skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what you are talking about. Do you know what metrology is?

If there is a NSL gag order in effect for the work recognized by the 2012 Physics Nobel how did the committee hear about the work? You think the scientific community just took Haroche and Wineland's word and never looked into their results?
This can be an interesting side channel for browser-device communication before we have proper USB access in browsers.

I'm sure it can be fully duplexed using the "mic jack"

Also epic use of WebAudio. :)
Find a simpler problem
I wonder when modern site design will finally mean aesthetically pleasing but easy to read and quick to load. Here's a mirror[0] that's just that.

[0] http://www.notehub.org/2014/3/25/you-have-probablly-heard-of...
> (1) As Bitcoin has yet to be recognised/classified as a currency or security, one could argue that derivatives based on the price of a Bitcoin are more akin to bets than financial derivatives. It'll be interesting to see if the CFTC will object.

Intrade sold binary options depending on, among other things, the outcome of political elections. They were most definitely a bet, but they were still a security according to the CFTC.

“It is against the law to solicit U.S. persons to buy and sell commodity options, even if they are called ‘prediction’ contracts, unless they are listed for trading and traded on a CFTC-registered exchange or unless legally exempt,” http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/americans-shut-out-of-intra...

The CFTC sued Intrade in 2012, and Intrade closed its doors to US customers.
Well, if donating money is political speech that's covered by the first amendment, then he shouldn't be surprised if his money talks.
I'm curious about that too, it seems very unlikely that the actual digitized RF waveform was available for analysis. My guess, based on working with somewhat similar systems in the past, is that the ping packet content was also tagged by the satellite with the measured carrier frequency (or offset from nominal) and this value had enough precision that it let them calculate the Doppler effect. The reason I would say this is because I've done similar things in the past for telemetry applications, it can be really handy for debugging when things aren't working right.
<3 you Ryan, owe you my business
Lahore is one of the most densely populated cities on the planet, almost five times denser than Calgary.
I'm surprised this didn't mention stacking contexts, which threw me for a loop a couple times:

http://philipwalton.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-about-...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Under...
It's kind of like when having a funeral without a body. Which is done in some extraordinary situations.

Statistically speaking, assuming the plane's final destination was somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean, there are no more survivors. If the plane had somehow landed in the Southern Indian Ocean (roiling seas, 20 to 40 foot waves [1], pitch black - remember moonless night) and there were survivors, there would be no more survivors two weeks later (hypothermia due to wind chill, lack of fresh water). Also, the emergency locators in the life rafts would have most likely sent out the distress signals upon contact with water.

The mystery of MH370 is that in most all previous cases of onboard fires, there was some successful attempt to make a form of emergency radio contact. Even when the ceiling was literally melting [2]. There was none with MH370.

[1] http://www.seos-project.eu/modules/oceancurrents/oceancurren...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
Also of note, Eller's Algorithm for mazes:

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/29/maze-generation-eller...
I love this. I want to flash this concept onto any number of Linux-based ARM boards and own my own services.
I think a big part of it is a "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality. It's the same reason why people always want the latest phone or car, or why businesses are quick to jump on the latest buzzword.
There really are many other apps that are useful besides just Google Maps though. It's great to have a phone that can play music for the gym, have an app like venmo for small transactions when you forget cash, or a portable e-reader for the bus or train, or uber for just-in-case situations... and many more. All of these aren't indispensable, but they just make life so much easier and better.

I definitely agree with you that removing social network apps is a great way to improve productivity a bit. And of course, if you don't need the apps listed above, then, yes, there isn't much point in paying extra for a smartphone. But please realize that many people are willing to pay for the significant convenience that a smartphone affords them.

Not using a smartphone just because of the battery life or durability though is silly. A specialized case will nearly solve both problems. There are privacy concerns and productivity concerns and price concerns, sure. But this is the future - and we should be trying to address those concerns and change them for the better, not fight smartphones altogether.
If you don't read the New York Review of Books already, and you like periodicals like the New Yorker and Economist, I recommend adding it to your list - and this article is a good example of why.

Also, this was such a great point by Soros from the interview: "According to Max Planck, among others, subatomic phenomena have a dual character: they can manifest themselves as particles or waves. Something similar applies to human beings: they are part freestanding individuals or particles and partly components of larger entities that behave like waves. The impact they make on reality depends on which alternative dominates their behavior. There are potential tipping points from one alternative to the other but it is uncertain when they will occur and the uncertainty can be resolved only in retrospect."
It's good at preventing use as well. Because manufacturers and shop owners want you to buy it, but they could care less if you ever use it. Make the bastards come up with a better solution.
Hire Before Its Too Late
On "Enlightenment"
So is Bitfinex' "liquidity swap market" [1][2] a rates market? It's basically just people with either USD, BTC or LTC deposited with the exchange, offering to lend it out at a certain rate, and borrowers bidding to borrow it.

