skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an NFL arcade game that used CED though http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/nfl.html
Just had a recruiter from Google contact me. They do pretty often, once a year. I usually tell them I am not interested. This time the guy mentioned they have some interesting work. So I said ok, I'll talk to him. Set up a time. Waiting for the call. Get an email that he can't make it. Ok, reschedule. Set a new time. Get confirmation he would call. No call, no email not anything.

I am thinking WTF. I wasn't even the one interested in the position, is this level of unprofessionalism common with Google?

Sorry don't mean to derail the comments, but it just kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth. And then seeing Google as first comment on HN hiring, kind of brought that back to my mind.
More Connected, Yet More Alone
For longevity: make multiple copies.

Harddrives: fill them up with photos and leave them stored at your parents' place.

Cloud: back up to at least 1 cloud provider (Dropbox, Amazon, ...).

Local: local computer, of course.

That's 3 backups there, which is not a bad start. Next: burn some DVDs etc. and again, leave copies at your parents' house.

For photos, my final backup (additional to the above) are printed photo books of which I make multiple copies and hand out as presents to mother-in-law etc.

More copies in more formats = longer life. Think about how your kids are going to recover these.
Now your whole family is merely bankrupt and homeless if you need medical care, unless you are one of the lucky fraction with insurance or live in a civilized country.

I lived without medical insurance for awhile in my 20s. Its not some picnic.
Er, that reads quite differently in context than it does here.
As AaronO said, you'll want to generate snapshot of all your pages. Normally this is done with PhantomJS and some helper scripts.

Google has documented this method here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

I have made a service that takes care of this for javascript sites that don't want to mess with maintaining this system themself. http://www.BromBone.com
How would it know where you were if it can't use GPS or connect to wifi networks? Obviously if you take it out you're not protected anymore.
Very useful! Thank you ver much! Although I'd like to add one suggestion and that is to surpress an 'echo' on successful navigation. I'd see my path twice right underneath of eachother, which just clutters up the screen.
Taxi startup Ingogo gets $1m injection
You have a strange definition of singularity.
They way I understand it, singularity is a point in time, when AI becomes "smarter" than humans, and begins the process of self-improvement. The big assumption here is that AI will actually be "like" humans, and will have goals, and motivations to achieve those goals.

However, if we assume that to be the case, AI will quickly become so smart that we will no longer be able to predict any of its actions, and therefore, we are unable to see the future beyond that point.

It was called 'singularity' because it's kind of like a concept of gravitational singularity in physics, where there can be regions in time (Big Bang) or space (black holes), where matter changes so much that we unable to see what's going on.

As for you question - yes, it's pretty stupid to "believe" in singularity. You should believe in yourself. You can change the world. Do you think technological progress is good? Do you want it to keep happening? Then do something about it. Learn, invent, make it happen.

People, who think they are "in the know", and who sit on their asses and wait until someone else do it, look pretty stupid.
BIG should be able to offset their drop in ability to make money due to having a child.

"If a couple wants kids" - we have a problem right here. How is it suddently "if"? Somebody gave birth to both persons in that couple, and to their parents, and before that - why would they be the ones who break this chain?

They should surely have kids when they want to do so and they should not be put in disadvantaged position by having kids - which, well, does happen in almost every developed country and in many less-developed ones. Therefore, BIG for children.

Surely they should also work, but you know, their employer doesn't care whether they have children or not, so it should be compensated somehow.

Heck, I think women should receive BIG from the month their become pregnant. Delivering the baby is very financially-intensive process, no doubt.
Your compensation is minimum wage. That is extremely unappealing to the kind of talented people you are seeking. I strongly urge you to reconsider.
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style that increases average error rate

Errors per LOC is allegedly constant, across all languages.

I also consider the cost of change when designing things.

I once created an HL7 wrapper that was a marvelous thing of beauty. Fluent API, clever use of the type system. But no one could maintain it, including me. It had too much magic. So I scrapped it, went with a dumber implementation.
Yeah, it's seems like an assembler would be far less work than the annotation tool he made.
Why do you need prototypes? Do you personally know any undercover cops, notorious gangsters, or bank robbers? Is there something particularly gendered about these roles that requires a man to play them?
I'd call that more of an effectiveness thing than overkill. And it would be possible for an app to not unlock the phone until it enters a certain geofence, like the hotel.
That's quite fair. It may just be that I marginalized the mechanism, and there's a middle ground that's less drastic. I'm not an economist, and I don't have the numbers to show it one way or another (and if I did, I'd be doing something with them!), but it seems to me that the mechanism is basic redistribution that has a built in feedback loop. It doesn't seem logical that people would argue for such a system, so I'm trying to figure out where specifically the invalid assumptions lie.
It is cheaper to make copies of software than almost anything else. This means that building network or a large customer base is very cheap, almost free. What prevents you from building a large customer base is not costs, but lack of demand and artificial barriers like charging a price. If you can make money by selling access to a large customer base, then it makes sense to go that route and remove every barrier to mass adoption.

