skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That job application is the longest thing ever, and I've worked for Disney before.
That Alexander Bell quote sounded way too good to be real, looks like I wasn't the only person to think that, some interesting sleuthing:

http://blog.historyofphonephreaking.org/2011/01/the-greatest...
This is quite an interesting experiment, and a step in the good direction, which should and must lead us to the complete removal of domain names.

Why are domain names bad? That should be obvious.

The main symptom of domain names' inherent brokenness is that the law must patch it so that an unknown squatter cannot kidnap some domain, e.g. register "france.com" and ransom it to the people who are most qualified to claim it. This is ridiculous: the squatter should not have had the opportunity to squat this (I know it doesn't apply for "France" but it applies for many other names). Nowhere in the world we see kids grab the seat in front of the fireplace and not let their grandma have it.

Moreover, what if a single ascii string refers to two different things equally claimable by two groups of people? E.g. what about "francfort.com"? Which city would it refer to? A contrieved case: If Chinese people chose a translitteration scheme for their language so that "google" would mean China, wouldn't they have some rights over google.com?

This level of brokenness is not even because of a leaky abstraction, this is a sunken boat everyone has to use to cross the river.

On a more philosophical stance, domain names are wrong because they build a kind of universal language out of nowhere, grounded on nothing, whitout any kind of democratic digestion and acceptance by human beings. We could have a universal language shared by all humans, but it would be a very long process of slow acceptance, with a percolation through all societies all over the world. In this way, there would be many adjustments, reverts, and eventually we would come up with a set of names that is good enough, but right now domain names are just a musical chairs game that is ridiculous and must be stopped.

So I think using a string's hash is a nice step, because it starts blurring the domain name.

However, I think a much better scheme should be to use the hash of the page content as the domain name. In this case, once the hash is determined, who cares where it is, who care which domain it has? It would just be way to download the content. And the job of search engines would be to point us to these hashes.

And dynamic content you tell? Which dynamic content? Does one really care about changes in wiki pages? And for the twitter feed, each tweek is a fixed content snippet, and the javascript fetching them is also fixed, or could be a browser extension. And an up-to-date search engine would have the latest hash for a keyword such as "twitter" or "The Guradian".

A nice side-effect would be that domain name based censorship would become ineffective. And downloading content could be just some p2p checkouts.
When I'm overworked or simply lazy, and my co-founders want to add some feature, it becomes a "can't do" culture pretty fast. Yes, I'm the only technical co-founder.
Both seem to be cases suffering from a horizon problem.

In Airy's case, the benefits of the Analytical Engine may not have been realizable in the area extending to the horizon of his ability to make recommendations. Had he been making recommendations with a 100-150 year timeframe, perhaps he might have been more generous.

The telephone case is more damnable, and reads like a combination of a short horizon for ROI combined with Innovator's Dilemma.

A lot of pragmatic negativity is simply evaluators making very rational recommendations based on a time horizon in which they are both technically correct and for which they are given incentive to be correct. Extend the horizon (stretch the time) or change the incentive (change it from spending today's cash flow to an investment for the long term) and the evaluations may change as well.
A fine editorial. Stirring. It has inspired me to not write off recode simply because 90% of what's on their front page today is crap.
Agreed. I love the Talisker Storm, but I have a Lagavulin 16 in my hand right now that gives it a run for it's money. Definitely more punch in the smoke and peat departments.
No please reserve no judgement! The icons are part of an open source set online (yes styled to look like facebook's though). This is all great advice. I'll definitely be adding better content to the site
Just dropping in to say I like you guys, my first assignment at (then Highgroove Studios) Big Nerd Ranch was to clone learn.thoughtbot.com and build learn.bignerdranch.com
Mine are 1280x1024 too, and I've never had to maximise windows much - the browser window I'm posting this comment from happens to be 900x600.
You probably stand a pretty good chance, depending on your in-school performance. But, here are some things to consider (from a CMU alum) --

You probably were the most "with it" person at your high school. When you arrive at CMU, this will not be true -- not by any factor of your own, but because there will be many folks with a huge diversity of experiences. There will be people who have done what you have. There will be people who haven't, but have done something else just as cool. There will be people who haven't done either, and will power their way through the curriculum anyway, taking every opportunity to learn new stuff on the side.

Be ready for that, because it'll be a big hit to take. (For me, it sure was.)

But, the other side of it is this: absence or presence of past experience, in a structured class environment, need not necessarily be a predictor of academic performance. There is all the reason in the world to bring in a diverse assortment of people from wide backgrounds. You have a very strong classical "rounded high school" background, to be sure; but, make sure you understand also that there is much more out there than the classic rounding-out of extra-curriculars! There is a whole wide world about us.

