skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our current prototype is way brighter than the 80's project. About 1,000 times. It's still dim and needs to be viewed in a dark room, but it's very visible to the naked eye which others glowing plants aren't. We've still continuously improving it with a long way to go to realize our full vision. Wall Street Journal took this picture of it last week, I don't believe anyone has ever recorded reflection from such a plant before: http://postimg.org/image/8wmx7rl29/
(note that this is a 30 second exposure with a 4,000 iso)
This is exactly why Bitcoin's future is in great doubt and uncertainty. And probably remain that way for years to come.
I'm sure we could form a pejorative from it. Like 你是土, pinyin is just so ambiguous.
There are lots of programming jobs out there that are outside of the web/CRUD development realm.
The problem is that sadly the fact that someone does not interview well, or has no social skills does not automatically imply that he/she is particularly talented. The most interesting stories are about awkward geniuses, but in real life there are plenty of averagely talented people (at least averagely talented compared to other programmers) with lack of social skills. And those are the people for whom finding a job is really hard, because they cannot compensate their awkwardness with exceptional other skills.
Anyone who was ever a teenaged girl at any point in their life can confirm that the people who complain the most about drama are generally the people who create the most drama.
It's dim, but visible. This is a 30 second exposure: http://postimg.org/image/8wmx7rl29/

We are working on improving the luminosity (note I edited this one as couldn't reply to the following reply yet)
This has been sitting on my "too read" pile far too long. That changes this summer.
If you're going all in on responsive design, make sure your images still look passable on a decently sized monitor. I'm on a cinema display, and every image of that logo on the page looks atrocious...so much pixelation it's hard for me to even judge the logo itself.

This is the unveiling of months of work and debate that went into a new logo. Feels to me like the absolute worst time to decide to skimp on file size.
Agreed completely. I joked that the U in "Wii U" stood for "update" because the amount of forced modal updates required to every part of the system was almost comical when the system was new.

I've also got the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 and all are basically the same... if I haven't turned it on in a couple weeks it is nearly guaranteed I'll have to sit through a couple-hundred megabyte update or two (for the OS/firmware and probably whatever game I am playing too) and fritter away 10-15 minutes before I can do what I wanted to do in the first place.

Even the systems that try to make this less bad by downloading updates in the background while in low-power mode tend to be pretty clumsy about the whole thing, so even though the download part is already done for me I still probably have to sit through a 5+ minute 'install' (after agreeing to a EULA, and maybe a TOS change or two) requiring 2 restarts.

bleh.
The Adobe "Creative Cloud" is not cloud software. It just the Adobe Creative Suite desktop applications sold on a subscription model.

The problem here was that they added DRM to it to make sure you can't use it if you don't have an active subscription and those 'call home' servers failed.

It is more of a DRM problem than a 'cloud' problem.
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KUDU is KILLER !!!!!
Large commercial hotel. It's not impossible they don't have this sort of equipment already.

The problem with checks like this is that you need to be intimately aware of the capabilities of an organisation to know whether it's reasonable or not. As people who work with technology know, things that seem impossible to the uninitiated can be remarkably trivial. We should probably assume that others have similarly impressive capabilities in areas we don't understand.

The advantage of the Van Halen test over this is that it's simple for everyone. This seems needlessly "clever" and is as a result wrong...
I don't think I've said anything remotely offensive, I'm not suggesting that women are not discriminated against, I'm just saying that discrimination is not a simple issue as many people claim.
Not sure about the others, but the Kiwis certainly have been appealing the government to stop spying, and questioning New Zealand's role in 5 eyes:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

CN? When did China join 5 eyes?
Yes, also many of the 'Kickstarter' sources were most likely people reading print articles and then searching for the project on Kickstarter. There's no doubt however that the Kickstarter itself brought a huge amount of traffic (over 50%) which is worth thinking about when you are deciding between different platforms.
Not yet, I'll take a look - thanks!
yeah, and wow. It says its 12 pt font, but it looks like 8 pt.. so small ?
Bitcoin Foundation !== Bitcoin

I have no clue what this foundation about, who are these people, but still can use bitcoin (or any altcoin really.) I guess this news article is for general public who might think Bitcoin Foundation have some kind of stake at this technology or something.
你是吐, for when you want to look for a spitting image of yourself ;)
Cameras. Every human in any official position of authority of force should be required by law to wear a camera that records at all times video and audio. If the camera ever is disabled for any reason, their testimony for those periods should be considered invalid. The videos recorded should be considered part of the public record.[1]

Law enforcement works for the people, not the other way around. Many need to be reminded of that fact.

