skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, that's the fun part. If you try to pack in more information than given by these limits, you inevitably form a black hole (and then you lose access to those individual cm^3 regions, and your plan falls apart).
I liked this idea so much that I just updated a little tool I built a few months ago https://github.com/jez0990/inyourface

Hopefully it's useful to someone else reading but I have no idea whether it works on other operating systems! (I'm using Ubuntu)
Pretty close to clojure, problem 1: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6764863
There would be annotations in the same places as Typed Clojure, except :no-check would be replaced by type soundness-preserving runtime assertions. There would be no need for :no-check anyway; Typed Racket's base annotations are complete AFAIK.
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Free sushi, wine, and Zumba sounds awesome! But it's a really good demonstration of how it makes it sound like a very different company employing very different people.
> Find a better job.

Sure! Can you provide for my family while I do?
I thought about the same thing. Maybe the "solution" is to make something that behaves differently every day, so you are always caught by surprise and can't ignore it.
This is cool. I can finally get rid of all the posts about politics.
I've attended to a course on presenting in a French university. The professor actually recommended Comic Sans as the most suitable font. With a straight face.
Physics - Accelerating Electrons with Light
> ultimately there is always a market below that point - people are selling arduinos now for surveillance or monitoring simply because the market is too small for anyone skilled enough in C to bother.

I agree, and this could be interesting for some of those small volume domains--but their copy in the slide deck is broadly encompassing and far reaching, implying mass-market products like Nest. I'm just taking them at their word and addressing that application.
I think the main thing is that this stuff is constantly changing, and you've got to have both a willingness and the time to stay on top of it. I don't feel that I'm any less equipped to learn new things at 40, but the external responsibilities that I have now (notably family) have significantly cut down on my free time, which is when I usually play around with new languages and frameworks.
Customer interviews as a service. What's your thoughts?
I said in my comment:

> So, maybe this project is betting on our lives transforming into everyone paying more for their hardware, and everyone using a lot more small/local/boutique type stuff created by small hardware teams. This doesn't really jive with the way technology products are currently marketed, hardened, and distributed, so I'm operating on the assumption that change doesn't happen anytime soon.

So, didn't and won't. At least not mass-market. Maybe very specialized, low unit volume kind of applications.
Hyperfocus: How to Control and Harness Your ADHD
http://www.additudemag.com/adhd-web/article/5007.html
Because Williams, having just uncovered key evidence against the evil Russian mafia at Black Hat and/or Harrods was, the only person in MI6 who could possibly stand a chance against the evil Russian mafia.

At the very least acknowledge the possibility, instead of parroting whatever some anonymous source - who decided to surface two years after the fact, at a very strategic time at that - is saying.
400k fine for multi-billion $ company is hardly a newsworthy punishment. It's a parking ticket.
Not implied—feel free to call a spade a spade and a fascist a fascist.

Excuse me now, I have to get back to my campaign to stop people from "diffusing tensions".
In retrospect it appears almost orchestrated -- from Obama's push for strikes, to Kerry's press conference 'fumble' [1] -- given how clearly and cleanly it allowed Russia/Syria to concede to world demands without losing face. (Indeed by appearing to be the bigger/better/more sane people.)

[1] Wherein Kerry facetiously offered the supposedly-unacceptable path to avoiding conflict, allowing Putin to 'call' that bluff by actually agreeing to it.
1) Well I started learning when I was 28. Self employed as a web dev now

2) Frontend dev that knows Javascript

3) Javascript. Regardless of whatever serverside stack you decide to further pursue, every one of them still has to interact with js. Choose Python while you're at it.
Cota system transmits power wirelessly at up to 30 feet
Oculus Rift + Kinect + Razer Hydra + PS Move demo
I agree recent job experience is the main issue in computing, but that's a fairly small segment of the job market (~5%). Outside of computing, there just aren't that many career paths without degrees anymore, where there's even hypothetically a way to get in on the basis of self-study and experience.

The people with the hardest time finding new jobs are the large cohort of blue-collar workers caught in the rapid evaporation of the entire category of "well-paid blue-collar job": they have solid job experience, perhaps 20 years experience doing something mid- to high-skilled in an auto factory, but due to shifts in the economy and automation, that experience is no longer relevant, and they have no formal education in another field to fall back on.

One angle could be to try to get some job experience in a different field, but computing and starting a business are two of the few paths where you can just go directly into that. You can get hired as a programmer or sysadmin with no degree, and you can start any kind of business you want with no degree. But Dupont, say, is not going to hire a chemical engineer with no degree, and that goes for a large segment of the economy.
This is an interesting thought, but history has already shown the outcome. Shelf space dominated by the big players and defacto price fixing.

