skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By trading off field of view, eye relief, brightness and aberrations you can get any arbitrary magnification by sticking in a different sized plastic ball lens. Just like all the 500x junk telescopes that are sold.

Given all the attention this is getting, I have to conclude that I'm missing a critical element of what makes this notable. I get that it's very cheap and can be stepped on, but maybe you can explain the application for this that wouldn't be better served by the shared use of a more conventional design made out of plastic instead of paper and which could still survive rough handling.
Straight blu-ray rip is currently the best quality. But very few torrents are for the full 50gb disc. It's usually an 8-12gb 1080p or ~4.5gb 720p re-encode of the blu-ray encoding. Painstakingly done to the best that can be done, but it's still a double compression. iTunes on the other hand is encoding off raw source material so it can get higher quality at smaller size than what you see on torrents.
OK, you go first.

Those areas are empty and emptying out because people don't want to live there.
You don't have to forward anything - you can just shoot a quick email to the person and say "Hey, I was talking to _____, who is trying to _____. I thought you might be a good person for him to talk to because _______. He might also be good to know because _______. Do you mind if I make an introduction?"
Ah, so now we're up to five emails. Seems like a lot of work and wasted time.

To each his own, it doesn't get me personally exercised, but I don't think you've got much leg to stand on judging others.
Good point.

Although the purpose of the QZ article was to encourage women to get into those "gender equal" industries not to taunt those who claim inequality.
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Professor Robert Sapolsky Human Biology 160 lecture 25 – Individual Differences.
They provide a 20k grant (for no equity) and a 100k note on decent terms (but worse than YCVC) through KPCB, Mohr Davidow, Aberdare, and Mayo clinic.
If his networth is in fact ~$15m as claimed by [1], I'm not sure that's true.

[1] http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest...
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90% of the people who work on a movie couldn't hope to own a million dollar mansion.
The $25 socks his manager gave him were an "impulse buy" in his former life. Wonder no more!
He can save the names for 180 days (plus more) for iOS. But it's still not smart because hundreds of games with similar titles might start launching before his.
> Not that Amazon's warehouses are some kind of workers paradise.

I read an article a while back (apologies for no links) that basically had a reporter go work at an Amazon warehouse as a stocker. It sounded like the type of hell I wouldn't wish on an enemy.
> And 10 machines is nothing. How do you maintain a 1000-machine cluster with frequent application deployments, configuration changes and variable load? If you've got a bunch of shell scripts that make that easy, that would be fantastic news. I kind of doubt it, though.

Four years ago, I was going this with shell scripts, a little bit of Python, and a cluster management tool called Rocks (built in Python and shell scripts). This was for a 5500+ Linux server cluster processing data from the CMS detector at the LHC. I had the ability to do a rolling reinstall of Scientific Linux/CentOS while the cluster was actively processing data with no interruption to the end user jobs.

Everyone keeps reinventing the wheel, but in most cases, shell scripts can do a lot of heavy lifting before you need to start writing one-off python scripts.
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when did i "judge others"? seriously? before this becomes some weird ad hominem thing, let's leave it with: go do your intros however you'd like, and good luck in life, i really don't care that much about this yet still feel i'm entitled to my opinion, thanks.
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I'm new at chess but I love it is so much fun how can I learn to play this game the right way and become a great chess player? videos books anything will be helpful.
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Whoops, I was probably confusing. I meant to say they got to $19bn with shortcuts that worked. A leaky DB is bad and reprehensible corner-cutting.
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I guess [you] don’t care about hard work or loyalty.

Wow, just wow - humiliating him by checking his bag every day, making him do extra work (after work hours) for free, restricting him to less than 30 hours so the store doesn't have to give him benefits .... Even after all this, the author seemed to have worked hard. All of this is still not enough.

Incredible.
If you include the next few sentences it's clear that there was no suicide:

In the wake of Flappy Bird's demise, rumors spread. Nguyen
had committed suicide. Nintendo was suing him. He'd received
death threats. His refusal to speak fueled the speculation
even more.

It's a list of the rumors that were going around, and is terminated by a statement about his refusal to speak (at the time) which strongly implies that the suicide rumor was, well, just a rumor.
While useful, Control.Monad.Logic is not really an alternative to core.logic. It is a search monad more than anything, and it doesn't perform any unification or constraint propagation.

The type system gets a bit in the way when implementing something like miniKanren in Haskell. I suspect Clojure is a better fit for this kind of highly dynamic problem.
I thought it was also because, quite simply, the people building the systems lack the medical acuity/intuition/formal education to even begin to know the best way to display information intuitively towards the perspective of working physicians.

