skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it is that things have changed recently, but I did see that schools were handing out free money (at least MIT did when I went there). I got sizable debt-free aid + small (4k/year) loans and I couldn't be more grateful. I know many friends that got much more aid, including monthly stipends to pay for food and other expenses.

It does seem that this is the exception rather than the rule, so I don't usually bring this up. You explicitly mentioned MIT though...
If this were actually true, then you should really be doing nothing more than reproducing hurriedly so that your kids can be better than you.
They aren't free, but these guys cover more benefits than Zenefits does. The business model isn't exactly the same either, but they do cater to small businesses. I have no financial interest in them, but I've been using them for like 15 years to handle my benefits, and off-and-on one other person on my payroll.

http://www.mbopartners.com/
Wouldn't it be a simple matter of just trying to send an email using the server in question? If you receive the email you just sent, then it's an open relay.
Admittedly, I am not a Burberry-china strategist, but it appears a direct quote from her in this article seems to say the exact opposite of China being a growth market for Burberry:

"She added that future growth would likely come from India, Latin America and Indonesia."

Do you possibly have a source or anecdotal evidence to support that statement you presented?

http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/436421/China-helps-Bur...
True.
As so often, Linux gives a great analogy.
When you start using it chances are you find working with it pretty inefficient and many things seem hard.

But the more you learn about the system (which only really works when you do it every day)the better you get at solving your problems whereas people who rely solely on out-of-the box software improve rather little.
Supercell to sell 51% of shares to GungHo and Softbank for $1.5B
The people involved in the open source ecology movement are taking a stab at this idea.

http://opensourceecology.org
No. This is not different opinion at all, but rather a very very common and banal opinion that gets voiced in every Indian space thread. I deliberately used strong language because I felt it is deserved. The comment is not exploring anything novel, is a rabid near-sighted political and anti-science commentary, and is taking space away from scientific questions.
Introducing Hyperloop
I never saw the lock screen as a serious protection mechanism, but more like a screensaver, mainly to protect me from pocket-dialing. For me, its more like the key lock on old dumbphones than like the pin code lock.

And since even the pin lock was trivial to bypass by law enforcement or professional criminals (you could buy special devices to unlock the phones), I don't expect that my phone has any really serious protection. I know iOS devices are harder, but I'd expect the police or serious criminals to be able to crack my Android phone in seconds. Which is ok, as long as I'm aware of it. Of course, if my phones lock does turn out to be safe, thats great.
Hmm, but how can they know? I mean, it's rare that your frequency of sweatiness coincides exactly with the daily cycle. Sometimes I can go three days without a shower, sometimes I have to shower twice in a day.

I guess this is one of those cultural things, and people just do it half because it's good sense and half because it's the custom.
10. How can we get more energy from the sun?

I would love to see high efficiency[0] photo-voltaic cells in all sorts of consumer electronic devices. Imagine solar cells embedded in Gorilla glass on the back of your phone, camera, laptop etc. :)

[0] http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/130614.html
Nothing in Clojure is faster than Java, not even functional programming.

Right, but that's completely ignoring programmer efficiency (or sanity). Trying to do the things that Clojure was designed for in Java is a recipe for pain.
so are the first 4 hours the most important? or very important?
That's odd, I don't think anyone is taking the advice to mean "use bcrypt for ever", I'd imagine that everyone understands that we use it because it's good enough for the foreseeable future.

An odd point for the GP to make.
Russia has a GDP per capita of about a fourth of the US or other Western countries but it also has a very large inequality among regions and rural/urban areas. So the difference between rural GDP per capita in the US and Russia is something like 5-6. So when people in this thread are screaming how this is all propaganda and the rural areas of Russia are comparable to any area of the US they are claiming things that can't possibly be true.
NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Over the Internet’s Infrastructure
I find the avalanche maps used here easier to grasp:
http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/5.html

Here is FNV, quite a lot of reds: http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/6.html
And of course all green for SHA-1: http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/9.html
FUD. Nothing new, or insightful. Just FUD.
What's the most powerful quote you've ever heard?
What phireal said. If it's a sparse point cloud, sure, it would be troublesome. The one in the example is pretty dense, and it's almost a grid, so just connect neighboring points together, no?
The migration of cool from the culture to the tech world
Compete tomorrow not today. It is a well-known player, indeed.

Rocketry space is under serious disruption [1], and quite rapidly at that. It has often been seen that a well-known player of today is quickly wiped out by a wave that they didn't foresee coming. India is definitely missing the up-starting entrepreneur-ism around rocketry, and that's where the strategy seems to be broken. Like it is for many other fronts, including public welfare.

[1] http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/17/1958253/china-spa...
How long do you expect upgrades to work before a break in compatibility?

