skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing image (onto retina) is quite feasible, it's reading that is a problem now. A while back there was an experiment conducted to 'read' image in a person's mind, but what they had really done was mapping a certain image/video clip to a certain expression of the brain's activity. It can't read arbitrary image yet.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/

Correction: we can read arbitrary images, but so far only with cat's brain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLb9EIiSyG8
Back in the 2.3 days, Android had OpenVPN support (or maybe it was just a CyanogenMod feature). I wish that would come back.
If I'm so clueless, why don't you enlighten me by telling me what makes VS better than Intellij IDEA? I suspect a bit of the Blub paradox (applied to IDEs instead of programming languages) is occurring here.

I don't see what a lack in .net experience has to do with anything. I'll be the first to admit C# is a better language than Java. This is a comparison between two IDEs. I've used both. I was shocked at what VS couldn't do.
I'm using an external mouse and keyboard with my laptop at the same level as my 2nd monitor. It works pretty well.
Oh I see.

So anyone running a pineapple should alter the code not to respond to any SSID client probe containing the string "pineapple" and just wait for the next probe, and latch on to that as that will result in the MITM'ing of a high-value target.
It is a huge advantage for open book exams. An acquaintece of mine in the 90's got a learning disability diagnosis from a doc in the box (trivial, the drug companies gave you a script) and leveraged that to get unlimited time.

I'm more like you -- I don't have te patience to benefit.
>Put another way, some startups have a process, other startups just implement the tactics (best practices) that are the results of someone else’s process.

Yes, but you still need to test other people's best practices. What works for some, might not work for you. I remember when Etsy introduced infinite scroll because everyone were doing it; they soon found out that it affected their conversions negatively and returned to old style.
Simpler, more vpn-like solution can be done via Sshuttle[0] or (albeit less simple afaict) with `ssh -w local_tun[:remote_tun]`

[0] https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
Can you do that securely without the VPN? b^)
What do you mean by "complete"?
https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

Easy solution and system-wide, if your OS supports it and you can ssh to a trusted server. My personal plan-B tool when a simple ssh -D and firefox's socks-proxy isn't enough.

(BTW, why doesn't Chrome have socks-proxy like Firefox yet?)
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It really doesn't. Even including the bailout loans (and the argument about whether they constitute "loans" per se, yada yada), the overwhelming majority of lending is done by private banks. And that's where money comes from.

The idea that inflation happens because of "printing money" is a fiction. And a harmful one, IMHO, because it gets used as above as an argument to support some pretty ridiculous policies.
I don't think I've ever signed up for something more quickly than when I saw this announcement pop up on Twitter. Really enjoyed the Functional Programming with Scala course when it ran last year, and I'm happy to see the sequel come to fruition.
Fractional reserve banking is a distinct concept from a central bank, although the two are used together. Parent is arguing that fractional reserve banking creates more inflation than the Fed does.
Is ``Jessica's'' comment not far from the truth because Scala and Go have shared memory for their Actors/Processes? I know Erlang doesn't share memory between their processes which leads to concurrency; is this what she was getting at?
The problem is that "all things being equal" never happens because immutable data structures have worse performance if not used in a way that benefits from persistence. IMO, that makes them a poor default.
Look into getting a fatigue mat. I had the exact same issue when I started, and standing on the mat helps reduce the soreness.

edit: I used http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla... to get a standing desk for cheap
Why are they able to be able to get so much more range out of this product than regular Wi-Fi is able to get?
Facebook publically releases Report on Government requests
This immediately reminded me of Dan Pink's - The puzzle of motivation - ted talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

It focuses on how incentives affect the efficiency of creative jobs.
SolveSpace - parametric 2D/3D CAD, now as GPL'd free software
Some people like to think in terms of 'proofs', it seems reasonable to me that they would think of a compiler as a tool for 'solving problems' in those terms. But most of us seem to be more empirical.

Interestingly the best reverse engineers I've ever met, who are total descriptivists with a debugger, are also some of the most pedantic prescriptivists when it comes to writing actual code. It comes full circle, I think because they understand the reasoning behind the API contracts better than the API documentation tells.
Rocket Fuel Labs + Codeship = AWESOME via BuiltinDenver
Heap (YC W13) Raises $2M for Their “Capture Everything” Analytics Tool
Perfect. Exactly what I've needed for a lot of project ideas.
Will this work for my monitor and keyboard? I need a way to elevate my desktop as I don't have a laptop.
If you're asking about NSLs to Google, you can see the ranges on this page:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US...

