skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I'm not finding anything via Google to back me up, but in my experience, yes, it is.

http://www.amazon.com/Scalpel-Blades-10-Box-100/dp/B0008FUQ2...
It's not like it's at all expensive either.
Well, that's nearly as if not as dramatic as what you're replying to. :)
Hmm. I see about the same thing with Chrome 35 dev and Firefox (28 or nightly) on Mac here, performance wise.
When they were doing the Flash version, it wasn't free. Still, one can hope!
Very cool. I'm really glad to see the community get involved in this. I think the enterprise support is a big deal.
Not sure that's the most sophisticated PR strategy. One post looks like a rebuttal, 8 look like an obsession.
A friend of mine who's an ER doctor removed a mole for me at his kitchen table with kit he had in the house.
Read foreign country as US here too.

Basically they can record everything and a constitutionally defined "search" doesn't occur unless a human search and looks at the information.

Binney and other were talking about this even long before Snowden.

So what happens now, everything you do gets recorded, stored in their data center and kept for decades. As soon as you do anything they deem suspicious they might find you downloaded strange foot fetish porn when you were in college and try to blackmail you.
I disagree, we already have watches with weak processors (e.g Pebble) but they lack features. Android can bring those, and ARM processors are powerful enough.

Indeed, the only difference between an Android watch and a full-size smartphone would be the smaller casing. The largest component nowadays is the battery, which can be greatly reduced thanks to the smaller screen.

So, I don't see a major obstacle to an Android watch, and the benefits of it are worth the CPU. Of course temperature will be a concern but I'm sure demand will produce lower-powered CPUs powerful enough to run Android.
No. Out of your way.
As a matter of fashion, male watches tend to be larger than female ones. As a matter of practicality, current smartwatches are all large. So yes, yes they are.
Fairly sure it's always the same model arm to make the image transitions be more fluid. I'm sure after all of this they'll show just a female model's arm. I imagine too they picked a male model because in general men have bigger forearms, and so it will make the watch look less bulky.
The current state of Dwarf Fortress probably is within an order of magnitude of the number man hours in it as an early Call of Duty. The difference is that the work on Call of Duty is mostly art which is trivially parallelizable, whereas the work on Dwarf Fortress is the engine which is not parallelizable to anywhere near the same degree.
How a presidential phone call gets made
Yes, it's things like that that make this approach complicated and failure-prone. Which is why Firefox is not doing it.
I want to be careful not to imply that I'm passing judgement on your feelings, or implying that they're invalid, because I certainly have my moments where I'm a little creeped out by Google Now as well. But I do want to push back a little bit on Google Now cards being necessarily depressing.

I recently traveled up to Boston on a short hybrid work/vacation trip with my wife. When we were headed to the airport, Google Now had a card letting me know my flight was on time, and letting me know when I had to leave to make it to the airport on time. It was information I could have otherwise looked up, but it surfaced that information for me, and it was nice.

When we landed in Boston, we wanted to contact our hotel to verify the check in time and ask if we could leave luggage there for the day if necessary. When I pulled my phone out, there was already a card with the hotel address, travel time, and contact info. Again, stuff I could have looked up (check my email to verify hotel name, look up number, call), but it was nice to have it there and ready for me.

When I head to work in the morning, Google Now has a card for my commute, along with notifications about any accidents that may impact my travel. I also live far enough away that there are a few very different routes I can take, and day to day one or the other may be the best. Finding out my commute needs to go a different way, or I should plan for it to be a bit longer (or shorter, sometimes!) doesn't seem depressing to me.

I keep a pretty close eye on how Google is using my information, and if I begin to feel like it has crossed a line from mutual benefit (helping me, and deriving value as well) to something more one-sided (exploiting me for value), I hope I won't prove to have been naive, but in the meantime, this is something that really seems to make my life better. Just my experience.
Yeah, if it's not a voluntary act, then demanding volunteer work would be a "voluntold" situation. That's not cool.
Wow I would have thought he won it in the 80s or 90s!
Well deserved. His work on Paxos flavors worth it alone.
For any model of statistical analysis, it's difficult for an inference to be accurate if the data are poor.
I'd also ask about those videos—they tend to be quite neat. I wonder which studios do that (are there many?) and for how much approximately.
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> The argument that it just isn't fair that someone's mind is more suited for a desk job than someone else, so we should put them on equal footing by administering drugs the rest of their lives is a flawed and slippery slope mentality. Do we say the same the same thing for aspiring athletes who weren't born with the muscle mass to play pro football? "Lets make things fair and pump this kid full of roids so he can be an all pro linebacker"...

