skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
came across this and thought other HNers might find it interesting, my favorite on this list has to be the "RCA COSMAC CDP 1802" for the 2001 quality alone not to mention radiation-hardening :)
Anybody know if self-driving cars can distinguish between safe and unsafe object; say a big stuffed animal, and a rock in the middle of the road. Would they make big maneuvers to avoid both?
A similar textbook[0] is used at UIUC in the Computer Engineering curriculum. I've read both books and I think this one is better, but its not free and its priced like a textbook[1].

[0] http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072467509/
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Computing-Systems-gates-b...
Will do. Is that setting up a bank from scratch though? Partnering would/should remove a lot of the logisitics.
+ A nice, well documented, and secure API for developers to create all sort of applications to integrate with the bank.

I'm a software developer, glad to spend some of my time in this project: rodrigosetti [at] gmail [dot] com
You removed heroku credentials, but, are they still in the git history?
wireless display adapter - go back these guys http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airtame-wireless-hdmi-for-...
That is true, but unusual, based on research. However, those people are compatible with quiet offices because they can blast headphones, or talk at the coffee maker, or hang out in people offices/cubes and bug them. So quiet areas are not designed for loud people but are totally "loud people compatible". On the other hand quiet people (the majority) dropped into a loud open plan, are not compatible.

I've never seen or worked in an open plan that doesn't have private areas for the cool kids and bosses either formally or informally. Perhaps a site like that exists. They are apparently rare.
This project runs locally. Just npm install -g codebox
> we'd free people up to pursue a̶r̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶p̶h̶i̶l̶o̶s̶o̶p̶h̶y̶,̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶l̶e̶i̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ mindless hedonism.

Corrected.

Positive statement, not normative as below might think.
Where most IDEs rely on static analysis to give you information about your code, Light Table is based around live interaction with your code. You can eg attach to a running browser and inject new js or css code into the page from you editor without refreshing. Check out some of the demos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtXpOD6jFls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8-b6QEN-rk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rOTrnqqtg

Light Table is also designed to be easily extensible, in the same way that emacs is. There is a small core which mostly defines interfaces and the rest of the features are implemented as plugins.
I love this idea. And for anyone who doesn't like it, ask yourself why we are using it for juries...
Your argument in all honor, but it doesn't make sense, because I said that "it will be there soon enough for commercial purposes". Again, I didn't say that it's commercially available today for you to sell to your customers.

StackOverflow is not a good source, especially that thread, it is full of bad answers. I've read all of them. The first poster said: "Those quantum states may encode classical information." The poster of the question has obviously no clue about physics and nobody in there mentioned teleportation of quantum entangled states, which you should know, is instant.

Here's a more detailed explanation, if you prefer that:

If you have a particle (such as a photons, electrons, or molecule) and have it physically interact with another particle, and then separate them, the result is that they can then both be described as being in the same quantum mechanical state. Basically, they are now the same, in factors such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc.

However, because we are dealing with quantum mechanics, the state of those particles remains undefined until measured (because it would then be forced to assume a specific state).

Now, how does this relate to instant data teleportation, you say? That’s the interesting part. You see, quantum entanglement is a form of quantum superposition (which I talked about in the aforementioned post about some quantum mechanics). This means that each particle that you have can be in any state. (Remember: observing a particle will force it to become a specific state). However, when you observe one of the particles, it will become a certain state, while the other particle becomes the opposite state. The change is completely instantaneous, and the particles can be anywhere — you could have your second particle on the other side of the planet and it would assume an equal and opposite state of it’s entangled counterpart. Instant data transfer.

Say you had a binary bit you wanted to transfer. First, you must entangle the bits. Then, put one of them on the other side of the globe. Observe one of them, forcing it to assume a certain state, and the other will instantly change. Like magic. Source: [1]

Ask me about latency here…
However, you drifted the discussion to QT. My initial post was originally trying to say that data can be transfered wirelessly faster than with a cable, or at least as fast. Latency cannot in such a system cannot be generalized, because it is dependant on the technology in the receiving side. If the receiving side uses optical fiber, you would need an architecture as described in [2].

---

[1] http://programmingantics.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/quantum-en...

