skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even boring problems at Google are done at mind boggling scale, but the work that Google is doing on machine learning alone, what Ray Kurzweil is trying to do, is one of the hardest problems in history.

The everyday things you use, like Google Maps, have incredibly sophisticated pipelines behind them. I'm not talking about serving up image tiles, I'm talking about the software that processes satellite, aerial, and street view imagery and stitches everything together into a coherent whole, while doing things like using machine learning to recognize signs, text, objects, building outlines, etc.

It all works so smoothly and so well most of the time that people don't even know all of the work that goes into it. Just parsing a question for meaning in search is a very very hard problem. What Siri does is kind of a joke compared to what's really required to make things work as they should.
Atlas Obscura: A Library of Obscure Destinations
There are always things like real people and phone numbers. You know, find some GH staffers via G+, LinkedIn, Fb or your own network of friends and work some connections. Pete does not say the lengths he went to, but email is admittedly one of the most passive mediums.
Senators Push to Preserve Phone Surveillance
These look nice, but what makes them any better than a Raspberry PI?

I'm probably missing something, but it looks like it has the same inputs/outputs as a PI, but with only 720p output (as opposed to the 1920x1080 of a PI). The form factor looks to be larger and the PCB looks a lot more complicated. And it's $30 more expensive?
Those interested in using Rust for game development can check out our list of resources: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Computer-Graphics-and-G...

If you want to chat feel free to stop by `#rust-gamedev` on irc.mozilla.org. We're very nice!
Really interesting idea. I could see this being used to remotely manage a farm from anywhere in the world. Picture a dashboard with hookups to your video feeds and statistics. When it's time to harvest take it out of the ground put it in a hopper and wait for pickup.

Not to mention the impact of testing different field configurations in varying climates all over the world. Whether the robotic design of the system is cost efficient or not, we should be at least collecting and sharing this data now.
What on Earth would I do with an armored personnel carrier?
The America's Cup has always been this way--a battle of money and technology as much as sailing skill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Cup

It's not a normal sporting competition the way we think of sport today--a contest conducted by standard rules using regulated equipment under the auspices of a neutral governing body. The governing body of an America's Cup race is the yacht club that holds the cup. The rules are whatever they say they are.
I read a comment from Richard Garfield in the days of "Revised edition" and he said that one of the flaws of Black Lotus was that there was no deck that could not be made better with the addition of Black Lotus.

It's an auto-include. A no-brainer. Everybody wants one. Every deck benefits from having it, and that's why it defeats the spirit of the game and should be left out of future editions.

So, you could say that it's because it's so powerful that it's an auto-include, but then that leads to a discussion about cards that are powerful on their own and what cards are enablers.
I see you're talking to someone, but if you want - give me a buzz at 51.6.876. 8006 - ask to talk to the guy on Wall ST.
As I mentioned above, we fixed the bugs he ran into; this is not representative behavior of 2.0.1.

The granularity is a CQL partition: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/webhelp/index....
That is why the Transparency and the Joinder clauses briefly described in the original article are important steps forward.

> Transparency: The draft includes strong language requiring patent trolls to reveal the parties that would actually benefit from the litigation (called the real party in interest).

> Joinder: If the plaintiff is a shell-company patent troll, the defendant could require the real party in interest to join the litigation. Even better, a prevailing defendant could collect attorney’s fees from the real party in interest if the patent troll can’t or won’t pay.
I'd been used to working all areas of the stack and recently took a 'front-end' position, I'm finding the focus a bit limiting.
1) I think I've had 4 different people try to explain lifetimes to me and I still don't think I understand.

2) The use of pointer dereferencing in closures is still quite confusing to me. For example, from the tutorial:

let square = |x: int| -> uint { (x * x) as uint };

no pointer dereferencing, yet:

[1, 2, 3].map(|x| if *x > max { max = *x });

uses pointer dereferencing. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason behind it.

3) How do you create traits that can be automatically derived? How do you implement a default method?

4) How do you create and use macros, and in what situations are they the appropriate solution over other forms? (I'm used to using macros in lispy languages, but using them as pervasively in other languages seems to be a form of code smell).
Let me tell a little something about those who "at all times acted lawfully". Most of Massachusetts was once inhabited by the Wampanoag tribe. But European settlers passed a law requiring the payment of property tax. When the Indians, low and behold, had no money to pay the property tax, they were no longer allowed to live on their land, and thus were forced out, onto ever smaller bits of unwanted territory.
Such are the things done by those who "at all times acted lawfully".
Luminous beings are we! Not this crude matter.
You're getting kinda ugly about this. Are you really that disingenuous?

In this parent, you just fought almost as dirty as it is possible to fight within proper, polite terms, and you made a point of doing it.

