skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the XPS 13 is a standard Dell laptop. Sputnik is just the project to get Ubuntu running excellently on them, coupled with some developer tools.
Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?
To my understanding, it's a new, nonstandard thing invented by DNSimple that lets you specify your base domain as a reference to another domain — basically, it's like a CNAME where an A record would normally be required.
As a VJ I find the articfacts really interesting and plan on using it to generate new footage.
Undoubtedly has something to do with the fact that patients and doctors are not free to make the best decisions for personal care.

You can actually do better in that regard in a German-style nationalized healthcare system than an American-style quasi-national corruptocracy.

But there is only one way to guarantee it completely and in principle: separation of state and medicine, just as we have separate of state and church and should have separation of state and economics.
It’s 2014. Web Design Isn’t Dead.
>Google can know that most Honda Civic drivers in Chicago (for example) park next to McDonald's, and that their phones traveled inside the restaurant

This is already in beta testing.

http://marketingland.com/google-quietly-testing-offline-stor...

>Google is beta-testing a program that uses smartphone location data to determine when consumers visit stores, according to agency executives briefed on the program by Google employees. Google then connects these store visits to Google searches conducted on smartphones in an attempt to prove that its mobile ads do, in fact, work.
Google is reportedly using location in the background (on Android and iOS) and its database of business locations (my guess) to determine when people visit stores.

>Disabling location reporting also disables Google Now features tied to location, which may be undesirable.

It also explains why they killed Skyhook.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...
Yikes.. almost lost my post and couldn't find it again. (Is there a my posts section or should i just bookmark it?)
This is Google participating in a joke that made its way around the Internet a few years ago:

http://humanstxt.org/

The joke is itself a play on the "robots.txt" protocol that sites use to indicate whether they may be crawled by search engines.
Sidenote:

Chrome Canary and Beta were hit with a fairly horrible font bug recently. If
you haven't yet noticed the bug, fonts have been unloading and reverting
to a system font after the page has experienced a period of inactivity.

Holy shit, I just assumed it was something borked in my setup (especially since I've been messing with fonts and font paths a lot recently).
One thing that's illustrated in the demos is that you can zoom into detail in the photosynth images that you couldn't in a video.

I imagine there could eventually be better interactivity with the underlying 3D model than video could provide. Certain surfaces could be links to more information or another photosynth, for example. It kind of reminds me of some of the VRML demos from the 90s, but without the plugins and working backwards from photos instead of forward from models.
For people used to WUXGA it's (somewhat) low res.

I thought the newer W-series Thinkpads would have better res then "HD" (AKA "short screen") but last I checked they're still stuck selling "business" machines with entertainment-consumption screens. Plus a numpad that shifts the main keyboard over.

On the bright side they still have dedicated trackpoint buttons instead of the clacky thing built in to the trackpad that some of the other other recent models have.
Not really, I've only tried small things. But I _guess_ if you look around their documentation they should discuss SLAs and their KPIs.
>you wouldn't believe the incompetence of the people who we hired

It seems the incompetence wasn't with the employees but with the trainer. You hold that attitude toward your student and he or she is bound to fail.

A teacher who hates teaching combined with people lacking basic skills being expected to succeed in a high pressure environment for low pay? It's not surprising there were a lot of failures. I made no claims about the default ability to teach, it's another learned skill and mastery is uncommon.

There are also realities of the restaurant business (and lots of other businesses) which make training quite difficult, but I generally see these as deficiencies of the business management not truths of an industry.
Photosynth collages can be created by stitching together a lot of disparate photos. So you can have a 3D, interactive representation of, say, Trafalgar Square, created from photos available on Flickr.
Sorry, I wasn't clear in my overall message. The only point I was trying to make is that "generics error messages are hard to read in C++" is false: it's really that STL-related error messages are hard to read. If someone wanted to build a simple standard library that omits a lot of the complexity provided by the STL, they could do so, and the error messages would likely be readable.
Inequality and New York's Subway
You could say the same about "The Blacklist" right now; the FBI in that show uses violence at the drop of a hat. (And they're portrayed as the heroes even though it doesn't work for them at all --- the whole premise of the show is that it's brought them so little that they don't even know the identities of the Kingpins of Evil on the titular list.)
A bold new way to fund drug research
The Behind-My-Back Review
Then maybe the new Thinkpad X1 Carbon is for you: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...

I would seriously love to buy it but the new keyboard changes put me off (see comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7016535). It's a shame, because otherwise it is really a nice machine - will as well go with T440s.
Oh goodness... if only there was a way for the computer to manage all the bookkeeping of what happens after what, in a way where multiple things could run at approximately the same time, without the programmer having to thread "promises" or "callbacks" through every single piece of non-trivial code.