Forever? At least the linux kernel has an explicit goal of never breaking userspace. That doesn't mean other parts of userspace don't break themselves, but the linux kernel has as a development goal to never break binary compatibility for userspace.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
'Willing to ignore abject poverty' was a part of conservative ideology which states that people must be directly responsible before God, not government, and government is not in place to support the people. This was the better part of conservative ideology as i see you, and times when it was dominant on U.S. political landscape were the best times in U.S. history.
I don't think WebGL will have any affect here. The requirements for runtime asset format vs. interchange formats are completely different.

Generally runtime formats are designed to optimize out all the cruft that interchange formats like COLLADA and FBX have to keep around in order to be portable.

This is the reason most engines (including ours, PlayCanvas) use custom model formats at runtime. They are specifically designed to work well in a particular engine.

In Autodesk's defence the FBX SDK loads COLLADA and OBJ files very well, so we're able to support all these formats easily. The downside is that other software (such as Blender) has poor FBX support because they can't (or don't want to) use Autodesk's SDK.
Ah, I'll install it on my home server and give it a shot, thank you very much for the recommendation.
Is nobody noticing the name? I suspect this is a hoax.
Maybe the people have reduced mobility. Maybe they have small kids or elderly people they can't bring with them nor leave alone. Maybe they have an extremely busy schedule. Maybe the streets where they live are dangerous for cyclists. Maybe the packages are too big to safely carry on a normal bike. Maybe they just don't have a bike or even know how to ride one. Maybe they just don't feel like it.
If I really would like to work on something, I will start a company and hire people.

Talent agents exist because there is no good way to vet a large amount of people within months; there is no common standard. Or that they are required to poach heavy duty supercharged engineers who are already swamped by other recruiters. In both cases they may get paid 10% of their candidate’s first year’s salary as commission for a successful hire, so they may optimize for fast instead of good.

The services outlined here are standard. Unfortunately some recruiters punch below their weight…

There is an oversupply of people who can code, but seemingly still an under supply of great ones in my opinion. Therefore, an agent needs to profit on the paranoid and the desperate because they also work month to month.

I will possibly not pay more than a few hundred bucks for such a service as a candidate for a “permanent” job as I am not desperate enough yet (because I like to negotiate my own contracts without intermediaries), but hiring managers seem to like to chase folks with checkbook in hand. ;)
This is correct, I am looking for a way to understand the score from the UI directly. Glad to see it's on the roadmap for V2, and thanks for the hard work!

As a side note, while researching this guideline, we found that the benefit of AES256 compared to 128 isn't as clear cut as it would seem [1]. So we decided to prefer AES 128 because it is still 25/30% faster. It also matches a proposal Brian Smith made for Firefox.
So far, SSLLabs focuses on crypto strengh, and not on performance. I'd be interested to see the performance factor taken into account in the score calculation.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.or...
Single line i want to say "Proud to be an Indian".
From memory it's very hard to fly anything over Sydney City unless your the military.
Funny PSA by Anchorman's David Koechner #dontgetdead
If you are using Clojure's built-in types to do fp vs Java's built-in types, Clojure will win by an absurd margin.
SoftBank, GungHo purchase majority stake in Supercell for $1.5B
> Mail, pizza, and Starbucks all delivered by drones which saves everyone money and creates more happiness

I liked the article until I read this. I don't think you can link the existence of Starbucks with creating happiness at all.

[1] http://www.beyondbars.org/starbucks_private_prison_labor

[2] http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/07/16/dear-starbucks-cust...
If you're running a business then you _must_ read the TOS. It's a contract between you and the provider. You can (largely) get away with not reading it if you're a personal user, but if your business depends on something then you need to understand the small print.
How Evernote Reached 4 Million Users in China Within 1 Year
Uh, I didn't expect that. How come? Does it mean that writing a Clojure-to-Java transpiler would yield better results than using the "native" Clojure implementation?

It seems backwards to me that an implementation designed specifically for functional programming fails to beat the more "generic" (or arguably OOP-oriented) language on its own turf.
Your comment implies you don't think wisdom is useful or needed unless you in your post pubescent hubris deign to ask. However America is obsessed with youth, and culturally the older generation is undervalued, so on balance I value the OA's message more than yours.
More here: http://theinfosphere.org/1729_%28number%29
Bell's theorem
Should You Require a Credit Card Upfront for a Free Trial?
You might want to read the guidelines[1] before commenting on HN.

