skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested to see data on the backgrounds of the type of young professional that the author attempts to lionize here.

Seeking risk is considerably easier when you have a solid family situation to fall back on.

It is delightful when poor kids from shitty families achieve class mobility by executing on what the author sees as the road less travelled, of course.

But my sense is that the majority of people choosing this path hew from situations wherein failure would not leave them in dire straits, and are as such giving up the expectation of extended adolescence in college, as opposed to the requirement to immediately begin taking care of themselves.

Put another way, it may be a meritocracy, but it's overwhelmingly one with pretty homogeneous participants.

(Let me be clear: I think this article is obnoxious.)
My product is an embedded chat widget(http://www.hashworld.co/), and for me it's google adwords, because my target audience is very specific.
Is it the browser I am using, or is recode not thinking about smaller sized screens?

opera 12.16 on Linux

http://imgur.com/dK0et3M
"The primary method vending machines use to recognize the denomination of paper money is through a magnetic scan; paper currency is printed with magnetic ink, similar to the ink on the MICR line of a check, that makes it easily identifiable to machines with magnetic scanners. In addition, each denomination is marked with different fluorescent properties. Many vending machines and other machines that read paper currency use an ultraviolet light to scan the bill, read the fluorescent response and issue the appropriate credit."
I'm a big fan of the Facebook git creator www.in-a-gif.com
I don't know anything about Walton, but in general autobiographies reflect the typically rosy lenses that people use when viewing themselves.
I have no revenue, but around 12-20k unique visits a month consistently for the past 9 months. The site is http://androidwallpape.rs and main sources of traffic so far have been android blogs and podcasts as well as stumble-upon sites. Initially the link was posted to reddit and it was picked up from there. Of those visits around 40% is new unique visitors, each month.

I would say engaging with communities that might be interested is the most effective way to get good traffic (& feedback) in a lot of sectors.
>> The fact that the tribe still existed means, they didn't know the totals.

That's the crux of it right there.

If I may also add: the outside observers remark didn't tell the tribe any information they didn't already know - that there is a blue-eyed tribe member.
Robust classification of EEG data from humans in real time in controlled environments (no motion, perfect contact quality, on subjects you can communicate with, etc) is difficult enough. It's part of the R&D that I do now. But on pets? How do you keep them still enough and the sensors seated and wet? Is the classification purely based on unsupervised learning? How the heck does one gather meaningful training data?

My skepto-meter is really pinging on this one. Especially with the flex-funding model.
Are you planning to take a programmer job again?
That sounds like a decent addition to watermarking. It'd be difficult to crop out a watermark if you can't open the image in an image editor.
If I started developing tomorrow, and have no 5.1 device, how can I do QA? I have an iPhone 4 that was never upgraded, but I can either keep it as is or upgrade to 7

Apple is making it really hard to support a version that you didn't target from day 1. And it is hard to target older versions from day one
Yep, the 8 rotor setup is largely for redundancy. There are examples of quads flying with half of their rotors damaged, albeit in a very degraded sense.

And with regards to the blade speed, you can make it largely a non-issue by using shrouds/wire mesh. People don't worry about the blade speed of a floor standing fan even as they brush up against it.
The Linode kernel appears to only fail the AUFS portion, as expected:

https://gist.github.com/akerl/8245192

I'm not sure how the Docker devs handle non-AUFS-related contributions from contributors whose systems don't have AUFS (whether a failure on any tests means they refuse to consider patches, or whether they consider the tests relevant to the patch).
> Also read that ARIN won't give you IPv6 space unless you first have assigned v4 space.

You misread an "or" as an "and".

For end-users: https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv6_initial_assign.h...

"Meet one of the following requirements"

one of, not all of.

For ISPs/LIRs: https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv6_initial_alloc.ht...

Each criteria is followed by "or"
That's only a potential use for Docker.

Docker is awesome for several other reasons, one of which is "shipping."

