skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping they'd get into the later patent struggle and competitive technology. (But I guess it's really a piece about a single interview someone manager to score.)

Another company in the field (PVI) at about the same time used vision-based technology to similar effect. They got into a mutual patent infringement battle and ended up settling by cross-license.

I'm still trying to figure out why NBC (maddeningly) doesn't show the line of scrimmage. At one point I saw some vague report that NBC uses the third company in this space (SportsMEDIA) and that company has a license to the patent for the first down line but not the patent for the line of scrimmage. Which sounds silly and plausible at the same time. However, they advertise line of scrimmage as available:
http://www.smt.com/products/smart/line-visual-insert-publish...

It is probably a policy decision based on a 2008 in-game controversy where the line of scrimmage was a yard off and one of the broadcasters (Madden) was using it as a basis for evaluating the call, and didn't know that the officials can't see the line.

In either case, they need to deal with it and get the line of scrimmage back in. It's a very annoying omission.
The List #0147: Escape a Car Underwater [video]
So the author asks a room full of kids to arrange numbers on a number line, then gets mad when the kids want to know if their answer is right? As far as I could tell, it was an exercise with one right answer. Why get mad at the kids for wanting to confirm whether they understand the material?
I've had several Suns over the years (Sun 3/80, Sparc 10, Ultra 10) though I haven't turned one on in ages. In the 90's, Sun workstations were the shit! Until Linux ate their lunch.
The adoption of HDTV has also negated the reason for the glowing puck. When I watch hockey on a non-HD feed I wonder how I ever did it.
If you look closely, you'll see it's actually in the shape of a reflector - usually a cone. Also not shown is that some higher-power leds use a blob of silicone around the chip to protect the bond wire during thermal expansion -- the cone helps hold the silicone while curing.
So... this is somebody else's problem and smarter people will take care of it for me?

I've never found that answer very satisfying...
> "I tried to be as objective as possible"

> "Finally what do you really care about: name brand or doing cool work?"

I did a lot of boring, mundane work during my time at some startups as well as interesting work at others. It's either subjective or not informed by enough experience to say that only startup work is cool work and you can't find cool work at a larger company.
They are archival. Writing doesn't fade and doesn't react with the paper you write on. Very important if you are writing something that may need to be read 100 years from now.

Writing is erasable. By gently using an art gum eraser it's possible to remove and fix mistakes because there is no ink that soaks into the paper.

Pencils are pressure sensitive. You can have great control over the shape and darkness of the lines you draw.

They work extremely well with waterproof paper, much better than a pen, even the "special" pens that companies such as Rite in the Rain will sell you.

Pencils never dry out and you always know how much "ink" you have left by just looking at them.

I've personally use pencils as a museum curator, as an artist, as a field biologist and of course as a student.
> giant corporations will make you WANT to leave because they're terrible to work for

Some might be. Some are great fun to work at.
One difference that was not mentioned is how much of your time is spent in office politics. For early-stage startups it's close to zero. In corporations you spend most of your time doing politics and dealing with consequences thereof, such as doing work that nobody needs just to placate the management etc.
Monkey X is for crossplatform gamedev
When did we brainwash kids into thinking that math was about getting an answer?

That's what school is about. It's not math in particular. Doing well in the US mandatory education system is the art of finding the right answer.
This produces really nice colour sets, I'll definitely be using this to generate some backgrounds for blog posts. Nice work and thanks for sharing.
I'm doing the Georgia Tech MSCS and can vouch for its rigor and quality. The cost is indeed about $7000 [0]. It is much cheaper than the on campus version, however the degree is exactly the same (no indication it is online).
Their graduate program in CS is ranked #9 in the US by US News and World Report [1]

You need an undergraduate degree with GPA 3.0 or above to get "conditionally" accepted, no need of GRE or GMAT. to "really" get accepted you need to get B or above in your first 2 core courses. (not impossible, but requires work)

They are very serious about this program and put a lot of effort (both GT and Udacity) to make it happen, I really hope they succeed.

Bottom line, I personally think this is the most cost effective CS graduate degree in the universe at the moment.

[0] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2013/05/15/georgia-tec...

[1] - http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Well, even in countries like Belarus, where the largest companies were indeed outsourcing companies, I still saw a lot of gaming companies, particularly war games. Graphics programming is a grueling field where you spend months working on complex tweaks to improve frame rate or implement some effect, but it could feel rewarding to someone who is into it.
So, I posted before the "billion pixel tour" from NPR, but the guys who actually created it have a far cooler narrative which shows the whole trek, not just one vantage point.. start here:
http://explore.glacierworks.org/en/
I'm 36, and math in my youth was always about getting the right answer, and proving how I got that answer, even up through college calculus and discrete mathematics. Heck, that's one of the things I really enjoyed about math, when compared to, say, English.