[1] https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/features#swap
[2] http://charts-bfxdata.rhcloud.com/bitfinexLiquidityBTC.php
I love this. Keep calm and java on.
He doesn't like java.
Because the major consideration for any kind of policy is whether it feels subjectively fast enough for ganeumann, not whether it is good policy.
There have been countless (known) RTF vulnerabilities for over a decade.
Right, but as a Googler who went to FB, movement was much more common one way than the other. Also, I can say for a fact that Facebook recruiters were using Google org charts to reach out to people, so that's probably why they didn't agree to this, not because they're super awesome nice people.
My name isn't Patrick.
There us Premake which is Lua version and can be configured to do anything you want, and will run on anything.
Thanks for sharing. Really nice service they offer! Can you talk more about how you engaged with the 50,000 users to achieve 1300 targeted follows?
Thanks ! I am trying to find out a good attorney to discuss this.

I was trying to figure out and was wondering why aren't there any games that are "inspired" from movies ! So was just looking around trying to find answers.

I was searching for copyright and stuff and came across a whole bunch of posts/sites that talked about parody and fair-use, that's why I was wondering.

I like the TTT - The Game concept, that's kind of what I was thinking and not actually using the material from the movies.

My nephews and nieces are in the age group where all they talk about these days are these home alone, baby's day out kind of movies ! I know there's a whole bunch of games that are either from Disney or are Disney themed but I couldnt find anything from non-animated movies !!

I think non-zombie would be preferred by my target audience ;-)
In Big Law, rankings are everything and permeate the entire profession. See "PPP"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_firms_by_profits_pe...
Sounds great, you should run for the job. I'm sure if we just elected someone who was leader-y enough, they'd be able to turn that ship on a dime.
Nice coverage http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.in/2014/03/what-i-think-of-jsonb....
Very misleading title for a great article. I will probably point people to this in the future when they ask me why I don't like Java (yet continue to use it).
Here are the differences:

I don't care who Bill Clinton chooses to spend the night with. I do care who Bill Clinton campaigns to have the right to marry (and have definitely criticized him re: DOMA).

I don't care who Brendan Eich chooses to spend the night with. I do care who Brendan Eich works to get the state of California to say I (or his employees) have the right to marry.
what is this, fonts for ants?
That's a fair point, but that doesn't really lessen the massive theft by the top tech companies from essentially all software engineers. Law was just a point of comparison that struck me as puzzling at the time.
Sorry, I meant the ballot initiative. Given the money behind it, I suspect it will qualify and basically figured it is a given to be on the ballot.
If I interviewed for a company where a serious interview question was to copy stdin to stdout I'd probably laugh and walk out. Stating the obvious: this company obsesses over the most efficient way to re-invent the wheel... Good luck getting any real work done or learning any career portable skills!
Of course Facebook refused! They were hiring many more employees than Google was as a percentage of the starting employee base because of the insane growth they were undergoing. They were building a business, they had to keep poaching.

I don't think Facebook should get much credit for not participating, when they couldn't have.

Also, from a more game theoretical approach, they were a free rider on the collusion - they could have outed the collusion if they were that benevolent, since they clearly knew what was happening. Why didn't they publicize the blatantly wrong agreements at the time?
>what you did legally today may be illegal

In the United States, the Congress is prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.
almost.
http://ant.apache.org/
Well, I don't consider not cold-calling as a price fixing scheme. As long as normal hiring process continues, all you're doing is shifting recruiting from a smaller pool of highly compensated engineers, to a large pool of less compensated engineers.

It would only be price fixing if there was an industry wide agreement to put a cap on engineer salaries. Rather instead, what you have is an agreement to shop in one market exchange instead of another.

I mean, what do you think is better for both engineers in general, as well as the companies: Trading a small set of engineers back and forth with ever more escalating compensation in a bidding war, or, hiring from a large, general pool of applicants?

One way leads to disruption, mono-culture, and somewhat unfair bias towards those not on the roster already of the big companies. If anything, not cold calling should increase diversity as well.

This scheme only seems slimy to me, because any agreement between companies in secret, seems slimy. But I am really not seeing it as a price fixing scheme, and I find it hard to get myself motivated to Occupy Mountain View protesting.

