skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I know this is fake: I'm 200lbs, and this thing has a max capacity of 180lbs. And I sure as hell know that I weight less than Terrell Owens.
Yea, you are right. On the other hand, you usually define the templates once and then it kinda works automatically via discovery.
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You can see in this video http://snip.ps/cDFL that the riders are centering their gravity, they are all athletes so naturally they make it look easy.
"We have a long-standing partnership with Apple to ensure high-quality connectivity with their devices, and this partnership extends to support for Apple CarPlay."

That statement from QNX doesn't seem to confirm that CarPlay runs on QNX. Might it be QNX is working to support Apple CarPlay integration / interaction with other head unit devices?

That said, I don't often follow automotive head unit software so I might be missing something that is not in the article.
It's not just "inexperienced in proper security." People very experienced in security would still have problems with this, because the irreversibility means the slightest mistake is doom.

Writing bitcoin software should be like writing crypto: you aren't smart enough, so don't try.
DeepLearning4j author here. I'd just like to add that despite training neural networks being hard, they are great for understanding data if trained right.

There are a lot of innovations in image processing wrt neural nets specifically. The right neural network can learn everything from scene detection to simple object recognition.

I would highly reccommend taking a look at the neural nets course on coursera to understand some of the use cases.
I'm a big fan of the paper you cite and Crassin's work in general. However that algorithm is only viable in my opinion on current high-end PC GPUs and it remains to be seen how useful it can be on the latest console that also want to support large dynamic worlds.

The original article describes the careful technical tradeoffs and mixing/matching of techniques that is required to pull off a game like Bioshock Infinite on ancient hardware (at least as relative to current PCs and high-end GPUs).

Interestingly when Unreal Engine 3 was first being demonstrated to potential licensees and in the media, it was using a very high quality and elegant one-pass per light rendering algorithm. The demo scenes were basically a room or hallway with several colored lights, and the resulting multicolored shadows cast by an animated character. In 2004/5 this blew people away and a lot of game executives signed expensive licensing deals with Epic. No games to my knowledge actually shipped with that type of lighting, at least on a console. Then Epic and engineers like the author of the article spend the next several years (an entire console generation really) retrofitting UE3 with actually practical rendering technology that involved a lot of sacrifices, careful balancing, and artist headaches.

This generation Epic is showing a mind blowing UE4 demo with Voxel Cone Tracing and the cycle starts again.

One thing is very clear to me, Irrational threw out a ton of invaluable institutional knowledge when they laid off that team. I suspect competing studios, especially those using Unreal, are scrambling and having a bidding war trying to hire them.
That's not really correct. Even if we assume that this is no longer a hypothetical/counterfactual case, then the correct grammar is to use the present tense ("This is the moon as one pixel"). But, in this case, it still is counterfactual. This is really short for "If the moon were only [the size of] a single pixel", a statement which we know is not correct.

You're probably confusing this with the rule surrounding verifiable facts (ie, "I asked John if he was happy").
Don't forgot all the coins held by the cryptolocker virus writers.

Much of bitcoin is underwritten by illegal activity.
Many of the same manufacturers supporting CarPlay have already committed to Android support as well (http://www.openautoalliance.net/#press). I would imagine that Apple building on top of QNX allows for the car manufacturers to standardize on a single hardware platform across all mobile integrations.

I doubt that Apple could announce so many automotive partners if the system was completely Apple proprietary, due to both time and flexibility.
What would be required to make a real hover board? I assume that first off it would need to be a bit larger. And some kind of control mechanism, maybe near the toe area? But as for the actual tech, is it even remotely possible?
None of those are EV specific, they are just reasons the car market in Europe would be small. Rather than speculate about all the causes I thought I would just look it up:

In 2013, there were 12 million¹ vehicles registered in the EU out of 733 million people. And in the U.S. there were 15 million² sales out of 315 million people.

So it looks like Europe is buying cars at about a third the rate of Americans.

¹ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/business/international/car...

² http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/03/news/companies/car-sales/
Looks awesome, i can't wait to see what Scott Meyers talks about.
This is why I am just utterly confused about what people are willing to do to "solve a problem" or "jump on a trend".

From a planning perspective, do users have to set this up with some time in advance. If I were to rent out my toilet, I wouldn't really want to be sitting around like a bathroom attendant waiting for strangers to enlist my accommodations. If this were during a big event in my area, I'd rather a) be at the event, b) be as far away from the event as possible. Not stuck inside managing my commode.

If I were on the other end of the transaction, I wouldn't know when nature would be calling. Making it hard to figure out in advance where I need to "rent" a toilet.