And then you want to discard that with "Snide comments aside, thanks for reading!"
The principle is the same as with normal reads; expand the quorum to include both old and new owners until the transition is done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-833?focusedC...
Why the Fifth Amendment?
Hurray, for $300 in labor you get a free $60 computer!
JavaScript engines particularly benefit from running on 64-bit. Modern JavaScript engines use 64-bit value representation, even on 32-bit.
The perchlorate hypothesis seems to be getting a lot of confirming evidence:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130926143246.ht...

While the science dailies are pitching the perchlorate finding as a "setback" (because it complicates the search for organic molecules), it's indeed promising for fuel usage.
I was expecting a power strip: http://www.apc.com/
> Tags point to branches, but they don't get updated.

Did you mean to say tags point to a commit?
Search the Twelve Mile Circle blog: http://www.howderfamily.com/blog/ . He covers many cool geo-odities.
A lot of these seem like bugs/features related to APC working with FirefoxOS, so you might need an APC just to know you've solved the issue.

"Buy an APC, Fix Bugs in OS, Your second APC is free"
Some people are like that. It's frustrating. But it's a good lesson that if you're wrong, you're wrong, nobody owes you a conversation about it and similar people in high stakes venues will deliver swift, harsh, uncompromising justice that can have devestating consequences.
Finite resources? Qualcomm is doing almost $20B in revenue, absolutely owns the market for Android superphones at the moment, and the Adreno GPU is the signature element of their market-leading SoC. Yet they can't make the driver work right per the relevant specs?
This one's pointing East... ? https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=gplus-ogsb&ie=UTF8&oe...
It's quite quiet in here.

Did anything happen?

$200 seems a nice price...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theguardian.com says:

"...owned by the Scott Trust, a charitable foundation which aims to ensure the newspaper's editorial independence in perpetuity"
Looks like:

Arm A9
4GB of onboard flash
Audio In
VGA
Top 4 Windows Vista Password Reset Methods
Compound Aggregates in Hadoop/Scalding
Perhaps we're just arguing semantics, but I think that is a large part of exactly what faith is!

Or perhaps you just dislike the term because it's often used in a religious context?
What is the equivalent example of this python theoretical economic documentation but for econometric models?
I kind of object to #6. Not every company can afford to rent or purchase the nicest wonderfulest offices ever. Plenty can only get offices out in some godawful office park where everyone has to, GASP, bring their own lunches or buy one off a local shop or food truck. That doesn't mean your company is bad, it means you've got fewer hipster pretensions -- though I would ask companies to please locate nearer to downtown centers rather than out in the exurbs.
New York’s Air Is Cleanest in 50 Years, Survey Finds
Again you need to look at more than the cost of hardware, that's not the issue. More data requires more managing; performance, backup, failures, etc
http://hnshowcase.com

http://showinghn.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
Uuuh... actually... there were merchant and wage-worker classes all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia's very first civilizations. What's new is to have almost all of society basically split into merchants, wage-workers, and holders of political office.
All of the navigation beacons in Montana are still functioning.

http://mthistoryrevealed.blogspot.com/2013/03/guiding-lights...
Well said.

If properly picked and hired, junior-level inexperienced engineers can be a gold mine. Employers need to retune their hiring process to value intellect and potential over straight-up experience and know-it-all-ness. This is a tricky proposition, since many hiring managers are terribly inexperienced with hiring and don't know how to do much more than coding challenges, "explain to me how DNS works" questions, etc. These hiring managers are trying to compare their own skills against this new hires and they will reject the hire if it doesn't match up. Huge fail. The gold miner hiring manager, however, asks more open-ended questions to probe the intellect of the hire. The gold miner doesn't expect a "full-stack hacker" and is tolerant of "I don't know" responses. The more important question: what problems has this person solved and how did they solve them?

If you want to see how to hire and structure your team, a good example to follow is the military. Consider the typical platoon of Infantry soldiers: you have one senior leader/manager, one senior subject matter expert and all-round ass-kicker, four SME-and-ass-kickers-in-training, and about 36 junior guys who are there to learn. The junior guys make a fraction of what the senior SME makes and their skill level is also fractional. No worries. They are there to learn, develop, and do their best. Treat them well, not like slaves, , respect them, and develop them. Most of them will leave after a few years for a new job elsewhere. That's okay. You got something from them (work) and they got something from you (experience). You, the leader, will identify a few promising individuals amongst them and groom them to be SMEs in training, giving them the added responsibility and pay increases that they deserve. Like an Infantry platoon, your team will eventually hire experienced SMEs from outside the company to bring in fresh skills and ideas. If this team building is done right, you can build a loyal, organic organization that grows and trains it's own and you can do it for about the same cost as going out and hiring three or four absolute badasses that will probably leave as soon as the next shiny, well-paying thing comes along.
> I don't understand why more frameworks don't copy this basic structure.

