skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad's health is stopping him.

You can't run forever, that's just how it is.

Edit, that said, I haven't seen him as active or motivated in years before his latest contract gig.
The normal human visual field is broader than it is tall. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but 4:3 is a reasonable approximation.
Coping with burnout: a new study identifies what works best
:-) i thought that was no market for it : i wrote the heat map for specifically that purpose :

Where People Are in NYC ? Look at places where taxi pick up their passengers :

Guide To Uber Drivers : Where to get passengers at given time of day

https://github.com/akuchlous/NYC_CAB_ANALYTICS
And yet the top-rated comment is arguing the opposite, frustrated by accidentally hitting the snooze button and then waking their sleeping partner unnecessarily. It's almost like there are multiple differing views, both of which have compelling justifications depending on the preference and circumstances of the user...
hey! That's loopy! From the Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection.

Play it here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/loopy...

You can play penrose style puzzles by selecting the type in the furthest right drop down menu.

(beware, select custom and choose easy mode, becuase hard mode is hard)
Another World is still one of the best examples of a well crafted narrative.
TC doesn't seem opposed to PressFarm's success as a business. From the comments (Tsotsis is an editor at TC):

Wouter Smet : ...with this post you just gifted Press Farm, apparently a super tiny company/web site, the exposure and traffic startups can only dream about....
Alexia Tsotsis : Oh, yeah, you're right, we totally didn't think of that angle. Oops!
Maybe I phrased that poorly. All data that can be retrieved or viewed can also be exported with enough effort. But OSS doesn't guarantee that process will always be easy and hosted, closed-source doesn't guarantee it will be hard.
"Seems like a lot of effort when you can just spam the whole list."
Hipster-irreverent, too.
"For comparison, Chrome requires 512 MB minimum. I only have 4 windows open and it's using about 4 GB of memory, and this is a very light day."

Good heavens. Below is top showing Iceweasel (Firefox in Debianspeak) with theverge, vox, fivethirtyeight, bbc news and theregister and an html5 video playing.

On an old i5 laptop with 3gb ram (64 bit OS).

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
10272 keith 20 0 1673m 460m 29m R 67.2 16.1 16:23.65 iceweasel
> Isn't that what you're doing when you lock your doors though?

No. You lock your doors to protect your house from external threats. Here it's completely reversed. DRM invades your private digital space (your computer, your system, the programs you run etc.) for the sake of policing you. I.e. it's not like a lock on your house doors. It's like a police camera placed inside your house. That's exactly what makes it overreaching and unacceptable.

Policing itself is a not an evil idea in general. But it's evil when it's overreaching. Saying - "let's prevent crime" is OK. Saying "let's place police cameras in everyone's house to prevent crime" is not OK.
he just should not have used the word confidence in the headline.

He used to word confidence to make a more interesting headline, instead of using another word to make a more informative headline.
There is a good chance your problem finding qualified PHP talent is that your job posting is for entry/mid-level developers.

I'm not knocking entry-level people; we all start there, but when your pool of candidates includes new developers you should expect occasions where their lack of experience is apparent.

Retention could also be a problem in that context because many experienced developers want to work on a product they work hard on and can be proud of. That idea seems to contrast having "several commercial clients", a circumstance which most often translates to speed being prioritized over quality (the inverse of the experienced developer's desire).
https://fireden.net/4chan/images.4chan.org//vg/src/138800901...
Right now you basically need to either use C or OpenCL. (I'm not familiar with OpenPI and Google doesn't pull up anything that seems relevant to this conversation.) If you're not proficient in C, I would recommend the OpenCL route.

The crew at Erlang Solutions is working on running Erlang on the Epiphany chip, but I haven't seen any visible progress from them.

I can't tell you anything about programming the FPGA. You don't need to directly mess with the FPGA to use the Epiphany. From what I've seen, the jump from C to VHDL is even bigger than the jump from OO to C, so probably not a weekend project. Also, there's no FOSS toolchain for programming the FPGA--you have to use Xilinx's tools, about which I've heard mixed reviews.