Google uses not Docker (that I know of) but containers for a lot of their development.
Ok, I'm pretty sure I'm being moronic and missing something, but does the foreigner give the tribe any more information? Does the tribe already know how many blue eyed and brown eyed people there are?
A rich people's web magazine vindicates rich people who go to rich people's prison. Shocking!

I'm sure someone got paid a lot of money to make their fantastic web design and laughed all the way to the bank
>Add rotors. The demo video showed an 8-rotor drone, I can imagine that building it as a pair of parallel quad rotors from the power supply point of view would give you quite a bit of control even at a 50% loss. A single-engine loss is obviously fairly small beans. I'm emphatically not an expert so this is armchair engineering.

Well, the thing about a multirotor is that a motor failure is going to drastically throw off the stability of the aircraft. The controller would have to be able to recognize the failure, kill the faulty rotor hub, and compensate on the remaining motors in very short order to keep the airframe from getting so far off balance that it tumbles out of the sky.

Though, honestly, I'd think the controller or battery failing is a more likely mode of failure than one of the brushless motors suddenly dying.
Isn't BIOS passwords useless?

For non-soldered but socketed BIOSes I think one can just take chip out and put it into your wallet, possibly, covering some pins with some dissolvable insulating substance. For soldered SPI EEPROM chips with known pinout, I think one can reflash the chip afterwards.
Cool. Would be great to see a bit more info on the page to start feedbacking (e.g. location, contact info, organizers etc.)

Also, this recent wearables hackathon seems to have been pretty successful: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-12-19-electric-imp-hackat... . Firebase / Electric Imp might have some tips.
What's added is the common knowledge that everyone else knows that Blue > 1 (including the foreigner), and that everyone else knows that everyone else knows that Blue > 1, etc.

Consider two blue-eyed people, Alice and Bob. Alice sees Bob's blue eyes and knows that Blue ≥ 1, and vice-versa. But Alice thinks, "What if I have brown eyes? In that case, Bob wouldn't know that Blue ≥ 1." So, everyone knows that Blue ≥ 1, but nobody knows that everyone knows that. Then the foreigner comes along and tells them that, between Alice and Bob, Blue ≥ 1. Now Alice knows that Bob knows that Blue ≥ 1, and realizes that, if Alice has non-blue eyes, Bob will use the new information that Blue ≥ 1 to conclude that he has blue eyes, and therefore commit suicide on the next day. When he doesn't, she concludes that she must have blue eyes, and commits suicide. Bob goes through the exact same logic as Alice.

Though the foreigner's statement did not tell Alice anything new about eye color distribution, it did tell her something about Bob's knowledge. The same goes for Bob, who learns about Alice's knowledge.

The logic is a bit more difficult to talk through with three people, so generalizing it further is left as an exercise ;P It comes down to "everyone knows that everyone knows that Blue ≥ 1", which the foreigner also contributes as common knowledge by making his announcement. For more blue-eyed people, recur on that statement as many times as necessary.
Fortress is forming a Bitcoin fund
Hi Dan --

Great example. I looked briefly at the source, and wasn't sure whether "pointer_chase" was on or off in your graphs. Or maybe it didn't make a difference?

Page-aligned accesses like these also make compulsory misses worse, because prefetchers won’t prefetch beyond a page boundary. But if you have enough data that you’re aligning things to page boundaries, you probably can’t do much about that anyway.

To the contrary, I think this is one of the relatively rare cases that explicit prefetching can help you. But maybe this helps only once your sets are too large for L3?

