skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel a more likely future scenario is one in which we create cell-sized robotics that we can use for very narrowly targeted operations in the human body, like treating bacteria. As the bacteria mutates, so does the targeting mechanism in the software that programs the tiny robots.
I think the battery-on-lease makes sense, because (I've heard somewhere) they are planning on swapping batteries instead of recharging them in their official charging stations.
That guy knows how to make good looking slides.
If you've paid any attention to the NSA situation within the past 6-months, ordinary/average consumers (not the HN crowd) are becoming weary of cloud/hosted service.

Quite the opposite. The HN crowd is becoming wary of cloud services, ordinary/average consumers aren't even aware of the NSA relevations.
You can play the game online at http://game.zoomtheballoon.com or download the node-webkit version at http://zoomtheballoon.com/
I don't need to learn assembly to use C. I don't need to learn the JVM bytecode to use Java.

Sure for special cases knowing those things can help get the very best out of your code, but for the other 99% of the time, it is not necessary.

(Edit: Not that I recommend Dart over JS necessarily, but I don't agree with your argument.)
FYI - the Angular team have ported Angular to Dart.
The problems Google has have nothing to do with Facebook being better, or G+ being empty or whatever. Facebook is terrible.
No, the merchant takes reasonable liability - if they permit non-EMV transactions (in a customer-present scenario) they assume the risk.

Under law in much of Europe, the consumer is not under much risk. In the UK (for example) the credit card provider is legally a party to the debt and has a responsibility to refund the consumer on demand if the consumer is willing to state (in a legally binding way) that the transaction was not authorised by them. Debit cards are governed by different rules that amount to much the same, though the legal protections are weaker.
Creating music with a whiteboard(), WebRTC and the Web Audio API
To make that work with "owned" batteries, I would have to buy dozen batteries and pay to ship them thoughout my typical driving routes...
So I hope you aren't implying above that this ruling states that is now legal.
Since being unbanned this account has submitted items from businessweek, quora, yahoo and mashable.
VMware so I can do testing in Windows with IE.

Virtual box just isnt cutting it.
One might almost say that anybody knowing basics of Newtonian mechanics would say maximizing your blade swept area reduces power needed to stay aloft. Then there's stuff like tip vortices etc. So just one big rotor is great.

The problem becomes control. With many small rotors you don't need to control blade pitch, as the electric motors have high torque and the blades are light, so you can control with quick engine thrust changes. And it's that what makes the quad rotor system much more attractive than a normal helo. The traditional helicopter pitch control system is complex and requires precise high stress components that are well built and maintained.

But it's a very inelegant brute force system in my opinion. The pitch control could be improved a lot as well if you have powerful electromagnetics with very precise control.

You still need a tail rotor though.

The real helicopter is seeing some real progress at the moment as well, all in the name of higher speeds. There's Sikorsky's X2 and AVX's modified Kiowa. They have coaxial main rotors with a pushing tail rotor and two pushing fans respectively.
Then there's tilt rotors by Bell and Boeing, IIRC. These were, at least at some point, all part of a US scout helicopter competition.
And then there's the Eurocopter X3, with no tail rotor but twin pulling rotors like a twin prop airplane. X2 and X3 have flown.
Many antibiotics are fairly nasty drugs - they're associated with kidney failure and other negative outcomes, especially for long term treatment. But it's hard to know for sure until things progress to the point where we are doing toxicity studies.

Which you don't bother with until you know the thing can work in the first place.
Good advice. Thanks.
Good point. It always makes sense to ask. I was just surprised that I heard back so quickly.
Heroku customer here, can verify that dataclips are awesome. Haven't done the math on price vs. performance lately though.
Go Instant's take is here https://goinstant.com/blog/node-knockout-hackathon-winners
Looks great on Chrome 31 in OS X
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Yes, good point. The banning based on posting links to the same url is the interesting part.
"Noobs use approximately 95% calculation and 5% intuition, whereas a grand master has a ratio closer to 40% calculation and 60% intuition."

I vaguely paraphrased this from a paperback chess guide of mine (hopefully more credible than the internet). According to my guide, grand masters can effortlessly memorize the positions of realistic matches. But for "nonsensical chess matches" where the positions were randomly generated, the masters were just as bad at recall as the noobs. From this data, my guide inferred that masters rely on recalling attack-patterns from their experience more than brute-force calculation. Similar to how a tourney-strength player has openings memorized by heart, I imagine that a master recognizes common middle-game patterns like the back of his hand.
Which tools enable real-time schema migrations in Pg?
even better: don't apply at all. simply work/study/design/research/build whatever you wanted to do anyway. then share/publish/collaborate as you desire. or not. rinse, repeat. be a genius. or a crank. or an entrepreneur. or some mix. just do things and get it out there. see what sticks. not all smart people are in academia and not all people in academia are very smart. and you can publish, collaborate, ship and show accomplishments without/outside a university paradigm.
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"I read this to say that Piracy is legal if you don't charge for it."

