skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analog circuits such as you would find in a radio are quite different from the analog IO used when interfacing with the real world. Reading an analog signal from a sensor and acting upon it is trivially simple when compared to building an FM modulator that relies on feedback loops, phase offsets, non-linear junctions and so on.

I think there are a lot of people in the world right now who are interested in electronics, and have become fairly good at using digital electronics but still view analog as mysterious and magical. In that case an article like the above will be very interesting to them
Certainly. But even if you don't want to ship stuff on your own, you can become a freelancer and become a consultant for certain aspects of game design. I've met a number of people who ended up doing that.
FWIW there were no redirects and no registration for me...
If Samsung == Copy,
Xiami == Rip Off.
The reason that Americans view Internet access as a natural monopoly is because there is a monopoly--the city. ISPs have to negotiate rents from the city government. While it is possible for a city to offer fair-access terms they have largely discovered that they can demand rents much higher than you would expect by keeping the number of tenants small.

These rents comprise something like 5-10% of city revenue. And so everybody gets what they want:

* The city gets a free 7% budget bump, and doesn't care who pays for it as long as it's too complex to be an election issue

* ISPs get a monopoly, and don't care that they play the scapegoat because consumers have no other choices anyway

* Citizens get better government services at lower tax rates. Sure, they pay for it via a backdoor tax on internet access but nobody really notices that and they direct their anger at the ISP rather than the elected government

Really the only way to throw a wrench in this system is something like Google Fiber. Nobody wants to be the elected official that turned Google away, because that is actually a sound-bytey enough issue that could come up at re-election. And Google, as a company that doesn't really care about being a profitable ISP, will only move in to a city if it gets a pretty good deal on the rents.
1. I'd suggest that a better way to achieve equality would be to ignore race entirely, rather than bring it up all the time.

2. "Unequal hiring practices"? Race questions are on US passport and Social Security application forms. I can see no justification for those.
I will still mention mc because I think it is great. What does it miss? Your nc habits are applicable, it does it's job.
This article wrongly implies that people getting English PhDs are only doing so in order to become tenure-track English professors. But I just completed my PhD in English two weeks ago, and I'm also the TECH co-founder of a VC-backed startup. Many of my peers are not just tech savvy, they're also developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. They just also happen to be interested in studying slightly older forms of technology -- literary technologies.

Impressive. However, judging from the available empirical evidence from recent professional surveys [1], you and your like-minded peers are indeed the exception, not the rule: over the last 35 years, a consistent 90-95% of newly-minted English PhDs sought academic faculty positions; with only 5-10% seeking careers outside academia [Fig. 2]. There is a reason why the so-called 'alt-ac' career track is called that way in the broader MLA community.

[1] http://mlaresearch.commons.mla.org/2014/02/26/our-phd-employ...
Just as I wanted to commit a private repo :(
Anyone remember the Norton Editor? One of the first commercial text editors. And actually decent for it's time.
The paper can be found at [1]. This is not a completely new finding. We have know that motor learning induces spine formation for quite awhile. What is novel is comparing to the sleep deprived condition and seeing effects on structural plasticity. However, there is still a long way to go to causally link increased spine formation to improvements on memory and motor tasks. We like to think that spines represent a structural correlate of memory (and they probably are), but there are a whole bunch of open questions that need to be answered before we can actually prove that claim.

1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1173.full
'Major outage' according to their status page:

http://status.bitbucket.org/#day
Oh, that looks very nice. Neat to embed Lua as a sandboxed plugin environment.
http://status.bitbucket.org/

Major Outage Apparently.
They seem to be down quite regularly recently. Some deeper underlying issue, I'd say.
Thanks for the link.

I didn't knew why I always used 'an hour' instead of 'a hour' but that's what I was taught. The link explains a lot.

People keep correcting me for typing 'an hour' instead of 'a hour'.
We add the utf8 param to prevent from Internet Explorer bug.
This is a more useful link to see what's happen(ing/ed) : http://status.bitbucket.org/
funny, perfect result!! and the concept is so simple, well done!
> The comparison with the movie industry is obvious, but what about retaining skill and knowledge, which is vital in the software industry?

Well at the same time the technologies you used to make the game you worked on 2 years ago are probably going to be obsolete in the new game you'd be hired to work on. There's only a few jobs in the game industry where highly specialized, technical people are valued and retained. And there's a ton of talent pool to pick up fresh people from out there who are decent at what they do - probably more than there are jobs for them.

Look at Mercury Steam, they had no experience doing a AAA game (unless you consider Jericho one of them, but I'd say it was rather average in scope), and yet they managed to convince Konami they could do a reboot of Castlevania and they did it pretty well without much prior experience in the similar genre or scope.
Health care only works "better" when socialized if you believe that health care really should be so expensive that they have to print extra money explicitly to pay for it. There's no reason that has to be an integral property of health care. Turns out that most of the time, we don't need hospitals the size of college campuses (incidentally another thing that is completely unaffordable). The reason things cost so much is because true costs are obscured, just as they would be in a socialized system, by insurance.

