skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the spacetime diagram of the skydiver LIF:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=4695258&postcoun...

Note that everything is identical to the other diagram except for the lines of constant r.
Google has the exact same wording in their EULA:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

"protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, our users or the public as required or permitted by law."
MapR M7 Tables removes much of the complexity and layers of HBase (http://www.mapr.com/products/m7).
We are still trying to figure out international shipping. More details will be available on the kickstarter page.
Earlier today "Turkey’s Erdogan Now Says He’ll Shut Down Twitter, Too"
http://time.com/32339/turkey-erdogan-twitter/
I think to meet the legal test it would have to hit servers controlled by the USPS so that it would be considered "delivered by USPS" but yeah pretty much...
Yeah, a restaurant style mat is pretty much all you need.
Not sure if that would help since they're already logging all physical mail.

http://consumerist.com/2013/07/03/forget-the-nsas-hi-tech-sn...
I don't think it would be much easier/harder, but at least it would be obviously constitutionally illegal rather then a grey area as it is now.
There's nothing to be embarrassed about. If I were interviewing you, I would hope you would frame your experience in terms of what you did, that was technically interesting, as opposed to the nature of the site...but, obviously don't lie about anything. I'm positive that I wouldn't care anyway.

Also, small startups are filled with guys that watch porn and are pretty open minded.

Good luck!
And, parenthetically, the "inland lake" would be the Sea of Galilee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee#Ancient_and_Cla...

Much of the ministry of Jesus occurred on the shores of Lake Galilee. In those days, there was a continuous ribbon development of settlements and villages around the lake and plenty of trade and ferrying by boat. The Synoptic gospels of Mark (1:14–20), Matthew (4:18–22), and Luke (5:1–11) describe how Jesus recruited four of his apostles from the shores of Lake Galilee: the fishermen Simon and his brother Andrew and the brothers John and James. One of Jesus' famous teaching episodes, the Sermon on the Mount, is supposed to have been given on a hill overlooking the lake. Many of his miracles are also said to have occurred here including his walking on water, calming the storm, the disciples and the boatload of fish, and his feeding five thousand people (in Tabgha).
Are you really having trouble coming up with situations where I might not be logged in?

* cleared cache/cookies
* set up new computer / using new VM
* using alternate browser for testing
* something on server-side invalidated cookie
Because they are both branches of the government. The USPS has no incentive to tell taxpayers the NSA is spying on them. At least with a private company there is a profit motive, and they could lose customers over bad press.
FUCK THAT

sorry - had to
Why wouldn't they dilute their brand? They've built up a reputation of building a high end product. If someone begins selling a product that looks nearly identical to their own, that's of inferior quality, how does that not affect their own reputation?
The issue with PC hardware is that it's just too varied to get really close to the metal. The deeper you get, after all, the more different the various GPU architectures become. Consoles, on the other hand, are all identical, so you can do the most unportable bitfucking to get the absolute most out of the hardware. This is also the reason why it takes years for games to really start to shine on a console: it takes that long for game developers to really get to know all the nitty-gritty details that just do not exist on the PC.

Console games often look mediocre despite the above because console hardware is far cheaper, and thus simply less powerful, than the hardware in high end gaming PCs, despite the fact that consoles benefit from economies of scale, and are priced at a loss to boot. It is not fair to compare the way a game looks on a $2000 PC to the way it looks on a $400 console.
Off topic: The name Office of Legal Compliance immediately made me think of 1984's Ministry naming. Similarly to how the Ministry of Truth's job is to spread propaganda and falsify history in the novel, this Office of Legal Compliance department's job is to ask themselves, "How far can we push the envelope toward being illegal, but still remain within legal boundaries?"

Essentially their job is dealing with things that border on being illegal. Determining how far you can get to illegality, while remaining technically inside legality.

For the first time the notion of "newspeak" in real life has clicked for me. I'd never grokked the idea from the novel, other than as some fear mongering fantasy that Orwell invented for the sake of compelling irony. But now I see, names actually make sense, from a certain angle. They weren't purely ironic devices.

For the record, I'm NOT comparing Microsoft to Big Brother. Just funny to draw that parallel in naming choices.
There is also a free ebook exploring elastic search

http://exploringelasticsearch.com/
1. Did you guys license the Aphex Twin track you started the video with?

