skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always liked the explanation of the proof in Gödel, Escher, Bach. Very easy to follow.
This seems like mostly PR.

Now if Motorola could give us a good usable mesh router for the masses, that would be something with actual impact.
Ha, yeah. I left the next day.
This is an otherwise good choice that I'd consider for my next laptop if it wasn't for no dedicated Home/End and Page Up/Down buttons.
Gittip is chump change.

The amount of money raised so far for rvm's current crowdfunding is about the amount that the top receiver on Gittip might get in 20 weeks. https://www.gittip.com/

You say Gittip is trying. That's true, but I think they slipped into a slow growth pattern months ago. At its current rate it would take years for it to be a viable way of funding more than a handful of open source hackers.
Here's a piece of a paper on this :

Deflecting a larger asteroid would require a heavier spacecraft, more time spent hovering, or more lead time. However, in the special case in which an asteroid has a close Earth approach, followed by a later return and impact, the change in velocity needed to prevent the impact can be many orders of magnitude smaller if applied before the close approach5. For example, the asteroid 99942 Apophis (2004 MN4), a 320-m asteroid that will swing by the Earth at a distance of about 30,000 km in 2029, has a small probability (10-4) of returning to strike the Earth in 2035 or 2036 (ref. 6). If it is indeed on a return impact trajectory, a deflection of only about 10-6 m s-1 a few years before the close approach in 2029 would prevent a later impact (A. Carusi, personal communication). In this case, a 1-tonne gravitational tractor with conventional chemical thrusters could accomplish this deflection mission as only 0.1 newtons of thrust would be required for a duration of about a month. Should such a deflection mission prove necessary, a gravitational tractor offers a viable method of controllably steering asteroid 99942 Apophis away from an Earth impact.

Coming from this article : http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7065/full/438177a...
I've got lots of submissions, widely varying in quality. I'm pretty sure I'll end up with something I like.
To play a devil's advocate: it might be better if you DON'T "keep your inner asshole at bay for one week". If those people didn't like the way they were, they would have changed themselves already anyway. On the other hand, pretending to be something they are not just gets them to places where they are not appreciated for what they are - so why would someone want to do that?

The point is, evaluation works both ways. Did they fail your test or did you fail theirs? :)

Nice point of view though, thanks for sharing!
Nice, i will probably try it soon
This sounds like an interesting project, and you should submit it as a link, although I'd expect various concerns about security to be thrown around.
I know that accounting types like to use 'deferred', but to be clear Apple abandoned profit from software.

They did not defer it to a later date, they recategorised software development as a cost center.
Average lifespan data can help answer that question. My guess is both conditions are preventable if caught early, so a good healthcare system would do a better job at reducing cancer and heart disease deaths than most.
This is an obnoxious designer BS, this is just not doable for a host of reasons - from basic physics to unavailabilty of algorithms required to the lack of physical components liberally massaged into the rendering - so it's even more fascinating to see the HN thread filled with "take my money" and "awesome" comments.

Really, fellas? I don't mind a discussion on how it could possibly be done, but where's your rudimental critical thinking? Even reddit had a better discussion [1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/1pdfb0/volume_knob_...
That seems to be what a lot of Google initiatives are lately. It's like Xerox PARC or Microsoft Research, except Google is taking the step to capitalize on those projects for PR reasons as well. I doubt they will have more success in getting things to market and making a business out of something from their research labs than Microsoft (so that it shifts the revenue mix from 94% ads to anything else). It's important for them to be seen as "innovative" so that the company doesn't become a stodgy old web company like AOL or Yahoo. I believe mainly for recruitment purposes.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but a friend of mine sells $10 origami spectrometers that use your phone camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5BTD-aelo / http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/public-lab-diy-....
Http://whatdoesyourstartupdo.co/
I did, about three times. Nobody looks at 'new', apparently :/
Bruce McCandless orbiting in a jetpack http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/601259main_jetpack_full.j...
Look at the var names in the JS. Hah!
There is almost no content for the "big" devices available (TV, PC etc.). At least no content which is important enough for people to change, everything is centered around 1080p atm and the majority of people are just adapting this (upgrading their "hd ready" tv, new consoles, switching from dvd to blu ray etc).

Also it's coming to devices which don't have to rely on 3D performance. It is an astronomical hit rendering on such high resolution, because you still need anti-aliasing.
Nice..atleast you have given it a logical end. On facebook 20% or more accounts are fictitious made for games or other piety purposes. I have tried to bring in notice of FB but they wont delete account. Later I tried to do an experiment and created a fake account myself and post malicious pics. Again through my account when I brought this to notice, they won't delete it. I figured out how they are siphoning off advertisers money through these [atleast 100 million fake accounts].