A better approach would be for a few very high quality niche apps to get together an open their own app store. They sell only though their store and price the apps appropriately. Thus starting boutique markets. Could happen now with Android but currently not Apple.
Thoughts On Braintree + PayPal Alliance (From Someone In The Payments Space)
Your point here, as I understand, is to subvert the test by mentioning e.g. beer specifically not being a perk.

This illustrates an interesting problem of parsing natural language, but IMHO this should still give the same negative result anyway: why is beer an important consideration in a job ad at all?

You should rather spend the space telling me more specifically about what the job entails. You get a pass for talking about beer if the job involves classifying craft beers.
"[A] proprietary office suite". Hmmm... I wonder which one it's talking about? Haha
Random numbers and the NSA

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
How Twitch took over the booming market for competitive video gaming
As a first approximation, the terrestrial mindset is that distance = difficulty. However, rivers, swamps, oceans, forests, deserts, and mountains all modify that statement. Anyone on a river knows that it takes longer to go upstream than down, and someone who has been in eddies, rip currents, or the Gulf Stream well knows that distance and difficulty are only roughly correlated.

So it's not that hard to convince terrestrials to use an alternate-but-still-terrestrial energy model, where the Sun is at the top of a high peak, the Earth is on the flank of the mountain, Pluto is near the base, and the terrain is rough enough that things don't just roll down the hill.

That image you showed, with delta-v based on Hohmann transfer orbits, maps directly to that terrestrial energy model. As that energy model is obviously wrong - there is no friction in space - it means that that delta-v map is inadequate as a teaching method.

Yes, you've gone from crystal spheres to epicycles, but you can't use that new knowledge to understand most of the routes that we actually use for spacecraft.

Take the planned Solar Probe Plus as a quite relevant example. Its original plan was to fly by Jupiter, but now it's expected to use multiple flybys of Venus.

You cannot explain that with a delta-v map. Moreover, I argue that pointing to a delta-v map as an explanation is itself a sign of a terrestrial mindset.

To get back to the topic of "crash into the Sun" and "crash into Pluto" - to the best of my understanding, it's easier to build a rocket that can crash into the Sun than can crash into Pluto, and it takes less time to achieve that goal.

Once you can reach L2, you can crash into anything in the Solar System, if you're willing to wait long enough. Reaching Pluto takes a very long time, so it's much more likely to be affected small unforeseen events, like solar storms. Corrections require propulsion. Propulsion control requires computers. Computers require energy. All of these require mass. A Pluto-crash mission requires more mass than a Solar-crash mission, so is harder to build to get to L2 in the first place.
An intriguing idea! Can you suggest some language that would set off alarms for you?

Related: Douglas Hofstadter's satirical article on exactly that topic, which you reminded me of and which I'm glad I could remember enough of to find: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
Debugging In Vim
> if we could make it so they could only get e-mails with a normal warrant, from a normal Court

That is probably a legislative challenge, not a legal challenge. Is he setting up a PAC?
Programming is like being able to build a house. the house is the product. some builders are completely driven and passionate and build the worlds most beautiful structures. Others build the ones we dont like.

programming is a toolset, its in the eye of the programmer where the passion for creativity, design and ultimately product lies. programming when combined with architectural skill creates the beautiful products we call iphones, devices, web stuff...

if someone is stuck thinking programming is just a tool they will naturally see it as boring or mundane. If someone takes that tool and changes the world with it, then Im sure they will not see it as such.
Not in the us, not as an employee of a corporation. If you don't like someone because they are in a protected class, you just have to deal with it.
Freedom is always freedom from something. In this case, the main attraction wasn't freedom from non-complete user freedom (indeed, the end users are likely to experience a rather un-free computing environment), it was freedom from commercial software vendors.
tl;dr

Here it is: http://clientcrowd.com

What's your opinion?

Long version:

Assumptions

Entrepreneurs want to interview customers personally but they would rather like to spend their time on something else than finding people fitting the profile, and that would agree to an interview, then arranging each interview, and then organizing the output.

Ideally, they would like to have interviews in batches, so that they could for example clear one afternoon to do just that.

I can see two scenarios: starting with a customer profile spec or with a list of customer contacts. I'm not sure what is more common.

Assumptions about the audience

1) Early adopters and lean proponents (smaller segment, easier to reach out)
Entrepreneurs familiar with the lean startup / customer development and appreciating customer interviews.

2) "what business to start" (adwords phrase) (larger segment, harder to convey the value of the solution)
Entrepreneurs not recognizing value in 1 on 1 interviews. If interested in learning about their customers, they would choose anonymous surveys and marketing research publications over other, more involving methods.