Then the lack of incentives/competitors allows them to stagnate while other industries constantly iterate platforms against each other to the benefit of society.
Adding any copyright notice is optional since 1989 in the US, the year they joined the international agreement of the Berne Convention which was ratified in 1886 already.

The main purpose today is to demonstrate the owner claims the rights and is actually willing to defend them (in court), but it's not necessary to put it on any work.
The 'heroic' attribution is thrown around a lot today, and few deserve it less than a man who decided to no longer offer a silly game for sale as a result of idiot-generated controversy.
> Google should have figured out how to let applications sandbox data on the SD

It's called put your data in /data. You get a private app data folder by default. /sdcard and /data are both internal storage on the majority of phones, neither points at a physical sd card slot.

And seriously, who wants their messages stored on /sdcard anyway? You pop out the sdcard and all your text messages vanish? What kind of brain dead decision is that?
One of the great advantages of android is that it permits developers to do things like this. Let's not get upset about it when mistakes happen. Users can always choose a different app if they dislike the behavior.
true - sometimes i do that - but often i might not get some of the nuance of what person 1 does as well as they would have described. i've found that it's much harder to recover from incorrect perceptions/assumptions than it is to get them right the first time...

again, i care most about the double opt-in part - the rest is just my method. there are many ways to do it right. :)
That's clearly something designers need.
Neat self-promotion gimmick.
The minimal-ui meta tag in iOS 7.1
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while the effects are well done, the examples given render the UX unusable. it's nearly impossible to view all the photos in a set because the one being hovered covers the others. of course there are better ways to handle this in a finished product, but i thought you might be interested.
We're a full-service seed fund. Our roots were as an accelerator, but over time, we have realized that we continue to support our portfolio companies long after they "finish" at Rock Health.

Our equity investment model is very similar to the YC/Start Fund relationship. KPCB, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Mayo Clinic fund the companies we select with a $100,000 convertible note, at the same terms of an existing/pending seed round, or on flexible terms up to an uncapped note. We're different from YC in the sense that Rock Health itself takes no equity in the companies. We try to be extremely entrepreneur-friendly, and ultimately, the convertible note is entirely optional. For companies that don't want the note, we write non-dilutive grants up to $20,000.

In terms of whether we help our companies get funding (or not), our companies have raised more than $100M[1] from investors including Collaborative Fund, Felicis, First Round, Floodgate, Founders Collective, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, NEA, The Social+Capital Partnership, SV Angel, True Ventures, and USVP, just to name a few (for context, our first cohort of companies finished at Rock Health in November 2011).

[1]http://rockhealth.com/about/annual-report/
Except for the one with a fat yellow bird with tiny wings, with the same game mechanic of a 2D scroller, flapping through holes defined by green cactus instead of Mario World tunnels, it's original.
I too, hate open floor plans. At one of my previous jobs, we had 2 developers on a team with a couple BI analysts, designers, marketing people. Truth is, I enjoyed their company. They were a pretty good group of people to be around.

Only problem was the constant interruptions that would occur. Either by people who were looking for another co-worker who was not at their desk, or the co-workers themselves.

People couldn't understand how I managed to miss calls on the cellphone I put in front of my desk (on silent/non-vibrate). Most of the time it's because I'm so focused on my work I don't notice the black screen change for 10 seconds, or it's simply because I'm in the flow and I can't afford to let it disrupt me. There was one co-worker who would only ever IM me (I don't check IMs until I'm free), and I never realized it until now, but I really appreciate that.

Occasionally working at home only makes it worse. My family still doesn't really have an idea what I do for a job, and to them, interrupting someone typing stuff on a keyboard all day or asking them questions is perfectly normal. I too, seem very detached or out-of-it to people when I'm focused on my work. I've been experimenting with working only in late hours when everyone else is asleep to get an hour of two of pure focus. It's been working amazingly well, but it's definitely more commitment.
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I think you're misunderstanding the roles of developer, publisher, and distributor.

If you look (like I just did) you'll find that Steam isn't region locking games, the publisher is. And yes, Valve is acquiescing, but we don't know what kind of agreements exist between Valve and the publisher.
That is only if you always watch your movie start to finish. If you don't consume the whole film that number goes up dramatically, say if you watched 5 minutes at a 5MB/1MB connection, then you could download 1.5GB (probably half the movie) while only seeding 300MB back.
Rock+Health and Startup Health are awesome launch pads for health startups. I'm happy that the health-focused accelerators are gaining more attention (in the industry).

