skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the goal of displays is to reproduce the real world (which may or may not be true, but I'd argue is true for some class of displays) then I would argue that 3D will eventually become standard, simply because the world is 3D. However I think the biggest current barrier for accurate representation of the world is contrast ratio, which we are orders of magnitude off of.

I propose a sort of turning test for displays where the goal is to have a display that is indistinguishable from a window into the real world. Let me know when that happens and I will be the first to buy one.
Because your ancestors signed a treaty taking all the other land but that spot that gets to run differently. It probably still is a good trade.
The 2011 number doesn't include plug in hybrids, the later years do (with the plug in hybrids being the majority of 2012 sales and around half of 2013).
>>Are they so irreplaceable that they are offered so much salary and bonuses ?

They are doing it to us, as we do to many professions. This whole thing of 'Some professions just can't benefit from economics of scale' come to my mind. Just like how the guy flipping burgers makes minimal economic impact compared to you and I, we make a minimal financial impact compared to these guys.

But there are a lot of areas where you could disrupt this theme of work. Profitable side projects, start up's, bootstrapping and stuff like that can help us out here. But the point is most geeks and nerds are to a great extent very naive when it comes to money matters. We are poor in negotiating skills and we buy into this loyalty thing too easily.

I don't know of one single VP/exec/CEO who wouldn't leave their job for a bigger bonus/paycheck/options, yet if an engineer did it- You would have see these people shouting 'greed' from top of the buildings.
I volunteered at a conference series where Steve Wozniak was a regular attendee.

As anybody who has ever worked a generic job knows, some people treat you like people, and some treat you like a used tissue. This particular conference had an amazing volunteer crew that had been together for years, many of whom had serious day jobs: brilliant designers, high-tech executives, etc. Knowing that the volunteers were gems, I knew that how the famous conference speakers treated them was all about the speakers. I didn't think famous people would really do the, "Do you know who I am?" thing, but I saw it happen.

Anyhow, Wozniak was one of the best. Warm, friendly, genuine. I remember one year he showed us a magic-shop gizmo he had just acquired, delighted by the cool effect they had contrived. Since I had grown up hacking on my Apple ][+ and kinda idolizing him, it was both a pleasure and a relief to learn that he was just as swell to everybody as you'd expect him to be.
Ask HN: Looking for freelance work, where to begin?
So far I've applied to some jobs on gun.io and link to my careers.stackoverflow CV.

I would like some niche areas I should explore.

One of the problem is that although I have some github repositories showcasing some code, I haven't done any client work before apart from what my employer gave me. I am basically starting with a empty slate. How can I convince someone when I don't have other client's recommendations or portfolio?

If I was to build a portfolio, how many and how long should they take? Ideally I would like to start making money as soon as possible utilizing my experience.
Agree. One thing missing from Wozniak's comment is that in the end Jobs did whatever he had to and created great products that many of us use. Woz doesn't seem to want to acknowledge the fact that creating great things in life or in business involves stepping on some toes and doing all sorts of shenanigans. Woz certainly didn't have the stomach to be Jobs but Jobs did. And with that you get credit perhaps you don't deserve. But it doesn't matter to many of the daily users of the Mac what Woz did they just want a product that is great that solves a problem that they have.

It's interesting thought that someone can be a Woz and still get jealous as if they need more notoriety and attention for what they have done.

By the way if you look at David Geffen you will see many artist who were made by him in one way or another. Geffen became quite wealthy and more wealthy than I believe any of the artists he managed. But they seemed to be happy with their success and aren't looking to say things like "hey if it wasn't for my talent Geffen who could play an instrument (actually I think he could play something) wouldn't be a billionaire." While it is debatable what Jobs would have been without Woz there is no doubt in my mind that Woz would have been a regular talented engineer if he never met Jobs.
Stripe CTF: Distributed Systems Engineering
Different tea varieties are best at different temperatures. It doesn't matter much if you use generic black teabags from the store, because the tea is usually quite old has lost most of the subtle tastes.

White, green, oolong or really any kind good black tea might require less than boiling temperatures to extract enough out of tea while preserving the taste or other wished effects of the tea. The temperatures, amount and the steep time might be different by each specific tea or batch.

So a kettle with a temperature control can be helpful and save time with tea or cooking if you want finer control than boiling - not boiling.
An example should demonstrate what it is meant do demonstrate, nothing more.

Anything else is a distraction.

Using render_template would have left us wondering whether there was anything relevant to the task in render_template, or at best interrupting the reader's flow.
You could run dirty extensions on chromebooks from day one.
Aaron Swartz documentary clip reveals his thoughts on the NSA
Losing meaning
I would love a popup when I start up chrome that gives a prompt with which extensions need updated and if you want to allow it or not.
So we could use a browser extension to listen in the background to a central phone server for incoming calls while we happily surf the web and then get the "ring" opening the url in a tab for the incoming call to take place?