After that, how truly rewarding is a couple bucks a pop to allow strangers into your house to relieve themselves? The barrier to entry is not that high and the risk/inconvenience is not trivial. Does it really pad your income that much? To me it just wouldn't be worth the hassle and it's not like they're going to clean up if they make a mess.

Maybe I am just an "old fogey" but some ideas just aren't that good.
As I probably should have clarified, this issue is specific to a single page in the demo, which we do not even link to at the moment (aside from a couple of older posts on our blog). Yes, it is embarrassing, and I apologize. However, if this issue had been standing between a customer and their data, we would have scrambled instantly.

Everything in life is a tradeoff. If you entrust your logs to us, you run the risk that we have an outage or failure of some sort. On the other hand, internal systems can fail as well. We hope to serve people who prefer not to carry the responsibility of maintaining their own monitoring infrastructure, and/or are interested in the features and performance we provide.
How hard is it to obtain permanent residency?
QNX is already used in a lot of in-car infotainment systems and the auto manufacturers have plenty of experience with it. It's also better optimized for this sort of environment. For example an iPhone can take up to a minute to start up, but QNX can boot almost instantly. It's not just a case of slapping iOS into a car, job done. The environment, required performance characteristics, device drivers needed to integrate with the rest of the car's systems, etc, etc are a whole different world. It's not that Apple couldn't do it, it's just that there are existing systems that do exactly what's needed.
The "plane full of women" makes me think of "The Bachelor: Silicon Valley."
I'm curious whether research backs up the claim that handout-type assistance invokes this sort of self-perception, on an individual or group level. Do you know of anything?
Move, save up a whole bunch of money, work remotely with your built up connections.
Moreover, these things should be built upon the certainty that somebody smarter than you, the coder, might be interested in free money, and that the software will be broken.

Only with that mindset can one build a system that doesn't screw over every legit customer when it happens.
Since we're sharing stories: come from Brazil to the US, it took me 2 months in 2008 (the height of the crisis) to get an interview in a place where they could actually sponsor H1B visas. Got job offer. The whole process to be able to start working took another 3 months. So I had to sit on my ass for 5 months doing nothing but wait for the USCIS.

I was working at a research lab that was part of Harvard Medical, therefore they could hire outside of the quota. But the "let's work on a/my startup" bug would bite my again, so I quit my job, moved to NYC and started checking with companies there. Uh oh, can't transfer my visa. Also, forget about unemployment checks, even though I paid for Social Security like everyone else.

Move to Berlin. Job offer in 2 weeks, paperwork finalized in 3 weeks. EU card valid for 5 years. If for some reason I leave this job for another one, all I need to do is notify the Ausländeramt. And anyone is eligible for unemployment insurance after 12 months of work/tax collection.
they should introduce a robust "clean" api in PHP6 and remove the old stuff in PHP7. that will let sometime to rewrite libs.They should move to C++ too,it's a pain to OO write extensions in C.
In Britain, if you are a resident, that is if you have accepted a job in Britain or are a spouse or child of a person who has, you are automatically covered through the NHS. This is based on residence in the country, not on an employer-employee relationship. If you have been legally present in Britain for a year you continue to be covered even without a job, and if you intend to settle there you are covered from day 1 for as long as you live there.

The best thing: the health insurance headache that US citizens have been conditioned to accept as a natural feature of life is totally missing. If you are ill you just go to the physician.
How does not accepting cash reduce processing costs or help evading taxes?
I just clicked and held the middle mouse button to move to the right smoothly.
Really neat. I enjoyed scrolling to earth. After that it became painful.

Thankfully, the solution was easy:

Open Chrome Inspector Console:

$('.essay').css({ left: '20px', marginBottom: '15px', maxWidth: '600px', position: 'relative' });

$('#bigspace').css('left','inherit');
More specifically, the title says "runs on", the body of the post says "may actually run" and the only evidence given is that Apple listed somewhere on the QNX website.
The car systems are probably all running QNX, you cannot just switch them to iOS which cannot deal with the hardware.
> Programmers don't generally have reels, but we do have blogs. I've been explaining the rendering work I did on BioShock Infinite quite a bit due to recent events, and I thought it made sense to write some of it down here. For the bulk of development, I was the only on-site graphics programmer. As Principal Graphics Programmer I did quite a bit of implementation, but also coordinated and tasked any offsite rendering work.