We could even give a name to these sequences of operations... maybe call them "strands"... or "filaments"...

Using libraries in Node.js seems to be a matter of 1) finding a library, 2) taking a hammer and smashing it into your existing choice of continuation-tracking mechanism. We end up with N x M different ways of using a package, depending on what style the package author chose vs what style the programmer chooses. "nodeify" is a bandage on top of a missing limb.

Do people really put up with this? Just look at how many different things were benchmarked in this article---I counted 21. How many more ways of reinventing basic programming-language design is the JS community going to come up with before we realize that the emperor has no clothes?
T-Mobile CEO crashes AT&T party, is thrown out
Generally speaking, an ALIAS record points to a hostname. The DNS server software then fetches the IP address behind that hostname, and returns it as an A record to the user.

Normally, this is solved by using a CNAME record, but if you use a CNAME as the zone apex, then you cannot have any subdomains (because they will all be resolved through the CNAME record).

For some additional information: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/13/dnsimplesNewAliasFea... http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/Cre...
I'm so sorry about that. It went down again.
This looks great! It will definitely make my life easier. Thanks for sharing.
Are there many people doing a science PhD for the job prospects? I mean, my understanding is that in America it involves an extra couple of years of specialization on top of the (four?) years average of the PhD itself. It's not like someone with no background in science is going into them "because market forces" (why does everything have to be done in terms of what the market demands?).

Most of the people I have met doing my PhD is doing it because they love their field and want to gain a deeper understanding, or work in the field.
I don't think it matters unless you can call them co-worker with a straight face.
See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt
The sugar- and grain-rich diet that has been aggressively promoted by the USDA for decades is responsible for a large part of this. The "low fat" mantra resulted in a lot of "fat free" but sugar-laden and/or grain based foods being the primary component of many diets, resulting in epidemic obesity and diabetes.
No. I "click to play" plugins like Flash and Silverlight and the demos worked without my enabling any plugins.
Violence is harming a person or living thing.

Blowing inanimate things up is just physics.
Big up for a great journey ahead! I've (kindof) been living a version of this lifestyle you're describing for >2yrs now. Reading your story now makes me smile, seeing the similarities in retrospect.

When i started my journey, i basically just ended my lease, got rid of the stuff that wouldn't fit in my back-pack and went off with a vague idea of living like a "modern nomad". But i didn't really have any idea how that could work or how it would even feel like. It's important (and often hard) to let go of clinging to expectations. Any too-specific thoughts about yourself in 6mon from now will be smashed. You are in the process of gifting yourself the freedom from "needing" a plan for (e.g.) "next summer", next year or your pension.

Some highlights of my journey so far:

* designed and built a light-projection/"hologram" art-installation (learned: VJ software, some stage-building, event-production)

* helped a small team fighting through the infamous last 20% of their hostel project (learned: carpentry, metalworks)

* helped a family whith the groundworks for their eco-community in the jungle of costa rica(bridge building, gps-surveying, swingin' da macheteee)

* some burning man projects (organizing camps, carpentry, electronics/arduino/LED circuits, 2 small art-cars, learned how to build and design hexayurts [0])

* helped kick-off/co-founded a warehouse-community in SF

Almost the entire time I've been active IT-wise as well, ranging from co-founding startups, helping others out, private fun projects or sometimes freelance jobs to keep me over the water, financially.

Sometimes i sleep in hostels, many times at (new) friends. Sometimes you freeze, feel lonely, have no motivation, everything sucks. Suddenly, sooner than you'd have believed, you wake up in a huge beach-house with a crazy-beautiful oceanview. Be someone who others appreciate having around. This heavily involves giving in some way or the other (physical help, IT help, cooking help, babysitting, talking, being a friend, paying). Try to find out what works best for you; which of your options of giving are the most fruitful (e.g. in terms of learning or new friends!) and which ones just a means to an end (for me, paying/money is often (but not always) on the latter end of this spectrum).

You're up for some good fun, my friend. Just always remember to go with the flow learn to embrace change/insecurity.

[0] https://flo.jottit.com/moonberry
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The point is publishing that constitutes good advocacy and implies expected future support for Go. A lot of people given the choice between learning multiple languages will factor a company like Google supporting and using Go in their decision.

I am sure if Google published on it blog that it rewrote some of its services in Nimrod, there would be a bump in popularity.
When I was at Laszlo Systems, we did that to revitalize the business, not to turn it off. It was very effective at spreading the word about our product and simply shifted our business model.

It did take some time to instigate a real community around an established code base -- if I were to do it over again, I have ideas of things we could have done better. It's also easier now, I think, with github and the rise of social networks.
Glad to see they're still working on this. I remember seeing a demo of this some years back and being really impressed.