I wrote a little a few months ago on my attempts to speed up a Stream benchmark for Sandy Bridge that might have some overlap with your post: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/480004#comment-...
Good to see age doesn't matter in the hubris and not caring about your users data isafety departments. At least snap chat doesn't handle anything sensitive like credit cards with that "don't worry, we're super secure" attitude. Oh wait it's a service built around tweens sending nudie pics.
That's quoted in HKD. 1 USD = 7.75 HKD, so the value is closer to 118B USD
Do you have any plans to monetize the site or is it just something fun for you to do? If the former, have you given any serious thought as to how?
Not knocking on my folks in Europe, but if you've ever had to deal with a business relationship with anyone in the EURO-ZONE during the month of December - forget it. It's not to say its anti-production, but I DO want to say a healthy lifestyle as a company owner is based on moderation. There are times when you need to do that 13 consecutive-day hack-o-thon, but those are rare. If you build interatively and not trap yourself you can easily get away once a week to seclusion w/o disrupting the balance of things - even if its a tech start-up. It's scale of economy that applies to your personal life/work balance.
In Belgium, we are in the process of setting up an associative ISP, the road is long, but we have already started "formallly" to investigate technical solutions for vdsl lines, radio/wifi links; procurement of server, uplink, datacenter.. We have just passed a milestone which was to set up the legal entity supporting our diy isp.

You are right to point out that there is still a lot of work to be done, but this is a step in the right direction imho.

The idea behind this federation at this point is more to advertise the status of the various projects, and connect people together to share expertise (legal and hands-on).
You would think the tech industry would be more open to people working remotely. This problem is caused by insisting that everybody you hire be local, no matter how much it inflates salary requirements due to the SF housing market.
I get the same feeling, especially because I know someone working on this and has a small working model already.

Here are a few ideas that could make this work easily. Self driving vans via google plus drones in the back that fly out when they pass the delivery location with the package delivers it and returns to the truck. That is a great starting point and then when drones become better, longer lasting, you start sending them from UPS delivery locations at airports.

This is like that Article about how Amazon is a dumb idea from the 90's. So narrow minded.
"- What is the blade tip speed during operation? What precautions do you take when flying in populated areas?"

I've been thinking that a SawStop-type of technology might be a possible solution there.
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Great example of observing something that the community is doing (these kind of gifs are all over Twitter and sports blogs) and building a tool to make it easy. I love seeing these kind of "organic" features.
> I'm not sure how the Docker devs handle non-AUFS-related contributions from contributors whose systems don't have AUFS

We kindly point them to our use of libdevmapper, the other storage driver for Docker.

And I should add, we should probably refactor those tests to detect storage capabilities like the Engine does.
Yeah, I've paid $20 for a USB cable I needed now, and similar markups for camera memory, etc. I don't think the value of taking over the last of my in-person purchases can really be overstated for Amazon. It effectively means the end of comparison shopping, and frees them from competing mostly on price, as long as they don't abuse it.
Vine on the web
Presumably they were simpler-minded fifteen years ago; either that, or the art major's high-end printer was a lot higher-end than it seemed.
There are some excellent 3rd-party frameworks and libraries for doing spring-based animations that work on previous versions of iOS. My favorite (that I still use and favor above UIDynamics even on iOS 7-only apps) is JNWSpringAnimation which uses CAKeyframeAnimations to do amazing springy, bouncy animations. The same code is wholly portable to Mac apps as well which is an awesome bonus.

https://github.com/jwilling/JNWSpringAnimation
Many tech businessmen aren't nerds. They're in the game to take advantage of nerds' poor social skills, inability to organize or negotiate for their own interests, and willingness to overwork themselves due to a lack of long-term, strategic thinking.

Also, tech has the Damaso Effect. The best of our world answer to the worst of theirs, because we've been colonized by the MBA culture, and most colonial soldiers and officers are people who failed in their own countries. The good businessmen stay in New York and start hedge funds. The leftovers in their set are the ones who end up in VC or as VC-funded founders-- and they're bitter about it, too.

