skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - this whole post is totally unbelievable. I eat in restaurants all the time and have never seen a single person take a picture of their food - group photos are rare and happen quickly. I call fake.
Don't think anyone said that. Detailed, constructive feedback is always appreciated.

On the other hand, when using free software from other people, it does seem a little rude to demand anything from them. Kind of like "gee, thanks for the free cake, but I prefer my icing on the side, waahhhh sob sob sob [ throws toys from the pram ]"
We are also working on these, target sub 10 euro, combined with high-voltage (230V in Europe) switch functionality. All this stuff is still way too expensive on the moment.
Why is it so frightening?
Where are your patches to improve OpenSSL? Put up or shut up, some may say...
YES! I had hosting through them. I had to abandon the servers because they were shit. I didn't buy the low $35 ones either, I bought the 2nd highest box they offered. Still shit.
Anand is my roommate. He's been doing this non-stop for the last 2-3 months (but thinking about it for the last 9), including while traveling internationally for the first month after he quit his job. The last month has been nightly design critiques after I got home from work :D
They aren't: -Werror is doing exactly what it is supposed to, keeping a tacit assumption from subtly causing bugs. sysctl is necessary because there is no randomness system call, and in chroots /dev/random is not available.
CrossOver 13.2: Installing Windows program on Linux just got easier
The Dexcom G4 is a continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) worn by type 1 diabetics. It has a USB port and Windows only software for downloading and analysing data.

A team of developers / users have created an open source realtime remote monitoring, alarm and glucose prediction system for it. It uses a USB OTG cable to connect the Dexcom to a commodity Android phone, which runs a custom Android app to upload the data to MongoLab. From there, a Node.js powered dashboard gives viewers - typically parents of diabetic children - a way to monitor glucose levels remotely. In addition, a Pebble watch app lets the wearer check their glucose by just looking at their wrist, instead of having to use the bulky Dexcom monitor.

http://nightscout.github.io/posts/01-quickstart/
Trackmania 2 Universal Demo includes track building tool
Ask HN: What can I do in 2-3 months to secure a developer job?
I graduated from my university 3 weeks ago with a Computer Science degree. Unfortunately I never really spent too much time working on side projects or getting industry experience; most time was just spent working on my coursework.

I've sent out a lot of job applications and either I've only gotten rejections back or it's been radio silence. I've applied to about 10 companies, ranging from multinational companies to smaller startups.

At this point it's getting sort of stressful not finding work. Can anyone shed some light on what I should do to maybe land a job in 2-3 months? I would say I have a strong background in Computer Science and I can definitely program. Should I work on a portfolio or something like that?

Thanks!
Wow Quoc works at Google. Google keeps attracting all of these amazingly talented people. Also wonder if regular software engineers get to work with such people at Google.
The self-driving reset of just about everything in our cities
Kind of random, but why is there so much time (entire days) spent in hotels when traveling? Is that due to Foursquare (or whatever) not allowing you to check-in to other places or did you really stay in the hotel the entire time? If so, doing what?

It's a genuine question--I basically NEVER stay in hotels beyond the required sleep time, so I'm curious as to how other people do things.
I have got enormous value from tracking my resting heart rate and body temperature. Anything under 75 bpm or under 98F and I know I need to eat and sleep more and skip exercise. No need to log. I think a ton of folks would benefit.

Beyond those two metrics I can't think of anything it'd be useful to check regularly. Reflex time or achilles reflex test might be good.
This is the only correct answer.

Even if Amazon actually removed it from the economy by putting it under Bezos' mattress, that would boost the value of all remaining fiat, increasing purchasing power for everyone else. So consumers would gain a temporary burst of value, which they can utilize today; when the state then devalues fiat over time, Amazon's money will lose value, while the consumer will have locked in that higher purchasing power.

There is no scenario under which Amazon actually hurts anybody by 'removing' money from the economy. Money and wealth are not fixed sums anyway.
Have you thought about getting in touch with local scientists, in an academic area you are interested in? If they don't already have someone experienced in visualizations you may be able to offer them some ideas they have not even considered. If you can make their research more efficient, I wonder if they might be able to fund some work for you.
That's fine, they act within the rules, but the rules are not set in stone, and neither does their public image depend solely on not breaking the law. The conversation is not about whether companies should voluntarily act in a certain way, it's whether the laws need to be changed. Or, on occasion, if the law cannot be changed, whether consumers can force change in an organized way, thereby making it profitable for the company to alter its behaviour. Companies are constantly shifting in response to campaigns, or in general to improve their image. It's not a legal requirement to use recycled cups or Fairtrade coffee, but many cafes will do that to look good. Companies shouldn't be surprised if the same sort of reputational damage applies to how they treat their workers or whether they pay a lot less tax than their rivals.
It's only frightening if it's not deliberate / you don't know it's happening.