So, if math isn't about getting the right answer, it's been broken a long time.

Even today, math as I've explored it (which admittedly hasn't been much) has right and wrong answers. Sure, there's a bit of fuzz in the answers now, but a probabilistic model which can't determine ham from spam some majority of the time isn't kinda right, or even on the spectrum of right. It's just wrong, and needs to be fixed.
yeap, got the same as well
I think the glowing puck would have still died when high-definition TV came along. I think HDTV saved the hockey viewing experience, because it made it a whole bunch easier actually watch the game. The problems solved by the glowing puck then stopped being problems.
Some of them weren't numbers, there were symbols and natural language statements which required interpretation.
Because there is a deeper underlying problem in education - we have been teaching kids to pass tests for quite a while now. And the growth of the Common Core standards is now teaching them to pass that that use new terminology coined from those standards.

These goals are creating changes in curriculum. Some schools are devising new curriculum that is working well, some are not doing so well.

You can compare it to coding in some ways - if the entire industry was told to drop their current toolkits and use new ones, how would it go? There would be some successes, some failures, and a few years of trial and error until new best practices come about.

The Common Core is making this happen within education. Some educators think it is great, some educators think it is horrible. But it definitely is impacting the kids.
Neat idea. But yeah, error.
Ask PG: How many people applied to Startup School NY?
I see the venue holds 2100 people, just curious what the turn out was for applications since this is the first year that startup school is happening in New York (right?). Was it more or less than what you expected? How is it compared to Startup School out west?
Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery by Simulating Cells
Unix sockets are files. But I can't create a connection to Google at the filesystem.
Was not one of the selling points of truecrypt its ability to provide 'plausable deniability'? That is not so common in other crypto-products.
Hey there! I actually work at Udacity and can (or will find the person that can) answer any questions you may have. You specifically mentioned our MS Computer Science program with Georgia Tech (https://www.udacity.com/georgia-tech), also the FAQ (https://www.udacity.com/georgia-tech/faq). The price sits right around $6,600 I believe and the admissions process is entirely handled by Georgia Tech. I don't believe you would meet their prerequisites for students (must have a BS in Computer Science or a BS in Science), but I very well may be wrong (I'm not on the GT team). I do know, unfortunately, that regardless it would be awhile before you could start. We just started our summer session a week or two ago.

The good news is - you're free to take any of the other courses we have available (seriously it's all still free and I believe we're still planning to get our Georgia Tech courses out there publicly as well)! If you're interested in having the assistance of a coach/mentor while completing a course, along with a validated certification and graded course project assignment (good for the portfolio!) we also offer our Premium experience at the flat rate of $150/mo.

Ok - done with the Udacity pitch; now my personal comments. I never finished my degree and I've been a developer for over 16 years. Don't let some piece of paper stop you or make you doubt yourself. In this industry, at least as a developer, projects, projects, projects, projects - that's what really counts.

Before I joined Udacity I worked for Gov Contracting firms, I've with the NSA, DIA, VA and the Air Force. Projects, projects, projects - that's how I was offered those positions (and how the recruiters found me).

I say take a couple of online courses to gain the knowledge/skillset you think you require, then come up with a fun project, something that excites you, and build it!
Great pivot! Wish you the best luck for the World Cup.

I'm currently freelancing to get some $$$ in the bank again after using all my savings for our startup. We were planning to escape the German winter and work from SE-Asia and/or India as well.

I was seriously considering Thailand and liked the idea of spending time in Chiang Mai a lot... but the recent political turmoil has me worried. From press reports, it's really hard to make out what the impact on daily life is like and whether it's a good idea to go to Thailand at the moment or not. Where are you situated? What's the situation like at the moment?

Best of luck anyways!
Execution speed is important for some, but simplicity seems like it's a larger part of the Go adoption story.
That OTHER game by Mojang? Yeah it's Scrolls I made a music video for it
I'm not sure you could do that with a monad. They still let you use whatever pure function you want, which can have arbitrary complexity.
Was there some part of "even if it still were" that you found confusing? Obviously it "was" a chapel, now it's a tourist attraction.

> Now if I go picking apart your need to hide from God

Don't be a fool, I'm not hiding from something that doesn't exist. I don't have any "needs" related to your delusions.
Incredible UI, I signed up even though I'm based in Spain and it seems targeted towards the US. Great fluid sign up experience!
> I do not agree that in corporate you make lesser impact. Big company usually produces things used by real people.

It really depends on what kind of impact one is looking for. The author touched on this point but think he could have made it clearer that working at a startup gives you the possibility of having a significant impact on a product with limited reach while working at a larger company gives the possibility of having a smaller impact on a product with much greater reach.