Much of the tension in tech comes from the fact that tech's best end up, due to the extreme power of the VCs and moneymen, answering to the rejects of the business world-- the ones who weren't able to get themselves into hedge funds.
Does anyone have any other good american life episodes ?
I love shows where they intersect business, operations and people issues.
The basic notion of empowering corporate and political entities to judge for a people what information is and is not "acceptable" is scary to me, and I would imagine, to most Americans. (I expand on this here: http://blocvox.com/americans/93Mz6FfGIku-CcH8JHndIg )

To my knowledge, the word "acceptable" is never used in any pertinent legal code, but it is used by MPs and other officials, and therefore represents the cultural understanding of the law. So one must then ask, what is culturally made of people who are interested in material that is not "acceptable"?

I wonder if my repulsion to this is a cultural thing, Americans having more governmental skepticism and having a tradition of individualism, versus Britons having more faith in (to put it nicely) the potential of government to foster order and maintain cultural heritage.
The information that is added is that the knowledge is made common or infinite degree (ie. everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows......that there is someone with blue eyes)
Real code from SciFi movies
You have to worry about a notionally scientific article that cites the Daily Mail as its only reference.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocentric_universe for a less breathlessly uncritical overview.
Or a third option: the story is fiction.
What do you mean by shipping?
Well, I think the answer to your question is complicated.

But thanks for that! Are the integration tests not included? No insult, just wondering if they ran.

It's tough. Docker integration tests currently fail on stock Ubuntu from what I can tell. Trying to figure that one out...
I agree with all that you said except the lesson from the military about never complaining down - depending on how how you define "complain". For example, if you've been "given" a very agressive development schedule, my experience has been that it's fair - even appreciated by your team - that you state, succinctly and matter-of-factly, that you believe that the schedule is more agressive than is optimal and that you either 1) argued unsuccessfully against it or 2) argued with partial sucess against the original, more agressive schedule, so there is a partial win. And then comes the positivity. . ."we need to work together to figure out how to meet this schedule with minimal risk". This is what I did as a manager, when applicable, and what I appreciated as a team member listening to my manager.

And I worked for the military for a while - as a civilian - and I observed various leadership styles among the officers and various levels of receptiveness among those they were leading. They knew that they needed to salute and carry on with the job, whether they agreed with the plan or not, but they still appreciated the acknowledgement that the plan they were about to carry out was not perfect but was the best that it could be, given the constraints.
Would be really cool to see it tested on the various ruby runtimes as well (rubinius, jruby, MRI 2.0-2.1)
I have done a lot of interface design (ex-lead UX at my company) and I used Inkscape. It's great, easy to use and fulfills all the needs I had.
Actually, using Inkscape was what put me in that role; my mockups were way better than everybody else's.
It's all dependent on the worker's rights in the state in which you work. NYS for example, almost always sides on the side of the employee. One thing to really think about is this - take the paperwork with you, and consult a local Labor office for your state. Kindly say, this is something I need to sleep on. I wouldn't dare sign anything under diress and I'm sure any lawyer worth his salt would say the same.
Bubbles are a very specific phenomenon where you've got mass psychology and you've got every mom and pop investor and every cabdriver and every shoe-shine boy buying stock in whatever it is...[t]here's nothing like that. We're talking about a fairly small number of companies. And then, we're talking almost entirely on the private side. It hasn't really affected the public market that much.

I could not have come up with a better way to express it. It seems like every time I look at HN, someone is crying "bubble." If pressed to explain what constitutes a bubble, and why they're crying it now, the answers usually involve citing some company (e.g. SnapChat, Twitter) or small number of companies with an insane valuation or financial transaction. "That's a bubble!" they cry.

I'll point out that this is nothing, nothing like the actual bubble of the late '90s/early-2000s, where the public was buying large amounts of stock in brand new, unproven (but public!) companies. Few or none of these companies had turned a profit. Many were disasters of execution (witness WebVan, which has become Steve Blank's prime example of how not to run a startup). VC investment was at a peak. Founders actually expected that their business plans could be executed without modification.