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

Also do you even read before calling names? You're the only one who took the discussion away from the topic placed in here. Please note that groupthink of seven people who agreed with you doesn't make opinion of others (who disagree with you) any less relevant.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
NYTimes' maudlin travelog aside, Russia is in deep sh*t:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Implos
Very insightful comment, thank you. An uncluttered mind is, I guess, necessary for creativity.
Let's say that the way the project starts is important. How long really depends on the campaign duration. After 4 hours on average, the accuracy is 76%, meaning that you can tell quite accurately pretty early. We focus on early predictions because this is when they are helpful, i.e. the creator has time to react. We have very high accuracy near the end, but this does not help so much...
I didn't see any classification measures besides accuracy...
Could You provide the confusion matrix? It's easy to derive all the important values (FPR, TPR, precision so on) and get a lot better idea of quality.

Since the outcome is either success or not, the coin flip classifier yields an accuracy of 50%. It would be worth noting that in the paper.
Is/Are there resource(s) you'd point someone to if they didn't fully understand the topic but would like to become competent?
Get fan of you but still i will walk on my success path. i thing it is not necessary to read article from other to become successful. yes we can take a idea but every man have own dream ,own ideas and own work power. Steve not read others idea,Same Gandhi didn't read other to be successful. They work own their dreams with their idea and knowledge.So i want to sat stick with dreams and take idea from that type articles but not implement all they say.
Great feedback. What did you have in mind when you mentioned more personality on the site? Also, would you be interested in learning about the various roles which are available after your degree?
On the top nav bar (on the main page), I found it annoying how only the register and login links turn black when moused over, while the other two become a (too subtle) brighter white. This seemed inconsistent, and made me think the links weren't actually links. Also, black might not be the best mouse-over color on the dark blue background.
>>Frankly I'm a bit tired of all the negative comments about the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments by simple reflex. I can scroll through comment threads or posts in the archives and describe an HN where "middlebrow dismissals"

I think that this comment thread has become a good example of a typical hacker news discussion right now. The top comments don't add anything to the discussion and the vast majority of the rest are entirely political and repeat the same thing while being totally devoid of any facts or analysis. I could (and would have if I knew nothing about the topic) learn more by searching for information about the quality of life in the rural russian countryside than by reading this thread.
Did China Rip Off the Apache Helicopter?
Why you perceive time the way you do is easy enough. At any "point" in time your brain (or any physical system for that matter) is influenced by the points before it. Play around with cellular automata and it kind of gives you a sense of how time can be viewed as a dimension similar to space.

>Are the laws of logic always true in every possible universe? Could there exist a universe where p|^p is not always true? One where the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter is not equal to pi? I guess these things would be impossible to imagine, but is logic just a description of reality, or is reality an implementation of logical axioms?

The laws of logic are true in all possible universes (according to logic.) Can you imagine a universe where 1+1=3? Where someone has one object, and puts it next to another object and suddenly he has three objects? It just makes no sense. The "laws" of logic are not laws in the sense that things like physical laws are laws.
I can't conceive of a future where drones don't make up a huge portion of deliveries. They're not very big so organising airspace shouldn't be too difficult (they could stick to specific altitudes, routes etc.). Given the lack of obstacles and the fact that they're automated, speed of delivery would be improved along with time of delivery predictions. Amazon must be looking at this pretty hard, same day delivery could become what, 10 minute delivery?
Aerodynamic lift (in Newtons) is proportional to airspeed and invesely proportional to air pressure. So is aerodynamic drag. This holds true up to the transsonic region; ~800 kph of true airspeed. As long as you're subsonic, it's sufficient to have the same amount of thrust as at low altitudes, and you'll keep flying at the speed required for lift >= aircraft weight.

Granted, this will require proportionally higher propeller RPM, but with electric engines this is unproblematic. You'd get in trouble with hydrocarbon engines though, since you need the same amount of oxygen to generate power. So at altitude, you'd need a turbocharger or similar machinery.
Ask HN: How do you change money?
I am interested in money changing and foreign exchange, I'd like to do something in the space. I'm asking; if you're thinking of or going on vacation, how and when do you change money? Do you use a dedicated forex company or your bank? Do you do it at the airport? Do you use a fx vending machine?

It's clear that the process of managing money is changing from an analogue to a digtal one. We know it's changing payments (Square, Bitcoin etc) - but money changing?
It's true that that should have mentionned it in the paper. The basline here is always telling it fails, which gives you about 52% accuracy. I should definitely provide the confusion matrix, it's on my TODO list. I will add a performance section to the website where I show this kind of information.
Coming to an Apple store near you, accessories that complement the "chav" look of the gold, I'm sorry, "champagne" iPhone.

This is actually half in chest, Ahrendts is credited with saving Burberry [1]

Totally irrelevant, but they're also selling an alligator skin trench coat on their website for a measly 79,000.00 GBP. [2]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jun/16/angela-ahren...

[2] http://uk.burberry.com/alligator-trench-coat-p38791451
>The internet fixes that, because it's easier to maintain a core of enthusiasts, even if they are spread out over long distances.

