skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you've just called the whole set of Western people inherently immoral. Not only this smacks of racism //

Westerners are descended from all races and creeds, they just happen to be part of a certain geo-political and financial region now.

There is a minute proportion of the population of the "Western World" that has any control over the business process beyond that they're able to leverage by voting with their dollars, through their unions or when voting.

>but there is a tiny sliver of them - those that enact and enforce the "legal protection" //

On the contrary, the established culture - moulded most recently through democratic process - has created an environment that limits the extremes that remain profitable. Most major companies in my Western country will [seemingly have] flout[ed] the law if the fines are sufficiently low; they're limited largely by what is going to be considered reprehensible enough to prevent people buying their goods/services. Directors receive multi-million dollar remuneration packages whilst they employ children and women at extremely low wages and often in situations in which they're effectively captive - we're talking companies like Adidas¹, Unilever, Nestle, those with the most recognised brands.

Many of the members of the controlling sections of Western government demonstrate at times a, shall we say, fluid approach to morality too. They often seem almost equally willing to lie and cheat and exploit the good of others to their own ends without due regard for the effect on the populous or environment.

tl;dr Power is oft to corrupt.

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1 -- example, http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcompanyratings/adidase..., Adidas's employment practices are illegal in Bangladesh imagine how out of sync with the moral mores of USA they are.
No I believe the Red Cross has international protection over the use of a red plus symbol.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_Re...
Even worse than an alcohol ban, as alcohol has a conspicuous 'meat space' presence and people who have recently participated in alcohol related activities are often rather easy to pick out.

His demands that regulators prevent Americans from being left 'holding the ball' if/when bitcoin collapses could reasonably be interpreted as a call for a ban on merely possessing bitcoins (not just transfering/selling/mining). If that were to happen (which is unlikely, but seems to be what this asshat wants), having a brainwallet could be considered a "thoughcrime" in the literal, non-hyperbolic sense.
When I first started toying around with Objective-C and got past the syntactic differences with Ruby, I was struck by how similar Ruby and Objective-C are, and concluded that they were clearly inspired by a common source (Smalltalk) or by one another or both. Although this kind of thing is no doubt mentioned in the Wikipedia articles, it was interesting to observe the commonalities firsthand and in context.
https://code.google.com/p/interactive-spaces/

https://github.com/interactivespaces/interactivespaces
Berkeley Designer Imagines What If Silicon Valley Housed All Its Employees
The page states prominently that the website will be closed after April 23rd. Primesense is Apple's property. Apple can do whatever it wants with it. Lastly the open source code will still be available, only the website will shut down as far as I understand it.
#include <coollib.h>

namespace betterns = std;
I wonder why they all fall down on Peach and Peach 2? None of them look nearly as good (to me) as bicubic.
Many non-profits or universities run exit nodes.

I have a tor relay on amazon[1] and have had no problems.

https://cloud.torproject.org/
Pkinsky - Adam from Occipital here (we make the Structure Sensor).

As of now, you can use OpenNI with the Structure Sensor on any platforms currently supported by OpenNI. We’ve also forked OpenNI on GitHub (along with many others who have done the same) to make sure it remains available after April 23rd.

For those who don’t want to compile code, we’ll also host binaries at http://structure.io/developers for OS X and potentially other platforms.

We’re working on creating new open source Structure Sensor drivers for Android, Linux, Windows and OS X (these are not based on OpenNI at all). Let us know if you’d like to contribute to that effort by sending us an email at structure >at< occipital.com.

Keep in mind that the discontinuation of active maintenance for OpenNI does not affect the Structure Sensor for iOS at all because on iOS, we use Structure SDK, not OpenNI.