Google does not have to work hard to sell its products. People are happy to use its search functions for free. And advertisers are happy to pay to access searchers. If Google charged for search, then it would have to work hard to sell paid search in the face of free alternatives. It would lose users and thus have less to sell to its advertisers. It's just easier from a marketing and business perspective to keep search free, or even pay people to search, and then charge for access to searchers.
Too cold in ND for RV living in the winter; no insulation.
A method of 'stickying' posts would be great. Even if just for 1-2 days.
This is my first public OSS contribution. I would appreciate any feedback on the blog post, source code and documentation.
No one lives in a 1 bed. I share a 6 bed in castro and it's way more affordable per person.
Oh now i get it. Looks a lot like .csv with semicolon.
Your arguments for a BIG apply equally well to a BJG, if not more so.

If the basic jobs include socially beneficial activities, BJG provides an even greater incentive for those activities than a BIG.

A BJG is also a cash transfer, but with a single qualification process. Show up, do work, get paid. This reduces waste because you gain the product of people's work. With a BIG, Waste = transfers + admin overhead + disincentivized work. With BJG, Waste = transfers + admin overhead + disincentivized work - product of basic jobs.

Similarly, the BJG would eliminate poverty and ensure a life-long minimum earning level.

As for your hypothetical future where human labor is unnecessary, we'll switch to a BIG when we get there.

The preference for a Basic Income over a Basic Job is a moral one - most of the proponents of Basic Income believe people should be able to subsist on the fruits of other's labor if they choose not to work.
The current function has the same restriction. In their case it's in the form of " * 3 ".
30 is the new 20.
squirrels are badass. they use the power lines as highways and they even have off-ramps (tree branches). and then there's this squirrel i see sometimes that has dark fur and it isn't afraid of humans and goes right out in the open eating all the nuts that the other human-fearing squirrels would never get close to and one time it gave me this look
Yeah doesn't really make a lot of sense at the border. Nobody is going to deliberately bring any device with incriminating content over the border, not when you can easily get a new phone and laptop at WalMart for a couple of hundred bucks.
Presumably, you'll need to take it out of the pouch to make a call. At which point, it will upload all it has gathered via nearby open wifi access point or, with the cooperation of your carrier, through the data link. If the carrier has any special incentives, the extra upload of data won't count against your usage so you may not even know that the upload took place.
Redistribution of wealth is a core concept of centralized government of all kinds, through the medium of taxation. And governments of all kinds already redistribute wealth in pursuit of social goals, whether they are socialist or not.
It's sort of misleading to present this without the racist drivel that surrounds it.
The mentally ill and disabled are simply a different problem. Handing $1200/month in free money to a schizophrenic is not a solution either.
Fortunately that issue has waned with the decline in the x86.
Excellent!

Suggestions for an updated demo:

1. Editable profile associated with the account that is automatically created for the django-persona-demo site when a user logs in.

2. Update BROWSERID_CREATE_USER to point to a function which creates unique usernames (so that if jane@domain.tld and jane@anotherdomain.tld both register there is no error).
My 9 month old displays better logical reasoning skills than evidenced in this post.

> Here's an example of victim mentality, but not from the author's perspective. - why are the villains in movies often English or German. Discrimination! - why don't we have Australian heroes in movies?

The difference is, only a tiny fraction of people in the U.S. are Australian, while a slight majority of the population is women. A rational example would be if 90% of American movies had Australians in lead roles. In that situation, you'd be right to wonder what the hell was going on!

> thinly veilled feminist (sexist) piece that dictates too much and is too narrowly focused (aka feminism)

Feminism = sexism is doublespeak.
How To Avoid Ruining The Startup You Just Bought, From A Google-YouTube Engineer
A lot of BASIC variants back in the early personal computer days had that feature too.. you only needed to enter as much of a keyword as necessary to make it unique. Or they had other abbreviations, like '?' for 'PRINT'. Anything to save a byte.
I would use differently colored sequential schemes per building type, that might look good. Time to grab the data and play around. :)
Tyranny is a bit overstated.
As long as the rest checks out, I don't see a problem with it. Shoot me an email at alex@fetchnotes.com and we'll chat.
Do you have data on this? I've seen a few specific cases where this is true, but I don't know of data sets showing it to be true in general.

I'd love to see a good data set which proves or disproves this.
Most (probably nearly all, I've never seen one that doesn't) have bathrooms with showers.
Driveless (http://driveless.co/) - REMOTE from: SF Bay Area, LA, Santa Monica, NYC, Austin, Houston or Atlanta

Hi, I'm starting a company called driveless and I'm looking to build a kick ass team

I'm technical, full stack, and love getting my hands dirty with all types of tech. I've been doing web development since shortly before firebug was created and most recently spent 2 years at Ruby/Rails shop. Now I want to build with Scala and the Play Framework.