I bought the cluster with the intention of, well, building a cluster, but to date haven't actually tried that--Real Life got in the way of doing that. I do have all the hardware sitting here to connect them over plain old Ethernet.
Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
Ask HN: Does Example.co vs. ExampleApp.com make a difference?
I have picked up a few domain names for my new startup. While the name I truly wanted was taken, I was able to get Example.co along with ExampleApp.com/.net/.org (Of course, Example is not the name of the startup).

The startup will be a mobile app with a web-based management interface. Is it better to use Example.co, or stick with the more clunky ExampleApp.com? I've looked around, but I can't find much research on the subject. What would you advise?
2006

But seriously, why are you limiting yourself to PHP and jQuery? JQuery especially - really odd considering you could easily work with any framework if you have the JS background...
Band.js – Music composer interface for the Web Audio API
Still an amazing game for its time. Replayed recently on iPad.
You picked two areas with massive government regulation. So yes, when government acts as the intermediary, the private sector can stop failing at coordination.
The Black Widow of Silicon Valley
What we should put on priority is city wide wireless internet capabilities. I think there are some early versions of this in some states but it would be very useful if it were more widely used.
My question implies that SaaS is the default/most common path. Which, without making any judgment either way, it is.
I really like the ending line: "Two decades ago, we were still dreaming."
Its always key to take these kind of 'indirect' causation in anthropological fields with a huge grain of salt. It might be true but it is not really 'science' if the hypothesis can't be tested quantitatively.
What you are ok with paying and what the median Verizon customer is ok with are probably not the same thing.
1. Eh, OK, you're probably better off using zRTP directly with your contacts. Silent Circle doesn't seem to actually say how your calls are any more secure. In a recent thread, they say they hand them off to a VoIP carrier and consider that "encrypted to the PSTN". IIRC part of Silent Circle's play is that they think the government cannot compel them to do "bad" things, so they're telling us to trust them on that basis.

2. One of a ton of services that cost like $3-4 or so a month and will probably fall. And sure, it prevents the local WiFi from running sslstrip at the cost of putting all your traffic at an easy-to-monitor place (the VPN provider).

3. A closed source program running access to all your data doesn't sound particularly impressive. But sure, it's better than using Dropbox.

4. Kismet Wifi manager is $2.99 on Google Play.

It might be better than nothing, but the product sounds seriously over-hyped, and some of their claims seem like outright lies or at best misleading/useless.

I also don't get, if such a combo of services was so valuable, why someone just doesn't sell it separately.
The beginning scene was cringe-worthy.
Movie was well done, bit cringey at times but it's what you expect made for a non-tech audience.

Fun lines:
"I am a god" (The protagonist)
"She's a lightning god" (Talking about a girl who chips Xbox's)
One year of Draft Revise
No only have we - I'm self-taught. That being the case, I found it extremely useful getting my university degree online, whilst already working. I just found that without the years of experience - the degree opened more doors.

So even if you're self taught, even if you have that first job, the rest of the paperwork can only help open doors in the future.
Well, downloading the video from Vimeo doesn't cost the project anything. And if I like the video, then I can support them by paying. I don't see any upside to taking on the risk myself.

Also, if someone genuinely can't afford the price, they can still enjoy the video. That seems like a net win for society.
>overarching master plans, especially social ones, are overconfident by nature and generally lead to large unexpected consequences

in application to reality, a formal system and expressions built in it are always approximations. The more complex an expression the farther it usually is from reality. It is true for linearized equations describing physical processes and even more true for formal systems describing society/economy/etc...
Hey Guys,

Last August I had an idea for a weekend project and created a library called 8bit.js. I figured it should be more than just 8bit oscillator sounds and broadened the API so other people could create their own Instruments, hence the change to Band.js. I'm now looking for people to collaborate with who are Audio Engineers and also know the Web Audio API who can help me create new Instrument Packs for Band.js.