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...
That's pretty nice. Is there some kind of online/mobile setup?
File-sharing service Droplr puts an end to its free accounts
Yes. Those are old engines, not current-gen tech. They make money off current-gen tech until open-sourcing it makes more sense to them from a financial perspective. This is distinctly different from what CodeCombat has done, which is to open-source their current-gen tech. There aren't going to be any financial consequences (or any other kind), because it's a good idea and there's no reason not to open source. I'm just saying they're the first non-indie Gamedev company to do so (as far as I know) and they deserve all the credit for it.
Hipchat needs to do this.
That's pretty nice. Is there some kind of online/mobile setup for adminstering? Also actually, do they do business accounts?
So, after puzzling around with the macro for swap a bit, it seems like macros are like functions, except without the scoping rules, which suggests to me that we now have two kinds of functions, to keep track of in the code, each of which look identical, but behave differently. swap(a,b) looks like a function, but can interact with all the variables in the same scope (or above) as it. Maybe I'm missing something big, but that seems dangerous when the macro is declared in another file, and I have to go figure out how it behaves.
First thought: the obvious answer is to fork it as a Libre-plan office.
I thought it would be interesting to see how transmitting only the 251 (byte-size) highest-energy coefficients in the entire image would fare, which is somewhat of an idealization of the method used by the codecs in this comparison, but the result is not visually as good as either:

http://i.imgur.com/TJaMs0f.png

This is a cheap imitation of an encoder: there is no entropy coding, but neither is there consideration for scan order, so there are some biases for and against.

Assuming an entropy coder could reduce the bits to 67% there's a little improvement:

http://i.imgur.com/ILY23uM.png

Comparing them, it seems the block partitioning and filtering employed by DLI and H.265 become much more perceptually important than the raw mathematical effectiveness of the transform under bit starved rates like this.
Google's right to fight these charges. Things like the EU cookie directive are stupid laws that allow legislators to pretend to be doing something but do nothing beyond making websites less user friendly.
I've heard good things about Simple and Ally, but for myself I find my local podunk bank supplemented by Amex Bluebird is enough.
My Credit Union (in Oregon)

* Offers Checking accounts

* Has ATM's

* Are open as much as most banks are.

* Are exceptionally friendly.

* Have an online presence that... well it's not exceptional, but it's not that bad either as far as these things go.

That's why I've always kept my personal and business accounts there over the past 20 years.
> "hey where did you check in the change for foo?"

... and you just took me out of the Zone.

I was about to be intensely productive on hard code for 30 minutes, but now I see it's only 15 minutes 'til lunch. Maybe I'll check email instead of building up that concentration level again.
a phone call is synchronous, and i personally tend to forget about the call 2 minutes after it ended. an email stays in my inbox until i deal with it. plus many things need to be written, like numbers, links, and much more...
The problem is that "crap political work" exists at all.

The normal way organizations try to decrease the amount of crap political work is to hire someone who just works on that crap all day. Managers.

Instinctively, you would think- this person produces nothing, adds nothing to the product, they should serve the actual workers. But this isnt usually the case.

Long term planning usually gets lumped into a manager's work load because its not something that needs to be done to get today's work completed. Because they are involved with planning future work, they end up owning that work later, hiring the people who do it, etc. There are also fewer of them in number and are more outspoken, so they end up being the one guy the bosses talk to.

Here is an alternate reality. An engineer comes up with a good idea for a new feature. He talks to his buddy DBA and SysAdmin. They think its a good idea so they agree to help out when they can. Engineer asks fresh out of college designer to help. Designer respects the reputation of the engineer and joins the team. A sales guy hears about the new feature and it sounds similar to something customers have been asking for so he tells them he can sell it. The bosses see a cluster forming in the corner and walk over and ask what they are up to. The feature is actually already implemented and being tested. Boss says it looks good, asks an analyst to see what its affect on factor x would be, walks on to a different cluster he sees forming across the room.

As their work on the feature is wrapping up people keep their ears open for the next project they'd like to work on. Everyone moves on to other ideas. People with good ideas become the nucleus for new clusters. People with good skills become members. From time to time the bosses look at the islands- the people always sitting by themselves. Either they are genius uber productive people or they are people who will probably be gone soon.
Video Blog: Understanding DevOps (A 6 min Overview) | Sanjeev Sharma
The Startup Yahoo Just Bought Turned My Phone Into The Device I've Always Wanted
Ask HN: How did you learn Perl/Shell Scripting?
Please suggest Links, Books & Blogs (if possible).
Agreed, I think it would make most sense to keep it really simple for now. So like a checking account at heart. No loans or anything like that. I think that's what most people would need - if you need a savings account you don't need an accessible online back.
Being able to define a language tailored to your problems is a wonderful thing. Don't be afraid of it.

Scheme and other Lisps macros to build new syntax on top of a small core language.