Here’s the pitch:

This is a startup building a service to help people find shared rides to and from nightlife (bars / restaurants / etc.) so they don't have to drive home drunk.

Also have big ambitions of becoming a general purpose local transit alternative (think commuters) but want to start with the smaller market segment first.

I want the company to ultimately be completely distributed but I want people in LA (especially Santa Monica), NYC, Austin, Atlanta, Houston or the SF Bay Area to start for the first 3 to 6 months. These places have active nightlife scenes that I know and/or quality technical talent around.

Right now the company is completely bootstrapped and I want to keep it that way for as long as possible so you’ll need to have a cash reserve. If we can get really good traction getting funding may be entertained but I’d rather raise money from customers, you should feel the same too.

Here’s where you come in:

Across the board people will need to be scrappy and not be afraid of wearing many hats.

Specific roles:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

* CTO / Vp Engineering

Have you built cool stuff that lots of people use?

Do you want to run you own engineering organization of really smart people and have them at your disposal to help solve problems?

I want to build from the ground up with Scala on the backend. But if you can convince me Go or <insert your favorite language> is a better choice and is the new python re: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html I'm all ears.

come join driveless!

* Developer

Have you built cool stuff that lots of people use?

Not quite ready to lead the team but still think the concept is cool and want to be a part.

You’ll be a part of decisions that have a direct impact on the direction of the company and a great deal of autonomy to figure out and then go build what users want or may not even know they want.

come join driveless!

* Lead Designer / UX

Have you built beautiful usable products that lots of people love?

I need you help crafting great user experiences that will keep people engaged as they are introduced to and explore their ability to move around town without a car through shuttle and charter services.

Need them coming back for more.

come join driveless!

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check it out

all there is right now is an interest form and ideas in trello boards.

you would be in from the ground up

http://driveless.co/

if you're interested in the roles or just think the concept is interesting and want to chat feel free to shoot me an email at

wharris [at] driveless.co
Brewer palettes (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/brewer/) are hand-picked colour ranges that were originally meant for cartography but are useful for general data viz, where it is important to maintain perceptual regularity while displaying quantitative data.

There are Brewer palettes geared for sequential data, where you further need to express proportionality along a scale; and "diverging" data that has a natural zero point with two extremes where you need to present a spectrum. In all these cases it's important that one category doesn't appear "heavier" than another, and that subjective notions like "about twice as intense" reflect the underlying data.
You forgot to mention one of the main criticism to use exceptions for errors: the processor penalty.

As with much of the exceptions debate, it’s important not to over-generalise here.

For example, if you’re writing in a compiled language like C++ and your compiler uses a table-driven implementation for the exception mechanism (as most modern ones did, the last time I checked) then there isn’t necessarily any direct runtime overhead at all when no exception is thrown. In fact, the non-exceptional code path can even run a little faster than equivalent code with manual error handling via return codes, if conditional logic for propagating error codes can be omitted at all the intermediate levels between the one(s) where exceptions are thrown and the one(s) where they are caught.

On the other hand, the possibility of an exception being thrown might interfere with some optimisations. Also, the jump tables can be huge: I once saw the compiled output for a moderately large code base drop in size by 1/3 just from compiling it with exceptions disabled.

In short, there are a lot of factors at play, but anyone who parrots the line that using exceptions always slows things down has never spent much time looking at what actually happens with real compilers. And of course, this is only in one type of compiled language, which doesn’t necessarily imply anything about the performance characteristics of other languages (which vary widely).
Are you using Ghostery or something else that blocks Mixpanel and other things like it? We noticed a bug surface like this when people use those add-ons.

Looking forward to your application! Already a good impression by finding one of our bugs :)
Then what's with all the 1BR's up for rent?
Anywhere between 4 and 12 mpg (US). The lower mileage tends to come from gas/petrol engines -- the Ford V10 is popular. As well as smaller diesels that are towing another car (A "dinghy") up hills. The higher mileage is usually from Mercedes Sprinter based RVs, and Class 7 & 8 truck conversions.

Costs when driving are high, because of the fuel expense. But once you're parked in a campground (or even in the street like in the story) the costs are pretty low -- $200-400 a month (or $20-50 for a daily rate) for a campground. $50-200 to refill the propane tank. And $20-40 to empty the black water tank at a dumping station. Some campgrounds charge for electricity (20, 30, or 50 amp connection). Internet can be had over a parks WiFi, satellite, or a MiFi device (factoid: a 50GB plan on AT&T is $300/month), or if you're monthly, a campground may allow TimeWarner or Comcast to run a line to your rig.
If you are looking for a Python related job check out http://www.pythonjobshq.com/ it's the job board for the Pycoder's Weekly newsletter.
The documentation is in english (which the author knows), so this is nowhere near the worst.
> I'm really not trying to "trick" people into admitting a communist philosophy

Well, you sound sincere, but your arguments are so ahistorical that it's really tough to believe you.

