skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a great idea, and even a major innovation, except Smart cars are so fucking overpriced that only hipsters buy them.
You can do a heck of a lot in 1.44MB. The original Mac had a complete GUI plus some applications running from a 400K floppy, plus a 64K ROM.

People forget.
I have to admit, that's some of the friendliest looking assembly source code I've seen. http://www.menuetos.net/e64.asm Granted, I haven't looked at assembly in over 15 years...
Bingo, the tivo's and tomtom's of the world. and if you go by generic unix-style systems, you can throw in iphones and ipod touches to that list too.
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Ok, redesigned it all... please chek it out again.

http://bit.ly/LvhkY
Hiring a sales person... Any advice?
My small business (myself and 2 other co-owners) has reached the point where we no longer have the time to run our business and time to sell. We've grown to the point where all 3 of us have critical jobs handling our existing clients that we just do not have the time to go out and sell anymore. We've tried this once before and got burned pretty bad. Our previous sales person sold himself wonderfully in the interviews, but when it came to selling our service he failed miserably. No self-drive, no motivation, etc. It's been about 8 months since we let him go, and we're now looking for another sales person. Does anyone have any advice on hiring sales people so we don't get burned again? We thought the last guy was going to be great due to the way he presented himself in the interviews. Also, what do you fellow hn users suggest about pay? Should it be straight salary, or smaller salary plus commission, or just straight commission?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated :)
They can get 100mbps from the moon but I can't get 8mbps from my phone exchange 1.5km away.
Hi, I'm actually the OP -- sorry for taking so long to reply, but my laptop went KABOOM a little whlie back, taking my saved hn password with it. I'd love to chat more if you've the time, my AIM is thelemonkiller -- if you prefer another means of communication, let me know!
didn't they do that on house?
Sorry mahmud, I didn't see that it was so old (I just looked at it again...the comments are from 2003!)

I'm trying to learn a bit of linux and LISP, but I haven't been able to find any good "from scratch" tutorials on how to get Apache working with LISP/Scheme/Arc. I actually just started reading PG's book on LISP though, and I have a pretty good idea of how I want to implement LISP on IIS (I'm trying to do it as a learning exercise.)
Convert an ASF file to AVI (DivX) format 
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I'm entirely convinced that Wolfram Research only hires UX people from SAP.

EDIT: And this thought made me send my resume to them. Alpha is the sort of project that people seem to root for - unlike, say, Cuil - and I think it's because people see the germ of something special there. But patience isn't infinite. Can't be a hater all the time.
Crack Creative (http://www.crackcreative.com) developed a new production technology called "Virtual Production" for Avatar back in 2005. It allows directors to shoot CG motion capture characters and settings interactively like an actual location.

Pace Camera (http://www.pacetech.com/) developed the 'fusion' 3d camera to film(HD) the live action parts http://www.nowpublic.com/3d_hd_fusion_camera_from_pace.
Its nice, I had a delicious lunch today and an even more delicious dinner and all it took was just a few lines of code. I think i wrote maybe 100. Those 100 lines accomplished a lot though. So thanks for the sushi jquery, and I enjoyed the sandwich .NET.
The author has already separated the strings and piano intruments into different tracks, So this wouldn't work as an itunes/milkdrop plugin, where you only have one flattened track.
Something that's not to be copied, IIRC.
and thank god they didn't.
There's nothing wrong with grabbing random snippets from the Oblique Strategies list. :(
Journalists could impart more information by writing more concisely.
Crack Creative (http://www.crackcreative.com) developed a new production technology called "Virtual Production" for Avatar back in 2005. It allows directors to shoot CG motion capture characters and settings interactively like an actually location.

Pace Camera (http://www.pacetech.com/) developed the 'fusion' 3d camera to film(HD) the live action parts http://www.nowpublic.com/3d_hd_fusion_camera_from_pace.
It's not guaranteed by the language that pointers are as big as or bigger than integers. Some architecture somewhere might die horribly on this. comp.lang.c FAQ on this: http://c-faq.com/ptrs/int2ptr.html
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Maybe I can write that much needed Hunchentoot 1.0.0 document. All the tutorials are for version 0.15.7; the API has changed since.

There are two issues involved here: 1) Do you want a "web app", or do you want a web platform. It's trivial to get an app up and running in 15 minutes. install hunchentoot, load it into your Lisp of choice and fire away (start by writing handlers, using CL-WHO.)

If you want a platfrom, then there are many many engineering decisions to be made. Performance, scalability, security, availability and most of all easy of deployment, development, upgrade and code aesthetics. You can use fastcgi and write Lisp scripts for Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd or any other industrial strength web server. Over the last few weeks I have hacked together various things that should be useful to people; an RBAC implementation, a Redis based message queue, some rudimentary code for managing server farms, etc.