Keep an eye on http://structure.io/developers, or sign up for the Structure SDK developer email list for more info.
Doing real code is very important. I'm curious if the OP has had any instances of catching cheating. I've seen instances of this with work products in other areas.
If they tell you the company, what's stopping you from turning them down and going directly to the company? I'm pretty sure that's the main reason they don't tell you the company.
For how much longer will the drivers remain open? Microsoft was able to kill OSS libraries that made calls to DirectX and OpenGL hardware interchangeable. Seems like Apple would like you to get their permi$$ion from now on and could do the same.
Beware Scientific American Subscription is not HTTPS
Exit relays can be run on AWS, but it's a waste of money. You'd be better off with an inexpensive VPS from a Tor-friendly provider. Donations of any amount can also be sent to TorServers.net.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP...
I was pretty sure that's what the W.V. after his name meant.
From the founder of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Yeah, user accounts and authentication doesn't strike me as something that makes sense in the cloud.
Utilitarian arguments aside, one reason folks are willing to go out there on a limb is, they feel they have backup. The Marines risk life and limb to 'leave no man behind', and it works - Marines are bat-shit crazy-dedicated.

So the human equation counts too, not just the dollars.
Windows has had support for resolution independence where DPI is configurable across a continuum (rather than only available as 1x or 2x scale like on the Mac) for quite some time - the issue is that with a huge legacy application base, a giant morass of drawing technologies, and no shipped "HiDPI" or "Retina" Windows hardware until recently, there's been no real incentive for app developers to support it.

In Windows 7 and 8, WPF apps are already supposed to be resolution independent (vector-based).

Old-style GDI+ apps which aren't marked as "resolution aware" (i.e. almost everything) are poorly scaled by the window manager and hideously ugly.
+1 for honest feedback. The world could use more of that.
They do different things. Not clear what can be discussed online, but the Kinect 1 is on its way out, and there's no open source replacement as of yet.
Do you plan to add binaural beats?

It seems to me they fit perfectly with your vision.
The whole problem is that namespaces are open, and you can add to them from anywhere. This means a namespace alias is useless in this situation. There's no distinction between things put in namespace std by library A and things put there by library B - they are all equally valid members of namespace std.

All that has been accomplished by the namespace alias is that before, both libraries were accessible through "std", and now, both libraries are accessible through both "std" and "betterns".

Namespaces gives you the tools to make name clashes less likely, but they don't make them impossible. Generally to avoid clashes totally you need a central arbiter of name ownership like, say, the DNS registry, which is why naming your packages using inverted domain names was advocated by some people in the Java community.
>To my British ear candy isn't a common word at all. //

It's pretty common but not to refer to hard boiled or jelly sweets. It has been co-opted, by analogy with sweets, to refer to a particular colour palette - as such is often used when referencing that (eg in cosmetics); you'll probably recall the candy-coloured iMacs.

It's not however commonality in general parlance that is the relevant measure - candy is and has been used in video games for a while to refer to brightly coloured shapes. King's use (since 2012) isn't original and so isn't distinctive enough to indicate the origin of computing products [and others in the relevant TM classification areas] bearing the title "Candy" is King.com, Ltd..

If it were on commonality in street parlance then candy would be pretty common among younger generations that are more influenced by USA culture.

Saga? They might as well apply for "game" as an RTM.
Thanks!

See? Even he doesn't know what to call it!
I like a lot of VectorMagic results... Very abstract art!
I approve and support this effort. But the word 'inclusive' is a reach, when their target is actually a fraction of humanity. Yes, a normally-excluded fraction but the word 'inclusive' means something, and it doesn't mean this.

--- Grammar Police
It's no different than putting an asm.js processor into a JS engine. asm.js is equally "proprietary" (actually more so, it's not on any standards track), and if it's truly faster than plain JS, then it's equally "bullying."