Are you tired of typing (function() { ... })() and other such forms? If so, you will like macros.
Revenue is not income. $1.7 bn is a non-trivial amount even for them. Add to that the $13 bn they had to pay on fraudulent mortgage-bonds some weeks ago and things are starting to sum up.
I don't disagree that JPM has a responsibility to share any information they may have about financial fraud. I guess my point is that yeah, the $1.7B fine isn't much to JPM, but at the same time, it seems inline with their degree of negligence.
Any real good reason not to be father? And by good reason, I mean data.
Simple is still incredibly restrictive to me. Ally or Schwab would be my first choices if I ever moved off my current bank.
I have Simple and I love it! I have a few invites if anyone is interested.
Perception is everything

This sounds like the sandwidge chain in the UK which had staff make input into hiring and it turns out that they favored nudge nudge their country men and women from eastern Europe and funnily no local kids from say tottenham seemed to get hired.

Boris Johnson noticed that something was wrong Boris Johnson!!
- Open Source
- Online (no physical presence)
- Available 24/7
- Checking account
- Debit card

I think people have seized on the non profit word here. I think credit unions and this would be non profit in different ways if that makes sense.
Emails link Chris Christie staffer to New Jersey bridge scandal
> they would like to be engaged as people

Actually, that's a creative embellishment you've contributed. The quotes from the models do not support your inference. They merely portray the actions of the men, not the preferences of the models.

The writer labels it a "pretty common complaint," but the sentence “And then you get the creepers who like to take photos without asking” could be equally taken to be backdoor bragging. Plenty of women describe encounters from strangers in order to brag about their attractiveness. (See the movie American Beauty, for example).

Plenty of women appreciate the attention of men. In fact, later on, one of the models says, "I love my techies."

Downvote me if you want - this is a throwaway - but if you ever want to understand women, you'll re-read my words until you understand them.
There will always be good reasons to design a site differently for touchscreens than for keyboard+mouse devices.
Wasn't like 7 bn of that tax-deductible?
That may be true from a quantum physics perspective, but it's not very useful to us at the scale we live on (analogous to relativity vs quantum mechanics). I'm asking so many questions because I've been trying to come up with a useful working definition of information. It's surprisingly hard.
Nice summary of the situation. This is the takeaway for me:

"If you think of JPMorgan's businesses as operating more or less independently, but occasionally making each other money by cross-selling, then this mess makes more sense. A London investment bank that considered and rejected a derivative-linked investment in Madoff would have no obligations to report its suspicions to U.S. regulators. A boring custody bank that ran Madoff's checking accounts but had no derivatives traders to get suspicious about him also probably wouldn't be in trouble for missing the Madoff red flags. Combine the two businesses and the same behavior gets you in trouble."

Also, quite refreshing to read an article by someone who apparently has some experience with Wall Street. On a related note: I've been really happy with Bloomberg's coverage recently, of Wall Street specifically and the business world generally. Especially now what WSJ has decided to go full-on partisan.
Meh. YMMV - I work in a smallish office (20 people) which is entirely open and it works out pretty well.

I suspect the real problem is that if you take a dysfunctional office culture and change it from one-person-to-an-office to an open plan it's (shocker) still a dysfunctional office culture. See also "hey, if we just buy $SOFTWARE_METHODOLOGY_X our code will suddenly not suck anymore!"

Some factors that may help open-plan work in our case:

* we pair pretty much all the time, so that may be acting as cultural filter selecting against people who don't work well with a certain level of noise / distraction.

* the main office is open, but there are plenty of smaller conference rooms for times when the lab is too noisy / too distracting / etc.

* although we share an environment, we're still in control of it. The current layout was arrived at after a bunch of collaborative tweaking and furniture shuffling. I suspect having a layout imposed from on-high wouldn't work as well.
Thanks for the feedback...you're right on with the classical resume format seeming a little outdated...then again, I wouldn't even consider this format in pretty much any other field.

The buttons...I'm planning to maybe pop-up a tooltip from wikipedia...yea, should take away the buttony feel to them until I do.
Wealth != money. Food, housing and entertainment are all wealth.
This is exactly the feature I was hoping would show up, Stripe you continue to be one step ahead.
As someone who has spent the past month fighting with FLIR customer support to get a $5000 camera working robustly and correctly I doubt that this will be a good product. We have dozens of FLIR cameras and at least a quarter of them have been sent back for re-calibration. We're about to send one out for the second time. Also, forget about open source support.
> Having different `class` macro definitions between codebases that use sweet.js will devolve into madness.

As long as you don't have different definitions in the same JS file, it's not really a problem because each file can be compiled down to JS independently of the others. I'd imagine you could even add a package.json flag to specify which version of a sweet.js "syntactic sugar" library to use for a given package, and npm could compile the files automatically on install.

The more transparent the sweet.js workflow can be (much like LESS/SASS is for CSS), the more likely it is to be adopted.
Could you elaborate? Not sure what you mean with the time savings.
(I Think I Could) Kiss James Franco - Wes Davis
Or hiring people who you know will get stacked ranked out to protect your position.
That's cool. Business accounts aswell? CU's seem much more developed in the US. I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part.
I am (in my own estimation) a very good driver.

