skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is clearly an old process - when was the last time you saw a 7-segment display, or those big red round thru-hole LEDs, outside of hobby electronics?

I'd be very curious to see how this process differs from the high-power lighting LED manufacturing process (e.g. CREE), which is a more modern technology by several decades. I would guess there is much more of the automation people are expecting...
Oddly enough - Depending on the market, European plywood is sold as 125x250 cm sheets, but when you measure them they can be a bit larger.

When you measure them - they're exactly 4 x 8 feet as if they were for Americans.

It's also why you find a lot of 10mm 13mm and 19mm bolts that suspiciously also fit 7/16 1/2 3/4 inch sockets.
In both cases :)
> If you are doing concurrent programming right you don't need compare and sweep synchronization because you aren't sharing memory across different threads.

By definition, you aren't doing concurrent programming if you aren't doing shared writes.
In a traditional render farm that is an issue, as the vast majority of renderfarms for VFX companies are CPU only. renderfarms aren't just using for renderer rendering, they're used for comp rendering, fluid sims (often using up to 96 GB of RAM), physics sims, etc.

Very little of this is GPU-based currently.

Where GPUs are starting to be used is on the artist workstation to speed up iteration/preview time. But not on renderfarms.

GPU memory access across the PCIE bus is ridiculously slow for smaller jobs. It's often the case that the slower CPU can do the work before the cumulative time of copy data to GPU, get GPU to do work, then copy it back again has been done. For longer jobs of smaller data, GPUs make sense.

GPUs also have much higher power draw than CPUs and produce much more heat, which is a huge issue for renderfarms with close to 100% utilisation at crunch time.
Matt Cutts is "head of Google's Webspam team"; in other words he spews disinformation so that Google can have more influence over their own results. Very similar to the President's Press Secretary or the head of Propaganda. Web site owners are best off to almost completely ignore what he says and instead focus on what really is happening.
label your pricing plans based on customer segments. example: Solo | Dev Shop | Enterprise

(can't think of a better label instead of "Enterprise")
This is, I feel, the biggest problem seen by people who want to jump ship from salaried positions to freelancing/independent contracting.

I've asked around a little bit whenever this topic comes up and the majority of people who I've talked to say that their best source of customers comes from people that they know.

Not a very satisfying answer for me, since I don't know a whole lot of people (maybe that's just my view of things, I could be wrong), and of those people, very few of them need someone with my skills and expertise (or, to be more frank, I doubt any of them would be able to match the paycheck I currently get from my employer). It's equally likely I'm not imaginative enough.

In any case, if anyone is "living the dream" in the Seattle area, drop me a line - I'd love to chat with you and maybe have a coffee (haha).
BICEP2 discovery of gravity waves questioned by cosmologists
NYC Bootcamp for kickstarting sideproject
I get the feeling these days most JS developers at least professional ones aren't totally clueless about algorithms and data structures.
It's an internet company in the same vein as Yahoo and AOL (a hub for news, weather, etc). It peaked in popularity around the late 90s, early 00s. I almost said that it has since shut down but I just checked and, surprisingly, it's still up today: http://msxml.excite.com/
I'm considering making the transition from sole proprietor to LLC for my on-the-side consulting... Advice from friends range from "it's a no-brainer!" to "it's more trouble than it's worth". I don't make a lot doing my side-work (under $10k), but the amount has grown year-over-year. Any advice on incorporating?
It will appear there by itself, after the post has been reviewed by a moderator.
To piggyback on the conversation, coming from a small business that has seen a reconsideration request wait in hibernation without a reply for over 40 days, the bigger issue that I would hope more journalists would start to shine the light onto is the lack of transparency and need for regulation of Google search by an independent entity.
The reality is that Google generates 60 Billion in revenue and close to 20 Billion in profits, but more importantly they single handily control the fate of millions of companies and influence probably a trillion dollars of commerce on a global level every year.

They create a set of rules that they apply on a very subjective basis.

Just one example, ever get hit with a thin content penalty?

Google has a video out that creating pages to market cities in every state appears against guidelines, I guess they forgot to tell that to Zillow (dominates google search for mortgage rates/city search) without real content and simply a rate widget advertisement feed, and there are hundreds of these examples out there.

Yet in a statement made over the porn model lawsuit, here was googles reply:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2346899/Model-Battles-G...

"Search engines are neutral platforms that do not create nor control content on the web,” Google said in a statement to CNN. One of the interviewees in the CNN video argued that the creators of content should be held responsible, not the search engines.

The rap genius penalty has already been highly publicized, but here is a good recap of how quickly the penalty was lifted.

http://searchengineland.com/rap-genius-back-in-google-181125

This is beyond frustrating for small businesses to see this quick turnaround, when most small business owners are sent to the google webmaster forum, where they have to try to get problems solved by volunteers and not actual employees.