(Note: I actually like asm.js a lot and don't think that healthy competition is "bullying").
I think you of all people could benefit the most from something like this.
Google returned this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758171

and a quasi-bibliography:

http://www.celiac.com/articles/124/1/Multiple-Sclerosis-and-...
To whom is he pandering to?
While other companies like Google are truly our friends. They are a public company, not a non-profit.
I should totally invest all my savings into speculative stocks. A first wave of gried ate through 550 and accelerated into 500 which ran to 400, where a wall of buying kicked in. That triggered a run-up. Not enough selling to breach the support point there. Fare thee well bitcoiners. Fare thee well.
So? Businesses fail, whether you like it or not, that is how markets are supposed to function. It is clearly an example of a functional market. That doesn't mean people aren't defrauded, there's no such thing as a market without crime.
The assets lost in MtGox were a rounding error for Lehman.
Mysterious Quantum ‘Dropletons’ Form Inside Semiconductors Shot With Lasers
Sounds like too many steps. Why not use ePub directly. It's just a Zip with funny HTML inside. Index that and you may even get page numbers. Contact me if interested in collaborating (it's one of my todo projects).
While something similar would probably be better, this is heavily optimized for pixel artwork. Lots of curves, shading, and most importantly - limited colors. UI is generally much straighter, less shaded, with far more colors.

Here's an example of UI that's scaled with potrace (a similar algorithm): http://i.imgur.com/jDq4M7e.png (left side is the converted side, right side is nearest-neighbor. Top is 3x, bottom is 2x)

That's with the highest amount of colors/depth that potrace allows. On an i7 processor, it takes a LONG time to compute all of that. Each icon is no longer just a couple hundred pixels, it's a couple hundred vector paths. Even rendering it takes a number of seconds to refresh the screen in inkscape.
Very cool, and well-executed.

Not to mean to nitpick, but am I the only one who thought it felt jarring to hear an outdoor babbling brook, while looking at the surface of the water from... below? Both the videos and audio are spectacular on their own, but I'm not sure they always match up quite well enough. :)
Perhaps I'm having a dumb day. Where's the irony?
These are not "job offers". And getting contacted doesn't guarantee an interview either.

(But it is still good to treat people considering you as a job prospect as flattery.)
You've hit the nail on the head here, comparing "slow" DB/IO operations to a "faster?!" HTTP request. I don't even..

"You'll likely get the same latency you'd have writing to a Cassandra database locally". Nope, no I won't. Not even close.
Consumer Reports names Tesla Model S 'Best Overall car' for 2014
> That's an easy claim to make when you simply dismiss anyone who succeeds as random chance.

I never said this anywhere. You're confusing the practice of science with a blanket statement I never made. Pretend to be a scientist -- prove me wrong. Locate where I said what you claim I said.

> Yes there is, however I don't believe it's been adequately proven to be impossible.

Oh, great -- "proven to be impossible". Before you go on, learn about the impossibility of proving a negative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

Quote: "Russell's teapot, sometimes called the celestial teapot or cosmic teapot, is an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others ..."

Remember -- all I have ever said is that the possibility of a chance outcome cannot, must not, be dismissed, and to a scientist, it is the first possibility to be considered, not the last.

> That's not damning evidence, merely circumstantial.

What? According to the scientific rules of evidence, the burden of evidence is not mine to prove that a winning stock picking strategy does not exist (i.e. prove a negative), the burden is on others to prove that it does.
Oh, that's what he meant.
Except the food which, on the whole, just isn't healthy.
I didn't mean to imply that it was bad. There is a lot of fights around organics, and made in the US, and such. Walmart tends to optimize for price rather than low environmental impact, or made in the US. Trader Joes tends to optimize differently.
Yes, but as a proportion of the relevant market, they were far greater, which actually strengthens the point.
I agree. It was already pretty obvious that Bitcoin and other such crypto-currencies are disruptive to central banks. But now the world's 3 largest powers wanting to ban it, is very similar to how the largest incumbents react to disruption - they try to fight against it as long as possible instead of adopting it. And they lose everytime.
Perzo – Free Secure Communications
Isn't number 3 just a variation of number 4, with a middleman? That's all I mean. Can't software exist for individual early adopters to sell their coin in exchange for fiat at market values without a centralized exchange? To me, it seems like centralized exchange just leads to collapse.
That study is interesting, but doesn't mention inflammation. It basically says that depression is a result of stress.
Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
I thought that was a an unfair comparison. One is a small piece of trivial knowledge, the other is a huge amorphous amount of voodoo and experience. But I agree that practical knowledge trumps theory.
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To me this is like saying: "it's safe to defend Servo up to the point that it's faster single-threaded browser engines. Then Chrome and IE might fall behind in performing for web apps and then you will see how Servo will hurt the web ecosystem."