This is not always the case of course, you could work at a startup that creates an extremely popular product (though it may not be considered a "startup" for very long then) or work for a corporation on a project that will never see the light of day.
http://norvig.com/lispy2.html does support macros.
What's the exact probability of "it will rain tomorrow" or "You'll visit the beach sometime"? Maybe the point was to figure out that there are some known and unknown factors that affect both probabilities while you could still be pretty sure that you'll go to the beach sometime.
If I have to solve exercises and after that, I have no way to know whether or not I did the right thing, I don't learn anything at all. The point of exercises is to learn something new and uncover your misunderstanding of the subject. Your wrong solution clearly points to the things you have to work on. No solutions = no learning.
Mathematics is about getting answers. It's a formal way to declare problems and seek for answers. Right answers. I'm glad I wasn't taught maths by this person.
Opinions differ I guess. I signed up for that class with a fair bit of anticipation and couldn't make it through the first lecture. It just didn't engage me at all. But a lot of people apparently felt differently.
I came to say exactly this. 50 hours is completely crazy, and if you're doing it often, you should look for another place ASAP. Fuck, 40 hours is already on the verge of being crazy if your job is intellectually demanding.

I've worked in one startup, another one on the process of becoming a small corp (i.e., already adopting process in a much serious scale) and a corp. The best by far, if you value your life outside the job, is the corp. The worst was IMHO the second one, which had the worst of the two worlds: from the startup world, disapproval stares whenever you left without doing enough overtime, crazy schedules overall (I learned later that some mandatory things were actually illegal in my country) and permanent fire-extinguish mode; from the corp world, bureaucracy and lots of meetings. This was in Europe, not in the US.
Well the first application didn't survive (if I read correctly) - so I guess you could call it a postmortem for the first application.
It is a tourist attraction and you'd be a fool to try and deny that.

> Some people on Hacker News are honestly embarrassingly retarded.

Yes, you are.
I firmly believe there should be two math subjects taught at school. One being "Calculating" where students do the boring calculations and all the stuff, calculus, algebra, etc. and another one where the interesting and challening part of math is taught in an accessible and fun way.

There are a lot of topics in math and related to math that could be explored in that second, new subject, probabilities, paradoxa, symmetries, basic set theory, even concepts of linear algebra/groups, etc. that are normally taught in university can be broken down to really great middle-school or high-school lessons. The only problem with that in normal math classes is, that the angry parent will quickly complain when that is talked about in a normal math class because they think that their kids should be bored to death by calculations that their smartphone does better already.

I was recently talking to a retired high school teacher who had taught language classes (he was really not a maths guy). We started talking about password security and piece by piece we discussed how easy those passwords could be guessed and in the end he had a good understanding of the concept of probability/information/entropy. This really made me think, if a really non-maths person can enjoy and understand a topic that a lot of students who have gotten STEM degrees directly refuse (something like "I do not understand what entropy is, that is something about the my room being in order or not but I have given up .....")

To repeat myself: There are great concepts and modern curricula available, sometimes for decades. However mathematicians, math teachers and parents are just not supportive in chaning anything substantially.
SpaceX unveil 'no runway' Dragon V2 space capsule
That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I'd say it's the parents. Listening to parents of elementary school kids they seem to get confused or angry if there isn't one single right answer to an assignment. For example drawing shapes one line at a time and listing the lines as "commands" to a computer. There might be multiple ways to form a shape.

No use trying to argue that it might be valuable to understand how to think with algorithms, even though it might produce several different answers.
I think a lot of people find the structure helpful (and it's the only real way to make things like discussion boards work). That said, it's really a tradeoff. Case in point, there's a sabermetrics course running that I'm sort of interested in and, had it started when scheduled a month ago, the timing would have been pretty good. As it is, I'm about to take off on a lot of travel and it's probably not realistic to do anything other than audit the couse.
I'd prefer that Twitter fix old functionality before changing typeface for the sake of change. Users can't even save a search from an iOS device using the official app or mobile view. Sheesh, search is Twitter's best feature.
I've discussed this with several other hiring managers I know. We've all taken at least one MOOC course, and while they may be useful for the learning experience, we agreed that we couldn't trust the credentials.

One trend that we all noticed is for students, nearly always from developing nations, to focus solely on the credentials and very little on the course material itself.

Even before the courses were complete, with coursework submission deadlines still looming, we'd see people post stuff like "I'm still waiting for my certificate! When will I get it?" in the courses' discussion forums.

After the course had completed and the certificates were awarded, there would inevitably be many more of these students asking why they haven't received theirs, even after openly admitting to not doing most or even all of the required coursework.