A big challenge for most accelerators (ycom / techstars / et al) is that the 3 month cycle is not usually long enough for entrepreneurs (new or experienced) to wrap their head around the depths of healthcare, muchness negotiate a sales contract. If you already have experience in this industry, awesome, but if you don't – prepare to spend 3-6 months just navigating the complexities. "Who pays?" is a very interesting question that you should consider in detail, and the answer is usually not the Doctor and almost never the Patient.[1]

In any event, we need more talented entrepreneurs working on some of these issues and not fast-following to be the next cool photo/chat app. I recognize a lot of young technologists don't understand why healthcare sucks as a consumer because your body is in great shape, but spend a few weeks in a hospital and you'll find plenty of opportunities if you have the fortitude to deal with the mountain of bs.

Disclaimer: I'm a former consumer / financial guy turned health tech entrepreneur, and participated in TechStars last year.

[1] The consumerism of healthcare is an interesting topic. I do believe that retail clinics will become as popular as a Starbucks and a shift to a consumer-pays model will likely compliment our new healthcare system, but I don't see it happening for the 60-70% of the population suffering from serious chronic diseases. They just can't afford it.
I haven't done them all, although it might be fun to do so. A big part of the book focuses on closures and passing functions to functions, which are both supported in Perl.

For the time being, Higher Order Perl might satisfy you ( http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/ ). It's only 9 years old now, so it's relatively modern.
Apartment prices in the Midwest (I'm north of Chicago, but same goes for further south) are 600 - 1000 per month. 10 bucks an hour is 1750 a month before taxes -- fed, fica, and state taxes get you down to less than 1400. There is no public transportation to speak of (outside of big cities such as Chicago and Atlanta, etc), so kill another $175 for gas, plus $150 for a car payment (cheap used car, high interest). Not much left for food, heat, and lights.

Now it gets a bit better when two people are living together. But then that usually means a family (kids) eventually, so it then starts to get much worse.
If the FS API were standardized and broadly adopted then yeah, it wouldn't be an issue. I've never gone around trying to store greater than localstorage on all the browsers though to know if it would work.
Bag checks are fairly common, usually occurring at ends of shift or closing. Pat downs are less so, mostly because it's generally not a good idea to require employees to touch each other.

Retail internal theft really is a serious problem, though. According to the National Retail Security Survey at UF, it costs retailers (read: consumers) $14.9 billion annually [1].

What you may find surprising is that most major retailers do, in fact, have quite extensive controls in place to prevent and detect internal theft -- exception reporting, inventory tracking, etc. That these massive losses still occur should give you an idea of how complex the problem is.

The reason the store requires two employees to take out the trash has nothing to do with watching for thieves or "armed intruders." It's actually a simple and surprisingly effective deterrent to internal theft. Diverting merchandise through non-public exits is a common theft strategy.

Also, Ike was not "fired because [he] got a promotion." He was fired for lying on his job application about a previous conviction for theft. Ike's conviction strongly suggests a tendency to act dishonestly, which is further reinforced by his attempt to cover it up when applying for the job. This is precisely the type of individual that the background check is intended to screen.

Lastly, the author says it happened when Ike was a teenager, so it could only have happened when Ike was either 18 or 19. Juvenile court records are not available to background check services.

[1] http://investors.tyco.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112348&p=irol-news...
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Of course it hasn't. You are precisely stating my point.

Android requires the user to do more work because it manages less of the experience itself and offers needless choices.

The reason so many people like Android is because it is cheap, widely available, and can be tailored to the carriers wishes. No serious commentator believes that it's because the majority of people want to manage power consumption manually.
Your point is well taken but I think it illustrates mine as well.

There are serious problems with allowing a small non-elected group of people to represent the interests of all humans regarding agriculture.

But anytime anyone tries to bring this up the discussion very quickly falls back into the realm of science- is it safe? Is it better for the environment?

There is a set of separate (and in my opinion more important) social issues that should be discussed and decisions that should be made but it isnt happening because of the diversion of the science. People who love science have an obligation not just to decision making based on evidence but also in considering the ethics of those decisions and the resulting consequences.
was down in India too. Seems to working fine now. Was logged out and it kept telling me to stop logging in because I'm already logged in!
It won for me too, kind of mesmerizing to watch it play it all by itself. Congratulations to the author.
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According to this[1] it was more that the senate committee staffers found an internal CIA report (the 'Panetta review') that contradicted information CIA had made available to the committee (about their torture-enhanced interrogation practices, presumably, and their destruction of the video evidence on the same, under the rationale that transcripts in the cables provided sufficient detail so that the retention of the 'torture tapes' was unnecessary.)