Except that isn't the argument. Just like we don't try and save premature babies to try and "be fair" and we don't treat suffers of diseases to "be fair." There is no slippery slope argument here. The onus is on you to prove that there is in fact a slope and then to show how slippery it is.

> Physical work often creates the necessary stimulation that so many of these ADHD cases need.

Who are you to tell sufferers the best way to treat their condition? Don't you think it is best for people to get a say in their treatment?
NewME and The Changing Face of Entrepreneurship
I suppose you could technically use the Creighton Model with our app, though it's not the method we provide educational info for.
Would you eventually make a BOM of all the hardware used? I can see a lot of local Ingress communities being interested in making their own version of the table.
That stem is interesting. The Pebble has 4 buttons, which are generally mapped to up, down, select, and back. That strikes me as the minimum for useful app interface.

With the Moto 360's stem I can see getting up down and select, but now how they'd do back. Maybe a long-press?
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Mr. Obama said. "That's not what this program is about."

It's about recording your calls to listen to later.
>Financiers like Icahn are motivated by short term profits above all else.

That's one way to look at it.

Another is to note that Icahn built a thriving financial company that has survived for over 4 decades, and employs over 60,000 people globally. I'd say that requires long term thinking and demonstrates a bit of business acumen.
The present conversation got started by someone non-technical asking what 5 sigma meant in a physics context. Within that context, and with the intent to avoid exotic digressions, my reply is correct.

In physics, a sigma value maps to a p-value, and that relationship is most often defined with respect to a normal distribution. Therefore, in most cases, to go from a sigma value to a p-value, one performs this integral:

http://i.imgur.com/YhC302b.gif

Specifically, the above definite integral, when performed with arguments of 5 and +oo, yields the often-quoted one-tailed p-value for "5 sigma", which we can get here as well:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5+sigma

It seems Wolfram Alpha makes the same default assumption I do: a normal distribution. If I weren't answering an inquiry from someone who wanted the clearest possible answer, I might have replied differently.
That guy's clothes look so comfortable yet still professional! I wish I had some.
Exactly. A lot of us wear multiple hats, but many of us are only effectively at wearing one at a time.

I sometimes have to act the role of 'business guy', and in those cases, to be most effective, I wear 'business clothes'. However, sometimes I have to act the role of coder. And, in those cases, I wear 'coder clothes'. I don't know what coder clothes are for women, but for guys it's something quite relaxed and laid back. Most coders that I know try to make a statement that 'they're not the business guy'.
Depends on which kind of sense you're trying to make. If your analytical framework is "pure, selfish profit is all that matters", then yeah. But not everything that's profitable for me is also good for you.
I didn't see anything in the news... Was KUL-PEK a normal route for this pilot? Makes a lot of sense to have and practice on runways in the area you take off or land into the most.
Once upon a time there was an open source game called "Cube" which was a first person shooter. It allowed in-game multi-player level editing, with all the occlusion and lighting recomputed on the spot.

It was superseded by Sauerbraten, which improved the level structure to allow multiple floors, but didn't run as quickly due to the calculations being a bit harder.
WhatsApp encryption fail
For those that don't know what is going on, here is the backstory:

Carl Icahn has recently bought a bunch of ebay stock. He has claimed the company is mismanaged. He has also personally attacked Marc Andreesen. Here is the accusation from Ichan:

1) Marc Andreesen was/is on ebay's board.

2) While on ebay's board, Marc bought most of Skype from eBay.

3) He flipped Skype to Microsoft in less than 2 years, earning himself a multi-billion dollar profit.

Carl Icahn is running Marc Andreesen name through the mud. The basic accusation is that if Marc knew Skype was so valuable as the smart phone wars were heating up, he had an obligation as a board member to give ebay better advice on the divesture.

Now Marc is fighting back.

This is a comic schoolboy fight among billionaires.

Edit: After a bit of fact checking, it looks like A16Z only invested $50M in the skype deal. Their fund at the time was around $300M. His gain was on the order of $150 million, not billions. A16Z only had around 2% of skype, and ebay retained 35%.
This sounds like a prejudgment.
Why coding is the new email
> NPM also has the ability to have isolated dependencies from each other dependency. For example, module A can pin module B to version 2, whereas module C can pin module B to version 3. So you have independent copies.