We are not implementing anything in Servo that does not have cross-vendor support and is on standards track. That's not the same as Dart.
Wow, I was just looking for this a couple of days back!
No, hq4x is still better on almost all of them. Microsoft's makes everything too round and blobby. It pretty much only works really well when everything is round, like in Boo. But look at what it does to the Golden Axe characters' faces.
Sen. Manchin's main constituent is the coal industry. Crypto-currency mining uses a fair amount of electricity. I'd guess most cryto-currency enthusiasts are also "green" enthusiasts. Manchin may want to stop this: "SolarCoin debuted last month and builds on the same technology as Bitcoin"

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/21/3282131/solar-co...
What would happen if an interviewee 'flipped the script' - gave the interviewer a coding challenge? Maybe under the guise of assessing the skill level of his potential co-workers? Is there any way an interviewer takes the bait?
From ##atom IRC:

<DouweM> kevinsawicki: is the actual core going to be OS?

<kevinsawicki> DouweM: not during the beta

<tyOverby> How is atom both invite-only and open source at the same time?

<avidal> tyOverby: the engine isn't open source (or at least yet)
Good point!

You are not allowed to use twitter, facebook, and youtube in China either. So, just as our "allies", lets ban twitter, facebook, and youtube.

http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
The Super Mario and Secret of Mana stuff works quite good, except it changes the facial expression on "Peach 2". I'd like to see Donkey Kong Country 1/2/3, Megaman (NES and SNES) and Chrono Trigger processed by this. And not just the sprites cut out of the background but embedded in a scene.
You don't have to, because of FDIC insurance...

...and now you know why things went to hell in 2008.
That's what confused me, too, the inconsistency between the two.
Trader Joes has low prices but they don't have the dirt cheap junk food that you might find at some stores. But you can eat cheaply at a Trader Joes. You can also eat very expensively if you go into some their specialty stuff.
If you need to look at your computer to meditate
you are doing it wrong.

And if you are writings apps to encourage people to need
to look at a computer with an internet connections t connect to your site you are not helping.

Never though I would hear myself has a luddite
I agree that it would have been a gargantuan, billion dollar effort to rescue Columbia, with a high risk of failure.

But had they succeeded, or even had they not for that matter, the lessons learned would have been substantial. So I would propose that the effort would not have been money down the drain. It would have captured the public's imagination, escalated the space agency and its astronauts to a heroic status not seen since the 1960s, and taught the nation a valuable and graphic lesson on the costs of skimping on safety, in this case failing to have a backup rocket ready to take off, or an escape module built into the Shuttle, for example.

Had we kept the Saturn rockets alive, as an alternative heavy cargo and human transport system, with a launch-ready rocket on the pad while people were in orbit, then Lee Hutchinson's notion would not have been so far fetched at all.

But that would have cost tens of billions of dollars that the nation chose instead to invest into other projects--military buildups in the 1980s, wars of invasion in the 1990s and 2000s, and so forth. Only the most powerful of politicians could have persuaded the country to spend that kind of money as a contingency. It's just too tempting to redirect it into local (vote buying) projects.
Looks really comprehensive. It's impressive. It's been a while since I've been in this domain so I can't comment on the functionality, but the look and feel of the demo is quite good. Like others have stated, the main site could use a professional touch.
The article fails to mention the incredible subsidy Trader Joe's was given to build at this location: they would pay only $500k for a $2.9 million lot.
This is a great post and I agree with everything you say and I am glad you guys are doing this.

