skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting ideas.
Maybe this is just me, but my wrists suck at twisting.
"This item cannot be installed in your device's country", which is Hong Kong. I guess this is by design since locale is a dimension of complexity that you want to figure out later?
Note that number 6 on that list is Tomb Raider, which Square Enix publicly declared to be a flop:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-26-tomb-raider-has...
Really, that's surprising to me. Would people of Bruce Schneier/Fyodor/et al stature go through the same interview process that everyone else goes through? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't at a big company but you guys do things differently (for the better it seems) so maybe?
Thanks so much for sharing this. Like previous posters have stated, blog posts describing REAL WORLD usage examples of Docker in systems more complex than "here's a LAMP stack in Docker"* are extremely helpful at this point in the game.

As Docker matures the need for these case studies becomes more apparent. Thanks again for sharing.

* Not to downplay those initial examples. Without the baby steps those examples provided, I would've been lost at the beginning.
The average piracy site makes $4.4M each year on ads from Amazon, Lego, etc.
Needs the ability to filter by city, select San Francisco only and don't see Mountain View or San Jose.
It's the size of the binary. I don't understand what you mean by proportional size.

If we add more functionality to the hello world program, the dynamically linked version should increase in size slower than the statically linked.
I wonder if Google not equipping Glass with an indicator LED to tell whether it's recording was an omission on their part or a deliberate design choice they made for some reason (which then misfired).
Whale shaped giant plane, the future of air travel?
You could go half-way and leak a very biased sample of data. Some people are terrified that there might come a day where our health insurers monitor the junk food we buy via our credit card purchases. But why not just buy junk food with cash and healthy food with a credit card.
Oh yes, and I feel you made that point. It's just my hope that you (and/or others) keep moving the conversation forward :).
The problem is culturally people treat a camera lens like an eye, and studies show that merely seeing a picture of an eye or a camera causes people to act like they're being surveilled (signs with eyes on them and a message are obeyed more often).

So you're always going to have a problem pointing a lens at someone, no matter what indicators are there.

I suspect the innovation needed here is mechanical - Google should try adding a mechanically driven shutter to the camera, so when it's off, the lens is covered. I would bet strongly that that would solve 95% of people's problem with Google Glass.
> Not the author, but the way I see it this is specifically an interface for adjusting things eyes-free when driving. In an actual implementation, there would be some sort of physical switch between the in-drive control (demoed here) and a high-density "at rest" operation for passengers or more specific tasks (e.g. configuring the GPS).

Yes!
I would ranodomize it. I don't want to see all the positions for the same company one after the other. Also, the Filter section froze (maybe because it was still attempting to load all the filters? Maybe pagination would fix that?)
The shares are poised for a spectacular collapse as Candy Crush eventually slows down. However, there is a real business behind King that has nothing to do with flash-in-the-pan apps. King.com's primary business was, until recently, a skill games tournament site. They are the largest such site in the world and have been in business for over 10 years. They still own it but have rebranded that part of the business as RoyalGames.com. Only about $20 million of their revenue came from this business in 2013, but that is the only predictable part of the company. The rest is sure to go down from where it is today.

If you buy the shares, base the value on the Royal Games revenue - not on mobile apps that will quickly lose steam. It's about 1% of revenue. Take their IPO price, subtract 99%, and you have the appropriate valuation.
I've seen my bitcoin holdings rise and fall by orders of magnitude, but mostly it rises. You can get used to it if you have a bit of a buffer for living expenses.

It's no more irrational than being an entrepreneur.
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These things happen. :)
From Google's list: "If you’re worried about someone interrupting that romantic dinner at a nice restaurant with a question about Glass, just take it off and put it around the back of your neck or in your bag."

You should probably be more worried about you interrupting your own dinner. Wearing a display on your face that can distract you at inopportune moments is probably not something you want to do if you're having a romantic dinner (just as you wouldn't want to be constantly playing with a phone on the table). Your dinner partner might find it to be rude or annoying.
Disorder and determinism
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I read this several decades back but it has stuck with me:

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.
Pay 20% or more above the so called market rate and you'll sew there is no crunch. It's that easy.
Yea sorry about that, the filters are completely unusable at the moment. The filters view is totally thrashing the DOM.
We just released the LinkedIn connect which increased the tags by a ton. This should be fixed in a day or so. A regular text search would prob. be better at this point.
Nice! I knew I couldn't fool anyone with my wannabe professional -dB label there.
For some reason my brain insists on adding an extra 'l' so it reads as "outlagelet" every time.
well, if you were even considering WeMo in the first place (even well before this vuln) you were 'doing it wrong'. a server with wifi in EVERY node is not the way to go about adding home automation. these devices you have no control over and rely on 'the cloud' have no business on your LAN.
Critical arguments are welcome but baseless ones are always challenged. Saying Rails isn't a serious framework discredits the billions of dollars in valuations of companies using it in production today. Even Rails itself is backed by 37signals (now Basecamp), a for-profit company with serious problems that needs serious solutions for its widely popular product. Does Rails win in every technical aspect against other frameworks? Of course not, we all admit it has its flaws. But what it wins at it is developer productivity, getting shit done, and getting new developers up to speed. It does enough to enable a startup to get off the ground and become a million or even billion dollar company. That in itself makes it serious enough.
This is coming soon. Since we're focussed on the bay area we put it on the backburner.
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To quote someone from the subreddit: "The problem wasn't having a magikarp, he could still level it and get gyarados. The problem was not being able to EVER have a pokemon that can learn cut. He was out of money to get pokeballs, and out of trainers to get money from defeating."

This wouldn't have been a problem in Generation 2 and onwards, because there you can exchange numbers with trainers to have rematches which can yield more money.
"This app is incompatible with your device."
whoa
I guess we'll know soon! Clearly it shows that they are willing to address issues on the business side with (perhaps excessive) zeal, but it also shows their audience that they are a heartless and clueless gaming company. Of course, it's not like other billion-dollar gaming companies have died on account of their heartlessness and cluelessness.
Space is cheaper than ever. There two "competing" architectures (arm vs. x86). NetBSD has solution the distinct platform compilation problem.

What is a compelling argument against having fat binaries everywhere? Especially given tools that can unpack/strip/lipo to the right architecture.
Do you have an iPad? Save a bookmark to your homescreen for this URL: http://matthaeuskrenn.com/new-car-ui/prototype/
Very interesting. I'll give it a try when I get a chance.
However the limiting factor for a lot of people would be as described in the last section:

According to the Google Play Developer Program Policies (http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html), "An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism."

This means that Evolve CANNOT be used in apps on Google Play.

Evolve is targeted towards apps not on Google Play and Beta tests. Some of its intended use cases are enterprise apps (fix security holes without bugging all your employees) and beta tests (push updates to beta testers instead of waiting for them to download it).
If the recruiter can coach the candidate, you should hire the recruiter to program for you.
Richer obviously != better. But being richer === being richer. He's saying if you want more money, hang out with richer people, and you'll pick up some tips. And a good way to get time with someone is to buy them lunch.

You're right that the entire theme of the article sort-of implies richer is better, but a plain reading of it just says: here's how to own a car and a house. It makes no promises about being a nice person.
Had the chance to see this at PennApps and was very impressed with how seamless the whole thing was on the user side. Hope this project picks up some steam because I really think android would benefit greatly from such an easy update system like this.
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That's why, have tests and a staging environment.
Fair points. I'm most excited about this actually:

>...good ideas here that could be used in other domains.

I'd love to see more touch UIs that serve as secondary input mechanism for something else. If I had a big color picker for Photoshop in my iPad I would already be ecstatic!
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Can you compile the world with static linking on Gentoo Linux or any of the BSDs? If so, that could serve as a substitute.
Haven't you ever been irritated by someone saying, patronizingly, "you're so smart," when you do something? Where they only see you as someone who can solve problems, or do things they can't do? Alternatively, are there people in your life you have to get along with but you feel like "they don't 'get' it," like you do? Defining people or yourself by how "smart" you or they are can be shallow, open to misinterpretation and stops you from seeing others as worthy to hang out with. If you really can't stand someone or have legitimate need for certain smarts, then by all means judge by what criteria you need to. But don't stop yourself before you start -- don't filter out some prospect or new connection because you can't measure up or think less of them. You may not have seen things they way they have, but you might find more in common/to like after giving them a chance.
It's quite a bit more irrational than being an entrepreneur, especially if you've invested so much of your money in bitcoin that living expenses are a "buffer".
I don't understand how there can be a good hacker that does not, at least on some intuitive level, get such basic data structures or algorithms. I don't mind if someone doesn't know what depth-first search is, but I should be able to explain it quickly and they should be able to come up with at least pseudo code. The relevance of this to software engineering roles just seems too great.

Cramming these questions online does not work. I don't know what Facebook/Google et al are doing but I can spot a candidate who studied interview questions from a mile away. They may bang out a DFS by rote but that's just warmup; they should be able to talk about details, deal with changing requirements, discuss the algorithm/efficiency/design of their solution, be able to talk about underlying data structure primitives, etc.