Anyone out there feeling arranging customer interviews is a problem they don't want to deal with, and would be willing to get interviewed by me on Skype about it?

What's your thoughts about the idea and the assumptions?
i guess this is a series of posts on showing different uses for JuMP? because otherwise, wouldn't it make more sense to use a SAT solver, or ASP? are wrappers for any of those available in Julia?

(i'm not complaining; i'm learning about all this stuff - have recently been looking at potassco - and am trying to get clear what tool fits where).
Aaron Carroll & John Green explain how Obamacare works & why you shouldn't panic
Sure. Strattera.

http://www.strattera.com

And yes, both Ritalin and Adderall both made me nervous because of what I'd heard.
One solution is employees order the food and then go pick it up, skipping lines. Change of scenery is often great for mental stimulation. Sitting at a desk 20 hours straight only works for those on adderal.

Kudos to your intern for building this.
and check it out... Wired has changed the headline... Just like the Guardian did two weeks ago on that "let herself be gang-raped" headline. [1][2] It's now "Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference before death".

AND as a matter of fact, I just went back to triple-check the Guardian article and guess what? They changed it AGAIN. They replaced the word "molested" with "endured sexual assault."

Are they A/B testing? What is going on?! (wake up sheeple...)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374829
[2]http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/08/beeban-kidron-in...
In lieu of what's going on, I think anyone expecting their money back should re-examine priorities. Clearly Lavabit needs the money for a cause that, frankly, trumps anyone's concerns about getting their money back. I completely support them taking any cash that's available, risking the anger of the people who would dare to be upset about it.
In short, I think making the OP upset is a negligible problem compared to the USgov to getting their way.
There's this little thing called del.icio.us in which it's possible to achieve the exact same functionality (and more with some social features), have you heard of it?
> Williams was unhappy with his work environment at MI6 and felt he didn't fit in with his colleagues.

He was on secondment from GCHQ. He might have been very happy with the work and environment at GCHQ. We don't know.
Echoing what others here have said, I found professional ADD or ADHD diagnosis and treatment to be helpful.

As far as a repeating reminder/logging system, I glued together a Google calendar with multiple daily repeating events separated at 30 minute intervals and 5 minute SMS reminders. This gives me an automated Pomodoro clock as well as a place for prompts.

I've pushed this farther by setting the calendar event titles as bit.ly links to a Google Docs form backed by a Google Docs spreadsheet. The form has a single radio button form question letting me log what I'm doing at the end of my sprint.

I have not tried to use this to improve my behavior yet, but I do now have a decent log of activity to use as a baseline when I try something new and want to measure it's effectiveness.
These results are very impressive, and I think that if applied to a lens that was less aggressively simplified, they would be even better.

What is not clear from the video is how this algorithm performs on elements that are out of focus due to narrow depth of field. It seems likely that near the edge of the focal distance, there will be significant artifacts as the algorithm misinterprets slight depth of field blur as lens aberration.
Google trying to force me to join Google Plus
Once a week, when I log into Gmail, I get a splash screen with some of my information pre-loaded on it, encouraging me to fill the rest out and sign up for Google Plus.

I'm assuming that one of these days I'll click the "Yes" button by mistake, and after that there will be no going back. That is, if I want to delete my Google Plus account, I'll also have to delete Gmail.

Remember, Google got into trouble with Google Buzz for doing something related.

How does one stop Google from shoving Google Plus down our throats? Is a class action lawsuit possible here? I'd like to help with organizing a group to discuss this and get a mailing list going, depending on the interest level of course.
> That means that for insurance companies only 15-20% of revenue can go to employee salaries, building rent, other administrative costs, advertising, CEO pay, profits, etc.

> The only way they can pay themselves more is to reduce administrative costs or cover more customers...

Not true. There's one more variable you forgot: cost of care for an individual customer. Under a model where the percentage of profit is fixed, there exists an incentive to collude with care providers to increase costs across the board.

This is the fundamental issue with insurance. The consumer is once-removed from all transactions. They pay a fixed annual premium for all their care. This premium goes up and down based on market forces in which they only participate on the demand side. The costs for their usage are distributed amongst classes (groups) of users, so the user of the service might see price increases even when they haven't used the service much; confusing to say the least. This leads to the generalized understanding that "insurance costs go up over time", even though there may be no justifiable reason other than the desire for increased profit for providers.

