skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the article quite a clear example of a blind application of statistical tools, the only useful thing being their idea to do quantitative design research.
The top five is only a reasonable selection if the search is for patterns linking the top contenders per category. Trying to find indication of what positively influences a top ranking in a certain category without considering what those outside the top have done is astonishingly wrong.
This is the most sardonic article about a startup I've ever read.
Carry Beauty With You
It's maddening and appalling to you because you deliberately disabled an essential part of the web platform on your browser. Your problem, not theirs.
This has to be the smoothest scrolling image transition on that scale I've seen.

Anybody care to enlighten an amateur how they did it?
Two points:

- This looks basically like an amped up google now, so maybe this means developer access to Now as well, which would be more exciting to me at the moment.

- Pretty much all of the info they showed in the demo would work on an epaper display, maybe minus the swiping gestures. I sure hope the experience will include pebble style watches with a battery life longer than a few hours, but I am not holding my breath.
Do you really think the cancellation was premeditated? That's what your comment seems to imply.
John Romero took me to school, twice
This guy isn't thinking outside the box. He's trying to solve the problem using techniques from the past.

Obviously the solution isn't to manually make levels, it would be to automate them. Where are EA on flying scanning drones around football stadia in order to save artists thousands of man hours?

They already use these techniques to scan actors faces, I can imagine someone from 10 years ago predicting it would be impossible to script all the movements of lips and eyelids to produce realistic characters.

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about, but thought my off the cuff theory would have more weight if I wrote like I did.
Am I the only one who doesn't wear a watch (even if I wanted to) because I don't like the way it scratches against my MacBook Pro?
I love the wall display tool. How does it gets its data? Is there an api?
Includes important security fixes for vuln's disclosed at Pwn2Own, like this arbitrary heap write from JS:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-31.h...
If you had a view decorator that applied presentational logic to a model, I don't see a problem at all in including that in a controller. I wouldn't have any issue at all with a controller action that looked like:

def index
respond_with PersonListDecorator.wrap(Person.all)
end
For anyone that needs a DIY preorder site, there's the lockitron selfstarter project

https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter
Give it a try .. it looks great in OS X native full screen mode.
Another option is to prefix searches. If I type "google " then start offering search suggestions. Chrome even has this, and a nice UX for it. It just unfortunately also has unprefixed searching.
Is it true that Dogecoin's value is kept artificially low?
Based on the size of the bezel couldn't that still be a rectangular lcd?

I tried finding pictures of the internals of that watch, but my google-fu is not strong enough.
I haven't personally used the product yet, but it looks like they have a desktop client to sync code to local repositories (dropbox style). That way you could at least code when offline, although the testing in a dev environment would still be an issue.
I'm doing remote work in a major US city. I've been charging well above market rates for a while now, but haven't been able to break the $100 / hour barrier yet.

I feel like my income is stagnating -- my skills and expertise are at the top of their game, but I just haven't been able to find projects where I'm able to charge more.

Where should I be looking? Is there an effective way for me to change my approach?
Yes, but if you make long distance calls using VoIP, and aren't paying premium rate, then they want to block those calls. Forcing you to make traditional calls which are of course lot more expensive. That is exactly what this is about.
I envy you 'cause I'm too stupid to use Haskell.
I'd suggest you stay with it if it already lets you do things.
And I'm staying with Clojure 'cause it works for me.
Maybe it's a color e-ink display...?
Dissent Unheard Of,
Yes, I see that it has "for browser," too; point taken. But experience indicates that when a service has native implementations and also a version that works in a web browser, the latter is very likely to be slow, clumsy, and incomplete. If the browser version is a first-class citizen, then usually there is no native version, because there is no need for one. For example, Gmail.
Takeaway: the problem isn't photorealism in games, although that's hard enough. The problem is actually having somebody create the zillions of points of detail required to have something to photorealistically render.