These aren't aggregated into the counts shown in the table you linked. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/co...
Yep, totally agree :-)
There are services which aggregate food products as a service like foodessentials.com which claim to have more than 70000+ products but do not have all of them in their database.
Low-cost drones for mapping
I had a standing desk once, but after a few months, I found I had to sit to get any serious thinking done. Anyone else experienced this phenomenon?
> doesn't seem to have broken any new ground, only mashed together two existing technologies

I'd argue that new inventions are created by mashing existing technologies, often emerging or bleeding edge, and creating something new. Henry Ford didn't invent the combustion engine, transmission, suspension, etc, but he did mash these things together into something new. What we are seeing in the video and research is something new and pretty exciting if you take it a couple steps further. Think about replaying these signals, building a play book, etc.

ps. If you have some time to kill, I would check out this video called, "Everything Is A Remix", which talks about this idea @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coGpmA4saEk
In case you didn't notice, this course is being co-instructed by Erik Meijer, creator of the fantastic reactive extensions for .NET library.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh242985(v=vs.110).a...

I encourage anybody who has to write or maintain more than a few lines of C# or .NET code to check them out (and possibly take this class if it turns out to be good).
jashkenas on yield and other ES6 features [1]:

Agreed. I think that we should start considering the new features
as soon as they begin to work in browsers, and on Node.

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/3073
Is that what direct implies in this context? AFAIK it was never defined; i.e. having access to a bit-for-bit copy of their database wouldn't necessarily be 'direct'.
Thanks for this, I blended al-khwarizmi's book title with "Kitāb al-Jamʿ wa-l-tafrīq bi-ḥisāb al-Hind (The Book of Bringing_together and Separating According to the Hindu Calculation)" mentioned in its wikipedia page.
assert()s prove that something isn't happening.

Types prove that something cannot happen.
Much higher radio power level.
Go isn't a framework. NodeJS is a framework, as is Rails. JavaScript and Ruby are very old languages, both laden with baggage.
I've had a herniated disk (L4-L5) for several years, and tried a lot of different things - pilates, physical therapy, epidural steroid injections, special chairs, etc. Using a standing desk has been a godsend for me. I no longer fear inducing any back spasms after prolonged sitting.

That said, my feet hurt at the end of the day, and I still need to sit from time to time to take the weight off my feet. Am looking into padded shoes, but it's interesting to see that Arshad didn't need any special padding after a couple years.
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Fyi. The 20% pass rate was a result of implementing a test that measured progress against a curriculum that wasn't taught.
Thought of another application. Let's say you're a teacher. One of the hardest parts of education today is relating a concept by using other concepts that are more familiar to students. Its a translation problem, but there's an unknown variable. The teacher (especially if they're talking to a large class) may not actively know how well or how correctly their students are understanding the topic.

Assuming that a system is good enough to commercialize, there's probably some AI tech that's gaining traction too. If you could use AI to analyze a students understanding, the computer could interactively forge the lesson. The result would be faster, more accurate learning.

Learning, in my opinion being one of the biggest barriers to progress, the pace of change would be incredible!
It's perfectly possible to run a business entirely in French, Dutch, German, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese and so on. Not all businesses are international, not all business address an English speaking audience or employees etc.
All the famous entrepreneurs mentioned in this story have very light accents. I found YouTube videos with these entrepreneurs speaking, and none of them have "accents so strong that you have to interrupt the conversation to ask what they just said.":

* Vinod Khosla, Sun Microsystems co-founder and now a venture capitalis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxYVOMj6F2U&t=1m2s

* Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TShENN3VVX8&t=0m29s

* Tesla’s Elon Musk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDwzmJpI4io&t=2m33s

* Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vv0NKieCoI&t=5m59s
Thanks, in my hurry to back I had not, I was going to say that there could at least be a t-shirt tier which didn't appear backable from the 'checkout' screen but actually it looks like it is, so I'll go for that.

edit: Kickstarter is preventing me from getting the $25 t-shirt tier, asking me to say I'm in the US and otherwise looping back to the same page.
This is brilliant. We'll start recommending this, I think.
And you are allowed to pump more power through 2.4GHZ as opposed to 900MZ and 2.4 antennas have better gain properties.
Sure, this might work with manual labor sectors of the economy, but for driven people in science or the software world, a boss being an asshole will soon see himself surrounded by bad people. The good people go elsewhere and be productive. I've seen this happen many times.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Originally, I thought PG was confusing correlation with causation and projecting from a relatively small number of data points. But I agree, if the accent is so strong that it's hard to understand, that person will have a more difficult time being an effective CEO
He already did clarify that he is specifically referring to accents that make the person unable to communicate clearly or easily.
Lower bandwidth... and from one other comment they could be using lower frequencies as well.
Have ever tried programming in Go?

Edit: Functional Programming in Go
1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4358031/functional-progra...
2. http://golang.org/doc/codewalk/functions/
Yeah, I picked one up from Bed Bath and Beyond and it's helped a lot. First day (without it) was brutal.

edit: funny, I also hacked mine together with Ikea parts. Looks pretty good too.
That pretty much sums it up. The 8.1 changes, so far as I can tell, are bugfix/stability changes.