That seems like a bad idea even in a dynamic language, perhaps especially in a dynamic language. What if you return a type from module A that is defined in module BV2 to module C suddenly it can't find the method(or the method does something different then expected). At least in a static language you could prevent this to some extent. It seems like it would be better to have version ranges and fetch the newest released version or fail if no version is acceptable with interactive/cmdline overrides.
Echelon and Carnivore.

We have been talking about this since the 80s....
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Impostor syndrome is an artifact of dimensionality. There are hundreds of answers for "What does it mean to be a good programmer?" We have back-end and front-end, "devops" and "DBA" and "data science". We've let the colonizers (business guys) divide us for their purposes (not ours) and we're muddled. It's hard to know if we're good at our jobs because our jobs are constantly changing (and, sometimes, in ways that leave capability and success negatively correlated). The colonizing gendarmes who are supposed to be able to evaluate our work are even more clueless.

What we do would be highly dimensional (i.e. specialized) if we weren't a colonized people. But we'd be able to come to peace with it. We wouldn't fret others knowing more than us (which happens to everyone) if we weren't constantly watching our backs. We are constantly meeting people who know more about certain topics than we do (and, reciprocally, so are they). It wouldn't be an issue if we had more career and income security.

It's not something about programming that makes people sick. It's not an intrinsically stressful activity. It's far less demanding (speaking of the work itself, not context and social dynamics) than over 75% of paid labor. What's hurting us is that we're a lost, conquered, and scatterd tribe. We think we're elite specialists, but we've done such an obnoxiously bad job of fighting for ourselves and our own value as to let ourselves be typecast to business subordinates, and it's horrible.

It would actually be a win for the more progressive business people (as well as us) if we could get ourselves out of this. Would you want to be operated on by a doctor with the pay and social status of an average programmer? Of course not. Well, similarly, we'd make better products if we got ourselves out of the "business subordinate" trap, and pretty much everyone would win.
Does anybody know where https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421424 (http://savetheinternet.eu) is?

It was on the front page (#2) like an hour ago and it just disappeared. I have searched in the first 5 pages and it isn't there, I guess it was removed from the front page for some reason?
Icahn called out his conflict of interest in Ebay:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230407100...
Everyone is interested in maintaining the growth in compute devices diversity and capabilities that Moore's Law has enabled in the past decade. To do that we need to continue to pack more and more transistors on chips.

As you pointed out, todays problem is not the transistor size, but rather it is the energy consumption. Both dynamic and static power are not decreasing proportionally with node size, and therefore we have gotten to the point of asking "why add them if we can't use them?". This is the problems of the power wall and the observation that we must continue to turn off more and more of our silicon if we can't scale dynamic and static power characteristics of transistors with their size. This problem threatens the well being of all semi conductor companies.

Do you think that Intel will just surrender and go bankrupt? If they don't defeat this problem, soon companies will have no reason to buy chips from Intel. So what if they have 2x the cores on the chip if you can only keep half of them active? Without breakthroughs in energy storage and heat dissipation, how can google/apple/... create exciting new compute devices if the processors continue to sip as much power as they did two years ago? Do we decrease the compute capabilities (i.e. give up on the additional transistors) or run them slower than we are used to and is that acceptable?

There is a lot of interest in continuing Moores law. Todays problem is power, like you pointed. Tomorrows problem will be different. With 100 billion dollar livelihoods on the line, I have no doubt they will be solved in the coming years!
I'd guess that it's like Google Glass - quick to read things like texts, and you can respond with short transcribed messages.
yeah it looks like a rectangular screen
I yet to meet a good engineer takes web IDE's seriously.
You said that they are trying to eliminate the dependency on make. Please please please tell me that they are considering something designed like tup instead:

http://gittup.org/tup/

Given how long it takes to build rust, I would hope a faster build system is a priority. Running `brew install rust` is bar none the longest build process I've seen in the brew ecosystem.
> The other half, however, are less pleasant to read and mostly contain a colorful mixture of swear words, conveying the basic message that they’d rather not be contacted in the future.

The fact that a full half of the people who bothered to respond were so offended by your actions that they took the time to swear at you might be a clue that spamming your customers is not a good way to generate positive feedback.

I recently bought tickets from Ticketmaster and stupidly gave them my real email address instead of my spam email, thinking perhaps they would send something I would need to get my tickets. I think I had to unsubscribe from five separate lists to get them to stop sending me garbage.

> I wish that they’d just click the “Unsubscribe” link in the email, since that’s what it’s there for after all

Tell you what, every day you send a spam bomb, spend 2 minutes staring at the wall for each and every person that clicks the Unsubscribe link. Then you'll have some understanding of how much time you are wasting for your potential (now probably ex-) customers. I mean, that's what the wall is there for after all.