I appreciate your purpose has a meaning to it and somehow this is a good attempt to bring thing to a logical end by providing it as a service. This scholarship will indeed help a lot of struggling music artists.
Notice that this announcement was 10 hours before the phoneblocks "Thunderclap" to 970,000 social media accounts, as well as the speculated Nexus 5 announcement. Interesting timing.
Give us time, and we'll make bears with WiFi bots!
I don't know why Microsoft is doing this to themselves. Instead if being the best in one market they try to create a new one which competes with the tablet and ultrabook market. But their product can be never as good as a tablet or ultrabook. I just don't think that there are many people who are willing to accept that trade-off.
Both happen in states where people live long distances apart. Loneliness, boredom, and lots of driving maybe?
That explains the claim from the deleted post: behind "somebody heats the chip to 300 degrees and then it works" is actually hidden "resoldering sometimes helps." Heh.
That's a good observation but right at the top of the chart it says, "DATA AGE-ADJUSTED AND PER 100,000 PERSONS (2010)". If it's adjusted for age, then I think your theory wouldn't apply.
HN need better anti-troll protection against comments like that.
It could be argued that we shouldn't abandon the term "statistics." Data science is to statistics what mathematics is to physics, but we don't (nor do physicists) call it "number science."
He points out, part of the reason his advice holds is that getting published isn't hard. And also that readers enjoy anything written, regardless of its writing style, as long as it's a good read. The same isn't true for programming. Getting 'published' requires getting a compiler to agree to run your code, getting peers willing to work with you, and finding a company which thinks you should be hired (or starting your own). And computer users won't accept buggy programs, even though they may accept poor grammar. Also, the industry is perfectly happy to tell programmers exactly what programs to write and pays them well. In effect, being a "writer" isn't that great of a goal because writing (in itself) for readers isn't that hard--it's hard finding something worth saying. Programming is hard and most programmers write for companies who already have an audience.

edit:

Maybe a better analogy to this article is not to programmers, but to startup founders. Don't set out to be a founder, set out to make something people want, and to do that requires a little bit of life experience too.
Come to think of it, both projects look to be inspired by Bug Labs' modules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_Labs
The market is not someone who plays guitar for fun, but someone who intends to sell their music for others to listen to. If you have ever looked into selling your music, then you should know that the costs of doing so are generally insane and this is a bargain. If you've never looked into it, then you probably aren't a serious consumer for the service anyway.
Maverics even shows warning after installation that "system is being optimized" and this process can impact performance and battery life.
There are two more on the backside.
There is actually a new Half-Life speedrun being done, the current estimate is sub-22 minutes.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivfAnPipM1cdEV...
a lot of people who i've spoken to have the same impression of GWT (that it's slow, and not "webby"). I suspect it's because it has the same UI library model as java Swing, and that has the reputation of being slow (thru no fault of java to be honest - its usually the programmers who made it slow, when it could've been fast).

http://www.google.com/fonts <-- loads fast for me. In fact, i think GWT apps can do loading in such an optimized way that hand coding js will only beat it if the programmer is very very careful about it.

(ps, i have no affiliation with google, i just don't like mistunderstood tech to suffer…)
Pretty much everywhere in the San Francisco bay area is sunny year round, except San Francisco itself. So if you have seasonal affective disorder, you could always just live in the east or south bay during the winter months. As a bonus you'd save on rent.
Maybe not actually take it automatically, but pop up another little reminder once they get $20 out of it - "you've now made enough through our service to pay our regular fee! Would you like to pay us now? Upgrade to paid | Sorry, still can't afford it"
There are other legal issues too - if you are on a H1B visa, you can't get paid for a try-out period at another company.
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> I think we all know something about web design.

And if you don't, please take a few minutes of your time and watch this[0] to bootstrap yourself into getting the why.

[0]: http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/design-for-developersonlinev...
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I was in math.

I've heard that CS is better. But still has tendencies that way.
There is Pixelmator which is quite cool, but they are only a few years old yet.
The chinese government recognizes many ethnic groups, but Chinese are overwhelmingly Han, and less genetically diverse than Caucasians. Why are you more worried about the chinese group than the caucasian group?

> I could flip a dented coin and get similar results?

