skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possible bug in the score board:

In most cases, it won't let me see the scores for levels that I haven't beaten yet. Presumably this is because seeing the input size and min cpu cycles would be a strong hint about how to solve the level.

However, when viewing a particular user's profile (e.x. https://microcorruption.com/profile/294), it shows their completion stats for the level you are currently on, despite having not beaten it yet. The levels after it are still obscured, though.
"Never printed on paper."

https://microcorruption.com/manual.pdf
This is insultingly inaccurate. Please read any of the literature before posting
Did you acknowledge my explanation further down that this is Babak's research and that Microsoft only contributed/funded his research, and then post this up higher for some sort of MSFT brownie points?
Anyone else have a problem where if they read an interesting story like this about potential future technology, they are virtually incapacitated and unproductive for the rest of the day thinking about the potential?

Obviously, a Google Glass or Oculus Rift equivalent but with contact lenses has to be one thing everyone's long thought of. But what about activating a contextual display by closing one eye briefly (a map or information about a person you're meeting), or seeing a definition of a word spoken in conversation by closing the other eye, or watching a movie with both eyes closed, reading a book the same way, getting song recognition data at any point, etc.

Could we see high-res displays worked into lenses so that they worked, were eventually cheap enough and able to operate in a "pass through" mode so they didn't other interrupt regular vision?

Are any companies working on it? Is it possible? What would be the key challenges?
The problem appears when no. 2 is true, but no. 1 is not. Now we have a conflict of interests.
This has always been one of my biggest fears. People always assume diabetics need insulin, when in most cases of unconsciousness, insulin could be deadly.
Perl is an acronym too.
I would assume that all agreements are something that can and will be broken. The only thing that works is make them put their money where their mouth is. If they are serious about acquiring you, they must be prepared to spend money to do it: lawyer fees, accounting fees, and money paid to you in exchange for your company. So, make sure there is money on the table: a non-refundable termination fee, which could be a percentage of the theoretical purchase price. I went with 5% with the sale of my company.

A good salesman will never put a price out there first, so you will probably need to come up with that valuation: just put it out there high enough so you will be happy were it to go through, and assume this is the beginning of the negotiation. If you and the acquirer cannot get close in that discussion, this is a good gauge of future success in the other more complicated discussions that will come.

As others have said, get a good lawyer. There are lots of places where this can go awry. When I sold my company (~$450k), I did not understand the difference between an asset sale and a stock sale which has vastly different taxation implications. A good accountant is worthwhile here as well for the same reason.

You can tell them you cannot engage in a detailed discussion without the termination fee conversation completed since you will be spending money as well.
"every diabetic I know would switch to this in a blink"

I see what you did there.
A dynamically generated list of US gov't open source projects hosted on GitHub
Understand that "common" is a made up concept here. Every acquisition is different. You get what you demand here.
For what company would this not be the case?
U.S military testing crazy video game like weapons
For anyone skimming over this post, $14,861/semester adds up to $118,888 over four years.
Rogers in Canada does this
Just one thing to point out - people wrongfully consider that an alternative to a non-deterministic GC is necessarily a manual memory management. There are automatic and deterministic memory management mechanisms, e.g. smart pointers in C++, Rust.
What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jobs last year
I don't mean to sound conspiratorial but I get the impression that when someone becomes president their is a manner by which the intelligence community implicitly says "Ok , you're the president now...here's how the world really fucking works".

The end result being a host of very convincing cultural assumptions that are hard to argue with if you're on the inside and driving the wheel.
Thats what I mean by "obfuscating...", i.e. distracting.
The .b means the instruction operates on a byte, not a full 16 bit word.
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Oberlin did this, too - but the department supported it and I got credit for working on it. https://oprestissimo.com/
That's odd. According to the terms of service for my Comcast service in Denver, the "bandwidth limit has been temporarily suspended". Over the last 6 months I have used between 350GB and 600GB of traffic each month and I have never received any sort of notice.

In fact, I could have gotten 40mbps DSL for $35 (special deal) but they had a 250GB/month cap and the only option to have no cap was a $175/mo for the same speed (but a dedicated link).

So I'm using Comcast specifically because the lack of a limit on bandwidth.
"Woz gets $700 speeding ticket for doing 104 MPH in Toyota Prius" (http://macdailynews.com/2007/08/21/woz_gets_700_speeding_tic...)
I wonder how http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition would do.
Glass will play, amongst other things, video. It doesn't have the built in protections that video-playing car stereos have for not showing video while the vehicle is in motion.
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Good resource, nicely presented.

"We recommend you whenever possible to verify you code style with a Lint tool."