First of all, you keep saying "Marxist communism" and "what Marx called 'communism'", and so on. "Communism" is not the name of something Marx proposed. It's the name of something someone else proposed, while boosting its credibility by invoking Marx.

Second of all, nothing approaching Marxism has been tried on a large scale. Again, see "communism is not marxism".

But more importantly, the essential property of both Marxism and Communism is that the means of production are owned by the state, ("by the people collectively", ha ha ha). No BI plan is proposing that. So they're fundamentally absolutely not marxist, and not communist.

I simply don't understand what you think the BI plan has in common with Marxism, or with Socialism, aside from a concern for the welfare of poor members of society (a concern which I hope you will agree is not exclusive to Marxism and Socialism).
Incorrect. The libertarian government ideal is that the government's main purpose (and some would say sole purpose) should be to protect people against such occurrences. So there is most definitely a mechanism to protect people against aggression from those with more power; in fact, libertarianism is built on the principle which underlies it.
> Which doesn't make it false of course. But it does have the same neatness that drives urban legends, and in a place like HN we should be wary of this.

Agreed. To restate in less argumentative terms, the claim made that:

>the most convincing evidence that it was very hard was that early mines and factories were easily able to recruit all the workers they needed, despite working conditions we know to have been harsh.

to be convincing must show that:

(1). there was a real alternative between peasant life and industrial life,

(2). that peasants made the choice with at least a decent understanding of what factory life was like.

1 is, as you state, debatable which weakens the claim (it certainly is not evidence in the affirmative). On 2 I don't have the expertise or the citations to state one way or the other, but I would love to see some evidence on either side before placing faith in the claim.

To generalize, I would say that any argument that "A is better than B, because lots of people from B prefer A" must at minimum meet the test that: it is a true choice, and that the people making the choice have enough information (informed consent). Additionally, I do not consider such arguments truly convincing, in and of themselves, even if they meet both tests because populations can make poor choices (cigarettes, electing bad politicians, buying an inferior product, etc).
But if you take your phone out of the packet, your location will be "broadcasted" to the network. That is, everytime you want to make or receive a call, or do anything with your phone, the network will know your location.

Flight mode would provide the same level of protection as this and at a much cheaper price.
I paraphrased from memory, sorry - I was thinking of this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6254218
20 words that mean something else completely in Britain
Unrelated to the product: Is it possible to throw the tracking off by blocking some cellular towers and only connect to one? Then they have a radius you are in, but not the exact location.
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http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/resolving-domain-disputes
The body worn “IMSI catcher” for all your covert phone snooping needs
Especially when the LucasFilm Games Group were using this workflow to target the 8 bit machines of the 80's.

http://www.langston.com/Papers/vidgam.pdf
That is infinitely more readable.
I don't know the name; I found it through issue 105 of iOS Dev Weekly. Here's the link to the article: http://cocoa-dom.tumblr.com/post/56517731293/new-thing-i-do-...
The sixth is a teapot.
You're an entry level worker with few skills and little experience, living just above the poverty line. You're unemployed and thinking of eating your cat. Along comes unconditional basic income, and suddenly you're netting $20K a year. You were making $23K at your last job before you were laid off, so this isn't so bad!

A year later, your old boss calls you up and offers you your old job back. Awesome! Only now the salary is $6K, not $23K--the market wage now that everyone gets $20K.

Work 40 hours a week for an extra $6K? No thanks--you're doing okay with your basic living wage and zero effort. Plus, Rob is getting the band back together! And so you remain an unemployed entry level employee until you die.
GRAPHISTRY

* Big data visualization-as-a-service, San Francisco.

* Launching in 3 months and actively collecting customers & funding.

WHAT: The "D3 of big data visualization" built on top of our breakthrough performance technology (http://sc-lang.com) and practical machine learning.

TEAM: A pair of award-winning UC Berkeley researchers (high performance parallel computing, programming language design, web infrastructure).

YOU: A founding engineer excited to innovate in one of:

* visual / information design

* distributed / cloud computing

The ideal candidate will also have experience in applying machine learning / statistical analysis to real problems.

NEXT STEP: Send a link showing your most impressive work to lmeyerov@gmail.com and let's get the ball rolling.
Thats pretty much what BI is. Many people I talk with use BI interchangeable with a negative income tax, which would give more money to people with less income.
Sounds logical; you have to request a building permit for it, along with the plans for the garage, which is sent to Kadaster for kicks.