[1] Obviously in certain cases this is not desirable; e.g. sting operations. Modern technology is at the point that all faces in a video can be automatically blurred. Individuals who wish their face to be unblurred could specifically request so.
A "young really bright scientist/engineer putting in 120/hr weeks at a stretch" is a recipe for mental illness, low-quality output, and burnout.
Yes. I believe in its (courts') efficiencies and mess. Wish you a happy life stuck in the same court you're thumping your chest upon. I am sure you know more about Indian courts, than I do.

They are supposed to be independent, but they're not. Rut flows through it in the form of cash or life threatening pressures. But obviously you're so happy about it, so I can't convince you -- unless you go through it yourself.
It's true, there can be many issues with lower level workers. But in skilled trades it is common to find people who have interesting quirks to their personality, despite being very good at their job technically. I see this often in skilled machinists, welders, machine maintenance people, etc. Some people may call the quirks "unprofessional" but it can come with the territory.

Quirks are fine as long as they aren't destructive to others or to the common goal. Sometimes it does make it a challenge though because there just aren't that many people out there with the necessary skill and experience, especially in more specialized areas, so you wind up having to choose between someone with a fantastic attitude but limited skill and a very skilled tradesperson that takes a little more hands-on management (in the sense that you have to help them develop more empathy, to not quarrel, to communicate better with colleagues, etc).

It's definitely a fine line. Somebody with great skill can still cause too much havoc within a team and make it an undesirable place to work. You have to take action on that, because ultimately it needs to be a happy place to work. And it's not a pay issue either, we've hired people well into the six figure range who at the end of the day just couldn't develop functional relationships with others.
Current computer programs do not operate the way human brains operate. But ... Given that human intelligence is a capability of matter arranged and operating in a certain way, isn't it possible that different arrangements of matter (computers) might eventually be capable of "thinking" in a way similar to human intelligence? Even if not, won't we learn more about ourselves in trying to write AI programs?
Yes, an excellent blog entry. Here's my fave part

"People’s Clothes Hurt Me"

> "It felt as though that shirt was trying to single-handedly put me in my place—a distinctly inferior and foreign place.”
I thought this would be yet another reference to a sci-fi story where someone is marooned on a planet with nothing, and they use their chemistry knowledge to re-implement enough metallurgy to build a spark-gap radio and get rescuced.
Your github.io link is broken. Perhaps you meant to link to the project page [1]?

[1]: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
Webhooks.. Didn't knew that of Kudu and it just makes Kudo more interesting! (perhaps time to check out the source).

I did read support for web hooks in Visual Studio Online now, perhaps Kudu has something to do with it http://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/webhooks-vs
> If you are going to hold someone to a standard, then hold EVERYONE to that standard.

True. However, the question is, does it need to be stated explicitly every time someone gets criticized, or asked to be held accountable for something.

> You can't just hold someone to an arbitrary standard just because you don't like them.

I don't think that was happening here. Modi wasn't being held to an "arbitrary standard" because he wasn't "liked". His actions were the point of discussion here.
Read bits and pieces of the article, looked interesting. I usually like to go check out what it is I'm about to go read up on first though. Where's your kickstarter link? Couldn't see anything on the page. CTRL + F, nothing. I even went to google and typed "glowing plans kickstarted", and even though nature.com and washingpost.com showed up, kickstarter did not. I give up.
Really cool, makes me wanna get into chess
By completely leaving Coursera, this is a vouch of confidence for MOOcs in general. sarcasm Horray for worthless online degrees that have an attrition rate past 90% of total registered students and a near-zero overall completion rate. I'm sure MOOCs will have a great future henceworth now that the CEO of a very visible MOOC company has left.
The most interesting thing about this announcement is the huge emphasis on GPUs at Baidu driven by Ren Wu:

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S465...

Combine this with Andrew Ng, whose own student Adam Coates matched Google's cat detector network with 64 consumer grade GPUs, and we are in for interesting times...

http://www.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/CoatesHuvalWangWuNgC...
It also gives some assurance that you won't be unmanageable in a working-for-hire context, or a HR problem child in other ways.
Do you have any handy links about some of these better ideas? I'm curious to learn about them.
"I have become profoundly tired of being a therapist and a babysitter"

Then don't be one. I'm a female manager and as soon as that shit starts I shut it down. People only get away with that crap because people tolerate it and I notice they often tolerate it more with women. I don't. Someone who drains time with gossip or whining gets fired. Doesn't matter if they are a man or a woman.

Also notice she talks about a receptionist, not an engineer. I admit I have struggled finding admin staff like receptionists that aren't drama queens. If you hired men for those kind of positions they'd be the same– these are lower status jobs and attract people who can't do well in high-paid higher status jobs. Since I work with some IT construction I also work with lower-status men and they are also very hard to manage. They often quit to mooch off of others or are late to work because of fights with their girlfriends or whatever.
This is really nice. Good performance and appearance.