Kudos to the OP...I wish more graphics programmers did this. I got into programming because I wanted to do game development but never got into it, but I'm still fascinated by the actual work...not so much the gameplay programming (though I love reading about design choices), but just, well, how it differs from web development. I loved programming in OpenGL, but I've wondered how much linear algebra you bounce in your head on a day-to-day basis in the professional world, and what is the equivalent to "Rails", if any, for graphics work, and if there isn't such a thing, what about graphics development makes such a conceptual framework impossible or unrealistic? And is graphics programming as constrained by the artist workflow as web development is constrained by content-makers/writers?

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And a little more both on and off topic: reading the OP makes me sad that Bioshock Infinite had such a beautifully-realized world...but focused a disproportionately amount of gameplay on how to best grind generic-policemens' faces with a meathook.
It has kind of a start-uppy name, wouldn't you agree?
Neat comparison. But it would be nice if there was something on the initial screen that suggested scrolling. I just thought that a black page locked Safari.
There will be a follow-up posts addressing a lot of valid points raised in these comments.
I find this stuff fascinating; I used to mess with OpenGL quite a bit in high school/college, but then moved to HCI in grad school and iOS dev/backend web dev later when I moved into the industry.

I'd love to eventually work on that kind of stuff full time- how would one go about making the transition? Do you basically have to learn/work on projects like this during your free time, and hope your "portfolio" gets you a job?
Isn't this standard practice in other industries too? Change something so slightly, simply to hold on to copyright/patent?
Yea, this is a joke, right? Am i missing something? This seems like on of the silliest idea i've heard in a long time. Once you start offering free flights, wouldn't the incentive system immediately switch from finding love to free vacation?
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I wonder if they're looking to reduce the hardware footprint required. If QNX is lighter than iOS, they might be able to save a few dollars per unit. If they can get away with a 40Mhz processor rather than a 1Ghz processor, that's a pretty good cost savings. iOS might have more features than they really need, like running Windows CE rather than Windows XP for embedded stuff.

Another possibility I can think of is that they want deeper integration into the car, and QNX may already be running on that car. Adding Siri on top of an existing platform might actually be less work than getting iOS to talk to QNX in a way that Apple is satisfied with.
Well you get $14-20k + an $80k note, so you can easily pay two-three people minimum wage (plus rent) for summer.
I think Penny Arcade covered the problem with this 9 years ago: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215520847_FFz8n-L-2.jpg
I disagree with the sentiment of this blog post, because it implies (unless I missed something) that you need to use some complicated web framework to make the internet go.

You don't, and I've recently been encountering a LOT of very confused would-be devs who get stuck behind some tangled mess of django installation.

The "simplest" web application could look like this:

#!/usr/bin/python

import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
name = form.getvalue("name", none)

print "content-type:text/plain\n"
print "Your name is %s" % (name)

Or maybe you want to get fancy:

#!/usr/bin/python
import MySQLdb

db=MySQLdb.connect(user=user,passwd=pass,db=test)
c.execute("select something from sometable")
results = c.fetchall()

print "content-type:text/plain\n"

#hey look, CSV data!
for line in results:
print ",".join(line)

etc. etc.

I encountered a dev the other day (I guess I'm a shitty dev, then?) who asked me how my application handled URLs.

uhh...apache?

"No, how does it handle URLs, though"

"Apache. WTF are you talking about?"

"No, like if you go to example.com/foo/bar/, how does it know what to send me?"

"...?"

I swear half the devs I meet lately are more concerned with javascript frameworks and rewriting their own webserver than they are about actually serving content to users.

Imagine a baker who was more concerned with building ovens than baking bread.

Keep in mind what your goals are when you're working: are you looking to write a javascript framework, or are you looking to write a web application? Then evaluate what path you want to take from "not having an application" to "shipping a product".

Sometimes (probably many times), you don't need to make it as complicated as you're making it, and apache will work just fine.
Why we stopped using mainstream social platforms and made our own
Being a light weight social media user, my passion for using it cooled down over the years. Why did that happen? I really wasn't getting value, it became boring and I couldn't understand the hype behind it.

That's what drove me to create a simple tool that makes things simple and valuable. No trolling, no bashing, just bring yourself and the things you like to write about. After many moons, we built FAQ Robo. It was targeted towards being a repository for the internet FAQs, however, it became more than that. It became a social platform that I enjoy using everyday. It includes quick blog posts, video posts, links to your own resources and anything else you want to share with the world. Talking about win-win-win (for the writer, the audience and us!)

I feel that there are people like me who would appreciate it and we wanted to share this platform with you too.

http://www.FAQRobo.com

Cheers,
Nawar
H1B and L1 are very different stories. If you manage to get a L1, things are much much easier. Not easy, though. Consider yourself privileged.
Microsoft, please stop being such a whiny bitch
It can't scale when we are talking 10000's of checks, triggers and hosts.