This reminds me of several years ago when Google switched the Holiday gift from giving $1000 tax free cash in an envelope, to giving a free device (phone/tablet/etc). Some people were irritated by it and complained, but I found the complaints to be a solo on the world's tiniest violin. Seriously, there are people starving on Christmas, unable to even buy their children toys or clothes, and people earning in the top 1%-10% are annoyed that instead of $1000 cash, they get a $500 device for free. It's an even more absurd version of Louis C.K.'s "everything is awesome and no one is happy."
I like the piece but I'm afraid some people will just read the title on the front page and assume that someone reputable is actually endorsing Java.
NSA is executive, he doesn't need a law, he can turn it off RIGHT NOW. Sure get a law in place, but dont pretend you have to go through congress to do it.
I've dealt with one of these. EAN, the Expedia Affiliate Network[0], has an API with what they call an "XML" mode and a "REST" mode, where "REST" means JSON. The "REST" mode is very clearly translated directly from the XML mode. I'm simplifying and doing this from memory so bear with me, but here is how translation works:

<Hotel id="1">
<Amenity>Bacon</Amenity>
</Hotel>

turns into

{'Hotel': {'@id': '1',
'Amenity': 'Bacon'}}

Straight forward enough. But here's what happens when you have two <Amenity> elements:

<Hotel id="1">
<Amenity>Bacon</Amenity>
<Amenity>Chocolate</Amenity>
</Hotel>

Now turns into:

{'Hotel': {'@id': '1',
'AmenitysList': {'@size': 2,
'Amenitys':
[{'Amenity': Bacon'}
{'Amenity': Bacon'}]}}}

The translation engine appears to have no knowledge of the schema, it just adds ___List and ___s entries. So the schema of the JSON is different based on the presence of a repeated element

Also since it doesn't have any knowledge of the schema, all elements are textual except the special @size element.

Because @size is a special element for these lists (which of course you have no need for in JSON), but the engine turns XML attributes into @____ as well, there is no way to get at the actual "size" attribute if one exists.

[0] http://developer.ean.com/docs/hotel-list/
Myo armband controlling 2048 [video]
Who exactly is Tinder pissing off? I feel like the author is completely misunderstanding one key thing about Tinder: it isn't really a dating app, it's a "hook up" app. Hook up apps have always offended and pissed people off, but I'd say Tinder is doing the exact opposite. They have managed, and this is why I'm so impressed with them, to make what is essentially used for finding sex almost classy. Most women would never sign up for Adult Friend Finder (sorry guys, those ads are lies), and if they did they would certainly make sure no one they knew ever found out about it for fear of being shamed. Yet almost every college aged girl I've talked to has openly signed up for Tinder. The lesson to take away from this, in my opinion, is the subtlety of Tinder. Tinder presents itself as a tame dating app, but it's designed in a way that's used for something else. Because of the way Tinder looks on the outside people are open about using it, even though everyone knows what's on the inside.
Too little too late. When are the Democrats going to realize -- and I am a Democratic leaning Independent -- that their custodial control of the most extensive surveillance mechanism in the history of the planet is objectionable to the people like me who would normally support them.
Data scientist consulting to startups?
Has your startup hired a "big data"/data scientist/machine learning consultant before? If so, what was your experience? Why did you hire them? Where did you first meet them? How much did it cost? Would you hire them again?
In time of war, minutes are an eternity. No reason these soldiers should have had to wait so long other than inefficiency.
Nice article! After reading it I can tell I like Java too.
The author made it clear that the question's primary purpose was to see if the applicant could use the system. They assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that the problem was about as trivial as hello world.
i mean, come of, of course they did. it was going to be like 99:1 in Facebook's direction.

this isn't any shining beacon of ethics.
It's a big PDF, and a terrible article that doesn't describe an "invention". No PDF warning, and it's not a scribd either (it's not wrapped in a reader to prevent a massive download).
EDIT: Some of this answer maybe still applies, but basically I seem to have misread the question. Apologies.

HN has in fact changed quite a lot over the years and PG has been visibly tweaking it continually. I guess you are asking specifically about why the graphic design has not changed much...

Pretty clearly modernity per se is not worth optimizing for. I have zero inside knowledge, but some thoughts on what the current design might be optimizing:

1) HN probably benefits from discouraging undesired users in a variety of subtle ways. Like the trivial Metafilter subscription fee, an unadorned layout may create a low bar that discourages extremely casual users. PG is pretty explicitly NOT trying to rapidly scale HN.

2) The YC partners have a lot of opportunity costs for every hour of work. Current layout good enough? OK, on to the next problem...

3) Quick load times, works in any browser/OS/device.

To answer your question with a question: what do you think could be functionally improved by a redesign?
My experience with Windows laptops is totally different
Interesting polemic. The arguments aren't super compelling to me.

Ultimately java is just a tool. The culture around it shapes the macro picture but still.
Ask HN: If you were in college, what do you want to hear in a 'career' talk?
I'm giving a talk to a class of senior IT college students regarding career path. I have a few topics in mind.