The mindset has completely changed since the crash. Yes, sometimes you have to wonder what the heck the VCs are thinking, or why the SnapChat guy would turn down a multi-billion-dollar buyout offer. Twitter's stock price seems unjustified, and Facebook's did, too, at least at first.

None of that constitutes a "bubble." As MA points out, "bubble" was short for stock market bubble. This is all private stuff, for the most part; few companies dare to IPO these days, compared to the '90s.

The cost of infrastructure has dropped massively, as well; no longer are you required to buy scores of servers just to host your website. One might even be able to host the whole thing on Wordpress. Servers are virtualized and therefore far more cost-effective. You don't need to own the physical hardware. Bandwidth is far cheaper. There are free CDNs.

So: VCs have learned lessons from their '90s mistakes. So have founders. The price of entry has dropped dramatically, requiring far little investment; meanwhile, business model development has learned from software development so that companies learn to grow and change in order to find their audiences.

That is why there is no "bubble."
Which tools/languages/techniques did you enjoy learning and employing the most? It all sounds fun, but some of it sounds more fun than others (for example, I really love Python's legibility, and am impressed by D3's power but find it to have a pretty steep learning curve).
What would it take to have a p2p DNS?
David Brin: What If the 21st Century Begins in 2014?
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As a programmer with very little design talent, but basic Photoshop skills, this is exaclty what I do when I have to make something! Layer styles let you come up with something quite good looking, even if you don't really know what you are doing :)
It's been done, basically

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsxmQV8AXk
I got "Service Unavailable" on that link. I guess we'll never know the secrets...
The label stood out to me too. I can't remember seeing it seriously applied to anyone in any writing more recent than the 1950's.
How many hardware iterations has Glass gone through? If I were to pay $1,500 today, is that hardware the same as it was when invitations began?
Microsoft Advances C# With the M# Language
Shipping applications. Also, building.

Lets say I have a web app - and there's a production server which runs in docker. Cool! Some port-forwarding easiness with nginx or your favorite flavor of X and it's good to go.

When you want to upgrade, you run your integration tests on the new container. To "Ship" you just, well, change the port forward once you confirm it's good.

If you want to change it to an entirely new server - easy. Just pull your image and create your container - then change your IP information to point to the new server.

Docker is to contain things, not necessarily for security, but to make a build contained. Make it have no dependencies outside the container, other than being able to run Docker.
That's because, should they do so, the UPS driver is just likely to wallop the snot out of them, and if not that then almost certain to call the local constabulary. Neither behavior seems likely to be among the repertoire of a flying publicity stunt.

(And, having myself been raised in rural Mississippi and toted a Daisy air rifle, when at play, throughout most of my childhood -- you'd better believe kids would shoot BBs at Amazon drones they saw flying past! That's the kind of fun even a kid who doesn't shoot at songbirds can enjoy.)
Some of what we did at Danger - The future that everyone forgot
I've often seen contracts explicitly contain "Disputes will be handled in CA and I waive my choice of venue."
Owning the API experience: Microsoft, Salesforce, and the new war for developers
> but this is a step in the right direction imho.

It absolutely is, yes. What you're doing is admirable.

> The idea behind this federation at this point is more to advertise the status of the various projects

Ah, alright then. My first association was there'd by an effort to extricate yourself from the all-pervading surveillance, censoring, and traffic-shaping planned or already taking place. Of course, setting up an organization for knowledge sharing is also a worthy cause.
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You shouldn't, it doesn't, and they aren't.
"Also remember that weight loss is not the only benefit of exercise."

Weight loss is not part of any benefit of exercise. Though your statement is commonly held as a belief there is absolutely no scientific basis for your statement.

Anyone can easily verify this for themselves: take a chart showing calories in common foods beside a chart showing common activities and how many calories they burn and try to find any scenario where you can out exercise your mouth.
If they already knew how many of each, then they would all be dead, as any of them would see that the numbers add up only if he was in a specific group.