Either way, your site is certainly interesting. I'm not sure how much it will influence our dear admissions department, but best of luck to you!
I've been using this chart for the increase of single parenting over time[1]. Unfortunately the data doesn't go all the way to the present. I have heard single parenting in the US is now over 40%. Charles Murray has another couple dozen interesting ones along a similar lines in "Coming Apart".

The automation of child-raising that the author talks about sounds creepy. It is an activity that probably ought to have a human component to it, if anything should.

I listened to an interview from a French Marxist who argued that the modern economy has been liberating for upper-class women, but bad for lower-class women[2]. His argument is that the right to work has turned into an obligation to work due to the necessity of two-incomes. This is fine for educated women with interesting and fulfilling work options but bad for uneducated women. Furthermore, the lower-class maids and nurses get paid to look after the upper-class children during the day but they still have their own children to look after, too.

He sees the need to work as a regression and as a new layer of obligation on the lower classes. The ability to be a full-time mom is now a luxury for the lower classes, while it is stigma for the upper classes.

[1] http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/u-s-historical-livin...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5zrdTb-yI
Not being snarky, but what domain knowledge do they have that you can't get?
Michio Kaku says cryonics misleads the public, Alcor Cryonics responds in video
I had a problem of DNS poisoning on my router + modem for a long time even though remote access was disabled and my computers were clean. The DNS entries kept changing to bad ones (even after a factory reset). I ended up switching the modem to bridge mode and using a router of my own to resolve the problem.
I have a Nexus 7 and iPad, but for a replacement to an older netbook, purchased an Asus Transformer t100. It's a <$400 10" convertible tablet (it includes a keyboard dock, and can function well in either tablet or laptop configuration.)

It's quickly become my favorite device, and I love the "full-desktop" power of Windows 8.1 combined with the dock for traditional apps. The only gripe I have is the dearth of Metro apps on the Windows App store. 1st party apps from Microsoft tend to be very usable, but the few 3rd party apps I've tried have clearly been a halfhearted port, and tend to be very buggy.

To echo an above poster, Modern IE is surprisingly great, with the exception of sometimes jaggedy text rendering at smaller sizes (anyone else experience this?) All in all, I've gotten far more value than I expected both from the price and Windows 8.1 itself.
>they've convincingly excluded obvious things like that they're actually aligning with the sun.

I don't know - for my taste, to exclude alignment to the sun they would have had to keep the dogs in a closed environment with an artificial light source. After all, even with clouds present you know where the sun is (and you can still get sunburned etc.)

It also rings my "skeptical" alarm bells when they cite the "original" evidence that cattle aligns along the N-S axis, but they don't cite the paper that fails to replicate the "original" findings in cattle: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00359-011-0628-7
Thank you for that recommendation. I'm giving it a try, so far it looks like it might be an invaluable tool!
Geoff Hinton - Recent Developments in Deep Learning
Thanks for your advice! I will keep that all in mind :)
My two co-founders handle the business aspects of company, though there is some overlap between our roles. Is that an answer to your question?
I thought the dickwolves comic was funny. I can certainly see where some people wouldn't. In my opinion, making the comic wasn't the problem. The problem was when they took it upon themselves to tell rape victims that they weren't allowed to be offended by rape jokes.

The classy thing to do, after the original comic blew up, would be to ignore it. Let the internet storm blow over and get on with their lives and their comics. A brief, tasteful apology could've worked as well. The absolute wrong thing to do was to get all huffy and self-righteous. Don't start dishing it out if you can't take it too. If your material can't stand on its own, attacking your critics is never going to help.

I do hope that Mike's apology is sincere. I'd like to be able to respect PA again. I'm not sure distancing themselves from PAX and Child's Play was the very best decision--I'd have liked to see them clean up their acts enough that they were no longer a black mark. Still, it's a step in the right direction.
related article: ImageNet Classiﬁcation with Deep Convolutional
Neural Networks

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/imagenet.pdf
Am I the only one that thinks it is sad that we have to sanitize our web presence this way in the age of Gawker? It ought to be okay to write an article with ideas that go out of fashion in following years or decades to the extent that it sounds antiquated and just forget about it. If someone finds it they can rebut it or ignore it. It should be that people can disagree with you without hating you.
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I'm a software developer with 10 years of professional experience, although I started coding when I was 10.

In the past I've worked as a freelance full stack web developer and as a full stack developer, analyst, ux and ui designer. For the last 3 years I've been working on deploying IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management and integrating it with other enterprise applications and legacy systems. This involved development but also writing technical documentation, requirement gathering and business analysis.

I have worked individually and in teams. I've done technical work and also discussed and planned with stakeholders and clients. I have worked in several countries in small and big organizations. During the last six months I've only worked remotely.