So, seems like the technical challenge is to take a small portal, say 64x64 pixels, and then create a procedurally-based photorealistic (including damage, real-world illumination, and a damage model) engine to power it, right?
Mozilla, please stop promoting nonfree software. It would be better to assist in the creation of a free game engine for the web instead of Unity.
And I can become a prostitute.

If I get robbed/assaulted, I can contact my pimp and he can go with his gangsters and kill the offender.

> There's no such thing with Bitcoin.

This is a feature.
I am a long-time 3D graphicist, and have written numerous software and accelerated renderers. I am really struggling to see the point of this article (it seems trivial and tautological to me), although I'll be glad if it generates some discussion.

This is an area where I feel very strongly that perception is reality, or at least so close to it as to make no difference. The game world is virtual, so the fact that say a rock is not made of zillions of atoms computing quantum chromodynamics doesn't come as a surprise to anybody. Well, that's a shortcut right there. Immediately, the game world is not arbitrarily "realistic".

But I don't think that's what the word "photorealism" usually means. I know I've never used it that way. I use it to mean "feels subjectively real". By that definition, as the OP alludes to, today's most advanced game engines come very close. In my opinion, they come so close, that the rest is gravy.

That's what will be coming in the next decade. More gravy, more cake, more icing. In the next year or so, somebody (Sony? Everquest Landmark?) will start the inevitable development toward Minecraft-style procedural/cellular automata based worlds, combined with increasingly photorealistic rendering.
Why do you rest your wrists on your MacBook Pro while you type?
Firefox for Windows Metro pulled
I'm actually surprised that most simulators don't have many if not all major runways (1000+ meters) loaded on them.
The part of the advert that impressed me most was that Google Now's voice recognition worked well enough to be useful. Something tells me that isn't actually a new feature.
Well, yes, but I find the WebGL port of the Unreal Engine demo (for example) unplayable without asm.js-specific optimizations. So by "supported" I really mean "optimized".
I'm more commenting on how watches have remained the same size for a long time. I'm not even talking about smart watches. I want something that tells me the time that is one step above the lower limit on possible watch sizes. It doesn't have to be an analog or digital display, it doesn't even have to have hands! Just a series of LEDs would be fine.
My issue with Google Now is more about how rough it still is around the edges. I have a Nexus 5.

me: "Okay, Google... text [my wife]"
Goog: "Mobile or home fax?"

1) Why would you even ask that?
2) There is NO WAY to tell Google Now to default to a number. I get that question EVERY TIME.

Still needs quite a bit more polish before I'm going to be comfortable using it the way my wife uses Siri on her iPhone 5S.
It's "last minute" because the application deadline for Summer 2014 is March 28.
Planet Labs to launch 100-satellite remote sensing fleet
Or how you text someone, for that matter.
Watch out, because it's a common (and extremely dangerous) misconception that personal data abuses afflict only people who are perceived (or perceive theirselves) as criminal.

There are two reasons.

First, legal systems with an excessive power in the hands of the prosecution can take an ordinary, civil citizen, and legally rape him (this description was used some time ago on an HN article)

Second, anybody that lives a regular life has secrets to hide; this is just a fact. And that secrets will be abused if it would be instrumental to the authorities.

I've said "extremely dangerous" - why? Because data collection today is considered/perceived/felt as a big nuisance, but not much more.

In reality, it's an oppression instrument, and it's not perceived by the general population just because they're not in prominent positions towards the government.
>only offering search suggestions if the string typed so far doesn't look like a URL

How would this work? Lets say I wanted to search for Wikipedia, perhaps because I know there's news about it. How would Firefox know I was going to type "Wikipedia" and not "Wikipedia.com"?
So you don't think the circumstantial evidence presented (both by Newsweek and Dorian's interesting reaction to the article) make it's greater than 1 in 8B that Dorian is Satoshi? That's not a terribly tenable position.
I don't know if you guys know how fast path-tracing is becoming reality. It just needs a few more years (of GPU advancement) to get rid of the noise, watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqxonOrl4Q