Lots of problem domains are difficult to model as trees because often, a node can be logically assigned to multiple parents, but the tree model requires it be physically assigned to only one.

Recently I bought a prepaid SIM card for a trip I am making to the USA.

In my bookkeeping system, I could enter it either as a transaction against the "Telephone & Internet" expense account, or I could enter it against "International Travel". What I can't do, because trees require mutual exclusion, is enter it under both. That breaks the model.

If instead Renaissance accountants had understood sets and relations, I might be able to log it against both and then derive whichever view of the data was necessary.

And that's the problem with hierarchical data. It privileges one and only one view of the problem domain. As soon as you need some other view, you are in trouble. If your project management system organises by project, then getting per-staff reports is now much harder. If your class hierarchy views A->B as the natural order of creation, what happens when you come up with cases where C->A but not C->B? You can't: you have to introduce complicated workarounds.

Hierarchies are simple to understand on their face. But they quickly come apart when faced with the real world and ad hoc queries about the state of the real world.
Bought a little broom that cleans my keyboard, attached to the top of the monitor. :)
Because bright people will never end up in a sweatshop?)
BBC Horizon: Fermat's Last Theorem
His test amounts to inserting integers without even simulating a network partition. This is about the most basic test of the purported functionality you could come up with, not a fencepost error or some cosmetic problem. This is advertising a fundamental property of your software and not even doing the most minimal checking that it is true.

Databases are and must be held to a higher standard than the software sitting above them in the stack, just as kernels must be held to an even higher standard, because bugs in lower layers cause more damage with higher costs. DBAs and commercial databases are expensive because data is valuable and there are liabilities. If the database developer made a remark like yours, I would run in the opposite direction. A smug reply like that exposes a fundamental disrespect for other people's data--their property. If one has no respect for our property, one shouldn't find it surprising that we have no respect for one's software or services.

I note and appreciate that the Cassandra developer's reply below is even-handed and serious.
You act as if employment is a right. It's not.

And we can say in return: you act as if employing someone is a right; it's not. Employment is a contract. It lays obligations like "come to work, follow orders, and don't steal your boss's secrets" on the employee, just as it sets obligations like "pay wages and don't overwork people" on employers. Those obligations, on both sides, are enforceable via the legal system, which is a service provided by the State under such conditions as the State wants to provide it.

If you want to operate without obeying reasonable labor laws, why shouldn't your employees operate without obeying rules against industrial espionage?
A bit disappointed that I cannot yet add Samuru to the list of search engines in FF. I switch between three engines multiple times each day.

By the way, will I be able to use it in place of Google Custom Search on my own Web site?
I like the premise of this app.

Being able to easily convert random webpage text into Markdown could be incredibly useful (at least for me).

Good stuff!
Thank you for dropping the bitter tone.

>I don't see why there is a reason to etch the flaws out in everything.

>> Then you will forever be a terrible engineer. We seek out flaws!

I understand and fully embrace this! As hard as it is to believe, I choose when to and not to be a cynic. However, I've found that I often focus too much on the negatives at times and need to brighten up.

> And I want you to consider that your internship has been a product as much as it is an opportunity for you.

I ABSOLUTELY agree with this. In my mind Google did a damn good job of it. But why point this out specifically?

An employee's experience at any company is manufactured regardless of position or industry - pay, hours, office environment, management structure... These are all factors of the job. What I'm saying is that Google does a better job of manufacturing this than many others do.

> Your employer is not your friend.
I don't believe in this. What about the startup CEOs that literally recruit (and hire) their friends? What about the small businesses of the world that closely maintain relationships with their employees?

I think the point you are trying to hint at is more in line with "HEY. This Big Tech Company created an experience for you just to make you think one way about them but really doesn't care about you at the end of the day. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!"

And I totally understand that. But you also understand that it is an opportunity - you said so yourself! All I'm trying to do with this post is encourage others to consider this opportunity for themselves as well.
Stachurski's book goes into the underlying theory more deeply with code examples. It's also got a very good/practical introduction into real analysis and measure theory. Great resource for modern computational economics.
It'd be great to have some sort of documentation about what this does / is supposed to do. I assume it contains some sort of stabilization code which I would love to take a look at along with other maneuver code.
Not hiring people because they refuse to regularly work over 40hrs/week should be illegal.

Actually overemploying people should be illegal (at least, it should be illegal without a regulated rate of overtime pay that lets employers and employees rationally negotiate the ethical-lifestyle trade-off involved).

Refusing to hire someone because they won't let themselves be abused is doing them a favor.
Basic erroneous economics, sure.

80 hr weeks == all the people at your company who have substantial talent and experience go elsewhere because they can make the same money by working fewer hours. Basic economics.