In short, fuck spammers.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Comments

>Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Public facing code shouldn't be closed source. Sure, if you want to run something on your own and for your self, you don't have to share that with anyone, but when you put something out into the wild that can't be conclusively shown to not be malicious it should be treated like malware.

Edit: and also, what do you think the government should do for the people when it comes to digital rights? Or do you believe corporations know what's best? I for one don't believe in either.
The watch the woman in the first shot is wearing looks like a joke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqZl2QIz0c

That's the official Android Wear teaser video.
If they price this to compete with typical mid-high watches, then you're looking at about $4000 [1] which is more than enough to get some very impressive display technology in there.

If they skimp and try to put in cheap hardware and go for a $500 price target then this is going to fall flat. Hopefully they understand the watch market and know to charge more and put in the best materiel, but knowing the tech industry I doubt it a lot.

[1] http://www.thewatchquote.com/List-Price-and-tariff-for-Montb...
I am trying to develop a JIT for array processing [1].
Here are some resources I found useful so far

* Dr Paul Carter's tutorial [2]

* Intel processor reference [3]

* C ABI standard [4]

[1] https://github.com/wedesoft/aiscm

[2] http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/

[3] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectu...

[4] http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf
Maybe there's something lost in translation but I guess the story was leaked to journalists because the runways were specially designated i.e. bookmarked or set-up for regular practice with waypoints similar to what investigators have found.

I'm not a pilot, but I imagine if I were, I would want to try landing at airports I normally wouldn't. So in the simulator I would probably pick the world's toughest runways, the most scenic ones, runways on the other side of the world...

The Malaysians are being criticized but I don't think many countries would do that much better given the task in hand. Sure, the public relations and messaging should be better, but I'm sure there's a lot of stuff going on that we don't know about.
Do you really think browsing the web will be an important use-case for a watch?
This will never, ever, ever happen. There is too much money, for both sides, in pretending this isn't true.

The business side has been entrusted with a lot of money, its own or someone else's. Success has already been achieved. As such, it approaches things from a mindset of risk reduction. And the absolute worst thing possible, from a risk-reduction standpoint, is creative work. It's unpredictable, you don't know when you've got an end product, and it involves dealing with workers who have egos, who often work on things you don't understand. It is unmanageable, which obviously troubles those whose job it is to manage.

The most common approach, so far, has been to ignore this scary possibility: Keep projects as low-level as possible, spread responsibility far and wide (to reduce risk, not for optimal efficiency), and keep everyone wearing business casual.

Developers are (often) in the weird position of Ozzy Osbourne and other rock stars: potheads whose potheadery became valuable. What the developers know, however, is that businesses don't really want what they have to offer. They don't want to see the full effect of a bad trip. For every Bieber who turns crappy branding to gold in the teen girl demographic, there's Joe Concept Artist who's experimenting with some new grooves, but will never catch on. For every Zuckerberg who can bang out a social network in PHP, there's some dedicated open-source hacker whose dream is to make Lisp accessible to the common man.

And yet: the money guys are offering money. Just swallow your pride, play "Stairway to Heaven"[1] at the wedding, and pretend you've never had crazy eyes when talking about homoiconicity, and the rent will be paid.

[1]Nothing against the song.
The watch, like all smart watches, is big because of constraints of electronics and batteries, not some sexist conspiracy.
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Newsweek is a tabloid that will just run stories like this for attention. Everyone is paying attention to them therefore they win.
Old dumb feature phone.
I can definitely see a difference on this one, yes, about 30%. A question. Does "rendering not included" mean not including painting times, or not including the canvas API call times either? My profiler is showing a bunch of fill(), rect(), stroke(), moveTo() calls dominating the wall-clock time, but I'm not sure whether those are what's being measured here or not.
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That SE page is 2 years old. Also, "performant" doesn't have any great synonyms, so unless there's a strong risk of being misunderstood (unlikely in this context), there's no reason not to use it.
I think the idea is that it's simple — it's just a basic data structure in the language and can be generated or manipulated with just simple JavaScript. This is similar to why Lisp programs being Lisp data structures is interesting. Intriguingly, it looks like the API is compatible with React's JSX. With that, you could write this as:

@jsx m
todo.view = function(ctrl) {
return (
<html>
<body>
<input/>
<button>Add</button>
<table>
<tr>
<td><input type="checkbox"/></td>
<td>Desk description</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
);
}