This is why we moved to Zabbix:

Number of items monitored: 77342
Number of triggers enabled: 25405

Try and scale Nagios to those values and let me know how it works. We tried and we let it go a few years ago.
This is quite insightful. Thanks for posting.
Are gender ratios really a problem in SF? I visited SF, and women there said that if one excludes gay men, the ratio of women to men in san francisco tends to be heavier on the women's side.

Anyone have their own experiences?
How do in-memory data grids differ from Storm?
The update is saying that QNX has confirmed this.
Depending on how this thing is implemented, the claim in the title might or might not be true. For all we know, CarPlay might just be an extension to the existing car entertainment systems, using something like VNC (or hopefully something more optimized for the use-case) to show the iOS screen on the existing infrastructure.

In that case, the car is running QNX because it has always been running QNX and because the car must be useable even if the user decides to switch to a different platform or loses their device.

In that scenario, saying CarPlay is running QNX is similar to saying your Thunderbolt display is running OSX when it's connected to your Mac running OSX, or using an even closer analogy, similar to saying that your OS X machine is running linux because you're using SSH connected to a linux box (or any other kind of remote desktop)

Personally, I would guess this is the kind of integration at work here. This is not about actually delegating the entertainment system functionality to iOS. This is just about sending touch events and maybe telemetry data to iOS while displaying the video feed produced by iOS.
I'd wager that many of the people who had their money stolen (particularly at gox) aren't what you'd describe as "bitcoin enthusiasts". Less-technical people who have either heard about bitcoin, or who have been gifted some bitcoin are likely going to keep it in whatever service they received it on (many may not even have realised the difference between mtgoxbtc and btc).

There's enough FUD out there to scare people who do a little bit of research away from storing the coins in their own wallet - brainwallet passwords being cracked and accounts emptied, viruses taking your wallet.dat, over-paranoid key-generation techniques recommended by the community.

Living in the HN//./reddit/whatever else bubble, there's a prevailing attitude that users should be aware of the goings-on in the bitcoin world. We're definitely exposed to those details here. As a result, the reaction seems to be to almost blame the users for the exchange losing their money (to paraphrase, "why would anyone in their right mind trust Mt Gox?"). Personally, I think that this attitude is bullshit, and that technically competent bitcoiners are taking advantage of less-technical people with the rhetoric around how much of a great payment system bitcoin is/how it's a great investment/etc while glossing over the fact that if you aren't good with computers (and want to trust domain experts, or who don't know how to properly secure their own computer), you will be robbed of your money one way or another.

That said, perhaps the best answer to your original set of questions is convenience...
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Since it was the article that the Verge and other sourced off of, I felt it constituted an original source. I am unclear why it is link bait. The title is direct, factual, and not hyperbole, so I am wondering why you think its link bait?

[edit: as freehunter and sibartlett pointed out - the update confirms the title with a source at QNX]
As part of the employment contract, can't you stipulate that they must immediately start the green card application process for you?
No, we took the video offline because one of the speakers hadn't realized the talks were being filmed.

That's an understandable (and appropriate) action on your part, but it makes me wonder: what would that speaker have said differently if they had known they were being filmed? And why?
I didn't mean that to come off as hand-waving. I think this is a very serious issue that is going to require a complete rethinking of security practices. Perhaps it won't ever be solved satisfactorily, but I wouldn't rule out ingenuity of developers to at least reduce the risk to manageable levels.
They also have a response from Paul Leroux at QNX, saying that QNX are to some extent involved in CarPlay.
You're right. I was just pulling numbers from memory. Still, even those examples are an order of magnitude off from keeping up with 1% to 2% inflation.
You mention performance... Is phps performance any good? I've always been under the impression that it is quite slow. Maybe I'm just buying the fud.
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My issue with this is what is the response when someone says "give me your bitcoins" and the other person replies "I don't have any." You're going to clearly be hitting people who are not wanting to participate in your experiment.
The data is stored inside a relational database, which might become a problem in the future.

They do offer an API that is quite usable. I've build a simplified interface for our less trained staff members with it.

You won't find any RRD files which might be a problem for you. Until now that was only a theoretical problem for us.
Curb Your Enthusiasm -- iToilet by Gorge Costansa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITluapajP4w
What? There's no free flights here. This is the option of very expensive flight+date, or a $20 lotto ticket to a chance of a flight. It's basically a trap for the less sharp. Good luck to them, I guess.
Also, virtually anyone in Amsterdam or the rest of The Netherlands for that matter speaks English. Weather sucks though :)
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