That's not all they need a Lint tool for!
Making it clear to the HN community that you're hiring designers isn't a bad way to go ;)

Asking design studios is always a good bet, we (designers) are pretty friendly folks. ZURB has a job board[1] you should look into if you're down to spend a bit of coin to post there (peanuts compared to the value of a good designer).

Forrst[2] is a great resource: you can view designers' work, and thought/iteration process + communication skills (compare what you learn from this to a bunch of polished Dribbble shots).

Finally, if you see any companies that have awesome designers, hit up said designers and ask if they have any friends/colleagues/contemporaries they could recommend. They'll at least appreciate the fact that you're asking yourself, as opposed to going through some obnoxious recruitment firm; also, make it clear that you're not trying to steal them (unless, of course, you are).

[1] http://zurb.com/jobs

[2] http://forrst.com
From a tech savvy farmer friend:

> Yep it is USA only but it's interesting. Especially the market watch on grain price. Farmers never have a notion what the worldwide price for barley is even thou they sell it.

> Also the farm log on field performance is something that would work on a smaller irish scale.

> There would be a definite appetite for something like that.

I don't understand why apps such as this are limited to US only? There are plenty of early adopters in the rest of the world.
A few thoughts:

2,360 people applied, each paying a $50 admission fee [0]. That's a cool 118k for admissions triaging. Also on that page, we can see they originally said up to 600 people would be admitted for the pilot program. They admitted 375, with some deferring admission. Maybe the entire 225 other people deferred, but if not I wonder why they scaled back the pilot program.

The average age is 35 for the pilot program vs. 24 for on-campus masters. Interesting, but not very surprising. I'm not far past the on-campus age, but I'm keeping my eyes on such programs for the future.

The specialities they plan to offer is also in [0]. When I first read that page, I was saddened not to see any options related to programming languages. My only other major speciality interest was operating systems, but I burnt out on that a little. The software development process material sounds interesting. I bet there will be a lot of interest in the AI/Robots and machine learning specialities through this program.

I wonder when the courses will be made available for free? An early post about the program promised that "the bare content will be available free of charge." [1] I was hoping to get an idea of what the courses would be like early this year. I don't see anything on Udacity about the courses at the moment.

All that said, I'm excited about this program by Udacity and Georgia Tech, even given the apparent failure of MOOCs we have been hearing about. I say apparent, as I think measuring percent-to-complete is misguided, as I know I have gained plenty of knowledge from courses being offered without completing them. The movement to corporate sponsored project courses is interesting, but I'm not a big fan of the idea to pay to "commit to your success" [2]. The extra guidance will be a boon for some people, though.

[0] https://www.udacity.com/GeorgiaTech

[1] http://blog.udacity.com/2013/05/sebastian-thrun-announcing-o...

[2] https://www.udacity.com/success
That's so true.

I've never seen a place with so many well-bred automobiles in my life.
You can judge the actions of a human being to be or not to be "right" or "wrong", but it's not appropriate to judge the person themselves

Sure the action was wrong. What he did was wrong. But to claim that his "soul" (for lack of a better term) is worth less than yours is not a judgment you should be making.
Google says that the top speed for a Prius is 112.

There are few if any cars that can't reach 85 mph sold in the last decade in California.
Both are response to coming launch of Beats Music.
Most people just pay regardless, so it's not really a priority for them to keep calibrations up to date, or to show up for court. It's pretty easy to win a speeding ticket case this way.
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Yup. This is fixed, but won't be deployed until later tonight; we don't want to disrupt the site right now.
This startup is using iBeacon (iOS7) to target customers inside physical stores
In my experience I believe that the app has to check in every so often for songs to ensure you still are paying for the license to stream it. It shouldn't be doing this every time though.
I agree. Verbing weirds language.
What computers see when they watch movies
Probably this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter

The golf-ball typing element has a lever at the top, which opens to unlock the ball in order to change fonts.

Besides the carbon ribbon, there's also a small white-out ribbon, to correct mistakes.
Nice start!

What would be really cool: slideshow of several images + captions.
It is time to consult with a Certified Public Accountant with experience in international corporate tax matters. Or perhaps a chartered accountant in Canada, in addition to a CPA in the USA.

The accountant(s) can save you a lot of money by advising you on appropriate record keeping, business entity structure, appropriate characterization of the transactions you describe, as well as knowledge about tax rules that you may trip over (with associated penalties). Plus hiring one would allow you to spend your time and effort better on the business you know.

There are some very significant rules for bringing money into the US, from a tax perspective, with heavy penalties for failing to do so with appropriate tax declarations.

Since you are apparently profitable, this should not be a burden to you, and if you're not, yet have significant assets, conducting the tax matters appropriately is a cost you are able to pay to avoid trouble, and avoid needless risk.