You can use your RDBMS of choice; CL-SQL, Postmodern and Cl-Perec are all powerful ORMs and middleware. There also NoSQL solutions readily available to make you both proud and buzz-word compatible.

Read Cliki and you can find everything you need to create a URL shortner or a twitter clone right there.

Scheme community should have similar tools as well, though they're a bit more fragmented than we are.
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As awesome as it is for us, it is incredibly shitty for the folks working in sweatshops in asia.

I am pro capitalism, but the current system does have pretty deep social costs. [a second caveat being I can suggest no superior practical alternative]
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The market is efficient.
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We have these in our main product at work. They are powerful and very useful but they can get out of hand and be difficult to debug or add code to.
This is exactly what I've seen here in Mexico. The majority like to go to McDonald's for a mediocre event, like good grades, a pay raise or something to that effect. You would still be able to get a better meal for much less at your regular taco stand, but people pay the premium for the American brand. Whereas in other parts of the world some people go even twice a day.
> For a long time, I thought my calling was in medicine. Sometimes, when I read about interesting new research in neroscience, I wonder what would have happened if I had continued studying medicine. Who knows?

I feel exactly the same way. Since taking an introductory biology class in school, I've always been extremely interested in biology and biotech in general. The fact that the possibilities in changing, improving, and modifying the human body, as well as other biology and even non-animate things (which ventures a bit into chemistry/physics) is very appealing.

I frequently read Wikipedia (probably a bit too much) on biology, specifically on things like medicine and psychoactives.

The fact that the human body can be infinitely modified is likewise infinitely amazing to me. Biotech and bioscience would certainly be my #2 after entrepreneurship, if I had another life.

Fantastic article and presentation, btw.
Interactive isn't worth it unless you're looking to get the word out or schmooze and network, which are all important things but not if it takes time out of getting an alpha product out.

My 2c. :)
This strategy is strange. I'd expect FB to allow open syndication of updates, where it would then be easy to aggregate them on Twitter or on any other number of platforms.

But why skip this step and simply offer a way to stream onto Twitter? There must be some strategic component to this that I'm missing.
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I would argue the east asian McD's are more seen as trendy than 'high class'. High class perhaps in pricing, but nobody sees it as 'high class food'.
Not a coding trick but more of an artistic hack:

I used to work at a major video game studio where one guy in the building was moving from production to production as a "reverse concept-artist"

I explain: Some modelers that design characters for video game sometime skip the concept-art phase (paper pencil drawings) and move directly to 3D CAD. But those rough sketches are really good for gaming magazines or online articles to show the progression of the artistic direction.

So that guy's job was to render the final 3D model of the character in wireframe mode and then re-touching it in photoshop to make it look like an original paper drawing. The result was quite convincing and appeared in several magazines as the initial artistic sketches for the game characters.
I thought the graphics were commendable; that's about it.
it is incredibly shitty for the folks working in sweatshops in asia.

No, poverty is incredibly shitty for the folks working in sweatshops in Asia. Nike didn't invent poverty. It got there a long time before Nike -- or America, or the nation of China for that matter. Poverty is the natural state of the human condition.

For most of human civilization, we've had societies where almost everyone was desperately poor and then a few people were marginally less poor. (Poor Americans eat better and have better healthcare than European aristocrats from a few centuries ago. Plus, they don't defecate in buckets they sleep next to, which is a plus.)

The newfangled innovation brought about by capitalism isn't poor people: its rich people. Rich people who are so overflowing with money they buy frivolous shoes, enabling some Chinese peasant to get off the farm. Chinese peasants are pretty much in favor of getting off the farm -- it gives their kids a much better shot at surviving to the age of 5, and means you don't have to deal with famine.
It doesn't matter. There are millions of people getting paid who produce zero or negative value (if that's possible?) their entire lives. Not that they have intentionally done anything wrong. Many people just end up on a path they believe is right but ends up going nowhere (ever hear of CIA agents chasing some guy their entire life only to find out it was all for nothing?). It's necessary for us to advance so don't feel bad. You chose your path. They chose theirs.
Depends on your definition of contaminate.
That valley just isn't quite canny enough yet. Though it's getting beter.
This thread of mine died a horrible death yesterday :-(

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772567

I am on the sales side of things, building a portfolio of luxury products and services to package as an offer for some clients of mine. Let me tell you this, nothing motivates like an open ended commission. Name your base price and tell salespeople they can put their own commission on top.