A tit for tat escalation then followed.

As the article ([1]) puts it:

> All of which is to say the SSCI busted the CIA for lying in their official response to the Committee. And as a result, CIA decided to start accusing the Committee of breaking the law. And now everyone is being called into the Principal’s office for spankings.

There's some other interesting reading at the same site[2] about acting General Counsel of the CIA, Robert Eatinger, who referred the Senate Intelligence Committee investigators for investigation by the DoJ and helped provide legal advice on the destruction of the 'torture tapes'.

Even given this pretty lamentable story, it's still hard to understand Feinstein's new stance on privacy. Perhaps, as some have commented, it's all about getting the committee's report released in time for the elections?

[1] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/05/operation-stall/

[2] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/11/robert-eatinger-lawyer-...
No mention of the massive publicity boost from the Youtube let's play video of Flappy Bird by that strange Norwegian guy with millions of subscribers?
so awesome, mine just barely beat yours with 13088 points on the first try: http://i.imgur.com/nxgFk57.png
Occasionally helpful, yes. But in my experience, usually unnecessary. Filesystems will sync themselves prior to being unmounted, which takes care of most of the obvious sync usecases.
Having two friends who have careers in "LP", both who have worked at a litany of stores, pretty much any chain you've heard of has a full time loss prevention officer or two.

It's probably the best paying job on the store premises.

Keep in mind their job is also to stop shoplifters in addition to "internal" theft, embezzlement, return fraud, etc.
I just wrote DOS as I always abbreviated MS-DOS as DOS.

DR-DOS actually came with the first PC I bought and it was for all effects a MS-DOS clone, hence a DOS clone, like PC-DOS from IBM and a few others on those days.
I am really excited about this!

Though, I kinda wonder. When scaling web instances, does it provision a new machine per instance?

Also, how do I do something like create backing services?
For what it is worth, I wasn't interested in a privacy debate, but rather technical advice.

I have come to the conclusion after a bit of research, the only way to make this backup work is to require a passphrase, or for the OS to provide sandboxing. Android 4.4 provides the necessary sandboxing. I am sure WhatsApp will use it.

I don't agree with WhatsApp's choice to not require a passphrase, but I at least understand their thinking. They chose frictionless backups with the risk that malicious apps would be able to read you text messages. That is not the choice I would like, but it is not a choice made by an invertebrate.

Hacker News at times reminds me of this scene from the Princess Bride:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ulbI9k5eA
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Oh, no doubt. Some API functionality went haywire earlier today too... so anything built on top of Twitter can potentially have issues.
I wouldn't generalize here since there are people in every society who are above petty desires for material gain. It's just that in the US, we have significantly more wealth-addicts than any other country, and it leads to a bad perception of the nation as a whole.

Another thing about self-moderation: my consulting firm gets an occasional contract at a public school. I know it sounds terrible to say this, but if these kids are the future of the US, I want to move somewhere else. I went to public school myself, and the value system that the kids subscribe to nowadays is bloated by our celebration of people who make immense amounts of money. There's also this fucked up sense of entitlement, an addiction to social media, and a lack of desire to explore anything beyond the assigned schoolwork.
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The troubleshooting issue is one of the biggest benefits of Nix IMO - because the complex automation process which it significantly reduces the need to troubleshoot is the GNU[1] build system. ([1] replace GNU with other build system of your choice.)

The GNU build system (+pkg_config) is really awful to work with when it doesn't magically work the first time. You'll often get errors such as m4 macros not being defined (but which don't hint at what dependency is missing), and more often than not you'll need to build several dependencies for the software you want, which are often poorly specified. It's not uncommon for one to waste hours or whole days trying to build a piece of software (and if you're lucky, he will blog about his experience so that you can spend less time when you inevitably google the problem, because that's always easier than trying to understand and debug the build scripts yourself.)

Nix reduces this by requiring exact dependencies and build instructions - there's no "hidden knowledge" that the software developer/package maintainer had which the user should not also have available, so at most, only one person needs to experience the pain of building the software and others can reproduce based on his precise instructions, rather than his blog post.

I can't honestly say that there will be no problems when using Nix, but a build error in nix is a bug in the distributed nix packages, not just some unknown problem on the users system which he needs to fix.

I agree with you that reinventing the wheel is usually bad, and you get a long way by reusing existing programs with shell scripts, but sometimes you need to throw away your assumptions about how things work because a new model is significant enough to rethink the old. (We didn't build aeroplanes by attaching wings to cars).