What small business owners need is a real voice and oversight to provide a tangible path back into the index, as opposed to the vague answers and rules that apply differently.

Google should be required to provide real employees supporting their web forums

Google should be required to provide clear examples of why a website was removed

Google should be required to provide clear timelines if a penalty has been placed on a website

Small business are pushed out of business when they are removed from Google, it’s time for some real change and forced transparency
Don't you realize now that your professional and personal success hinges on the fact that you've never said anything ever even to your most private and intimate friends that might in any way be offensive to anyone at all at any arbitrary point in the future?

It seems like it's once a week now that someone is run out of town on a rail for saying/doing/thinking something that the Teeming Millions disagree with. And that for some reason that completely justifies a career death sentence.

I don't get it, and I don't like it. And it's not because I have any particular skeezy email skeletons in my closet I'm afraid will come to light, I'm just bothered by the current trend that the Thought Police can come in and be judge, jury, and executioner, and anyone who even deigns to say "hey wait a minute, that doesn't seem right..." gets thrown into the pariah patch.
I'm curious about this too--clj-spark didn't work for me so I'm currently prototyping a job using the Java bindings in Clojure. If I end up wrapping the Java bindings in a useful way I would consider putting together some kind of release if there's community interest in that.
In Florida I would say it is the norm (sorry...that is probably a big qualification to my earlier statement). Otherwise, my old Firm did free consultations and we had offices in: California, Nevada, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida and London.
Good process leading to this, even if I disagree with some of the conclusions. It's nice to see speculative designers actually considering (and then documenting) the environment their concepts would have to work and compete in, rather than just pushing out a cool-looking set of Dribbble mockups with no context.

I don't think Apple is going to add functionality to the home screen. It's always done one thing, and I imagine UX leads at Apple would probably consider anything else to be overloading its scope.

That said, there is absolutely a good use case for widgets on iOS. The old iOS 5-6 weather widget was great, and the text-adventure version they replaced it with in iOS 7 is an inferior experience. Notification Center is almost certainly the best place for widgets: The iOS 7 calendar widget is a great example of the potential, and I really hope they finally open up the NC widget APIs in iOS 8.
As an example, most web consultancies are not meant to be high growth startup type businesses, but its apparent that many grow to be fairly sizable. There are lots of large botique organizations, for instance companies that specialize in RoR development, which can employ 30+ people while still being owned entirely by a single person who expands the business organically to accomodate demand.
Which levels?

You can certainly serve true randomness sufficient to seed cryptographically secure PRNG generators. Right now all my VMs and systems at home are served that from a good source of true randomness.

I've seen such sources on the net, e.g. http://www.random.org/

The big issue is trust, especially when it's relatively easy and cheap to provide true randomness locally. And as mentioned, a standard desktop can generate its own randomness through things like mouse movements, which is very cheap. The major use case would be VMs, and I suspect few who run them would trust an external source, unless their cloud vendor offered it as a service. I could see vendors being reluctant to do so for liability reasons.
Might want to specifically mention S and C Corps.
What service are you using to get that information?
Err, 30Hz refresh rate at 4k as the review mentioned?
> how about you complain about Microsoft, Dell, HP, Nvidia, AMD etc.?

These companies are businesses that need a business reason to support your platform. Until more people are playing triple A games on platforms that use OpenGL you can't really fault them for spending money when it doesn't make sense. Apple designs its own chips for its mobile device so I'd think the OpenGL on iOS would have better driver support.
Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends report
Most advice would be jurisdiction specific. General advice: get a good accountant, whose job it is to know stuff like that, and keep apprised of when it changes.
1. Offer a good product
Can a pill restore brain elasticity?
SWI-Prolog Block Operators
Hey there. I made the jump last week.

I work in London, and used to work for a FTSE 35 company. I was there for about 2 years, and worked primarily as an Android developer.

I'm not sure about the situation where you are, but here in London there's tons of Android contracts.

I made the decision to jump about a month and a half ago after getting screwed over a promotion that was promised to me. Any loyalty I had to the company died at that point.

I had a month's notice, and two weeks holiday before I quit. Two weeks before I officially handed my notice in, I let my manager know I was contemplating going contracting. She was very understanding, and tried to make me stay.

I started phoning round recruitment consultants letting them know my experience & what I was after.

After two weeks, twenty plus recruiters, 30 plus contracts, and two interviews, I landed the third interview.

The one thing holding me back the most, and probably the reason I didn't land a job sooner was that in contracting land, you're expected to start pretty much the next day, and I had a 2-4 week wait before becoming available.

I got the job, started my company the same day (£15 & 15 minutes time). Got an accountant via recommendation & started two weeks later.

I'm not going to lie, the jump was terrifying. Losing the security of permanent employment, & imposter syndrome play a big part in keeping people in perm jobs.