The article feels like click-bait to me. The little blurb on zdnet about the author helped me better understand where he's coming from:
Matt Baxter-Reynolds is a mobile software development consultant and technology sociologist based in the UK. His next book, "Death of the PC" is out in September.
To those who keeps saying "VS2013 preview and Windows 8.1 preview" are enough, so what? How is that any excuse not to release the finished code to the developers early so that they don't have to trust MS on this? How about we do our own testing and feel confident that our apps are ready on first day.

There is absolutely NO reason to hold it back until Oct to release the same code that they can release now to people who paid for the perks of getting RTM early to make sure they feel confident.

Why take any risks when there's like a whole month for the developers to test and validate against the final RTM/GM build?
wifi can do 1km easily just use more tx power and a suitable antennas.
You can do this without IPtables, just make wlan0/eth0 the host route for $server and then make the default gateway the tunnel interface. Decent OpenVPN clients do this by default.
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> that person will have a more difficult time being an effective CEO

In an English speaking community. But in their own country they'd be fine. This is about YC applicants. That really needs to be included in the quote, she moved the leading question to the part below it, which gives an entirely different impression than if that were the introduction.
Nice. My office just got these for everyone about 2 weeks ago. At first my feet were sore, but now I'm fine after about a week. Note that I already jog for 20-30mins every morning so maybe I adapted a bit quicker than some.
I think the big change for me is that standing seems to reduce hunger and my tendency to snack on stuff. Also, my stomach has stopped making those gurgle-sounds that eating lunch then immediately sitting down for a hour seems to cause. I also feel more energetic. Since I'm standing, coding and listening polskastacja online radio(Google it!) I'm usually kinda dancing in place most of the day. ^_^
Ironically, Ghostery is owned by Evidon who sells GhostRank data to businesses.
1) Could be propagation time to their CDNs.

2) Could be the next time available in their schedule to make this change.
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Pretty much everything except performance benefits from immutability and persistence, which is why using anything else as the default seems insane to me.
What do you do when you're struggling with a company you love?
Arduino due is an ARM cortex m3 (microcontroller ARM). ATmega's aren't particularly known for their power consumption, you have always been able to get lower power ARMs.
It was (and still is, IIRC) a CM feature.
It's worth noting, for those who aren't aware, that current evidence (while scant) does not support the hypothesis that using a standing desk is healthier than using an ordinary sit-down desk. In fact, the evidence for ordinary desks being harmful is not nearly as strong as standing desk proponents would have you believe.

It certainly can't be taken as a given, though, that if long sedentary periods are harmful, long periods of standing still are significantly better.
Samsung to unveil Android smartwatch Sept. 4
But are any of them asking YC for funding?
The tech industry's dirty secrets (à la Reddit)
Sounds frustrating for sure.... but worst work day of your life? I take it the author is young or has had fairly good jobs up until this point.

edit: I originally commented after misreading the title, somehow failing to see the word "work". Still, hyperbole?
PG: I wonder how well you account for the fact that even though you have 564 data points, you end up having much fewer data points for each type of subsample - and since startup data is by definition highly non-linear and non-normally distributed, you could end up reaching sweeping conclusions from way too few data points
How come it says $20 in the title, then doesn't let you buy anything for $20?
Perhaps sitting for long periods was a trigger for unhealthy snacking habits for you. That alone could actually account for a major difference in energy levels.
I had the same experience, though I've been trying them on-and-off for years now. Walter Murch (demi-god of film editing) has an interesting take on it.

"Unlike most film editors today, Murch works standing up, comparing the process of film editing to "conducting, brain surgery and short-order cooking", since all conductors, cooks and surgeons stand when they work. In contrast, when writing, he does so lying down. His reason for this is that where editing film is an editorial process, the creation process of writing is opposite that, and so he lies down rather than sit or stand up, to separate his editing mind from his creating mind."

Maybe we should refactor standing up and write code sitting down?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murch
Will the Hyperloop Cannibalize Tesla's Business?
I want to buy a bunch and build an alternate internet mesh network a la https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/372450697742008322
I'm not sure what mobile first has to do with javascript dependencies. The reality is that all modern browsers (and web sites in general) expect a working, modern javascript engine.

With that said, if you disable JS on the author's page it still renders content fine.
I ran into the idea that people are biased against thick accents in '59 seconds':

"If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit." Rhyme is actually persuasive.
(In general things that are easier to understand/remember are more persuasive;
people distrust the same words said in a thick foreign accent, for that reason).

http://graehl.org/2011/02/02/59-seconds-is-a-good-self-help-...
Not a good general rule. What if your employees are simply mediocre performers? Do you really want to trust & empower them? Get out of their way? I don't think so. Not every company can afford to hire the very, very best.