To be fair the grandparent was talking about a specialized position in security engineering for which the generic coding interviews could be a bad match.
Your brain should not work as a compiler, when everything must be 100% strictly correct on the language syntax to be considered valid.
Smart culos, la locura no tiene fin, pañales wifi.
This is the second "tinder for jobs" app we've seen in the last week (the other was www.emjoyment.com -- not a native app though)

Torturing the dating metaphor, is Tinder a better model than eHarmony?
Try tapping in the very bottom right corner with one finger. There's an invisible button that shows the fake Driving Directions UI. Then tap on that with 5 fingers at once to make the hints appear. They are just static graphics too though.
Ah kids, they crack me up!

Lot of fun reading that, I looked around briefly but couldn't find my email archive from Sun, but I was in the kernel group when folks got the idea that "Gee if you shared the text segment of libraries, that would give you more memory for your buffer cache or user pages!" One of the guys in my group re-wrote the linker to scan through and realign text segments so that the maximum number of read-only pages (and thus shareable) could be allocated. And of course code that had static buffers and what not (go look at the 4.1BSD code, they were everywhere). It made my Sun 3/75 which had, wait for it 32 Megabytes of RAM (yes, less than the L2 cache in some machines these days) run quite a bit faster. Took a long time to get right too.

Shared libraries gave you three distinct advantages, one you cut down on the working set size, two you cut down on file load time, and three it became possible to "interpose" on the library and run two versions of the library at the same time for backwards compatibility.

Building a static system might be fun but for a 64 bit system, building one where libraries were fixed in the address space in flash or something might actually be even better.
Static linking doesn't necessarily link the entire library, unless the entire thing compiles to a single .o file. Linkers are smart enough to only link in the object files needed by the program. So assuming you are only linking in well-designed libraries, I guess it's possible that statically-linked software will be smaller since it will leave out the stuff you aren't using.
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> Wearing Google Glass in public is rude

I don't think this is universally true. For instance, if someone was a tourist on vacation and they were using Glass to take a POV video of a moment of their trip, I wouldn't find that rude, as long as this was happening in a well-known public area where people are likely already recording videos with smartphones.

Basically, if you're doing something really unique in your life, and you want to capture a video of it for memories and sharing, I couldn't blame people for wearing Glass. Actually, it'd be superior to a smartphone for this purpose, as it inhibits interaction much less than holding a phone up in front of your face.

But in the majority of cases in normal life, yeah, I'd be bothered if I went out with a buddy and he was wearing Glass all night.

I think that Glass will reach an equilibrium where everyone around you assumes that if you're wearing it then you are actively using it for something. If they can deduce what your purpose is (e.g., tourist), then I don't think they'll be bothered. But if it's unclear why you're using Glass, I think it'll make people uncomfortable.
At Globo.com we use HLS as our main protocol to stream live video for both desktop and mobile.

To have HLS audio track available "for free" (without the necessity of transcode it on backend) we built a nginx module: http://github.com/globocom/nginx-audio-track-for-hls-module

It would really great to see this module being used by Dropbox also.
I would imagine with someone like Bruce Schneier, you'd be paying them for the name and not their output. Google did it with a bunch of legendary computer scientists. Their role is mainly to get top notch junior people to come work there.
That's how I imagined it too. Single finger would be reserved for getting back to a more conservative input mode.
Tangent - because I believe I'm a minority here on HN - a hobbyist mechanic.

Right now one of the worst things to see are these all in one NAV/radio/media/HVAC devices. They are basically impossible to troubleshoot without specialized equipment. Only dealerships have these - the private garages don't see enough volume of particular makes and models of cars to warrant a purchase.

As this becomes more and more common I may even double-down on learning how to fix these things, because it will very quickly become an essential skill in the not too distant future.

Think briefly about the instrument cluster that was in the car you drove up until about 2010. Then do a quick skim of various manufacturer sites and examine the kind of clusters that are going into even new Dodges and Fords - not to mention luxury cars.

Can you imagine having to go to a junkyard to pull out an instrument cluster for a 2011 Ford Festiva in the year 2020? What a nightmare.
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I enjoyed this from their description of their dwm window manager, which took me back to the general state of Linux circa 1999:

"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though."
I think that in the Penny Arcade comic, the captions should be switched.