No idea what you're trying to say there, but (a) there's a fun paper out there essentially showing that it's not possible to bias a coin; (b) in the absence of demographic information on the community, a biased coin is no better or worse than an unbiased one; and (c) yes, you can obviously do enormously better at distinguishing american whites, american blacks, american chinese, and american latinos, than those figures. But chance would predict ethnicity with 25% accuracy, so they're doing a lot better than that.
Nice, I get it. Here's mine tweaked - not so clever: https://gist.github.com/garethjwilliams/7210264
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That sounds nice actually. It might not be for a little bit yet (got some more design to do first), but send me an email (in my profile) to touch base.
Even though it's not the fastest, I still love this version "Quake Done Quicker", in which the recordings were edited to show the player in third person and includes "snappy" dialogue and slow motion sections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rwz6Pr2UTE
What's with the popular usage of latino or hispanic as a separate race?

From wiki:
"The United States Census uses the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

Also, remember that there are many white/caucasian people in Mexico and other latin american countries that also are hispanic. Ricky Martin is an obvious example of a white Puerto Rican, for instance.

I am not saying a mestizo should necessarily be classified as "white", but there seems to be an idea these days that hispanics are a separate race, which is incorrect.
I bought a template from themeforest, and then customize it with a text editor and Firebug, but then I tired of that, after tweaking css with Firebug, I had to manually copy back the changes to the text editor; moreover, I wanted to see result in real-time after I edited the html, so I decided to develop my own live editor to do the task: http://liveditor.com
i don't dispute this, but it pretty much flies in the face of everything the team has publicly communicated so far.

Any thoughts on why the whitewash? Maybe to get better traction as being a 100% google skunkwork?
"I think it's good advice, but I also think it is wrong."

But our example is the exception, not the rule. That doesn't prove him wrong however.
I don't get why people don't always start from a bootstrap theme. It's 10$. 10$! Even if you hire a designer or an agency, tell them to start with a bootstrap theme!
Kids form groups much earlier than you seem to think they do.
I don't disagree, which is why I'm wondering if this is a case of not having enough money to continue supporting these projects, or a case of seeing the momentum or the need for support in open source changing to something new. So far, though, I've only seen Engine Yard drop support for projects. If, tomorrow, they announced that they were starting to support a handful of Go or node.js projects, then I think we'd all have a much different view on this news.
> It has not been my experience that cutting-edge web design
> has made huge differences to sales in the sort of markets
> I tend to operate in

With all due respect, but BCC never had "cutting-edge" web design, it was always (at least in the incarnations I saw) barely adequate design-wise.
http://panic.com or http://tapbots.com or http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com is what I'd call well designed. What's interesting they all also look like template design, but they have the polished look BSS is lacking.

Of course, maybe you have something other than BCC in mind, or you did try the design on par with the examples above and it did not convert well, then disregard this comment.
A few years back I would have been thrilled to show up for a week and prove my skills.

Most of the interviews bored me to death. Coming up with a solution for a non-existing problem was a pain. "How many tennis balls would fit into a ..."

Fortunately for the jobs I really wanted I was asked to solve real problems the companies had at that time. It got me excited and I was hired in no time, without any effort or stress.

On the other hand some good developers were not this lucky and they struggled finding a job they actually enjoy. Having a chance to prove themselves is all they need.

"Other commitments" is moot point. A new job is a life-changing event for most of us. The potential of finding a great job where you feel happy every day worth it many times over. (Yes, I do have a family and other commitments.)
TL;DR many laypeople don't understand cause and effect, and this drives up the cost for everyone.
yes in fact looking at it that is very modular (it is the one the hand is holding for starters.)

But the point still stands. I (as a manufacturer) could release a phone with huge customizability or maybe just 1 or 2 slots. Quite flexible

As long as the communication / power bus and physical size standards are ruthlessly enforced.
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Why would you need 5 Macs? I'm really curious.
Minimum values and Double.MIN_VALUE in Java?
Car hackers mess with speedos, odometers, alarms and locks
So it's overlearning, and it's hard to improve on that with the deliberately limited inputs.
Wow, I was not expecting that. This is fantastic. Hold down your left mouse and keep it still and it changes colour and starts getting more intense. Great job!
This sounds like an awesome process since I'm not the best interviewee, but I can see how it might not be the best for people who already have jobs.
In general "race" is a bogus term. Usually, when people (especially Americans) use the word race, they actually mean something closer to ethnicity.
Got also into Angular for some while and my verdict: if this wasn't made by Google it wouldn't haven gotten off the ground. Its concept has too many quirks and isn't thought through. Tried recently React and this feels much more sane, you have to relearn stuff but it's way less than Angular and performance is better.
> What's with the popular usage of latino or hispanic as a separate race?

Mostly that came from the US government deciding to create a pressure group by lumping various central and south american nationalities together.

However, US hispanics do form a group which is noticeably different from, say, US whites. Many are indios. In particular, we get a huge amount of mexican immigration, but it's mostly the poor mexicans who choose to come. White mexicans are generally doing pretty well in Mexico.

