skype’s first decade reflects a trail of missed opportunities
I think this one:
http://www.theladders.com/career-newsletters/leonardo-da-vin...
(click on the image it's high resolution)

one of the sites citing the original text and the modern Italian "translation"
http://www.scudit.net/mdcurriculum_leo.htm
This reminds me of an old project. Explain all the bits that are communicated and computed across all APIs involved, when a user presses a key, and a set of pixels appear on the screen spelling "a".
Not sure if you're kidding, but the Off grey is created by using a percentage of the black ink.
http://helpx.net fills that gap
1) Yes. It is normal Ubuntu. You'd have to install some extra packages.
2) Yes, you can execute code in Desktop or Mobile - how you deliver the interface though would probably be done by either HTML or C++/QT Quick.
3) Yes, yes and yes.
4) It is a single environment with multiple interfaces. Plug it into a monitor and Unity Next will switch layout to Desktop - Plug it into a TV and it'll switch layout to Ubuntu for TV. All the underlying code is the same.
And notifications.
Miley Cyrus Concert ticket must watch this Video 
Miley Cyrus Concert ticket must watch this Video
I built a tool to help with scanning books in a more efficient manner:

http://github.com/jbaiter/spreads

http://spreads.readthedocs.org

With it, going from a physical book to a digitized, postprocessed and OCRed PDF takes around 30-40 minutes for an average 300-400pg book with no pictures/illustrations.

My (rather lofty, I ad mit) motivation was to make it as easy as possible for people to free printed information from their pyhsical shackles and enable them to share it (I'm currently working on a plugin that allows the user to directly upload a scanned book to the Internet Archive).

The inspiration for it came after I purchased a kit for Daniel Reeds' incredible DIYBookScanner[1] and built it on a free weekend. Upon toying with it, I realized that, while there was a lot of great software available for helping with the scanning and postprocessing, using it required a lot of often tedious manual interactions that could easily be automated.

The tool basically handles all communication with the capture devices (cameras, but the code is kept rather general as to allow for the usage of mobile phones or flatbed scanners) and calls a bunch of 3rd party applications to deal with postprocessing and output generation.

I learned a lot about multithreading/multiprocessing in Python, got to brush up my PySide knowledge and am currently learning AngularJS by developing a webinterface for it, to allow the headless control of Raspberry Pi-connected scanners.

[1] http://www.diybookscanner.org/
I think that these HR tests basically ensure uniformity of candidates to a certain extent. But if all people in a workplace are of the same nature, if they wear the same clothes (some companies require that too), and if they think in the same manner, a lot of out-of-the-box thinkers would be left out. And it is a law of nature that the higher the variety, the better the yield. I believe that a lot of differently thinking people can generate great ideas by mutual interaction.
Cashflow Models in Javascript
Looks nice, I submitted some patches to a similar project a few years ago (Mnemosyne, Python+PyQt).
What algorithm are you using for scheduling the repetitions? The unmodified SM2 or Anki's derivate of it?
I built http://algorithmic.ly, a company that helps you add intelligence to your applications by providing algorithms as a service.

I mentor a lot of startups in Boston. Between the Harvard Innovation Lab, CIC, Lean Startup Machine, Youth Cities and others, I've heard a lot about what problems early tech startups face. A big one I see with a lot of startups is that they have some idea that requires a relatively simple or at least well known algorithm, but they have neither the expertise nor infrastructure to implement it themselves or even install Mahout.

In an effort to help these companies, I created a service to help startups run algorithms without having to worry about the details. You just choose the algorithm you need and build a data model appropriate to your project, and then Algorithmic.ly generates an API for you to interact with your model and continuously runs the algorithm you need on your data. Then all you need to do is query Algorithmic.ly for the algorithm results whenever you need them.

This makes everything from spatial search to netflix-style recommendations within the reach of small startups who only have web developers or iOS developers and can't afford hiring data scientists to do it for them. Right now we're in a limited beta with several startups as we figure out how to scale, but we're looking for more companies we can help, especially in the Boston startup ecosystem.
I don't know Python, so I may be missing something, but:

I don't understand how the naive approach can be O(n^2) if it involves matrix multiplication.

Surely at best it would be somewhere between O(n^2) and O(n^3), and most likely O(n^3)?
Ignoring the 'they won't do anything so it doesn't matter who is on it' part of things -

> review government surveillance policies

Because they're not needed to review policy. You honestly don't need to understand technology, and therefore don't need a technology expert, for most things that happen in the world.

Do you expect a technology expert on a medical review board? The doctor is after all going to be using technology ...
Some of it is distinct.
I agree that you guys are brave. I have been thinking of making an important step for a while now, basically moving into software development/startups from a finance/accounting job, and I just can't wrap my head around such a change. I lived in many places, so that is not my silver bullet, but gosh leaving my 9-5 life seems so risky.

How do you do it? What scares the hell out of me is the future. What happens if things go sour? How do I know I can actually be a good programmer or entrepreneur? How do I save up for my pension (I am 27, that might seem premature I know) if things go bad?
There's no matrix multiplication, just vector dot product. (Yes, you can express it as a matrix multiplication, but nurrrr)
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