This statement is not accurate. See my prior post about the four factor test for Fair Use. The judge ruled that this specific use (which doesn't distribute full books online) was fair use. Putting a movie online would almost certainly fail the Fair Use test.

This case is far too complex to be summed up as "Google putting full books online".
And many other too. Lesson learned.
Thankyou, that's an explanation that makes a lot of sense - the poor schlubs at the sharp end are not in a position to make changes.
Some qualifiers:

Working from first principles does work if you're super, super smart. One could argue that Special Relativity was almost a redesign from scratch to the problem of the aether.

In any case, it's never really a pure first-principles construct. That's impossible. Your mind is contaminated anyway with all the knowledge from, you know, the shoulders of all the previous giants, and you can't really 100% suspend it at will no matter how hard you try.

What matters then is the effort to dive in towards the physical (for engineering) or mathematical (for computing) roots of the problem, and re-arrange the causal links from that depth up.

It's always a blended approach, but you may not always be aware that that's what you're doing.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I am working for better balance now that I understand the guideline.
I agree that it COULD be a possibility, but is it?
Seems straight-forward to disable toggling when the card is out of range from your phone.
To those 10 viewers, yes.

The other day I watched a infrequently viewed video on how to install carpet on stairs, uploaded by a professional carpet installer (and not some profit generating wikihow crap).
I consider this one of YouTube's most powerful features... it's a trove of self help videos for almost everything.
Ack, half my stuff's in PLV8. Oh well.
It's a lot of fun.... until you see the inevitable about to happen...
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The funding models actually aren't removed from the actual human life-saving potential. The NIH has been pushing translational research pretty heavily, and if anything there's been a fair amount of pressure on the basic science types to tie their research to something, anything that will manifest in Saving Lives.

Beyond that, it absolutely should take drugs many years to come to market. Research is hard. Research on human beings is very hard. You can't just take shots in the dark and hope something sticks - you have to understand how, and how well, something works. Even for the established antivirals we do have for HIV, we're still trying to figure out who to give them to and when.
The cloud part concerns me just from a functionality point of view. Does it require internet connectivity just for basic operation? It doesn't seem totally clear. I would certainly hope not.

I hate to sound incredibly cynical, but this sounds like a perfect example of Silicon Valley fluff that will never become mainstream. They aren't even the first SV company to be working on this product.
Boils down to prioritization when you have more things to do than time to do them. Not rocket science but getting in the habit of single-tasking a small list of critical things adds up over time.

Fast Company published a great article called “The Amazing History of the To-Do List” yesterday. The article shares the story of how efficiency expert Ivy Lee transformed productivity at Bethlehem Steel.

“Lee’s advice to each member of the company’s management team was to write a to-do list at the end of each day, which consisted of the six most important tasks to be done the following day. Then they were told to organize the list based on the highest priority tasks.”

Good reminder Jason

http://www.fastcompany.com/3021379/work-smart/the-amazing-hi...
ImageMagick has some good tools for manipulating GIFs. We have an iPhone app called Blippy which uses ImageMagick on the server side
"You could do ok with the Socratic Method (asking questions that might lead them to understand where they were mistaken) but even that was dangerous if done in a group context"

This is very true, and I've learned it the hard way.

I do not advise using the Socratic Method to dissect the reasoning of a "needs-to-be-right" personality in a group setting, particularly if that person happens to be your superior. It's been my experience that these personalities will feel under attack, and possibly even attribute personal/political motivations to you.

When removed from a group (i.e., to your point, an audience), the Socratic Method works a lot better. It allows the recipient of the questioning to save face. He or she will be much more likely to engage in a real dialogue.
No, not next year, and not in any meaningful way until 2015 at earliest. They only required backend processing networks be capable of handling chip-and-pin transactions by mid-2013, which is a prerequisite for any acquirer/merchant using that network actually putting a reader in any store. Between then and 2015, nothing changes except recommendations that if a merchant is replacing their POS equipment, they choose one that supports reading chips, and that banks start issuing more cards with chips. Only in 2015 will Visa start incentivizing switching to chip-and-pin readers by, for example, removing the requirement that merchants validate PCI compliance if at least 75% of their transactions annually are chip-and-pin instead of swiped.
Ironically, I think my AAA card could double as a AMEX. But I don't use it for that.

I do have a lot of the shopper cards available on key. But I run uber-light on my keys and shifting cards from one pocket to another doesn't really help me gain anything. Also, with the key-ring versions, I've shared them with my S.O. so we can keep all our groceries and loyalty points together so they add up faster for household items or discounted gas, etc...