2. How much is this thing? You say it's a lower price than other sit/stand desks, and will be at a special discounted price, but nowhere on the page can I find a number.
Why would you ever think they wouldn't? One of the many reasons that webmail is for jokers.
The theory of a barter economy as the origin
of money has been debunked by David Graeber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs
(I find his talk fascinating). He gets into
what money is around minute 19.

Whether you buy his arguments or not, modern money
works like this: The state requires payment of
currency (fees, fines, taxes, etc),
the state spends currency (of course it
must spend it before it can ever collect it). The
money derives its value via the demand for it
from the soverign.

I like this analogy that Warren Mosler uses in his
"Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy":
http://goo.gl/mOj5no

The story begins with parents creating coupons they then
use to pay their children for doing various household chores.
Additionally, to “drive the model,” the parents require the
children to pay them a tax of 10 coupons a week to avoid
punishment. This closely replicates taxation in the real
economy, where we have to pay our taxes or face penalties.
The coupons are now the new household currency. Think of
the parents as “spending” these coupons to purchase “services”
(chores) from their children. With this new household currency,
the parents, like the federal government, are now the issuer of
their own currency. And now you can see how a household
with its own currency is indeed very much like a government
with its own currency.

Let’s begin by asking some questions about how this new
household currency works. Do the parents have to somehow
get coupons from their children before they can pay their
coupons to their children to do chores? Of course not! In
fact, the parents must first spend their coupons by paying
their children to do household chores, to be able to collect the
payment of 10 coupons a week from their children. How else
can the children get the coupons they owe to their parents?
[...]
Glad to see this. The reference documentation is pretty opaque.

So far, the best resource I've found is "Exploring Elasticsearch". http://exploringelasticsearch.com/
Hotmail is a service offered to the public, and the person was accessing it as such. The hotmail account was his personal email account, not his company-provided email account.

Imagine if Ford motors said: Oh, we can look into the Ford cars that Ford employees have bought with their own money and drive to weekend outings with their families, because we made and service the cars.

I don't think this will fly very far.
House To Vote On Controversial ‘No More National Parks’ Policy
MetroDeals And CashCashPinoy Are Starting To Accept Bitcoins
I honestly believe the nerdery around 2048 to be a generally positive thing. I love games and the possibilities they hold for shared understanding of systems...
I don't think that should be the case, but the solution should be more awareness rather than regulation. People should realize that they're giving up something to get a free service or subsidized products like Chromebooks rather than government interfering. Restricting people from searching their own servers will solve nothing.
Yeah, but I don't quite see why I should care about that aside from my default state of caring about the actual people.
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DNS based block at the moment, IP based one will follow for sure. Please remember that YouTube was also banned for a couple of years in the past [1].

This is related to the corruption scandal in Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan's government is trying to stop the release of leaked tapes on social media.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_YouTube#.C2.A0Tur...
Military / police / militia, whatever type of scary men with guns you are insinuating above...
Acquia certification for Drupal
> with a private company there is a profit motive, and they could lose customers over bad press

Which means that companies are only going to want to hide, downplay, and pretend to prevent such spying. This sounds familiar..
As much as I prefer not to engage trolls...

Which language would have been a good technical decision in 2002-2003? It needs to be fast enough in terms of iteration. It needs to not require more resources than PHP. It must be easy to onboard people who don't know it onto. It needs to be easy to operate, and not be costly to deploy on the tens, hundreds, and then thousands of servers necessary. (Spending time learning a new technology that others think is cool or which seems cool, while trying to also build a product, has sunk more than a few startups...)

What was bad about the decision to keep the reasonably well-performing and reasonably suited-to-purpose PHP code for front-end code, and peel off suitable tasks into services like the feed, typeahead, messages, and so forth into languages like C++, Java, and so forth. What was bad with the decision to let hundreds of software engineers continue to build the PHP code-base while a much smaller group of people work on projects to improve the efficiency of both the execution environment but also the tooling and developer efficiency on that code-base? Their contribution there is multiplied out by the improved efficiency of those hundreds of developers and the code they wrote.

Seemingly Facebook survived its growth phase fairly well and didn't need a tiger team from outside to handle it - and without the reliability problems others who chose to use languages other than PHP for their front-end and decided to rewrite their much smaller surface area in other languages.

As much as people may dislike PHP (and I'm one of them), it was definitely "good enough". Many languages may not have been, even if they are nicer languages in some objective way.