I'd estimate you can save enough money by being well-advised that it would more than pay for the professional fees by avoiding trouble, and perhaps by taking advantage of appropriate tax rules for your situation that you are unaware of.

It is a good accountant's business mission to save people more money than their cost, and aid people to grow their business.

Doubtless you have business relations with people who have accountants they trust and rely on. Just like hiring a lawyer, you can talk to an accountant in a hiring conversation to learn of their expertise, interest and compatibility with your desires, without the obligation.

There are business associations, such as Chambers of Commerce (since you're in a border state) that may have people who have experience or opinions about people or firms to suggest you might engage.
Work your network.
A thousand times yes! This is exactly how you respond. If someone says "Would you be open to an acquisition?" You can say "Would depend on the particulars of the deal." And if they want more info you politely decline and say "If you're interested in making an offer for the company, make it, otherwise let's move on to other business."

This advice is especially true of "big" companies trying to blind you with what you think of as "huge" potential only to try to see who your top employees are and whether or not they can poach them.

People who are serious about a potential acquisition will tell you, without any other information, how they would price such a deal. Don't start due diligence and the distraction it entails until you have both a signed memorandum of understanding, and the potential acquired has to pay you if they back out of the deal.
I used to jump at hacking challenges in high school, blowing off homework and in the summers staying up til 5am.

Nowadays I see these and I have to practically tie myself to the ship's mast to not drop everything I'm doing and sink days into it. I couldn't resist with Stripe's CTF but had to quit after I got busy. This one's especially hard because I love tinkering/building embedded devices.

I guess the point is please, please keep this running as long as you can so I can have a crack at it when I'm not working day and night =].
If we have to choose between a cop and a glasshole for douchebaggery, we all lose.
done. plz fax eula, i only received digi
Do you think this could be accomplished with just CSS? It seems to me that this would be a stretch for CSS, but I am not extremely well versed in CSS animations.
I'm not sure if this is the manual you're referring to, but I've found this [1] very helpful. This point is under the section "Byte and word issues".

[1] http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/manual/
If a quick reading of the plaintiff's filings don't give you the impression that they have been deeply wronged by the evil defendant, it's a bad filing.
Nice, I like what you're trying to do, but things like

"Backbone.js: The most popular JS client-site framework"

worry me. Most people I talk to avoid Backbone nowdays in favour of the other popular frameworks.

Also: some descriptions appear to be lacking/missing & you definitely should mention Grunt under "Helpers". At least it's a GH repo and I assume you'll accept PR's? ;)
True, and a designer that can develop their own work is a significantly more valuable resource. Not to start a flame war, but I feel like it's almost not worth hiring designers that can't code anymore (unless you don't need the design coded, that is).
Building a VR contact lens is orders of magnitude harder than this. Key challenges would be:

1. Component size.

2. Power. The glucose monitor is similar to an RFID that can be powered by radio waves. Driving a screen or laser would require much more power. So you'd probably need some sort of inductive coil matched to regular eyewear.

3. Focus. You can't at that distance. So you'd probably have to beam an image directly onto the retina with a laser.

4. Occlusion of the pupil. Really hard to avoid this one. You might have to pair with a camera to add sight back as a feed. However there could be benefits with this too - eg. night vision

5. Health. Beaming power could be a cancer risk. Also contact lenses need to breath to prevent corneal neovascularization and other nasty effects of hypoxia. Modern contacts are gas permeable but adding electronics would hinder the flow.
agree. while people may sometimes have valid concerns, its the chain of reasoning that leads to proposed ways of addressing those concerns that often isn't grounded in realistic economics.
It's a not particularly massive online degree program using similar mechanisms to those used in MOOCs for classes—but it's not the first such program by any stretch of the imagination. Such programs are actually older than free MOOCs, and a number of instutions have had them for years; Kaplan has several, including a JD program.

This seems to be the first to try to leverage the attention to MOOCs in te marketing, and might be the first non-professional graduate program of the type.
Even though the article is poor at best, an examination of startup stress is an interesting topic. Beyond hearing, the best founders are the ones that keep pushing forward. Understanding the best techniques to help keep you pushing forward and not fall into a death spiral is essential.

In the fall, I had fallen into that spiral as I was removed from our product (due to a few reasons) and neither myself nor my cofounder were in a "high" when we received a serious blow. We almost/did quit and try to move on to something new. Only to realize that was a mistake and picked ourselves up again.