Interesting...
This is silly. You'd be retired. You could go anywhere you want, unbound by the location of some office. You'd have almost no reason whatsoever to stay in Manhattan other than a desire to burn through all your money and raise your kids in an apartment rather than a house with a yard.

There are plenty of cities in the US where a $100k income would afford a very nice middle-class or even upper-middle-class lifestyle.
As a weird startup parallel: As a bootstrapped company, you make very very different decisions than you would as a company who has even the tiniest bit of runway. I imagine (not to trivialize poverty) things would be similar. Instead of seeing bigger picture, you're trying to figure out how to pay the bills already owed, etc.
This needs to be a google doodle.
One of the biggest problems with this view though is intelligence sharing policies among nations. Even if the US can't spy on American, but the French can, you still have the possibility that some politically connected multinational organization can get information about American political adversaries through their French intelligence connections.
>The conversation was under the hypothetical context of Apple not existing.
Ask HN: HitRecord.org for software dev and commercialization. Why not?
Please tell me of all the reasons why it wouldn't work.

Thanks!
There is more per-capita wealth today then there was 1000 years ago. This is despite there being far more people today than there was 1000 years ago. Therefore it is possible to increase the total wealth in the world.
>In the last 12 months, I've written over 115,000 words. The typical book is about 50,000 to 60,000 words, so I have basically written two books this year.

>Can you imagine if I had made it my goal to write two books this year? Just writing that sentence stresses me out.

This is precisely why the goal is important. This guy focused on the system, and instead of writing two books, produced twice as many words of not-books.

At college I had some friends who wrote many extremely cool game demos. Not one published a game. I focused on publishing a game. It turns out that writing a game involves a hell of a lot more than writing a demo (a lot of boring shit actually).

I expect it is the same with books and online articles. 115,000 words of articles doesn't make a book, and I expect doesn't require the practitioner to develop a system capable of writing books.
They changed how closures are implemented in Go 1.1

There is a comprehensive doc by Russ Cox that explains in detail:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bMwCey-gmqZVTpRax-ESeVuZ...
> This means any anonymity service requires a large population of participating users, ideally with different adversaries, so that one can’t simply assume all coins passing out of the mixing service are “tainted”

This is why something like DarkWallet [1] is so important. We need a wallet that automatically and trustlessly mixes your coins in the background (via CoinJoin [2]), when you're not using them.

The wallet needs a very user friendly UI and solid integration to reach a wide and disparate audience. With mass adoption of wallets like these, it will add anonymity for everyone. With very little work on the users end.

http://www.indiegogo.com/at/darkwallet

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
"retrofelctive" - thank you for using this word! I basically froze up for a good while one time looking at a street sign at night, realizing how it's 'reflection' was different from typical mirror reflection. Now I know what the term for that is and how to build one!
Say 10% of American households and 80% of British households buy electric tea kettles that last exactly 10 years each.

That's 10 million total market in the US (100 x .1) and about 16 million in the UK (~20 x .8).

So 26 million total market with a level 1/10th per year or 2.6 million kettles per year. At 100k run per year per manufacturer, the market can then support 26 different models easily.

On the second point, It seemed that he was adding the 2x retail markup into his figures. If you'd followed the link on amazon, you'd see that $90 was market down from about $200.

Sometimes it's best to ask "what would you have to believe for this to be right" before you tear into someone for faulty analysis. All of his number easily pass my smoke tests.
Your definition of can is different from most people are thinking. Usually people don't say can on illegal stuffs.

If you really think you can do something illegal because just you're able to do that, oops…!
The Doctor Who 50th anniversary special was possibly the best use of 3D I've ever seen.

In one scene, there is a 3D oil painting. We see the characters marvelling at the effect they're seeing, but in the broadcast version we don't know what it is they're looking at until the camera pans around to show us.

In the 3D version, however, you can tell. You don't get the full effect until later, but even then it's far more pronounced than it is in the 2D version.

There are also a few other depth tricks they use, but they use them sparingly. In one scene, we see the image of The Doctor as he is broadcasting a message to another party; in the close-up of the feed (i.e. when it takes up the full screen), we see the image as we normally would, but in the four corners are an overlay, like a HUD in a video game or presumably like a HUD in an F16. They don't move, there's no animation, they're just a bit of stylistic flair, but you can tell that they're 'over' the image, which gives it a more pronounced effect, and makes the transmission 'feel' cooler and more futuristic.

I'll be glad when '3D all the things' is gone, but there are a few neat tricks that I hope we can keep in the future.
I wasn't aware of iBeacon, thanks for the tip!
I would say Little India Cafe is better value for money, and Amber is better quality food overall.
I wonder how much patent licencing adds to the cost. The author mentioned how wonderful of an idea this bimetallic strip was, but that means someone invented it and someone probably holds a patent on it. How much does it cost to use that innovation?
That's CPI, yes, the general inflation indicator?