For art, next-generation photorealistic graphics will be 3D scanned and/or procedurally generated. Lots of work still (you can't scan cars or anything mechanical), but graphics could also be reused more often.
Under that ruling, if you found out that you were passing on a gene therapy, you would be disallowed from having children with a partner where the gene is likely to be therapeutic in the children.
I do think voice is an under utilized method of input, but in a crowded and loud urban environment it won't work well because of all of the background noise (I would think, honestly I've never tried it). I do think a lot of people assume that you would get angry looks from people, but I know that in NYC and in London people will largely ignore you unless you're doing something very annoying or disgusting (a travel companion was chewing her finger nails on the Tube once and was reprimanded by an older gentleman, rightly so). And so I don't think that voice input would be an issue socially, except in obvious cases like restaurants and offices. I just wonder how it would work logistically "in the field."
This sounds like good advice. Strike out on your own, dont sell out to others.
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All that aside, remember that the context is a nontechnical person asking what 5σ means in statistical analysis in physics. That greatly narrows the possible interpretations.

By the way, this same conversation took place after the LHC Higgs anouncement -- the same five-sigma standard for discovery, and the same detailed discussion of what that means.

> But it seems it's a scale for measuring p-values.

Yes, and that was a point I made in my reply to the OP -- that the context assumed an association with p-values, which in turn assume a normal distribution.
Exactly, and it was also driven by the fact that it was easy for the Unity guys to get their existing toolchain building on NaCls LLVM toolchain. Now with ASM.js maturing, its another great opportunity.

Also we saw Unity developed a target for the Flash runtime (now with Flash pretty much dead, thats being shelved). Gotta give props to Unity for trying.
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While all browsers support http 1.0 websites almost three decades later.

Spdy really shows how fast people are willing to put immature technology in production as long as Google claims it better. Amazing.

What's even wise is the attitude towards abandoning published protocols and contracts. This is not how a lasting and stable internet was built.

This clearly shows why spdy can't be a candidate for http 2.0
I'm sure the iWatch will have a MacBook friendly strap.
It's easier to photoshop it onto one arm than many.
Every single post in this blog seems to be about Carl Icahn.
Let Zorin OS pick up where Windows XP left off
Cool, a male only product.

I know more women that wear watches than men, but let's go with something that is gigantic and only men would wear. Seems to be a sound strategy.
> And isn't that convenient?

Sexism is anything but convenient to its victims.

> In reality, all that we can determine when A accuses B of sexism, is that A experiences something B is doing as sexist (or thinks they do).

Yes. That's usually what sexism is. What A experiences.

> But A could be mistaken

In theory - yes. In practice, chances of that are low, especially in tech. You see, tech is such a sexist environment, that if anyone experiences sexism in your company, it's probably there. Even if no one experiences it it's probably there. Unlike Communism in the 50s, though, it's no biggie. You listen, try to understand, identify and empathize and fix whatever needs fixing. That's not "jumping to conclusions", but realizing that this is a very serious problem in tech right now, and all you need to do is try and fix it. No one is getting blacklisted or going to jail.

And it's not a "taint", unless the allegations are of something far more serious than simple sexism (like sexual harassment).

What I don't understand is why would anyone, when faced with the accusation that some of their employees feel unsafe or bullied, would try to fight this. If someone tells you the atmosphere in your company makes them uncomfortable, you better listen. You shouldn't take offense by someone calling you sexist because chances are that you are. Why? Because we are flooded with sexist ideas starting in kindergarten and everywhere else since. Think of it is a vestigial social appendage. Everybody has it. It's ingrained in us. If someone points that out to you, you should be thankful, because you're seeing something that you're not accustomed to seeing. It can be truly eye opening and enlightening, and unlike some interesting fact about the big bang, this knowledge can make living in our society a lot better for everyone.
If Excel and PPT Had a Baby and by Some Act of God it was Beautiful
FWIW,

You are pretty much an affiliate marketer. Being a CEO of a hosting company is not synonymous with being technical. From what I know of you... You paid sysadmins and engineers to build a company and your new company again was the fruit of others work.