A nice reminder that Microsoft really does have some great engineering talent and they can break new ground.
I was hanging out at Reddit and https://devcharm.com/.
You are very correct. Max-flow/min-cut reduces to tons of other problems where this algorithm will be optimized.

Here's a nice little introduction I found with some reductions on the first couple slides: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr04/cos226/lec...

I just finished my algorithms undergrad class last semester; one of the questions on the final was 'you are a terrorist looking to cut off supplies to your enemy, which 3 nodes must you destroy to cut off the supply network?' And there was a complicated graph with probably 10 nodes and twice as many edges (very difficult to brute force in the allotted time), and we had to find the min-cut which would severe the flow. Some really cool problems reduce to max-flow.
You can see the setting to enable this from the provider's point of view from the last screenshot on this post on Meraki's site: https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2013/05/youll-like-this-cisco-...
What an unhuman humans.txt.
Right now Redis cannot be clustered production-ready. I wish. As I stated in the Wiki, you'll have to pry Redis from my dead body, I am very happy with it, and for me its a true swiss army knife and I've used it as such.

Even though it doesn't have clustering - it's rock solid in production and I haven't experienced a drop in one of my Redis servers in around 3 years.

That being said, if you are building a system where reliability is an explicit requirement you can't take those risks.
Also they have removed the physical buttons surrounding the trackpad.

The W530 still has the proper trackpoint buttons. But it's a 1080p screen with a numpad that displaces the main keyboard.

Lenovo sells USB trackpoint keboards (with and without a trackpad). I already had one for my HP desktop box and ordered another on the assumption that sooner or later Lenovo will turn to the Thinkpad line to shit and I'll want that keyboard for whatever laptop I get next.
Just on LTE-enabled cars? Think bigger! They're running a full fiber optic service; they have every packet coming into and out of your house.

I, for one, welcome our gigabit overlords if only for the fact that they have Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc shaking in their boots.
Is this the end of Startup Nation?
that would explain convergence between U.S. and OECD, but it wouldn't explain a continuously widening gap going forward in favor of OECD vs US
Notably, Google Analytics and the ga-beacon can be blocked by disabling JavaScript or blocking the beacon's domain. How can privacy-conscious users avoid being tracked by this feature?

e: I've just looked at my own pages' analytics and was quite surprised to find data from before today. Is this to say that GitHub has been surrepticiously recording data about my project without any way to opt out?
I have the first-gen XPS 13 with 1366x768 internal display. No problems at all in a multi monitor setup. I have a Dell S2409W, 1920x1080 at home and a NEC 1920x1200 at work.
Looks like it is WebGL based
I think he ate once when he was getting debriefed
Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service
I think if you go to the grocery store and ask people you'll find out otherwise.
I mean, my understanding is that in America it involves an extra couple of years of specialization on top of the (four?) years average of the PhD itself.

If you mean doing postdoctoral positions prior to securing a tenure-track position, then yes, that's generally true.
Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come
What the Earth sounds like six miles below ground
The clerk must not be familiar with Facebook's "Real Name" policy. I think that asking a store clerk is probably never going to get you anywhere though. They are the least likely people to be involved with technical decisions. That's something that would be better taken up with the business owner.

What's sad is that the business owner would probably be willing to sacrifice your business for the perceived benefit that he/she is getting from Facebook's WiFi.
Ah, interesting. I do have those questions sometimes.
No, it's incredibly entertaining.
Word. And remember, the OECD isn't "The US, France, Germany, and the UK."

This link is (on table 2) the PPP adjusted incomes for each decile of the OECD countries: http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/Additional%20tables.xlsx

The US median 1st decile hourly earnings are $7.40. Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, the Slovak republic, and Spain are all below there.

Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK are above there.

So I don't think that poverty is causing the US to underperform compared to the OECD mean or median.
There is plenty of demand for PhD students and fresh postdocs. They help the Prof. with her teaching load, grant writing, etc. They are dedicated, work long hours and cost little.

There is however, much lower demand for PhDs who would wish to run their own research program, after all the PI can take the same ideas and work and do it under guise of their own research program without giving too much credit to the grad student or postdoc.

The result, at least in biomedicine, is an increase in the size of research groups, and very protracted postdoctoral periods.
I can imagine. Care to share any of these ideas/hints? :)
Are you really claiming that creating a fake facebook account is "abuse"?
Not even a car crash.

http://www.kidsandcars.org/back-overs.html#Studies

One of my more memorable events back when I lived in a suburban cul-de-sac as a teenager was walking home from school and finding a neighbor's 4-year-old stumbling into the street, blind with tears. Her mom hadn't noticed that she wasn't in the car when she drove out.
I'm sure your point utterly convinced the clerk being paid minimum wage at your ice cream shop of the errors of his employer.