If you've seen this library in the past, you should know that I've recently refactored the whole thing to work with Browserify. I've also added the ability to change the tempo of a song, even while it's playing (you can test that out with the examples below). I've also fixed numerous bugs and performance issues.
If you would like to hear what it can do right now with just your basic Oscillators and white noise, checkout the examples in the README.md of the repo.

If anyone else is musically inclined and knows a bit of JavaScript, you can fork any of the songs from the examples in Plnkr and create your own song :). If you do, let me know and I'll add it to the list of Examples.
I think there is a good chance you are taking an observation from your life, something about lots of people being uncertain about cooking, and (falsely) translating that into a lack of consideration for cooking. Even something crassly commercial like "The Food Network" spends an awful lot of its time on real actual cooking (and there are dozens of cooking shows on other channels).

And it just goes on from there. What could be more mainstream than Rachel Ray and her talk show? And she is big on ingredients and cooking them.

Or do a survey of "food section"s in print. The HuffPo, of all things, focuses on recipes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/food/

Lots of real papers have lots of recipes and content that is not restaurant reviews.

Sorry for focusing on one small point and being cranky about it.
Scalia’s major screw-up: How SCOTUS just gave liberals a huge gift – Salon.com
It seems like this should be something "easy" to do right inside the phone, right? Why should the baseband processor have any uncontrolled access to the Android OS running on it? It should just expose voice and data channels, and whatever other little bits are required to interface.
The density of the DIMMs is where the price difference jumps. Right now 32GB sticks push the price way up. Common current chassis have 24 slots letting you hit 384GB total with no big surprises on 16GB sticks.

Getting to 1TB would certainly require 32GB sticks and would be the point where multiple machines gets cheaper.
I don't know much (anything?) about sales, but these guys look like an alternative: http://www.generationsalesgroup.com/
"easily harvested"

I get your point regarding some of the things you mention but having to pay $9 to save time guessing or tracking down email addresses doesn't seem like a bad deal.
What do you think about the possibility that the etiology is neurological? Here's my reasoning:

* There's also no simple yes/no test for most mental illnesses

* It explains why it correlates so heavily with anxiety disorders

* It explains why it is treatable with psychotropic drugs

* Falls in line with the increasing evidence that the enteric nervous system plays a role in both IBS and anxiety
Yes.

For the most part it's going to be about as successful as any other candidate.

What I've recommended / done before is have this person serve more of enhanced technical support role, while also taking part in code reviews and ideation.

The biggest threat is that they have very little knowledge of what's happening under the hood, or that based on their course don't truly understand core CS concepts like inheritance, abstraction. This can be really dangerous with PHP developers (whether educated traditionally, by a business, or on Coursera / CodeAcademy) where people teach various levels of frameworks.
Can't Get a Job From an Algorithm, or So It Seems as Hot Resumes Go Nowhere Fast
How Can Filtering Address New York's Housing Crisis?
Follow @phylogenomics, look at recent his recent rants. Almost certainly this is correlation/causation bunk about the microbiome (in addition to the other problems noted here).
A fascinating analysis. Anecdotal, of course, as a controlled double-blind test is hard to do for in-person interviews on behalf of a single person, but this presents some interesting possibilities for further research, along the lines of these:

http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109#aff-...
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49392/2/MPRA_paper_49392.pdf
Yesterday I played through the first three parts of the absolutely gorgeous Kentucky Route Zero, which is definitely pushing a lot of the same visual buttons as Another World, albiet in the form of a point-n-click adventure rather than a "die early, die often" arcade game.

Now to wait another couple of years for parts 4/5 to come out.

http://kentuckyroutezero.com
Tips for spotting bullshit startup tech
I will have to choose school soon for my son, and seems like my choice is private or homeschooling.
Is this an "..all reasonable people" argument?
If I am not mistaken the ticket price was 80 EUR for four days.

