skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I changed my research part to the following. Does this look better?

NSF-funded research
Research Programmer
January 2013 - December 2013
Buffalo, NY

• Automated an experiment process of searching for a case to increase the known lower bound for required
number of colors in a graph theory problem

• Emulated functions in Python modules(numpy and Sage) into C++ to run on systems without Python,
leading to approximately a 40% speed improvement

• Wrote C++ and Python programs with my team that randomly generated hundreds of a special kind
of matrices in a minute, with forced conditions to avoid repetition in an equivalent class

• Implemented edge coloring problem in C++/CPLEX by formalizing it in constraint programming,
enabling hundreds of matrices to be tested for coloring per minute

• The paper is selected for presentation at MCURCSM 2013 conference on November
Ask HN: How long before Google starts pushing ads in notifications?
Considering the ad revenue from mobiles are way less than that on the web, The question is how long before Google starts selling push notification ad placements?
Ask Ariely: Is Tesla too risky?
Doesn't even have to be "from abroad" - if a buyer has a stack of bitcoins and I want a stack of bitcoins, going through an exchange is going to be expensive given the pretty broad spreads (if there's even the necessary liquidity).
Vamonos: browswer-based visualization of advanced algorithms
That is completely irrelevant. That's like saying "There are more micrograms in this one-gram object than there are grams in this one-kilogram object, and therefore the one gram object is heavier."
Physics Teacher Spins to Fame
It is possible to apply to Bitcoin the same security procedures that we apply to cash. Eg: web wallets employing fraud teams reviewing large outgoing transfers; private keys storage physically protected with safes, armored guards, alarms, etc.

Plus a lot more security mechanisms can be implemented with Bitcoin that is just plainly impossible with cash. Eg: M-of-N ECDSA signatures could require a thief to steal the hardware wallets of 2 business partners at once to access their shared coins.

Right now Bitcoin is in its infancy and people are still trying to figure out how to best protect wallets. There is no doubt that the security landscape of Bitcoin will be a lot safer a few years from now as its usage and value continue to increase.
How can you not see the unsustainability of consuming content without compensating the creator of that content?
I've just started three books this week. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, First Shift by Hugh Howey and Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart.
And here I was thinking they were tired of dealing with clients.
From 2 comments up:

> the great bulk of programmers will be lined up and shot, in retribution for their years of pampered arrogance.

_This_ is what your parent finds "bizarre". Are you arguing that the same would be said about any other job that was eliminated by changing market conditions? No, that would be insane. They lost their jobs and found a new line of work (or fell into poverty). And that's what will happen to programmers if (when?) our job is eliminated.
> Pre-tractor days you hardly needed middle school.

Only because the teacher was built-in to the job, so to speak. I've taking up farming the last several years and have found it to be worlds more difficult than anything I've encountered in the tech industry. However, my father and grandfather have been working alongside me and are able to share their wisdom. I'm the seventh generation to work the land we own, and my family farmed elsewhere before that, so the knowledge amassed and passed down over the years is staggering.

Though the software industry has gone much the same way, in my opinion. While it may not be your father passing down the knowledge, you have all of the world's programmers at your quick and easy disposal through the very machines you are working with. That is just as powerful as what farmers have always had available, and probably why we're watching formal education devalue, if anything, especially as other industries try to copy the model. In fact, I think that may even further emphasize that all roads eventually lead to mediocracy over the long term.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/08/new-amazon-appstore-incenti...
Bitcoin Price Comparison represented as Meals Fed to the Homeless
In case you didn't get the news, the NSA already does not bother to approach Google. They just install secret taps on Google's private lines between data centres, and siphon off all the replication traffic.

The NSA is a rogue agency that does not respect laws (or reinterprets them as they see fit). Going through the legal process to shut it down is certainly worthwhile, as is throwing its criminal elements in jail, particularly those that are happy to lie in congress.

However, the reality is that a rogue agency can evolve in the dark corners of the government, and that therefore it is likely that it will happen again. And even if it never happens in the US again, there are other countries out there, you know?

A strong technological solution that makes large-scale snooping impractical is a sine-qua-non no matter what happens on the legal side.
I especially liked the quote Mikko made from Marcus Ranum:

"United States is right now treating the Internet as it would be treating one of its colonies. So we are back to the age of colonization, and we, the foreign users of the Internet, we should think about Americans as our masters."