80 hr weeks == vastly diminished possibility of hiring people who have families, other interests, or "lives" outside of work, so your hiring pool is diminished.

80 hr weeks == everyone is overworked and tired, there's no slack in the system to allow for doing things the right way, effective productivity is actually much decreased because the quality of work is low and the opportunity to pay down technical debt is absent. Any amount of extra productivity that could be had by working more hours is eaten up by people needing to "live" at work (pay bills, communicate with friends and relatives, eat, etc.) and by constantly having to pay the interest on technical debt that can't be paid down.

80 hr weeks == no ability to innovate, no agility, so you get stuck plugging away on N-1 ideas while your competitors who have slack have spent their free time spinning up an N+1 prototype that is going to disrupt your entire business.
What is the reason for trying to squeeze into JVM an engine which must be implemented on the one level up - an OS level? ,)

Is it still not obvious that "universal object storage" is a naive idea?)
Self-driving cars could make a big dent in the ongoing loss of a million lives a year to road accidents. As far as I'm concerned, that's up there in the category of things you listed.
Apple's one of the largest employers in Cork, and Google's headcount in Ireland is measured in the thousands.
why, would you prefer some other answer than 'false'?

now, the real question is whether Hoon thinks that (= 5 "5"), or (= 100 "1e2"), or (= 4 "four"), like some languages helpfully provide.
I think they make this website to help project owner to pick licenses http://choosealicense.com/
Car on two wheels
The vehicle uses gyroscopes and keeps itself upright. It has a lot of safety features a typical car does. It has the potential to reduce traffic.
Low-Hanging Fruit: Consider the Ant
Now it runs so smoothly..)

Btw, I think YC already peaked, isn't it?)
Agreed, on both points. I suppose I was just looking for an excuse to post a David Mitchell video somewhere. The guy cracks me up.
On the one hand, I'm happy whenever people get excited about physics. On the other hand, I hate it when they get excited because somebody said "Star Wars" and completely fail to see why an experiment is actually cool. This experiment will never lead to light-sabers. I'm sorry geeks, but it won't. It's still damned cool.

Just like you can build classical computers with many different things representing bits, from photons to electrons to mechanical levers, it is theoretically possible to build quantum computers with qubits made out of many different things. Photons have many tremendous advantages over most other things people have thought of, but some huge weaknesses. One of them is that it's very hard to get photons to interact with each other. If you can't make qubits interact with each other then you can't build a logic gate. That means you're humped. Strong photon-photon interaction is one of the holy grails of photonic quantum computing. It's huge (if indeed the interaction in this paper can be made strong and there isn't huge loss involved).

So, screw you cnet and screw your lightsabers. I love Star Wars as much as the next guy, but you've done the science a huge disservice by completely failing to explain why it's significant and geeking out over space opera that has about as much relevance to it as a flaming rodent of unusual size!
Google's 15 anniversary doodle, interactive html5 game.
How much is "a premium" exactly?
Here's the list of Free APC issues: https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues?labels=Free+...

Some of these might qualify as features rather than 'Bugs'. E.g. Make video acceleration work in hardware[1]

[1] https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues/5
If you really manage to achieve Flow State and have a really good view of the problem clear in your mind, then pulling long hours can be very helpful. I think most really good programmers know just how this feels, and when to do it.

Problem is, it's not a "superpower" that can be switched on at-will; it's a state of concentration that requires not only work ethic but a real, intense interest in the subject and a lack of competing thoughts and obligations.
Or the Alternative APC PHP Cache?

http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
The main issue with these douchebags is they want to pay for 20 hours and have the employee work 80 hours. I would be a lot more enraged if I got the impression that anyone worth his salt would actually consider working for him. 80 hours building wordpress plugin while being paid for 20 or lesser for a startup headed by an idea guy who declares who won't hire anybody who tracks his hours and is unwilling to work overtime? That will happen the day a monkey comes out of your ass you piece of shit. I am still concerned that it's employers' market and some poor soul will end up getting exploited. Man, sometimes assholes make me hate free markets and I wish for regulations.

And then the guy talks about "premium" salaries. Yeah. Right. Even assuming 50 USD/hour(which is pretty reasonable), 50 * 80 per week comes up to 16000/month comes up to about 192000/year. Unless you have that kind of cash, don't go on shitting garbage about 80 hours/week.
This, after many Americans called Miss America Nina Davuluri an Arab and a terrorist. This is very saddening to the say the least.
Republicans: Kill Net Neutrality or No Debt Ceiling Deal
Would you expect your HR or finance people to not work only 9-5?
Why does it matter to me, the customer, whether the crap on my phone that I can't get rid of was placed there by Samsung or my Carrier or Apple? It's still crap that I can't get rid of.