Would be cool to have automatic matches with others, but simplicity is nice (and it might be hard to get critical mass).
wow - do you delete your posts shortly after posting them or do you just have incredible restraint which was suddenly broken by this post?

(bg: this is arctansusan's first post after 399 days. Two more quickly followed within 10 minutes).
To give you a practical example. By default on Windows Qt (any version) would statically link SQLite as part of it's own QtSql's SQLite driver (which is a .dll - so that .dll would contain in itself sqlite).

If you happen to link SQLite additionally because of some other lib, then you would end up with two different libs in the same code (but under different "namespaces" in a way).

With static linking one of the libs would've took precedence, unless you've decided to embed "sqlite3.c" directly - then I think your copy would've took over Qt's one (static Qt5sql.lib)

To avoid this problem, I manually built Qt5 and made sure most of the libraries are split out of Qt5 - angle, pcre, ucdn, sqlite, mysql, libpq (postgres), etc. - they are all dlls that both Qt and rest of our apps link to.

This also allows us to use and share SQLite memory db (for the memory db to be shared it has to come from the same code), where we are letting coders to use QtSQL's approach to access the db, and then other access it other ways.

It's non-standard on Windows - since you are basically eating whatever you have been served (in the Windows World), and you don't think much about picking (static/dynamic library, then linking to static/dynamic CRT, compiler version, etc.).

Things are much better, say in debian (my experience) - installing qt5-sql would use the sqlite package from the system, and the rest of my tools would do that too.
Great point, added.
At least on OS X, it's been built in to the Dropbox client for at least a few months now, no need for a third party product. Activate it in the Imports tab of Dropbox's Preferences.
Red, Green, Refactor
Of course you gamify this, imagine a drone that can return 'home' and land on a charger (this is quite doable) when it has low power. Now at a POV camera and WiFi link.

Now setup of video game 'drone consoles' that for $5/15 minutes you can fly a drone and score points by scaring off geese. Some failsafes that don't let the operator fly out of the area, into the water etc. And voila.
Seriously. Glowing plants. This is what people want to donate their money for. A noble and worth cause on the same worthiness as killing cancer and poverty.
Those two books are recommended in this blog post; there are a few other resources mentioned you may want to look into.

http://javascriptissexy.com/learn-intermediate-and-advanced-...
I just typed "!kickstarter glowing plants" in my address bar which directs me to a duckduckgo search. It was the first result.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-pla...
for reference :)
Engineering & anecdotes usually preclude science.

We created some nice catapults before we "understood" gravity. Even now we don't fully understand existence.
Exports include services as well as tangible goods.
Is the plan to make them brighter?
Wooooo, explicit bias time!

This is the kind of thing we like over at Crowdtilt: fun enough to be fun, sciency enough to be sciency.

We have a platform called Crowdtilt Open ( http://open.crowdtilt.com/ ) that would be great for this, if you're interested.

Disclaimer: I'm saying "we" because I work there.
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Why is this hackernewsworthy?
Or more accurately, as that wikipedia page mentions, March 1493- when Columbus got back.
It seems to be a command-line tool to generate passwords based on the url (domain), username and some master password. The tool has a list of animals to add to the mix, this is probably all hashed somewhat like so pass_gen(domain, user, master_pass, for_each(animal)). You then see the password you can copy-paste into the password field next to the animal's name. You pick the same favorite animal every time and as such will be able to pick the same password every time.
Ugh, seriously? This is the input to this conversation that you decided was the most important? Try not being so hyper-sensitive to social issues and keeping the conversation on track within the context of the OP.
I feel like it would be a good idea to have a law that says that if you failed to reprint a book for x years then it's okay for a library to digitize it forever, and allow it to be used by its patrons. This happens right now in some libraries, where you digitally "check out" a copy of an ebook, which theoretically limits supply and therefore limits the harm done on publishers.
"mind narrower than his trousers" is where I'm putting the shirt-wearer ("does his Mum know he is out") but then...
I do think that most people walk into jobs being motivated. The company doesn't have to "motivate" people, they are already motivated. All they have to do is not give the people reason to get demotivated. At least that's been my experience.
I always thought it would be cool for this app to recognize URLs in the real world. Instead of overlaying the translation, it would overlay blue text and an underline.
Hands-on with Apple's CarPlay
We try out CarPlay for ourselves!
Oops, yes. Fixed, thanks for catching.
That username wasn't taken before today? Colour me shocked!
I understand how to do a good, structured interview process for a role like engineer or tech ops. (Work sample, chronological walkthrough of history and "why did you do that vs. this" at each step, etc.; ideally aptitude tests and existing work samples as screeners.)