Employee incentives and motivation is not a one-size-fits-all optimization problem. It depends on the company, on the team, on what they're working on, etc.
still waiting for chips which do DSSS (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-sequence_spread_spectr... ).
If you replace your numerical values with algebraic symbols, you may see the problem with your analysis -- its use of a zero allows 1 to equal 2, as shown in this classic example:

http://www.jimloy.com/algebra/two.htm

So multiplying by zero isn't always a legitimate operation. That's why the multiplicative identity is one, not zero.
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Worst work day. The post is clearly titled as such.
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I find it best to move between sitting/standing. I sit in the morning and stand in the afternoon. Standing in the afternoon gets/keeps circulation going and prevents that drowsy feeling that can sap productivity after work.

Something else that's great to add: a bicycle. I sold my car and commute by bike to/from work about 7 miles each way. The added leg strength is amazing, not to mention it tightens your core, which helps with back pain, and there are cardio benefits, too.

It's also a lot of fun. I look for excuses to ride my bike.
From personal experience, standing desks are great for back problems or preventing them. However even after about four years of doing it I find that you either need a lot of padding for your heels or you need to learn to stand using the front portion of your feet.

Looking at the post about the only I don't like is that Arshad's setup doesn't look ergonomic. I tend to have the keyboard about the same height as my waist with my monitor closer in height to my head. For me when I didn't have that setup, I began to have neck and wrist issues.
Yeah, I'd like to hear more about what kind of things make you fall back to imperative style.
I'm severely flat footed (wet footprint has no arch) and standing more than a few minutes starts to hurt my feet. Anyone else flat footed who tried a standing desk?
I have been doing this for about a month now. I am kicking myself for not having made the switch anytime sooner. Come to think of it, I feel humans are just not designed to sit for long hours in chairs. Standing position is natural. You feel free and are less constrained compared to a sitting position. Posture changes happen a lot more; And breaks you take are more active or sometimes continuous. They also become less of a chore.

If there is an iota of doubt in your mind, that sitting for long hours is somehow screwing up your back then please switch to a standing desk.
I used to work for MS in 2007. I used VS.NET for a while in 2010 (for couple months, mostly writing code and unit-tests via NUnit) and in 2012 doing mostly Sharepoint so I may be outdated.

Back in 2008-2010, I used Eclipse exclusively with Maven (and m2clipse), FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, Hudson (Jenkins nowadays), Spring, GWT, with some exposure to HBase and Hadoop. I never had to wrestle with any licensing issues at all. If I want to use something I would go to the internet and download them (IDE, plugins, tools, libraries or whatnot). They're also high-quality grade tools and not toys or something with serious limitation that forces you to buy the commercial offerings.

Feel free to invalidate my opinions. Love to see a better version of NuGET. Love to see VS.NET Express to support plugins. Love to see what great cool plugins exist for VS.NET. Love to see any heavy-weight framework/libraries from .NET that are being used in large-scale and in may areas. It wouldn't hurt if you can list them here for the benefit of everybody else as well.

PS: Mylyn is a very underrated tool. I heard they're going to port Mylyn to VS.NET but haven't seen it from their product page yet as of today.
Actually I would find it very informative to know if there is something similar. It puts things into perspective, says something about the novelty and gives a lead to a similar tool. I will then decide what's useful an what isn't.
Self driving cars sound like a slam dunk for the U.S. driving conditions (Bay Area, etc..). I'd buy one in a heartbeat there.

But what about Latin or Asian messes of countries? Say Rome, Buenos Aires, Lima, Hanoi or Bangkok? Lots of motorcycle and bycicle and human traffic (and in the case of my native Montevideo, horse-drawn carriages!).

Driving in some of those countries is more psychology and playing chicken than anything else (and yes, accident rates are apalling)
I haven't played around with Scala or Go, but it's not far from the truth in that Erlang is a pretty good bet.
Funny, I didn't see that either. I just figured it was a little hyperbole.
Henry Ford is famous for creating a useful product that people wanted to buy. This is more of a parlor trick. It's sexy, but it's not going to help anyone do anything, nor does it incorporate any significant technical or scientific advances that could be useful to future brain-computer interface development. The authors seem to be aware that it has little scientific importance, since they published it on their website instead of in a scientific journal or on arXiv.
I'm in the same boat. Buying a cushioned mat made the difference between having to sit after a few hours and being able to comfortably stand all day long.
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I would love to see codeacademy, codeschool, treehouse, and the online course community to jump on creating go curriculum.
One linking post is fine. Three comments full of Passenger links is pushing good taste.
Yes, I meant that loving one's government requires examining reasonable critiques, not rants about how Asians are faster than blacks at the DMV.
It still seems pretty trivial, say, compared to seeing 80% of a company laid off.

He's essentially dealing with designers. A lot of them are like that. Wait till he has dealt with a few executives.
Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch Coming Sept. 4