Believe me, I'm all for offering speakers travel reimbursement, but arguing about that ticket price is kind of out of place.
Probably true. I bought four yesterday for $1.50 apiece, which is the number I was thinking of. Pricy, but they can really make a meal, so I feel like they're worth it. Incidentally, either your avocados are a lot heftier than mine or your friends get a lot less hungry than my wife and I do, because two make barely enough guacamole to go with our quesadillas.
Doug, don't be an asshole.

Regards,
A coworker
Microsoft Plans Cheaper Windows Laptops To Fight With Chromebooks
I'm about as ok with paying $100 for internet as I am with paying $4/gallon for gas during the summer. Read: not very.

But that's what it costs. Make it clear to the consumer what things cost and they'll either curtail their usage or cough up the money. Maybe they should have a charge per GB of transfer over some monthly limit. I don't know. But obscuring it through a bunch of additional business deals on the back-end isn't going to make those costs go away, it's just a way to hide them and delay the day when ISPs compete with each other on actual cost per GB delivered.
Silent Circle does use ZRTP (the 'Z' in ZRTP is 'Zimmermann', who is one of Silent Circle's cofounders).

You don't need to trust anyone. There are (admittedly slightly out dated) buildable sources for the Android clients on GitHub. The whole point of ZRTP is that the server can be considered untrusted.
Pomotodo Combines Pomodoro with a To-Do List that Tracks Your Progress
It's like stuffing envelopes. If you have to do 3 or 10 inefficiency doesn't matter that much. If you have to do 100 or 500 or 5000 all that extra time to guess name@ or name.last@ or nlast@ or n.last@ etc. is a big time waste. Paving to have the right address (even if some aren't correct because they've changed) is worth paying for.
Local Mauian, born and raised, moved to the mainland, and now working as developer in Los Angeles -- I know that place first hand -- nobody there is looking for change -- you can't fight the culture there (probably more there than other small towns), no manner how hard you want it to change.
For any product in the marketplace, the "Why now?" question isn't just asking what technological tools and breakthroughs have taken place that makes this possible. You must also ask, what user behaviors and markets now exist that makes this possible. In order for a product to be a adopted by many, you need both, regardless of whether it's a "science technology" or a "fashion technology".

Many people focus on the former effect as being innovation while completely disregarding the latter. Some progression in products can only occur when users have changed their behavior and expectations enough for you to leverage it.

We had the technology to make something like AirBnb since the 90's. But I don't think it would have worked in the 90's, because people were still wary of meeting strangers from the internet.

We had the technology to make Groupon since the 90's. But I don't think it would have worked in the 90's, because people were only starting to get use to the idea of paying for stuff online, much less doing it together with strangers.

This is why at some points in time, Silicon Valley focuses on problems that can be solved because the user behavior had changed, rather than on problems that can be solved because there's a tech breakthrough--sometimes there are no new tech breakthroughs to be leveraged. That's when you get the Twitter, Groupons, and Yos, and that's ok! It's like filling in the gaps, and fully exploring the ramifications of a new tech.
> And yet, you claim free market fails.

Seriously? You have a cheaper/better internet access in Russia compared to the USA and suddenly the Russian (extremely corrupted) political and social model (a modern monarchy of sorts) became a model economy over the US?

PS. I can't find the source, but I've read that in the last Russian elections more than 35% of the population wanted to return back to communism.
Yes, you can download it and support them by paying later. I agree.

But... I see no point into publishing the direct stream link. Although it's funny due what the movie is about, I think it creates some disadvantages for them.

I hope they took in mind this and they don't feel threatened by this behavior.
yes, there were some truly tasteless tshirts in that list but when you click on any link prefaced with 4chan, you have to assume the worst.

i have to admit, reading this post to eventually come across a t-shirt with a pair of pants on it really made my day though
I think it's because the list is being built by pull requests. Two people submit a Log Monitoring section at the same time and the repo owner merges without really paying attention.
The Hottest Startup Sectors
> Entry Level

> 4-5 years of web development experience

C'mon, man.
Microsoft's AI Is On Its Way to Identifying the Whole World
> while we see new (and successful) concepts of mobile games basically every month.