IMO, Obama Care represents the worst possible solution to the problem. I'm not opposed to the idea of healthcare as a "right", but I am opposed to injecting for-profit organizations in to a service that is mandated by the government.
Z10, too. BB10 devices are beautiful, they're just duct-taped to a dead-end OS and came too late to save the company. Also, going with non-discoverable gesture-based navigation was a doomed idea. I get what they're going for, but when you're scrambling to keep your users you don't want to create that kind of huge barrier for them.

If only. Even if BBOS was forked from an old version of android (like, 2.3 or something) you'd still have some baseline of compatibility, a place to build an ecosystem.
Per the article, Google was punished for NOT amending its privacy policy before amending its practices.

Please edit your comment to correct the error.
I think there might be a line where having some limited alcohol available for those who want it at social events but not emphasizing it, especially not in a job posting. This job posting does tend to alienate non-drinkers, which just keeps them from even applying.

I can think of a few jobs that have a culture that emphasizes alcohol consumption. The United States Navy comes to mind. Here's some research to back that statement up: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090609130802.ht...
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What does lavabit actually do?
A scientific guide to posting tweets, Facebook posts, emails and blog posts
Their Rewards structure hints at point 5: "$60: Free bike registrations forever".
Shameless plug. I made a similar service this weekend during Clojure Cup:

http://hs.clojurecup.com/

It's quite rough around the edges, but the idea is that you follow individuals rather than topics. Any feedback is appreciated (but I won't be able to incorporate it until the competition freeze is over, in a couple of days).
In a way it's quite terrifying to consider the possibilities of bias in Wikipedia. After all, if you're not an expert on a particular subject, how are you to know that even an article which seems neutral in content and tone isn't subtly selecting for and emphasising a certain portrayal of its subject? Tricky stuff.
So then why don't you just fire them for being difficult to get along with? Why do we need codes that allow us to hide our true motivations? That's incredibly passive-aggressive.
When I turned 32, I decided to learn guitar. I was absolutely horribly. Atrocious. Ear-piercing.

Four years later, I recently sat down in a jam session with a buddy who asked me how long I'd been playing for, and was shocked to hear that it had only been as long as it had. I wouldn't consider myself especially good at guitar, or any faster at learning than the next guy, but I've stuck with it, and made sure to learn something every couple of days, with the idea that if I learned a couple of things per week, then over time, those weeks would add up, and I'd know something.

I'm still a million miles away from being a rock star, but I could, realistically, play guitar in a band on stage, if I needed to. Learning songs has gone from taking months to a few minutes, on average (highly depending on the song). All that, and I didn't start til I was 32.

As a 36 year old web developer by trade, the skills are comparable. Learning compounds over time, and you'll be able to put pieces together more efficiently the more you do it.

The most relevant advice I can give is to just start learning, and the best way to start learning is to start doing. There have been plenty of folks who went from nobody to hirable by building a pet project and learning the language in order to do so. To work at a startup, or small business, "being able to code well" is often less important than "being able to code a project to completion." Build a blog, then use it to blog about your coding progress. Share your trials and tribulations, and post all the code you write on Github. Do that, and you'll likely be coding pretty well within a year's time.

To sum up, yes, you still have plenty of time to crack into the field. No, I wouldn't hire you (at the moment).

As for your niche market, my guess would be that your architectural background should have bearing on it. A buddy of mine is a restaurant owner, and also a developer. Unsurprisingly, he's building analytical tools for restaurant owners. He could likely have built the app for any niche, but his domain expertise means that he understands the market far better than even a much better developer.

At some point in your prior career, I have to assume that you dealt with some pain point related to poor tools in the job. Make better tools. Make them be more usable, more UX oriented, and more attractive, then sell them to other architects who were likely to have experienced those same pain points.

As for skills to improve, I would start with Javascript. For 'catching up', you can use the same language in both the front and back ends with JS, and you already know a smattering, which will hopefully ease the learning curve somewhat.

Either way, good luck. What I can tell you, as an average learner, persistence is really the only thing that you need. Just like exercise, or learning guitar, it all seems hard at first, and all gets easier with time. All that is required is to not give up early on, and you will most undoubtedly become better and better over time.
Ctrl+H is halfway there (but no FT search of pages)
Anything by default is idiotic. Lexical scoping works when variables are declared. Lexical scoping becomes a burden when deceleration is not required and variables fall back to some default scope.
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Assuming we don't want to maintain a set of per-platform macros, we need to use an existing, standard format specifier. There isn't one that takes a time_t. So we have to cast time_t to a type big enough to contain it, use the format specifier for that type, and we want this to be as cross-platform as possible, i.e. we use the oldest, most widely-supported type which can definitely hold at least 64 bits and has a standard printf specifier available. i.e. "long long", exactly as in your example code.

So that's why we prefer "long long" rather than "int64_t", which I thought was your original question.
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