The internet also fixes the problem of sourcing supplies for a niche craft. It wasn't that long ago that you had to use giant mail order catalogs to get stuff shipped to you, and it'd be rare to get stuff sent internationally unless you happened to know a friend in the desired country who'd act as a middleman.
I'd just like to reiterate what timtamboy63 has already stated. There are an estimated 100,000 job boards around the world in various industries, sectors, cities and niches.

Each of these offer the ability to browse for skills/degrees.

For example, I just did a search for "graduate jobs australia" in Google and followed the top link to "www.seek.com.au/graduate-jobs/‎" where I was able to type in "engineering" and "bachelor of engineering" and saw a refined list of applicable opportunities.

In that above list, I'm presented with jobs that I would not have considered because the search was not job title based but degree based.

How do you differ from that experience?

I like the UI experience. You'll definitely need to consider a "location" field because Australia is a pretty big country!

Keep up the good work :)
The argument you are making is equivalent to arguing that dictatorship is better than democracy because regular people are too stupid to decide for themselves.
This is nice addition (as in complimentary) to the Alembic format, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic_(Computer_Graphics)

In high end visual effects should should be quite useful. Just to be clear, it isn't intended for games or real-time 3D graphics. It is designed for huge complex scenes where one wants to have delayed loading and renderer integrations.

I have been hearing about this for some time.

It isn't clear how quickly this will be embraced by 3D content creation vendors as it can significantly increase interoperability and reduce lock-in.

Here is the overview of the format and motiviation:

http://graphics.pixar.com/usd/overview.html
There seem like a lot of logistical issues but there are some opportunities as well. Because delivery is so quick, customers might be expected to wait at the designated delivery point or no delivery will take place. A smartphone might well play a role. You order your pizza, and when it's ready for delivery you receive a notification that you have five minutes to get outside. Once outside the smartphone might also be used for verification purposes via some sort of wireless connection.

Still lots of ways for things to go wrong, but I bet there are some interesting solutions. It's all very new.

Or, hey, as long as we're spitballing, what if it were common to have some sort of household bot? A butler-bot, if you will. It might have the responsibility of ascending to the roof (via some sort of track) to take delivery. You might need some sort of defenses against burglar-bots but ... I think I'd better stop here. ;)
Ruby jobs are pretty rare outside of the major cities. A search for Ruby jobs in Lancashire for example, does not highlight too many results; PHP is everywhere around here :/
This is civil, I would have called you out in face to face discourse too. Btw, will you say to an Indian politician verbally face to face, to bug off to mars on this orbiter? (refer to your first post, first line)

I have replied very aptly to the points that are being raised in posts. I am not deviating in any sense at all, instead you took science away from this topic. Well then your opinion is one that gets raised thousand times, and it is under my purview to give a strong reply once.

EDIT: Reply to comment below.

"> This is civil + I would have called you out in face to face discourse too.

Notice the contradiction? You should calm down, I think."

Honestly, I am lost on the point you are trying to prove here with your comment. I am saying, I would have said those words to you face to face too.

Anyways, thank you for contributing a whole lot of this topic.
> The distinction between /dev/random and /dev/urandom is silly

That the problems with the two sources are completely different tells you that the distinction is not silly.

Your speed requirement sounds to me like you don't want a /dev at all, but maybe a daemon that seeds itself from /dev/random and frequently refreshes itself from /dev/urandom. This wouldn't be kernel space and it wouldn't have threading issues.
Ah, I thought gp was referring to nations the US would have defeated before WWII.
Firstly, I've visited ISRO Bangalore(A few years back). And I did see the exact things you mentioned. I did ask the guy(Not sure, if he was the PR guy) who took our class for the tour. His answer was, they were likely assembling some test equipment and not the real equipment that was going to space.
There's a new Khronos project glTF which wants to establish a standardized run-time file format for 3D assets: http://www.khronos.org/gltf, geometry is stored in binary blobs so they can be dumped directly into buffer objects, and the scene description is in JSON for simple (and somewhat fast) parsing. Unlike FBX or COLLADA this is meant as an "engine file format", not as asset exchange format between 3D packages.
the ruby market is still very small, so it's a bit of a gamble for someone to concentrate on learning ruby when there are so many more jobs available using php/java/c#...
Hi Drawkbox,

Just to be clear, this isn't really a replacement for Collada or FBX. This is really intended for huge complex scenes that still contain live operators.

This also isn't really designed for WebGL because it is written in C++, thus it is really hard to get this to fit into the browser except as a server-streaming technology that just has a WebGL front end, which means that for most interactive WebGL experiences, this is not applicable.

It isn't really applicable to Unity because Unity is real-time and usually most things are baked if they are complex, where as Pixar's USD is designed for complex and huge scenes.