Any suggestions?
at the wearscript hackathon at the media lab right now, this tech is pretty crazy awesome. check it out at wearscript.com

making a pokemon game in real life using go, wearscript, a myo, a pebble, and google glass, along w/ a couple of dead long json files.
What about Internet traffic?
This is incorrect actually. Pay for lawyers forms a bimodal distribution, where graduates from the top ten law schools tend to occupy most of the high end of the distribution while everyone else tends to fall in the lower end.
Or, what if they studied the time dilation between pings? The pings are probably on a precise, known schedule.
One catch with that: Since Sandstorm packages contain native code, they need to target a particular architecture. I've defined x86-64 as the preferred architecture. In theory all the code should build and run fine on ARM, but you'll need to convince all the app developers to build separate ARM packages. :/
LOL, just watch a YouTube video of it.
If you poach an engineer from another company that means the other company must replace that engineer or be less productive. This company would then be the one to hire the outside engineer at the improved salary.

i.e. If Google wants another engineer it can hire from outside or it poaches Facebook's(or another's in that club). In the second case Facebook (now needing an engineer) will then either poach from Google(or another in that club) or hire an outside engineer. The only way an outside engineer isn't hired is if Facebook/Google decide that an extra engineer is not worth the new higher salary (or the expected lower worth of them since they constantly jump ship).

Even if the pool is smaller than the current pool of engineers at the big companies it would still arguably be a "fairer" distribution of wealth because the profits are more evenly spread through the successful companies. It would also mean that as the larger companies produce less (fewer engineers to make things) there are more engineers that could be working on competing/niche products that are currently worked on by the larger companies.
Thanks for the link! I had not seen that before. I'd like to give the "get the government out of all marriage" position some more thought. As with any new position, I'm sure that will lead to quite a few questions and personal snags. Since you seem to believe in that, and I'm sure have thought about it more deeply than I have, I'd love to be able to field you some questions after a day or two if you wouldn't mind!
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I invented the piano key necktie! What have you done Derek?!
And the people who can afford a $500,000 diesel pusher RV can afford the self driving option. Who wants to park a 40' RV anyway? I am sure they would much rather check the $5000 (or even $10,000) dollar option.
In related news, Warner Bros. is putting money into Machinima. They had funded the Mortal Combat series on Machinima before, but it looks like they're buying in big now.

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/warner-bros-is-buying-a...
Per the article, this didn't sound like a serious question, but a "get used to the system we use" question. Like a test system implementing a multiple choice exam asking a ridiculously stupid first question to get the user familiar with the interface, like: "Is your name: A. Jtsummers; B. Bob Summers; C. John Doe; D. The Queen of England". And expecting the user to correctly pick their own name.
Is that still true if you address his point by checking new hires at the top ten law firms?
Ten things we know to be true...

...make that nine things we know to be true...
> I honestly can't imagine the morality of someone who would just abandon their project, their baby, so to speak, and go work somewhere else at the first call from another company offering more money.

Employees (most of the time) don't own the work that they produce for the company, and they themselves are not property of the company. Unless they are contractually obligated to stay at a company for a certain amount of time, there is no reason for them to work for less than they are worth and reject an offer that would make them happier.

Employees have good reasons for switching jobs. If they feel dedicated to their current job then they always have the option to stay.

>Poaching employees like this is also very unfair to every company...

Employees are human beings, not chattel. You started off by doubting the morality of people who switch jobs, but now you make it seem as the are powerless to choose where they work and must always leave for a company that offers more money.

>spending a lot of resources to find the right employees, to build the right teams from other channels, only to have the competition cold call them and take them away after the former company has done the hard work.

Not every employee will switch jobs because he or she received a better offer. And if finding another employee is so costly, then matching the new offer would probably save them money.

>There's also the problem of trade secrets. An employee who has spent some time at, say, Apple, learns a lot about their product plans, processes, methods, and so on. Getting those employees means that one way or another you get access to these carefully kept trade secrets implicitly, if not explicitly.

That's what the legal system is for.

> Keeping wages down is bad, but employees who keep shifting jobs, leaving a trail of destruction behind them is also bad.How do we resolve both sides of the issue so everyone is happy?

Pay the employees what they're worth.
The companies paying low wages to H1Bs are outsourcing companies like Wipro and CTS who bring over employees from countries like India. I can tell you for certain that all my friends working in tech are making 120k+ from the big guys and many of us are Indians straight out of a Masters program.
I know, I almost thought that the whole Snowden thing was their way to bring it out in the open to make it permanent. There is a collective, "meh", and the programs (include the drone assassinations) are made law.
If you have an engineer using publicly broadcast random numbers in your cryptography, the problem did not originate in the font size of the "Beware of the Leopard" sign.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Yes. The solution to pollution is dilution. He needs to spread "the blame" across all of congress. Just like gitmo.

He sends legislation to congress to "fix" the problem and it never gets through. The whole thing is a smoke screen.
I bet someone is going to post an article named "Why I hate Java"
Sabbaticals rule. Surfing in Bali, traipsing through Patagonia, jump on a freight train or choose your own adventure.