Please don't proclaim to the world that you are technical when in reality you do not have technical chops. If you would like to back up your claim to being technical please point out any code you have written... Any major contribution to the technical field or open source.

I would talk to anyone for 13 minutes to avoid talking to a affiliate marketer. This is nothing to do with gender and everything to do with not like marketing assholes.
> No one is wrong here. Please don't call people wrong because it doesn't agree with your experience.

I said that I think you're wrong. You claim it has the same flaws as Facebook Paper, which I think is incorrect.

> Secondly, smartphones don't have the same flaw as Google wearable.

I was talking about smartwatches in general (Galaxy Gear, Pebble, Sony SmartWatch etc).

> you can't say phoning someone on a wearable is easier than phoning someone on a mobile phone.

I don't say that.

> Can you read your email from your watch?

Yes and that's with a screen that is even smaller than the competitors'.
Roles and titles cause people to associate with and get put into boxes, and deny latent talents and dismiss insight that could very well be valid. Mgmt consultants make tons of cash repackaging internal feedback into neat, glossy deliverables by basically listening across organizational, preconceptual boundaries.

Also: T shaped people: http://zurb.com/article/11/the-t-in-team
From the sounds of it he recruited himself. Malaysia has denied involvement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/13...
Why You Aren’t Paid as Much as You Are Worth
So we now want to wear Ads on our wrists? Just checking!
>It’s quite true that a lot of these problems are “pipeline” problems. Decades of subtle processes can shape the number of qualified applicants and make it hard to hire people across the spectrum. However, it’s not enough to throw up one’s hands and blame the pipeline because the issue continues to persist at every stage and something can be done at every stage. [sic] Some of the offenders will be well-meaning people with blind spots, others might be malicious bullies. Some accusations may feel unjust while others will feel right on.

There are many commentators on HN who appear defensive of the industry or critical of those with complaints when discussing gender inequalities who need to spend some time with this article.
The Google Now voice recognition is incredible. I never search for direction manually, and I use it to compose most of my text messages and all of my reminders.
Uhm it could just search when hitting enter. No need to autosuggest.
Golden age of hardware startup funding
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Yes, every reasonably tech-savvy pilot I know has at least a minimal flight simulator setup to play with.
Looks like it's mostly jquery. You can check out the scrolling stuff here: http://moto360.motorola.com/js/functions.js
I still find the pressure to work on side projects in your free time difficult to come to terms with. There's often discussion about how if you don't like what you're doing, then you should find a new job - and easily, if you're in the bay area. I know a lot of really talented devs that don't work on side projects because they are completely consumed by, and love, their work and can't imagine doing anything else. What if your passion is your day job?

Having a github full of side projects is helpful when pursuing a job, but I find it difficult to go hard at work and put 100% in and then come home and work on side projects. Usually, I'd rather spend time with friends and family.

This seems to disqualify me from a lot of job postings.
Also https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://absurd.org
What is it with pmarca? As a subscriber of his blog, he's been lambasting Carl Icahn for awhile now. Don't get me wrong! I hate Carl Icahn, but pmarca's critique is hard to get and overobsessive.
If you look at the difference in surface area between traditional men's/women's models of the same watch [1] there's a pretty massive difference in what you'd be able to do with the space. However, you do see more women wearing men's watches now, so I could see it catching on.

I think they will need to hit a pretty big number for battery life. A "40-hour power reserve" (what most mechanical automatics have) would be a big step towards being taken seriously as a watch instead of a gadget.