IMO non-catastrophic insurance should be abolished, the government should overcome the supply chain cycle ("Sorry, I have to charge $500 for this MRI because this machine cost me $4 million") by producing its own functional medical equipment and selling it at or under cost, and health providers need to get back to reality and charge face rates that real people can pay directly. And we all need to come to terms with the fact that some of the extravagance probably needs to be toned down.
How are vegetables important? They provide little to no energy.
Do you have some good reference about this hypothesis? I'm not really into neuroscience but this really interests me. I'm more on the machine learning side with artificial neural networks, but I often wondered whether some sleep-like phases could get me some improvements. Of course, the question is, what exactly should happen in that phase. What particular neural connections should I strengthen?
VC looking to invest in mature brownfield and greenfield ventures
Because it's easier to blame others than blame oneself. They'd rather coast through life constantly blaming their woes on others' successes (whether just, stolen, or inherited). I take it as an opportunity to motivate myself. Nothing wrong with jealousy, as long as you use it as a motivator instead of a mental air-bag.
Good picks, love Tycho. Subscribed to your spotify list.
http://www.musicforprogramming.net/ (seen here a few times) is also a good list of dev tunes
The Futuro House
So FBI infiltrated a bunch of delusional nerds, focused their attention on several countries with which US has rather cold relations and when the job was done, put the nerds in jail. To me it sounds like two birdies with one shot <<claps slowly>>...
There is a reason why Samsung manages to pull that off. [1]

Price-fixing and counter-suing strategy. They always have been using the same disruptive method in every industry they are in. By the time the verdict is out they have mass produced and sold it with huge profits lined up to pay a settlement fee.

1. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-sma...
There is not really any doubt about it. Pirating Windows 1.0 is as illegal as pirating Windows 8.1.

Abadonware as a concept/word is invented purely to make the people involved feel good about their illegitimate activity.
20 Stunning Websites of Design Agencies
Sounds like your body is trying to get you back on the good stuff.

Your brain likes sugar. Get over it.
Cool. That is a neat trick/exploit never heard of it before.

Thx. for the links.
"One of my very biggest complaints about the economic climate today is that all of the productivity gains go to the owners, and very little to workers."
You are an owner, of yourself and the mental/physical capital that that encompasses. If you feel the way you do, then you're obviously not happy with the way you're selling yourself and your knowledge.
Playing the devil's advocate: what if the higher contention ratios lead to 50% reduction in gym membership fee? All other gyms follow suit and consumers and gyms both benefit from the realization that not all members will be in the gym at the same time. Marketing departments start vying for consumers who they know are unlikely to attend everyday and lure them with annual sign up discounts.

Fast forward 3 years later, you come out with your pill and throw a wrench in the works. Now gyms realize they have to go back to the old pricing model because the economics have changed. Consumers will no doubt become upset at the prospec of having to pay more. Some gyms take a wait and see approach to see what other gyms will do. Your pill started it but really, it's not your fault or your problem.

What should the gyms do?
Agreed, it's not necessarily an issue of full socialization. The government can issue rules that ISPs must abide without taking them over completely.
Beastie Boys win $1.7m copyright ruling over song use
IMHO, Channel9.msdn is the best source of videos out there for developers. I've spent many an hour watching videos on there. My favourite are the C++ ones by this guy:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/stephan-t-lavavej
Financial Times - http://app.ft.com/
Though not sure if they officially shipped it or not.
I worked at symc for a while and the conventional wisdom was that taking Norton off the boxes was a way to reduce the royalties that needed to be paid to him.

There is also a line of enterprise products dubbed "Symantec Antivirus" that reduces royalties even further.
Norton ghost was quite awesome. It was the poor man's VM.
So you have no problem with the actions... just the rhetoric?

That's an interesting position I've encountered the opposite before, but not this.

Does the rhetoric really matter?
So... Why is it in a Github account that doesn't seem to have anything to do with John Carmack, id Software, or Softdisk Publishing? Or Zenimax or Occulus?
I am also interested in this. Most jQuery Mobile/ PhoneGap apps feel 'substandard'..
A tiny fraction sure. But google make a lot more.

So your real issue is with the YouTube API for not supplying ads with content?
I would be quite pleased with unpaid leave for two months, if I knew it was coming.
HEY DID YOU SEE THE VIDEO OF SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PRANK?
A Book bound in Human Skin
MS Research's LIQUi|: Language Integrated Quantum Operations
The sell very well if you forget there are a billion people. They sell really badly if you take that into account.
Tech Immigrants: A Map of Silicon Valley's Imported Talent
Working software over proce$$es and fools
That's why they are important. :)
On a serious note, there is nutrient density.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient_density

Most commonly, nutrient density is defined as a ratio of nutrient content to the total energy content. Nutrient-dense food is opposite to energy-dense food (also called "empty calorie" food). [...] Fruits and vegetables are the nutrient-dense foods, while products containing added sugars, processed cereals, and alcohol are not.