> there seems to be an idea these days that hispanics are a separate race, which is incorrect.

This depends on what level of population structure you want to label "race". It's not difficult to distinguish US hispanics from US whites with a genetic test; that's a good enough marker of "race" for me. As you point out, the category has a lot more mixing than you might expect in another racial group, such as Germans, but it's still a workable category.
This design reminds me of The Centurions (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/centurion.htm). Good times.
The point is, as developers, we can master whatever conventions matter to us. Me, personally - I use Home and End in the line context, not the document context.

So I'm quite happy knowing how to bend the computer to my will and not the other way around.
> The amount of money raised so far for rvm's current crowdfunding is about the amount that the top receiver on Gittip might get in 20 weeks. https://www.gittip.com/

That is not a technical problem, that is a social one. The OP said

> But a one-shot charitable fundraiser is a slim reed on which to sustain a project like this.

And he is correct, the gittip style is probably better for long-term but faces problems as you pointed out, although again, I do not think any of them are technical in nature.

(Probably the biggest problem being the complete lack of companies on gittip et al and the feeble amounts, in terms of companies' budgets anyway.)
For candidates not living in the Bay Area, this is a welcome arrangement, especially to independent contractors like myself who can work remotely anyway. Based on very limited experience, travelling to job interviews creates the kind of disorientation where you can't believe what you're looking at is real at a time when people are trying to get to know you. These forces are countervailing. Even while getting on the elevator, I was about 10% sure of where I was at in the city and just living on instinct. This makes travel exhilarating, but for an interview, it makes you want to try to cram in a month's worth of the necessary relationship building in one day while half-disbelieving what you are doing. Still fun, but it also seems that 95% of worthwhile mental activity happens in the combination of sleep and then re-approaching things the next day from new angles. I had already decided to always plan for extra time. Unconventional interviews are cool, and definitely necessary for the added responsibility and chemistry requirements, but don't let the travel make unconventional into just plain weird. I recommend anyone going to the Bay Area spend some extra time.
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I was, too. I take it to class every day. I used to not take notes at all, but now I do because it's easy. I have all my lecture notes for the whole semester right there. A tablet at a Surface RT pricepoint with a Wacom digitizer will storm the student market.
I never got the email but I changed my adobe id password anyways. But even after a password change, photoshop cc and the adobe app manager were still signed in. I tried to force a logout but got a warning that it would uninstall all my cc apps. So I cancelled that, and my adobe apps are still signed in "on the old password"...
Sounds like pretty much any media in any state, USA included... Replace the names of the countries and you will get your regular CNN.
You would have to be extremely patient even for electromagnetic communication. A single round trip to the nearest star would take 8 years.
You never know. Maybe there is an uber-lizard-race ruling the world. It would certainly explain a lot of the inhumane things going on.

:P
love watching these - the Final Fantasy 4 and Secret of Evermore runs blew my mind last time
This is a pretty old article, which has seen a ton of discussion already.
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I for one would like to see a study that shows that people who read bible are more moral than people who don't read bible (or people who play video games). In my anecdotal evidence, there is no real correlation, but hey, science.
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GWT on AppEngine (which it has great integration for) has a ten second startup time when not loaded, and on the free tier they unload it when not in use, so that's not the greatest.

I used GWT for a while and it would be great for enterprise and large teams. The static typing which I usually love/insist on though, does seem pretty cumbersome for something as simple as a web page. I've switched to scala play for the back end and lots of tiny angular 'apps' on the front, and it's so much faster to develop for.
My current company has engineers pair-programming full time. On first reaction, engineers and managers tend to think that results in 50% net productivity. My experience has shown that people tend to average each other out. There are days where I'm well aware of how poorly I'd program, but I can still navigate my pair out of the pit of despair.

It also tends to cut down on meeting times because two sets of eyes are usually looking at any given piece of code, so knowledge disperses among the team organically so long as we swap pairs regularly.
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I looked into noise cancellation technology a while ago, because I have a hobby woodshop, and I want to be able to use my tools past 10 pm.

I just don't believe this concept could work the way the video demonstrates it. Nice interface though... but that's kind of the easy part.
AngularJS code. I regularly dive in whenever I run into an obstacle.

The 30% figure is a wild guess, and may sound a bit large, but I certainly spend a lot of time reading other people's code. Or even rereading my own code.

Docs can be improved, absolutely, but there's no framework where I didn't feel that way about documentation. I don't think I've worked with any framework for more than an hour without looking at its code.
Turn based games strategy games have a resurgence in popularity and become things passed down the family.

"See this knight? My great-grandfather recruited it into this CIV V game 72 years ago. Now it is time for it to fulfil its destiny and crush the archer built by the Bob's great uncle"