How do you run a structured process for roles like sales, PM, GM, etc.? I guess with sales, depending on the model, you have a much lower bar (easy to hire, easy to fire), but that's not the case for long-sales-cycle enterprise products. A bad GM/COO will almost certainly sink an an otherwise-strong company.

The best I've ever come up with is just agreeing on criteria beforehand and having people score those, and then also having people who have done the role involved in both creating criteria and evaluating candidates (e.g. having lots of engineers engineer sales = probably a waste of everyone's time).

In a large company, you can test the interview process itself by seeing how candidates who are accepted under different processes perform, but in a smaller company, a bad string of sales hires means the company is probably not going to need to worry about making more hires -- and even if you do have time to correct, hiring/firing to the point where it is obviously a high churn environment deters good candidates and may cause good current employees to leave as well.
The problem is, Adobe never did this and abruptly forced everyone to switch to a subscription model if they wanted to upgrade. And existing versions only keep working for so long unless you keep the same hardware/operating system with them forever. So suddenly, thousands of people who rely on Adobe software daily are forced to switch to a subscription-only model.
I think he gave a talk where he actually explains that Zuck built the last social network, Gates, the last OS and so on. The point being that they built the last one that dominated everything else and became king.

here: http://youtu.be/Ni11-BjpWhM?t=4m34s
Really awesome, might start using this instead of lichess.

One thing stopping me is the chess pieces. They so fancy that they distract me during the game since I have to pay a little more attention to which pieces are which. Standard ones like on chess.com/lichess.org would be nice.
Holy shit this site. This crap is getting so much upvotes, the comments in here make me vomit. Where are the mods? surely they would never allow this kind of link on this site?
The danger of not reading the article, coupled with the lack of these third-party sites not showing a patent application status.
Last year there were some clowns in South Africa who went around boasting about their shiny patent, which had been awarded in the US and had priority in many other countries. Instead of realising how terrible the implementation of their software patent was and improving their product, they went to startup competition places disclosing their business model, talking about how they planned on getting Google, Facebook, to licence their product.

The patent was eventually rejected in the US, but third-party sites still list it as granted. They lost time from a lack of innovation due to trusting the patent and left competitors to build clever and more useful implementations of their product. Plus in SA software patents are invalid, so their right to recourse is weak.
I had the good fortune to work for Tom West after that book was written. He was, quite simply, the best.
Rate of honey bee losses in the US ‘economically unsustainable’
High speed airships are probably a better architecture for this application than n-copters. There are remove controlled airships that can do 30 mph and they don't need to expend energy to stay aloft. They also won't fall like a rock out of the sky, so long as their gasbags haven't been punctured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecSXRK9ZPk

Depending on the frequency of the wolf-call, speakers to produce them and their power system could be made quite light.
The reason why you can find these modules is because 434MHz is an ISM band in some parts of ITU Region 1. You won't find an garage door opener there in the US. In the US you should use the 315MHz version which allows for license free use.

While 434MHz is in the 70cm amateur band you really should have an ID coming out of this thing when it transmits. All you need to do is shove your call sign out at 20wpm Morse code at the end of your transmission.

Otherwise it's a cool little hack.
What do you mean by "aspire to work in factories?" When your job prospects are Fast Food, other Restaurant, Retail, or Factory / Warehouse job, is it "aspiring to work in a factory?"

I ask because I worked in Factories and Warehouses before going to college and becoming a programmer. Working in those places wasn't a "lifelong dream" but they were better than almost ALL alternatives for what skills I had. Better as in pay, benefits and not having to deal with people(customers) directly.

Not to detract from your point that highly skilled college graduates aren't flocking to factory jobs, just pointing out that those of us that have been there actually have actively sought those jobs out. I guess you could say I was "aspiring to work in a factory." Hell, when the average job everywhere else was 6-7 dollars an hour, a 15 dollar an hour factory job was a hot commodity.
MOOCs are great for people who want to learn on their own (although no different than classes in college, some are more valuable than others). I'm not sure of the value these bring in getting a job, but the learning value makes them very worthwhile.
I am almost* entirely of the opinion that no book should ever be thrown away. Digitize if unwanted, but don't throw it away. I know that might require some jiggering of the IP laws, but knowledge has huge value and it really bums me out when books of knowledge are dumped. Even if the knowledge is antique, then the information about how the knowledge was perceived and transmitted becomes valuable to later generations.

* There are some really bad books out there.
Hidden Users Folder Result of iTunes 11.2 and Find My Mac, not 10.9.3
um, 30 second exposure with 4000 ISO can take pictuers in near absolute dark without a light (I do microscopic photography).... but OK. Is this enough to actually illuminate things more than 10 feet away? Do you have an idea of what the max achievable illumination (quantum efficiencysurface areaflorophore denstiy)?