This is why replacing added sugar with anything that contains at least some vitamins and/or minerals is beneficial.
Huawei are after business contracts.

Xiaomi (Show (as in shower) me) are after consumer market. I think they will have better success
It's like cyber tagging
Why would they get sued?
The issue is that value doesn't necessarily mean money. In terms of money, is Apple really the most profitable company in the world? We know that it's not, so why do they have the highest market cap? Because people value their shares for more than just the present dollar value. People want to be part of Apple regardless of its profitability.

The negative shareholder value argument depends on a summary characterization of all investors as people who only care about money. Not all investors are like that. You can create shareholder value out of anything that your shareholders value, which is not to say that "shareholder value" should even be a serious metric. It's just a narrative that anti-corporate people have drummed up.
The Red Hourglass: Self-Experimentation with Black Widow Bites
Right? Seeing the "Right click and save as to download", and I was like "Yay! I can wget"
That question (and answer) is probably not relevant here. The important thing is likely cache locality, not branch prediction (as the test case is very different in that question, amplifying branch misprediction issues, which won't be the issue here).
You say that like its a promise that keeps going unfulfilled.

I think these is an update that Xiami is is pretty much on track to do what they keep saying it's going to do and putting some more clarity on the how. EG take Xiaomi beyond China and into Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, India, and five countries in Southeast Asia.

It's a status update.
Another instance of killing entrepreneurialism: It is common for university admission contracts in the UK to contain clauses stating that the university owns anything you create whilst attending the institution. Again, this lead to many of my peers hiding software they had created (which was clearly a great shame) and/or constantly worrying about what rights they had.
Which nobody does.
I must have miss-read, or was the original edited? Reading it again now it's clear that the person means "Wow this works without hoping through 15 things. I'll leave my links for anyone else that might be interested.
Love the letter on solving solitaire. Encouragement to talk to kids about maths.

Are there any good scientific books for kids/toddlers anyway? For things to answer to the "why" questions if you are an atheist. I'd like to explain evolution for example.
X360 controllers are not bluetooth. They use their own proprietary protocol. I honestly can't see a difference between DualShock 4 connected via USB vs. bluetooth to my PC,and I use it to play titanfall.
Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised that someone is thinking about longevity of recorded data. Thanks!

Looks like an excuse to upgrade my Thinkpad docking station with something like this http://support.lenovo.com/ru_RU/product-and-parts/detail.pag...

and I should be able to write disks that last? Sounds good.
same for me, though I barely read anything on history or politics
It is a radio transmitter (and therefore a radio) regardless of what the TFA says. If you drag our your field strength meter or scanner and tune it to around that band, you're going to get a signal. Probably not a very strong one but it's still there. The big chunk of wire hanging off it is clearly an aerial so it even shows intent of being a radio.

Seeing as it's 49MHz, it'll even show up on analogue baby monitors etc.
They own the domain mi.com, so perhaps just 'Mi'? That's easy to pronounce.
employment is a scam
This isn't the simplest radio (or oscillator) you can build. To get the nearest AM-station, simply put a resistor, an a diode together and attach 20 m of wire and an earphone on its side. Voila!
I see you have been downvoted, but I've increasingly been of that opinion. I see developers being screwed over all the time by big corporations - as an example, Apple and Google with illegal agreements not to poach each other's workers. A union, IMO, would have helped.
You can listen to that on baby monitors. Also broadcasting on "broadcast FM bands" is frowned upon world-wide. The 49MHz band is for experimentation as assigned by the FCC in the US.
City of Beijing Data Portal
I pay $25/14 GB pretty consistently here in Singapore. Ironically, in Singapore, it's cheaper for me to pay for traffic on a pre paid SIM, than it is to pay for it with a pre-paid account. Works out great when we're downloading 50-60 GBytes/month. $100/month gets us 56 gigabytes @ about 20-30 mbits/second.
Isn't the bigger issue here that game developers have been underpaid for many years? They are usually exceptional programmers who would be getting much higher salaries (and much better working conditions) elsewhere, so getting laid off would not be such a dramatic experience due to savings etc..
>>The average yearly salary for game developers, according to a Gamasutra study, was $84,000 in 2013.

I just got hired as a junior programmer at a large studio(one of the largest in the world in fact) and I make ~$30k a year - wonder where they get their numbers from, or if maybe the market in the US is better(I am in the UK).
I can't understand why this comment has been downvoted. It seems like a controversial but valid opinion. What are the specific objections?
"Illegitimate"? It's certainly illegal, but there is a very open question about whether it should be legal, and I would say that archiving, organizing and making freely available software that has no/little commercial value is a legitimate activity.