For these people, it was all about getting a PDF of a certificate containing their names. Learning anything at all wasn't even a consideration.

While traditional academic institutions may have similar problems, it's never to such an extreme as with MOOCs. At least students at any reputable institution will have had to demonstrate at least some understanding of the material being taught.
If you're interested in something that actually is halfway between Markdown and LaTeX, take a look at Softcover: http://softcover.io/.
True ... but to me it seems like positive stories should have a more positive name.
IMO, this is one teacher who gets it. There is a lot of math that is entirely about answers that are right or wrong. Most of the time that includes how you arrived there. Given the references to MAP and Common Core in the blog, I'm sure there's a lot of that in the classrom.

However, there is so much of the K-12 education that arguably should be about exposure. Discussion about probabilities of pictures and phrases on a number line is a great example. Have kids make their case among peers regarding why 'It will rain tomorrow' is .9 in one group, but .75 in another.

For most, you don't get to pick your desired area of study/career until College. So why not use K-12 to expose kids to all sorts of different things without standardized tests as the only goal?
> I really like the final line "Finally what do you really care about: name brand or doing cool work?"

That's really a false dichotomy to suggest you can't do "cool work" at a large ("name brand") corporation. Some of the coolest work in technology has been done at extremely large companies (e.g. Google, Apple, IBM, Facebook).
I totally agree about the risk of UI overload. You could add them to a settings dialog but then features risk being missed by non-techie users.

The extension idea is good and one I've been looking into for Page Visibility but again, it needs to be configurable for times when background playing is wanted. But as you say, better than nothing.
Hello, it's 7k USD/year or for the entire course (2 years IIRC)?

UPDATE: It's 7k for 3 years. The price is amazing...
The article's point is perhaps that it's better to try and gain some intuition for whether or not you have the right answer, rather than checking the answer key. Relying on the answer key (or waiting for the teacher to say "you are right!") is an extremely poor habit and we should avoid teaching students to depend on that (in maths class or otherwise): in real life, there is no answer key.

One of the philosophical ideas of maths is that there are multiple ways of looking at a problem, and those multiple ways should feed back onto each other to confirm your answer.

Maths is not just a bunch of rules that have to be followed without question: in this case, maths is modelling something practical and the answer needs to match reality. Without that, the probability model could not even have been invented. If you can't get beyond the stage of do_question+check_answer, you are never going to be capable of anything more than grinding out other people's mathematical results.

I'm sorry you weren't taught maths by this person.
With that hyperbole, I'm willing to bet you've never stepped a foot outside the USA. Don't you realise it also adds friction for US companies doing business in the everywhere else?
Right now, the best two are Rust for Rubyists (bias: I wrote it) and Rust By Example.

The official docs are undergoing a lot of work, so they'll be excellent too in the near-ish future.
Doing cool work? Many startups want fresh grads to be taping together CRUD apps! MegaCorps will often ask the same of you, but have more paths toward getting deeper into both the product and the stack.
Trace.gl released as open source
NTT DOCOMO and Apple to Offer iPad in Japan Starting on Tuesday, June 10
I can imagine how TrueCrypt with all the features like the plausible deniability was a major pain in terms of 'national security'.

And it is apparent the project was shut down by the original developer in a way that at best satisfies a gag order but doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny, so I see only two possible explanations for what happened:

1. An NSL with a gag order;

2. A nice lump sum of money in exchange for silence.

Or of course a combination of the two which is the most likely.

I don't blame the dev - he obviously spent years developing software which provided nothing in return.

I can only say one thing - if you want to hide stuff from the big brother, don't use BitLocker! ;-)
For those in the UK, there's a networked live coding festival in Birmingham this September: http://networkmusicfestival.org/about/
"the beauty of the language is that we only need six special forms" - this is an oversimplification.)

There are not mere "only six special forms" involved in what makes a Lisp "a miracle". There is, in my opinion, a small, well-balanced set of ideas/principles which are complementing each other. Notably "everything is a symbol (pointer)" semantics, common for code and data cons-based underlying representation, so "the code is data" maxim makes sense, the uniform general evaluation rule for prefix-notation expressions, the "list-aware" reader function, to name the few.

All these ideas or principles aren't CL specific, on the contrary, these are common for all Lisps. CL is just a good example of incorporating mini/specialized DSLs (loops, format, etc).

I have tried to describe "how the miracle works" but failed miserably.) These are my counter-arguments.

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/blog/Good-ideas

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/ProperUnderstanding

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Bootstrapping1

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Bootstrapping2
Samsung Starts Updating The Galaxy Gear To Tizen
Burn the Maps (Online dating as an adult)
Who and what will benefit from this seemingly tough book?
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