The problem with leaving a card like Zip Card at home is I'm inevitably going to be somewhere that's not home and need a Zip Car.
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If I were a betting man, I'd say that's his target.

4 rounds of PR ("price cut! Is it for you?) and a sale isn't a bad deal at all.
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Oh alright, thanks. Yeah I figured if I were to do something like this I could do most the website work by myself. I was just hoping that the deals to be made for supply didn't typically come with an upfront cost.

Downloaded your ebook to hopefully get a better look at what it takes, thanks again!
there is still an activation barrier (which is a chemistry first principle)
"Google is living a few years in the future and sending the rest of us messages"
Sure. If you are a regular they probably and some small bar they won't need anything, but if you head to a large nightclub with hundreds of people they'll want a card to keep behind the bar while you have your tab open.
The way it looks is that it is connected to your cellphone via bluetooth or something of that sort (since it notifies you when it is out of range from your card). An easy solution would be for the card to auto wipe when disconnected from your phone, then re-download all the cards from the app when you reconnect. Problem solved!
IMO it was when Oracle bought MySQL and effectively killed development. MySQL still lives on with MariaDB I suppose, but in the years since Postgres has leapfrogged it in terms of functionality.
That was just to demonstrate the problem.
You could solve it by using NSolve[expr, vars] and giving a limit for the response time you'd like. You'd get back the number of dyne's you'd need to meet those requirements.

On heroku's side, you could model their network with a few lines of code and experiment with different types of queues to find things that work well and are affordable.

As PG said in beating the averages, it's one o those things that's easy to dismiss when you're looking up the power curve.
Sorry, "elicit". Thanks for the catch mvkel.
Chase Sapphire Preferred offers EMV cards[0] and no foriegn exchange charges. Makes a good travel card.

[0] Technically: chip-and-signature rather then chip-and-pin. Also, you have to ask for the EMV but they're super friendly about it.
Thanks for this intelligent response to my glib comment. I learned something & I appreciate it.

I disagree with the judge that Google should be allowed to do this, when they have a revenue model built around pageviews & advertising that is built on other people's content. It just seems to me that the argument is "We don't make money from people viewing [THE BOOK], we make money from people viewing the ads around the [THE BOOK]!"

So, replace books with [NBC's THIRTY ROCK]. Let me put my own ads in. Is that cool with e'rybody?

It doesn't seem right to me.
They have gotten involved in lightening the regulatory burden for certain drugs that are orphaned or for rare diseases, which is essentially a subsidy.

Also, the number of drug company booths at a recent infectious disease conference I went to suggests this whole "No interest in drugs that cure in three weeks" thing is...well...not actually true. These are incredibly common infections, there's plenty of market for them. Hell, the compound was initially discovered by Bayer.
::Sigh:: It sounds exciting.. but so did/do all the others trying to do the same or similar things.
Unfortunately, banking regulations and reluctance to push technological boundaries at the risk of being liable or losing money are the big hurdles to clear here. Another slightly smaller hurdle is being able to design a product that is high enough quality and durable enough to survive without costing way too much.

The first one I ever heard about was back in 1999, PocketVault from Chameleon Networks. They lingered with a website that was updated every couple of years promising a release soon.

Next came the iCache. That one did a Kickstarter and actually made it out to market... sorta. I have one, but the company ran into huge manufacturing issues and folded under very odd circumstances.

A few others I've kept an eye on are:

Dynamics, Inc. Card 2.0 -- Was supposed to come out with exactly this product.. ended up doing a very reduced feature set that lets you just select A or B rewards.

Protean Echo -- Same concept. Originally promised 2013 but recently updated saying they weren't ready yet.

There was another that was a similar concept company/site, but I can't find a link to it or remember the name at the moment. :/

There is also a recent company that had a successful Kickstarter: Loop. Rather than a programmable credit card, they are hacking the magnetic readers themselves by making a mobile phone case or dongle that emits a magnetic field that tricks the reader into registering a card swipe. Pretty neat stuff to compete with the struggling NFC solution, but unfortunately, it isn't 100% compatible with all swipe readers, and totally incompatible with dip readers.
The average consumer is not an early adopter of brand new technology products. Early adopters pay higher prices for new products to come to market and, eventually, reach sufficient scale to lower costs for mass market.
Please don't underestimate how much it helps to have an adviser who has been through the ropes, or how awesome it is to have peers that are brilliant and working on similar stuff. I'm a self-taught programmer, so I know exactly what it's like to wing it, and I loved the PhD experience. The anti-PhD attitude on here is so weird, considering YC seems to be largely the same thing on a smaller timescale (weed out everyone but the very best, have them make things, give them connections, ...)
How many pairs have you bought? which ones?