Technologies: C#, Java, PHP, Python, Lua, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, XML, Tivoli Platform, PL/SQL, MSSQL, MySQL
Other skills: UX, UI design, system integration, business analysis, software architecture.

I have Spanish citizenship but my wife is from Seattle and we are considering moving there. I'm in Seattle for a month in case you want to meet up and talk.
For sure, there are a bunch of industrial grade metal printers.

On the desktop, the Vader printer seems pretty dangerous to have in a home (plus, possibly being vaporware). Then there's the Mini Metal Maker which uses clay, but you need a kiln. And actually there is an arc welding RepRap now, but the parts are low quality and again dangerous.
Lost a hacker artist friend this last year to cancer.

Whatever you want to say to someone, experience or build, get to it right now. And repeat every single day.

Also: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_d...
I'll be the guy who links to Wikipedia:

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

The Wikipedia page summarizes the data from Net Applications (the data source for the article), Stat Counter and other popular sources. They break out mobile separately, but as for Chromebook, the numbers I've seen are very low (< 1%), so it probably gets lumped in the "Others" category.
Looking at you Krugman.
Sometimes I trick my mind into thinking I will die if I don't do a certain thing. This can be a good motivator, but can lead to unnecessary anxiety if not used in moderation. Also, it only works as well as you trick yourself into believing it. I've noticed a marked increase in my abilities to focus and in my quickness when I use this method during a game or something similar. I figure I am leveraging the high value placed on survival which has been cultivated via evolution, using it to enhance my mental acuity and awareness such that I might 'survive'.
Rather than putting a semi-colon after every function declaration, I would suggest the Lua convention -- put the semi-colon at the beginning of the line that could cause issues. An empty statement is valid is JavaScript, so this should work in all cases I can think of:

;(function(){
var foo = 1;
console.log(foo);
})()

In Lua, whitespace is very nearly all the same. For example:

a = 1 b = 2

c
=
3

is valid Lua code. However, lines that start with parens have the same ambiguity:

a = something
(expression)(arguments)

--Could be:
a = something(expression)(arguments);
--Also could be:
a = something;
(expression)(arguments);

The parser will complain about the ambiguity. If the intention is to have 1 statement, they should probably be on the same line, otherwise the convention is to put the semi-colon at the beginning of the second line:

a = something
;(expression)(arguments)
This is a pretty good rundown on how The Verge came to be: http://www.businessinsider.com/vox-2012-1

4m uniques and 20m visitors in the first month is a heck of a splash.
What's the name of this system? I'd like to read more about it.
Yeah, I don't think I know anyone who actually cares about the initial comic-- the complaint on it was very localized and small. It's the fact that he kept whipping up more drama about it and continued espousing "poor me" viewpoint about rape survivors bullying him, on a near-yearly basis, that really drove people away.
Crystal Oscillator (Transistor Based Amplifier)
An excellent read.
What do you mean impossible on mobile? I've been listening to this on a Nexus 5 for 30 mins. It played straight away on Chrome. Continues playing in background tab right now.
So eventually the system was self correcting. Unfortunately that may be too late to redeem the site in the eyes of the contributor.
This is one of my favorite forum exchanges ever, the support engineer Mike and one of Adafruits customers, discuss making a transistor based amplifier work. It is a tour de force of basic linear circuit analysis and was really fun to read through.
> I think the author would be well-served to delete the whole piece.

The author died in 2011, so I guess that won't happen (though the site might disappear entirely at some point): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scienti...

I'd just treat it for what it is: a short off-the-cuff essay written by a retired CS professor in his late 70s, speculating on a subject he hadn't done much research on. It appears among this unfinished draft collection of futurist speculations: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/. Some of them are interesting, some not too great. IMO lots of the stuff he wrote in AI is great, and I'd start with those essays if you want to read something by McCarthy on a subject where he was both knowledgeable and insightful: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/#pub_ai
Thanks for that! The last paragraph makes it seem like every animal except humans can sense the magnetic field. I'm slightly jealous.
The far corner of the keyboard... millimeters away from the backspace key and the volume up keys (which aren't uncommon keys to hit).
> No viable entrepreneurial venture can succeed solely on the basis of what it is logically possible for the technology to someday do, or what it could, in principle, in theory, one day.

I think the real trick here is to learn how to distinguish between objections that are just examples of people not getting it, and objections that really do point up a fundamental problem you will have to overcome or find a way around in order to succeed. This can be trickier than it sounds.