After a week in this job though, I'm incredibly happy.

I'm not getting full contract day rates (£400+), its more around £250, but I'm two years out of uni & doubled my salary by quitting.

That's not even including the tax benefits of getting paid via your own company.

My advice would be make damn sure you're good enough (not by validating your own abilities, but by getting other contractors to evaluate you), and start getting in touch with recruiters.

Your world isn't going to come crumbling down by having a conversation.

Oh, and don't trust recruiters. They're a necessary evil.

This helped me: http://www.contractoruk.com/
by 1981 or so the acoustic coupler was antiquated. The modem had a controller that handled telephony stuff like dialing, hanging up, etc and a you'd just plug your POTS rj-11 straight into it.
I don't understand why interviews (for journalism purposes) are conducted face to face. A written back and forth, such as in a forum or thread, is much more useful at cutting through the BS rather than having to waste time listening to evasive responses. I guess there may be some value in the facial reactions of the subject, but most of the time, if there was a written transcript, I'd have saved a lot of my time and energy.
Inspiration is Perishable
Golden Voices Crafting the Majestic Black Woman: Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison
Static site generators focus on the wrong thing
Spark is an interesting technology, from what I've heard it doesn't actually have traction in industry yet though.

Anyone here actually using it in production? I know it's blazing fast etc, and I like it as a map reduce replacement. It has all the makings of a great distributed system, I'm still waiting to see a major deployment yet..
Very surprising how manual this is, unless this is just for the purpose of showing how the LEDs are made. I would have expected everything in this process to be automated since electronic component manufacturing is very high volume.

Also amazing how small the components (LED dies) are.
In the "what did you wish you did" category, think about joining the military. They will pay you more than some minimum-wage job would, give you training and possibly an exciting tech job like cyber-warfare. (Not to mention the uniform and the physical training that'll help you attract a good woman!) Maybe you don't have any sense of duty or patriotism (most of us didn't at your age)... but you probably will in 15 years, and you'll thank yourself! There are a lot of us old guys who wish we had served, but I've never met an old veteran who wishes he hadn't.

Think about the other stuff you're probably planning to do with the next decade: work some entry-level jobs, live with your parents, sit on the sofa, play a lot of video games, etc. Why not drive a submarine or work with satellites or something instead?
Hahaha, I love this image: http://brix.io/welcome/assets/img/lh.png

It's the most hipster thing I've ever seen. Was that intentional?
Vaporware would apply to something that the company clearly doesn't have the technical skill or financial means to pull of. The Mars One mission is an excellent example.

SpaceX has already flown multiple missions to the ISS and has demoed soft-landing their first stage under power. This may not work 100% right now, but there's every reason to believe that SpaceX has the technical skill, the financing, and the will to make it work.
It's at least a semi-automated bonder, so once you get the step and repeat tuned in, it's usually a matter of just pushing the button and visually verifying. Still though, looking into a microscope 12 hours/day is tedious.
> By definition, you aren't doing concurrent programming if you aren't doing shared writes.

I don't understand what you mean but I like Robert Pike's take on concurrency:

"concurrency is the composition of independently executing processes"[1]

As a specific example if you don't want code to block while you're waiting for HTTP requests to finish you're going to be writing concurrent code. I don't understand how that involves "shared writes" but maybe you can explain further? I can write concurrent code that shares no memory, and I can print log statements that show me it's executing concurrently, so I think you may be mistaken.

[1] http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism
The application worked fine as long as long as dns worked the way it was supposed to.

However robust an application is it can't handle being fed html ads instead if application spesific json.

When you are finished rethinking this you can go on to think a second time about censoring your wifes Internet access. Do onto others etc....
While I may not be clueless, post like this do make me more interested.
Apologies for drifting the thread out of the CFAA scope, I was never specifically referring to CFAA to be honest -sorry if it seemed that I was.
OpenGL is the only thing you get on iOS. There is no Direct3D on iOS. Likewise, it's the only thing you get on PS4, Steambox, OSX etc.

But that's not my issue, I acknowledge freely that OpenGL drivers are bad. I just don't quite see how that's a failing of OpenGL, rather than the vendors who actually implement the drivers.
What is that 20°C? Why is that a better number than 68°F?

I'm not arguing against metric in general, I'm arguing that the temperature part of it is just kind of thrown in there because they were both used in France.
Which companies are running Java 8 already on production?
Wow that's a real pain point. Why would they even do that, is there a use case?
Advice: consult with an attorney.

More generally, if you are considering the LLC for legal protection, I would not advise the LLC if you will be the sole owner (aka single member LLC), despite the name you will generally not receive limited liability protection. As an attorney I always take a very conservative approach when it comes to legal protection.
Also: NEVER BORROW MONEY FOR ANYTHING if you can help it. How I wish I could tell my 18-year-old self that!
If 1 Arroba was 25lbs, wouldn't a closer metricization be 10 kilos? This would be ~22lbs.