(Disclaimer: I actually have to write code in Facebook's PHP code-base every once in a while. But most of the code I work with is Python, Java, or C++.)
Yeah, I admit it's a very broad generalization. I suspect it's because PHP developers are probably older developers with a bit more experience. Many python and ruby folks are new, and as a non-technical person, I can't really determine if they're good or not until they start working on a project.
I'm pretty sure the contract with Google would include "Google may not inspect the content of email except to insure proper operation of the system, upon penalty of... blablabla US Postal Code...blahblahblah ...fines ...felony... prison... etc..."
I'm criticizing the GPL as inconsistent because it draws lines haphazardously. That it is ok with the API but not with the distribution feels arbitrary and inconsistent to me.

The AGPL is elegantly precise - anything you do to the code becomes public.

The bad is elegantly precise - anything you do is fine.

GPL is complicated and inelegant - some things are fine while their near equivalent actions aren't.

Edited to clarify
Definitely was not our StandDesk.
Yes, that is going to be an option on the kickstarter.
Besides which, we weren't providing that much funding to nuclear physics before the War.

We only funded the Manhattan Project after the War had already started, and after nuclear fission had already been demonstrated in the lab. In Germany, mind you.

In other words, we didn't get the atomic bomb by lavishly funding the second least useful field of science. We got it by funding what was already known at the time to be the most promising weapon of mass destruction.

People had been writing about the possibilities of atomic energy since Rutherford. In fact, H. G. Wells even wrote a book, prior to the First World War, on how nuclear weapons would make it possible to destroy human civilization. (He got the details wrong about how the weapon worked, but he appreciated the enormous energies involved.)

A bunch of medieval historians may not have appreciated nuclear physics, but the real experts already knew of its potential. It was, after all, Albert Einstein who helped get the ball rolling on the Manhattan Project, by signing that letter and lending his celebrity to the cause.
> Those games look like shit compared to a PC that came out on the say day, let alone years later.

1. Developers had no experience with the hardware during the initial years of the consoles.

They had to switch from an out-of-order and forgiving x86 to an in-order and unforgiving PowerPC that had substantially less cache (32k/32k vs 64k/2mb/8mb) than its PC counterparts of the day. Just ask any PC-gone-console developer of that age about LHS[1], or the off-the-wall Cell Broadband Architecture[2].

2. Developers had to manage 512MiB between the GPU and CPU.

Everything has to fit into that including the operating system... and I found 1GiB uncomfortable for PCs in 2006!

+ It was split on PS3, and you had to DMA into 256k for SPUs.
+ EDRAM was slightly too small to fit 1280x720x32x4 render targets.

3. Developers had no guarantee of permanent storage.

So everything had to be streamed from disk... which is unsavoury for various reasons.

Contortionist programming springs to mind[3].

4. PCs get upgraded.

'Nuff said.

[1]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132084/sponsored_featu...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8CVLVmKQs&t=4m

[3]: http://doublebuffered.com/2010/03/17/gdc-2010-streaming-mass...

(I'm assuming Gen 7, i.e., the Xbox 360 and PS3.)
Explain to me why it's a shame to have used Facebook?
2048, the "has this ship already sailed or can I still get on" version.
That's an interesting spin, especially in light of the way people talk about how "Romanized" many aspects of Christianity to increase it's adoption. However, I think you could also see Paul as a dedicated manager, frequently writing letters of encouragement and advice to all the churches.
I agree it's a terrible hiring mistake. But this is a story about a mistake he made. Without it, there would be no story. (And hopefully he didn't make the same mistake afterward)
Because professional engineers choose test equipment based on functionality, and color schemes fall pretty low on the list. (yeah, this may be hard to believe if you have a primarily software background)
"Those APIs weaken ... your ability to think about graphics programming." - what is the justification for this? I don't really see that it follows, as virtually all of the interesting stuff (CPU code, shaders) is API-agnostic.
While Norvig's argument is interesting and convincing, it has to be pointed out that it is far from a proof.
That's the point: Google has their own interests, and they're not aligned with my privacy or security, except to not be embarrassed. There is a lot they could do besides forcing encryption on everyone, but I honestly think they have other priorities.
Entering Opportunity (Wearable Technology)
I think that's actually his point: that its better to hire an ordinary employee who will work hard at a realistic goal than to hire a flighty genius, whether self-appointed or not.

"Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost never do."

"These are quite simple rules...No Edison could ever qualify."
Wow:

“I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic.”

Did he actually say that? In regards to shutting down twitter to stop a scandal? If you truly weren't responsible for w/e scandal, then wouldn't you just not care?