A common mistake advocates for new technologies make is to fall in love with their new toy and dismiss any skepticism of its prospects as examples of cluelessness -- often with glib responses like the one in the OP, "don't hate, create" (ugh). Not everyone who comes to you with a critique is a "hater." Some of them are coming to you because they have learned something through hard experience that they think will be helpful to you. Ignoring those people can lead you to walk right into the same well-hidden minefields that have blown up countless other bold explorers over the years. So there's value in learning how to spot the one guy in the crowd of people telling you to watch where you step who's sporting a peg leg.
This feels like the Hot Coffee thing again. The problem is not that he said something wrong, the problem was that he himself kept bringing it up.[1][2][3]

[1]http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/13/

[2]http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/10/06/our-store-is-back

[3]http://www.newstatesman.com/alex-hern/2013/09/penny-arcade-r...
It's a bucket. I know most of Wired content is just low-brow astroturfing anyway, but this is ridiculous. It's a plastic fucking bucket.
There are tiers for performance. A few hundred (or thousand) ops/sec -- a GIL isn't going to hurt too much. A few thousand -- well-designed IPC is fine. A few tens of thousands -- lock-free gets important. Hundreds of thousands (or millions) -- userspace/kernel transitions and interrupt servicing can dominate, and an application's interactions with the OS need to be very carefully managed...

It all depends on how much you want to get out of your hardware.
That's an interesting idea. Are there past documented instances of the editorial board being used in this capacity?
To be honest, the number of feminists who would have actually bought any of the penny arcade stuff is tiny, while the number of people who would enjoy the controversy and buy a rude t-shirt because it annoys all these people is probably very large. They actually said they were sorry they took down the merchandise, probably because it made a huge amount of money.

So I think they didn't really drive many people away and likely got more publicity, advert impressions and merchandise revenue by stirring the controversy. So maybe they handled it just right if their goal at the time was to make money and not make everyone happy? I'm guessing this 'apology' is because the idea of 'boycott pax' has come up in large gaming media now and they need to stop it quickly? Pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing this if there was no boycott movement.
"...I guess that won't happen..."

Touché. My mistake.

I agree that experts are best read when addressing what they are experts at. But sometimes the other stuff can give insights on who they were, and I guess this piece is like that.
ChimpDB: a distributed database with machine learning capabilities
That hasn't been my experience and I run Fedora, which is known for running cutting edge technology, compared to more stable distros like Debian.

Admittedly, I know how to use linux, so I might not notice problems that beginners do.
So I noticed that some people figured out that I didn't secure the voting very well. Haha, I guess going forward I'll use a csp and lock it down to one vote per ip
Looking back, the point at which I started writing better code came after I read "The Art of Unix Programing".
Umm, yes actually? Where do you think the playground equipment manufacturer got their initial capital?
I hear this all the time as well, Tom. Most people don't understand at all how things are made, and that most of the things around us are made from plastics, not metal.

Even then, 3D printing is just weird enough, outside the scope of the experience of most people, that unless you've done hand-on work in it, it's hard to see the value.
A transplant of the entire body might be a bit much as an analogy, yes; but "removing a growth" is far too little. I'm not even sure replacing a single defective organ, which was the analogy another poster used, is enough to convey just how much "the system" now infiltrates every aspect of our lives.

some say those all are that started the USA in the first place

I'm not sure this analogy holds up very well either, because the British government's impact on the colonies was much, much smaller than the current US government's impact on the USA. To "build a new structure if it goes away" would be orders of magnitude more difficult now, and would involve a lot more pain, suffering, and violence.
Gaming on Linux still has a long way to go:

1) The drivers are still crappy. It's getting better but it still needs a lot of work. To simply manage multiple screens or to change resolution requires a restart! Nvidia is still better than AMD drivers.

2) Many games just get the Linux ports to a "working" condition and leave it at that. The games are really buggy. Valve games are top notch and deserve a lot of credit for creating a good experience. Thank you Valve.

3) Ubuntu needs to create a stable platform people can build on. Getting people to use LTS is good but it is still buggy (I have a lot of issues with Unity). Also, LTS software gets stale really quickly - there needs to be a solution for this (without PPAs).
MeasureDHS is a fantastic resource http://www.measuredhs.com/Data/

It helped out big in Econ Dev.
This backdoor is a software backdoor - there may be hardware backdoors too. Hardware backdoors are much, much harder to find as there is no real way to track one down without trying to reverse the actual hardware itself, and that is close to impossible.
So while we can confirm there is a software backdoor in this router, we can't confirm if any other router does or doesn't have a hardware one.
Google, Apple Nab 345 Patents That May Govern Your Next Car
In classical logic, why is(p⇒q) True if both p and q are False?
Snowden affair: the case for a pardon
Memento mori — remember that you wil die ⌘ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
"exclusively" - as opposed to those torrents, the mega mirrors and personal mirrors provided by reddit and hn members, right?
Any more info? I opened a private tab, went to Google.com, searched on +Pepsi and the results look like what I'd find for Pepsi.
Lift worked well for me for a month and I liked it. But once you start slipping, the momentum takes down everything. It's a good app no doubt.