I've never broken a pair. Most of mine seem to have some natural protection, through either detachable cables, wrapping above the ear, shirt clips, or recables. You are kicking the cord? The cord shouldn't be on the floor. Why not put it on a table?

If a headphone has a detachable cable that screws in, that'd be the best by far. That and metal-on-metal framing. If that's not available cheaply, then a Kickstarter might be interesting.
Can you share the details of the site's tech stack?
Americans going to Europe: Remember that your credit card might not work as often in Europe. Be prepared for hearing "We only take chip & pin cards here" in shops etc.
>- Looking over the examples from the blog post, those aren't really from 'first principles'. They are assuming cars and an internet and other huge innovations. I think the real message should be 'double check your assumptions'.

I think the point is that you should view cars as a physical object composed of engineered subsystems instead of as a cultural phenomenon.
And G+ is worse because the thing with Facebook...I'm never FORCED to reveal my Facebook identity on the open web. G+ doesn't really give me that option.
C++ to JavaScript: Emscripten, Mandreel, and now Duetto
The merchants generally do have the liability for fraud, but ultimately this "cost of doing business" is reflected in higher prices to the consumer.
It's not exactly the first time, but close - the Simple Workflow Service has client helper libraries for both Java and Ruby.
Get a little plastic wallet designed for holding business cards? Use it for credit cards?
Like I said, only time will tell if Node.js is THE non-blocking scripting language/framework. Still too early in hype mode to know for sure. At the moment it is and it has the momentum. Doesn't mean Go won't take its place at some point in the future assuming it really is better at the non-blocking use case. Or Go could just be another language in a long line of languages that go nowhere. We shall see.

No matter the mechanism, event-driven programming is here to stay. All UIs must be event-driven unless you enjoy pissing users off. Games must be event-driven. Web servers should usually be event-driven for similar reasons. Callbacks are just the most basic way to achieve that when you have an event that won't finish processing for awhile like a DB call.

I certainly understand the desire to not use callbacks since I also loathe them. But they are also much easier to understand than something that looks synchronous but actually isn't. But there are a lot of people who have tried and are still trying now to rid us of the need for callbacks but still allow for async. I certainly hope they prevail, but, historically speaking, I am not optimistic.
Based on your point, I actually just added a line to the beginning of the post (second paragraph) with the alternative headline. Thanks.
SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring an Electrical Engineer in SF
SoundFocus is looking for a talented EE to join our team and help us build the next generation of hearing aid technology. We're funded by some of the best investors in the valley including YC & Mitch Kapor and are hiring employee #3.

Our Philosophy: We're a customer driven hardware company that builds products for people. We value learning & rapid iteration over perfection. We build products not just to solve problems but to create emotional connections for our customers. We believe it is as important to take care of our employees as our customers.

The Position: We're looking for someone who can take our consumer facing hardware product from the design phase through to manufacturing. Responsibilities will including writing schematics, selecting components, sourcing and maintaining the BoM. You'll also be collaborating with our mechanical and signal processing engineers, and travelling to Asia to work with suppliers.

More details here: http://www.soundfocus.com/jobs.html

Why should you join us?

- There are 600 million people with hearing loss around the world, and your work can make a difference in their lives.
- As one of the first employees you'll help shape our company and culture.
- We work on hard problems in board design, power management, supply chain, and manufacturing.
- We will take care of you - you're not just a number on the roster, we value your happiness and pay well with good health/dental/vision benefits.
- We're located in Soma, very close to the Caltrain and BART and offer perks like free lunch / snacks.
You're lucky, I'm 30 and only now started reading it... :D
That's because you need Royal Assent in order to be a bank in Canada. Unlike the US that has hundreds (if not thousands) of banks, Canada only has 5 (or is it 6 now?) massive banks.

Having only a few big banks makes it much easier to roll out new technology.
Nothing more than what keeps them from skimming your card today with a free Square/PayPal/GoPayment card reader.
Thanks for sharing. I think you hit the main point - it winds up wasting a lot of people's time, and also gives short shrift to others in the process. In a sense I put this up with the moral equivalent of practice interviewing with real companies. It's not illegal, but it isn't behavior one would advertise, and it's hard to call it ethical.

It would be different if the answer were, "You've worked 2 years for Google or started a company that went through YC" because that's no different than a company asking for Big 4 Accounting experience when hiring a controller. (Having a Big 4 offer letter wouldn't suffice)
I think in your scenario, a good fit would be a cigarette case that you'd keep in your front pocket.

Eurpean here. I was shocked to learn many USAian men keep their wallet in the back pocket. How do you sit on that?
Only in the same way that referring to a person found dead at the side of the road from a presumptive car collision was "murdered".