Was there some other history to make this significant of a change?
> PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device

> PirateBox runs on multiple devices, including wireless routers, Android-based phones, single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi, and even laptops.

That's a little confusing. So it is a device or an app? Or is it just saying that you can connect to it from all of those devices?
> C# has had async, await and parallelism for years

For Scala developers, there's Scala Async, which is exactly what C# "async" is, implemented as a library: https://github.com/scala/async - plus Scala's `Future[T]` has a better design than C#'s Task.

> node.js and libuv are taking over

And both suck in comparison with Java's NIO and the libraries that have been built on top of it.

> Low level threads in Java are so goddamned awful and unavoidable that it makes me want to pull my hair out

Low level concurrency primitives are necessary for building higher-level abstractions on top. For example I need low level concurrency primitives for implementing a Reactive Extensions (Rx) implementation that does back-pressure: https://github.com/alexandru/monifu/

> the people downvoting this have no idea what I'm talking about and don't know what coroutines are

You're assuming too much.
Yes, my father is making an LLC for me to publish my apps in. I don't think I'd be able to do it myself since I'm 16
>>>The stereotypical black family (missing father, poor single mother) is not the result of a lack of action on the part of government.

It's not lack of action...our crazy drug policies are a direct contributor to this situation, and it's by design.
That's very interesting.

Anyone knows some sort of service or website where you input a particular name and then gives you statistics like the average age of persons with the name given?
Scientists find compound to fight virus behind SARS and MERS
Two LLCs, one for Appointment Reminder and one for everything else. The separation is exactly because AR has potentially high liability in event of a HIPAA incident and, while I'm insured against it, I don't want DHS to have a claim on substantially all of my business assets in the event that everything goes wrong.

I go back and forth on whether I want to take investment at some point. At the moment, mostly working on other things, but who knows what the future holds.
I was joking, Fahrenheit is basically setting zero to the lowest temperature most people run into outside, and 100 to the highest temperature run into outside, in Europe.
>Until more people are playing triple A games on platforms that use OpenGL you can't really fault them for spending money when it doesn't make sense.

All platforms support OpenGL, not sure where you're getting at.
No. I work at a 10k+ person non-tech company, doing one-off data migrations when we get new clients and writing tools to help with same.

I have a couple thoughts for paying side projects, but they're stuck (and have been for a long time) behind personal issues that really should be more important but I never seem to find time to fix. Yay procrastination!
I love the contrast between Earth and Venus.

Earth: devastated by drastically rising carbon dioxide levels (from 0.035% to 0.07%).

Venus: 96.5% atmospheric carbon dioxide. No problem! Terra-forming!
In their house, they are... Google isn't a democracy or a charity. They will list you if you follow their rules, the same rules everyone else has to follow to be listed... its their right and prerogative to set and enforce those rules, because its their service.
It is good. Not perfect, but usable. Anyhow, web development has a problem with high screen displays. On the one hand, the px unit in CSS is not a real pixel, so it can be scaled with respect to screen pixel density without breaking the spec. On the other hand, images are really measured in screen pixels.

The end result is that layouts break at densities other than 96dpi, where one CSS px is one screen pixel. The solution would be for image files to embed the display density, but from what I gather, browsers discard that information.

As I posted in the other comment, the major problem now is that the browser UI is not drawn at the correct density and ends thus tiny on high dpi displays.

Anyhow, as these displays become pervasive, it must get fixed.
This is exactly right. If you are a salaried developer or lead who has not had too many jobs in the past, your chances of 'people you know who know how good you are at your work AND have the authority to sign or highly recommend you for a contract' are pretty slim.
Freeing China's Sina Weibo
Coincidentally, today is my last day as a practicing attorney. I quit in order to work full-time on a startup I founded (image platform --> high-growth and/or intent for funding).

I should probably get around to incorporating or figuring out what the best structure is for us since I'll likely begin to seek seed/angel funding in the next few weeks and the startup is going to exist in a fairly IP-heavy space so presumably there's a certain amount of added exposure there, but legal structure is definitely the least interesting part of this process for me.
Do you know what the cost per gram will be with reusable rockets?
Show HN: Monytr-core, a backend process to tell you when your websites go down.
Corporations put their cash where their open source security is
I'm hoping for some cryptic notes in the margin about the whole 42 thing.
We have a word cloud and a "greatest hits" list posted here.

Remember that this is more than 500 separate cases worthy of consideration or at least having enough decency to hit the back button rather than dig into such a heavy topic.

What's not cool is turning these words into a Top 10-linkbait list or a variety show or some other mechanism for insulating yourself from the horror of this post.