With the rise of Free2Pay, and the blight of IAP, I would argue otherwise.
Immersive AR/VR with Digital Light Fields
"If they're not getting enough money to continue building, first off, I find that hard to believe"

Entirely possible that they are getting enough money to continue but they want to take a break to inhale some excess profits not hindered by more expansion. Get something in the bank. (Kind of opposite of what Amazon is doing I guess.)
worth watching?
I don't for sure. In fact, it is definitely confounded by the fact that I quit my SSRI a month and a half prior. However, the reaction I described began a day after I started the probiotic. Also, it gradually decreased in intensity over the two weeks after I stopped the probiotic and I resumed my SSRI. Just to be sure, I took another and the whole thing happened again.
In the Netherlands we force the physical network part of the infrastructure to be separate from the services that run on top of it.

It can be implemented fairly easily by separating a company into two and forbidding them from giving special deals to their former counterpart.

That seems to have a very good effect on competition in practice...
How did Elon Musk learn enough about rockets to run SpaceX? [Answered]
Aaron Swartz Documentary now available in full on YouTube
Agree... leave them make some money
Yes. That would be me.

I'm assuming that "writing a ton of code despite being an intern" counts as a hire and "technical school you've probably never heard of" counts as no-brand.

So far, so good.
Read the public comments on Net Neutrality
My understanding of the OA is that the school where the teacher cheated was under threat of closure unless test scores reached some arbitrary percentage. The existence of tests themselves is not the issue as you say.

Meta: could downvoters engage more?
Sorry, it was my bad. I meant to say OpenMPI :P

Thanks for the comments! it certainly gives me some idea of what it would be.
You timed the shot. Don't confuse photo with video.
Why the future of work is already here
A list of the most pointless websites
I don't see how you might conclude that "TC doesn't seem opposed to PressFarm's success as a business" based on that one line of comment.

I read Alexia's response as "We considered the possibility that this post will give PressFarm a much unwanted exposure, and yet we went ahead and published it anyway, just to save you the ice creams money."
There's an Errol Morris documentary from last year about/featuring Rumsfeld called The Unknown Known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Known
I didn't know Alexis was a partner at YC. When did that happen?
Obviously I have the benefit of hindsight, but...

I don't think it's a matter of waiting for the right guys (e.g. Apple) to crack the smart watch and make it a hit. Not that Apple couldn't, but I think that's looking at reality wrong.

Smart watches that exist now aren't hugely popular, not because the interface is bad, but because nobody knows what they should do. "You get notifications? That's it?"

When Apple made the iPod, they didn't start with a form and end with a function. No one was asking, "When will brick-shaped things that fit in your pocket be big?" There was a function -- portable players of digital music files -- that needed to be done well. iPod was arguably the first MP3 player that solved that problem. That it is brick-shaped and fits in a pocket is a result of the required function, it wasn't the goal.

Ditto the iPhone. You could argue that "mobile phone" as an end form was pre-determined, but it's semantics. The use cases, the functions, were what needed solving. The end form has very little in common with mobile phones before it.

The talk around smart watches is backward. "We have this form -- a watch with a microprocessor and probably Bluetooth -- but what can it do?"

- Maybe it's for exposing notifications on your wrist.
- Maybe it's for giving a view of the phone in your pocket on your wrist.
- Maybe it's for measuring biometric data.
- Maybe it's for identifying yourself.

Maybe.

Are these functions in need of a form, or a form in need of some function? If the former, is a watch the best form anyway?

(I have a Pebble. I even wear it most days. I like it. But if it broke, I wouldn't buy another.)
I think it's that we just enjoy the spectacle of companies that seem like terrible ideas or based around an ethically questionable action. Nobody gets excited about "tech startup grows revenue to $100k on niche, hard to understand product and delays investor round to avoid dilution"
You're absolutely right, contrast options are something I've been meaning to add for a while. Please do!