Last time we hired a sales guy, he was a recently divorced, middle-aged English man who spent the last 20 years selling financial products in Hong Kong and Singapore. We wanted him to sell electronic gadgets: I kid you not, the gray-hair sat down and did his homework, and in 3 weeks he knew the specs of every gadget we had and those of our competition by heart. He did wonders for us, but he pretty managed to self himself back into the financial industry. People like those are easier to get when they're down on their luck. Since I tended to do the sales myself and started delegating the programming, when I had to choose between the two.

Also don't underestimate the power of network marketing. No, not the pyramid schemes, but your network of friends, acquaintances and fellow HN users. If I know you sell product X and you're charging $Y for it; if I like you as a person and trust your ability to deliver, you can bet I will send someone your way who will pay $Y+N dollars for a unit of X, and I expect N to end up in a bank account of mine somewhere :-)

Put an email in your profile, for starters.
Yeah, really. A few more micrograms of coke and those fiat dollars might actually be worth something.
In my opinion, smaller salary (enough to survive, though it's tough to define "survive") plus commission. Check references, look for a track record (if they can sell themselves to you, they should also be able to sell themselves enough to have substantial presence on Google). Lots of people these days hire people initially on a contract basis for a probationary period, that might work for you.
It's somewhat subjective. This seems like a good summary:

http://www.kosherblog.net/2006/11/02/faq-is-kosher-meat-bett...
The primary problem from my point of view is that something, somewhere, deep in your system in an unexamined code path, will actually try to dereference your not-NULL pointer. Something you didn't QA and only happens in the field, or after a certain date, or since IIRC we're talking about wireless controllers, only happens when the local Wifi is on channel 11, or... the perversity of the real world can not be underestimated.

In this case, issues of pointer size are irrelevant since I think the target was a specific console, but of course that's still "dirty".
You're right -- the general rule is that ints and ptrs shouldn't be interchanged.

However -- In this case, it's likely the number of integers required (controller ids, which I guess might be 1 to 4?) would fit in almost any ptr you can think of.

Conversions aren't guaranteed, but if you copy/pack it yourself there shouldn't be a problem -- e.g. do a memcpy of one byte.

More likely the author was pointing at the fact that this value was later 'free'd' by the event loop. Which is fairly nasty.
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This was what I hoped Prosper and the other P2P startups would turn into. Sadly, rather than targeting businesses frozen out of traditional financing, they ended up going for B2C credit. B2C credit is an extraordinarily efficient market in which most good credit risks can borrow money absolutely painlessly, for close to nothing.

The added headache ("Instead of typing five pieces of information into the computer and instantly getting issued a credit card, I think I'm going to write up an eBay style listing of myself, submit my financial details to be wrangled over by strangers, and babysit the auction for a week") and expense in borrowing from Prosper restricted it to mostly high risk borrowers who the banks had spurned. And, as it turns out, banks were largely not rejecting them out of whim or caprice.
Sitting here in Michigan, going to McDonald's is of course a total non-event, but going out for a birthday party at the local Mexican joint would not be considered out of line. All of the local Mexican joints are far more "upscale" than a taco stand, of course. (Oh, and Taco Bell is of course lumped in with McDonalds.)

The grass is always greener...
Can we just truncate the thread at this point? The entire tree underneath here (as it stands now) is entirely inappropriate. Some of the posts even have > 1 upvotes.
Should they not be -1?
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Please stop upvoting this rubbish. Please start thinking before posting. If you have a statment to make, please back it up with exactly what you feel should make it true and justified.
I hate being a pedantic dick about these kinds of things, but Fourier is spelled with a capital F because it's a proper noun. (It's the name of a badass French mathematician. Lagrange is another example, as is Cauchy.)

Aside from that, though, I actually learned a tiny bit of neuroanatomy and a little bit about neuropathology, which is always a plus.
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." - Mark Twain

"Remember that time is money." - Benjamin Franklin
Stories and videos about the tech behind the making of Avatar would be far more HN-worthy than the mass-market trailer. The trailer is essentially just an ad/teaser/spoiler for a movie that will probably be as heavily promoted as Titanic.
But what would you do when this final few MB runs out?

I beleive it wouldn't be something that would be done, it would follow a similar pattern to RAM memory, ie. Run out, you get a hard OOM error, game over.
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Probally the most clever hack in the list, as it is a hack on the human brain.
You'll like this comment then :)

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(Author: Hélder Gomes Filho)

And I was thinking that only newbies like me shipped those horrendous code... :P

At university there was a team (not related to me, but these guys are the perfect example :P) that made a FPS flash game...

For some bizarre reason, the programmer instead of checking if you was colliding with the wall and not allow you go there, he made the inverse, he checked if there was a wall, and allowed you to move parallel to it...