Tech salaries were lower then relative to other salaries, so if you look at it in terms of how much money it would have meant to people, it would probably be more than that. I believe people were also much stingier about equity then, so I expect they saw it as a kingly bonus.

Another way to compare it would be to look at what would have happened if they had, as many did, bought houses in Silicon Valley. That's a much higher inflation rate.

But the most fun way to think about it (and in some ways least accurate as well) is asking, "What if they kept the stock?" Google shows shares of Apple trading then for three bucks and change, so call it 3 million shares of today's stock. So that's $1.6 billion of Apple stock in today's market.
It is opinionated (a more useful word than pretentious), and it is this way across many things. From style to directory structure to versioning of dependencies to generics. If you actually read the reasoning behind them, I think they are rather well defended by very smart people, but to each their own.

If you really have an issue with some of the very opinionated ideas that come to a large degree bundled with Go, that is fair. That is great even! It probably isn't a good fit for you. Which is fine, there are hundreds of other programming languages that work for you, most are the wild west.

For certain people (like myself) the sanity of Go is striking -- each decision is made for unremarkable and straightforward defensible reasons... a lot of them are community driven over personal preference... it is better for the herd (think: herd immunity) if everyone uses one style and everyone uses one layout... etc. It isn't about being "right" or "needed" by every person, it is about being consistent so you can move from project to project and focus on learning the code, not layout or style, just what the code does.

Go was designed from inside Google, with large teams in mind with many projects.
It felt like the author was using the post as a cathartic persuasion for why prototypes differ from classes. JavaScript functions are a prototype of a class. Prototyping in JavaScript is an analog to class extensions, with elaborate definitions for private/protected variables. It's a debate over semantics and syntax, and it's useless because the analog to a object oriented class can be done with JavaScript's syntax.

function MyClass()
{
var self = this;
var privateVar = 0;
this.getPrivate = function() { return privateVar; }
this.setPrivate = function(val) { privateVar = parseInt(val); // restrict type }
this.publicVar = "Hello World";
}

MyClass.prototype.extension = function() {
// Here 'this.publicVar' can be set but 'this.privateVar'
// and 'privateVar' are not a valid references.
}

Long story short, the class analog is semantically no different than the JavaScript prototype when done correctly.
The things are everywhere around Seattle, so many that I've quit waving. There are four in the parking lot at work, including mine, and our company has less than 100 people.

Visiting my parents in Lakeland, FL for a week? I saw one parked in a guy's garage in their neighborhood, that's it. I'll see a half dozen Leaf's just on an eight mile drive to work on any given day. So it seems it could be geographically specific.
> The American backed/sponsored slaughter of innocent men, women, and children

I'm pretty sure that the innocent men, women and children who have been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not systematically slaughtered, and in fact I do believe that the American military made every reasonable effort to minimize civilian casualties.

> across the Middle East and Africa

Can you go into more detail what, exactly, you mean by that? Two countries -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- is hardly "across the Middle East," and neither of them is in Africa.

> in the name of profit, power, and greed

I thought our activities in the Middle East were in the name of preventing future terrorist attacks.
Under UK law, the digital version is actually legal without a license, because the Supreme Court held that copies made by digital-clippings services were permitted "temporary copies": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Relations_Consultants_A...

In the US the same case came out the other way around, holding that copies made in the process of digital aggregation didn't constitute fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press_v._Meltwater

In the US you don't need a license for the physical version, though, where you literally cut out news articles and mail an envelope of clippings to someone. Under the first-sale doctrine, you own the physical printed copy of a book, magazine, or newspaper you bought, and you can resell that copy (only) without further permission of the copyright holder. You can also modify it before resale if you'd like, since you fully own it: carve it into a book-sculpture, clip out pages and sell them independently, cut out the pages and reuse the binding, etc. You can even buy copyrighted paintings, modify them, and sell the modified version, as long as you're modifying the physical canvas you bought (not copying it onto a new canvas or making prints).
>>That is an interesting question about being a billionaire without exploiting anyone.

That question actually has deep philosophical implications. I think the net content of evil and good has to be cancel out at a social level completely for the society to go in total social harmony.

So there has to be in some way a balance of evil and good in any society for it even to survive.
I want to be clear that not any of this is easy.
I think as soon as you try it, your first attempts are going to be very blurry, squint inducing, and especially very dark. A lightfield display, in order to achieve the same level of perceived brightness as a traditional 2D display, needs to generate 2-10 times (perhaps much more) more actual light, with all the requisite power requirements that entails, since the light is distributed directionally instead of diffusely.