Other types of intellectual property can be abandoned, so why not copyright? Patents are ineffective unless the owner actively enforces their rights by suing infringers. And trademarks are abandoned simply by not being used[1].

So why not let copyright lapse unless the owner regularly files for renewal, perhaps with a small fee attached to discourage auto-renewal.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/abandonment_of_trademark
I learned x86 via his books, quite good reading, specially how to write a DiskEdit clone.
The way you phrase it makes it sound as if the choice is between a finance-domain path ("My peers are gunning for the usual private equity/ hedge fund jobs, which pay handsomely") vs. a technology-industry path. I have absolutely no doubt that you should stick to your job with Goldman / JPM and pursue advancement along that path; maybe do a CFA or MBA if that makes sense towards applying for roles that apply to your interest in finance.

Palantir is probably a pretty awesome and innovative tech company but unless you have a game plan to be someone special in tech or tech sales, the sheer amount of "flow" in the finance industry assures you that even the lemmings receive a good salary. If you're good, the sky is the limit.

One reason you may consider leaving Wall Street is if you are working on something that is obviously ethically wrong. In that case, it's not just a matter of pure money.
Snatching Atari Back From the Grave, Again
Can we use this for filtering hacker news articles?
Yes, I may have been wrong on that part. Or it was planned but not started yet. Or Chris Lattner read that post and thought "we've gotta get on that". Or whatever.

Regardless of that, a lot of details match (opt into it, side-by-side with C and Objective-C, compiler based on LLVM, not based on C, modern language, specifically made to match the frameworks).
Sounds to me like it was the first time she had a reality check and she had no idea what to do about it. A GPA of 3.5 is equivalent to a middling upper-second-class degree in the UK, respectable by all accounts. This girl isn't stupid: she was inadequately prepared and inadequately counselled in the face of failure.
I started my kids on this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Space-Childs-Mother-Goose/dp/19309...

It makes them ask questions to which you can explain the answers.

Few excerpts:

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~hsg/134/poems/space-childs-mother-g...
GTA V Trailer Perfectly Recreated in 8-Bit Animation
> There are other businesses where projects are high risk and still jobs work more or less normally.

I'm honestly curious. What businesses are these and what industry do they work in?
Since when is FBI's job to do cyber-attacks against other countries? Also, isn't it illegal to coerce someone to commit a crime for you? If it isn't, then it should be.
Elastic Search make their money from Enterprise support licenses. There are so many ways of installing it , scaling and optimizing depending on application. Don't forget the training around. You have IBs like Goldman Sachs using it for log analytics. So the services around that are needed and real. I don't think they will need an enterprise version.
Ok, but I would still be creeped out by Amazon estimating details about me by using facial recognition techniques. I'm much more comfortable with them knowing about the products I choose to buy because I am aware of the information I am giving to them.
> The tools people use in the movie industry are commodities with relatively slow innovation. People can get by on more or less the same skill set they had 15 years ago, and once the movie has been shot, virtually nobody has gained any new knowledge.

I'm pretty sure you can only say that because you do not have the slightest insight into the movie industry.
Why American Express Wants to Kill Credit Cards
"Cascade/DB is a revolutionary new relational database engine that can store complex objects in single rows, so you don't have to decompose your data into multiple tables. With Cascade, your apps contain fewer tables, and are faster to design, simpler to code, and easier to maintain. And they run up to 40 times faster due to fewer joins. All without breaking any relational rules."

NoSQL for the 90s!

http://vetusware.com/manufacturer/MicroQuill%20Software%20Pu...
When I'm forced to put things into wikis or content management systems, I usually edit text in my favourite text editor (via the "It's all Text" extension or similar). Unfortunately the javascript-based editor in this wiki is too clever for that extension to work. Fortunately a dance involving Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, edit elsewhere and copy back, and Ctrl-v does work. So I guess I wouldn't find it too annoying if I had to use this thing :-). Direct access to the git repository would be nice though.
it's doubtful if the Chinese are even allowed to read the present New Yorker article, let alone publish it if they had written it themselves.

I'd be interested to hear from those with more direct experience whether this guess is true. Is this article accessible in China? Would a Mandarin translation be censored? Would a native equivalent be publishable? And culturally, is there embarrassment at using prison labor?
Did you ever heard of cold reading?
It is... annoying that the viewport width changes both the range of dates that you're looking at and the center of that date range.

Otherwise, it looks like a decent toy project.
Symphonical adds migration support for Springpad users
It's not a crime under US law.
I don't think it was invented so that people can feel good. Usually it describes software that is simply impossible to buy anymore in any legal way. Illegal - sure. But does anyone really care if you download the original Commander Keen today? Not really...
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