This sparked a bizarre bug: In crossings, you could not actually cross, only turn to the passage on your left or right.

The deadline was closing, and they had no idea on how to fix it...

Then the team writer fixed the issue! He told the artist to draw a animation of hands touching the walls, and then he wrote in the story that the protagonist was blind and needed to touch the walls to know where he was going.
because having to reconnect it would be as equally annoying?
If you're worked on (or have seen) anything better, care to post a link?

Note: I'm not doubting you - I actually thought the video clip looked beautiful so I want to know what you mean when you imply it could have been done better.
My advice would be to put them on a trial period, and then decide to keep them or let them go. Don't wait 8 months to figure out they're not the right fit. Figure it out in 4 weeks, max.

Oh, and watch this before they start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY
Things have no intrinsic value, only what people are ready to pay for them. There's no "fair" price for an ounce of gold; could be worth a lot right now, or nothing in another context. Same with your labour, or the labour of those making the big mac.
Wow it's improved since I tried it about a year ago
Having only seen the trailer, this looks similar to Neosapiens in exosquad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosquad
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I wish it was still on the front page. Understanding bias is, in my book, key, key, key to an effective understanding (and navigation) of reality.
So when the developer leaves the company...
Firstly, understand who you're looking for. This needs to involve 3 key factors - Cultural Match (the most critical - if they probably won't fit in, then they definitely won't fit in), Skills (eg, can they sell, build a sales process, manage a funnel or whatever), and Relationships (do you need them to bring existing relationships or not).

Pay is somewhat dependent on your product and the quality of leads you have or will continue to provide. Comm only won't support a sales person selling enterprise software with a 12 month sales cycle, but may excite the right person if you're providing pre-qualified leads for multiple bite-size products with high profit margins. For the right person, be prepared to discuss their immediate needs (salary) and their wants (how high the comm can realistically go).
Wow... taking the autopilot example too literally.

I suppose there is no need for me to point this out, but I'm not a pilot and have never flown anything, with or without autopilot. I was just using this as an example of "something going wrong with the machine" to show that there are times you would blame the pilot and times you would blame the company who built the autopilot. If autopilot is a bad example, replace it with some other autonomous machine... or pretend that we were back in the stone ages of autopilots when things could go wrong. Or, I'll make up a new example where the autopilot all of a sudden inverts the plane and then sets it right before you get a chance to turn it off therefore injuring one of the passengers. Lets not get too caught up in the specifics of autopilots and aviation laws, etc...

That said, having a number of failsafe mechanisms (like the ones you described) would be a critical part of any autonomous system, especially in the early stages, which would, of course, affect who we end up blaming.
My company converts vehicles from gasoline to electric.

www.pacificev.com

Expensive, yes, but we've reached cost parity with gasoline. Unfortunately, buying batteries that last 150,000 miles is like pre-buying your gasoline for the same time period, which is too much for most people. Some, though, have other motivations.
From my experience, sales people need to have a large financial incentive to get motivated, therefore small retainer, open ended commission.

Also, I've never liked flashy sales people. They may say all the right things, but to me this isn't sales. Sales is relationships. Anyone can sell something once and be unlikely to sell to the client again. A good salesperson will not only sell the product, but also build the relationship. This is vital.

Finally, most sales people believe they can sell anything, irrespective of what it is and therefore put no effort into learning their product. As mahmud mentioned, product knowledge is key. If they aren't willing to learn your product inside out, they aren't in it for the long run. Ask them about the last product they sold and ask for details on it. If they can only name base specs etc, they don't have the attention to detail required.
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$100mm to $4mm? Ouch.
I have no comment on the tool you're talking about, but some obvious facts come to mind...

I am not familiar with this product and may be wrong...but it seems as though this password is entered before the OS is booted. The only code that runs before that point is in the MBR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record). The maximum length of code is 446 bytes. Disassembling this amount of code should be trivial for a hacker.

Additionally, it makes no sense to break AES256 as other have pointed out, but there is no reason to do so. Presumably, the encryption software must know the key to decrypt the drive in order to boot (I'm assuming). So the key has to be in long-term storage (ie. on the hd itself) in some form or another.

If one were so inclined, it would seem that the easiest approach would be to disassemble to MBR to determine where it finds the key, and then use the key to decrypt the hd.

I'd love to hear comments if I'm way off. This sounds kinda fun.
What the... this is absolutely awesome. Showing some of these videos to my kids tomorrow!
I think the point being made here is not that communism or any other system is better than capitalism, but that diligence and loyalty are socially exalted but economic rewards flow more towards opportunists and rent-seekers.

Quote of the day.
This depends on your sales cycle, actually. Some things (especially high tech) take significantly longer that four weeks to sell.