Going in this direction basically takes the level of resolution and precision in image reproduction we've achieved back a decade or 5, since the "pixels" or resolution units are spread over many more views than just 1 or 2, or perhaps something more recognisable as a continuum of "infinite" views, or whatever number is visually indistinguishable from infinity.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Travel Needs
I've owned a leaf for 30 months now, driven almost 30,000 miles, and still like it.

Also, it seems every second car in the HOV lane in the SF bay area it's a Leaf...
Mastermind of Target Hacking Identified
A 17-year-old from Russia created the malicious software that allowed shoppers’ data from Target and Neiman Marcus to be stolen, a California-based security firm says, and the hackers’ attacks haven’t yet ended.
The teen was identified in a blog post from IntelCrawler as being a 17-year-old Russian national from St. Petersburg, reports The New York Daily News. He wasn’t directly responsible for the two major retailers’ security breaches, but did sell his software throughout Eastern Europe, says IntelCrawler CEO Andrew Komarov.
Target and Neiman Marcus’ accounts were hacked after the malware, called “BlackPOS” used several easy passwords to hack stores’ registers remotely.
In the Target case, security was breached following Black Friday and affected up to 110 million customers who used credit or debit cards.
Target says names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses were taken in the attack. It is offering its customers free credit monitoring and store credit in response to the incident.
But Target may have lost many of its customers’ trust through the attacks. The company last week sent an email to offer a year’s worth of free credit monitoring and identity theft through Experian, but many customers believe the email is a hoax.
I've written several non-trivial Go programs, the most recent of which was a server that solved substitution ciphers (for use in subtitle OCR).

I tried to write nice idiomatic Go code. And I'm usually pretty good at adapting my brain to strange languages—I've positively enjoyed Haskell, constraint programming in Mozart, distributed functional programming in Elixir, and quite a few other strange things. (To be fair, I never did get comfortable in Prolog.)

And try as I might, every time I write a couple thousand lines of Go, I walk away in frustration. I love so much about the language, but my actual code keeps disappearing under the weight of error handlers, and stupid little iteration/transformation functions that I have to write over and over again thanks to the lack of generics. (Sometimes I get lucky, and an interface fits well.)

This means that every time I wander down a wrong path (and it's possible to wander down quite a few when messing with OCR algorithms), I end up having to tear up more code than I'd like. It's not fun.

Every time I say this, Go programmers say something like, give Go a shot, long enough to realize you really don't need generics as much as you think you do. But after three serious attempts, it's clear that the programs in my head were never meant to be implemented in Go. Which is too bad: It's a nice language in so many ways.
In light of how much we know about NSA, if I were a leader of a nation of the size of China, I would want my own OS.
He implicitly assumes (and I think correctly so) an efficient competitive market with zero economic profits.
Life as a Female Journalist on the Internet
For what its worth, go the language doesn't force that structure. Go the tool does most of that. Most languages (in their pubescent state) don't have self-referential build tools, and so tools get added by third parties (make, scons, etc).

This is not a bad thing -- but it does mean that when a language chooses to ship "opinionated" tools as the default supporting toolset, users gain from the 'convention over code' as rails would call it - you run go build and the tool does the math -- but accomplishing source-tree validation across arbitrary maintainers trees is less trivial than "package-path == path" -- so if you name your code "com.foo.baz.bar", you'll be hurt by its opinions.

That said - if you want to learn the toolchain, 6c/6g/6l (and its 5/8 counterparts) will act like the simplest gcc tools - so long as the benefit you gain from manual definition outweighs the cost, you still win without "go build".
> Go requires me to instead dedicate an entire directory structure to my entire Go workspace, which I have to keep seperate from the other sources.

Symlinks solves this for me.

> This could easily be avoided by letting me set enviornment variables that would relocate some of these folders (especially bin and pkg) to different places.

AFAIK, `GOBIN` will allow you to relocate `bin`. I'm not aware of any such env var for `pkg`.

> This is an example of how Go as a language is pretentious.

It's not pretension. It's following a philosophy that prefers convention over configuration.[1]

[1] - http://golang.org/doc/articles/go_command.html#tmp_1
> 2010: 19 (lol, is that right?)

Yes, because despite all of our pre-ordered Leafs supposed to be showing up in December of '10, they were late (granted, they had a tsunami, but that wasn't the only reason). And as far as I know, Nissan was the only one shipping battery cars.
I agree. I've experienced the 3D effect in cinema as a strong smell that I become desensitized to shortly after exposure.
No risk capital - the Startup - VC gap in India
I think he meant even if Woz had given away $10 million today, it would still be impressive.
Get an Arduino and a Bluetooth shield. <$100, let's you prototype away. Not the tiniest platform around, but still fits in a roomy pocket.
They probably wouldn't be happy with any impact on compile times either.