What you're actually doing is wearing Glass and enjoying dinner per the first frame - but what everyone (at least the PA authors) thinks you're doing is what's indicated in the second frame.
I see it as a LinkedIn strategy. No real future, ephemeral momentum, and likely a press-release driven stock price. Is there a merchandising angle to their games?
Maybe the greatest part of the article: The first thing you need to know is that Silicon Valley exists because the most important industry in recent history was born there. The commercial perfection of the semiconductor gave rise to the computer industry, which made hundreds of billionaires and thousands of millionaires out of tech-savvy people living in close proximity, which in turn attracted even more of the world’s smartest and most ambitious people to the epicenter of all that tech and money and influence.
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Most modern men cannot run a marathon. Physical strength is still quite useful. Based on such principles, it's no wonder the author delves into ridiculous banter about singularity. At least she could have gotten some basic facts straight.
Myself and plenty of other women are absolutely involved in technology (and loving it).

But, is software development really "power"? Is it really "changing the world"? Is it really all that meaningful? This is where I start to get a bit skeptical. If we are changing the world, we certainly aren't necessarily changing the world for the better. We are not eradicating poverty, disease, or violence and abuse by writing software.

Maybe people who are looking to change the world are looking to do that in more meaningful ways, where they can actually have a real impact on real peoples lives.

Maybe there are other, more cultural reasons why the field isn't entirely flooded with women. Maybe we aren't encouraging young girls to be curious. Maybe we aren't glamourizing it with TV and movies.

Maybe it's a lot of things, and maybe a lot of things have to change before this becomes something that your average 9 year old girl will want to take on.

In the mean time, lets not pretend that women aren't changing the world in important ways already. We can do better, but don't be dismissive of women who have decided to go into medicine, or city planning, or agriculture, or astronomy, or law, or architecture, or writing, or academia. They're changing the world too, and most likely in much more meaningful and valuable ways than we are in tech.
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Somebody has already explained it in the comments in the article:

"The light coming in the from sun is pretty directional, and a parabolic setup will focus it down to a handy point. The photons being emitted by the the chip are more diffuse and so most will be reflected back down to be re-captured."
This isn't new. It has been known that you can do this for a long while. Doing so however will get you permanently banned from the Google Play store. It can get you black listed from Adsense. Not worth the risks unless you are an app distributed by side loading because you don't qualify for the play store. [porn, gambling, etc.]
...except there are different kinds of intelligence.

Some kinds are commodities, no doubt.

Then there're the kinds that tell you WHAT you should be studying. That's a horse of a different color.
LinkedIn (LNKD) is one of the world's largest Internet companies by market capitalization and is worth $23b. The company saw $1.5b top-line revenue in 2013 and over 50% revenue growth from 2012 and has been around for 8 years with steady growth. These are totally different companies and require completely different valuation models.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALNKD
Did this guy have a math background? Was he coming up with the solution to the problems on his own from scratch?
Hours wasted in life?
I don't think that specific factual inaccuracy undermines her basic point in that part, though. Physical ability isn't really a very big personality differentiator in most cases.
OP makes some really smart points, but I can't shake the feeling that they're living in some kind of alternate reality fundamentally different from mine. Yes, if most people around you are very smart, or very wealthy, then intelligence or money are not really defining characteristics anymore. Intelligence and money define you in as much as they are vectors of power, but how much power they bring you over your environment is directly a function of how much more you have than others around you. When everybody possesses these things equally, they don't confer you any power over others anymore.

Yes, it's true that in the science-fiction world described by the OP, which might become a reality in 200 years, or maybe not, intelligence and looks will have been commoditized and won't mean much anymore. In exactly the same way that in the post-scarcity economy (if such a thing is ever to be), money won't matter anymore. But that is not the world we live in. In my world, really smart people are extremely rare, and they hold enormous power over the world due to their understanding, learning and problem-solving abilities. Wealthy people are few (the 1.5%) and possess monstrous power over the 98.5%. Just what kind of fairy tale does OP live in? Is SV really such an alternate reality?
Ask HN: Should I quit my job if I am not learning?
I graduated with a B.S. Computer Science in 2013 and joined a (moderately large) software company in the Bay Area. When I accepted the offer, I was led to believe that I will be working with the company's search/recommendations/data products team - a role that will be a combination of software engineering and applied research (information retrieval, machine learning). But so far, I have been asked to work on things like the company's metrics pipeline and various dashboards etc. I am really frustrated about the fact that I don't get to work on any products/applications - the work is not satisfying and I feel my software engineering skills are eroding.

Should I wait for my 1 year cliff or quit immediately or not quit at all?
I think it's more that they're trying to look like they have IP to protect.
Yes, they would. I am 100% sure of it.
i wonder whether other cycles would cause the same problem.