I just wish you had more information about your company online (Angellist/Crunchbase etc). I think few people would be willing to put in 3-4 hours on a coding challenge unless they had a good idea about your funding, size etc.

I might have got a coding challenge from you a few weeks back but skipped it because I didn't have enough information. Ah well.. might do it this weekend.

Hope this helps!
>My dev platform is Ubuntu so I downloaded MonoDevelop and load the GtkSharp example (or maybe it was just the skeleton project template). Hit compile, bunch of errors showed up. Apparently I don't have the GTK libraries. Googled a bit, it looks like I had to download gtk-dev, compile, and do a bunch of things before I can run a "Hello, World" GTK sharp app.

Well, that's how it works on Linux. What else did you expect? That they'd bundle all the Gtk stuff statically?
Why should I use you instead of Twilio?
I don't understand why anyone would use this. I've never been anything but angry when I received a text message from a business. I've never met anyone who likes receiving text messages from businesses.
"free during beta" doesn't always imply "paid on launch" and I'd be surprised if the basic editor was paid. Github certainly doesn't need the cash and usage is oxygen.
Despite the author's hysterics, gentrification is a complex issue with positives and negatives on both sides. That said, I'd like to toss in an interesting historical perspective here.

Gentrification is something that happens primarily to predominantly African-American neighborhoods in the US, and one of its effects is eventually pricing the poor black community out of the neighborhood. But here's a question... where are the middle class black families?

Historically, racial segregation happened across economic boundaries. A black doctor or a black lawyer was still black, and unwelcome in white neighborhoods. This meant that historically black neighborhoods had a rich, vibrant economic culture, with wealthy members of the community living among the poor, supporting local business and providing role models for youth.

With the success of the civil rights movement in the 1960s came a new geographic social mobility for black professionals. Those who could afford it could now move into nicer, cleaner, safer, white neighborhoods. And they did so. And the more it happened, the worse the black neighborhoods got, creating more pressure for those who could afford to leave to leave. Eventually, the historically black neighborhoods were stripped down to ghettos, dominated by gang violence and devoid of the local businesses that once served the middle class. Soon, the only opportunity for jobs and social advancement was outside the neighborhood, and poverty grew even worse. It's a terrible cycle.

This was aggravated further by the (illegal) practice of redlining, where banks colluded to deny funding to entire neighborhoods, depressing real estate prices and driving homes and businesses into foreclosure. (White) developers could then swoop in and buy land at fire-sale prices, building out the new infrastructure for a wave of gentrifying whites looking for cheap nice houses in the heart of the city.

Think about this, and you can see the resistance to gentrification. Historically, it's been nothing but trouble for the people already in a neighborhood.
Would you like to share the answer with the rest of the class?
Better than absurdly pompous...
I think the tongue out smiley face means they were playfully joking.
Does the News Do Us Any Good? [23:47]
True, but many people working at Trader Joe's who pull in the higher salaries have a degree, some college education, or they have been full timers for many years. The majority make just over minimum wage (and no longer get awesome health care).

It's a pretty good job though for most people is what you're saying, and I agree. But this also means there is competition for these jobs.
You know, I'm usually very skeptical of web apps, but building a text editor in WebKit actually seems like a really good idea. Everything a browser should be good at — text display, scripting, styling — also applies to text editors. You don't really have to worry about complex UI, animation, or user input. You also get remote access almost for free.

What other text-centric apps can be made better by a browser framework? Maybe the terminal?
You Don't Care About Pricing and That's a Problem
What does OpenNI and desktop augmented reality apps have to do with the iOS app industry?
Love the simple site and focus. I've been working on a similar project focusing more on visual diffing, but haven't been able to launch yet. Still building the server infrastructure, product focus, and working out the billing.

Thanks for sharing!