[1] http://www.omegawatches.com/collection/seamaster/aqua-terra-...
I agree. Post the initial Newsweek article, it's the first balanced piece I've seen from the tech community. By comparison everyone else seems to be running around with their hair on fire.
add your email to your profile if it isn't already and I'm sure someone would at least look it over remotely.
Ask HN: Are you applying to YC S14?
If you are applying to Summer batch it would be great if you could post your applications here and we can give you some feedback!
Why I left a comfortable life for an uncertain one
Thanks for writing a book. I haven't read your book, but I've found Delivered from Distraction to be a godsend. You can't help but read that book and either feel comfort for yourself or a better understanding of someone else who you just realized has ADD.

http://www.amazon.com/Delivered-Distraction-John-J-Ratey-ebo...
Those look like designers to me:

http://moto360.motorola.com/
Right now it connects directly to the database although I think ultimately it should use some sort of API.

You provide the path to the database, as well as the repositories to monitor, as command line arguments:

drone-wall --repos="github.com/drone/drone,github.com/drone/drone-wall" --datasource="/var/lib/drone/drone.sqlite"
All the stories seem to be quoting the same source, which seems a bit shaky.

"Satellite data suggests that the last “ping” was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia."

Where is this coming from? Nowhere have I seen anything to suggest there was a "ping" anywhere specific. We've only heard about ping data along non-specific arcs well away from the Maldives.
New  Bitcoin wallet, foss, hd, 2 of 2 multisig with nLockTime full on discussion
Ocaml 3.12.1; Ubuntu 13.10. X server is available, Desktop is MATE 1.6.0, OpenGL also seems to work (glxgears works).
Batch-Loading Sensor Data into Druid
A round screen both worries and excites me. I can't think of a nice way to present a website on a circular screen but it would also bother me to waste all that space putting everything into a box.
Andreeson's defense seems to be that Icahn has had as many conflicts of interest and selfish motives on boards as he has, if not more.

I'm not sure that's a good defense: "He's killed twice as many people as I have, and he's been at it longer, too!"

When people so alike bicker like this in movies, they're usually about a minute away from kissing.
Isn't it because there weren't clear boundaries that there was so much war? Anyway, if people wish to muddle up a boundary for their own purposes, they will always find a way, claiming the will of the people to belong to a different country for example.

Fundamentally, a nation state in the modern era is an administrative region and a form of identity. As a form of identity, it is very weak, because identity is a multi-faceted thing that cannot be reduced to as narrow a dimension as "country". As administrative regions, they have shown they prevent the efficient management of global resources by putting national interests before human interests.

The notion of an independent nation-state is an outmoded concept in a globalized world. We need to move to a single global democracy. It's the only feasible form of government at this point when you look at the continuing inability of the big global players to agree on stuff that matters and avoid new armed conflicts.
People wearing this watch do not seem very much interested in news articles ;) More seriously, my fuzzy estimate is that 80% of the time spent on my phone is for reading stuff that is definitely not the departure time of my next flight (that I can memorize five months in advance :) ).
XM radio?? Is that still alive? I haven't heard anyone mention that in years. I guess it still is.
The book below is pretty awesome. The other wrote two different books: Driven to distraction and delivered from distraction.

http://www.amazon.com/Delivered-Distraction-John-J-Ratey-ebo...
AWS SDK for Java Maven Archetype
Is "wife" not a role as well?
Can someone explain to me the significance of the animosity between Carl Icahn and pmarca? There are half a dozen posts on pmarca's blog discussing how Icahn is making claims against Andreessen. I understand these claims, but I don't understand their significance.

I deeply respect pmarca but I can imagine that he, like any high visibility person, has many detractors. What power does Carl Icahn have that warrants such a strong response?
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: How to Be a VC
Aren't Google's ad monetization practices fairly transparent? You can see all the data collected in the dashboard, you can see how ads are targeted under the ad settings.

It seems like people are alluding to Google's data usage as some sort of black box where it seems pretty open to me.
Ha that's even better!