No one likes the feeling of being suppressed or colonized. I think this bad feel can be used to mobilize larger masses in demanding a future with much more controlled and transparent surveillance.
New trend - employers prefer non-smokers
During the last few years, more and more employers say, that if they have new positions available and there are equal applicants, they prefer non-smoker.
List of Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, and Losses
A subtle but crucial difference. Kathy Sierra gave the canonical presentation on this in 2009

http://businessofsoftware.org/2010/05/kathy-sierra-at-busine...
Nine Questions for Andy Jassy, Head of Amazon Web Services
The only real WMD is a nuclear bomb. No non-state actor has ever used a chemical or biological weapon with other than trivial effect (the Aum cult came closest, and only illustrates the difficulty), and the military value of such weapons is questionable. So, who are the "opponents" that could lay a hand on the US without suffering immediate and total defeat? North Korea? Or, let's bug them. But in our present world, we could have a lot more freedom and privacy than we do, and a lot less economic drag from a bloated security apparatus.
> Why should you get to enjoy the payout of investing three centuries worth of tax revenue if you are not going to contribute?

You're portraying industry and taxation as a chicken and egg scenario, and by proving that taxation is why your job is here, taxation must therefore be the enabler of civilization (and as a result, just and moral -- to the extent you support caging people who do not agree). Your basic premise is theoretically and historically inaccurate.

As for your disdain for limited government, that's what set the US apart. It's why we grew to have the largest industry in the world. By your reasoning, Cuba and North Korea should have regulated themselves into endless prosperity by now. Let me buy you a ticket.
I got the same impression from reading it as pastylegs did. To me, it sounded like the author does thing on the regular, as opposed to a one-off or rare type thing. If you have that much trouble creating a segmented space to work in your normal life, you either have too many distractions in your space, are too easily distracted, or have an unreasonable expectation of what it means to work.
That's kind of my point. Sony became unfocused and muddled.

Fun fact: Twitter is worth more than Sony. Billions more.
The previous reply wasn't to hack on your comment, just wanted to make that clear.

It seems to me a lot of people want totally secure email... in a pretty box handed to them. I don't see how you can achieve end to end security while relying on a middleman. Even if you control the middleman, it shouldn't be able to tell anything about your message (it has no reason to, so it shouldn't).

So you have to do the work yourself. Making that easier to do would be great as long as it doesn't add obscurity to the process.

Tl;dr I don't see totally secure email services provided by an external entity as a feasible thing.
The work is already down regularly:

http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...

I do not know what format it is however because I have not gotten around to using it yet.
It was a little over 6 months ago. I installed it from this: http://www.haskell.org/platform/
I can't wait for a Google Driverless Car to essentially be the same thing for me.

I order one with my cell phone, it shows up, I hop in, type my destination, and then I can ignore the world while I'm getting stuff done. Or sleeping.

I get to see interesting places, but get stuff done.
Share price is an irrelevant number when you aren't taking the shares outstanding into account. Oracle's market cap is $159B, Tesla's market cap is $17B. Oracle is worth nearly 10x Tesla currently.
Show HN: App launched yesterday and already had acquisition offer
>One of the things that really annoys me is that there isn't more openness and sharing in the embedded space.

Embedded products are time and capital intensive, which means that the cost of a compiler or other tool-set is very small relative to the total cost of product development. Because of this, the developers (and their companies) do not mind paying a few thousand dollars for a new piece of software. Anything the developer creates is often only useful for competitors to one's product, so there is very little incentive to share.

>I've gotten to the point where I can have their 'demo lesson' running in a fully open toolchain faster than they can get the rest of the attendees windows and custom package install issues sorted out.

If you spend a year working on developing an entirely new hardware & firmware product, you see that importing new files, finding libraries, and adapting software from one IDE to another is not a very important or time consuming part of the project. When you spend a few weeks discovering that there are undocumented hardware glitches in the integrated circuit, that the errata is inaccurate, or that you own hardware behaves unexpectedly, the IDE is of little consequence.

>I've been supporting efforts like the libopencm3 desire to build an open and common ARM support library, but more of that needs to happen to build in some good practices for these embedded developers to learn from.

As an embedded developer, the open ARM library is of little interest to me. ARM is proprietary anyway, and building open-source projects on top of closed source systems does not seem to be a productive use of time.
I thnk you're missing the economics of all the bad stuff: without dragnet surveillance, the NSA/FBI/TSA can't really drone-whack anyone appropriate. They have to put out a little old-fashioned effort to decide who to drone. It's inefficient at best. Also, without dragnet surveillance, the TSA can only hassle random travelers (which might actually be an improvement in security).
I thought the same thing. This is a more of a press release regarding working on Cotton Bureau and United Pixelworkers.
12 year-old Computer Genius from 1984 (Video)
I certainly hate go-along-to-get-along culture. For the record, I would love to see the need for crap work be disrupted. I'm just saying that for the time being, some boring responsibility is necessary even in Silicon Valley (large swaths of QA come to mind) and hardly anyone (no one?) is lucky enough to like all of it.
It really depends on what you are building. If your domain is say Retail, then you should try and find someone with that domain expertise. I am of course assuming that you are a techie and do not have much experience in that domain.