I drive a manual transmission car, and enjoy using the flexibility that provides in my daily driving.

I drive emergency vehicles of various sizes, in a lot of less than ideal conditions (I live in upstate New York, so weather is a big factor in driving conditions).

I have no problem believing that a computer will be able to do an objectively better job of driving than I can. It will be able to react more predictably in routine driving, and respond _much_ faster to exceptional situations. In a collision, a modern car is _done_ processing the event (detecting the impact, deciding which safety restraints to deploy, and deploying them) before your body even recognizes that it happened.

A computer controlled car will make fewer mistakes and react better in emergencies than a human being will. It has nothing to do with the skill of the driver. It has everything to do with the amount of data that the car can gather (do you have 360 degree radar vision or direct access to sensors built into the car), and the speed with which it can process that data. This technology still has a lot of maturing to do, but it has made amazing strides in the past decade, and I'm confident that it will continue to do that.

I, for one, welcome our new robot chauffeurs.
some people will tell you bitcoin is going to be that online non-profit open-source bank
> As a game developer, you're hurting our entire industry by shutting us out of using your software. And in the end, we'll find a way, with or without you. We'd rather stand with you, but we can't go near GPL'd code.

Poor you. The game industry _chooses_ not to go near GPL'd code because they want to sell proprietary software. Counteracting the existence of companies doing proprietary software is the very reason why the free software movement was started in the first place.

Yes, the free software movement is supposed to be detrimental to the developers of proprietary software and has no incentive to cater to their needs. Do you think we want to make Windows or iOS a more attractive platform? Or to build components to be used to improve proprietary engines instead of helping free ones because hey, the proprietary devs may send a bugfix our way? No.

MIT-license users are not bad guys -- I have both GPL and MIT code out there myself -- but choosing a non-copyleft license because it helps proprietary developers is not a good reason. I chose MIT to interoperate with other free software; if it wasn't for that I would have chosen the GPL or the LGPL.

> hurting our entire industry

I think the entire software industry is _helped_ if I drive it towards free software. I don't care how many billions the next Call of Duty game will make. I care if local developers in my country can get a consulting gig because the system my government uses is open source and so they have a shot at fixing its bugs instead of having my government sign a multimillion dollar contract with a major foreign company and get locked-in to it.

> (Programmers with zero options; they're not going to ragequit the gamedev industry just because engines are closed source.)

Weak argument. Back then would you say "system programmers are not going to ragequit the industry just because operating systems are closed source". But instead, they wrote open operating systems. Follow their example. Write a free engine. That's the entire point.
yeah that ad hominem he put up was real valuable.
The italicized headlines on the homepage look odd.
Do we get madness because different libraries have different implementations of AJAX?

In most lisp dialects, macros are lexically scoped.

As long as sweetJS follows lexical scoping, a set of macros could be contained within a self-executing lambda like most libraries already are.
You may want to look into physics and how a bulk property like "moment of inertia" kinda comes into being. Its a property of solid matter that kind of appears out of nothing.

Here's another fun topic to google. There's an island and a population of predator and their prey. Now graph those populations and you get some interesting oscillators. Where do those waveforms come from? Well, nowhere. Its a system thing there are no waveform particles or whatever.

Edited to add, maybe another way to say it is its not the emergence or "where" or "source" that doesn't exist, but the property itself that doesn't exist. There is no consciousness. There are just certain patterns that are really common among big piles of neurons. Like the big pile of neurons occasionally saying stuff like "I think therefore I am".

There is no consciousness to measure, or you could give it a number. I've got 100 consciousness score, how bout you? This is very much like intelligence. I know it when I see it, but you really kick over an anthill when you claim you can give out an "intelligence number" like an IQ. Coincidentally both seem to be self organizational, again all you need is a big pile of neurons and some time and not only does consciousness pop out, but so does intelligence.
It surely is hard.

According to mystics it's very useful practically for our relation and interaction with the world and spiritual elevation. I.e. it can be put out of the abstract theory into very practical humane terms.
Esqueleto is a pretty interesting take at putting together SQL without messing with strings. Doesn't quite expose the relational algebra in its full generality, but I've been finding it quite usable.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto-1.2.4/docs/Data...
You read my mind :) Was one of the ideas I had. I think that'd be really cool. Will let you know thanks!
Droplr Revamps File-Sharing Platform With Paid-Only Model
Yeah, it's a prediction which has always been wrong. However, my prediction depends on the development of an artificial general intelligence which will make human work worthless.
Human beings aren't especially good at that either...
Note that "The Ultimate Driving Machine" doesn't imply that a human is the one driving. :-)