This is beautiful, voluntary and insightful.
What are your OVH troubles? I was thinking of getting a couple of their dedicated Infrastructure line of servers, so if you have relevant information I'd very much like to know.
It seems like there needs to be another approach to redacting text like this. This one doesn't really cut it, apparently. And slips such as 'her' and 'she' was what primarily gave her away here. So the people who published the file should have been way more careful with this.
Popscript v2
How do you fire that signal from the console ?
Sure but you can't re-allocate workers in a capitalist economy with a paper idea and a signature. You have to convince thousands of people. You have to convince investors to start new companies where new types of workers are doing something new on the web. You probably can't re-educate millions of the current designers, code monkeys, content farmers and clients to do new types of work that has nothing to do with their old work.

There are plenty of these smartest and best people trying startups and they're not really measuring up to what computer pioneers imagined. Seems the best we can do for Engelbart's complex topic discussion systems are Wikipedia, Quora, Reddit and HN.

HN's designer Paul Graham subscribes to Job's idea of simple, minimalist interfaces because they're easy to learn and get users fast. The old school of thought was programs and interfaces would do a lot, took a while to learn, but were worth it in the end. Today we assume only things that are worth learning on a computer are existing job skills. It's a Catch-22 and a hard sell.

For reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSgaJt27PM
http://youtu.be/xQx-tuW9A4Q
>Otherwise, an attacker could just spoof a payment by transmitting a modified blockchain close to the payment terminal.

If the payment terminal used an SPV-like technology, the attacker would have to have a tremendous amount of computing power. This attack is not feasible, especially considering the relatively small reward of fooling an ATM or a parking meter.
The point of proof-of-work is that the attack you describe, "transmitting a modified blockchain", is very, very expensive. Essentially any plausible block is "signed & trusted" by the very-difficult partial-hash-collision embedded within.
Building a portfolio of projects that you care about seems like the best way to go.

Here's an old thread talking about side project ideas you may find useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5234692
While many of these warnings can be annoying during development they are also very useful if the code is kept clean of them. In this case the __bounded__ attribute is a security feature their compiler version has. If another platform can not support this feature then revoking this specific instance of this warning is an active decision someone should make when writing the build scripts. Just ignoring all warnings is certainly not the way to go.

The language often (always?) has facilities to remove those warnings on a case by case basis. For example when you don't want to use a parameter you can actively let the compiler know without assigning the variable to itself: you can only include the type and not the name:

int fn(int, void*);

int fn(int num, void* /*extra*/) {
// If the name extra is commented out the compiler will
// not warn that you are not using it. Now it is very
// clear that not using this variable was an active choice
// and not a mistake.
return num;
}

edit: as pbsd pointed out commenting out extra is not portable C code, though I believe the wider point still stands. These warnings can be very useful and should be be reviewed before ignoring them.
I wish people would learn to fucking swear properly. That fucking title is not completely fucking perfect.

/s
Isn't this directly at odds with the Stanford study from 2012? - http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/09/little-evidenc...

"No consistent differences were seen in the vitamin content of organic products, and only one nutrient — phosphorus — was significantly higher in organic versus conventionally grown produce (and the researchers note that because few people have phosphorous deficiency, this has little clinical significance). There was also no difference in protein or fat content between organic and conventional milk, though evidence from a limited number of studies suggested that organic milk may contain significantly higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids."
you never saw people take pictures of their food? are you for real?
He spent a lot of time traveling while building this site. :) The first ~1.5 months were spent abroad.
There is zero evidence supporting the idea that drinking water beyond thirst is helpful. If anything people tend to have slight electrolyte deficiency, which is exacerbated by fluid over-consumption.
>Would take about 15 seconds to complete

That's unfortunately not sufficient at modern transaction rates. Is there any reason you chose DTMF in particular?
If they were unemployed, certainly they would be collecting even more benefits. If anything Amazon is subsidizing your tax burden.
how would you estimate the size quickly? 'du' can take quite long
OpenBSD can handle the hostile tone, they aren't fragile feels about criticism. The whole point is to release this early so they (and other contributors, like Adam from Google) can get feedback so it's good people are trying to port it and offering opinions however if anybody wants to constructively criticize the project or make recommendations they have to post on the mailing list because I doubt any of them will respond to some random guy's wordpress site. If you just throw up a site and blast them you're accomplishing nothing except link bait. They have a good reason to use -Werror and would explain why if this was posted to openbsd-tech
It's also frightening if it becomes so mainstream that you become a pariah by not doing it.