One source of such partnerships that people often overlook are - current customers. If you have a customer who is really passionate about the project, there is a chance he might be interested in working on it with you.
Yikes, that index page is incredibly hard to read, the actual content pages are much easier to read though. Looks like a solid resource, thanks.
Where he is now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tasman

http://marctasman.net/
What other languages have you programmed in?
Thank you for the clarification, it makes sense.

PS. Also Peter, thank you for starting and sending out the weekly JS, Design and HTML5 newsletters, I'm subscribed and read 'em all, very resourceful.
Parent was comparing the meritocracy of today to the lack thereof centuries ago. I don't see where either of those links looks farther than a few decades back.
Airbnb will host a special host event live on November 12
Great work on the article and CruiseSheet.com. Could you update the "From" dropdown to combine "New York, New York" and "New York, NY"?
No power for 3-4 days.
Google "cruise ship no power", it happens more often than you'd think

That means

-no showers

- no toilets flushing.

- No internet

- no hot meals
Probability of drawing a given word from a bag of letters in Scrabble
The F# Computation Expression Zoo
2 incidents in 100 years, seems safe...
Feel like I've had my head in the sand. Dash is great - thanks
CSS Stats for websites
No, it's passing off, which is a violation of trademark law.

Using the name Ubuntu to describe and criticize the product Ubuntu is fine. Appearing to be an official website to lure visitors in is not. That's passing off.

If walk into a branded store only to find a notice that it isn't actually that brand, it's still passing off.

> The disclaimer makes clear it's not associated...

This was only added in response to the "stop doing it" request.
Love the concept. Good luck :)
Don't forget about Verold ;(

http://www.verold.com

Granted, Verold does not handle 3D _creation_ on the web. Instead we are building a platform for creating interactive experiences using 3D content. Eventually it will lead to a full fledged game development platform. Check it out!
Currently reading The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't - Nate Silver

Before that, I had just finished The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner.

Next, I may read Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan.
> Turn off comments.

This is the purpose of one of my favorite browser add-ons: http://www.tannr.com/herp-derp-youtube-comments/

Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
There's also iOS Dev Weekly (http://iosdevweekly.com/) a curated newsletter with links to happenings in the iOS space.
The site is built using internal links, it no more breaks the back button than wikipedia's contents section does.
I recall Jimmy Wales fielding a question about the barriers to entry in Wikipedia editing and it didn't seem like he took issues of the currently entrenched editor culture seriously at all. The Wikipedia Adventure seems to reinforce that. There's an aim here to get would-be editors up to speed with the pervading philosophies, but that tells me that the status quo isn't going to change anytime soon.
Is Wordpress more like Linux or Windows of the web?
Wordpress is open source and powers a fifth of the internet web blogs and shops. It's proof that something can be a very mainstream consumer product while retaining the lightweight open source customization spirit seen in things like Linux. And yet WP has a huge amount paid customization options, great for devs and end users.

Your opinion?
Things can also go wrong sleeping in your bed at night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_fransisco_earthquake
This opens so many doors all around.

I'm literally giddy at this news.

I want to leave my day job right now and go home and work on my Cognitect stack web app.

I hope I can quickly get to the point where I need to (and then will be far more able to) purchase Datomic.
What, exactly, makes you think the government is democratically elected?

I mean, if the NSA/CIA/FBI can get away with this kind of surveillance, and seeing the scope of "Tailored Access", why wouldn't they have rigged the last few elections, too? Clearly the security around voting machines isn't nearly as tight as that of Level 3,
I find that for myself, that when I work without Internet access, the boost I get from a lack of distractions usually cancels out the problems caused by inability to look things up. A lot of the time, having to figure out things that I would usually look up helps me to think more deeply about the problem at hand. Downloading a manual or two is often all I really need to be productive offline.
I agree, and I'm surprised that anyone would have ever had any doubts that the industry -- or craft -- would move in this direction. And in fact, why have a render button at all. Why not just batch changes to the scene and send them off to the cloud to be rendered all the time?

Make a change? Cancel the job in the cloud and send a new one. Use a map-reduce to build output movies an just have them available when done. "Render" becomes "play when ready"

I think the 3d content creation world is ripe for disruption.
One of the academic conferences in my field has been on a cruise on and off [1], for some of these reasons. One of the main things people like about it is that it keeps everyone together: everyone eats in the same dining room, drinks at the same bars, and it's easy to meet up and split off into impromptu discussing/working groups somewhere. Whereas in a big city people tend to diffuse, partly by income (well-paid people go to different restaurants than grad students), partly by interest, partly by what part of the city they found a hotel in. Many people also like no-internet. No temptation to respond to work emails or check Facebook during talks! And finally, it means everyone has to come for the whole conference or none of it: no showing up for half the conference, or just for your keynote.