Yes, it's hard running a startup; and yes, every startup we consider successful has many issues. I just wished this article tried to provide a serious insight into solving startup stress rather than trying to sell one more article.
This is correct. At my current place of employment, we have to deal with music licensing issues from various catalog providers. I mean this with no hyperbole, it is insanity dealing with music rights.
What's the most profitable price for an ebook?
Why I Said No to Silicon Valley
"This information applies only to customers in Huntsville and Mobile, AL; Atlanta; Augusta and Savannah, GA; Central Kentucky; Maine; Jackson, MS; Knoxville and Memphis, TN; and Charleston, SC"

These are the only markets with caps right now. Which is up from 2012, when there were only two.
No, I don't want that. But there is a big divide between those two things and having a little help with the business/relations wouldn't make them canonical. On the other hand there have been years (like 2012 and or 2011) where there were less than $30-40k donations to the OpenBSD project/foundation. remove electricity and there's just enough money for nothing. If you want a plausible OS you'll need a couple bucks; it's not an iPhone app. So instead of turning into canonical, maybe get some help to raise a few hundred thousand so you can run the boxes and have people behind the keyboards.

As for technically awesome, we are talking about a 'modern' OS that has poor support for multiple cores (servers will only have one core -theo), runs poorly inside a hypervisor and doesen't work as a hypervisor. An OS that does't support any of the newer types of file systems like zfs or btrfs. These things aren't strictly necessary, but that's kinda where things are headed in the server industry.

The code for the OpenBSD kernel is really clean and simple. It is well audited, but has half the security features of something like linux. This is a great approach if you don't stray to far from the kernel, but if it's not a firewall it might need a browser, java and or flash.

I think I am being realistic. It doesn't seem crazy that they could go on a fundraising binge, and get/hire some busines/PR/fundraising help that allows them to really meet their goals in the future. I'm not talking canonical money but you know 3-400k to power the servers and pay a couple people. That's a long term solution. We can all donate, and buy our disks but we'll be back here in a year.
And that doesn't include a place to live or food to eat. The hidden costs can be quite substantial as well.
Thanks. It's tricky to both take the risk and not have a relationship with the seller, hence why we insist on it right now. If we pushed the risk to the marketplace, it would be trivial - but this isn't something we believe is valuable in the long term.

>Once I don't have to ask my customers to make an extra click to accept payments I'll take a look at your solution again.

You actually can setup users via an API call today (so they can start accepting payments immediately) using our register call. They then have 14 days to confirm their email and set a password. On many sites this improves conversion double digit percentages over alternatives like PayPal.

https://www.wepay.com/developer/reference/user#register
Most interesting to me was this: "88% of the applicants are US-based as compared to 10% for the on-campus degree." My guess is that the $7K price that seems revolutionary in the US is just too expensive in a worldwide context. At lot of international students do come to the US, but that's for traditional on-campus education. If you're not going all-in in that manner, might as well attend a local institution for a fraction of the cost. This kinda puts paid to some of the MOOC rhetoric of opening education to the masses.

On the other hand, I'm really happy to see Udacity developing a viable business model. Coursera has received a lot more publicity, with their wider range of courses, but haven't seem to put as much emphasis on developed a sustainable income stream. I like what both of these companies do and would like to see them stick around.
This is embarrassing, but... I'm totally stuck on puzzle #2 (Sydney) since the cmp doesn't seem to match up with what's in memory, and I bet that the puzzles won't get any easier from here! Is there a good resource, trove of documentation, or excellent book for those of us who would love to learn how to do this stuff? The tutorial great, but it was definitely pretty basic.
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It's from the French "L'appel du vide", and translates directly.
http://class.stanford.edu has an Introduction to Databases course that you may want to check out.
> "Actually, though, the distinctive feature of tech culture isn't arrogance so much as a chronic obliviousness, which is why some tech people can't even understand the resentment they engender."

Besides the linkbait title, this article is full of painfully accurate observations, which will ironically be completely ignored by most of HN's SV population.
We have developed a non-invasive system for measuring blood glucose (patent protected, many publications in peer reviewed magazines, working prototype).

If someone has contacts in the VC scene or is working in the VC scene and is interested please let me know.

(throw away account)
Ah. Ok. I was thinking something changing core files on disk.

I bet that's doable ...

Change string.c, recompile, if a gem can execute arbitray code.
I'd like the principle to be that police should enforce the laws they know, and leave alone (or check) anything they're not sure about.

In this case I think it would've been most reasonable for the officer to ignore the fact that she was wearing Google Glass, and then check whether they should issue tickets for that in the future.
Part of the reason this is a problem is because someone probably said "Who could need more than 16 bits' worth of codepoints?", so I'd err on the side of extra codepoint space.
Bandwidth is infrastructure, like roads. It should be managed by civic authority for civic benefit, not exploited to increase private wealth.

Do you actually want to deal with a biased pipe?
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