Dave Eggers novel _The Circle_ looks at this, and while I felt it was hyperbolic and more than a little preachy, it's certainly worth thinking about.
"It's only frightening if it's not deliberate / you don't know it's happening."

Oh my god, how old are you all ?
Are you the next generation of this world ?
Don't you just understand you behave like products and not human !?
This is possibly the end of the world.
As a former server and bartender (and still part-time though not as much any more) in a busy resort/tourist town the current climate of customers coming in requesting seat changes and playing on phones is significantly higher than 10 years ago. In personal experience I would say that if a server has a 5 table section out of those 5 at least 3 will hold the server up while they play on their phone or talk among themselves before even looking at the menu.

On the flip side though, friends of mine that work in restaurants in less touristy areas don't seem to experience the same type of customers.

Based on this I think a lot depends on where the restaurant is and the type of customers it attracts. I think when people are on vacation (i.e. tourist) they tend to want to converse more with family/friends and take pictures of every little thing. Some even tend to be more "picky" about simple things such as seating.

To me it is an interesting observation, but I don't think you can draw a general conclusion about all restaurants just based on the experiences of one. It would be neat to look at multiple restaurants in completely different areas over the same period. From a restaurant perspective the "slow" customer is frustrating and costly and if there was a way to speed the process up it may be worth something to a restaurant. We went as far as hanging menus in different parts of the waiting areas so customers would look at them and get ideas before they were seated to help speed the process up for servers.
Flash forward to modern times...

"It's okay, we're only collecting metadata."
this is actually the reason i believe it was published anonymously. i doubt anyone would have a problem suing any restaurant for using security tapes for anything but security incidents. even that marketing research is muddy waters legally.
This teens nailed it They have never sung before until now
Meet the citibike
Just look at places with total lawlessness and lack of rule of law. That is not a preferable starting point for any project or endeavor you might conceivably participate in.

Yes, but the alternative to a huge number of laws is not necessarily total lawlessness and lack of rule of law.

And in fact, laws are not even the only way of regulating activities - the are plenty of other ways of setting and enforcing rules. See the work of Elinor Ostrom, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics†, on the the community-based governance of the commons.

† not a "real" Nobel prize, I know
>Sure, if your willing to wait 20+ minutes to get your drink.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding people have about Bitcoin.

A bitcoin before a block confirmation ~ A credit card before 180 days.

There is a small possibility of "undoing" a transaction before a block confirmation, just like there is a small possibility of a customer doing a credit card chargeback before the credit card payment clears. However, it's a pain in the ass (even moreso with Bitcoin), isn't reliable with Bitcoin, and almost no one ever does it.

For small transactions like buying soda from a vending machine, waiting 2 seconds for the transaction to propagate is more than enough.

The only time I would ever wait for a block confirmation is if I was doing a transaction in the thousands of dollars range.
I found some articles in this direction:

- http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.3966, Searching for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons and Messaging with Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons, by James Benford (short pulses rather than a continuous signal).

- http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w59f2wk.pdf, Design of interstellar digital communication links: Some insights from communication engineering, by David Messerschmitt (optimization as a coordination tool with aliens).
I'm under no illusion. Just saying sharing on Foursquare doesn't make much difference.
I think rather than talking about GMOs we need to point out the crops that are seriously and obviously bad for us: the transgenically modified crops, or apparently I just found it can be called TGM. [0]

This saves us from the debate every time where somebody talks about how all our food and animals are GMO. The real destroyers of the American food supply are the 7 major crops that have been transgenically modified with bacteria that produces insecticide and herbicide resistant bacteria so they can spray the crops with herbs: Corn, soy, cottonseed, alfalfa, papaya, canola, sugar beets.

[0] http://books.google.com/books?id=IX5mo9ylOF0C&pg=PA38&lpg=PA...

Edit: Here's some good info about terminology I guess: http://iddl.vt.edu/courses/HORT4764/lessons/seeds/seeds_page...
The library EasyXDM uses internally to support CORS is pmxdr. I wrote pmxdr and libxdr to be a CORS XHR drop-in.
Infographic: Facebook Vs the Stasi in numbers
I know, some of the commentards here are so whiny!
Location: Israel, hoping to relocate to a country with an english-speaking population.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies (languages and frameworks): C++, C, C#, Python, Matlab, OpenCV. Have worked with many other technologies - including various languages (obj-c, Java, javascript), Azure, Android, iOS, SQL, MongoDB - but these are the keywords I prefer the most.