Edit: Also that line seems perfect for a James Bond villain lol.
I certainly have opinions about Bill Gates. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
It would be interesting to see SparkFun introduce their products with their own red color to brand hobbyist equipment as its own segment—compliment Fluke's reliance on color to connote the primary qualities of the brand.

Red = accessible, versatile hobbyist equipment
Yellow = rugged, reliable industrial equipment

Great response from Fluke nonetheless.
Cool, I hope you can figure out a way to do it cheaply. Too often I see great products double in price after taxes and shipping. Good luck - if you can work it out I will definitely purchase one!
We actually do the registrations, not just an affiliate thing like kayak or hipmunk....opentable for kids camps?
Contrived experiment is contrived.
"My computer is more powerful than your console, so that means it's more fun! Can't you see that I'm having more fun than you?!? Hey! Stop having fun right now!"

Yeah, shitty PC ports of console games are a problem, I'll totally agree with that. Of course, they're also a tiny percentage of all PC games. It's not like there's not other stuff for you to play. And whose fault is it that there are shitty PC ports? Well, the publishers looking for a quick buck--oh no, silly me, it's the console gamers! Their gamepad-clutching fingers are pulling the strings of a Machiavellian global network designed expressly to ruin your fun!

Jesus Christ. The Xbox fans hate the Sony fans, and the Windows fans hate the Apple fans, and the PC fans hate the console fans, oh, the black folks hate the white folks, and the white folks hate the black folks, all of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgASBVMyVFI&t=0m44s There's gotta be someone I can blame for my burnt toast and my broken shoelace.

Get your shit together and get worked up about something that matters.

And in the mean time, play some games, have fun, and stop stressing so much!
Thanks for the encouragement, Bart! We hope so too...
Could someone please make a meta-2048 where each possible tile is one of the different versions of the 2048 game?
there exist a cross platform solution namely spotflux (a free vpn service). also, tor browser could be a way
And yet, RSA didn't come totally clean. Other companies can be served with gag orders preventing them from informing their customers of what's going on behind the scenes.

Furthermore, the NSA reading email is effectively a data breach, and many companies take the view that hiding a data breach is a good thing - no press about data breach means no bad press means no lost customers.
Lawyers have to pass a bar exam. Doctors have to get through medical school and supervised internships. Real engineers have to go to an accredited school. Truck drivers have to pass a test and prove they can drive a damned truck before they get the job.

People aren't forced to choose bad programmers, they don't know bad programmers from good ones or even barely competent ones.

What do you have to do to get hired as a coder?

Put a few buzzwords on your resume, spout them back in an interview to someone who has no idea what they mean and frantically google whatever you don't know on the job.

This is why everyone wants you to take a whiteboard test before they'll hire you now. It's all the due diligence they can afford. Sadly, a simple FizzBuzz test would disqualify most "coders".

http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
I am a graphics engine programmer. This is not an absolute. Rather, a graphics API is an abstraction of a generic GPU, so it is never as low-level as it could be. The more the API provides ways to expose the underlying hardware more directly, the more the API can be said to enable "low-level" programming. It's relative. You can hear Carmack talk about this issue in some of his QuakeCon keynotes.
Thanks. I really need to either clear more stuff off my plate or sort out my work situation where I don't have post-workday burnout. Between my job, family commitments and working on my vehicle, I have trouble finding time to start anything now. I get a tremendous amount done when I'm not working.

I either have to settle with how things are now or change the work situation I think. I'll look into that book anyway.
yo .. that sudoko solver SQL and Madelbrot SQL is sick !!!
I have been using Docker to grade HW submission since October, in a more disposable and safer way, and I am building an automated system around it, kudos to Docker and the team
A lot of irony in your statement. I've been involved in the retail automotive space for 8 years, so I'm not just talking out my ass.

It's a FACT that some dealers will sell new vehicles for below cost. One very simple example is when dealers are trying to hit stair-step incentive goals near the end of the month. This is where a manufacturer will pay out a bonus incentive on EVERY vehicle sold that month, if and only if the dealer hits a certain sales goal. If they are off by 1, they don't get any bonus. If they sell that one additional vehicle, they may get as much as $100,000 in bonuses. Dealers sell cars for below cost all the time.
SplashMaps – Maps for the REAL outdoors (on demand textile printing of maps)
The cynic in me says we went to the moon because putting a man on the moon made real the capability of getting an ICBM to anywhere on the earth - both to ourselves and the rest of the world. The optimist in me hopes we can setup shop somewhere, anywhere off-planet without similar motivations prodding us.