The cost is also surprisingly low, typically coming out less in total than a typical "big hotel" conference does: when you add up conference-room rental, catering for coffee breaks and lunch, cost of hotel rooms, restaurants for dinner, etc., the cruise ship's all-in group pricing typically ends up cheaper per person, sometimes substantially so.

The downsides:

1. It looks bad externally, like academics wasting taxpayer money on a boondoggle. Even if it's cheaper, the image is too luxurious. It looks better to have a conference at a Marriott in Chicago, even if that costs the taxpayers more. It looks bad enough that some people won't come, because their source of funds won't approve the trip.

2. Flipside of the community tightness aspect is that it can feel claustrophobic to be essentially stuck at the conference, literally unable to leave the floating conference hotel.

3. No internet means certain kinds of demos won't work, or need added preparation. Although this is good practice anyway, because conference-room internet is often flaky even on land.

4. Not being able to come for only part of the conference can also be a disadvantage, since the schedule is inflexible. If you have a hard conflict anywhere in the conference, you have to skip it, since there is no way to arrive half a day late, or leave even 2 hours early.

Last year we experimented with having it in a medium-sized town with a compact city center, in a lower-cost-of-living location [2], to try to get some of the advantages without the disadvantages. I think this worked fairly well, and I personally liked it more than the cruise ship. But there is an added travel disadvantage, because there are few compact towns that also have good international airports.

[1] http://www.fdg2014.org/

[2] Chania, Crete: http://www.fdg2013.org/attendees/
Which part? For the main lighting technique, most of the magic comes from the artist providing the surface normal components. Then to produce the image under some specified lighting direction, you can do the normal 3D graphics thing: dot product the light vector with the normal vector and scale that by the diffuse color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambertian_reflectance

In case the artist doesn't draw the X,Y, and Z surface normal components directly but instead chooses some other set of lighting profiles, you could use photometric stereo to recover the surface normals. (If this is the approach used, then applying such a technique to specially-crafted pixel art is indeed novel).

Here's a factorization technique for photometric stereo that could be applied to the artist inputs:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/mathusers/vision/courses/20...
Really, this headline should read: Lithium Ion Batteries Catch Fire When Mangled!
calloc can be faster because it has internal knowledge of whether the memory is already zero.
I don't know. If you have a team that is able to consistently ship products that work and are well received by your existing client base, you probably do have some badass tech guys.

You don't necessarily have to claim that you are better than all other startups, you just have to claim to have a tech team that is magnitudes better than average teams at other companies.

It is crazy to me how many failed projects are floating out there. And once you are tasked with trying create a solution that requires coordinating with another tech team from another company, you will realize just how badass your team really is, and how many terrible tech teams are out there eating as if they create value.
Articles like these seem to make the superficial assumption that technology only puts downward pressure on the unskilled or uneducated. That improving technology can only benefit the existing elites. I couldn't disagree more. Tech improvements are more often used to allow the relatively unskilled to replace the highly skilled. Innovation is commonly driven by scrappy upstarts who have no choice but to try something new because they can't beat the existing order at their own game.
Saying something is an opinion and that thing actually being an opinion are two fairly different things. It's sort of along the lines of saying "no offense, but" and then saying something obviously offensive.

Regardless, Martha's piece is publicized and therefore open to criticism and debate.
So strange... Old automatics always had a sort of physical connection in which you could pop them out of gear in an emergency.
Is this a company or a fun side project?
ftfa: A single destination to track your iOS, Amazon and Android apps.

Keep in mind, there are many android app stores out there, not just Google and Amazon. I'm sure you could push any kind of metrics your heart desires, not just Apps.
If you were never going to click on the ad, what's the difference?
How conductive? Relatively high-resistance can be worked around for CMOS logic- and MCU-based circuits (mainly high RC constants), but analog that has to be built with high-decade resistances is likely to be noise-prone and flaky, and forget power sections, they'll have to be built on conventional glass-epoxy and hooked up with flex-edge headers.

The lack of a good gas-tight bond between component and conductor is also problematic: silver tarnishes. Silver-clad switch contacts can be made self-wiping, but not static contacts. Absent some kind of hot-weld method, I can just see SMD parts popping off of flex-circuits.

This is a promising start to a new base-level technology, but it's got a ways to go before it's ready for the R&D lab as a tool rather than a patient. I look forward to seeing these issues overcome.
What do you mean? I don't grasp your intention.
Rebuilding from scratch is not always bad. While Joel (on Software) said that it's the worst idea ever, there surely are situations where it makes sense. E.g. if your codebase is so rotten (from too many quick fixes on the initial MVP) that it's quicker to just rinse and repeat.