Would you have accepted it if the clerk explained to you that requiring a Facebook account is the most hassle-free way that ice cream shop has found, considering a) their technical expertise, b) the amount of time and money they need to invest and c) their average customer?
Shouldn't the humans.txt mirror the robots.txt and give humans permission to use the website and explain how?
Especially as US driving tests are anecdotally much easier than tests in other developed countries. [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/oct/11/brita...
Designing APIs for Asynchrony
Like others have said, this is like Aadvark. I once reminisced about it here [1].

Aadvark was really useful and what made it really good was that it tapped into your existing network. I remember being able to ask questions right from Google Talk.

I think why people are a bit confused about Jelly is because of the over emphasis on pictures. If they focus it on "harnessing your network's intelligence" it would be much easier to grasp.

They should also go beyond iPhone and Android. The desktop web is still being used (I am typing this on my laptop). It will also help people to search public questions and answers.

Right now, I use my BBM status message, Twitter, and Facebook to crowd source answers to questions such as "Please, where can I get a Sharwama at this time in the Island (where I stay)?"

I usually get a response. But to 95% of my network, the question is just noise.

It would be much better if that question could go directly to my friends who have lived in the area I speak for. And perhaps they could forward to to their friends who can answer that question.

I believe over time, they will fine tune it and de-emphasize the photo aspect. I look forward to the evolution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752921
My reaction is "Brilliant, daring!" and "Why did it have to be Facebook? I'm trying to get away from Facebook."

Time to create a fake Facebook identity.
Just so much amazing experience to cull from.
What good did Thatcher bring? Honestly? I can't really think of anything. The closest you could come to "good" would be to transitioning from an industry based economy to a service based economy.

As narrow as you might think my viewpoint is, yours is worse. It's important to consider people in their full, not just considering the individual good or bad that they did in their lives. I consider Thatchers overall effect to have been a blight on the United Kingdom, and thus I'm consider her awful.
website: http://ori.scs.stanford.edu/
Ask HN: How to pay freelancers abroad?
We oftentimes work with foreign freelancers on design projects. Usually we pay them via PayPal, but that has become very costly.

We have considered setting up foreign bank accounts for our company, but that is 1. a pain in the neck and 2. generates hefty fees once again (we somehow would have to "fuel" these accounts, but both the US bank and the foreign bank charge significant fees for international wire transfers).

Any suggestions? Thanks guys!
As I said 2 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684466) with respect to adding AppleScript support back into iWork:

"Apple increasingly proves that intransigence in response to customer feedback is not a defining feature of Apple's aesthetic. Another example is the reduced motion setting in iOS7. There's no need to piss people off just for the sake of purity; Steve gave that to Apple, but it is fundamentally distinct from Steve's primary gift - his vision of consumer products. Steve would have berated you for using Applescript, until Apple released the update a year later that supported Applescript."
If the person posting the link mentions that it is an affiliate link, I follow it.

Otherwise, I'll strip it out.

Same with ad.fly etc. etc. If they provide an alternative, I'll generally follow the link. Otherwise I won't.
Microsoft is always doing incredible research, just depressing that it's rarely converted into a compelling consumer product.
> int& toref(int* ptr)

Yes, it's theoretically possible. The point is, you need to explicitly do evil things to get "null references". The language cannot and is not meant to protect you from yourself.

> One thing I kind of appreciate at times about C++ (or at least about certain implementations)

Yes, certain implementations indeed. It is formally undefined behavior, so anything at all could happen if you do that; the most straightforward and efficient implementation just happens to "work".
i don't agree with this, at least for people who can afford it or live in non-food desert areas (you didn't make the distinction in your assertion)

if you walk into a any grocery store, there's fresh/unprocessed meat, poultry, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruit everywhere. you don't need to buy anything that comes in a box or wrapped in plastic or has added sugar or salt or anything.

you don't need to eat anything beyond that selection to be healthy. whether or not you want to go through the trouble of preparing it is another matter.
Cambridge, MA City Council adopts resolution to commemorate thirty years of GNU
I would be curious to see not just the median but the mean. The median isn't super informative in the sense that U.S. is much more heterogeneous / unequal than OECD
I'm not sure why you're referring to it as a "joke." Humans.txt is definitely an earnest effort to standardize a means of giving the people behind building and maintaining a website credit for their work.
I got a chance to play with an Oculus dev kit for 15-20 minutes over the holidays, and almost everyone who tried it walked away with some pretty gnarly nausea (experienced gamers and newcomers alike). I'm excited to see so many of the updates in the new prototype focused around alleviating this discomfort.

It's probably telling that they're couching the updates in language that addresses this, rather than just touting the technical accomplishments.