Email: 3ddoctorwhere@gmail.com

Resume:
Currently working as a 2nd developer in a small startup and an MSc student of mathematics in the field of 3D reconstruction.

I am interested in great software design - I have 8 years of software engineering experience and have been the lead of a few commercial software projects in different environments, from the design stage to production.

I am interested in problems where extensive knowledge and understanding are needed and stackoverflow isn't enough - especially if the problems require deep mathematical skills.

I make a habit of acquiring new skills and knowledge by reading various sites/blogs, attending tech meetups and occasionally contributing to open-source and tech Q&A sites.

I am also interested in tinkering, and have been creating hobby projects with techie friends using Arduino controlling physical objects and computer vision.

I am currently looking anonymously, and will provide more information after initial contact.
A lot of people are going to say "side porejcts," which are great after you get your foot in the door...but your problem is you can't even find the door.

1. Network.
2. Show initiative, be proactive.
3. Be persistent.

Find a few companies you want to work for and see if you can figure out how to take one of the hiring managers out for a coffee or whatever. Tell them you are interested in the company and want to learn about their team and the projects they work on.

If you don't get hired for that company/team/whatever you will likely get to nted in the right direction.
Finally, Farm Tools For Her
Of note:

"“The Iron Dome system and its impressive success thus far have had a strategic impact on managing the campaign. It gives us wide options,” said Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. “Having said that, we cannot become complacent.”"

Reminds me of when I first read many years about the potential paradox of using a firewall and security - that it also meant you couldn't ignore individual security settings (turning off ports and services) on machines behind the firewall assuming that the first line of defense was sufficient.
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Omitting `extra` is only valid in C++, not C. In C you have to get by with things like

(void)extra;

to shut the compiler up.
Go to a code school, you'll meet people and learn the basics. And it's super fun.
So when they'll stick a tracker in the ass of every new babyborn you'll say "hurray, this is beautiful !"
The world you're creating is just insane.

One will have to kill me before seeing me wearing a tracking device.
the oppressed people on the other side now engage in a financial war. for the price they would build one rocket with explosive payload, now they can build some 4 dummy ones. making the invading state pay 20k x3 more than before.
while also recruiting more people, who would be averse to the violence before.
"take actions they believe will accomplish those goals". Well there you go: quite wrong!

People aren't at all clear on what they want, nor how to accomplish it. People respond to impulses and psychological drives not propositionalized goals.
Then what's strange about food coming in 6 minutes?
No. It sounds to me like the Stanford study failed to find a significant difference. That's different from demonstrating equivalence. There are some quotes in the article about how this disagrees with another study (not the Stanford one, but nonetheless). The paper itself quotes the paper you reference and draws many comparisons. This sounds like another look, with more data, and the Stanford study was by no means final. All of these are meta-analyses of hundreds of papers, so it's a pretty new area of statistical analysis and a very difficult one.

I haven't read the papers yet. For me, organic food means I'm not paying someone to add XYZ to the environment, and I like that. The risk assessment has not been done, and (see other comments) environmental affects are widespread and very troubling.

- full paper, source article: Higher antioxidant concentrations and less cadmium and pesticide residues in organically-grown crops: a systematic literature review and meta-analyses. http://csanr.wsu.edu/m2m/papers/organic_meta_analysis/bjn_20...

- full paper, Stanford article: Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?
http://media.dssimon.com/taperequest/acp75_study.pdf
Hi there, I get this line of questioning a lot from new programmers in my local Ruby community so I wrote a little book about it getting your first programmer job. You can get it for free here: happybearsoftware.com/kickstart-your-developer-career
There is a serious problem: Most Chinese fonts are HUGE, especially when you want to cover both Simplified and Traditional glyphs. For example, a CFF OTF Chinese font, covering all Han characters in BMP is about 34MB large, while its TTF variant is 12 MB.

And there is still no good automatic way to generate gridfits, though there is one for LGC, and Chrome is moving to Direct2D.
> Seems reasonable

No it doesn't.
Interesting approach. Even though as for a replacement for TeX, I always expected Lout[1] to gain popularity. I haven't used it in years, but I remember being really easy to learn and way lighter than TeX.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_%28software%29